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Vitamin D has been in the health news as it relates to the COVID-19 virus. Are vitamin D levels related to the severity of symptoms if you’re exposed to the virus? We’ll take a look at a recent observational study and the medical responses to it this week. There have been reports that people with […]
I’ve read many comments on social media platforms about COVID-19, and the tone remains the same. An ever-growing group of people are talking about theories and conspiracies of all type. “The numbers are rigged to show more deaths from COVID-19 than there really are,” or “Doctors have discovered treatments that work and are being suppressed.” […]
I’ve been lifting weights at home since the “Stay Home, Stay Safe” mandate closed all the fitness centers. I wanted to make the workouts a little more difficult and keep my heart rate elevated between sets, so I went old school: I used a step stool. I could have used a step on the stairs […]
When I opened my eyes Sunday morning, I knew I had another year to do what I was created to do: teach people how to be healthy and fit. For those of you who are new readers, here’s the story: when I wake on May 10th every year, my superstitious belief is that I have […]
Another ubiquitous commercial on television is for a weight loss program called GOLO for Life, a dietary supplement and a weight loss program. It’s the one that uses an illustration to explain insulin resistance: the muscle in the abdominal area is blocked from using belly fat by a barrier. Insulin resistance is much more complicated […]
Watching more television than usual means I’m seeing more commercials than I’m used to seeing. It’s time to take a look at some dietary supplements that make health claims in television commercials. I’m going to focus on the science behind any claims being made on the product label or on the product’s website to see […]
Chronic pain afflicts us all at some time. I’ve talked about my knee enough to write a book, but pain can be in many areas: lower back, shoulders, feet, hips, wrists, and deep muscle pain as might occur from fibromyalgia. Should you give the pain time to work itself out? No—that’s the worst thing you […]
When I wrote the first Memo on citrus fruit last week, I omitted part of the date from the citation found at the bottom of every Memo that cites a study or publication. Only a single person noticed. As I wrote in response, sometimes you look at something so many times you don’t see what’s […]
Last week’s Memos on citrus fruits raised an obvious question; one reader mentioned it, so I thought I should write about it. Here’s the question: was vitamin C examined for any possible relationship with the development of melanoma? Yes, but take a look at what the researchers wrote in the set-up for the study. After […]
In doing the background research on whether citrus increases the risk of melanoma enough to be a real concern, there was one more important study that was published this year. The same basic group of researchers who did the original examination of citrus intake in the two large healthcare professional studies added one more component. […]
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