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Even Low Levels of Arsenic Exposure May Increase Risk of Diabetes Chronic long-term low level exposure to inorganic arsenic may increase risk for type 2 diabetes. In type 2 diabetes, cells are resistant to the effects of insulin. It accounts for over 90% of all cases of diabetes. Type 2 diabetes has a genetic component, ...
Weekly Health BulletinsFederal Agencies to Study Bisphenol A: Delayed Response to a Dangerous Chemical Bisphenol A is a is found in many types of plastics used in numerous products, including the lining of food cans and baby bottles. Government reports issued in the last few years questioned its safety. Recently a study published in the September 2008 issue of the Journal of the American ...
Weekly Health BulletinsDoes a Daily Aspirin Protect You Against Heart Disease? Should you take aspirin to protect yourself against heart disease? The evidence has never been overwhelming. Aspirin prevents only one heart attack a year for every 1000 people who take it . . . and causes a similar number of major stomach bleeds. This slim benefit applies only to ...
Weekly Health BulletinsFishing for Benefits: Do Bone Drugs Prevent Breast Cancer? Drugs companies and their well-paid physician representatives have found a new passion — finding new benefits for old drugs. Now it is claimed that a popular class of drugs used to prevent or improve bone loss may also prevent breast cancer. At the recently held San Antonio Breast Cancer Symposium, it ...
Weekly Health BulletinsCholesterol Confusion: Avoidance and Denial Obscure the Facts So once and for all, how important is lowering LDL cholesterol for lowering cardiac risk? The common dogma still asserts it matters. Yet it is also common knowledge that nearly 50% of all first heart attacks have “normal cholesterol”. In fact, a study from UCLA appearing in this ...
Weekly Health BulletinsHere’s some truly disturbing news from the recent International Conference on Alzheimer’s Disease you need to know about. According to presenter Kathleen Hayden, PhD: ”Exposure to pesticides may have long term damaging effects on the nervous system that contribute to the development of Alzheimer’s or other dementias.” Dr. Hayden is from the Duke University Medical Center in Durham, ...
Weekly Health BulletinsEmerging research is establishing a connection between environmental toxins and diabetes. Until now the focus has been on obesity and diet. But is appears that high blood levels of a liver enzyme called gamma glutamyl transferase (GGT) is associated with increased risk of diabetes. For example, a thin person with a high GGT is at ...
Weekly Health BulletinsTHE DANGERS OF CAT SCANS MORE FACTS WHOSE IMPORTANCE CANNOT BE OVEREMPHASIZED I wrote at some length on the dangers of unnecessary CAT Scans in the November issue. Just published research results reinforce the very real dangers of cancer from computed tomographic (CT) Scans – CAT Scans for short. The use of CAT Scans has ...
Weekly Health BulletinsZETIA: LOWERS CHOLESTEROL BUT DOESN’T LOWER RISK Ezetemibe (Zetia, Vytorin) remains a favorite cholesterol lowering drug in spite of the fact that research has yet to show it prevents heart attacks and may increase risk of cancer. Approximately 24 million prescriptions were written out by doctors in 2008. A month’s worth of this questionable drug ...
Weekly Health BulletinsAVOID THESE CHEMICALS IN YOUR COSMETICS In the November issue of American Country Doctor I review ten toxic chemicals found in a variety of products. Here are six ingredients commonly used in cosmetics that are best avoided, for the reasons given: PARABENS Common anti-microbial preservative used in thousands of cosmetics, personal care products, pharmaceuticals and ...
Weekly Health BulletinsCOMMON DIABETES DRUGS INCREASE DEATHS Commonly prescribed drugs for diabetes appear to be killing off people with diabetes. A recent study from Denmark looked at 9,135 people with diabetes who had heart attacks. Those folks on four widely prescribed sulfonylureas had a 33% to 43% increased risk of death from all causes compared to people ...
Weekly Health BulletinsBEAT BACK DRY SKIN THIS WINTER WITH HEALTHY FAT If there’s one thing I see plenty of in my practice it’s dry skin, often accompanied by itching. People usually deal with this common annoyance by applying creams or ointments, which don’t always work and fail to address address the underlying issue. I usually find the ...
Weekly Health BulletinsMORE COMMON SENSE ADVICE ON FLU PREVENTION – WHETHER YOU GET VACCINATED OR NOT “The only portals of entry [for the flu virus] are the nostrils and mouth/throat. In a global epidemic of this nature, it is almost impossible to avoid coming into contact with H1N1 in spite of all precautions. Contact with H1N1 is ...
Weekly Health BulletinsEXERCISE WORKS WONDERS – BUT WHICH TYPE OF EXERCISE WORKS BEST? The research is overwhelming: people who exercise regularly live longer, have less disease, weigh less and just plain feel better. When it comes to high blood pressure, a recent study from Norway gives us some insight into what sort of exercise works best. It ...
Weekly Health BulletinsPRACTICAL ADVICE FOR THE FLU SEASON Most of my patients want to know what they can take if they come down with the flu. Here’s what I tell them: STAY HOME AND GET WELL Some folks feel compelled to continue their usual routine when they get sick. If you’re fit and healthy, you can usually ...
Weekly Health BulletinsANOTHER GOOD REASON TO AVOID SUPERMARKET MEATS – CLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE FOUND IN YOUR GROCER’S FREEZER Clostridium difficile, a bacterium that causes life threatening infection, is now being found in a variety of supermarket meat products, here and abroad. The likely cause is contamination from the animals’ own feces, which survive intact through the slaughtering and ...
Weekly Health BulletinsKEEP IT SIMPLE – START FLU PREVENTION NOW – TWO SMART WAYS TO STAY HEALTHY THIS WINTER Nothing can wreck your winter like a nasty case of the flu. Fever, cough, sore throat, fatigue and body aches that can sometimes get so bad you can barely move. I see a lot of patients who choose ...
Weekly Health BulletinsTHE EMPEROR HAS NO CLOTHES – THE HYPOCRISY OF MAINSTREAM MEDICINE We regularly hear from member of the medical establishment and ill-informed media pundits that mainstream medicine is “evidence based” and “scientific”. This is untrue. A great deal of what goes on in doctors’ offices and hospitals is anything but. There’s nothing inherently wrong with ...
Weekly Health BulletinsGASTRIC BYPASS SURGERY COMES UNDER FIRE: SUDDEN LOW BLOOD SUGARS LEAD TO WEIGHT REGAIN With the rising tide of obesity in this country, hospitals are doing a land office business in gastric bypass surgeries. Gastric bypass surgery makes the stomach smaller and allows food to bypass part of the small intestine. Because you feel fuller ...
Weekly Health BulletinsPROBIOTICS PROTECT YOU AGAINST THE FLU – BUT WHICH ONES WORK BEST? As more research results become available, probiotics are getting attention to help prevent colds and the flu. These “friendly” bacteria work through the gut to boost the immune system by in several ways. For example, they increase antibody production and stimulate fast acting ...
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