by David Gumpert | Jun 15, 2006 | Uncategorized |
The Center for Science in the Public Interest, a non-profit organization, says it has a message for fast food fried chicken chain KFC: "See you in court, Colonel Sanders." CSPI is suing KFC over its use of trans fat in its fried chicken, which it says...
by David Gumpert | Jun 12, 2006 | Uncategorized |
The office of California’s Attorney General has advised the father of a young woman who died shortly after giving birth to her first child that the evidence is insufficient to warrant legal action against the two physicians accused of screwing up. I wrote about...
by David Gumpert | Jun 7, 2006 | Uncategorized |
I’ve been trying to avoid as much as possible consuming three biggies in our diet: sugar, dairy, and wheat (along with all the artificial sweeteners and caffeine). I’ve actually gotten pretty used to not consuming these items. The big challenge...
by David Gumpert | Jun 2, 2006 | Uncategorized |
I’m impressed by the variety of comments posted at the end of my most recent BusinessWeek.com column about Dr. Joseph Mercola, and I want to respond to several here. The most provocative is from "ShowMeTheMoney", who demands, "I...
by David Gumpert | May 31, 2006 | Uncategorized |
The key to changing America’s approach to healthcare from obsessing about curing disease to encouraging robust health as a way to avoid disease is education. The best way to educate people about the problems of our conventional health system may be to regularly...
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...
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