Bottled water is big business in the U.S. But you have to be careful about how you spend your hard-earned money. I’ll tell you about the only kinds of bottled water you should ever buy in a [...]
Category: General Health
Improve blood sugar control with tree nuts
The science on nuts keeps getting better and better. Yesterday, I told you about men and women who reversed atherosclerosis by following the Mediterranean diet supplemented with nuts. In just [...]
Lose weight without denying your cravings
I’m generally skeptical of diet gurus and all their gimmicky diet plans. Instead, I think you should follow a common sense approach. Eat reasonable portions of diverse, healthy foods. And avoid [...]
Popular antidepressant may promote breast cancer
The government-industrial-medical complex has a clear agenda when it comes to breast cancer. It makes sure you know about every politically correct, potential (but yet-to-be-proven) risk factor [...]
Good news! Healthy physical activity is right within your reach (and grasp)
Earlier this week, I told you many doctors like to practice “medicine by the numbers.” They want to know your cholesterol number, your BMI, and your salt intake. But very often, these numbers are [...]
These popular athletic shoes can cause foot injuries
I often warn against excessive exercise, like high endurance running. It can eventually lead to irregular heartbeats, degenerative osteoarthritis, and a lifetime of orthopedic problems. Of [...]
Save yourself from a-salt and battery
Although it should be a settled issue by now, the great “war” against salt continues to rage in 2014. (Probably because the war helps keep a lot of political scientists and science bureaucrats [...]
Vermont’s new food label law gives hope
Earlier this month, Vermont passed a landmark bill that will force food producers to label products that contain genetically modified organisms (GMOs). And if the new law survives the ensuing [...]
The game is over for Roche and Tamiflu
The Centers for Disease Control (CDC) and the World Health Organization (WHO) try to tell us we can get over the flu faster by taking the antiviral drug Tamiflu (oseltamivir). They say the drug [...]
Dangers of smoking marijuana continue to emerge
Legalized marijuana continues to make headway in many parts of the country. But this growing culture of acceptance ignores the actual science. And the science tells us smoking marijuana is just [...]