Book Review: Safe Food by Marion Nestle
What if this latest peanut-salmonella outbreak in 2009 was completely preventable? What if the procedures to prevent it were already in place? Even worse, what if we didn’t even have a food safety system ...
Mailbag: Smart Balance versus Butter
Question: We are having a discussion about whether buttery spread – such as Smart Balance is better than using butter?!?! http://www.smartbalance.com/FlaxFamily.aspx what do you think?? Thank you!! Claire ...
Integrative Medicine on Capitol Hill
On Thursday, the US Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions held a hearing called, Integrative Care: A Pathway to a Healthier Nation to assess how complementary medicine will be ...
Mailbag: Clare Island Organic Salmon Omega-3s
Credit, Steve 2.0 (flickr) Periodically, readers write into Nutrition Wonderland about issues we cover and we respond back to them. This is a new column we will try to feature as we move forward – send ...
Book Review: The Cholesterol Myths by Uffe Ravnskov, MD
A recent study from the New England Journal of Medicine showed that the death rate from heart disease has fallen by over 50% during the period from 1980-2000. The authors concluded that the dramatic drop ...