Articles tagged with "benefit"

Mark Honeychurch said that "I may risk another angry email from Lance." He is partly right. But I am not so much angry as disappointed and disillusioned.

I do not have the expertise to discuss the specific science claims made about the benefits of sunlight, but I was nevertheless troubled by the following aspects of the article.

We all know the old (and true) slogan about moderation in all things. Rather too often, excess is harmful. This applies to ultra violet radiation on human skin, mostly meaning sunlight.

I'm in Nelson on holiday at the moment, and at a market today I saw a lot of nonsense - many bad medical claims being made about honey, jewellery, etc.

The most plausible benefits probably occur from the mixture fermenting, producing heat. It's pretty unlikely that anything else in the spa is helping your body.

A drug company has been perplexed at a shortage of Vitamin B12 created by a surge in use. A spokesman for the company said "doctors had so far failed to come up with a convincing explanation" and "Vitamin B12 was also used to treat chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS) and as a vitamin booster."

Fear of litigation is a powerful stimulus to over-investigation and over treatment. In an atmosphere of litigation phobia, the only bad test is the test you didn't think of ordering.

An editorial in the Christchurch Press (23 Nov 94) was critical of the Universities who are seeking approval from the NZQA and argued that they should continue to set their own high standards.

Zealand Publishing House, Tauranga