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Category Archives: Health
Trigger Points
So this has been something of a revelation. I’ve come across the term “trigger point” more times than I could hope to count, over the years. I’ve had massage therapists mention them. I’ve read about them on websites. I’ve noticed … Continue reading
Thank you, Thermos
In the wake of my BPA-in-a-can upset I blogged about here, I made a big pot of homemade soup for my daughter’s lunches. Then it occurred to me: what if her Thermos food jar is BPA lined? Good news: it’s … Continue reading
Seen the latest Rochester Healthy Living?
I have an piece in the August issue: Much to do About Migraine. After more than 2 decades of living with migraine, I’ve finally gotten to the point where I can nearly always head them off. The article describes the … Continue reading
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How much shall we spend to make Monroe County residents stupid?
$88,000 a year sound like a good figure? Because–as I posted last summer–that’s what we spend annually to fluoridate our water in this county. I’ve been fuming about that figure again lately, and not only because we’re facing the prospect … Continue reading
Iodine and heart disease
Several blogs, including Instapundit, The Volokh Conspiracy, and JustOneMinute have picked up Nicholas Kristof’s Dec. 4 piece in the NY Times that calls attention to the problem of iodine deficiency in third world countries, such as Pakistan. I’ve just been … Continue reading
When your doc is stumped
Sally Satel, a psychiatrist and resident scholar at The Enterprise Institute, has written an article about a new study on the placebo effect. The study, by the National Institutes of Health, surveyed practicing U.S. internists and rheumatologists about whether they … Continue reading
200 million pounds of milk products imported into North America from China. How much of it is tainted with melamine?
This is a MUST WATCH video. Melamine is deadly. READ LABELS. These milk products may be listed as casein, milk powder, whey, lactic acid. Oh, and thanks, FDA. Once again our federal government demonstrates how stupid it is to entrust … Continue reading
Iodine goes mainstream
Featured on the front cover of First magazine as the “food switch” that “revs metabolism by 250 percent.” Like I’ve written before, for some reason I seem to stumble upon alt health trends ahead of the curve. Iodine is a … Continue reading
Yum. Sludge.
Isn’t it nice to know that everything anyone pours down the drain — ya know, like Drane-O, and expired meds, and oh! don’t forget! Industrial waste! — can be captured, concentrated, BRANDED and sold as “fertilizer” to be spread on … Continue reading
They say “NO” to testing meat for mad cow
Who would DO such a thing? Why, our very own United States Department of Agriculture, that’s who! The Agriculture Department is within bounds to bar meatpackers from testing slaughter cattle for mad cow disease, a U.S. Court of Appeals panel … Continue reading
