True Health Intiative: Scientific Consensus on a Healthy Diet
The leading risk factor for death in the United States is the American diet. About a decade ago, the American Heart Association (AHA) expressed concer…
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Cleaning Products, Air Fresheners, and Lung Function
There is a reason the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention prohibits not only smoking but also scented or fragranced products in its buildi…
Eating to Help Control Cancer Metastasis
Randomized controlled trials show that lowering saturated fat intake can lead to improved breast cancer survival. The leading cause of cancer-related …
Eating with Hypothyroidism and Hyperthyroidism
Is the apparent protection of plant-based diets for thyroid health due to the exclusion of animal foods, the benefits of plant foods, or both? Several…
Statins and Muscle Pain Side Effects
Why is the incidence of side effects from statins so low in clinical trials while appearing to be so high in the real world? “There […]
Treating Fatty Liver Disease with Diet
What are the three sources of liver fat in fatty liver disease, and how can we get rid of it? Nonalcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) […]
Gaming the System: Cardiologists, Heart Stents, and Upcoding
Cardiologists can criminally game the system by telling patients they have much more serious, unstable diseases than they really have—fraud that res…
Why Use Stents When They Don’t Work?
Again and again, studies have shown that doctors tend to make clinical decisions for patients based on how much they themselves will get paid. In [……
Do Heart Stents Benefit Angina Chest Pain?
Sham surgery trials prove that procedures like non-emergency stents offer no benefit for angina pain—only risk to millions of patients. Angioplasty …
The Risks vs. Benefits of Angioplasty and Heart Stents
What do physicians and stent companies have to say for themselves, given that they promote expensive, risky procedures with no benefit? “Percutaneou…