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Child with Celiac Disease, Anorexia Nervosa, Or Both?
In this YouTube video, a child with celiac disease was diagnosed with Anorexia Nervosa, despite multiple hospitalizations. Celiac disease (sometimes spellled coeliac disease) in an inherited disease in which the gut cannot properly digest gluten,
Itchy Mystery Solved: Say No to Food Coloring
There's nothing wrong with a little cake every now and then, but children seem to be subjected to the worst sorts of sweets; bright blue cupcakes, canary yellow clown-shaped concoctions with bright red noses and multicolored sprinkles. At one party, my son ate the bottom of the cupcake first, saying to his friend, "I'm saving the best for last." He left the brightly colored frosting untouched. He knows better than to eat food coloring.
Alcoholic Energy Drink Four Loko Sending Teens to the Hospital
So, I'm not looking forward to this year's prom season, not because of any personal vendetta against Stairway to Heaven, but because prom is when teenagers take particular pride in becoming intoxicated to the point of hospitalization.
And some alcoholic drinks, such as "Four Loko" look for all the world like energy drinks.
And some alcoholic drinks, such as "Four Loko" look for all the world like energy drinks.
NY Lawmaker Proposes Restricting Salt in Restaurants: Video and Commentary
Here is our philosophy: people must be allowed to make bad choices about their health. Autonomy is a defining pricinple of the American People. This is why we cannot support Felix Ortiz's proposed ban on added sodium in food served in New York restaurants.
Scare Tactics Highlight Dangers of Liquid Candy (aka Soda)
Everybody seems to be talking about the Department of Health’s new video on YouTube. The subject of all the fascination? A man drinking a can of soda with fat (yes, I said fat) pouring into his mouth. The image is vile and disgusting, but effective! During the video, you learn that drinking just one can of soda a day can lead to a 10 pound fat gain in just one year.
Diet Solutions: Getting Extra Iron from Vegetables Without Extra Vitamin K
Our reader's dilemma is that he wants to add iron to his diet without increasing vitamin K, because he is taking a medication called coumadin with which vitamin K interferes. The solution? Hearts of Palm.
Vitamin D Protects Against Flu
The comments below are transcribed from this interview with a biomedical researcher.
"Pretty much any infectious disease that is more common in the wintertime is a target of Vitamin D. Even some of the more prolonged infections such as tuberculosis. I mean, in fact it was common knowledge that sunsh
The Evidence Based Diet: Selenium in Chicken Liver Fights Influenza
Liver contains high levels of vitamin A and the antioxidant mineral selenium, both of which are very important in maintaining health and fighting infection. Selenium deficiency appears to increase susceptibility to influenza infection. Jacques Pepin demonstrates an easy liver recipe.
Autism and Nutrition: Video 1-3
April is Autism Month. These are the first three in series of short videos of a lecutre by Julie Matthews that address the value of special diets in the management of Autism. Medpie says: don't eat fake food.
Boost Your Immune System Through Diet and Sleep
Sherry Torkos, author of the Canadian Encyclopedia of Natural Medicine, discusses the importance of sleep, diet, and exercise in boosting your immune system.
Sunlight is Protective Against Cancer
People living at northern lattitudes have a higher mortality rate from cancer than those living near the equator. The linking factor appears to be Vitamin D, which is made in the skin when exposed to the ultra-violet rays in sunlight.