Alzheimer's linked to free radical damage - Oxidative damage to brain cells may be an important indicator of Alzheimer's disease. ...

Free radicals: link to diabetes - Free radicals the "sparks" that are set off in your body when oxygen burns off food and foreign chemicals look like being the cause of diabetes. ...

Atherosclerosis: scurvy in disguise - For more than 50 years, medicine has claimed that a diet high in cholesterol and fat is responsible for coronary artery disease. However, growing evid...

Alternatives: tips for a healthy old age - Increase antioxidants - Free radicals are constantly attacking body proteins, carbohydrates, fats and DNA, causing potentially serious damage if left unchecked. ...

Palindromic arthritis - One reader cautioned against long-term mono food diets such as the grape diet, which was suggested by another reader last week for curing arthritis. W...

Broccoli: Why it’s so good for us - It’s been called the king of vegetables, and scientists are getting closer to understanding just why broccoli has so many health-giving qualities. Br...

Reflux syndrome: antioxidants better than antacids - Free radicals from gastric acids may be more important that the acid itself in reflux oesophagitis (inflammation of the oesophagus due to acids backin...

The best alternative treatment for . . . fibromyalgia - What to do instead - A new holistic treatment has been tested on fibromyalgia sufferers, with reported remission rates of 10 years (J Musculo Pain, 1998; 6: 133-49). The p...