Your Doctor’s Orders A blog by Terry Simpson, MD, FACS
Posts Tagged ‘Myths’
The Acai Berry
Saturday, April 4th, 2009
Why is it that we always want to find a magic food, or group of foods to make us healthy? In this case, the Acai berry (ah Sigh EE) is the latest craze to cure everything with magic anti-oxidant powers. So much so that Americans spent over $108 million last year for this product.
I promise to address the myth of oxidants in a post, but for the purpose of discussion — let’s pretend that we want a lot of anti-oxidants in our diet. If we do, and if more is better, does this mean we should spend sixty bucks a bottle for the magic of the Acai berry?
Tags: acai, healthy eating, Myths
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The Myth of Second Hand Smoke
Tuesday, January 27th, 2009
The 1964 Surgeon General Report, which declared that the inhalation of cigarettes would likely cause lung cancer and heart disease, had a profound impact in the United States. This report started America thinking that the practice of inhaling cigarette smoke was unhealthy and began a long series of studies, lawsuits, and laws, that changed the face of America from a primary smoking society—where over 60 percent of adults in the U.S. smoked—to a number that is now about 30 percent. (more…)
Tags: Myths, second-hand smoke, Smoking
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