The news is saturated with it.  The conversations, even among strangers, deal with it.  It’s all around us, even though most of us (and perhaps all of us) don’t really know what it is or how it came about.  But the bottom line is, the economy is approaching a “bottom line.”  So with this as [...]

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When our youngest son left home two years ago to go to college, we put our 5-bedroom 4-bathroom home on the market for sale (not a good time for the housing market). Two weeks ago a small family expressed interest in the home, and they will be renting for the time being. In the process [...]

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Wall Street Journal, September 17, 2008
Virulent Foe Defies Hospitals’ War on ‘Superbugs’

Another complication of antibiotic use.
Clostridium difficile is an intestinal organism that causes tremendous gastrointestinal upset, diarrhea, perforated bowels and death. When I went to medical school, it was uncommon and easy to treat. Today it has morphed into a more virulent form, does [...]

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We are thirsty.  We are very thirsty.  But we try to quench our thirst with peculiar, foreign fluids which do us little good and often do us harm.  Even commonly accepted, “good for you” liquids sometimes have characteristics which interfere with our bodies’ abilities to process nutritional benefits.  I have shared with you in [...]

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Wall Street Journal, September 17, 2008

Bisphenol-A (BPA), found in plastic food and drink containers, has been found in higher concentrations in people with cardiovascular disease and diabetes. These higher levels are associated with elevation of liver enzymes (increased death of liver cells because of increased liver stress). The director of FDA’s Office of Food Additive [...]

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An 84 year-old gentleman presented with difficulty sleeping, tired, mental acuity diminished; all over the past few months.  He was a long-time advocate of good eating and supplement intake.
Let me show you what happened when we took him off of the sugar.  You can

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A Vitamin B1 (thiamine) deficiency may be the cause of the serious vascular side-effects found in diabetics. Concentrations of this vitamin were 75% lower in the group with diabetes compared to placebo. Thiamine works by helping to protect cells against the effect of high glucose levels, which may be why it is used up [...]

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Forbes shared this information:  Pharmaceutical Company Pfizer is trying to clear another medication to treat osteoporosis in postmenopausal women. This is the third time this drug has been submitted—the first two times it was rejected because 1) there is an increased risk

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I’m reprinting the following letter to the editor of the Wall Street Journal with permission of the author, Joe Mendelson, Legal Director of The Center for Food Safety, Washington.

The Journal supposes that any interest group opposed to food irradiation “presumably thinks you can hire enough inspectors to look at every tomato.” This is not [...]

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Everyone is familiar with pain.  Most pain is caused by inflammation.  Most of the inflammation comes from tissue damage that may occur from many different exposures.  We have all felt the pain from sunburn, or putting our hand on a hot burner, or holding ice cubes.
We’re also very familiar with the pain caused by

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