The effort to eliminate trans fats from our diet may have more benefits than expected. There is near unanimous agreement that trans fats increase the risk of heart disease but eliminating them may...
When it comes to health matters, scientists rarely make statements that do not begin with 鈥渕ay.鈥澛� But here is one.聽 Excessive exposure to sunlight causes skin cancer!聽 There鈥檚 no 鈥渕ay鈥� about it.聽...
I opened the door to pick up my morning Gazette and found a package with an anonymous note. 鈥淐an you please discuss in a column whether this is good to take?鈥� Inside was a bottle of 鈥淰egeGreens.鈥�...
If you feed varying amounts of trans-4-hydroxy-2-nonenal to rats, they develop kidney and liver problems and some may even die. So why should anyone care? Because this substance, which we will call...
Dr. Oz is talking and nutritionists are shuddering. It鈥檚 almost a daily occurrence. This time he is all excited about a sugar substitute that according to him does not have a 鈥渃hemical taste,鈥�...
If you want to lengthen your life, you need to lengthen your telomeres. That鈥檚 the message from the marketers of a pricey dietary supplement called TA-65. How pricey? Try up to $4000 for a six...
Shrek the friendly ogre delighted audiences in the 2010 movie hit 鈥淪hrek Forever After.鈥� But for fast food giant McDonald鈥檚, Shrek turned out to be a nightmare. As a cross promotional feature, the...
You鈥檝e got to give it to the quacks. They are often clever people. And very adept at making mountains out of molehills. One of the latest miracles out there is, believe it or not, crocodile blood....
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