Month: August 2011
Beware of colon cleansing products
Most products promise weight loss of 10 to 30 pounds in a month. It is the No. 1 diet and health craze right now – colon and liver cleansing. Promoted as a "natural" way to rid the body of harmful toxic buildup and improve overall body function, …
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Encased in Fat Nearly All My Life I Say No to Lap Bands for Teens … Here's Why
Trying every diet conceivable and every alleged “weight loss cure” known to man – and more likely – women, nothing worked for much more than a year. Getting it off always was the easy part of the equation; keeping it off was the trouble. …
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The Dannon Company Awards Joint Township District Memorial Hospital the Sixth …
The Grand Health Family Challenge is a weight loss program developed by Joint Township District Memorial Hospital and community partners to reduce childhood and family obesity in Auglaize County and portions of rural Mercer, Shelby, and Allen Counties. …
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Research Looks at CAM Use by People with Chronic Disease
The Adult Core Sample, Person and Adult Complementary and Alternative Medicine data files were included. NHIS's complete survey design structure (strata, cluster and survey weights) was applied in generating national population estimates for CAM usage. …
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Alternative Hepatitis C Treatments, Health & Fitness
Ancient Moves for Orthopedic Problems
As certain methods of alternative medicine are shown to have real value, some mainstream doctors who “think outside the box” have begun to incorporate them into their practices. One of them is Loren Fishman, a physiatrist — a specialist in physical …
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Debating the Safety of Cell Phone Use
Alternative and Complementary Therapies is a bimonthly journal that publishes original articles, reviews, and commentaries evaluating alternative therapies and how they can be integrated into clinical practice. Topics include botanical medicine, …
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Case raises questions about regulation of alternative healing
"No matter how you look at it, (intuitive healing is) false," said Wallace Sampson, clinical professor emeritus of medicine at Stanford University and former editor-in-chief of the journal Scientific Review of Alternative Medicine. …
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Detox danger: Trendy colon cleansing a risky ritual
“This is not a manifesto against complementary and alternative medicine, since I'ma big proponent,” says Georgetown family medicine physician and lead author Dr. Ranit Mishori. “But there is absolutely no evidence that it [colon cleansing] helps. …
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Science-Based Medicine » Answering another criticism of science …
Other examples tend to be what I call “teachable moments,” in which the mistakes made in the criticism provide fodder for making a point about SBM versus alternative medicine, “complementary and alternative medicine” (CAM), …
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GAPS in a doctor's reasoning about vaccines and autism
at a website that is one of the foremost sources of alternative medicine pseudoscience and quackery on the Internet, a hive of scum and quackery even more wretched than The Huffington Post and only rivaled by NaturalNews.com and Whale.to. …
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