09/27/2002 - Ironing out a dangerous diet
The point of this little story is that blindly prescribing iron to patients can be futile and even dangerous. I first reported on the dangers of excessive iron in one’s diet in 1987 in Health Freedom News, the journal of the National Health Federation.
09/24/2002 - Mother Nature’s secret weapon
Your best defense against threats from within – viruses, bacteria, chemicals, parasites, fungi, tumors, etc. (it’s a jungle in there) is a well-armed immune system.
09/17/2002 - Give yourself a lift
For the past few decades, we’ve been continually bombarded by exercise propaganda that tells us bouncing around and working up a sweat is the key to good health.
09/17/2002 - Skin-deep cancer research
Of course, for 25 years I’ve been asking dermatologists, if skin wrinkling is caused by sun exposure, why, then, are old Eskimos so wrinkled when they have only six weeks of summer?
Ten years ago, I was talking with a young doctor about peptic ulcer disease. As it turned out, he had never heard that it is caused by a bacterium, even though, at that time, it had been decisively proven to be caused by the germ H. pylori.
09/06/2002 - Heave hoe, silver!
The controversy surrounding silver amalgam dental fillings continues to rage on. Silver amalgam fillings are not silver at all, but half mercury with a little silver added, along with copper, tin and zinc.
09/03/2002 - Cat got your brain?
Dr. E. Fuller Torrey posits that cats may carry infectious diseases that could cause schizophrenia and bipolar disorder. Torrey thinks they may be passing along Toxoplasma gondii, a parasite in cat feces, that causes brain lesions in humans.
