Archives for January 2003

If you're still not convinced that you need more vitamin C than the puny doses recommended by the so-called government experts, perhaps the following will help bring you to your senses.

A few months ago, I read an article in USA Today, which revealed that dying patients are still not getting relief from their pain. A coalition of health-care groups, called Last Acts, has released a very discouraging study involving all 50 states:

We're always hearing about how we shouldn't be drinking coffee (usually without any other explanation…you'd think it was rocket fuel or something). What coffee needs, I have always thought, is a good shtick, like being a miracle cure for this or that.

Not too many years ago, most health "authorities" considered nitrous oxide (NO) to be a toxin and recommended that it be avoided at all cost.

Your exercise freak friends and relatives are going to love this. Some medical wise men have gotten together and determined that "it's extremely welcome news…that exercise appears to be a lifestyle characteristic that women …

It's pretty much common knowledge these days that lycopene, one of the main ingredients in tomatoes, can help protect against prostate cancer.

First, "they" told us not to eat eggs at all because some nimrod decided that cholesterol is bad for us and eggs are relatively high in cholesterol.

I've been following the winding trail of Forteo, a recently FDA approved osteoporosis drug, for over a year (see the August 2002 issue of Real Health, "If it sounds too good to be true, it probably is").

People whose jobs require a great deal of sun exposure had lower rates of colon cancer mortality, and women in these types of positions had fewer breast cancer deaths.

What the nutrition experts won’t admit is that nuts keep you slimmer because they’re “fattier” than other snacks. Their fat content fills you up on much less than you would eat of other foods like pretzels.