Vitamin B3 Niacin (Niaspan) beats Zetia as Heart Medication
Niacin, Vitamin B3 I know this information is already about a year out of date but I thought it might be worth republishing (as I just ran into this article and study this last weekend.) At the 2009 meeting of ...
Obesity Rates in America Continue to Rise, Adenovirus May Play Role
The latest examination of obesity rates by the CDC comes to some sobering conclusions about the state of public health in America. Their findings show a block of states, mostly concentrated in the South, now ...
Neurophotonics Coming to a Human Being Near You
Neurophotonics, up close Researchers at SMU are working with DARPA (the US hyper-advanced military research group that initially developed the internet) to create an artificial fiber optic signaling system ...
Winds of Change: Antibiotics in Livestock
The New York Times has a really good piece on the coming rules regarding the amount of antibiotics that can be given to confinement livestock. Now, after decades of debate, the Food and Drug Administration ...
Understanding Our Bodies – Fiber!
ost of us already know that we should be eating fiber – according to the Institute of Medicine, adults should be eating 20-35 grams of it per day. But why? What’s so important about fiber anyway? What ...
Understanding Our Bodies: Insulin
Almost everyone has heard of Insulin. You probably know that people with type 1 diabetes need to inject themselves with insulin to survive, and must constantly monitor the amount of sugar they eat. But what do ...
When Cutting Calories Doesn’t Cut It
The most common advice as to how to lose weight given my doctors to people that are overweight or obese is to cut calories. Reduced caloric intake has been lined to all kinds of health benefits, from extended ...
Looking Deeper: Can Exercising 10 Minutes A Day Be Better Than 10 Hours?
Once you start to understand the science behind a lot of diet, nutrition and health science publications, you realize that it’s rare for the recaps of science in the newspaper to accurately depict a ...
Book Review: The Fluoride Deception by Christopher Bryson
“Pain in the abdomen. Splitting Headache. Nausea and vomiting. Choking and couldn’t get their breath. Coughing up blood.” Phone calls like these broke the dawn of a fall day in the mill town of Donora, ...
Is Childhood Obesity the Parent’s Fault?
Childhood obesity is becoming a hot topic in health circles, even to the point of being called an epidemic. Experts estimate that 20% of children between the ages of 6 and 17 are overweight, predisposing them ...