| 01/31/2003 - Low Vitamin C, Increases Risk of Cataract Formation |
| If you're still not convinced that you need more vitamin C than the puny doses recommended by the so-called government experts, perhaps the following will help bring you to your senses. |
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| 01/31/2003 - Dying Patients are still not getting relief from their pain |
| A few months ago, I read an article in USA Today, which revealed that dying patients are still not getting relief from their pain. A coalition of health-care groups, called Last Acts, has released a very discouraging study involving all 50 states: |
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| 01/28/2003 - Should we be drinking coffee? |
| We're always hearing about how we shouldn't be drinking coffee (usually without any other explanation…you'd think it was rocket fuel or something). What coffee needs, I have always thought, is a good shtick, like being a miracle cure for this or that. |
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| 01/28/2003 - Avoiding Nitrous Oxide at All Cost |
| Not too many years ago, most health "authorities" considered nitrous oxide (NO) to be a toxin and recommended that it be avoided at all cost. |
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| 01/24/2003 - Health Benefits of Exercise |
| Your exercise freak friends and relatives are going to love this. Some medical wise men have gotten together and determined that "it's extremely welcome news…that exercise appears to be a lifestyle characteristic that women … |
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| 01/24/2003 - Lycopene Can Help Protect Against Prostate Cancer |
| It's pretty much common knowledge these days that lycopene, one of the main ingredients in tomatoes, can help protect against prostate cancer. |
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| 01/21/2003 - Eggs Aren't Bad for You |
| Someday maybe the nutrition "experts" will finally get it through their thick heads that eggs aren't bad for you (though I won't hold my breath waiting for that day to arrive). |
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| 01/21/2003 - FDA Approved Osteoporosis Drug |
| I've been following the winding trail of Forteo, a recently FDA approved osteoporosis drug, for over a year (see the August 2002 issue of Real Health, "If it sounds too good to be true, it probably is"). |
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| 01/17/2003 - Possible Benefits of Sun Exposure |
| I would have liked to have been a fly on the wall in the lab where a group of researchers "discovered" that sunlight isn't pure evil as so many doctors (not to mention sunscreen manufacturers) would like us to believe. |
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| 01/17/2003 - In a nutshell |
| You've probably removed nuts from your diet based on bad advice from dieticians who told you that nuts are full of fat and are therefore fattening. |
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| 01/14/2003 - Running interference |
| "Antioxidants, whose ability to improve cardiac health has been subject to skepticism, actually interfered with cholesterol-lowering drugs," report scientists from the University of Washington. |
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| 01/14/2003 - A hospital bed is not an Analyst's couch |
| There's a new movement in the field of medicine - one that wants to find an underlying psychological explanation for your symptoms that reveals you are not really sick. |
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| 01/11/2003 - Are Doctors Missing the Mark? |
| Doctors should stop taking cholesterol readings and concentrate on important things… Most doctors check none of these. |
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| 01/10/2003 - Natural Weight Loss for Dogs |
| Duchess' owner enrolled her in a study on weight reduction in dogs. The researchers tested the ability of dehydroepiandrosterone, better known as DHEA, to help Duchess lose weight. |
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| 01/06/2003 - Health-related Cranberry Claims |
| Cranberry related claims from the laboratories are going every which way, from breast cancer to gum disease and even stomach ulcers. |
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| 01/06/2003 - Treatment of Benign Prostatic Hypertrophy |
| Since there's no loss of libido or sexual function with saw palmetto and it works so well to alleviate BPH symptoms, why wouldn't patients and doctors choose the herbal product? |
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| 01/03/2003 - Forget NSAIDs for Alzheimer's |
| I do not recommend that you take NSAIDs, like motrin or ibuprofen, on a routine basis in the expectation of preventing Alzheimer's. |
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| 01/03/2003 - Concerns about Practice Guidelines |
| "Practice guidelines" are the protocols organized by university physicians and used by most doctors to treat patients. It's not quite cookbook medicine (which is based on a one-size-fits-all recipe for treating illnesses), but it's something like that. |
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