Today is Columbus Day. And we’re wrapping up our series of Daily Dispatches on New World foods with one of Christopher Columbus’ best-loved discoveries–chocolate. Columbus first encountered [...]
Month: October 2013
Columbus’ hot and sweet discovery
Over the last few weeks, I told you about many different New World foods that transformed Europe’s nutrition, cuisine, and health. And today, as we draw nearer to Columbus Day, we will look [...]
Too many cooks in the cancer clinic
On Tuesday, I told you about an important new report from the National Cancer Institute (NCI) questioning the benefit of some efforts at early cancer detection. The researchers found that early [...]
Overdiagnosis can become a bigger problem than some cancers
Over the past 30 years, we have heard that early cancer detection saves lives. But is this true? Does it save lives? Or instead, does it lead to an overtreatment of potentially harmless “cancer” [...]
More than just a hill of beans
As we approach Columbus Day, we will continue our series on “New World” foods. As I’ve said before, Europe had just 16 plants used as food sources before explorers like Christopher Columbus [...]
Put them on permanent furlough
Friday was day four of the U.S. government shutdown. And what does a former government insider have to say about that? Plenty. In fact, while 800,000 “non-essential” federal employees [...]
The real genetic miracle cure
Yesterday, I talked about how the U.S. government medical complex has essentially ignored the role of genetics in lung cancer for the past 40 years. But I tend not to write regularly about [...]
Gene mutation increases lung cancer risk
When it comes to lung cancer, I always knew there was more to the story than just smoking. And now, new research out of Japan provides more proof that I was right. Here’s why this new Japanese [...]
The lowly potato saves the day
Last week, I explained how the discovery of “New World” foods by Spanish Conquistadors helped transform nutrition, cuisine, and health throughout Europe. And ultimately in colonial and early [...]