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Dr Dillner’s health dilemmas: is yoga too dangerous for me?

This article titled “Dr Dillner’s health dilemmas: is yoga too dangerous for me?” was written by Luisa Dillner, for The Guardian on Sunday 22nd January 2012 21.29 UTC Yoga, once the pastime of contemplative types, now comes in more varieties than ice-cream. All yoga has postures, relaxation and controlled breathing as core ingredients. But some schools emphasise power and strength and can include exercises that verge on the unnatural. Headstands, which you tell your children...Read More

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Dr Dillner’s health dilemmas: should I have an HIV test?

This article titled “Dr Dillner’s health dilemmas: should I have an HIV test?” was written by Luisa Dillner, for The Guardian on Monday 5th December 2011 20.29 UTC The dilemma One in four people with HIV do not know they are infected, says the Health Protection Agency (HPA) in its annual report on HIV in the UK. There are 91,500 people living with HIV which means around 23,000 of us don’t know we are infected. Could you be one of them? The HPA says that the undiagnosed...Read More

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Dr Dillner’s health dilemmas: is it dangerous to wear antiperspirant?

This article titled “Dr Dillner’s health dilemmas: is it dangerous to wear antiperspirant?” was written by Luisa Dillner, for The Guardian on Monday 14th November 2011 21.00 UTC The dilemma People worry about antiperspirants. Isn’t it unnatural to stop yourself sweating? Don’t they stop toxins getting out? In recent years the media has covered small studies saying that antiperspirants cause breast cancer. Aluminium is used in antiperspirants to provide a coating...Read More

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Dr Dillner’s health dilemmas: should I be screened for breast cancer?

This article titled “Dr Dillner’s health dilemmas: should I be screened for breast cancer?” was written by Luisa Dillner, for The Guardian on Monday 1st August 2011 20.00 UTC The dilemma: You might think this is a no-brainer: of course it’s best to find out if you have breast cancer as soon as possible. Up to one in eight women get the disease, so surely you’d want to be tested, catch it early and get treatment to improve your chances of survival? But, in fact,...Read More

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The myth that we need eight glasses of water a day

This article titled “The myth that we need eight glasses of water a day” was written by Luisa Dillner, for The Guardian on Wednesday 13th July 2011 19.01 UTC So we no longer need to add water. At least not to ourselves in the amount of eight lots of 8oz a day as advised by the website NHS Choices and numerous health writers. We should all raise our glasses to Dr Margaret McCartney, a GP from Glasgow, writing in the BMJ, who has revealed what most doctors already know: there is no...Read More