Hypertension Update
We learn a bit more each time we research this. It’s a killer. Keep ahead of your blood pressure with diet and exercise.
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The Nature of the Pharmaceutical Industry
One of Ralph Nader’s goals when he ran for president, was to stop corporate welfare. He figured if Congress was so thoughtful to cut welfare to mothers and children (less than 3% of the federal budget), then perhaps it was time to eliminate corporate welfare (greater than 17% of the federal budget). Please note that […]
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Cholesterol Myths
The lipid hypothesis is absurd. It’s made pharmaceutical companies rich. Your body needs cholesterol. Cholesterol can save your life.
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The History Of Quackery
Mercury, the element, not the planet, was nicknamed “quicksilver” because it is silver in color and a liquid at room temperature. In German, the word is “quacksalber.” Mercury is a toxic heavy metal. In the fifteen hundreds, physicians were a highly untrained lot, having learned most of their trade as apprentices. Herbalism was the medicine […]
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Rational Medicine
Sometimes an idea is just too simple, too rational, and makes way too much sense to be put into practice because we are complicate, irrational, senseless beings most of the time. Just look around you.
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The Heart of the Matter
An introduction to the greatest killer on the planet: Cardiovascular disease. How we’ve looked at it, what we thought caused it, and why your parents are on all those damn drugs.
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