01/31/2003 - Low Vitamin C, Increases Risk of Cataract Formation
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.
01/31/2003 - Dying Patients are still not getting relief from their pain
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:
01/28/2003 - Should we be drinking coffee?
We’re always hearing about how we shouldn’t be drinking coffee (usually without any other explanationyou’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.
01/28/2003 - Avoiding Nitrous Oxide at All Cost
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.
01/24/2003 - Health Benefits of Exercise
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 newsthat exercise appears to be a lifestyle characteristic that women
01/24/2003 - Lycopene Can Help Protect Against Prostate Cancer
It’s pretty much common knowledge these days that lycopene, one of the main ingredients in tomatoes, can help protect against prostate cancer.
01/21/2003 - Eggs Aren’t Bad for You
Someday maybe the nutrition “experts” will finally get it through their thick heads that eggs aren’t bad for you (though I won’t hold my breath waiting for that day to arrive).
01/21/2003 - FDA Approved Osteoporosis Drug
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”).
01/17/2003 - Possible Benefits of Sun Exposure
I would have liked to have been a fly on the wall in the lab where a group of researchers “discovered” that sunlight isn’t pure evil as so many doctors (not to mention sunscreen manufacturers) would like us to believe.
You’ve probably removed nuts from your diet based on bad advice from dieticians who told you that nuts are full of fat and are therefore fattening.
01/14/2003 - Running interference
“Antioxidants, whose ability to improve cardiac health has been subject to skepticism, actually interfered with cholesterol-lowering drugs,” report scientists from the University of Washington.
01/14/2003 - A hospital bed is not an Analyst’s couch
There’s a new movement in the field of medicine – one that wants to find an underlying psychological explanation for your symptoms that reveals you are not really sick.
01/11/2003 - Are Doctors Missing the Mark?
Doctors should stop taking cholesterol readings and concentrate on important things Most doctors check none of these.
01/10/2003 - Natural Weight Loss for Dogs
Duchess’ owner enrolled her in a study on weight reduction in dogs. The researchers tested the ability of dehydroepiandrosterone, better known as DHEA, to help Duchess lose weight.
01/06/2003 - Health-related Cranberry Claims
Cranberry related claims from the laboratories are going every which way, from breast cancer to gum disease and even stomach ulcers.
01/06/2003 - Treatment of Benign Prostatic Hypertrophy
Since there’s no loss of libido or sexual function with saw palmetto and it works so well to alleviate BPH symptoms, why wouldn’t patients and doctors choose the herbal product?
01/03/2003 - Forget NSAIDs for Alzheimer’s
I do not recommend that you take NSAIDs, like motrin or ibuprofen, on a routine basis in the expectation of preventing Alzheimer’s.
01/03/2003 - Concerns about Practice Guidelines
“Practice guidelines” are the protocols organized by university physicians and used by most doctors to treat patients. It’s not quite cookbook medicine (which is based on a one-size-fits-all recipe for treating illnesses), but it’s something like that.
