An extensive body of epidemiologic evidence suggests consistently, if not decisively, that generous consumption of fruits and vegetables is associated with reduced cancer risk. |
Because desperation breeds gullibility. People want to lose weight so much that their common sense shuts off. |
Dark chocolate may be conferring vascular benefits via several pathways. |
Epidemic obesity is unquestionably a health crisis in the United States, and for that matter, in much of the world. But it is a crisis in slow motion, one that has crept up on us over years, and even decades. |
How many would do the 'right thing' and attend school? Why, in fact, do we require school attendance? Don't we trust children, and their parents, to make the prudent choice? |
However, most evidence suggests that the metabolic effects of sucrose and HFCS are pretty similar. What makes HFCS such a hazard is that corn growth is highly subsidized in the United States, so HFCS is very inexpensive - and thus a tempting additive to many foods. |
I think Jackson and colleagues are likely to be wrong. |
Members of the public health community have been highlighting our national neglect of public health infrastructure for decades. |
Not surprisingly, the disclosure of information about unsuspected paternity comes with potentially devastating effects. |
Obesity is arguably the gravest public health threat in the United States today. |
People covered by Medicare tend to have more health problems than younger people. But many of them can ill afford the medications they need. The result is that they may not take them, allowing readily controllable health problems to evolve into unmanaged crises. |
The design of this study precludes conclusions about causality. It may be that attractive neighborhoods make sedentary people more active, but it may also be that active people congregate where the setting is attractive and inviting. |
The influenza pandemic of 1918 may well be the greatest scourge ever to afflict humanity, exacting a death toll greater than all the wars of the 20th Century combined. The virus that wreaked this havoc apparently developed in birds, and then jumped to people. In other words, it was avian flu. |
The potential silver lining in this otherwise overcast tale is its vintage. |
The supply of folklore remedies for hangover is virtually limitless. The best way to contend with hangover is not to get one, by practicing abstinence or moderation. |