Oh my! Yet another sure-fire detox! This time it's "oil pulling." I'm not pulling your leg with this one. The claim is that you swish oil, usually sunflower, sesame or coconut, around your mouth...
Dr. Mehmet Oz was asked to testify in front of a U.S. Senate Transport, Commerce and Science subcommitte on fraudulent weight loss products. It is a subject he knows a fair bit about. After all he...
Dr. Oz聽聽didn鈥檛 mince his words when he described the wondrous effects of green coffee bean extract. 鈥淢agical,鈥� 鈥渟taggering,鈥� an 鈥渦nprecedented discovery!鈥� 鈥淔inally, a cure for obesity鈥� he...
During a public lecture on genetic modification I described an experiment that involved enriching soybeans with the amino acid methionine. Soybeans are widely used to raise animals but are low in...
About one thing there is no doubt. Jenny McCarthy is a very pretty lady. After all she rose to fame as a Playboy Playmate. She has also had a fling with modelling, TV and movies. And she is...
Sometimes the battle against nonsense just leaves me speechless. I was asked for my views on dietary supplements produced by Quantum Nutrition Labs, an establishment that claims to use only...
To anyone with a scientific bent, Dr. Oz continues to be a source of amazement, amusement and frustration. His most recent foray into optimizing our health takes him down the 鈥渄etox鈥� path. It鈥檚 a...
I had friends in University that wrestled. And I never really got it.聽 The jousting, the hold-鈥榚m-down-till-they鈥檙e-finished-mentality. And the outfits. I won鈥檛 even get started on that one. But...
It seems hard to believe now, but in the 1930s a 鈥渕iracle cure鈥� which actually contained radioactive radium was widely promoted in North America by William J.A. Bailey, an ex auto-swindler....
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