Not your typical stereotype of a professional football player Appearing on CBS This Morning (9-5-12) was the "NFL's Most Interesting Man,"Arian Foster of the Houston Texans. Not drafted after playing for the University of Tennessee, Arian thought at first that his...

 ...makes a Herculean task --- that much more daunting. In the past week, there have been lots of news reports about organic foods and whether or not they're worth the additional cost to consumers. Since half of those "organic" foods...

Better talk about Todd Akin now; cause he's gonna be old news soon. Congressman Todd Akin, Missouri Republican Congressman Todd Akin is getting a lot of heat these days---for apparently stating how he really felt about the abortion issue....

  Just when you think that our mainstream "system" can't get any worse. (Featuring Meryl Streep and Tommy Lee Jones) The latest terrible advice from our "system" arrived in my mailbox today---and was contained within my copy of the August-September...

Well, that depends on who you ask. If you ask me... Without a doubt, Dr. Mehmet Oz is the most famous doctor in the country---but we all know that he is now in the entertainment business. Therefore, he is...

As a former resident of Atlanta, I know all about Mr. S. Truett Cathy and how he built his company, Chick-fil-A on biblical principles. But not all biblical principles; just the ones that suited him. For example, I wonder what Jesus would say about...

Last week, I received a note from a reader who was responding to my recent post about the "cancer industry turning 41." Like another reader, she had heard about Gerson Cancer Therapy and wanted to know my thoughts. She...

Those are the ones caused by the "treatment" of primary cancers. And guess what? These so called "secondary cancers" now make up the sixth-most common group of malignancies---according to a 7-16-12 New York Times article (See link below). It was written by a...

 ...if you teach your clients exactly how to take charge of their health. That's because they will soon no longer need you. A Google search for "certified health coach" yields over ten million results. The first two are the Institute of Integrative...

Cancer is our most-feared disease and is somewhat of a lightning rod when it comes to people who've experienced any form of this horrible disease. Occasionally, people decide to "unsubscribe" from my blogs after reading some of my bold...

  And what about prevention?   The American Cancer Society reported this week that the number of Americans with a history of cancer will rise by a third over the next decade, hitting some 18 million by 2022. What is the definition...

And turns the story into a sales pitch for high-tech medicine. Many of the world's brightest medical minds are pinning their hopes for the future on the miracles that will ensue from human genome sequencing. On 6-2-12, the New York Times  published...

Not me; I just said NO---to this $60 billion business. Last week, the New York Times published an article about the "major colonoscopy bills" that people are facing these days. In an article of well over one thousand words (See link...

How did we get into such a mess with regards to what we're eating? After posting this blog at 0600 from Stonington, CT on May 29, a reader in Singapore wrote to tell me that "the Gates of Wisdom...

A midnight message from Karen inspires a new look at cancer research. At 12:08 EDT, while I was sound asleep at my home in Stonington, Connecticut; an email message arrived from a reader in Arizona. A super healthy, bike-racing...

  Good description of the problem. The solution? Not so much Image from the HBO documentary Did you watch the first few hours of the HBO Obesity special last night? If so, I would like to hear what you thought...

There has to be a better way---and there is! President Richard Nixon signs the National Cancer Act on December 23, 1971.   Since Richard Nixon declared war on cancer back in 1971, a huge cancer business has gotten much...

  For if we continue to follow the money, our population will never be healthy. Just read a book review in the New York Times (See link below). The book is How We Do Harm: A Doctor Breaks Ranks About Being Sick In America (St....

Most exhibitors featured food that was just "not animals" On a warm and sunny spring day in Worcester, Massachusetts---Dr. T. Colin Campbell was the highlight of the event as he he addressed a standing-room-only crowd at 1 p.m. He...

Could anything be more difficult? Yes! In an era when over 90% of us are eating some form of the typical Western diet with meat, dairy, and/or eggs three meals a day---we know that it is a daunting task...