Critics question whether Regina Benjamin, Obama's overweight surgeon general nominee, can lead on obesity policy, while others call the attacks hypocritical and sexist. The piece quotes Chicago commentators who reject fat-acceptance arguments.
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Opinion
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Comments
Which is worse? Germs in our Food or the Antibiotics that Kill Them?
The piece weighs pathogens in food against the antibiotics used in farming, citing the 2009 PAMTA bill's claims that 70 percent of U.S. antibiotics go to farm animals and 48 percent of national streams carry antibiotic traces. It lists FDA letters to farmers over drug residues in cows sold for food.
Comments
Squalene: The Swine Flu Vaccine’s Dirty Little Secret Exposed
Dr. Mercola argues against making children the first target for swine flu vaccination, estimating that some 75 million US children would be injected with a fast-tracked vaccine containing adjuvants including squalene to prevent perhaps 100 deaths.
Comments
American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology advertisement
An open letter from the Vitamin D Council to American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology editor Thomas Garite, responding to the journal's refusal to run the Council's vitamin D advertisement in April and May 2009.
Comments
Warning: Swine Flu Vaccine Coming Soon
Baxter International said it was in full-scale production of a swine flu vaccine due in July, a day after the WHO declared a pandemic. Mercola warns that the fast-tracked vaccine will reach the public without safety evaluations and urges readers to fear it more than the flu.
Letter to Editor
Doctors Boo Obama in Chicago
Physicians at the American Medical Association's annual meeting booed President Obama when he said he would not advocate caps on malpractice awards. The writer argues the AMA has long been obstructionist and that vitamin D drew more attention this year than care for troops and veterans.
Comments
Editorial: Eli Lilly and CVS Caremark in Zyprexa Hot Seat
An editorial on Eli Lilly's off-label push, with CVS Caremark's help, to get doctors prescribing the antipsychotic Zyprexa for dementia in elderly patients after seven studies found it ineffective for them, and on the ghostwritten journal articles and insurer lawsuit that followed.
Letter to Editor
Why are hormone makers still pushing HRT?
Industry-sponsored studies and marketing now claim women can get hormone therapy's benefits by starting in their early 50s. The piece compares this to tobacco-funded research, noting 5,000 Prempro and Premarin lawsuits and that a cited 2004 study's lead author consulted for Wyeth.
Letter to Editor
Oprah chicken giveaway sparks farming questions
Animal advocates protested outside Oprah's Harpo Studios after she offered coupons for an estimated 40,000 free Kentucky Grilled Chicken meals, months after airing shows on factory-farm cruelty and trying a vegan diet. Mercy For Animals organized the demonstration.
Letter to Editor
Retraction paragraph from Martha
A correction letter from writer Martha Rosenberg saying Dr. Michelle O'Donovan was wrongly identified in an earlier article about Seroquel litigation, with an editor's note that the article has been removed.
Comments
How to Stay Healthfully Hydrated
AICR advises drinking about 16 ounces two to three hours before exercise and 6 to 12 ounces every 15 to 20 minutes during it, with water usually the best choice for typical adult exercisers. Juices spiked with herbs may carry too little of the added ingredient to do anything.
Comments
Making Sense of Yogurt Choices
The American Institute for Cancer Research sorts through the yogurt aisle: all yogurts supply probiotics, though US evidence supports only help with lactose intolerance, and some brands now add prebiotics such as inulin that the Nutrition Facts panel will not reveal.
Comments
Beat the Summer Heat without Red Meat
AICR's report concludes that diets high in red meat and especially processed meat are a convincing cause of colorectal cancer. Grilling any animal product also forms HCAs and PAHs, though the report calls the evidence that these contribute to human cancer limited but suggestive.
Comments
Busting Cancer Myths: Acidic Foods and Cancer Risks
The American Institute for Cancer Research rebuts the claim that acidic foods promote cancer: the lab findings apply only to isolated cells, the body regulates acid-base balance tightly through the kidneys and lungs, and urine test kits say nothing about body pH.
Comments
Soyfoods Do Not Impact Sperm Count
Researchers quoted here say headlines tying soy to lower sperm counts overstate a small retrospective study. Jorge Chavarro found soy and isoflavone intake unrelated to sperm count, ejaculate volume, motility or morphology, and his 'high' intake category was modest.
Comments
Food diary helps weight loss, but would you keep writing it till you die?
In a Kaiser Permanente study of more than 1,500 overweight and obese adults who attended 20 weekly group meetings and followed the DASH plan, participants lost an average of 13 pounds in five months, and those who kept a daily food diary lost twice as much and kept it off.
Letter to Editor
High fructose corn syrup, sugar, and several fruit juices all contain the same simple sugars
A letter to the editor from Audrae Erickson, president of the Corn Refiners Association, responding to a June 25 article and defending high fructose corn syrup as no different from other common sweeteners.
Letter to Editor
Comment on reports on John McCain's health
A reader's letter faulting the site's coverage of John McCain's medical records for not reporting that no physicians were allowed to see them and that the candidate was not given available tests for short-term memory loss or incipient Alzheimer's.
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