Welcome to The Wholistic Research Company's Health Information Pages. Our mission is to give you real information written by Health Professionals who are working with real patients every day. They have great amounts of experience and they want to share it. They feel the same way I do, which is that despite a big booming interest in alternative and complementary medicine, most of our patients and clients do not understand the differences in the ways that their Doctor and their other practitioner(s) think and make decisions. This usually means that they know very little about the choices that they themselves might make in determining their own future health and ways that they can create a better future for themselves and the people they care about. Since very few Health Professionals really practice and teach Health Promotion and Prevention as part of a way of thinking about life, the result is lots of confusion.

This confusion is stirred up by the marketing of many health products. Marketing information does not often clear the confusion in the mind of someone who is genuinely concerned about their own and their family's future health. Yet more confusion is introduced by the marketing of many products and techniques that are not really aimed at health at all, but at beauty and image.

We believe that the solution to all this confusion is reliable information from people like us who have qualified to know what we are talking about [by doing it successfully for many years] and who do not have a hidden marketing agenda. Most of the material on our Information Site has been written by friends and work colleagues who I have known for up to 20 years. They are not journalists and they have not been paid to write. The rest comes from similarly qualified and experienced practitioners of Health Care who also want to put their special knowledge into the public domain.

In this way I hope that it will not be possible for the truth to get in the way of a good story, and that you can find help, interest and inspiration in these pages. We believe that this site is unique. Most health sites that I visit are actually vehicles for marketing nutritional supplements and we are definitely not that. If you smell anything on our pages that sounds like marketing information to you then please let me know immediately.

Finally, a word about our sponsor, The Wholistic Research Company. Since 1981 the WRC has been providing objective, unbiased, straight information about health equipment and non-consumable products. They are very respected for this in their field and they sell a range of really good value and best-quality products. The Company's purpose in sponsoring these Information Pages is related to their goal of conversion from a garage-based mail-order business to a 21st century socially conscious institution. Being also able to provide the same quality of information about health care and healthy lifestyle, straight from the horse's mouth so to speak, is part of that transformation. However, and this is important in your quest for real information, WRC does not exercise control over the content of the Information Site. That is up to me. There are a few links to their trading pages within these information pages, in case you do find yourself wanting to know more about a particular product or book, but they are not intrusive.

On behalf of the Health Team and all contributors, and the Wholistic Team in Therfield.

John Morley Editor