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Media Full of Baloney on Saturated Fat
My old stomping grounds (for only two years), The Associated Press, is at it again. Whenever some government pronouncement about...
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May 17, 20154 min read
Chewing or Eschewing the Fat
You Docs, Oz & Roizen It never ceases to amaze me how certain voices in the medical community attain status as experts on all things...
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May 9, 20153 min read
Health and the media
Brian Williams Leading voices in the media are probably more dismayed by former NBC-TV news anchor Brian Williams’ misrepresentations of...
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Apr 11, 20153 min read
Doing the Can Con
The You Docs are making progress, but they’re not there yet. Their last column in my local newspaper had them starting out on a mostly...
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Feb 27, 20154 min read
Vaccination quandary
The media, for the most part, scorn the folks who resist vaccinations for diseases or are disinclined to have their children vaccinated....
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Feb 14, 20153 min read
Cholesterol Okay Now?
Well, the government diet gurus have switched positions again. Now they don’t think cholesterol is bad for you. Not long ago, so-called...
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Jan 4, 20153 min read
Fat Foe Redux
Dr. Mehmet Oz The You Docs are at it again. After results of a huge meta-analysis were published in March, Drs. Mehmet Oz and Michael...
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Nov 14, 20143 min read
Diabetes Association: Telling it like it isn’t
How are Americans supposed to know what food is healthy if the major medical organizations propagate wrong information? So far, so good...
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Sep 24, 20143 min read
Relax, and skip the Exlax.
Human intestines Nineteen years ago, I had my first colonoscopy. My then-wife and I had returned from a trip to California, during which...
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Sep 20, 20142 min read
Vitamin B12: Food for Thought
A. Eggs, meat, dairy and fish. Meat up It follows that, unless vegans and strict vegetarians take a B12 supplement, they are getting...
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Sep 5, 20144 min read
CVS, Cigarettes and Saturated Fat
Let’s see … I need some cashews and pistachios. Where shall I go get them at a good price, Walgreen’s or CVS? Walgreens store Used to be,...
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Jul 29, 20143 min read
Colonoscopy Condemned
“I’m not going to send you for a colonoscopy,” my primary-care doctor said. “We don’t do that anymore for people once they turn 70.” Man...
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Jul 25, 20142 min read
Salt of the Earth — or Sea
“Ye are the salt of the earth: but if the salt have lost his savour, wherewith shall it be salted? It is thenceforth good for nothing,...
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Jun 24, 20145 min read
Time for a change
Ancel Keys on a Time cover in 1950; a 1984 Time issue; the current Time issue Well folks, it’s finally happened. Time magazine, the...
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Jun 14, 20143 min read
Women and cholesterol
Critical cholesterol study: no reporting Did you know about the large study in 2011 that showed women with high cholesterol had fewer...
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Jun 11, 20143 min read
Wheat goes awry
Wheat up!? Eat wheat. That’s the mantra of the medical establishment and conventional nutritionists. Wheat Leading alternative physicians...
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Jun 4, 20144 min read
Ossified
How much does Dr. Oz know? A lot of so-called experts achieve their reputations only partly because of their skills and knowledge. They...
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May 31, 20143 min read
Global Warming
Forest fire out West caused by global warming Which is a worse way to die, by water or fire? The way things are going, future generations...
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May 25, 20141 min read
Graft, Money, Opportunism = GMOs
GMOs are safe? Researcher shows GMOs dangerous GM forces discredited the study. But after he presented his results to the European...
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May 7, 20143 min read
Saturated Fat is Good for You
There it was, in the March 30 edition of the Palm Beach Post, part of the syndicated People’s Pharmacy column by Terry & Joe Graedon:...
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