08/29/2006 - Heavy News from “Mass”-achusets
As you may know, I’ve written quite a bit in the last couple of years about the nutrition in our schools – specifically about the sorry state it’s in, and about the few things that are happening that bode well for the elimination of junk foods.
08/26/2006 - Sodium and Blood Pressure
Even though I’ve shouted at the top of my lungs that salt does NOT cause high blood pressure except in a very small percentage of people who are abnormally salt-sensitive, the mainstream continues to portray sodium as a killer
08/26/2006 - Blood Pressure: Low equals “slow”
A while back (Daily Dose, 8/8/2003), I wrote an article lambasting the American Medical Association for lowering its guidelines for healthy blood pressure for the umpteenth time.
08/23/2006 - The Truth About Fortified Foods
We’ve all known about “fortified” foods – and the claims in ads for white bread and sugar-laden breakfast cereals that claim they’re actually good for you – because they’ve been “fortified” with vitamins and iron.
08/21/2006 - WHO Report on Sunshine is Misleading
I swear, the World Health Organization is off its rocker lately. Sometimes they’re spot-on with their recommendations on problems facing global health, but recently they just can’t seem to get a thing right.
08/21/2006 - Sugary Sodas and their Health Implications
Boy, I’ll tell you what, you just can’t pull one over on the medical mainstream. It’s like they’ve got some kind of sixth sense or something, I swear.
08/18/2006 - Of standards and double-standards
In the last Daily Dose, I wrote to you about Washington state’s sudden official witch hunt (they call it an “investigation”) against a number of heretofore esteemed practitioners of alternative medicine. One of these in particular is having an
08/15/2006 - The “other” Washington’s war on naturopathy
If you’ve been reading the Daily Dose (or my newsletter) for any length of time at all, you’re already aware of the conspiracy to limit your healthcare choices foisted on us by the crackpots we send to represent us in Washington, D.C
08/14/2006 - Carcino-genocide on trial
Every once in a while, the court system surprises me. Normally, it’s as predictable in its misguided fool-headedness as night following daytime. But just as occasional eclipses upset the predictable balance of night and day, so too does the
08/11/2006 - The questionable progress of progressive parenting
As you may remember, last May (Daily Dose, 5/10/2005), I wrote an article called The Death of Discipline. It was about a kindergartener named Ja’eisha Scott whose temper tantrum during classroom hours was so severe it paralyzed the entire
08/08/2006 - The 1st Amendment: Foreign language to politicians?
I never wake up in the morning and say to myself, “Hmm, I feel like RANTING today.” Believe it or not, I’m ordinarily a very happy person. And despite my tone in a lot of these dispatches, I’m a natural optimist (it’s true, I swear!). Besides
08/07/2006 - Medicine’s manslaughter by the numbers
In the last Daily Dose, I got my dander up because the mainstream press reported the fact that prescription drugs kill and maim 1.5 million Americans every year as though it’s a shocking revelation. In actuality, it’s the dirty little secret
08/04/2006 - “Breaking” medical news that’s 30 years too late
It boggles my mind — and boils my blood — when the mainstream media reports on the deadly dangers of patented prescription drugs as though it’s some kind of shocking, breaking news
If a pending plan for “donor recognition” gains approval from the Bush administration (and outward indications are that it will), our glorious and pristine National Park System might soon be cluttered with billboards, giant inflatable soda bottles
