Health and wellness news… with an attitude.
Have you ever read a newspaper story or online article with a headline proclaiming “Wonder drug cures cancer”, only to find out the study was done in mice, or rats, or fruit flies. Now, it’s great news that we can cure cancer in fruit flies. But the only reason the flies have cancer is because medical researchers gave it to them, so it hardly feels much of an achievement for scientists to claim they can cure a problem that only exists because scientists created it.
That’s why at Healthy & Simple, unless we get complaints from outraged rodents and fruit flies who feel they are being discriminated against, we will only ever report things that affect real people, in the real world. And we will only report studies that are done in large numbers of people. In science, size matters. There’s little point in telling you a treatment could work when it’s only been tested in seven women in Germany (not that we have anything against German women of course!).
We will also give you all the news that is relevant. We will not only tell you what new research says, we’ll also tell you how they did it, what it means for you, and who is behind the research. Why is that important? Well, if a study shows that ice cream cures acne was paid for by a company that makes ice cream, you might well question the validity of the findings.
Finally, we’ll give you some context and perspective to the studies. We will show you how new research fits in with previous work, so you can decide if it’s relevant to you, and if there’s enough overall evidence to make you rethink what you do, or how you live your life.
Remember, you should never make judgements based on one, single study. Only by weighing all the evidence can you make sound decisions that will shape how you lead your life.
At Healthy & Simple we will never tell you what to think. All we will do is give you all the relevant information so you can make up your own mind about what really matters to you.
