Archives for June 2004

Many times, medical errors hit a lot closer to home – yourlocal doctor's office. A recent study published in the journal Quality and Safety in Health Care examines errors that take place in the "primary care" setting.

We've all know about "fortified" foods – and the claims in ads for white bread and sugar-laden breakfast cereals that claim they're actually good for you – because they've been "fortified" with vitamins and iron.

By now, you've probably heard about homocysteine. I've been writing about it for 20 years, and unless you're new to alternative medicine, you've probably heard a bit about how it relates to heart disease.

As you probably know, I've been writing about the ludicrous fads and factions of the so-called "health food" movement for years now, and I've called it just about every name in the book.

A report in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition points strongly to the conclusion that wine drinkers lead ealthier lives than beer or liquor drinkers, or those with no clear preference.

I know I don't need to restate this, but I will for the record: I think most prescription drugs are needless, and most are downright detrimental to your health

Sales of carb-heavy breads, pastas, pizza, cookies, desserts, and other foods are falling off in a big way because of people's increasing awareness that these refined, nutrition-less foodstuffs are actually killing them.

Back in November (Daily Dose, 11/21), I wrote to you about the disturbing, yet inevitable, specter of human genetic engineering – specifically, the disastrous impact that sex selection of babies would have on our species.

In the biggest news so far this year, Hawaii has flushed fluoride. Of course, this news won’t be on the front page of your newspaper, and maybe not even on the back page, but I’ll do my best to make sure it gets out anyway…

In case the vaccine expos I shared with you in the April issue wasn’t enough to scare you into thinking twice about this dated and dangerous practice, I thought I’d take a few more minutes this month to drive the point home.

In order to make their carefully selected case studies confess to their preordained conclusion, that Environmentally Transmitted Smoke (ETS) causes lung cancer in the innocent spouses of smokers, researchers at the International Agency for Research on Cancer used the old meta-analysis shell game…

Periodically, I come across an article about the wonders of grains. This one, from the Jean Mayer U.S. Department of Agriculture Human Nutrition Research Center on Aging at Tufts University (the JMUSDAHNRCATU, for “short”), was about how grains can treat or prevent diabetes. I hate to break it to them, but it’s nothing more than pseudo science based on generalizations…

“A leading environmental scientist”–an oxymoron if I ever heard one–”has announced that a monster cloud is coming from Asia and will dry up what is left of the Middle East.”