by David Gumpert | May 25, 2006 | Uncategorized |
The thing that bothers me most about Joseph Mercola, the osteopath whose site I criticized in my latest BusinessWeek.com column, is his hypocrisy. He rails on against the tactics of Big Pharma and the medical establishment, and then he employs questionable tactics of...
by David Gumpert | May 23, 2006 | Uncategorized |
I still occasionally receive calls and emails from men (and sometimes from their wives), based on my article three years ago about my personal experience deciding on a course of treatment after having been diagnosed with prostate cancer (for more details and a link to...
by David Gumpert | May 16, 2006 | Uncategorized |
Wal-Mart is already the nation’s largest seller of groceries, but still, there’s something disconcerting about the recent news that it plans to introduce a wide range of organic food products beginning this summer. The problem is that when Wal-Mart enters...
by David Gumpert | May 10, 2006 | Uncategorized |
I was watching the national news last evening, doing my usual switching among the network programs hoping to catch news on one while advertising was showing on another. Of course, they have it timed so their ads all run at precisely the same times, so I couldn’t...
by David Gumpert | May 6, 2006 | Uncategorized |
It’s always an accomplishment, as a writer, to crack a new or different kind of publication. In my case, I never expected to get anything into a medical publication, so I’m feeling good about having a letter to the editor in the most recent issue of Family...
by David Gumpert | May 4, 2006 | Uncategorized |
America has the best health care in the world, we are often told. Yet now there is a study in the Journal of the American Medical Association comparing Americans and British and, lo and behold, "the US population in late middle age is less healthy than...
by David Gumpert | Apr 28, 2006 | Uncategorized |
Some further thoughts related to health from my just-completed ten-day trip to Thailand. I discovered after ten days of eating Thai food, and lots of it, that my weight hadn’t changed at all. How can that be? The only explanation I can come up with is this: Thai...
by David Gumpert | Apr 20, 2006 | Uncategorized |
I have been traveling in Thailand this week and one of the things that has stood out to me is how few people are obese. It’s easy to see why, since the diet, even when eating in restaurants a lot, doesn’t include a lot of sugar or starch (beyond rice). The...
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