Sandra Dee's Dos By the Dozen

(Click on images to enlarge.) Source: Hairdo, March 1964 Seeing Sandra Dee's name, all I can think about is that song from Grease. ...

Cancer Screening Exaggerated

"The American Cancer Society, which has long been a staunch defender of most cancer screening, is now saying that the benefits of detec...

SUN Safety

Triple digit weather has hit the SW and heat advisories are issued for the next several days.  As summer in the northern hemisphere arrives ...

So you want to be a writer (by Charles Bukowski ) December 2, 2009 So You Want To Be A Writer if it doesn’t come bursting out of you in spit...

Chew Wrigley's Double Mint for Exercise

(Click on image to expand.) Source: American Hairdresser, September 1932

Fermented Grain Recipes from Around the World

In my last two posts on grains, I described how traditional food processing methods make grains more nutritious and digestible ( 1 , 2 ). I...

Real EMF Danger: Your Brain on a Cell Phone

UPDATE: 16 June - San Francisco to warn consumers about cell radiation levels By John D. Sutter (CNN) -- San Francisco, California, lik...

FDA and Avandia: Ethics Lacking

FDA-Sanctioned International Diabetes Drug Trial Is Unethical and Dangerous “Surely no patient would willingly participate in a trial in w...

Pleasant Suprise, Spectacular Product

It is not often that I go to the point of being a great fan of a nutritional supplement, especially when I think we are too far away from th...

Get Ready Mailbag: Shaking hands can spread germs. What to do?

Welcome to another installment of the Get Ready Mailbag, when we take time to answer questions sent our way by readers like you. Have a ques...

Advergames Raise Food Risks

Online games new marketing tool for unhealthy foods ScienceDaily (2010-06-03) -- Public health researchers have found that children, who are...

Dental X-rays could increase the risk of thyroid cancer

Any X-ray ( ionizing radiation) carries with it a risk of cancer. X-ray exposure is cumulative and over all carries with it a real increase...

Your Skin (and Lemons!)

(Click on images for larger versions.) Source: Lemons for Loveliness, 1935 That last photo is just beautiful.

Avoid Many Drugs When Taking Tamoxifen

If you are being prescribed Tamoxifen it is very important to be aware - and make sure your provider is very aware - that combining it with ...

Wye Oh Wye

Youngest Boy and I found ourselves yesterday on the River Wye below Monmouth. Not strictly in England, although the eastern bank must have b...

More on Soy Risk and Your Health

For many years I have been active in educating people about the risks of soy.  This especially relates to the concerns I have had regarding ...

Lemons for Your Hands

(Image is a linker to the full-size image.) Source: Lemons for Loveliness, 1935

Links: Life Magazine

More gems from Life Magazine: http://www.life.com/image/first/in-gallery/39902/girls-in-curls-a-hair-raising-look (Check out the beer can ro...

American Styles

(Click on the image to open up the larger version.) Source: American Hairdresser, September 1927

New Drug, New Risk

 Today it was announced that the FDA approved this new genetically engineered drug for osteoporosis.  AMGEN is certainly looking forward to ...

I have a problem...

I decided to organize my magazines and put them in chronological order. It's a good thing I did because there were some magazines I forg...

A few of my favorite things

Do you have any favorite posts from this blog? Mine is the overlay pomp .

Cutting (...)

(As usual, the pictures are links to full-size versions. Click on them to read the text or get a closer look the images.) Source: American H...

Medicare: Coming Accessibility Crisis

In 1995 I started teaching a series of health education programs for Elders known and well-respected as "Healthy Options".  The pr...

SSRIs Can Lead to Cataract

More problems with this class of drugs, perhaps its time to rethink the problem of " depression"  and look for nutritional regener...

Short on Nutrients

As reported in the London Daily Express, 1 June,  dietitian Dr. Carrie Ruxton and researcher Dr. Emma Derbyshire of Manchester Metropolitan...

DONATE and WIN

Just received our first donation!, 7:50 AM      Thank you! We are offering a free "Health Forensics" consultation to the winner o...

Warmer Weather and the Potential for LYME Disease

'Tis the season in North America when the weather gets warmer and ticks may bring health risks -  beset to pre prepared  Known Vectors ...

Organochlorines UPDATE

There are quite a few Natural Health News posts about organochlorine compounds, such as found in sucralose (Splenda), garden and home clean...

Paxil and Effexor: Higher Risk of Miscarriage

Study Links Antidepressant Use and Miscarriage A 68 percent increase in the overall risk of miscarriage in pregnant women using antidepressa...

Where's That Then? No 26

After all the troubling pictures I've given you recently, or failing to put one up at all last week, I thought I'd make it a bit eas...

Purposeful Confusion?

UPDATE: 31 May 2010 (original post 6/19/09) - The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) lost its bid to overturn a health claim for selenium...

Phoenix Faced with Infection Outbreak

I see this again and again in the news from different parts of the country and worldwide. http://www.azcentral.com/news/articles/2010/05/29/...

Does Red Wine Protect the Cardiovascular System?

The 'French paradox' rears its ugly head again. The reasoning goes something like this: French people eat more saturated animal fat...

Cod Liver Oil Helps Prevent Diabetes

"Cod-Liver Oil for Babies Can Ward Off Diabetes" - Giving cod-liver oil to babies reduces the risk of getting diabetes later in l...

Problems with Palm Oil

How an Ingredient Found in Everything from Chocolate to Chips Is Causing Massive Environmental Destruction The production of palm oil, the c...

Supplements ARE Safe

I always get riled when I see a report in the media attacking supplements because some poorly designed government "study" came to ...