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Lipozene and Weight Loss

20 Mar 2017

The "active" ingredient in Lipozene is glucomannan, a form of dietary fiber that is extracted from the root of the konjac plant. Fiber, by definition, is any type of food component that cannot be...

Alkaline Nonsense

20 Mar 2017

It is so seductively simple.  If you want to avoid cancer, just make sure your body is “alkaline!”  Here is the rationale.  When a cell becomes cancerous it reduces its use of oxygen and cranks up...

Joe Mercola and “Foods You Should Never Eat.”

20 Mar 2017

Joe Mercola is an osteopath who runs a popular health website on which he offers all sorts of advice, mostly questionable. He also sells a huge variety of products ranging from an array of...

I’ll take a pass on autourine therapy

20 Mar 2017

I’ve often expressed skepticism about the plethora of beverages being promoted these days that claim to energize, calm, heal or detox our chemically ravaged bodies. “Don’t knock it till you’ve...

Prince Charles Condemns Climate Change Deniers while Hawking Homeopathics

20 Mar 2017

Prince Charles has properly derided global warming deniers, calling them a "headless chicken brigade." He went onto say that it was "baffling that in our modern world we have such blind trust in...

Pine Tar and Scientific Publications

20 Mar 2017

Pine tar has been in the news recently - at least for those who follow baseball.  Pine tar is pretty much what it sounds like.  It is a sticky substance created by heating pine roots and related...

Instant Noodles

20 Mar 2017

At the turn of the millennium a Japanese poll asked about the best Japanese invention of the previous century. Instant noodles was the answer. Japan as well as China have a long history of eating...

Pills for the Brain

20 Mar 2017

Pop this pill and improve your memory. Swallow that one and reduce your cognitive decline. We see ads for such products all the time and I suspect they will increase as the baby boomers reach...

To Know or Not to Know: That is the NFL's Question

20 Mar 2017

In the past we heard in the news about a shocking admission from the execs at the National Football League in the USA that they may finally admit to believing that there is a link between football...

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