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295. Vitamin D: Are We Getting Enough?

Rheumatoid arthritis A recent paper reports on research conducted at the University of Birmingham has discovered that maintaining sufficient vitamin D levels may help to prevent the onset of inflammatory diseases like rheumatoid arthritis (1). The scientific paper is available here (2). It was also found that although Vitamin D can help to prevent the […]

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289. Root Cause Analysis

Background Food safety is a serious business. If a company produces a food item that is subsequently found to have harmed those who consume it, this is very bad news. Customers lose faith and sales are likely to suffer. Even worse, the retailer may terminate the supplier contract, which may mean that the business collapses.

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284. Obsessed with Calories

Latest UK initiative on obesity We have just heard of yet another initiative by the UK Government to tackle obesity. A joint announcement by Public Health England (PHE) and the Department of Health states that the plan is to devise a “calorie reduction programme to remove excess calories from the foods children consume the most”

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257. Evidence Based Medicine

Background Most people would assume that when a treatment or procedure is recommended that these are based on very sound research, which has demonstrated that they will be effective and that any risks of damage to health will be kept to a minimum. Regrettably, the reality is very different. Physicians invariably claim that their knowledge

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218.Should I take Statins?

I have lost count of the number of people who have been recommended to use statins but subsequently decided to stop taking them. There are two reasons normally used to justify these regimes, namely: You are at high risk of having a heart disease, which may well be fatal. You have survived a heart attack,

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