Archives for June 2005

The new guides are more confusing than the Department of Homeland Security's terror alerts. There are six different colors at play in the new system each one representing a different food group…

A season of love, baseball games, cookouts, yard sales, trout fishing, and marathon running. Five out of six of those things are good for you. The other is something almost everyone THINKS is good for you, but is actually heart-murdering lunacy.

According to a recent series of investigative reports by the Associated Press, an Indian-born and educated M.D. named Jayant Patel has been on a 20-year reign of medical terror that includes such illustrious highlights as…

The "super-sized" carb- and vegetable grease-saturated meals sold in these slop-shops are in large part responsible for the extreme widening of America's girth, and the rise of obesity as this nation's number one health concern…

The US Food and Drug Administration has recently received more than 40 reports of a sudden, acute cause of permanent blindness called Non-arteritic Ischemic Optic Neuropathy (NAION) among those taking prescription impotence drugs.

But lest you think, because I normally harp on the marathoners for taking exercise to the extreme, that things like bicycling, mountaineering, swimming, aerobics classes and other rambunctious-ness are perfectly safe for your ticker…

As the U.S. gets ready to face its seventh season of living with the West Nile virus, new research shows that the West Nile family of illnesses (yes, there are more than one) are more threatening than once believed.

Scientists are now claiming sunshine prevents Cancer! Wow. That's really big news. I've only known it, for, hmmm, let's see… 35 YEARS! But I'm not bitter that nobody in the medical establishment ever listens to me.

Congressional hearings on "doughnut abuse" among NBA players! According to a recent MSNBC online article, a Congressional committee is currently convening to investigate allegations of rampant doughnut consumption among players in the NBA.

…A lot of educated parents nowadays are having second thoughts about inoculating their children because of concerns about an increased risk of autism from the Mercury-based preservatives in many childhood vaccines.