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Start Your Health Assessment Trusted by 20,000+ people. Powered by REWIRE+.A few years ago, a West Australian obstetrician and gynaecologist was vilified for suggesting that all women over the age of 35 should not be having babies. As you can imagine, this sparked a wave of criticism and the man was rapidly silenced. Well, without wishing to rekindle an unpopular…
The commonest cause of death and disability in our society is cardiovascular disease. The second commonest is cancer. Tragically, the third commonest cause of death and disability in modern society is Western health care. It is estimated that around 10% of admissions to hospital are due to medical error. Over…
One of the holy grails in medicine is improving our longevity. I have made the point for a number of years that we should be focusing more on health span rather than lifespan. There is no point surviving an extra 20 years if you are living in the misery of…
In 1955, an American scientist known as Ancel Keys presented his Diet-lipid-heart disease hypothesis at a meeting of the World Health Organisation in Geneva. This prompted members of the American Heart Association to appear on a television program in 1956 suggesting that large amounts of butter, lard, eggs and beef…
With the untimely death of the Ironman, Dean Mercer, at the age of 47, we are strongly reminded of the frailties of our existence and the clear point that no one has a 100% guarantee of a long life, despite following healthy lifestyle principles. Dean, allegedly, died of a cardiac…