Since I began my journey to persuade people to avoid salt in their food, people have often pushed back because of Dr. Oz’s position on salt. “Dr. Oz doesn’t think salt is such a bad thing,” they have told me. “ Dr. Oz uses salt,...

Following are the horrifying highlights of the report from the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) report released on February 7, 2013 and available online. Nine out of ten Americans do not follow recommended guidelines for salt intake. As a result, excess salt intake...

Media reports in the recent times may have you believing that if you drink enough coffee you don’t have to be concerned about eating fruits and vegetables. After all coffee has the same antioxidants that prevent cancer and heart disease as fruit and vegetables...

In a recent Pharmacy Times article, Charles H. Brown, professor emeritus of clinical pharmacy at Purdue University, makes a compelling argument against the value of vitamins and supplements. Antioxidant pills, often sold in combination with vitamins, are among the...

It is all over the news. A blockbuster report published in the February 11, 2013 issue of the medical journal Hypertension is widely quoted as saying that a 40 percent reduction in salt consumption from current levels could save up to 500,000 lives in America. This...

A press release issued by the Association for Psychological Science on April 21, 2011 with the above title is very much in line with my own observations about the unhealthy dietary habits of people who take vitamin pills.  I have often caught my friends and...

In the January 9th online version of Open Biology, a journal of Great Britain's Royal Society, geneticist and Nobel Prize winner Dr. James Watson is quoted as warning that antioxidants may cause and promote cancer growth rather than curing it. The problem seems to...

“I have tried everything to quit smoking” cries Jennifer (not her real name) from a wheelchair after complaining of severe pain in the left foot. “I have tried pills, patches, acupuncture and hypnotherapy, you name it. I have tried them all; many...

There is really no short cut to eating a balanced diet. You cannot get the all the necessary nutrients any other way. Unfortunately, too many people don’t seem to make the effort. Instead they resort to vitamins and supplements expecting these pills to fill the...

A while back, I wrote a blog post about the connection of high blood pressure and salt during the early years. The health prospects of children who are fed too much salt is scary enough. Now a new study presented at an American Heart Association’s scientific...