| Nearly ¼ of all vegetables consumed by children and adolescents were french fries and only 1/5 of the children consumed 5 or more servings of fruits and veggies daily in a recent medical study. |
| 5 years after heart bypass surgery, 42% of patients show a significant decline on tests of mental ability, probably from brain damage caused by the surgery, according to a study done at Duke University. |
| Children whose mothers used pesticides in the home twice weekly were nearly 21/2 times more likely to have non-Hodgkin's lymphoma. |
| Florida researcher, Robert Cade, MD and his colleagues have identified a milk protein, casmorphin, as a probable cause of ADD and autism. |
| Honey outperformed anti-biotics in treating burns and infected caesarean sections in a study in Australia. |
| Low fat diets decreased calcium absorbtion in women in a study at the University of Pittsburgh. This means that low fat diets can increase the possibility of bone loss. |
| Metabolife Bars, which are sold locally may have grave side effects in some people. One of my patients recently tried one and had heart palpatations. Read the label. It says not to use them if you have thyroid problems, and more. |
| Pregnant women should not eat swordfish, shark, king mackerel or tilefish because they may contain enough mercury to damage the fetus's nervous system, according to the National Academy of Science. |
