Published December 29, 2014

Does a vegetarian diet make you
more susceptible to knee pain?

One of the most common problems in people over 50 years old is osteoarthritis of the knee. I'll bet close to 20% of all my readers are dealing with achy knees. There are a lot of factors that determine who is going to have problems in their knees and who won't. One of them is very definitely vitamin D. And the interesting thing is that it takes only a little vitamin D to make a big difference.

 

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Published December 26, 2014

Is this the greatest medical
scandal of all time?

Not long ago a doctor who couldn't take it any more blew the whistle on what he calls the greatest medical scandal of all time.

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Published December 24, 2014

Antioxidants can protect your hearing -
but here's how to make them work even better

Nobody wants to lose their hearing. But simply not wanting to lose your hearing doesn't stop it from happening. And it's extremely common. Roughly 30% of people over the age of 60 have some degree of hearing loss. Is their hearing going to get better as they get older? No. Just like everything else, it is only going to get worse with age. And here's the thing. Although there is nothing that you can do to regain your age-related hearing loss, there are ways to prevent it.

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