Prescription drug sales in Canada amount to roughly $50 billion a year. That鈥檚 a lot of money, but the $13 billion pulled in annually by the natural health products industry isn鈥檛 small potatoes...
Elie Metchnikoff drank sour milk every day. He believed that the lactic acid bacteria found in fermented foods like yogurt, especially the聽Lactobacillus bulgaricus聽strain, helped to promote...
鈥淏ut where鈥檚 the harm?鈥� we are so often asked. When your baby dies and has to be resuscitated in the emergency room, I鈥檇 say the harm has a Vegas-sized neon arrow above it....
Apparently Snow White's wicked stepmother knew something about chemistry and toxicology. She brewed up a remarkable poison to put the anemic young lady into a state of suspended animation. But how...
If you are desperate enough, there is someone out there willing to rewrite all of medicine and relieve you of your savings. A former nurse with multiple sclerosis lost over $10,000 in this way,...
Most nutritional studies are observational meaning that researchers observe what happens in a given population as a result of consuming a food or beverage without any sort of intervention on their...
Media literacy is not faring well. If we look at OECD countries, most of whom are described as high-income economies, do you know how many of their fifteen-year-olds can distinguish between a fact...
As a kid I grew up being told that I had to let food cool down before putting it in the fridge. I was under the notion that placing warm food directly in the refrigerator could cause the other...
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