05/31/2005 - Incompetence in Modern Medical Care
For instance, I’ve told you about some extreme cases of malpractice that spotlight the incompetence rampant in modern medical care (still the 3rd-leading cause of death in this country).
05/30/2005 - Stop Illegal Immigration
Although they’d have every right to if the U.S. Constitution were still actually honored as law) to help stop illegal immigration along the U.S./Mexico border.
05/27/2005 - Eggs’ Enormous Health Benefits
I’ve also been telling everyone who’ll listen about eggs’ enormous health benefits – egg-eaters get huge infusion of Omega-3s, protein, amino acids and healthy fats every time they crack a yolk.
05/24/2005 - A Global Population Boom
Everyone knows that we’re in the middle of a global population boom. But I recently read an astonishing factoid that puts this exponential explosion into stark perspective.
05/23/2005 - When will Enough Drugs be Prescribed in this Country?
Will it be when every citizen of this country is taking at least three different drugs every day? Will it be when every natural or nutritional cure is replaced by a super-expensive, side-effect-laden chemical?
Never before – at least not to my knowledge – has this angle of the music-as-therapy idea been put to scientific rigor (sort of, as you’ll see in a minute).
05/17/2005 - New Mosquito Repellants
Because all of a sudden, they’re granting their blessings to a bunch of new mosquito repellants – whereas for the last 10 years, only those containing the chemical DEET were ordained by the organization as safe and effective.
05/16/2005 - Genetic Modification May Help the Environment
A group of Japanese researchers (no, none of them are named Frankenstein) have successfully inserted a gene from the human liver into a variety of rice to help it resist the effects of pesticides and industrial chemicals.
05/13/2005 - Health Fanatics are Dropping Dead
I swear, I think the exercise does something to their brains. It must, because many of them claim running is like an addiction (seems to me more like a death wish), and I’m starting to believe them.
05/10/2005 - Police Handcuff Violent Child
It was the police handcuffing of a violent child after the five-year-old threw an hour-long fit that included tearing papers off classroom walls, trashing an administrator’s office, repeated climbing of desk and tables
05/09/2005 - Homocysteine in the Bloodstream
Increased homocysteine in the bloodstream is strongly associated with the occurrence of heart disease. This correlation has been common knowledge in alternative medicine circles for years.
05/06/2005 - Healthy Benefits of Wine Consumption
From these facts, they postulated that previous studies illustrating the healthy benefits of wine itself could be merely a reflection of the overall healthier lifestyle that wine drinkers apparently lead.
05/03/2005 - Medicine: The Leading Cause of Injury & Death
You may have heard before that medicine itself is a leading cause of injury and death – but if you’ve been reading for any length of time at all, you already know that it’s the THIRD LEADING cause of death in the U.S.
05/02/2005 - Worldwide Killer Flu Scare
You’d have to have been under a rock not to have heard about last month’s worldwide killer flu scare
