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Can ASEA Improve Health as Advertised?

20 Mar 2017

When I first came across a 鈥渨onder鈥 product called ASEA on the web, I thought someone had come up with a clever parody.聽 The Internet of course is full of of ads for supplements, drinks and...

Is it True That People Who Drink Tea Live Longer Longer ?

20 Mar 2017

Drink tea to live longer? Newspaper headlines may have said that, but, that is not exactly what the study they were referring to said. Nevertheless it is an interesting study, published in the...

Is drinking carbonated water bad for you? If not, how much is safe?

20 Mar 2017

Overall, there is no clear research about the harm of drinking carbonated water. 聽The difficulty can come with excessive drinking of carbonated cola/other drinks as the sugar in the sweetened...

Is the organic vs non-organic sweet potato video scientifically sound?

20 Mar 2017

You asked about a video floating in cyberspace that describes a little girl's project purporting to show the risks of conventional produce.

Is There Something to Low Carb Diets like Atkins?

20 Mar 2017

Who would have guessed that a song by the Guess Who would become a health anthem? 鈥淪ilent footsteps crowding me, Sudden darkness but I can see, No sugar tonight in my coffee, No sugar tonight in my...

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...

Dr. Watson's article in 'Open Biology'

20 Mar 2017

When Dr. Jim Watson speaks, people listen. But they don't always hear the right things. Many press accounts reported that Watson had said that antioxidants cause cancer. He didn't say that. He...

Witches Knickers: the plastic bag crisis

20 Mar 2017

Plastic bags that have been carelessly discarded and get caught up on tree branches. Polyethylene bags fluttering in the wind, desecrating our beaches and piling up in cabinets under our sinks,...

How safe is imported fish from China?

20 Mar 2017

Your question is way to inclusive to accurately answer ---the answer is "it depends"----some fish can 聽be perfectly safe to eat and other imports can be quite problematic. Here is a recent short...

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