The question of folic acid fortification an issue that has been growing in the medical literature as it relates to risk of colon and breast cancer. Unfortunately, as with most problems dealing with physiology, the ones who will ultimately be making recommendations (mainstream medicine and the mainstream media) will likely not have the background to fully understand […]
Any type of damage to the brain scares most people. Imagine a clot in your brain cutting off blood supply, killing brain cells that allow you to function. While a survey of 100 people would likely yield all 100 of them voting to NOT damage his or her brain, it seems that most of these […]
Weight gain and obesity are not caused by a single choice. Rather, the outcome is a hodge-podge of calories, exercise, toxin exposure, stress and gut flora. Forty or fifty years ago, the simple answer of balancing calories in versus calories out would help most people lose the weight they needed and keep it off. Sure, […]
Decline in Prevalence of Neural Tube Defects in a High-Risk US area The use of folic acid in periconceptional women is lowering the risk of birth defects. A few notes here on this good news. First, most women get most of their folic acid from supplements, but a much better source is from whole grains. […]
The news has been a blur with recent highlights from 2 studies looking at the benefits of multivitamin use. If you took the uneducated viewpoint, you’d throw out those bottles now. Before I get into the gist of this article, let me point out the two articles from the Annals of Internal Medicine that were […]
