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If you don't die from an accident, a serious infection or a cancer, you'll live as long as your arteries let you. And how long they let you is all in your hands. I know this sounds over-simplified, but it's biomedical knowledge in a nutshell. Lets look at what happens in and to y... Read more
Imagine traveling back in time and meeting your caveman ancestor of 10,000 years ago. Imagine telling him about what life is like today that, with the tap of a finger you turn darkness into light, a cold room into a warm one and a tube in the wall of your cave into a spring of ho... Read more
In South Africa, its HIVAIDS; but the commonest ailment in China is diabetes. According to the BBC, China faces a diabetes epidemic, what with almost one in 10 adults having the disease, while more cases remain undiagnosed. Given Chinas huge population, this means that there are ... Read more
So, what's your excuse for not exercising enough, for smoking, for not watching your diet, for getting fatter every year, and therefore having high blood pressure, and too much glucose and cholesterol in your bloodThat's what the American Heart Association has been telling you fo... Read more
Who says that exercise is medicine For one, the American College of Sports Medicine ACSM of which I'm a professional member. Then, how can I say it isn't Let's look first at the conventional view of the benefits of exercise. There is a large and increasing amount of evidence whic... Read more
Learn to be a skepticWhy you cannot believe what you read about medical studies. In my last blog post I promised to tell you why you shouldn't trust any study results, particularly when you didn't read the study yourself. It has to do with the methods of biomedical research. To m... Read more
When humble supplements meet ultra cool nano-technology. I'm going to continue where I left off in my previous post With the questionDoes nano-encapsulation improve the effect of multi-vitamin multi-mineral supplements When I was confronted with this question my immediate reactio... Read more
Are fat people just lazy Or is it in their genes Let's look at an unlikely place for the answer an AA meeting. If you get up and say "My name is Jane, and I'm not really an alcoholic, I don't drink that much..." they throw you out. They welcome you back, once you say &q... Read more
The non-sense of vitamin supplementationAlmost one in two American adults is a regular user of vitamin and mineral supplements, either in the form of single- or multivitaminmineral formulations MVMS. It all adds up to a market of US 9 Billion annually, or one third of the total U... Read more
Does red meat kill you Only in a vegetarian's dream Red meat is the favorite enemy of nutritionists nowadays. Their studies and publications are often ab-used by those evangelical vegetarian types who would love to impose their no-meat religion on the rest of us. Don't buy it. No... Read more
Dr. Robert Wascher
Surgery, Surgical Oncology
Surgery, Surgical Oncology
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