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Articles from Past Newsletters

A
23andMe and Us
Acid-Alkaline Thing, The
Actually Preventing Diabetes
Acupuncture and Hay Fever
Acupuncture as Good as Drugs
Adherence. Compliance. And Rubies.
Alternative, Holistic, Complementary...
And the Award For Today's Stupidest
   Word Goes To...
Another Clinical Pearl Regarding
  Nutritional Supplements
Another Way to Quit Prescription Meds
Arguing About Alzheimer's
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
Beyond Opioids
Blah Blah Blah "Evidence" -- Whatever
A Boring Essay on Moderation
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
Child's Primer of Drug Testing, A
​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
Common Medications Cause
   Dementia. Who Knew?
​Confused? Here, Let Me Fix It.
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
Diet for the Plague Year, A
Distraction of Precision Medicine, The
​Do Your Doctor's Job
Dodging the Bullet-Proof Coffee
Don't Think This Isn't a War
​Don't Try This At Home
Double Mastectomies and Helpless
   Surgeons
Drug Interactions
Drugs, Lifestyle, and Insomenia

E
End of the Year (2017) Quiz!
​End of the Year (2018) Quiz!
​End of the Year (2019) Quiz!
​End of the Year (2020) Quiz!
Energy and the Southern Woman
Epidural Steroid Injections
Evidence Based Medicine

F
Fast or Slow Weight Loss?
Fasting
Fat Patient, Bad Doctor
​A Few Good Things for Colds
A Few More Things for Colds
Fiber Is So Great
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
Getting to Sleep -- and Staying There
​Guinea Pig? Or Master of the Universe?
Gut Bacteria and Probiotics

H
Hay Fever
Health and Disease. Aging and
  Death. Huzzah!
​Health, Disease and Magic
Healthy Chocolate
Helpful Supplements for Stress, More
Herb-Drug Interactions
Holiday Stress? Bah, Humbug.
​Horror Movies and Healthy Living
​Hospitals Are Bad For You.
​  Really. Bad.
​How Irregular
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
​Immune System Boosters ... 
​  Nah, Just Kidding
​Immunity, Health, and 
​  Chinese Medicine
Incredible Edible Cricket, The
Inflammation -- Medium Scary
Insomenia
Insomnia
Intolerating Food
Introduction
Is it Echinacea, or Stinkweed, in that
  Bottle of Herbal Medicine?
​Is It Cancer, Or... Fava Beans???!!!
​Is That Health Testimonial Bogus?
​It's Not Good For You -- Yet

J-L
Keeping Weight Off -- A Final Word
Last Bit on Elimination Diets, The
Latest Medical Propaganda
​Leave Well Enough Alone
​Let Water Be Water, Not Something
   Else Gross
​Liars Figuring
Lifestyle and the Axis of Evil
Love/Hate, Doctor/Patient/Internet
Lower Your Cholesterol -- If You Must
Lowering A Stupidly High Medical Bill
​Lowering a Stupidly High Medical Bill:
​   Replay
​
M
Magic of Ginseng, The. LOL.
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​
"Medical Reversal" -- It Sounds So
   Innocent...
​Medicines, Herbal and Beyond
MERS
More Exercise? Less Exercise?
More on Food Intoleration
More on Short Exercise Sessions
More on the Energy Thing
Most Easily Preventable Cause of 
    Death, The
Multivitamins
Mystery of High Blood Pressure, The



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N
Nature Sounds
Newsletter Delivery Problems
Newsletter You've Been Waiting
  For, The
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
​Overeating: 'Tis the Season. Again.
​
P
Passion of the Wannabe Superhero,
   The
Patient Satisfaction
People Who Want to Stay Sick
​Pills, And Better Than Pills
Placebo Effect, The
Practicing Evidence Based Medicine
Predisease. Otherwise Known as
   "Health"
Preventing Alzheimer's Disease
Preventing Opioid Addiction with this
   One Weird Trick

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

S
Safe Food
​Safety Tips for the American Holidays
​Save Your Money -- Again
​Scrutinizing Health Testimonials
Searching for the Cure to Life
​Second, What You Can Do Instead of
   Taking Statins
​Seeing Outside the Mental Box
Self Care/Heat or Cold? - part 1
Self Care/Using Heat and Cold - part 2
Selfies and Other High-Risk Activities
Selling Halloween DEATH
Sing a Song For Aspirin
Sleep Deprivation
Snacks versus Treats
​Sneaky Health Fallacies
​Sneaky Health Fallacies, part 2
Sneaky Health Fallacies --
   The Last One
​So Now Fruit Is Bad For You Too?
​So They Want You To Have Surgery!
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 -- Actually Dealing With It
Stress Eating
Stress is Bad, M'Kay. But Why?
Stress Relief, Stage One
Stupid Weight Watchers' Magazine
    Article
Sugary Drinks
Supplements that Lower Cholesterol
Surviving the Holiday Food Onslaught

T
Take Care Of Yourself. Or Not.
Take With Food -- Or Maybe Not
Tennessee Wining
That Stuff You Rub On Yourself
This One Weird Trick Can
   Dramatically Lower Your Stress Level
Three Great Remedies...
​To Supplement, or Not to Supplement
Tobacco Science

U-V
Unnecessary Medical Tests
Up Your Nose With A... um ...
   Neti Pot
Using Aspirin and its Colleagues
Vegetarian Diets
Vitamin D

W-Z
Water, Drinking It
The Way to Handle Stress
We've All Heard What They Say
   About Stretching
​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 is Your Body Yelling About Now?
What Would Otzi Do?
​What's Riskier Than Weird? Ordinary.
When Not to Trust Science
When Your Own Food Turns On You
​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?"
Wisdom of the Crowd, The, Er
Worst Side Effect You Never
   Heard Of, The
Write Your Own Diet Book
​Year-End Pop Quiz!
​Yippee! A Drug Vacation!
You Could Die Sitting Right There
   In That Chair
​You're Better? Are Ya SURE?


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?"