“Almost 2,000 years ago, the natural scientist Pliny wrote that outside the walls of Rome on the Appian Way, where the graves clustered, many tombstones said, ‘I was killed by a gang of doctors.’ Today, we face a wealthy, powerful, and huge complex consisting of the feds, organized medicine, the big pharmaceutical companies, hospitals and […]
“KFC announced today that it plans to switch to a chicken-frying oil that’s free of trans fats, a move that appears to have reheated the cold hearts of the food police at the Center for Science in the Public Interest (CSPI). Said food cops have withdrawn from the lawsuit against KFC that CSPI announced with […]
“Why should you read this article? Because less than 5% of Americans follow the Dietary Guidelines and the information they offer could save your life. In a nutshell, the guidelines encourage you to eat fewer calories, be more active, and make wiser food choices. One of the major goals of this public health document is […]
“KFC on Monday said all 5,500 of its U.S. fried-chicken restaurants will switch to a cooking oil with no trans fat by the end of next April. The company, a unit of Yum Brands Inc., is also switching oils at its 786 restaurants in Canada. With fast-food restaurants under increasing criticism that they contribute to […]
“More than 500 new energy drinks launched worldwide this year, and coffee fans are probably too old to understand why. Energy drinks aren’t merely popular with young people. They attract fan mail on their own MySpace pages. They spawn urban legends. They get reviewed by bloggers. And they taste like carbonated cough syrup. Vying for […]
“Christina Shimek , a senior at St. Bernard’s High School in Fitchburg, is only 17, but she has already felt more pain than many adults have in a lifetime. A year ago, Shimek, who lives with her parents in Leominster, said she woke up one morning ‘in excruciating pain in my lower back and pelvic […]
“Mental health professionals and advocates are battling to take themes of mental-illness out of Halloween. The National Alliance on Mental Illness says Halloween celebrations depicting psychoses and insane asylums victimize the mentally ill. ‘Looking at it through the specific prism of Halloween, stigma is one of the main barriers to people getting help when they […]
“Alterations in the receptor for a known inflammatory response pathway are strongly associated with Crohn’s disease and ulcerative colitis, according to a report by a consortium of American and Canadian researchers in the October 26 online Science Express. Crohn’s disease and ulcerative colitis, collectively called inflammatory bowel disease (IBD), are chronic disorders that cause abdominal […]
“The Houston Independent School District could be forced this week to revisit its embarrassing dropout scandal from 2002, but this time it would be in a criminal courtroom. While six HISD employees were ultimately reprimanded for pushing for unrealistic dropout numbers to be reported at Sharpstown High School, only one person was charged. The case […]
“The cameras capture the young man walking down the stairs, reciting a monologue about the three things people should know about him: His favorite movie is ‘Gone with the Wind,’ he loves roller coasters and he hates when people don’t take him seriously. The shot is complicated and takes several attempts to perfect. But there’s […]
