Archives: 2004 October

colonoscopies

There’s a fine line between prevention and paranoia when it comes to performing colonoscopies — and a recent study indicates that many U.S. doctors regularly cross that line.

food as cancer preventers

We all know that certain foods can be categorized as bona fide cancer preventers. But what do you get when those foods are combined?

scientific mavericks

Each of them — and many others like them — went out on a limb and brought forth a groundbreaking new theory.

vitamin C

It seems that just about every other animal can produce its own vitamin C — except humans.

Hungry hungry hippa

For a change, the unwieldy U.S. bureaucracy might save the day. Or at least offer us a reprieve in the battle to protect our medical privacy.

Bakers beware

Sugar substitute manufacturers are already hot on this trail, eveloping products geared specifically towards baking.

Go with the flow

All tasteless joking aside, it appears that there is a bona fide link between heart function and sexual function in men.

Staying out of the line of fire

But nothing has come close to the one he told me about the other day about a patient who had never been in a fire, but who was burning from the inside out.

October 2004 NAH Newsletter

Your gallbladder performs some important functions in your body that make it well worth keeping. Possibly the most important is to regulate bile flow to optimize fat, oil, and fat-soluble nutrient absorption.

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