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Well, a couple of issues here - nutritionists aren't scientifically trained, but dieticians are: https://www.healthcareers.nhs.uk/explore-roles/allied-health-professionals/dietitian And I'm following the LCHF because it's better science than the old science that's now pretty much shown to be...

No, it's an example of how your brain works to combine a series of inputs from your senses and cognition to interpret the world - you tend to think of your ears as just being like microphones and in fact, this shows that the 'sound' is actually produced in your brain which takes your vision...

I think there is often a misunderstanding about what constitutes 'evidence' for medical / nutrition science - one big problem with the testimony of lots of individuals is that it's not objective but subjective. Dietary studies are notoriously difficult, because on the whole, people are pretty...

Well, I'm not putting my fingers in MY ears - first of all, it's a fallacy that just because you don't have personal experience of an issue means you're not qualified to take part in a discussion about it, or have an opinion is nonsense. Every doctor would have had to have had every illness...

Well, that's not the accepted version of the disease, but is a hypothesis without strong evidence as yet. There are diets that include high carbs that do reduce weight and blood glucose levels in diabetics quite quickly. (Though to be fair the diet was vegan and looked pretty dreadful to me...

Whatever gave you that idea? I'm type 2 and "eating to the meter" has kept my blood sugar down to normal levels for the past 6 months, it's an excellent strategy if you can afford it, or get your doctor to prescribe the strips.

I do love toast- and more particularly Jam. Unfortunately/Fortunately, I live with a domestic goddess and she makes the best ever jams and marmalades. I normally eat Greek yoghurt with nuts and seeds during the week, but allow myself toast at the weekend if closely followed by a major bike ride...

OK, many points here - the big problem with drug trials is essentially down to the nature of capitalism - money will find a way, and makes companies tend to act like psychopaths, which is why they needs a strong regulatory framework. The particular one in the case of trials is something Ben...

So, the standard definitions really, i.e. NOT: - someone who skipped through a book about crystals, and bought a diploma by going to a session in a Tipi at a festival - an assertion from someone that the ear candles cured their cold. - Reiki, homeopathy, crystal therapy, reflexology or some...

This meme of 'mainstream medicine just treats the symptoms' is completely false - a) alternative health practitioners are no more able to 'treat the whole person' without an understanding of physiology, biochemistry, endocrinology, psychology and cell-biology than a doctor of medicine who's...

Thanks for the non-daily mail version of the link. I prefer not to visit that particular sewer for information.

There's a lot of dietary advice out there and a lot of it doesn't relate well to diabetics. Whilst losing weight is fine up to a point, the low carb diet isn't necessarily a weight-loss diet, it's about your blood glucose level. Keeping this low enough will probably prevent most of the affects...

Well, vitamins are hardly alternative medicine, they're pretty much mainstream, but alternative medicine practitioners love 'prescribing' them in large doses, because they're fairly safe on the whole, and many people have a deficiency because of illness or lifestyle, so it's reasonable shot. A...

No, that's not immoral, and the funny thing is you still get the placebo effect even if you know you're taking the placebo treatment. No, the immoral thing is giving a patient a placebo and trying to convince them it's something more effective. Many advocates for alternative treatments suggest...

That might well be true, but the answer to bad science and corruption in medicine is not 'alternative medicine' it's better, more thorough science - just as the answer to a corrupt justice system is a less corruption, not a lynch-mob.

Hope you don't need major surgery.

Well, the problem with the placebo effect is that a) it's immoral to lie to people when you know the treatment is fake, and b) it's only a little bit effective and only useful in a few types of illness - if you've got Rabies, or Appendicitis, it's not going to do you any good. Even when it does...

Well, that's not actually true in the case of Chinese Medicine, it was mostly made up by the Chinese Communists as a way of avoiding any cultural influence from the west (this is a great article about it...

What makes you think that natural is good and artificial is bad - lots of natural things are bad for you - carbs, disease, poisons, etc, and lots of artificial things are good for you - vaccinations, anti-biotics, artificially created insulin (using a GMO by the way) if you're a diabetic. The...

They sell homeopathy, useless and unproven supplements and vitamins with all the usual unscientific claims for them. They perpetuate the whole 'detox' myth with a myriad of such products, and basically exploit people's gullibility by they use of a combination of pseudoscience, fear-mongering and...