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Articles from Past Newsletters

A
Actually Preventing Diabetes
Acupuncture and Hay Fever
Acupuncture as Good as Drugs
Adherence. Compliance. And Rubies.
Alternative, Holistic, Complementary...
Another Way to Quit Prescription Meds
Artificial Sweeteners - Bad and Not-So-
   Bad
Artificial Sweeteners
Avoiding GMOs
Avoiding Malpractice

B
Baby Kits and Infant Mortality
Be Not Afraid
Beating Back Arthritis Pain
Best Exercise Ever for Lower Back Pain,      The
Blah Blah Blah "Evidence" -- Whatever
Brain Food
​Brilliant, Boring Health
But Are Herbs Any Better? 

C
Can Food Really Be Addictive?
Can We Get Enough Nutrients From Food Alone? 
Catching Up on Lost Sleep
Chinese Herbs
Chocolate Update
Choosing the Best Treatment - part 1
Choosing the Best Treatment - part 2
Choosing the Best Treatment - part 3
Coenzyme Q10
Coffee is Good For You
Conspiracy Theories and Medical Harm
Controlling Blood Sugar - Or Not
Corn Pone and Coca-Cola

D
Dealing With Chronic Pain
Diet and Acid Reflux
Diet and Probiotics for Gut Bacteria
Distraction of Precision Medicine, The
​Do Your Doctor's Job
Dodging the Bullet-Proof Coffee
Don't Think This Isn't a War
Double Mastectomies and Helpless
   Surgeons
Drug Interactions

E
Epidural Steroid Injections
Evidence Based Medicine

F
Fast or Slow Weight Loss?
Fasting
A Few Good Things for Colds
A Few More Things for Colds
Figures that Lie -- and Liars that
   Figure
Finding Your Personal Best Chocolate
First, the Part About Cholesterol
​  and Heart Disease
Folk Medicine
Foodborne Illness
Forgot the Apple
Four Only-Slightly-Boring Rules
   for Good Health

G
Gut Bacteria and Probiotics

H
Hay Fever
Healthy Chocolate
Helpful Supplements for Stress, More
Herb-Drug Interactions
How Not to Regain Weight
How Not to Regain Weight --
   Techniques
How Old IS Acupuncture?
Human Growth Hormone

I
"I Carry All My Tension In My
   Shoulders"
I Stand Corrected
"I'm Afraid of the Needles"
I'm Not the Only One Who Has
​   Noticed This
Incredible Edible Cricket, The
Inflammation -- Medium Scary
Insomnia
Intolerating Food
Introduction
Is it Echinacea, or Stinkweed, in that
  Bottle of Herbal Medicine?

J-L
Keeping Weight Off -- A Final Word
Last Bit on Elimination Diets, The
Latest Medical Propaganda
Lifestyle and the Axis of Evil
Love/Hate, Doctor/Patient/Internet
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M
Meat, Fish and Chicken -- and Fats, 
   Fats, Fats
Meat, Fish and Chicken -- Further
   Skinny on Fats
Medical Insurance Tricks
Medical Mafia
Medical Malpractice and You
Medicines, Herbal and Beyond
MERS
More Exercise? Less Exercise?
More on Food Intoleration
More on Short Exercise Sessions
Most Easily Preventable Cause of 
    Death, The
Multivitamins
Mystery of High Blood Pressure, The

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N
Nature Sounds
Newsletter Delivery Problems
Niacin
Not Really Chocolate
Not So Brilliant Disguise, A
Note on Stevia, A
Nutrition Labels Made Easy

O
Obesity, Antibiotics and Acupuncture
Of Elvis and Twinkies
Old -- Older -- Oldest
One-Minute Exercise
Orange Goggles for Insomnia?
Osteoarthritis - part 1
Osteoarthritis - part 2
Our Own Biases
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P
Passion of the Wannabe Superhero,
   The
Patient Satisfaction
People Who Want to Stay Sick
Placebo Effect, The
Practicing Evidence Based Medicine
Preventing Alzheimer's Disease

Q-R
Quest to Question Questionable Care, 
    The
Questioning Statins 
Questioning Statins - part two
Rolling Down That Old Dementia
   Highway

S
Safe Food
​Second, What You Can Do Instead of
   Taking Statins
Self Care/Heat or Cold? - part 1
Self Care/Using Heat and Cold - part 2
Selfies and Other High-Risk Activities
Sleep Deprivation
Snacks versus Treats
Some Apologies to Whole Foods Market
Some Remedies for Stress
St. John's Wort - A Hero's Journey
Still Doing Your Doctor's Job
Stop Scratching
Story of DOS, The
Strengthening Immunity
Stress Eating
Stress is Bad, M'Kay. But Why?
Stress Relief, Stage One
Stupid Weight Watchers' Magazine
    Article
Sugary Drinks
Surviving the Holiday Food Onslaught

T
Tennessee Wining
This One Weird Trick Can
   Dramatically Lower Your Stress Level
Three Great Remedies...
Tobacco Science

U-V
Unnecessary Medical Tests
Vegetarian Diets
Vitamin D

W-Z
Water, Drinking It
The Way to Handle Stress
​What Are We Supposed to be Eating
    Now?
What Happened to Antioxidants?
​What I Am Trying to Sell You
What is Really Killing Us?
What Would Otzi Do?
When Not to Trust Science
White People Problems
Who Doesn't Love a Good Cleanse?
Why Does It Take More than One 
   Adjustment?
Why He Hopes to Die at 75
Why I Don't Do Sports Medicine
Why Stress is a Big Deal
Why Your Pastor is Wrong About
   Acupuncture
"Will I Need to Keep Coming Back?"
Write Your Own Diet Book
​Year-End Pop Quiz!


General Topics

Chinese/East Asian Medicine
"I'm Afraid of the Needles"
When Someone Is In The Hospital
"Will I Need to Keep Coming Back?"