thebrinkof
A Pain in the Arm?
A novel idea occurred to me the other day. Excuse me, I don’t mean I got an idea for writing another novel, not just after finishing the...
top of page
Search
thebrinkof
Nov 21, 20203 min read
Letter to My Health Insurance Company: Saturated Fat Is Healthy
Nov 21, 2020 Dear Sir or Madam: I am utterly dismayed that you people continually send to your customers misinformation about what is a...
3 views0 comments
thebrinkof
Mar 12, 20201 min read
Coronavirus: It’s your immune system, stupid!
A public service announcement from your friendly scribe. Dr. David Brownstein We’re all scared as heck about this diabolical coronavirus,...
4 views0 comments
thebrinkof
Sep 7, 20194 min read
A Big Fat Fallacy
Wouldn’t you think that a country ranking at or near the bottom of the advanced nations in life expectancy and infant mortality would...
2 views0 comments
thebrinkof
May 13, 20195 min read
Fats: the Good and the Bad
Over the last several years, I’ve written a plethora of blog posts about the three hoaxes of the apothecary: statin drugs, cholesterol,...
5 views0 comments
thebrinkof
Mar 18, 20184 min read
The Brownstein Factor
David Brownstein, M.D. For years, my favorite doctor has been a man who lives a long way from my Florida home, though he’s located not so...
7 views0 comments
thebrinkof
Nov 8, 20173 min read
Grain Ain’t Green
Tampa Bay In 1973, only months after my first wife and I moved from Milwaukee to Tampa, we drove across Tampa Bay one Sunday afternoon to...
2 views0 comments
thebrinkof
Nov 1, 20173 min read
Flu Shot Flim-Flam
Humana, my health insurer, called the other day with a recorded message urging me to get a flu shot. It ran through a little survey: Did...
2 views0 comments
thebrinkof
Aug 29, 20174 min read
The Big Fat Lie
The You Docs The following is a blog post that I published a year ago. It is every bit as relevant today as it was then. The other day, I...
1 view0 comments
thebrinkof
Apr 15, 20173 min read
Vaccination Investigation
Robert Kennedy Jr. Perhaps the only positive thing President Donald Trump has done in his short time in office is to create a committee...
2 views0 comments
thebrinkof
Sep 8, 20164 min read
Autism and Awful Journalism
Leonard Pitts Jr. A week or so ago, I sent an email to the Miami Herald’s Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist Leonard Pitts Jr., decrying...
1 view0 comments
thebrinkof
Jul 15, 20165 min read
Fluoridation Flimflam
“Fluoride vote acknowledges passion, yields to science.” Thus read the headline of an editorial in the Palm Beach Post after the...
1 view0 comments
thebrinkof
Jun 3, 20168 min read
Media Provide Fodder for Trump
Michael Gerson Michael Gerson, the well-reasoned, moderately conservative columnist for the Washington Post, wrote a column this week...
1 view0 comments
thebrinkof
Apr 25, 20162 min read
The Oily Deception
My niece Dana from Chicago stayed with me this weekend, and she bought some healthy food from Costco for the four of us, including hubby...
1 view0 comments
thebrinkof
Apr 1, 20164 min read
Autism no measly problem
Robert De Niro The monied medical establishment won a victory this week in its fight against the anti-vaccine movement. Just a day after...
1 view0 comments
thebrinkof
Nov 13, 20155 min read
What you don’t know about vaccinations
Dr. David Brownstein The medical establishment’s propaganda about the safety and benefits of vaccinations is relentless. And it’s...
1 view0 comments
thebrinkof
Oct 31, 20154 min read
A Big Fat Fallacy
The Palm Beach Post’s special section on healthful eating for seniors in Thursday’s paper got it partly right, but other morsels of...
3 views0 comments
thebrinkof
Oct 16, 20153 min read
GMO, glyphosate and Green: Gee whiz!
Green isn’t green. Alex Green, the chief analyst for the Oxford Club investment newsletter service, defends the Monsanto corporation in...
2 views0 comments
thebrinkof
Sep 13, 20154 min read
Be Wary of Vaccines
The You Docs are at it again, touting the wonders of conventional medicine that fly in the face of facts. Real facts, not the kind...
3 views0 comments
thebrinkof
Aug 30, 20152 min read
Cereal killers
The movement is growing. We speak of the trend toward healthier eating. The latest evidence is General Mills’ decision to remove all...
1 view0 comments
bottom of page