Published December 9, 2010

Is the new “corn sugar” good for you?

I recently read an article in USA Today entitled “Corn syrup producers want sweeter name: Corn sugar.” After reading the article, I had to wonder if the corn syrup industry paid for the article. It’s definitely biased toward convincing the reader that corn syrup is identical to cane sugar. But is it?

According to the article, “whether it’s corn sugar or cane sugar, your body can’t tell the difference. Sugar is sugar.” The article even quotes Michael Jacobson, executive director of the Center for Science in the Public Interest, as saying, “Sugar and high fructose corn syrup are nutritionally the same and there’s no evidence that the sweetener is any worse for the body than sugar.” Both of these statements are false for two reasons.

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Published December 8, 2010

Reduce osteoarthritis pain by 20% in just 60 days

Do you have osteoarthritis in your knee? If so, researchers from Iran may have discovered a wonderful breakthrough for this debilitating condition.

These researchers thought that the flavonoids of the passion fruit peel might help with the inflammation in osteoarthritis of the knee. They were right!

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Published December 3, 2010

Vitamin D warnings: Ignore them

I’m sure you’ve read the news and heard the reports on vitamin D. The prestigious Institute of Medicine just upped their vitamin D recommendation from a mere 400 IU per day to a still-paltry 600 IU per day. And they didn’t stop there.

They claim most people get enough vitamin D each day. They say no one should take more than 4,000 IU each day. And they say that vitamin D testing is like “the wild, wild West.”

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