2004 March

A secret about ginger that is less well known is that in Ayurvedic and traditional Chinese medicine this aromatic root has been used as an anti-inflammatory agent for thousands of years.

Weighing the cost/benefit ratio of a drug can be dicey. If a drug saves lives but also happens to be very expensive, you have to allow that perhaps the cost is worth it.

In response, an HSI member named Peg wrote with this question: “On the subject of PSA, what are the levels? What is a low number and high number to really be concerned with? I hear the numbers and I really don’t know what they mean.”

Bacteria are highly adaptive because they actually “teach” one another to resist antibiotics. When one bacterium develops resistance to an antibiotic, it can share that resistance with similar and even unrelated strains.

According to a team of researchers from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), eating a high-fat diet (in other words: Atkins) “will make you an emotional zombie.”