As you know, I like to stay on the side of offering healthy alternatives to you, rather than rant about the political messes that are taking place with our health.  But in two cases today, I must at least inform you about what is going on.  First of all, vitamin C (intravenous) is being threatened.  [...]

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Wall Street Journal
Tuesday, February 23, 2010
U.S. Neglects High Blood Pressure
The Institute of Medicine said that nearly one in three adults have hypertension recently, and feels that doctors are not treating it aggressively.  “If you live long enough, you’re almost guaranteed to get hypertension,” said Dr. Corinne Husten of Partnership for Prevention, a [...]

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Why Most Published Research Findings Are False
John P. A. Ioannidis, Department of Hygiene and Epidemiology, University of Ioannina School of Medicine, Greece; Institute for Clinical Research and Health Policy Studies, Department of Medicine, Tufts-New England Medical Center; Tufts University School of Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.
This abstract proves that most published research findings are false. [...]

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Our Germs, Ourselves
Forbes reports that our bodies have 100 trillion bacteria in the intestinal tract. Recent studies imply that the type of bacteria in the gut may decide whether food is burned as energy or stored as fat. Obese people had a different

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Calorie Counters Have it Right, Diet Study Says

Recently released information in the Wall Street Journal shows that calories do count—that it isn’t what you eat, but how much. Participants were put in one of four diet groups—2 low-fat groups and 2 high-fat groups, with a high-protein and normal-protein groups being the other parameter. All diets [...]

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A series of recent articles in various newspapers and magazines bring to light some issues that concern me, and may be of concern to you. Read on for a synopsis and my thoughts:

Injected Wrinkle Fillers Need Stronger Warnings, FDA Says

The FDA panel is debating if there should be stronger

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