Colds and Influenza: Part 2

Colds and Influenza: Part 2

At home treatment for colds Almost all strains of the common cold-causing viruses are able to survive for considerable lengths of time in the generally cooler environments of the nose than the warmer lung environments. This occurs in part because immune system defence...
We are Human because we Cook our Foods

We are Human because we Cook our Foods

Biologists, evolutionary psychologists and anthropologists point to our hunter-gatherer ancestry to explain much of human behaviour today. But what if the roots of humanity lie not broadly in adaptation to nature but strongly influenced in adapting to a communal life...
Book review: How we’ve been duped into thinking fats are bad

Book review: How we’ve been duped into thinking fats are bad

The following is a review of Nina Techolz’s book ‘The Big Fat Surprise—Why Butter, Meat and Cheese Belong in a Healthy Diet’. Based on my own experiences in the 1970s with near-traditional Australian hunter gatherers, I know they ate mainly meat and...