“The best six doctors anywhere
And no one can deny it
Are sunshine, water, rest, and air
Exercise and diet.
These six will gladly you attend
If only you are willing
Your mind they'll ease
Your will they'll mend
And charge you not a shilling.”
by ~ Nursery rhyme quoted by Wayne Fields, What the River Knows, 1990

Cancer- a sentence or a word?

The word cancer still strikes fear into people’s hearts. In 1971 then president Nixon declared a war on cancer with the aim of winning it by the bicentennial in 1976. Suffice to say this hasn’t happened. In fact the death rate for cancer in the … [...]

April 24th, 2009 | Tags: , , | Category: Dr. Joe's DIY Health, Health | Leave a comment

You become what you eat

Two recent reports highlight how easy it is to significantly reduce your likelihood of getting common diseases, and improving your health at the same time.Research in the UK published in the European Journal of Cancer prevention showed that rates of co… [...]

April 19th, 2009 | Tags: , , , | Category: Dr. Joe's DIY Health, Health | Leave a comment

A “rusting” silver bullet

The development of penicillin was rightly seen as a great breakthrough in medicine. Fatal infections could now be treated with a “silver bullet However in nature nothing is static. Bacteria have been around for longer than humans and have survived b… [...]

April 15th, 2009 | Tags: , | Category: Dr. Joe's DIY Health, Health | Leave a comment