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I mentioned ‘provenance’ in my very first blog entry, but I’ve not discussed it since, yet it is so important. Why now? What does it mean? Firstly what it means – according to Wikipedia, the definition is: Provenance, from the French provenir, “to come from”, means the origin, or the source, of something, or the…
I think only Australians of a certain age will understand the title of this week’s blog! So sorry about that to all you others… We had a family dinner last night and, as seems to be the case for all dinner parties, the talk turned to health and saturated fat. And, as usual, my views…
Doctor-2 The visit with my father to his cardiologist went well in that he agreed for my father to come off Lipitor immediately. The condition is that he goes back to see him again in one month’s time to tell him how he feels. The doctor agreed that cholesterol was not the problem and when…
There was another reason why we got interested in health issues. Another very personal reason… A couple of years ago my family (mother and brothers) had been concerned that my father was having problems with his memory. They had him take a dementia test which he passed, so apparently he wasn’t getting Alzheimer’s. About a…
I finally got around to reading the Sunday paper today and a small article on an inside page just caught my eye. What it says is that “researchers from Nottingham University found that women who exercised after a low GI breakfast burnt more fat than those who had a high GI meal. Low GI foods…
I heard a program on the ABC radio the other day regarding aging. One person they interviewed was a 50 year old man who believed that by eating a controlled low calorie diet he could avoid all the new diseases of civilization. He ate only 1600 calories per day and avoided all wheat and processed…
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