New Weight-Loss Drug Bloats Your Stomach to Make You Eat Less
Using this gel, Attiva, to control eating behavior is pathetic. This is nothing more than treating the symptoms of bad behaviors. In this article, you asked whether this “Might this be the answer to our ever-increasing problem with obesity?” Of course not, and for the same reason that surgical...
The Pursuit of HAPPYness: San Fran Bans the Happy Meal
I agree completely. The toy is tyranny. Just like any other “free gift with purchase” is an awful act — how do you think Sadam Hussein got his minions to do his bidding? He said, “but wait, there’s more. You also get Ginsu knives and a bamboo steamer. Remember,...
Radio Program Contents For Saturday (Noon EST)
Hi everyone!! CLICK HERE to listen LIVE on your computer here You can also call in to chat with us at this number: 412.333.1360 Topics for today: Global Warming?? … Guys had better watch out for scrotal warming! Red Meat Cancer Link Take Your Vitamins, Get a Good Brain Hemorrhage...
Do The Dietary Guidelines Improve Nutrition?
The dietary guidelines started in 1980, when we weren’t nearly as obese, heart diseased, and diabetic as we are now. Has it helped? Linda Van Horn, the Chair of the Dietary Guidelines Advisory Committee and editor of the Journal of the American Dietetic Association insists on the Guidelines’ relevance by stating...
How To Halt Breast Cancer Tumors
It’s Olive Oil … no kidding. This is according to a study conducted by researchers from the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Spain, and published in the journal Carcinogenesis.This research suggested that you could take up to 10 teaspoons of EVOO every day. 10 tsps is absurd, and no sane person on Earth...
Radio Program Tomorrow 11:00am Eastern
The Halloween edition of our show is [shocking, I know] on Halloween!! We’ll talk about tricks, treats, and our special guest is a director of the Action For Health Kids nationwide organization, started by Laura Bush and Surgeon General David Satcher. TIME: 11:00am to noon on Oct 31. PLACE: Click...
Health fair today
I'm speaking at this health fair, and have a little table. I feel so home-made, ad hoc, seat-o-the-pants with my table presentation. Ever other table is selling a million things and are clearly pros at this. I'm just a guy with info and data and a process for living...
Aspirin versus Coffee? The bowels of a gut reaction
Coffee consumption reduces colon cancer, and it doesn’t matter if its caffeinated or not (… if you’re anal retentive about your colon cancer, check out the study cited below). But, a new study is touting high doses of aspirin as a way to accomplish the very same thing. So. Aspirin...
Which Country Walks MORE than U.S.?
The question is actually … which country walks LESS than us?? Not many, that’s for sure. Adults in western Australia average 9,695 steps a day. The Swiss followed with 9,650, while the Japanese clocked in with 7,168 steps. But Americans straggled far behind with just 5,117 steps.The drive-not-walk mentality has...
HRT drugs –> breast cancer deaths
Is it worth it? I don’t know. Let’s just run through the logic: 1. IF you take Hormone Replacement Therapy, you boost your chances of getting ovarian and breast cancer. Why would you do that? 2. NOW, we learn that IF you take HRT, the cancer you do get...
Don’t Shrink-Wrap Your Brain
Whatever you do, DON’T shrink your brain!! Nearly 300 people in Pittsburgh kept track of how much they walked each week. After nine years of this, scientists took brain scans to measure their brain volume. After four more years, they tested to see if anyone in the study had...
To Stent Or Not To Stent
Got a blocked artery? Oops. Now what? You may have heard about docs using stents to open up the pipes, but there are two study-of-studies that don’t look good for this procedure. SYNTAX Study (New England Journal of Medicine) 1,800 patients. The arteries feeding blood to their heart muscle...