Lynne St Clair-Chapman – 05/05/2010 Tuesday 20 April, 2010 It’s sucking the life out of us Fourteen New Zealanders, including two Maori, will die today. The same number will die tomorrow and the day after that and every other day .. all year round. They won’t die in road accidents. They won’t die of old…
Health Freedom – 04/04/08 Medsafe recommends New Zealanders keep taking Merck’s best-selling Singulair allergy and asthma drug (Saturday’s Herald) even though the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) announced it was reviewing a growing number of reports involving suicidal behaviour and suicide in patients who have taken the drug. Health Freedom questions the agenda of…
Margaret – 16/07/04 I have been a close friend of an anorexia/bulimia sufferer for many years and as a person who really enjoys eating a healthy diet I found it difficult to understand how she felt and why a slim person could be so preoccupied with dieting. I wish I had then read “The Silent…
Commander Robert Green, Royal Navy (Retired)* – 20/08/03 Address on Anzac Day, 25 April 2003, St Andrews on the Terrace, Wellington Part 2 Raising the Alarm The alarm may at last have been raised. In the 2 April edition of the Journal of the American Medical Association, Brian Vastag wrote that, although the US government…
Dorothy – 19/07/02 New Zealanders have reason to be proud of the high quality of the dietary supplements available to us and the wise advice which the staff of health food stores offer us on their use. New Zealand manufacturers of dietary supplements and other health products have earned a high reputation for the quality…
A Fit Young Man’s Experience Nicola Shepheard – 12/10/01 It was the last thing he expected. He was young – 25 – he ate well, went to the gym. So, his left testicle had changed texture a little. But he had no major lumps, and fit and healthy young men like him didn’t get cancer…
Kim Gamlin – 8/02/01 Currently the accepted treatment for relieving the symptoms of Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD), which may include severe and persistent depression, torpor, low libido, carbohydrate craving and weight gain, is intense light therapy. Whilst many people feel great relief with this treatment, some still do not feel as well as they would…
Dorothy – 29/9/00 Choosing a site for Christchurch When Captain Thomas recommended a site for colonists to build a town in Canterbury he chose a flat area on the Plains with room for expansion in all directions rather than a site at the head of the Lyttelton Harbour where there was a comparatively small area…
Chris Wheeler – 15/10/99 The "healthy milk" scam – how millions of us every day succumb to one of the greatest dietary myths since the snake told Eve "Eat that apple and you’ll never regret it!" Chris Wheeler gets to the roots of the Great Milk Disaster. "Cow’s milk in the past has always been…
– Paul Bensemann – 2/10/98 Paul Bensemann is Press Secretary to the Green MPs’ in New Zealand. Last month, Parliament threw out draft laws which would have allowed consumers to know, for example, whether animal genes were in their vegetables. Green Co-Leader and MP Rod Donald says New Zealand lost one opportunity to protect itself…
