


A Simple Way to Avoid Obesity While You Work
As more research sheds light on the dangers of a sedentary lifestyle, you may have heard the quip “sitting is the new smoking.” While I don’t think sitting for hours at a time is quite as harmful as pulling known carcinogens directly into your lungs,... read more
Cholesterol: The Truth
“Your LDL cholesterol is too high. You need to take a statin drug to lower it or you risk dying from a heart attack.” How many people have been told this and have bought into it? The number is astounding. And the sales of statin drugs reflect the... read more
Why Doctors Prescribe Drugs
Doctors have to get their training somewhere. So they go to medical school. But that’s far from the end of the line. Much of what I now know about how to make people well, I learned after medical school, not in it. And medicine keeps changing. New discoveries... read more
Will You Be Murdered by the Medical System?
When the federal government becomes the big HMO itself, test and treatment denials will be the equivalent of death sentences for some, even many. The new health care reform law creates several methods that are likely to result in rationed care under the guise of... read more