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The Mineral that Could Save Your Heart
Q: Can magnesium actually stop a heart attack? I had one last year and am terrified of having another. How can I get this treatment if this happens again?
Cut the Sugar: 7 Ways to Cut Empty Calories
In the early nineteenth century the average American consumed about 12 pounds of sugar a year. Today, some experts estimate that it’s more than 150 pounds, in the form of sugar and other sweeteners.
By contrast, the human body needs only about two teaspoons of sugar in the bloodstream at any one time. Is it any wonder overweight and obesity have reached epidemic proportions in this country?
Simple Way to Lower Your Blood Pressure -- Just Avoid THIS…
In some circles these days, it’s becoming increasingly fashionable to claim that the many ills attributed to fructose are overblown. After all, you might hear, it’s just sugar, no better or worse than any other sort of sugar, right? It’s a natural substance found in fruit, after all, so how bad could it possibly be?
American Cancer Society’s Stunning Admission About Cancer Screening
Recently, Dr. Otis Brawley, ACS chief medical officer, stepped up and said the most astonishing thing to the New York Times: “I’m admitting that American medicine has overpromised when it comes to screening. The advantages to screening have been exaggerated.”
That last sentence is the kind of thing you expect to hear from, well…me, but NEVER from ACS.
Doctors Have Problems, Too
In the interest of protecting life, limb, and pocketbook, I’ve sometimes harped on the ugly statistics concerning physician error.
For instance, I’ve written about how mistakes made by doctors cause as many as 98,000 deaths each year in the United States alone — more than traffic accidents, breast cancer, or AIDS. I’ve mentioned that medical error ranks as the fifth leading cause of death, trailing right behind death by prescription drugs at 106,000 deaths per year.
Vitamin B6 May Slow Tumors
I know it might sound crazy, but the best approach to prostate cancer is often to do nothing at all.
If you leave it alone, chances are you'll never have a problem with your prostate -- and the latest study shows that vitamin B6 could help keep it that way.
Obese Kids Taken From Parents
In at least five states, parents have had their children taken away by the government and placed into foster care, or they have completely lost custody, because the kids weighed too much.
Ditto in Canada and in the United Kingdom. With two-thirds of all adults in the US now overweight and one third so overweight that they qualify as obese, it’s surprising to hear about obese children being removed from their homes because they are too fat.
Calcium Supplements Don’t Build Strong Bones
Don’t waste your money on calcium supplements.
If you’re taking them hoping to build strong bones and avoid osteoporosis you’ll be let down on both fronts.
Doctors and drug companies push the idea that the best way to treat and prevent osteoporosis is by taking lots of calcium. This simply isn’t true.
Be Careful When Using Echinacea for Flu
Usually each year, during late summer I start writing articles about the cold and flu season that seems to impact us more during fall and winter months.
One well known herb that has most often been a great help for colds and seasonal flu has been Echinacea.
Natural Help for Diabetes
Diabetes is a metabolic disorder in which blood-sugar (glucose) levels are above normal—either the body doesn’t produce enough of the hormone insulin, which breaks down sugar in the blood, or it ca
