Today I’m going to discuss how what Dr Barry Sears calls “silent inflammation” can contribute not only to heart disease but also to high blood pressure or what is sometimes referred to as hypertension. Now, hypertension is somewhat of a unique disease as there aren’t any noticeable symptoms in the early stages, so it’s a … Read more
Yesterday I told you about two different types of inflammation – classic inflammation, the type of inflammation that happens when you stub your toe or get a splinter in your finger and silent inflammation that results from chronic low level damage to cells. Today I’m going to tell you how this low level inflammation can … Read more
This week I’m going to tell you about a process in the body that is now believed by medical experts to be involved in all known disease processes from heart disease to cancer to Alzheimer’s disease – inflammation. Most of you will have experienced inflammation before. Have you ever got a splinter in your finger? … Read more
A meta analysis has recently been published in the BMJ looking at the association between food and risk of type 2 diabetes. This study pooled the results of six other studies, investigating 225,000 individuals over 13 years.
Sleeping disorders are fast becoming a major problem for the British population. One in twenty of us suffer from excessive daytime drowsiness caused by poor sleep that is believed to be responsible for 1 in 5 motorway accidents. One in 50 British adults are on prescribed medicine to help with sleep, and there are probably … Read more