The AMA has a policy about how and when a doctor should accept gifts from
drug companies which was reaffirmed:
  AMA rejects easing gift policy
  By LINDSEY TANNER, AP Medical Writer

The joke is on those whose theology doesn't allow them to go where the
evidence leads, otherwise being content to accept conspiracy of "them" as
the reason something exists.  My little bit of humor was to show that this
is a door swinging both ways.  If research should be ...

http://www.heartland.org/Article.cfm?artId=14988
"More than two-thirds of processed foods in American supermarkets
contain ingredients derived from gene-spliced organisms--mostly
high-fructose corn syrup from gene-spliced corn and derivatives of

I am new to this group.
As a gerontologist, I enjoy sharing my expertise in issues related
to aging with people throughout the world. In my research, I have
found that people with diabetes are often non compliant because they

I developed a kidney stone recently and let me tell you it really sucks.
Part of the prevention program is drinking water.  The urologist tells
me that I should dring one gallon a day!  That's 128 ounces, or eight of
those 16-oz sports bottles.  Yow.  How I am supposed to do this ...

If folk want it, industry will provide it:
http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2004-06/uof-urn060704.php

I'm looking for ideas for a nutritious low carb snack food as I do a lot of
travelling - thinking of wrapping salad i.e. tuna, chicken etc in Spirulina
seaweed - and preparing it 'sushi style' - checked the nutritional analysis
of spirulina and pretty amazed - loads of protein etc ...

Mother of all corrupt groups of researchers.
I haven't yet located the original research article from whence this
orgy of curruption came. If anyone can find it please post the url.
http://www.nccn.net/~wwithin/conflict.htm

Ann Rheum Dis 1989 May;48(5):382-8
Investigation of the anti-inflammatory properties of hydroxypyridinones.
Hewitt SD, Hider RC, Sarpong P, Morris CJ, Blake DR
Cancer Research Unit, University of York, Heslington.

OK, if I'm *going* to use a sweetener, and I don't like Stevia
or artificial sweeteners, what's the best thing to use?  Honey?
Anyone?  M9

I had thought that reverse-osmosis filtered water was more pure than even
distilled water. Now I read an article that said that RO water still retained
20 percent of the "hardness", esp dissolved calcium. That doesn't sound very
pure, to me. How pure is reverse osmosis water, I ...

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the potent antioxidative action of carboxyfullerene protects the nigrostriatal
dopaminergic system from iron-induced oxidative injury
<<snip>>

Br J Nutr. 2004 Jun;91(6):943-50.  Related Articles, Links  
Oxidative stress status in an institutionalised elderly group after the intake
of a phenolic-rich dessert.
Carmen Ramirez-Tortosa M, Garcia-Alonso J, Luisa Vidal-Guevara M, Quiles JL,

There was a question posed here about the wisdom of what amount of
selenium to consider.  This research suggests that too many antiox effects
of selenium may be a risk factor for diabetes:
http://www.news.cornell.edu/releases/June04/selenium.diabetes.ssl.html

I'm using a free online service which is supposed to be helping me
track my work-outs and my diet.  It seems pretty good, but I do want
to ask some questions to people who may know (by the way, the site I'm
using is www.freetrainers.com).