Archives for August 2011

I’m sick and tired of the mainstream treating seniors like children. … Researchers from Britain’s Royal College of Psychiatrists are urging their government to tell seniors they shouldn’t have more than 1.5 units of alcohol a day. That’s only half a bottle of beer!

Sugar is food for tumors: The more you eat, the bigger they get. … Now, a new study confirms that a diet high in carbs is a cancer’s best friend.

A new study finds that a high percentage of people who want nose jobs suffer from body dysmorphic disorder, or BDD.

Time was, you could count on your doc to at least TRY to figure out what was wrong with you. Today, he’ll just throw his hands up and send you home with a prescription — and new numbers show it’s usually an antidepressant.

But the normal rules don’t apply in the meat industry — heck, the meat industry gets to write its own rules — so most consumers don’t know that 90 percent of all pork, 30 percent of chicken and 15 percent of beef are plumped up with brine.

It could take an act of Congress to stop genetically modified salmon from reaching the supermarket — and that’s exactly what some lawmakers are threatening.

Johnson & Johnson has been dragging its feet on Tylenol for years now — and instead of cutting back on its dangerous main ingredient, acetaminophen, they’ve been pumping it into every product imaginable.

I always cringe when I read a news report on the health benefits of cocoa — the takeaway is almost always “eat more chocolate.”

That noise you’re hearing isn’t another bad signal from your cellphone — it’s the industry trying to drown out the research linking its devices to cancer.

A slew of new studies is pumping all my favorite exercise myths — and rather than go after them one at a time, I’m going to take them all on at once, right here, with one hand tied behind my back (you’ll have to trust me on that last bit).