- Ignorance and fear are at the heart of the resistance to our proposals. Sweden is at least ten years behind in the field of diet and health. Our politicians must be bold enough to allocate more resources, says Dr. David Stenholtz, President of the recently formed NGO Physicians for the Future in this interview. Read more
Tags: advertising, advocay, carbohydrates, compliance, David Finer, David Stenholtz, diet, eating, food, health, health care, Karolinska Institutet, meat, media, NGO, nutrition, PCRM, politics, prevention, Stephan Rössner, tax, tax cuts, weight lossA new study from Oxford shows that vegetarians reduce their risk of succumbing to ischemic cardiovascular disease (CVD) by 32 percent compared to non-vegetarians. The study comprised both vegetarians and non-vegetarians from the United Kingdom, in all almost 45 000 people. Read more
Tags: CAM, cardiovascular, CVD, death, diet, eggs, exercise, fish, Francesca Crowe, green, heart, heart disease, Johanna Hök, lifestyle, meat, milk, mortality, Oxford, prevention, smoking, stress, vegetarian, veggieFor three days in April 2013, 500 researchers from all over the world gathered in London for the 8th international congress on complementary and alternative medicine research (ICCMR). As a participant and co-organiser, I C’s Johanna Hök reflects about the congress and it’s contributions including some of her favourite examples of research: a study on […] Read more
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