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We spend hundreds of millions of dollars each year on the stuff. It’s in almost everybody’s medicine cabinet. But it’s a total waste of our hard-earned money. It doesn’t work.
At least 15 clinical trials have proved using cough syrup is no better than taking a placebo.1
Its sales spike during cold and flu season. We spend almost $600 million a year on over-the-counter cough syrup, according to Drug Store News magazine.… Read More
An epidemic of antibiotic-resistant infections in health care facilities has killed thousands of Americans. But good luck trying to find out if your local hospital is hosting the deadly germs…
Greedy health care facilities rarely report the outbreaks because it is bad for business.
A recent outbreak of the superbug Clostridium difficile (c. diff) in a New Mexico assisted living facility left eight of the 86 residents dead and seven more battling for their lives.… Read More
“Beef—it’s what’s for dinner.”
This famous TV commercial line spoken by Robert Mitchum was launched in 1992 as the beef industry tried to fight off the entrenched medical belief that eating red meat caused disease.
Even today, U.S. nutritional guidelines still advise eating less than 3 ounces of beef or pork per day.1
… Read MoreWhen former president George H.W. Bush and his wife Barbara were both hospitalized this week for similar health problems, doctors noted that this was not an unusual circumstance.1
Couples often get sick at the same time.
If it has happened to you and your spouse, you may have figured it was because you were both exposed to the same germs.… Read More
Americans know they have a sitting problem. Study after study has shown that our sedentary lifestyle is killing us.
It leads to atherosclerosis, heart attacks, strokes, diabetes, kidney failure, and many other life-threatening illnesses.1,2,3
Since many of us spend our days at desk jobs, we try to compensate by taking long walks in the mornings, evenings, and on weekends.… Read More
New research shows that drinking three to five cups a day dramatically decreases the risk of Alzheimer’s and dementia.
The findings were presented at the European Union Geriatric Medicine Society’s Congress in Lisbon, Portugal. Presenters gathered brain research from across the globe.
One study at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee tracked the coffee drinking habits of over 6,000 women. They gave subjects annual cognitive tests for up to 10 years.… Read More