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Who Does Dr. Oz’s Three Day Detox?
The Dr. Oz Show logo (Photo credit: Wikipedia) Ok, it’s finally detox season here in Maine, which happens right after we finally have to take our snow tires off at the end of April. I tend to do one...
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How Can You Make Your Man A Tea Drinker?
Age-standardised death rates from Prostate cancer by country (per 100,000 inhabitants). (Photo credit: Wikipedia) Drinking tea is hardly a manly sport. Oh sure, James Bond can get away with having a...
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Will Homeopathy Help Heal Your Bones?
dose globules de 1 gramme (Photo credit: Wikipedia) The standard discussion of homeopathy always includes the idea that something so dilute has nothing in it. In the past year we’ve gotten beyond that...
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Will Obamacare Mean Coverage For Alternative Medicine?
English: Kuhnegården, Alternative medicine centre in the early 20th century. Hedemora, Sweden. Svenska: Kuhnegården, Hedemora, Sverige (Photo credit: Wikipedia) The short answer is: not without a...
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Is Cupuaçu the Newest Superfood?
Deutsch: Eine geöffnete Cupuacu Frucht (Photo credit: Wikipedia) It never fails. Just as soon as you’ve gotten the noni/acai/goji berry smoothie perfectly balanced with your chlorophyll/wheat grass...
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Was Michael Douglas’ Throat Cancer Caused By HPV?
English: Michael Douglas at the Cannes Film festival (Photo credit: Wikipedia) US Magazine had a fairly startling claim in its most recent issue. According to their article, actor Michael Douglas may...
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Eating A Doughnut Can Lower Your Risk of Diabetes?
Breakfast Bun and Coffee (Photo credit: epSos.de) I kid you not. That’s pretty much the take home message from the recent breakfast study. People who ate any breakfast, anything at all, had a lower...
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Is There Something In The Blood? Lymphoma And Blood Transplants.
English: WWII Syringe for direct interhuman blood transfusion. (C)opyleft 2004, Thomas Hirsch (Photo credit: Wikipedia) If there is one thing we all know, it’s that you can’t “catch cancer.” The idea...
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Does Dr. Oz Recommend Eating Fewer Meals?
From a drawing of André Castaigne. The starving Livilla refusing food. (Photo credit: Wikipedia) I love a good confusing study. Nothing impels me to start questioning my lifestyle more than some study...
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Is Low Dose Radon Good For You?
Radon Test (Photo credit: Birdies100) If you know anything about Radon gas, you know it lurks in your basement and causes lung cancer. If you didn’t know that, feel free to terrorize yourself on the...
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How Can I Double My Baby’s Risk of Diabetes?
Happy (Photo credit: Wikipedia) It’s very simple. Feed your baby solid foods before four months rather than at six. Before six months, a child’s immune system hasn’t fully developed, so the risk of...
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How Can I Add Three Years To My Life?
A Matter of Life and Death (film) (Photo credit: Wikipedia) Oh, come on, you know this one. What can you do every day that will add three years to your life? Eat your fruits and vegetables. But what if...
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Do You Have Chronic Migraine Headaches?
I’ve had a migraine/headache for 6 days straight. Today was so bad I couldn’t concentrate on what I was saying. I’m not even sure I knew WHAT I was saying because of the pain. I even mixed up two...
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Do Injections Even Work for Back Pain?
To the Pain (Photo credit: Wikipedia) The New York Times Magazine published an article last week talking about the escalating use of injections for chronic low back pain. Anyone with pain anywhere had...
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Dr. Oz’s Holy Grail Garcinia Cambogia: Will It Drop Your Weight Without Diet...
Dr. Öz at ServiceNation 2008 (Photo credit: Wikipedia) Dr. Oz has come out strongly in support of Garcinia Cambogia, the rind of a fruit. As he himself doesn’t profit from selling it, that doesn’t stop...
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Rare Flesh-Eating Infection: Necrotizing Fasciitis in Maine
English: 43-year-old Caucasian male with necrotizing fasciitis. Preoperative photograph on the day of admission. Extensive erythema and necrosis of the left leg. (Photo credit: Wikipedia) The Bangor...
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Added Sugar, Infertility, And Dying: The Anti-Soda Pop Study
Pet Mice (Photo credit: Wikipedia) Huffington Post article here. Let’s start by saying these were mice, not people. If the study subjects had been people, we’d be looking at some serious class action...
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Climbing Mount Katahdin: Baxter State Park And Rocks.
English: Baxter Peak and the Knife Edge Trail on Maine’s Mount Katahdin (Photo credit: Wikipedia) I wish someone else had written this review of hiking Mount Katahdin, so I’m writing it for everyone...
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Bad Oral Hygiene Causes Cancer Now? What Can We Do?
Age-standardised death rates from Colon and rectum cancers by country (per 100,000 inhabitants). (Photo credit: Wikipedia) Here’s the Science Daily Article. I thought I’d got all my risks covered, or...
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A Really Good Primer On Acne!
Acne vulgaris (Photo credit: Wikipedia) As a researcher, what I really crave is for someone else to do a really thorough job of researching a subject and then publish the result. It happens all too...
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