By Dr Tracie O’Keefe DCH, published in Positive Health magazine, December 2000 It is estimated that nearly a quarter of the UK population suffer from irritable bowel syndrome (also known as irritable colon syndrome or spastic colon),1 but nobody really knows because most people suffer in silence as they are too embarrassed to come forward… Read More

By Dr Tracie O’Keefe DCH, published in New Vegetarian & Natural Health magazine Winter 2001 When people ask me what are the psychological benefits of veganism they often want a packaged answer of statistics and authoritarian opinions. The answer, however, is much more self-evaluating, holistic and wider ranging. People become what they eat. What they… Read More

By Dr Tracie O’Keefe DCH, published in New Vegetarian & Natural Health, December 2001 Eating disorders come in five basic different forms: obesity, binge eating, guilty eaters, anorexia nervosa (self-starvation), and bulimia (overeating and then making yourself sick). Four of these behaviours are generally as common in the vegetarian and vegan population as with those… Read More