“ Young, Fun and Alcohol Free,” from the Sunday March 17 Tribune. Alcohol is a toxin and any drink because others do, but being alcohol free is a definite health benefit. Whatever anti-oxidant value it may have, can be gotten from grape juice without the alcohol.
A recent study looked at whether exercise that raises your heartrate to high levels, and does so for prolonged periods, for example 8 hours per week, resulted in increased risk of death or adverse health events.
In an article you can read here a top orthopedic surgeon describes how the number of knee replacements more than doubled in the first decade of the 2000s, far outstripping population growth. While total knee replacements are an amazing breakthrough for people with disabling knee pain I too have seen how they have become often recommended to patients without severe arthritis where other alternatives could have been tried but were never recommended.
Dr. Phill recently wrote a great article about how we all take too many pills and how this is significantly caused by doctors under pressure to produce assembly line medicine. Basically it is quicker to prescribe pills than talk to patients about lifestyle.
New Study: Daily Aspirin No Longer Recommended to Prevent Heart Attacks: new study shows that the risks of bleeding from aspirin, even baby aspirin - outweigh any possible lowered risk of heart attacks or stroke for most people…
