- A pint of bitter may help protect you from Alzheimer's disease. Beer slows down the rate at which the body absorbs aluminium (American = aluminum) - a contributory factor.
- Too much sunbathing increases the risk of skin cancer. But it also increases the production of Vitamin D, which helps to protect against internal cancers.
- Cancer of the testes is rapidly increasing. Four times as many men suffer from it than 50 years ago.
- People in the North of England eat less fat than those in the South.
- Employees who receive twice-weekly 15 minute massages at work are more alert, less depressed and less stressed than those that simply spend the time relaxing.
- Heart disease is regarded as a killer of men. Yet three times as many women die of it as die of breast, uterine and ovarian cancer put together.
- A study of nearly 10,000 patients shows that people with bad teeth - particularly men - have a dramatically increased risk of heart disease.
- One in 100 cases of breast cancer occur in men.
- Doctors have been known to refuse to perform cervical smears on women with arthritis because it takes them too long to get undressed.
- Half the people whose sight is bad enough for them to be classified blind could see well enough to cope if the lighting in their homes was improved.
- Malaria kills two million children every year ..... and the disease is becoming resistant to all known drugs.
- The virus that causes genital warts can be carried on underwear.
- Civil servants who cycle regularly are only half as likely to have heart trouble as those who do not. Scientists do not yet know whether this discovery applies to human beings as well.
- Wide bra straps may help to prevent headaches and nech pain. Thin bra straps can dig into the shoulders and put pressure on the nerve there.
- One in eigtht people develops kidney stones. Vegetarians are less likely to get them.
- Insomnia sufferers have included the Duke of Wellington, Napoleon, Sir Winston Churchill, Vincent Van Gogh and Charles Dickens.
- Eighty per cent of cancers are caused by factors that can be avoided, such as smoking, fatty foods and meat.
- In the 18th century asthma sufferers were advised to dry and powder toad to make into pills and take one pill hourly. Definitely no longer recommended.
- Regular brisk walking will help you to live longer.
- Spinach and broccoli may help you retain good eyesight longer.
- More than 70 fit people who were wrongly told they had high blood pressure swiftly became depressed and their health declined. Other cases have proved that if a doctor tells a person he or she is ill, he or she can fall ill.
- For 250 years, children with squints have been given eye patches. Yet doctors still don't know how effective they are.
- A study of 250 patients who had their gall bladder removed, showed that surgery was appropriate in only 41 per cent of cases.
- French alcohol ads now carry a health warning, plus advice to drink moderately.
- People born after 1955 are three times more likely to suffer from depression than their grandparents.
- Eating too much iron may increase the risk of developing cancer of the colon.
- A third of fatal accidents occur in the home.
- One in six people claims to have healed themselves using the power of the mind.
You may gather from a few of the above that Dr Coleman is a vegetarian. I enjoy his writings and don't hold that fact against him, just wish he didn't harp on it so much. (Axiompc)
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