A group of 45 medical societies is calling for bariatric surgery to become a standard treatment for diabetes.1
Until now, this procedure was a last resort for weight loss. It involves stapling, binding, or removing part of the stomach. It costs an average of $14,500 and insurance usually doesn’t cover it.2
About 17% of patients have complications. These include nutrient deficiencies, infections, internal bleeding, and intestinal blockages.… Read More
When science introduced LED lighting to the world, energy experts and the public were ecstatic.
LEDs (light emitting diodes) use one-tenth the electricity of regular incandescent bulbs and half the power of fluorescents. They last for decades before burning out. And over the life of a single bulb, they save consumers $100.1
Governments quickly embraced the new technology. LEDs are now in wide use for street and outdoor public lighting.… Read More
Since the earliest days of medicine, human urine has been a useful tool of diagnosis. But it often doesn’t take a lab test to know that urine indicates a medical problem.
You can tell just by looking at the color. Healthy pee should be a pale straw color.1
Concealed payments… Corrupt scientists… A secret conspiracy labeled “Project 226”… A dogged lone researcher uncovering a diabolical plot.
It sounds like something from a Michael Crichton novel. But it’s not.
It’s all part of Big Sugar’s shameless effort to pay off nutrition researchers to cover up the deadly health effects of its products.1
In the late 1950s and early ‘60s, there were two competing medical theories about the sudden rise in heart disease in America.… Read More
Great news for asthma sufferers: Researchers have found a simple, natural way to cut the risk of a severe asthma attack in half.
Asthma is an enormous and sometimes deadly health threat to the 25 million Americans who have it. More 3,000 people a year in the U.S. die from the lung illness.1
Researchers from the Cochrane Review gathered data from seven double-blind placebo-controlled studies of vitamin D’s ability to prevent asthma attacks.… Read More
Habitually eating a late dinner can triple your risk of a deadly heart attack if you have high blood pressure, a new study finds.1
Normally, your blood pressure goes down by about 10% at night. But eating within two hours of bedtime releases a rush of stress hormones that stops your blood pressure from dropping.2 It keeps your body on “high alert” and maintains your blood pressure at daytime levels when you are sleeping.… Read More