OK Gillian 'poo' McKeith again part 2342 ...
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Indeed.
You can eat a healthy and varied diet without having to resort to cucumber and beetrot smoothies...
You can eat a healthy and varied diet without having to resort to cucumber and beetrot smoothies...
story said:I read that as "PieEye came from an ugly smelly fanny".
That's even worserer!
PieFace will be so sad
((((((((PieFanny)))))))
At Christmas we call it a minge pie 
PacificOcean
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Not only is her TV show dubious. I have noticed her face slapped on bottles of "herbal" pills for everything from sex drive to vitality.
story
Gone for a Burton
PacificOcean said:
She seems to be untrained, and also obsessional - a poor combination. In this context, I find her endorsement of herbal medicines and nutritional supplements dubious at best, and at worst downright dishonest and potentially irresponsible or even dangerous.
However, it would not be true to say that herbal medicine per se is either dubious or dangerous. In the right hands, properly prescribed and taken under the supervision of a qualified medical herbalist, herbal medicine can be very effective.
Sex drive and vitality are both concpets that can be successfully treated with herbal medicine, if the diagnosis and the prescribing are both accurate and safe.
As for the McKeith [/spit] woman's ability either to diagnose or to prescribe... well, I have my doubts. I think she's a perfect example of the maxim "A little knowledge is a dangerous thing".
Out of interest, are herbal medicine prescribing doctors 'proper' doctors? (i.e. been to medical school etc)? I know that some herbs can be quite powerful (isn't there some clinical proof for St Johns Wort?)- I just wondered if there were any doctors on the NHS who go the 'herbal route'?
story
Gone for a Burton
claire said:
Medical herbalists are not medical doctors, no. They have a Batchelor of Science degree in Health Science: Herbal Medicine. Some of them go on to do a MSc.
Herbs are indeed powerful. Most modern medicines are derived from herbs somewhere along the line.
There is plenty of research into the efficacy of herbs in research settings; but much of this research does not tell us anything useful about how the herbs actually work in the context of the way they are prescribed and used by herbalists.
For instance, there is a study that proves that an extract of St John's Wort can cause cataracts when injected directly into the eye of a cow. Such a study tells us nothing useful: herbalists do not use extracts, they use the whole herb; herbalists do not treat cows, they treat people; herbalists do not inject any substance into the eye.
As for the NHS - well they don't recognise medical herbalism legally, but lots of doctors consult with herbalists themselves, or refer their patients on to herbalists, and fair few have given up doctoring to train as medical herbalists themselves.
PacificOcean
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story said:
I agree. But on the shelf at Tesco with her "as seen on TV" mug on it, is not the best way.
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