| 12/29/2006 - For once, government gets it right… |
| The Big Apple's healthy TRANSformation |
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| 12/26/2006 - Prosperity breeds contempt? |
| Young, successful, informed - and depressed… |
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| 12/22/2006 - The Great Texas Weight-gaining Contest |
| With all the talk about obesity, it reminds me of some of the things I've written about before with regard to our communal fatness - and ways to fight it. Of course, there's no easy answer to this problem in this zero-willpower, zero-blame age. |
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| 12/19/2006 - Retail-ty, thy name is woman! |
| According to a recent article in the UK Daily Mail (Male?), a survey study of 3,000 British women revealed some staggering factoids about every girl's favorite pastime. |
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| 12/18/2006 - Women's lip: A fact of life |
| We spend a lot of time in American society denying or minimizing the differences between the sexes. And as un-PC as it is to say, this is a purely political ploy designed to erase men's natural advantages in some professional fields… |
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| 12/15/2006 - Righting a Cholesstewrong |
| Much is made about the purported benefits of prescription cholesterol ("statin") drugs. They're the world's best-selling class of drug, topping $22 billion in domestic revenue in 2005 alone. |
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| 12/12/2006 - Uninformed Consent, part 3 |
| In the last Daily Dose (part 2 of a 3-part essay series), I concluded my thoughts on the FDA's legislative facilitation of Big Pharma's drug testing on the unsuspecting public under the heading of "emergency medicine". |
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| 12/11/2006 - Uninformed Consent, part 2 |
| In the last Daily Dose, I wrote to you about the sticky wicket of "informed consent" with regard to medical experimentations. Ninety-nine percent of the time, these "experiments" involve the use of untested or unproven drugs. |
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| 12/08/2006 - Uninformed consent, part one |
| Here's an interesting and telling story that keeps coming up… |
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| 12/08/2006 - Holy-land health harangue |
| According to an Israeli news service, Haaretz, four high-level doctors at a pair of holy-land hospitals have been arrested - for performing illegal medical experiments on elderly patients! |
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| 12/05/2006 - Mothers Milk and Udder Delights |
| As you may know, I'm a big fan of milk for people of all ages - especially raw, natural cow's milk. However, for newborns and infants up to toddler age, I can honestly say that no milk is better for them than Mom's own… |
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| 12/05/2006 - The AAP agrees with me: Kids, drink your milk! |
| Here's something very interesting (and more than a little surprising) from the American Academy of Pediatrics… |
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| 12/04/2006 - Flashback to the 80s: When men were men - at least more so |
| A month or so ago, I wrote to you about the alarming drop in fertility levels among men in the UK that some scientists are theorizing is due to cell phone usage. |
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