24 Hour Flu Does Not Exist: Its Food Poisoning
You don’t have the 24 hour flu – you have been poisoned by food. Here is how to protect yourself – and by the way, cooking something to death is not the way to do it – pink is ok.
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MSG: Does Chinese Restaurant Syndrome Exist?
MSG – is not the culprit in “Chinese Restaurant Syndrome” and is an important ingredient in foods, and our biochemistry. Despite concerns raised by early reports, decades of research have failed to demonstrate a clear and consistent relationship between MSG ingestion and the development of health conditions.
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Medical Device Tax: Obama-Care – What Is It
The medical device tax has been misrepresented as something that would cost American jobs – and some bloggers have cited companies. In fact, it won’t cost jobs. Here are some of those companies and why they are losing jobs- nothing to do with Obama-care. This is an excise tax, which is like many other excise taxes that are used in this country.
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Myth: Candy Makes Your Kids Hyper
Kids, candy, and hyperactivity – there is no relationship. It may be the expectation that there is one that has more to do with the kids and parents reaction, but it isn’t the candy, or the sweeteners, or the artificial coloring. Still, it is important to monitor what your kids eat, and help them make healthy selections.
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Is Breakfast the Most Important Meal of the Day? Nope
Breakfast isn’t the most important meal of the day – it is simply a meal. It won’t “jumpstart” your metabolism, and if you eat too much, or the wrong thing, you still have to burn those calories. I like a healthy smoothie for breakfast, or some reindeer sausage. If you have breakfast, don’t eat cereal with high fructose corn syrup, don’t drink coffee with free sugar
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Alternative Medicine: Its Backwards
Beware of Big Nutra – a 34 billion dollar industry that is unregulated and yet has the blessing of Congress. It is time to put an end to how these devices, pills, and treatments go unregulated allowing consumers to not only waste money, but possibly time they could use for treatments that work.
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Myth: Doctors Aren’t Taught Much Nutrition
There is a common myth that physicians are not taught much nutrition in medical school. Often this is stated by people who have never been to medical school, and where they received their information- who knows.
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Probiotics: the Lipstick Stained Glass
You would think that something called “probiotic” would be good for you. Before you take one consider this question: would you drink out of a glass that had lipstick on it? Would you eat food from a restaurant that had hair in it? Because chances are they are safer for you than any probiotic.
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PETA vs. Gordon Ramsay
PETA is going up against Gordon Ramsay claiming fish suffer – PETA is wrong- they not only don’t know the neuro anatomy of fish. What fish feel, and how they feel about it.
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