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Tianeptine And Other Supplements Have Gotten An FDA Free Pass For 30 Years – It’s Time For That To End

Politics is about trade-offs. Perhaps a reason President Biden isn't better-regarded is because if Congress didn't give him what he wanted, he circumvents them with agencies he controls, such as OSHA with vaccine mandates, the CDC with rent control, and EPA to ban safe weedkillers and pesticides. He can take a page out of Presidents Clinton and Bush 43 on how to do better if he wins again this...

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What Does ChatGPT Say About Holiday Eating Health?

Data tools like ChatGPT, colloquially called Artificial Intelligence (if you think a fancy autocomplete is actual AI), have the promise to do a lot of good. There are some concerns about human content 'creators' being replaced but we don't miss the 150,000 fewer bank tellers we had before the rise of ATMs and a lot of writing done by humans is pretty generic.read...

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Murder, Chemicals In Organic Food – Two Ways Thanksgiving Is Hazardous To Your Health

It's that time of year when activists, academics, and social media mavens hoping for media coverage begin to promote worry about Thanksgiving. Some risks are real, even if relatively slight; a lot more people driving mean more accidents and if you have a family member who is an International Agency for Research on Cancer epidemiologist, they will ignore the greater amount of driving and just...

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Is Flossing A Waste Of Time?

Like the CDC manufacturing a prediabetes epidemic and pregnant women getting a scarlet letter if they have a glass of wine while pregnant, flossing seems to be a distinctly American phenomenon. Are we right? The British are famous for bad teeth, for example, and fiscal conservatives will say that's because dental care is not free under their socialized medicine. They must not floss, right?Well,...

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Harvard – Meat Causes Diabetes! Science – Harvard, Please Stick To Anti-Semitism

Harvard University, and its anti-science allies like The Guardian(1) paper in England, are again claiming that meat causes diabetes.read...

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Halloween Science: The Sugar Rush Is Fake But The Sugar Crash Hits Hard

If you are a parent, or know a parent, you have had someone claim that if their kid eats sugar they get 'hyperactive' - that may happen, but only because a child has been told they get hyperactive and act that they, the same way if you tell a child rum cake has rum they may act drunk.Biologically, it doesn't work that way. Sugar can certainly help you if you are diabetic(1) and "anti-sugar...

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