The News Behind The News | | The Science of Cherries | 
| November 6, 2011
According to journalist Bill Sardi, in 1999 a peer-reviewed report in the Journal of Natural Products, published by the American Chemical Society, the worlds largest scientific society, concluded that tart cherries may relieve pain better than aspirin and other anti-inflammatory drugs.
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| | The Myth of Catching It in Time | | July, 3, 2011
Mass screening has been sold to American consumers as the way to catch life threatening diseases in time. Mass screening has been sold as preventive care when in reality it is early detection. And, unlike prevention, mass screening has its benefits and its risks. Gilbert Welch, MD, author of Should I Be Tested for Cancer, Maybe Not and Heres Why, roiled the conventional medical community, the media, and the American public by presenting the fact that science fails to back up mass cancer screening.
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| | Summers Produce Stand | | May 8, 2011
The power of the produce-stand now resplendent with the rich colors and inviting smells of ripe fruit and summers vegetable bounty is lost to all-too-many Americans. Walk the aisles of a public or farmers market at summers end and marvel over the blueberries, strawberries, raspberries and blackberries, the grapes and currants, fragrant peaches, and the amazing heirloom tomatoes, just to name but a few of natures treats.
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| | | More is Not Necessarily Better When Treating Cancer | | February 21, 2011
Cancer care in the U.S. has increasingly become the perfect example that confounds the American mind-set. After all, we have been culturally conditioned that if a little is good, a lot is better, and a whole lot is best of all. Our current American medical system is a great example that more medicine is not necessarily better medicine and often does not translate to a better outcome.
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