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…
The lipid hypothesis is absurd. It's made pharmaceutical companies rich. Your body needs cholesterol. Cholesterol can save your life.
Arteriosclerosis (Hardening of the Arteries) From our book Bypassing Bypass, published in 2002 Editors note: we (like many others) have used the terms atherosclerosis and arteriosclerosis interchangeably however, arteriosclerosis is the actual hardening of the arteries by calcium deposits, and…
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…
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.
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.