Helen Davies

The Shocking Truth about Margarine

Margarine lowers the IQ of children. I know it sounds completely arrogant but it is true. According to researchers at the University of Auckland, children who ate margarine every day had significantly lower IQ scores by the age of three-and-a-half than th... Read >

Cardiovascular Disease: The new Era is Here

It took us almost five decades of intensive research but we made it! Medical researchers one by one have started to realise that cholesterol is not causing arteriosclerosis. Statins have failed to protect patients from risk of cardiovascular disease and h... Read >

The Link Between Genetic Mutations and Diet

Genetic Mutations are a common phenomenon for a cell. They can happen spontaneously while the DNA replicates itself, before a cell division. Basically a mutation is a change in the sequence of the DNA. Also many physical factors can trigger mutations, su... Read >

Coconut Oil for your Good Health

Coconut oil is an extremely healthy saturated fat that most of us ignore. Although saturated fats have been wrongly accused of causing cardiovascular disease, the truth is that they are excellent health promoting factors. Native populations in Asia have ... Read >

Sprouts - the Ultimate Nutritional Weapon

Sprouts can provide a unique combination of nutrients and enzymes. Their very nature is responsible for an amazing concentration of such valuable molecules. A seed has stored all the nutrients the plant embryo will need at the first stages of its growing ... Read >

Fight Flu with Super Yoghurt!

Lactobacillus bulgaricus(L. bulgaricus) is a strain of bacteria used for the production of Bulgarian yogurt and Swiss cheese. It is a very useful and friendly type of microorganism for our gut; it balances out the intestinal flora and promotes the establ... Read >

The Truth about Margarine

We all know that margarine is a healthy spreadable product we can use instead of butter. It can even help us lower our cholesterol, protecting from cardiovascular disease! But is this the truth really? Consumers are misled by the marketing campaigns in an... Read >

Invisible Visceral Fat in the Belly and How to Lose it

There is a kind of fat that is really difficult to target with conventional exercise. It is the fat around your internal organs, called visceral fat. It is completely different than the fat beneath your skin, the one you poke at and pinch. Visceral fat is... Read >

Which Fats Cause Heart Disease

The World Health Organization (WHO) estimates at the moment that 17.1 millions lives are claimed per year due to cardiovascular diseases. But it wasn't always like that. In 1930, less than 3,000 deaths per year were due to heart attacks in the USA. In 195... Read >

Diet Revolution and DNA

Almost every cell of our body carries 2 strands of DNA. This is a few billions of copies of this dynamic and powerful molecule. DNA regulates every function in our bodies, it is programmed to do so. Also DNA can alter its chemical composition and/or struc... Read >

Statins, Thieves of Lives

The book "Lipitor, Thief of Memory" came as a shock. Is it possible to lose your memory 3 weeks after taking a pill that it is supposed to protect you from cardiovascular disease? What kind of protection is that? And memory loss is not the only one. Muscl... Read >

The Cholesterol Tragedy

In 2006, Lipitor - one of the most popular statins, made 13.6 billion in sales. Most members of the statins family do similar numbers annually. Probably this is the reason why these toxic and ineffective drugs are still in the market, although the reports... Read >

Homocysteine Theory of Atherosclerosis – Tribute to Dr Kilmer McCully

Cholesterol is not the cause of atherosclerosis. We know that now without a doubt. Studies after studies come up to the same conclusion: the level of blood cholesterol and the degree of atheromatic plaques in the arteries are not correlated. People with l... Read >

Does Cholesterol cause Atherosclerosis?

In the 70s, when the cholesterol craziness was at its peak, it would be a sign of plain insanity to say out loud that cholesterol is not responsible for atherosclerosis. Those days are gone and everyone can express their opinion now. Maybe this is why som... Read >

An Alternative Arteriosclerosis Model

How does Atherosclerosis occur exactly? Nobody really knows. Medicine presumes that it is cholesterol causing this major damage to arteries. Besides, it is a substance found in big quantities in atheromatic plaques of patients. More experiments are design... Read >