Swine Flu
Get ready because the Swine Flu pandemic is going to hit hard this year in the US. There is a great deal of concern and misinformation about this new virus, …
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Debunking the Myths
When it comes to our health, it is critical to get past hyperbole and straight to the sane middle ground. We are now in a debate that is awash with …
Debunking the Myths Read MoreHere’s The Problem Millions of people – including a substantial number of the “worried well” – take a daily dose of the drug in the belief it will keep them …
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This great article was just released in the L.A. Times reporting on Brain Scans taken while people taste either normal sugar or a number of synthetic sweeteners. Here’s the bottom …
What Synthetic Sweeteners Do In Your Brain Read MoreBrained By Obesity
Need another reason to eat well? How about brain damage?? Obesity degrades your brain. Not only obesity, even overweight does it. What does this mean? Loosing your Gray Matter can’t …
Brained By Obesity Read MoreThe truth about weight loss drugs
Are you taking a weight loss drug? Like Xenical, Orlistat? You may be damaging your liver in the process. U.S. health officials are reviewing reports of liver injury in people …
The truth about weight loss drugs Read MoreTap water versus bottled
We always hear about debates over our water. Tap versus bottled … are we leaching plastics from our Nalgene bottled water? … because regulations for bottled water are different from …
Tap water versus bottled Read MoreTeens Sleep Better
Check this out: Athletic teens sleep better than their couch-potato peers and have fewer problems concentrating at school, a new study finds. Researchers in Switzerland asked 434 adolescents with an …
Teens Sleep Better Read MoreThoughts From The Hospital
I’m in the hospital … waiting. We’ll go home, likely, this afternoon. That said, there are several Oz-like phenomena that stick out at you when you spend any time in …
Thoughts From The Hospital Read MoreUS Life Expectancy
Even with our ever increasing obesity rates — which make it more likely that we’ll die of a host of illnesses — Americans are living a bit longer now. It’s …
US Life Expectancy Read MoreWine and Breast Cancer
Wine is a funny thing. At one time, wine was said to be awful for you. But Italian scientists who were drinking the wine outlived everyone and so they were …
Wine and Breast Cancer Read MoreClimate Change and Your Food
Have you ever listened to people rail against global warming, as if it’s a communist plot? I remember that, at first, you’d hear people say that “it’s all a hoax”. …
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