Meditation, Health, and Money

by | Mar 8, 2006 | Uncategorized | 0 comments

Back in the 1970s, my wife, Jean, took a course in Transcendental Meditation, or TM, as it was known. The course was expensive, at least several hundred dollars (which was expensive in those days). It consisted of a few one-and-two-hour sessions, but the highlight was...

More on Nutritional Supplements Studies

by | Mar 4, 2006 | Uncategorized | 0 comments

There’s this new site called Gather.com, which is supposed to be kind of a networking site, an alternative to blogs. I’m not sure exactly what to make of it, but I thought it was interesting enough that I collected a number of my comments about nutritional...

Another Supplement Study–More Confusion

by | Feb 23, 2006 | Uncategorized | 0 comments

The studies on nutritional supplements are coming fast and furious, it seems. (Just a coincidence?) Now it’s the turn of glucosamine and chondroitin sulfate to treat osteoarthritis, in the current New England Journal of Medicine. And once...

Lolling Us to Sleep, and into Addiction

by | Feb 22, 2006 | Uncategorized | 0 comments

Big Pharma is great at creating "magical" solutions for our problems. It promises cures for the diseases that scare us so much,  and solutions for our everyday irritations. I won’t get into the fact that Big Pharma hasn’t come very far in...

Seeking Straightforward Answers

by | Feb 21, 2006 | Uncategorized | 0 comments

I hate to keep returning to The New York Times, but it is doing more than other mainstream publications in trying to make sense of recent studies about nutritional supplements and diet. On Sunday, it attempted to assess the implications of recent studies of women...

What to Make of Study on Saw Palmetto?

by | Feb 12, 2006 | Uncategorized | 0 comments

A major part of the "business" of American health care is the sale of pharmaceutical drugs. These drugs are highly profitable for the Pfizers and Bristol-Myers of the world because they hold patents on the formulas, and thus control the prices of the...