It’s salty, sweet, and very seductive. It promises pleasure, but delivers disease. It’s ubiquitous, and it’s corrupting the very health of our country. I’m talking about Cornography. The slick and sleazy marketing of “foods” and beverages made out of genetically-modified corn, corn syrup, corn meal, and other refined forms of corn. This crap is stacked […]
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Precocious puberty is on the rise among pre-teen girls in the US, according to a comprehensive multi-site study of more than 1,200 girls, aged 6-8 years. By age 8, 18% of Whites, 31% of Hispanics, and a shocking 43% of black girls showed significant breast development. Premature puberty confers a host of risk factors, including […]
As public health experts and municipalities push for sodium reductions in our food supply, they’d do well to also pay attention to a new study showing that raising the level of potassium salts in foods could reduce heart disease risk by up to 11%. [Read More…]
Millions of Americans lost their jobs and their health care access in 2009. Hundreds of primary care physicians closed up shop or selling to hospital systems and mega-clinics. The nation continued to get fatter, sicker, and more drug-addled. And the Masters of the Health Care Universe continued to pay themselves richly. Very richly. Find out […]
HPC would like to commend our friend, Dr. Jim Gordon, and his team at the Center for Mind-Body Medicine for the deep healing work they are doing in Gaza and in Israel. For much of the last decade, Dr. Gordon and colleagues have been working in conflict-ravaged places teaching mind-body skills that can help people […]
From our vantage point at the crossroad where conventional and holistic/integrative medicine converge, we’ve witnessed tremendous creativity and innovation over the last ten years, as well as a fair bit of turbulence and struggle. This is all characteristic of the emergence of….dare I say it? A new paradigm. It’s an overused word, but it fits, […]
It is really important to increase the amount of fruits and vegetables in our diets, and to encourage our patients to do likewise. Unfortunately, though, we need to be mindful of the toxins that contaminate even the healthiest of foods. Pesticides & fungicides have become ubiquitous in our environment. Crops these days are heavily sprayed […]
Genetically engineered crops have provided “substantial” environmental and economic benefits to American farmers, but overuse of the technology is threatening to erode the gains, a national science advisory organization said Tuesday in a report. The report is described as the first comprehensive assessment of the impact of genetically modified crops on American farmers, who have […]
The North Carolina Academy of Family Physicians recently inaugurated R.W. “Chip” Watkins, MD, MPH, a holistic & functional medicine practitioner, as the organization’s president. Dr. Watkins is among the first holistic doctors to win a leadership position in a mainstream state medical organization.
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