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The Cholesterol Deception

February 20, 2008
The Cholesterol Deception

 To the 13 million of you out there that are already on a statin drug to lower cholesterol, may I have your attention?  The rest of you may want to pay attention as well. Why are 13 million of our friends and neighbors all taking a drug that may or may not be helping them? In case you haven’t heard, there is a big debate over these drugs and it has spilled out of the medical journals and onto your... [Read more]

Why Pinocchio Must Never Work for the Dairy Association

September 15, 2007
Why Pinocchio Must Never Work for the Dairy Association

Got milk?  Short, sweet, and to the point.  Now that’s the kind of slick advertisement I would expect from an industry that spends in excess of $165 million dollars a year on marketing. I am not here today to discuss all the known problems with milk. I am not going to discuss the “pus” issue (1.5 million pus cells in every teaspoon of milk). I will not be exploring the proven cancer link between... [Read more]

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