Archives for October 2003

Because a vocal group of the residents of Cumberland, Md. and surrounding Allegheny County are fighting tooth and nail to resist their local government's decision to pollute their drinking water with…

I've spilled a lot of ink over the years exposing the pharmaceutical industry's corruption. After all, no other aspect of the medical universe has a greater impact on our health than the drugs conventional doctors …

In other words: Treating the symptoms instead of eliminating the causes of the disease. Again. After all, that's how we treat heart disease and cancer, so why not diabetes?

Mammograms aren't the "magic bullet" for breast cancer prevention that everyone says – and in many cases they can actually make cancer worse. Why mention this again?

Well, if reading about it so often in the Daily Dose has desensitized you to this manner of medical carelessness, here's an item that'll shock you all over again…

Case in point: The junk food industry is currently attempting to re-invent itself as healthier and more body- and heart-friendly. This is partly because of new regulations…

But being of a soundly clinical mind and empirically scientific constitution, I reserved judgment about the irradiation of meat products until sufficient evidence was in.

Now they've set their sights on adults, too. According to CNN.com, Eli Lilly and company – holders of the patent on Strattera, the only drug approved by the FDA for the treatment of adult ADD

Well I'm here to tell you that ALL THREE KINDS of lies (and more) are routinely told about prescription drugs. And innocently enough, all of these shameless prevarications bear the same innocuous name: Marketing.

IN THIS ISSUE: Easy solutions to the HRT problem you won’t hear on your evening news; Lose 44 percent more weight not following a low-fat diet; Paxil promises hot flash relief– but no one ever said it was safe; Eliminate deadly “healthy sugar” from your life in three simple steps; Beware the three-yolk egg; Water bottles are ruining the Earth –literally!; Going on antidepressants? Well, break a leg (or hip, or arm)!; The heart/brain/ stomach connection you need to know before bypass surgery; The best prostate-health advice: Stay away from the urologist