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Healthy World- Healthy Nations- Healthy Community- Healthy Family- Healthy You
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Healthy You-Healthy Family-Healthy Community-Healthy Nations-Healthy World = Holistic Health!
Philosophy
Michael Lingard BSc.Dip.Ost. BIBH. Contact: +44(0)1580 752 852
After 25 years as a practising osteopath and holistic health clinic manager I have come to realise that there is very little interest in the origin and nature of health.We have a National Health Service, which allocates minimal resources to "health", it is a disease prevention, management, and treatment service. I believe the time has come when a major shift must be made in our approach to healthcare... we must learn what health is about & how we can enhance it.The Osteopaths Act of 1993 was to be a landmark achievement for complementary medicine, giving osteopaths full recognition, however its implementation has caused a great injustice to many in the profession. After two years on the GOsC register I resigned from the organisation as I, along with over a thousand other osteopaths, were seriously concerned with the implementation and functioning of the GOsC. Since then I have been working with many other ex-osteopaths in the DOC (www.orthopath.org) and with a number of MPs who have been trying to rectify this problem. I am no longer able to call myself an osteopath as this title is restricted to members of GOsC only. After 30 years now in the profession I have expanded my interests to health promotion and regard myself now as a Professional Health Consultant or Orthopath with particular interest in the Buteyko Breathing Method. (www.buteykokent.co.uk)
This Site
It is with the hope that a new awareness can be regenerated among individuals, health-carers and our leaders, that this public forum of "Totalhealthmatters!" has been conceived. This website was launched in December 2001 and has three main aims:
1. To provide a reading resource of all research, literature and published information on the nature, origin and enhancement of health.
2. To promote debate and exchange of ideas amongst visitors to the site, and
3. To put pressure on all providers of "Health Care" to begin the re-allocation of resources, to create a healthier society.
Unless Health is returned to the centre of our medicine and health care services we shall slide into pathological decline..
The Nation's Health has suffered from the practice of disease orientated medicine.
Health has been forgotten and side-tracked as secondary in medicine.
A Few of the Topics for Your Interest
Keep up to date with the latest health news your doctor might not give you HERE
Ideas of the Gesundheit! Vision of Health Care More Here & The Funny Times Click Here
USA Sets the Stage for Integrative Medicine - Will the UK follow? Click Here (Recent initiative from President Obama)
Returning to Sanity- A Way Forward to a Healthier World Click Here
The Peckham Experiment- A unique Study of the Aetiology of Health Click Here
Are You a Pet Owner? Want Your Pet to be Healthy too? Check out " Raw Meaty Bones"
Breathing Can Damage Your Health from article published in the British Holistic Medical Journal Sept 2008 Click Here
Understanding Asthma - A Different Viewpoint April 2008 New Video M Lingard ViewMedical Flat Earthers August 2007 M Lingard Click Here pdf
The Origins of Health and Disease, some thoughts to ponder. Video May 2007 View
A plea to abandon asthma as a disease concept Lancet Article Aug 2006 Michael Lingard View Pdf
Medicine Related Deaths Highest Cause of Death in USA, will the UK follow suit? June 2007 Click Here
"The Dark Ages of Medicine" or "The Medical Emperor's New Clothes"Michael Lingard View
The Most Neglected Health Matter June 2007 View
Introductory Talk on The Buteyko Method Filmed at The Lewes Health Fest Jan.2007 View Here
Buteyko Training Saves NHS £ 000's NHS could save £billions! Buteyko Method for asthma treatment & more. View
The Cholesterol Industry: The International Network of Cholesterol Skeptics March 2007 View
The NHS takes the first step to "drug rehabilitation" Michael Lingard View Here
CAM Regulation: integration or dis-integration? Michael Lingard Journal BHMA Vol 1 Issue 2 August 2004 View Here
Totalhealthmatters! The Paradigm Shift / The Resource Shift (Presentation at the UKPHA 12th International Annual Health Rorum Brighton 2004) Click Here
Poor Diet costing NHS £6billion a year in UK View
The Theory of Health Professor Konstantin Buteyko View
Breathing could damage your health! Visit Site
Vaccination Debate Update A heavy price to pay for spin. / 20th April 2005 View (Although new stocks of childrens vaccines preserved with Mercury were not procured from 2004, no old stocks were withdrawn, but only destroyed when shelf life expired, this could mean children were being administered mercury contaminated vaccines as late as 2006! Assuming a two year storeage life.) From Hansard :Vaccination: ThiomersalIan Stewart: To ask the Secretary of State for Health in what year the NHS ceased to use thiomersal in vaccine doses under the public vaccination programme; and in what year the last vaccine stocks containing thiomersal were (a) exhausted and (b) withdrawn. [204011]Dawn Primarolo: The routine childhood vaccination programme has used only thiomersal-free vaccines from September/October 2004. The remaining centrally held stocks containing thiomersal were destroyed when their date expired. No vaccine was withdrawn.Details of the changes, including the rational, are contained in the Chief Medical Officer’s letter, copies of which have been placed in the Library and are also available at:
The Food Scandal, YES it's Official! Michael Lingard View
When too much care can be bad for your health. (Newscientist 17th August 2002) VisitGESUNDHEIT! Dr Patch Adams Visit
For 80 cents more. (The Economist 17th Aug. 2002) More health for less money. View
BUTEYKO APPROACH TO ASTHMA (The revolutionary way to treat asthma explained) Visit Site
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Recommended Reading (Some of the books that I have been inspired by)
