You Aren’t Crazy to Want A Sedation-Free Colonoscopy
Why would you want to be doped up with a sedative during a colonoscopy? For that matter, why would you want to have a colonoscopy at all? As to the latter, you pretty much …
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SCAM ALERT: Disturbing Herb DNA Tests Perturbs
Herbal supplements = snake oil? We’d never have imagined that herbal supplements are filler-fraught frauds but new DNA testing of herbal supplements suggest that we are being taken for having taken herb purity for granted. …
Get Truly Happy! Hint: It’s Not So Hard
It’s odd that happiness is so elusive in our busy, responsibility-laden, pressurized world. Odder still that people will pay big $ for books, classes, coaching, therapy and drugs (illegal and OTC) to capture that …
The Scary Scoop Behind the Statin Controversy
If your doctor has or, in the future, prescribes statin drugs for you, we urge you to read further. First off, we are not doctors and hold no special expertise in medicine or, more specifically, …
The Paleo-Pegan Diet Puzzle
Diets are like the tide: they inexorably come and they go. Like clothing fashions, diets are a la mode. A recent Google search turned up over 100 different fad diets that are regularly searched. …
COOL TIP: Intermittent Fasting Intrigue
Intermittent fasting is a form of calorie restriction that has been recently popularized by a number of diets: 5:2 Diet, The Fast Diet, Leangains, Eat Stop Eat, The Warrior Diet, Alternate-Day Diet, among many. All …
Do UltraShape, CoolSculpting and Other Non-Invasive Fat Reduction Systems Work?
UltraShape is one of a number of emerging a non-invasive medical procedures that use ultrasound or thermal technologies in order to destroy fat cells in order to achieve fat reduction. Other such non-invasive procedures include Zeltiq/CoolSculpting, Bella …
Our Beefy Beefs About Beef
Beef is seriously yummy food….but the sad truth is that is bad for you and for our environment. The next time you take a big bite out of a juicy burger or mouth-melting filet mignon, …
California Weather Forecast For Next 100 Years: Superdrought
California appears to have moved past the crippling 2014-2016 drought, but the drought actually isn’t over. According to a 2015 study published by researchers from NASA, Cornell and Columbia universities, there is an 85 percent …
Living a Long, Healthy Life
The search for the fountain of youth has bedeviled most all explorers, but it is more apparent than anyone expected. It’s not a place….nor a particular food. And it’s definitely not a pill. It’s the …