Positive Health Online

Living Water

by Grahame Whitehead

Grahame Whitehead regards water as living energy, vital for our health and well being. He bemoans the fact that despite the water companies' belief in water recycling, chemically t...

Mineral Deficiency and Viral Mutation: Nutritional, Agricultural and Geographic Influences

by David E Marsh

This article hypothesizes whether many of the devastating influenzas such as avian flu and Beijing flu which originate from China, may lie with mineral levels in the soil.

Mineral Oil Petroleum Derivative in Beauty Products

by Kit Anderson

This article outlines the dangers of the mineral oils found so ubiquitously in the majority of cosmetic products. Mineral oils (produced from petroleum) are contained in many cosme...

Mobile Phones - Proceed with Precaution

by Simon Best

The author is the editor of Electromagnetic Hazard & Therapy News Report. In this article he updates the situation regarding possible hazards from mobile phone use.

Natural Alternatives to Antibiotics

by Suzanne Laurie

In this article, Suzanne Laurie describes the result of the over use of antibiotics and suggests alternative natural remedies to be used, especially for minor complaints. Antibioti...

Nitrates and Greens

by Lisa Saffron

Nitrate levels are often so high in British lettuce and spinach that our government recently negotiated a relaxation of the EC limits. The EC set limits in order to protect public ...

Oestrogens and Phytoestrogens

by Valerie Marriott

Valerie Marriott explains the differences between natural and synthetic pesticides in plants, and the reasons for increased use of synthetic pesticides, which are often toxic, ev...

Organophosphate Poisoning

by Helen Fullerton

Six cases of organophosphate (OP) poisoning have come my way since August. During the very hot spell many people were spraying their pets and furniture against fleas. Most of them ...

Our Toxic Environment and How We Can Protect Ourselves

by Joanne Baker

Joanne Baker writes first about the balance between man and the natural world - how ancient medicine and even western practice until the Industrial Revolution equated our health wi...

Paint and let live

by Mike Eatough

We are still being poisoned by lead paint. Children's intellectual development is being impaired by lead poisoning from paint. The increase in the incidence of tuberculosis has in ...

Pesticides - an holistic view

by Lisa Saffron

"Eating an organic apple every day is 100,000 times more likely to give you cancer than eating food contaminated with residues of the pesticide lindane". This statement is meaningl...

Pesticides and Breast Cancer

by Lisa Saffron

Past and current use of organochlorine pesticides has led to the pollution of the entire globe, with detectable levels in the body fat of nearly everyone in the world. Could pestic...

Pesticides and Chemicals Update

by Georgina Downs

Following on from her article on the Health Risk of Pesticides in Issue 127, the author (winner of the prestigious Andrew Lees Memorial Award at the 2006 Environment and Media Awar...

Safe as Houses?

by David Cowan & Rodney Girdlestone

The history of Geopathic Stress is a long one. The unhealthy spirals which dowsers detect above subterranean water have probably always been with us and the energy leys are believe...

Superbugs: Is this the final warning?

by Simon Martin

Although critics of orthodox medicine's over-reliance on antibiotics have been sounding the alarm on behalf of a long-suffering public for at least the last ten years, previous war...

The Damaging Effects Of Electropollution

by Helke Ferrie

The author opines that “the detrimental health effects of cell phones, WiFi, electromagnetic fields (EMFs), and the microwave-based technology we use daily makes worrying about our ...

The Dangers of Toothpaste and Deodorant

by Philippa Turnbull

Dr Samuel Epstein, co-author of The Safe Shoppers Bible says, "Since 1965 more than 4 million distinct chemical compounds have been reported in the scientific literature; of these,...

The Feel Good Factor

by Ann Crowther

The author points out the prevalence of environmental toxins. In the seas and oceans there are high levels of man-made toxins in the waters, and in the plant and animal life – seaw...

The Hazards of Water Fluoridation

by Dr Graeme Munro-Hall and Dr Lilian Munro-Hall

Drs Graeme and Lilian Munro-Hall look at the impact of fluoride on the health of the nation. About 10% of Britain has fluoride in its drinking water already and the government has ...

The Health Risks of Pesticides

by Georgina Downs

In view of the ongoing disagreement between the Advisory Committee on Pesticides and the Royal Commission on Environmental Pollution on the public health risks of pesticides, and...