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Seedy business in grape seed extracts

20 Mar 2017

A modest amount of red wine reduces the risk of heart disease, possibly because of the polyphenols it contains. Grape seed extract contains the same polyphenols as found in wine and has therefore...

Murky Mercola

20 Mar 2017

If you haven鈥檛 heard of Joe Mercola, you have not been surfing the waves of health advice on the web. He is an osteopathic physician whose practice now is limited to offering mostly iffy medical...

Taking a Bite out of Crocodile Hype

20 Mar 2017

You鈥檝e got to give it to the quacks. They are often clever people. And very adept at making mountains out of molehills. One of the latest miracles out there is, believe it or not, crocodile blood....

Advice About Food Is Sometimes Half-Baked

20 Mar 2017

Back in the early 70s, just as I was developing an interest in the chemistry of food, I came across a witty quote by Mark Twain. 鈥淧art of the secret of success in life is to eat what you like and...

The Healing Code

20 Mar 2017

You would think it鈥檚 a Saturday Night Live skit. And it would be funny if it didn鈥檛 have a serious side. Just picture this. Using different fingers, a man points at four specific parts of his body...

Lipozene and Weight Loss

20 Mar 2017

The "active" ingredient in Lipozene is glucomannan, a form of dietary fiber that is extracted from the root of the konjac plant. Fiber, by definition, is any type of food component that cannot be...

Alkaline Nonsense

20 Mar 2017

It is so seductively simple.听 If you want to avoid cancer, just make sure your body is 鈥渁lkaline!鈥澨 Here is the rationale.听 When a cell becomes cancerous it reduces its use of oxygen and cranks up...

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