Category: Health
The Clot and the Creed of Progress: Reflections on Malcolm Kendrick and the Dogmas of Cardiology
Olive Oil on Trial: Why a Single Study Cannot Overturn a Civilisation’s Diet
Rapid Fat Loss and the Real Lesson of Adipose Tissue
Junk Food for Junk People, and the Joy of Watching Them Rot
Why Coffee Is Good for Your Health: History, Evidence, and the Case for a Morning Cup
Obesity as a Behavioural Addiction: A Study in Therapeutic Evasion
Against the New Obesity Drugs (With One Uncomfortable Exception)
Doing Banting: Low Carbohydrate Diets in Victorian England, and What We Think We Know Now
Review: Why Do Cells “Turning Off” Underlie So Many Chronic Diseases?
Fatness and Savagery: What the Byzantines Knew and We Forget
Libertarian Delusions and the Machinery of Empire: Welfare as Alibi, Not Engine
Sugar as Sin: Why Viral Anti-Sugar Memes Mislead
Charitable Thoughts for the New Year
The Food Pyramid, and the Limits of State Nutrition
Welfare and the Luxury of Abstraction: A Polite Critique of Alex Zychowski’s “Britain in Decline”
Wegovy, Will-Power, and the Limits of Moral Purism
Ultra-Processed Food and Lung Cancer: What the Evidence Really Shows
Wegovy: The Needle That Never Lets Go