With a new mandate of required payment of preventive testing, does the US Preventive Task Force miss the mark with women’s bone health recommendations?

The government has estimated that as many as ten million Americans have osteoporosis. Half of all American women will, according to these government estimates, have a fracture related to osteoporosis during their lifetime. Men are by no means immune to bone thinning.

The New American Family-mother and dad are overweight and the children are overweight, too: Obesity can now be inherited

If you have recently been to a U.S. theme park, it is startling to most to notice the waistlines of American families. Mom and Dad are overweight and more often than not, every child is overweight, too. Many experts were quick to comment that obesity must be related to genetic susceptibility. Really, what about mother… Continue reading The New American Family-mother and dad are overweight and the children are overweight, too: Obesity can now be inherited

What Your Waistline Means to Your Health

The New England Journal of Medicine in a November 2008 issue published research that had tracked nearly 360,000 men and women in 9 European countries for nearly 10 years. The results confirm research that has proliferated in the U.S. medical literature that is, a full to bursting waistline is a stronger predictor of premature death… Continue reading What Your Waistline Means to Your Health

AIDS drugs linked to ‘Severe Vitamin D Deficiency’

It is one of those ‘far enough ahead of your time to suffer for it medical maverick” moments. Integrative medical practitioners have long recognized because of their knowledge and use of the body’s biochemistry that prescription drugs deplete the body of certain nutrients. It’s called drug induced nutrient depletion. The side effects of medication are… Continue reading AIDS drugs linked to ‘Severe Vitamin D Deficiency’