| 09/27/2007 - When Pigs Fly |
| Uh oh. The FDA is thinking again. That can't be good. |
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| 09/27/2007 - Is blue a natural color for applesauce? |
| Is blue a natural color for applesauce? Not on this planet. But on a recent visit to the grocery store… |
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| 09/26/2007 - This Relief Has Legs |
| About one in four women develop varicose veins. Men get a break on this one: only about 15 percent develop this condition. |
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| 09/26/2007 - Naltrexone for multiple sclerosis |
| That request comes from an HSI member named Herma who sent us this e-mail in response to the e-Alert "Covering the Bases" (8/30/07), regarding treatment for multiple sclerosis: |
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| 09/25/2007 - The Future is Now |
| I gazed into the future and predicted that the news about increased suicide risk among teens and adolescents who take antidepressant drugs would have no effect on sales of those drugs. |
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| 09/25/2007 - A recipe for healthy bones |
| Take some calcium, add some vitamin D, and you get healthy bones. That's a no-brainer. But how much of each of these nutrients is required daily to be effective? |
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| 09/24/2007 - Mystery in the Brain |
| An HSI member named Raskin writes, "I'd like to see more material about Parkinson's disease if you can." We certainly can. |
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| 09/24/2007 - How much mercury do you pick up from fish consumption each week? |
| The "provisional tolerable weekly intake" of mercury is 1.6 micrograms per kilogram of body weight, according to the joint FAO/WHO Expert Committee on Food Additives. |
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| 09/20/2007 - Bring it Back |
| Just about every adult has witnessed the toll that cancer and cancer treatments can take on the human body. But with the right nutrition, many patients might alleviate the muscle wasting and lack of energy that often accompanies a fight with cancer. |
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| 09/20/2007 - Go Wild |
| Here's a good reason to choose wild salmon over farmed salmon: Salmon farming may have a disastrous effect on salmon in the wild. |
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| 09/19/2007 - Barking Up the Right Tree |
| You might be suffering from climacteric syndrome and not even know it - probably because you call it something else. |
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| 09/19/2007 - Are you ready to take the Trans Fat Challenge? |
| Dunkin' Donuts representatives recently drew a lot of attention with their announcement that the food chain is going non-trans-fat. |
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| 09/18/2007 - Double Good |
| If you wanted to conduct a study to examine a possible link between periodontal disease and increased risk of Alzheimer's disease, how could you design your research to match good dental hygiene to cognitive function? |
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| 09/18/2007 - Where's Gluten? |
| Have you ever spent time combing over the illustrations in a "Where's Waldo?" book? Gluten is sort of like Waldo. When you go looking for it, you know it's there, but sometimes it's nearly impossible to spot. |
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| 09/17/2007 - Rethinking the Right Thing |
| What do 43 million Americans do every day? They take an aspirin. |
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| 09/17/2007 - Pointing out the obvious |
| Some health studies make me wonder if I'm on the receiving end of an April Fool's joke - even if April 1st is months away. |
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| 09/13/2007 - Loud and Clear |
| Each of us has a built-in hormonal reflex that sends a "full" message from digestive organs to the brain. Unfortunately, some people learn to tune that message out, resulting in frequent overeating. |
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| 09/13/2007 - Steering clear of steriods |
| An HSI member named Barbara would like to avoid giving her daughter steroids. |
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| 09/12/2007 - R-E-S-P-E-C-T |
| I'm pretty sure Aretha wasn't singing about vitamin E, but 40 years later we can apply those lyrics to the shoddy treatment this key antioxidant continues to receive from mainstream researchers. |
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| 09/12/2007 - Super Selenium |
| There's more to selenium than just being vitamin E's best friend… |
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| 09/11/2007 - Tomato Attack |
| If you've ever dreamed of being chased by a giant tomato with ferocious chomping teeth, you just might have arthritis. |
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| 09/11/2007 - Hypertension hurts more than heart health |
| Controlling blood pressure helps keep the heart healthy, of course, but it may also help the brain age gracefully. |
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| 09/10/2007 - Wish List |
| Today we have some cautiously optimistic news about a carcinogen that millions of people pick up in their diets every day. |
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| 09/10/2007 - P6 marks the spot. |
| That's the acupressure point - also known as "Inner Gate" - that relieves nausea caused by motion sickness, morning sickness, and chemotherapy. |
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| 09/06/2007 - Aid and Comfort |
| Many heartburn patients think of gastric acid as their enemy, and you can't blame them. Advertisements for heartburn drugs would have us believe that gastric acid is a nasty culprit that must be put down at all costs. |
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| 09/06/2007 - Long live your lungs |
| Lung function deteriorates as we age, and this is true of everyone, even those who don't smoke. But a steady intake of certain nutrients can minimize the deterioration. |
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| 09/05/2007 - Big Green Cancer-Fighting Machine |
| Researchers at the University of South Carolina treated mice with a chemical that induces colon cancer. Then, when the mice were two months old, half were given water to drink, while the other half drank a solution of green tea for about eight weeks… |
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| 09/05/2007 - The "catch-all" diagnosis |
| A member named Larry has a bone to pick… |
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| 09/04/2007 - Feels Like Summer |
| I dubbed this summer The Summer of Folate a few weeks ago when I sent you an e-Alert with a cluster of new folate studies… |
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| 09/04/2007 - Obesity begets obesity |
| Harvard researchers followed more than 12,000 subjects for about 32 years and found that if you have an obese friend, spouse, or sibling, chances are good that you'll develop obesity too. |
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