This has been included as a supplement because iodine deficiency is becoming more widespread since people have started cutting salt out of their diet. Iodised salt has been the main source of iodine for most people and as they have not been eating seafood (the only good source of iodine) two to three times per [...]

White Hour and sugar are the most fattening foods and it is a sad fact that most people who are over-weight eat far too much of these foods. If they are not taking vitamin and mineral supplements they will incur severe nutrient deficiencies as well. Most weight-reducing diets are vitamin and mineral deficient which further [...]

0. You’re down on fasting but I feel better when I fast? A. There are two reasons why you would feel better when you fast: 1. The withholding of all foods from the body is an effective way of removing the symptoms of food allergy. This is the reason many chronic fatigue syndrome sufferers experience [...]

Don’t start this program until you have completed six to eight weeks on the Metabolism Balancing Program—you won’t get good results if you don’t first build your immunity up. Also, don’t undertake the Anti-Candida Program while under a lot of stress or if you are breastfeeding. As you can’t have fruit and milk, two sources [...]

In a recent survey, one-sixth of all hospital admissions were attributed to drug interaction or unintended reaction to drugs, many of them antihistamine or cortisone based. These act in a similar way to tranquillisers, muscle relaxants, narcotics, painkillers and alcohol, suppressing brain and nerve function. For this reason antihistamines are a component of many commonly [...]

1. Lie on tummy over a pillow: raise head and shoulders to the horizontal – without arching the back, as this can put a strain on the posterior joints. Progress by repeating with arms stretched sideways. In this way, the back extensor muscles work, but no stress is put on the joints. 2. Lie trunk [...]

If you never need to give your back a thought when you wake up in the morning; if there is no stiffness or pain when you roll over, sit up, and get out of bed, then your bed is probably all right for you – no matter how it looks to other people. But if [...]

These are of various kinds in which the patient takes over, following the therapist’s instructions, in trying to mobilise joints and strengthen muscles. The type of exercise prescribed depends on the patient’s condition, on how long the patient has been out of action and on how fit the patient needs to be to return to [...]

Most episodes of acute back pain grow less severe within two or three days, when the sufferer can start to get up and about again. On the first day this should be for only a couple of hours at a time, with spells of rest in between, increasing gradually on succeeding days, within the painfree [...]

A fracture or crack of the vertebral arch in the lower lumbar spine is called spondylolysis. It may happen either suddenly or gradually as the culmination of a series of repeated strains – rather like a fatigue fracture in metal; or as a result of a congenital defect. It often causes no symptoms and a [...]