by David Gumpert | Feb 8, 2007 | Uncategorized |
The more I’ve learned about vaccination, the more I’ve shied away from it. So in answer to Rick Trim’s question from my previous posting, I’m not real keen on the Texas governor’s order to vaccinate school girls in the state. Like most...
by David Gumpert | Feb 7, 2007 | Uncategorized |
I was curious to read Miguel’s comment (on my Feb. 4 "From Nuts to Subversives" posting) that pigs are a major source of drug-resistant bacteria known as MRSA. I had just read an article in the Financial Times last week about MRSA, but that...
by David Gumpert | Feb 6, 2007 | Uncategorized |
It’s interesting to read about people’s “aha” moments on my previous two posts—when they realized either the deficiencies of conventional medicine, or the power of alternative therapies or diet. These aren’t necessarily single...
by David Gumpert | Feb 5, 2007 | Uncategorized |
Two items, seemingly unrelated, but that I sense really are related.First, the Pork Association has gone after, of all things, a proponent of breast feeding. I tend to assume that large organizations have more important things to worry about than...
by David Gumpert | Feb 4, 2007 | Uncategorized |
I’ve been doing a lot of driving over the past few weeks, so have been passing the time listening to one of Dr. Andrew Weil’s early books, “Spontaneous Healing”. Even though it’s been a dozen years since the book came out, it still sounds...
by David Gumpert | Feb 2, 2007 | Uncategorized |
Two timely items I want to share, both having to do with legal niceties surrounding health and food: 1. A member of Steve Case’s team at Revolution Health, the best known of several online firms hoping to capitalize on patient record databases, left an...
by David Gumpert | Feb 1, 2007 | Uncategorized |
“Most of our family and friends think we are nuts” for eating healthy, states Lisa Imerman in her comment on my Jan. 29 posting about the New York Times Magazine article, “Unhappy Meals”. Since its publication last Sunday, Michael...
by David Gumpert | Jan 31, 2007 | Uncategorized |
Richard Hebron tries to take an optimistic view of the Cass County prosecutor’s pending decision on whether or not to file charges in the Family Farms Cooperative raw-milk case. He takes heart from the fact that many dozens of co-op members have written...
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