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 …

Before You Take that Vitamin A …

Health Alert 210 About 30 years ago, we began to see evidence that foods rich in vitamin A prevented several types of cancer. Soon though, direct trials of vitamin A …

Who's Giving You Advice?

Health Alert 221 Dear Subscriber: “I just don’t know what to believe anymore. Low-fat … high-protein … vegetarian … how do I know which diet is best?” said one of …

Doctors Often Hex Their Patients

Health Alert 229 Dear Subscriber: The next time you go to your doctor complaining of an ache or pain, pay close attention to what happens during your visit. Be wary …

Illegal Manipulation of Drug Prices

Health Alert 231 Dear Subscriber: Did you know that doctors make thousands of dollars in kickbacks from drug companies to prescribe certain drugs to patients? Today you’ll learn about the …

The Miracle Heart Energizer

Health Alert 242 Dear Subscriber: A woman with high blood pressure came to see me. She was taking two blood pressure medications and a statin drug. She complained of constant …

Diabetics Watch Out!

Health Alert 248 Dear Subscriber: There is new evidence of yet more previously unknown drug dangers. The drugs I’m talking about are fibrates and insulin-regulating drugs. Doctors prescribe both for …

Landmark Study – No Safe PSA

Health Alert 262 Dear Subscriber: A new study published in The New England Journal of Medicine shows that no PSA level can be considered “normal” and completely free of the …

A New Drain on Your Brain

Health Alert 263 Dear Subscriber: If your cholesterol has ever topped 200, your doctor probably whipped out his prescription pad and wrote you one for a statin drug. You may …

The Quick-Fix for the Modern Diet

Health Alert 274 Dear Subscriber: Your food doesn’t have the nutrients it did even just a decade ago. Commercial farming and processing is producing low nutrient qualities in our food …

How To Recognize A Real Vitamin

Health Alert 275 Industrialized farming has depleted our soils.(1) Foods once nutrient rich, now contain only a small percentage of the nutrition they had 100 years ago.(2) Taking the right …