Philip GoldbergYou may have read that a major study concluded that prayer has no effect on the health of the person being prayed for. Many scientists greeted the findings with cheers. They hope findings will finally put to rest all this ooga booga about the...
John WhitcombWe have done articles before about LDLs and HDLs. By and large, HDLs are protective and function as your body’s garbage trucks. They scour your arteries for left-over cholesterol and take it back to your liver for reprocessing. You want a high HDL...
f you stick with a “healthy diet” you can lower your risk of heart disease. We know that. What’s a healthy diet? The Harvard Nurses’ Study followed 1922 women starting in 1980. Every four years these nurses were given questionnaires about their...
As a Naturopathic Doctor I have been taught to think about health and healing in a very comprehensive, holistic manner. In fact, the science that drives my thought process is that of Vitalism. Vitalism states that our bodies have an inherent self...
American Institute for Preventive MedicineHeart Disease
What Doctors Don't Tell YouThis so called miracle preventative for heart attacks usually isn't necessary. When it is, the effects don't last. The number of deaths from heart disease reads like a terrifying roll call of modern times: in 1989, 1 million people died of heart...
Fish oils
Medicine is more often a belief system than a science, and doctors invariably cling to practices they know and love, irrespective of the data. Take, for instance, the pulmonary-artery catheter, which doctors cling to as a baby would to his dummy.
Q I’ve heard a lot recently about syndrome X, but I don’t really understand what it is. Can you please explain what the symptoms are, who is likely to develop it and how it can be treated? - AJ, Plymouth
The recent decision of the American National Cancer Institute to stop a trial which was testing beta carotene as a cure for smoking induced lung cancer has been pilloried for being "politically mo ...
