USA Today reports that a group referring to themselves as doctors wants NASCAR fans to stop eating hot dogs and race to a vegan diet.
The 9/11 cancer report is not the only sound-science publication whose results have been met with knee-jerk dismissal. Another landmark federal study described by renowned endocrinologist Dr. Richard Sharpe as majestically scientific has found that the actual human exposure to bisphenol A (BPA), even from a BPA-rich diet, is exceedingly small.
ACSH staffers were surprised to read a New York Times piece reporting federal officials conclusion that there is not enough evidence to link cancer to the dust and smoke originating from the World Trade Center attacks of September 11th.
Bowing to government scrutiny and public concerns fueled by advocacy groups, McDonald s took steps today to make children s Happy Meals happier by boosting nutritional content while reducing calorie and sodium content. "Fast foods have long been the easy bull s-eye of the current obesity epidemic," notes ACSH's Dr. Gilbert Ross, and we have long advocated that fast food should not be demonized as bad food, and indeed can be incorporated into a balanced diet.
Two recent studies offer a strong incentive for patients at risk of a heart attack to quit smoking and keep taking their daily dose of aspirin. An Italian study, led by Dr. Furio Colivicchi of San Filippo Neri Hospital in Rome and just published in the American Journal of Cardiology, found that the resumption of smoking after a heart attack can raise a patient s risk of dying as much as five-fold.
Two studies published in the Archives of Internal Medicine demonstrate that cardiovascular exercise may not only help skim inches off your waistline, but it may also stave off the onset of cognitive decline as you age. Led by Dr.
As health care costs steadily rise, some people try to cut corners by splitting pills or holding on to certain medications past their expiration date but are such practices safe? An article in yesterday s Los Angeles Times provides readers with some guidance to these questions and offers useful tips that may help save some money at the pharmacy.
We at ACSH are happy to promote Dr. Arthur s Caplan s recent Lancet article on the importance of mandating flu vaccines for health care workers. As Dr.
We were disappointed to see media coverage of what amounts to the non-results of a poorly executed study that was, somehow, published in the American Journal of Public Health. A team of researchers from eight different universities found that, in states banning the sale of bad food at school concession stands, daily soda consumption has dropped by twice as much among black students as among all students.
The New York Times Mark Bittman is in favor of taxing soda. He s also in favor of taxing French fries. And doughnuts. And all hyperprocessed snacks. In his halcyon vision, the resulting funds would be channeled into programs that make healthful foods affordable and accessible to all. This, Bittman says, would solve the nation s high rates of obesity, heart disease, and cancer.
