Sometimes I genuinely despair for the medical profession that I am a member of. There is an increasing desire to find complicated solutions and ignore simple solutions, which work. This mainly comes from academia, public health and those who devise guidelines rather...
Not a day goes by without another story about the obesity crisis, usually accompanied by a call for governments to act, or for money to be spent or for more research. The problem with this is that people tend to, understandably, switch off and tend to think that the...
If we want change in our lives the first thing that must change is our thinking. I was interviewed a little while back on Brisbane radio about “research” which suggested that you could get the same effects as exercise from taking a pill. Scientists had given mice a...
A while back I was asked to help judge a Chili eating contest. This was timed to coincide with the annual chilli festival. Chillies trace their origins back 7500 years. Previously regarded as the domain of eccentrics Mexicans and Thais it is only recently that many...
