April 10th
A nursery-school teacher recently told me that her eyesight had deteriorated so that she could no longer read even when wearing her glasses. Several months earlier she had started taking Ginkgo biloba regularly, about thirty drops every morning and night. When she tried her old pair of glasses again she was amazed that her sight [...]
April 10th
In a recent survey, one-sixth of all hospital admissions were attributed to drug interaction or unintended reaction to drugs, many of them antihistamine or cortisone based.
These act in a similar way to tranquillisers, muscle relaxants, narcotics, painkillers and alcohol, suppressing brain and nerve function. For this reason antihistamines are a component of many commonly [...]
April 2nd
Since nearly 70 percent of adult Americans have risk factors that warrant their reducing the amount of sodium they consume each day, the odds are high that you should pay attention to the following information and heed its advice. And since the national average daily sodium intake is already much higher than what’s recommended even [...]
April 2nd
1. Lie on tummy over a pillow: raise head and shoulders to the horizontal – without arching
the back, as this can put a strain on the posterior joints. Progress by repeating with arms stretched sideways.
In this way, the back extensor muscles work, but no stress is put on the joints.
2. Lie trunk [...]
April 1st
If you never need to give your back a thought when you wake up in the morning; if there is no stiffness or pain when you roll over, sit up, and get out of bed, then your bed is probably all right for you – no matter how it looks to other people.
But if [...]
March 30th
On April 1 cigarette smokers are in for a big shock, and it’s one that won’t be an April Fool’s joke. That’s because the federal tax on cigarettes is going up 62 cents, from 39 cents to $1.01 per pack. The monies collected are earmarked to pay for an expansion of the State Children’s Health [...]
March 26th
Eating red meat increases your chances of dying prematurely. That’s the stark finding of a very large and very well done clinical study just published in the
. The study found that eating red and processed meat was associated
with increases in total mortality, cancer mortality,
disease mortality. They found that eating just 4 ounces [...]
Read more of It’s time to cut back your red meat consumption…
March 25th
corporate shenanigans. That’s because, in a classic case of bureaucratitis, the FDA approval came just weeks after
, following a 5-year investigation, accused Forest Laboratories of illegally marketing Lexapro for use in these very same children. Of course, such actions are not mutually exclusive because, in fact, it would have been illegal for Forest to [...]
March 19th
The news of Natasha Richardson’s tragic death after a skiing accident has shocked us all; especially because of the apparently minor nature of her injury and that she was quickly up and about and talking immediately afterwards. Unfortunately, however, Ms. Richardson suffered a near textbook case of what’s called epidural hematoma. I say near because [...]
Read more of Natasha Richardson’s tragic death teaches us about head injury…
March 19th
before, but there’s a few new reasons to talk about it again. First is a newly published study that figured out how fast you need to walk in order to achieve a “moderate” level of intensity. That’s important because the current recommendation is that you should get 30 minutes of “moderate intensity” exercise five times [...]