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Chemistry Lesson for The Food Babe… and everyone else #24: Antibiotics in agriculture

20 Mar 2017

Since the late 1940s, so-called “subtherapeutic” doses of antibiotics have been routinely added to animal feed to prevent disease and to increase feed efficiency.  Exactly why animals put on weight...

Dr. Oz’s Questionable Wizardry

20 Mar 2017

Miracles are pretty rare events. Except on television’s “Dr. Oz Show,” where they appear with astonishing frequency. Oz of course doesn’t claim to raise the dead or part the Red Sea, but he does...

Get ready to be buffaloed

20 Mar 2017

We've had loads of hype about noni juice, goji juice, acai juice...now get ready for the new kid on the block, buffaloberry juice. Buffaloberries which grew mostly in the western U.S. and are...

Comaneci’s Cosmetics Claims are a Bit of a Stretch

20 Mar 2017

Some memories remain indelibly etched in one’s mind. Like cheering in the Montreal Forum during the 1976 Olympics as Nadia Comaneci earned the first-ever perfect score in gymnastics. The total of...

Souvenaid

20 Mar 2017

I suspect we will soon be hearing a lot about "Souvenaid," a dietary supplement that is supposed to be of some help in the early stages of Alzheimer's Disease. It was developed by Dr. Richard...

Climate Change

20 Mar 2017

As we get ready for winter here and watch news reports of unseasonable plummeting temperatures in some parts of North America, it is hard to be concerned about global warming. But climate change is...

Is it true that ice cream that doesn’t melt easily should be avoided?

20 Mar 2017

Joe Mercola, the font of much Internet poppycock, thinks that the safety of ice cream is somehow related to the ease with which it melts. He and other bloggers not well versed in science suggest...

Clairvoyant’s diagnosis of me: ‘treatable’

20 Mar 2017

It seems I am infested with little insects that are dining on my bones and muscles.

Konjac Con

20 Mar 2017

I just watched acommercial on TV for "Lipozene." What a miracle product this is! Magical weight loss with no side effects. Whoa...time to reign in the claims....

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