Positive Health Online

It’s Not Too Late to Save the Soil - The Earth’s Fragile Skin

by Martin Lane

Documentary evidence shows that mineral content of UK-grown food crops has declined by some 60% since 1940. This decline has been matched by a commensurate fall in soil humus level...

Living Soils - 'Re-Dressing the Balance'

by Martin Lane

I want to focus on how we can further improve both crops and the environment by restoring full vigour to the countless life forms that should be present in a living soil. I say “sho...

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.

Morgellon: The 'M' Word You've Never Heard of and Lesions that Persist

by Tammy Racicot

Morgellon. Never heard of it! Until I was forced to find my own cause, prevention and possible control of the terrible lesions and more that were affecting my body since 2007. They ...

Neem Toothpaste - The Healthy Solution for Teeth and Gums

by Klaus Ferlow

Modern toothpaste is a heavy mix of chemicals and synthetics to clean, polish and maintain healthy teeth and gums. But are those ingredients safe, or even necessary?

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 ...

Oestrogen, Progesterone, Synthetics, etc. Explained

by Klaus Ferlow

Hormones that are made from plants are called Phytohormones. Phytoestrogens refer to plant compounds with oestrogen like activity. Phytoprogesterones are plants with progesterone-...

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...

PFAS – The Unfolding Chemical Disaster

by Dr Robert Verkerk

We are being bombarded by human-made chemicals every day. There is increasing evidence that this chemical burden is overwhelming our internal biotransformation and detoxification ca...

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...

Sea Medicine: Nature-Nurtured Therapeutics

by Rajgopal Nidamboor

Water is the elixir of life - a great source of nutritional and medicinal substances, too. It was but natural that our ancients knew about seawater's natural therapeutic properties....