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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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

Sherry Torkos, author of the Canadian Encyclopedia of Natural Medicine, discusses the importance of sleep, diet, and exercise in boosting your immune system.

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.