The Starch Solution

The Starch Solution is a recent book by Dr. John McDougall. The book and the author are both somewhat controversial as they cut across the grain of much conventional medical thinking. Despite this, or perhaps because of it, the book is worth reviewing. Dr. McDougall doesn’t mince words as he…

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Vitamin Concerns

A recent issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA: 9/18/2013) carried an important article that summarizes our current state of knowledge about vitamin and antioxidant supplements. This Cochrane review included evaluation of 78 randomized clinical trials involving 296,707 adults. Their average age was 63 and 46 percent…

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