healthcare

Your body has to build a billion cells a day. Does your doctor talk to you about a plan to help your body build a billion cells a day to maintain good health?
American drug companies have 100 drugs to manage the disease known as Hypertension. An American doctor will usually consider any Blood Pressure above 120 over 80 to be abnormal and sufficient cause to write you a prescription. But in Europe they don’t treat anyone for High Blood Pressure until it goes over 180. In India doctors think that any BP under 140 is dangerous and a sign of pathology.

Peer-reviewed science can be found to support nearly every position.

Humans make things safe, clean, and healthy.

'Healthy' is now being defined in radically different ways, by different interest groups.

In the low-carb universe, vegetables are served with lots of butter, mayonnaise, and hollandaise.

Goldman Sachs has outdone itself this time. That’s saying a lot for an investment firm that both helped cause and then exploited a global economic meltdown, increasing its own wealth and power while helping to boot millions of Americans out of their homes.
But now Goldman Sachs is openly saying in financial reports that curing people of terrible diseases is not good for business.

There are structural reasons for the low quality of much scientific research.

We need to lose our naivete. Many scientific findings are neither crisp nor clear.

Fruit may be natural, but its sugar content has increased due to selective breeding.

If fat were the villain we've been told it is, I should have gained 40 pounds.