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Monday, March 10th, 2008Most of us have been affected by breast cancer. Whether you are a survivor, know someone who has had it (my mother) or have a friend who has or did have it, breast cancer is a devastating disease. Major corporations such as the makers of Campbell’s soup have jumped on the “Go For The Cure” […]
Heart Attacks and Cholesterol – Public Policy That Makes No Sense
Friday, March 7th, 2008I have touted the book Overdosed America by Dr. John Abramson over and over. It is shocking to me that so few people, especially doctors, know that high cholesterol and heart attacks are only correlated through the age of 40. Lowering weight, eating right, not smoking and exercising have more benefits and reduce heart attack […]
More Proof Our Health Care System Needs A Major Overhaul
Wednesday, March 5th, 2008The start of the Reagan Administration in 1981 was supposed to bring us something known as trickle down economics whereby giving large tax breaks to the wealthy and large corporations would trickle down to the rest of us and make our lives better. While I don’t want to get into a political debate here, what […]
Bye, Bye Dr. Jarvik
Tuesday, March 4th, 2008In one of my earlier blogs, I talk about the insipid ads put out by Pfizer that use Dr. Robert Jarvik to tout its best selling drug Lipitor. I’ve blogged before about who this guy really is and how he should not be the spokesperson as he never practiced medicine and he is no expert […]
More Tips on Lowering Your Carbon Footprint
Tuesday, March 4th, 2008In an earlier post, I gave you 25 different ways of “greening” your life. Here is a great little pamphlet on how to lower your carbon footprint from the Fight Global Warming website from Environmental Defense . Here is one for your kids to get involved, and a discussion on what the real science says […]
Combinational Toxicity – The Toxic Soup Within Our Bodies
Monday, March 3rd, 2008In an article published in the British journal, New Scientist, author Bijal Trivedi reports on how combinations of the toxic effects of the toxins within our bodies can be far greater than the sum of the toxins. Say if the lethality of each of 8 chemical toxicant by themselves was .01 on a scale of 0-5, […]
Chemicals Found In Children – No Problem If You Believe Professional Denier
Friday, February 29th, 2008Elizabeth Whelan, the President of the American Council on Science and Health said in response to a report by CNN about levels of dangerous chemicals being found in children “My concern about this trend about measuring chemicals in the blood is it’s leading people to believe that the mere ability to detect chemicals is the […]
Antidepressants – Hidden Drug Trials Show Negative Results
Thursday, February 28th, 2008It almost seems to be an everyday issue, but more and more we see how drug trials that don’t show benefits are being either ignored, hidden or modified by the pharmaceutical industry. In a review of the studies on 12 antidepressant drugs, researchers led by Erick H. Turner found that 31% of the studies on […]
Pesticides and Autism – More Data Supporting My View on the Effect of Toxins
Wednesday, February 27th, 2008At the AutismOne conference back in 2005, I was in room #2 talking about the link of multiple toxins and autism. In room #1 was Dr. Rasheed Buttar who was all about mercury. I told my audience that one day, the multiple toxin theory was going to be in room #1 eventually, maybe not with […]
Cholesterol Lowering Drugs are Worthless in Most Cases – Part Three
Monday, February 25th, 2008Before I get into today’s discussion on inflammation, please go to this link put up by Chance News, a group dedicated to reviewing information about the use of statistics in the news. They review the cholesterol news and and the statistics behind it. Go down halfway down the page to see the report. Inflammation. That is the […]
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