2004-07 – Daily Dose archives

07/30/2004 - Eating Breakfast Might Have Beneficial Effects

“Eating breakfast might have beneficial effects on appetite, insulin resistance and energy metabolism [sugar abnormality] rates were 35 percent to 50 percent lower among people who ate breakfast every day

07/30/2004 - Milk’s Benefits

As you know, I’ve been singing milk’s praises (the raw variety of course) for decades – I’ve even written a book on the subject. It’s a great source of calcium, vitamin D, lactoferrins (natural antibiotics), and other good stuff.

07/27/2004 - Doctors Prescribe Expensive Drugs to their Patients

It’s not enough that the drug companies have the medical establishment convinced that the answer to everything is another risky, needless drug Now they’ve got to make sure our doctors prescribe only the most expensive ones, too.

07/20/2004 - Treating Insomnia of Children

Bet you didn’t know this interesting factoid: There are NO DRUGS (prescription or over-the-counter) that are currently approved for the treatment of insomnia in children.

07/16/2004 - The Underlying Cause of Food Poisoning

At any rate, the criminal here is not the organism, viral or bacterial, or pork, but a dirty food handler. Restaurants don’t like to spend a lot of time examining their food-handling employees.

07/13/2004 - The Lunacy Behind Aspirin Therapy

But just to reiterate: I think “aspirin therapy” is crazy. Not only does aspirin increase the risk of potentially lethal internal bleeding, it’s also makes blood MORE likely to clot up, not less!

07/09/2004 - Dangers of Exercise

If only the mainstream would wake up and smell the bacon (literally), they’d realize what joint-murdering, heart-stressing lunacy this kind of exercise really is.

07/06/2004 - Aspirin May Not be a Miracle Drug for the Prevention of Heart Attacks

In much of the popular culture – including the media and mainstream doctors’ offices – ordinary, garden-variety aspirin has been elevated to the status of “miracle drug” for the prevention of heart attacks.

07/02/2004 - Mainstream Views on Sunlight May Prove to be Untrue

I’ve often wondered – and more than once in print – how the human race ever managed to survive and thrive if what the mainstream says about sunlight is really true.