2003 August

Two different topics on the HSI Forum this week complement each other nicely, although you’d never know it just by glancing at their titles. One is called “Natural Alternatives to Antibiotics,” and the other is “Gum Disease.”

As regular e-Alert readers are well aware, our in-house “nutrition physician,” HSI Panelist Allan Spreen, M.D., has frequently written about the benefits of vitamin C, with an emphasis on taking doses much higher than the recommended daily allowance.

So if you’re concerned about healthy bones, here are three tasty and nutritious ways to help boost your calcium intake.

The pyramid I’m talking about, of course, is the USDA Food Guide Pyramid, which illustrates federal dietary guidelines. Every five years the guidelines are reevaluated and updated

Don’t blame 7-Eleven stores for the rising tide of American obesity.