Health Alert 251 Dear Subscriber: Regardless of the ailment you may be suffering, chances are that somewhere in the world there’s a plant with the medicinal properties to bring relief …
How Medical Tradition Can Worsen Your Health
Health Alert 269 Dear Subscriber: If you’ve ever had surgery, you probably remember your doctor telling you not to eat or drink anything after 12 a.m. the day of surgery. …
Protect Yourself from Altitude
Health Alert 166 Headaches, thirst, dizziness, weakness, heart palpitations and shortness of breath are just a few of the effects of high altitude on the human body. In recent years, …
Brew a Cup of Good Health – Coffee's Wide-Ranging Health Benefits
Health Alert 168 Coffee-lovers rejoice. That daily fix of java is more than a guilty pleasure; it’s good for your health. Recent scientific research suggests that drinking moderate amounts of …
Red Hot Health
Health Alert 173 Most people think that hot spicy food is bad for your health. Yet in some cases, the exact opposite is true. Cayenne peppers can make your eyes …
200 Times More Powerful than Vitamin E
Health Alert 176 Would you like an aide in weight loss that can also strengthen your bones and help prevent cancer, rheumatoid arthritis, and heart disease? And it’s available at …
Sports, Steroids, Scandals & Supplements
Health Alert 177 Have you heard of THG? How about Balco Laboratories? Surely, you have heard of San Francisco’s slugger Barry Bonds. A current scandal connects the three, complete with …
Your Best Antioxidant Power Punch
Health Alert 178 Care to guess the natural food that has the highest concentration of antioxidants? It’s the humble blueberry. They help your body fight off certain cancers and heart …
Fat Soluble Vitamins Found in Ancient Health Food
Health Alert 179 You’ve probably heard that the Mediterranean diet is good for you. You may be surprised to hear what I consider a prime reason for the lower rates …
Want Corn Syrup with That?
Health Alert 187 Today you have the first in a series of three alerts about supposed “health foods” that aren’t. Many of the products labeled as healthy are problems, not …
Fake Health Food II
Health Alert 190 In Health Alert 187, you read about health foods like sports drinks and energy bars that are loaded with unnatural and fattening high fructose corn syrup. You …
Speaking Out against the Gag Order
Health Alert 191 Did you know that if you went to the natural food store and picked up a bottle of saw palmetto, you wouldn’t find anything on the label …
Fake Health Food III – Low Fat Foods
Health Alert 192 Have you gobbled down a low-fat “nutrition bar” as a convenient alternative to real food? Do you eat low-fat products as a way to curb your weight? …
Skip This Popular Pill
Health Alert 193 Americans suffer more than 1.5 million broken bones per year with 300,000 broken hips. More than one-quarter of people with broken hips develop complications and die within …
Florida Man Sues Atkins
Health Alert 200 There’s a local lawsuit grabbing the headlines here in South Florida. A man is suing Atkins Nutritionals claiming the Atkins diet gave him heart disease. Jody Gorran …
Can You Have Both Sweet and Safe?
Health Alert 204 You hear a lot lately about the problems with sugar. Refined sugar starts a hormonal cascade of events that over time make you fat, tired, diseased and …
Don't Bet on Better Butter?
Health Alert 207 Perhaps you cheered when Benacol and Take Control butter substitutes hit your supermarket a couple of years ago. Marketers told us these new wonder spreads would finally …
Pass the Placebo Please
Health Alert 209 The placebo effect happens when people believe they’re taking a real drug but they’re really taking an empty capsule. They’re so convinced it’s helping, they actually experience …