Editorials

Editorial Issue 131

By the time this January ‘07 issue of Positive Health is published a few days prior to Christmas, we will all, hopefully, be having at least a bit of a rest over the holiday season. Or, at least those of us who are fortunate enough to be healthy rather than ill, and don’t have to work over the entire period.
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Editorial Issue 130

There are a number of tangible threats which put at risk many vital products and practices of Complementary Medicine. These include: 1. Attempts by the evidence-based medicine brigades to dispute, denigrate and ignore research which does not satisfy their very narrow randomized double-blind criteria (see Evidence-Based Medicine: The Over-Reliance Upon Science, page 23);
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Editorial Issue 129

Fast Food, Obesity and Ill Health (see page 26), Living with Multiple Sclerosis and Treatment Approaches (see page19), The Holistic and Environmentally Friendly Home (see page 34), Yoga, Dietary and Lifestyle Approaches for Prostate Problems (see page 45); these features epitomize some of the most important paradigm challenges of our modern world – i.e. that there may be considerable knowledge, even clinical research validating effective treatment approaches, but that changing our collective dietary, medical treatment and lifestyle habits is a huge slog.

Editorial Issue 128

One of my current pet hates is the over-riding obsession in our culture with cheapness, value for money, buy-one-get-one-free mentality. This paradigm pervades our entire lifestyle, affecting our options and choices regarding food, education, music, clothes, even healthcare.
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Editorial Issue 127

I have long been discovering that much that I had once been taught about science or health is incorrect, or that the information was presented with a biased agenda.

This process started for me in the mid-1980s when I moved from being a molecular biology researcher to a nutrition and health researcher. I will never forget being interviewed on radio regarding my book about organic germanium, with an opposing 'expert' who stated that there was no research behind the published data regarding organic germanium's immune enhancing properties. This despite the more than 100 references to the published scientific literature, of which this 'expert' had obviously no knowledge.

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