The Canadian Association of Naturopathic Doctors has produced several television ads featuring Naturopathic doctors sporting white lab coats and stethoscopes highlighting their apparent medical...
Just mention cinnamon, and I can smell and almost taste my mother鈥檚 apple strudel. She made it from scratch, gently pulling the pastry on a table until the dough was paper thin. The filling was...
General Mills has announced that it is removing genetically modified ingredients from its iconic Cheerios. Now there's a non-newsworthy item that is guaranteed to make for flashy headlines and lead...
Let鈥檚 face it. Face creams will not 鈥渞eset the skin鈥檚 aging clock.鈥� Nor will they 鈥渞estructure complexion from within,鈥� 鈥減rovide repair action to the core of each wrinkle鈥� or 鈥渞eeducate the skin to...
If you want to lengthen your life, you need to lengthen your telomeres. That鈥檚 the message from the marketers of a pricey dietary supplement called TA-65. How pricey? Try up to $4000 for a six...
On my radio show today the story of putting a bar of soap under the sheet to cure leg cramps came up again. When science leaves a void, as it does with the treatment of leg cramps, unconventional...
This post needs a bit of a background. A few weeks ago we noted that the Dean of Pharmacy at the University of Toronto was organizing a trial on using homeopathic preparations for the treatment of...
What makes people defend the indefensible? A prime example of this conundrum is the case of Antonella Carpenter, a 71 year old 鈥渁lternative practitioner鈥� who was convicted of conducting a...
I've repeatedly been asked about the circulating email that claims Sheryl Crow blames her breast cancer on chemicals leaching out of water bottles and warns women to never keep bottled water in the...
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