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Dr. Oz's Sweet Tooth

20 Mar 2017

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...

Want to Stop Aging? Mind your Telomeres.

20 Mar 2017

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...

Blueberries and Milk

20 Mar 2017

鈥淚 put blueberries and milk on my cereal in the morning. Which one should I give up?鈥

Cadmium Issues

20 Mar 2017

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...

Taking a Bite out of Crocodile Hype

20 Mar 2017

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....

Is it true that hantavirus infection can be acquired from rodent excrement?

20 Mar 2017

In 1993, a young Navajo woman arrived at an emergency room in New Mexico suffering from flu-like symptoms and shortness of breath. Despite such 鈥渕inor鈥 symptoms, she soon passed away. Ironically,...

The end of the trans fat debates?

20 Mar 2017

The bloggers are abuzz about a paper in the Annals of Internal Medicine that after reviewing 72 major studies found no relationship between saturated fat intake and heart disease. The reaction was...

Weighing the benefits of tea

20 Mar 2017

鈥淕et in here and sit your ass down!鈥...

Worms in Balogna?

20 Mar 2017

Absolutely not. But here is the question I got:聽"A friend told me that that ground up earthworms are being used as fillers in many meat products like wieners and bologna. The name on the package is...

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