When early philosophers were faced with tricky questions such as "Why do things fall rather than rise up?" they responded, without embarrassment, "It is in their nature to do so."
Such a response now would rightly be ignored and more deservedly ridiculed. Slightly more sophisticated versions of the 'nature' and 'natural' argument are still deployed in […]

I have now been a practising nutritionist and herbalist for four years. As you'd expect I've learnt a lot over that time and have grown and developed as a practitioner.
While I still have the same fundamental philosophy about health, my approach to patients and their health has changed considerably…
Most naturopaths start out with a gung-ho […]

In a movie "Sunday Bloody Sunday", made many years ago, there is a scene of a young woman, dumped by her boyfriend, crying and eating a pan of oven hot brownies. She is so desperate to eat them that she burns her fingers scooping them out of the pan and as she eats, her tears […]