by David Gumpert | Apr 13, 2007 | Uncategorized |
Acne is a fairly common condition among teenagers, together with all the anxiety it implies. I recall about a dozen years ago, when my son was a teenager and was troubled by acne, his physician suggested he launch into a regimen of low-dose antibiotics to clear things...
by David Gumpert | Apr 12, 2007 | Uncategorized |
Why would the Michigan Dietetic Association (MDA) “get blessed under cover of law,” as Steve Bemis so elegantly puts it (in a comment to my previous post)?In flyers it passed out to legislators and others last year promoting the licensing of...
by David Gumpert | Apr 11, 2007 | Uncategorized |
Is it my imagination, or is Michigan at the center of all this country’s food-related controversies? First it was raw milk. Then it was the National Animal Identification System (NAIS). Now it’s the licensing of dieticians and nutritionists, and the...
by David Gumpert | Apr 10, 2007 | Uncategorized |
Lots of tricky raw milk info to make sense out of. First, I’ll start with the hot info, about settlement discussions in the case of Family Farms Cooperative and Richard Hebron, reported in today’s Ann Arbor News (and commented on by several readers...
by David Gumpert | Apr 8, 2007 | Uncategorized |
To Mary McGonigle-Martin, I am gratified that this blog has enabled you to re-live your experience with Chris in such a powerful, and I suspect, healthy way. (See her comment following my previous posting.) Post-traumatic stress syndrom is most commonly...
by David Gumpert | Apr 6, 2007 | Uncategorized |
The discussion about possible causes of Chris Martin’s illness is very impressive, for its scope and breadth of knowledge. Each of us wants to take the confusing set of circumstances that were part of Chris’ illness and make sense of it. We want to figure...
by David Gumpert | Apr 4, 2007 | Uncategorized |
This has clearly been an intense few days for many individuals who have re-lived the nightmare of Chris Martin’s illness last fall. Most obviously for Mary McGonigle-Martin and Tony Martin, and for Melissa Herzog, whose daughter, Lauren, was sick at the same...
by David Gumpert | Apr 3, 2007 | Uncategorized |
I’d like to try to clarify one matter before presenting the concluding segment of the timeline from Mary McGonigle-Martin and Tony Martin concerning the illness of their son, Chris. Several readers have questioned whether Chris became ill from raw milk. I...
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