Archives for November 2010

With all the pumpkin pie, eggnog, Christmas cookies and spiced cider the holiday season can send your worry about maintaining healthy blood sugar levels so far north you might meet Santa.

Harvard researchers now say obesity rates will rise from roughly a third of us now to 42 percent of the nation by 2050 — with many millions more overweight, but not obese.

Balance glucose levels with your favorite Christmas spice: Cinnamon!

The vaccine peddlers at the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention who’ve been pushing the dangerous Gardasil HPV shot on your girls are now going after your boys.

Why bother creating a good drug — all you really need to do is come up with a bad placebo.

Kids are up all night texting, “sexting,” gaming and e-mailing…then they have the nerve to spend the next day bellyaching about how badly they sleep. A new study of “insomniac” children — kids who sleep so poorly they’re having real problems during the daytime — found that most of them spend the night sending dozens [...]

BPA stops sperm from swimming Bad news, gents: There’s an all-out war taking place in your testicles right now — and you’re losing! The enemy is BPA, and it’s like a sperm-seeking missile. A new study finds men exposed to this common chemical — and this means you — have a higher risk of low [...]

The drug companies are demanding billions of dollars to develop new antibiotics to fight powerful drug-resistant superbugs — and if they don’t get the cash, you won’t get the cure.

The FDA Food Safety Modernization Act has nothing to do with food safety OR modernization.

Want to slurp sugary drinks all day? Be prepared to pay the price. It doesn’t matter what you weigh — you could have a perfect waistline and a handsome profile — all that soda slurping will do you in eventually, and a new study proves it. Researchers say they’ve found that sugary drinks like soda [...]