In 1916 only 14 per cent of all homes in the US had a bathtub. The speed limit in most cities was 10mph. One in 12 people had a telephone. And it wasn’t very mobile. Marijuana, heroin and morphine were available over-the-counter at your local drugstore. The Eiffel Tower was the world’s largest structure. ARead More
Hullabaloo about the “new” finding that bacon is bad for you might have found a reasonable level of attention but for the World Health Organization having entered the fray. [1,2] For several decades, we have known of the potential carcinogenicity of nitrates and nitrites used by the meat processing industry. Nitrites work as a meatRead More
Today is World Obesity Day, and with three-quarters of the British population set to be overweight or obese in a single generation, we simply cannot watch our children eat themselves to death any longer. The UK has an alarming “obesity gap”. The poorest 20 per cent of children are nearly three times more likely toRead More
If Dracula were an old woman, he would have sounded a lot like Mrs. Kelremor. But there was no other physical resemblance. Just shy of eighty, this middle-European immigrant lady had been a housekeeper for decades. Overweight, bent over, worn out and weighted down with cares, she came to see me primarily because of osteoarthritis. It wasRead More