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The kids are not alright. Check out The Who, miming their 1965 hit on the banks of Regent’s Park boating lake in Swinging London (1). See how thin they were? That’s how everyone looked back in the day – and I know, because I was there. I wasn’t...
The Time Machine - an invention In Herbert George Wells book ‘The Time Machine’, travellers into the future find that the human race has devolved in two degenerate sub-species. The Eloi are delicate and stupid frugivores, representing a Darwinian projection of the end of an upper social class...
Fat is a many-splendored thing You cannot turn fat into muscle, any more than you can turn butter into beefsteak. They are very different tissues with very different chemistry. Muscle is roughly 80% water and 20% protein, while fat largely consists of – well, mostly, fat. The body can turn protein into fat if protein...
Dr. Paul Clayton's book "Let Your Food be Your Pharmaco-Nutrition. The New Road to Health, Healing and Happiness" is published in Hindi language. It is available as paperback. You can purchase the books in Hindi and English for Indian market only here: Dr. Clayton wrote and...
How the Mediterranean diet died First time I snorkelled the Med, in 1956, the waters were very occupied. Shoals of small fish swarmed around – I remember how it felt when they brushed past me - while bigger fish flitted in and out of sight. Most of that...
I believe in climate change. I’m unsure about anthropogenic global warming, because I’ve chatted with too many dissidents. I wonder about the possibly imminent Maunder Minimum (1, but note that this has been retracted), and I sure as hell don’t trust the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, which...
Wood could be Food When we walk across a green field or wander through a forest, we are surrounded by the plant polymers which give the vegetable kingdom its many forms. Cellulose, the most prevalent organic polymer on the planet, is a structural and flexible element in all...
Ageing is chaotic. The machinery of a single cell is incredibly complicated, the workings of the various anatomical and physiological systems even more so, and the top level – the human organism – has an order of complexity beyond our comprehension. Given this complexity, you can see that...
Avocados are toast The Manchineel tree is extremely dangerous. You cannot stand near it for long, and you certainly cannot shelter under it when it rains because water dripping from the leaves would leave your skin burned and blistered. It was reputedly the death of Ponce de Leon,...
Macular degeneration in a Quertyuiop World Do you ever stop to wonder how things got so screwed up? We call ourselves sapiens, yet we have created so much needless sickness and suffering that it has become normal to spend the last 10% of our lives dying slowly and...