To me, eggs are as perfect a food item as there is. Easy to make – no one, not even the most terrible cook – can screw up egg dishes. And so many ways to make great eggs dishes. Pretty cheap. Go with nearly any other dish you wanna make. Easy to store, and for […]
Perhaps the best overall reason to get yourself and your family fully immunized is your contribution to the general welfare of the population, especially to the most vulnerable out there. And I am aiming this particularly at the thousands, perhaps millions, of thoughtful and caring adults (especially millenials, it seems) who are concerned about saving […]
A Chinese study has concluded that in the elderly, the use of sleeping pills, something that millions of us elderly do, raises the risk of pneumonia, a serious and potentially life-threatening complication, particularly in the elderly. Why? One possible explanation is that the use of anything that relaxes muscular tissue, as sleeping pills do, can […]
According to a recent report from the World Health Organization, eating more dietary fiber and whole grains protects against many serious chronic diseases such as heart disease, strokes, type 2 diabetes, and colorectal cancer. This was based on a review of nearly 200 studies done over 40 years. But for many you, according to your […]
Headline in the Daily Mail: Could receipts cause cancer? Scientists warn 90% of the papers doled out by shops ‘contain hormone-disrupting chemicals thought to be carcinogenic’. May I suggest that given what the average person has to deal with IRL that may raise their risk of cancer, this is not something that should keep anyone […]
In a terrific review article in the journal, Pain, G Mazereeuw and 2 other authors review some of what we know about opioid drugs and their review is really devastating. Among the well-known potential serious complications associated with opioid use, they cite addiction, overdose, and death, which is news to no one, I think. (I […]
What do mindfulness, medical marijuana, vitamin D supplements, and probiotics have in common? A raging army of supporters. A host of testimonials and sworn affidavits. And a nearly complete absence of hard data to show that any of them work better than placebos for the myriad conditions they are so highly recommended for. So maybe […]
Dr. Art, Regarding your comments today on Global BC regarding Aspirin, my husband took a baby Aspirin everyday until he was hospitalized with stomach bleeding and as I remember he had five ulcers in his stomach. 2 1/2 litres of black gunk was pumped out of his stomach. He had a draining pipe through his […]
If you’re one of the millions and millions out there who’ve been convinced – by ubiquitous ads, of course, or by multiple media headlines, or your family doc, or perhaps even by some talking head doc on TV – to take daily ASA (Aspirin in the US) because it will undoubtedly help you live longer […]
In a recent study published in the journal, JAMA Internal Medicine, researchers did something way more researchers should do. They set out to compare what happens in the real world (IRL) from a medical recommendation versus what happened in the study that gave birth to that recommendation. In this case they decided to look at […]