Health & Nutrition

Is It Safe to Consume Cannabis Edibles?

What do we need to know about the safety of marijuana edibles? You may recall from my video Smoking Marijuana vs. Using a Cannabis Vaporizer that smoking cannabis can create respiratory problems, so using a vaporizer is an alternative. What...
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Does the Science Say That Butter Is Really Back?

Are butter and other saturated fats bad for you or not? My video Friday Favorites: Is Butter Really Back? What the Science Says explores the uses and misuses of research on butter consumption and health. Time magazine famously exhorted people to “Eat Butter” and no doubt...
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Are Apricot Seeds an Alternative Cancer Cure?

If you choose alternative cancer treatments, do you live longer? In addition to conventional therapies, “does the use of alternative medicine predict survival from cancer?” Even if the alternative therapies themselves were useless, one might predict users would live longer...
Health & Nutrition

Lipstick Contaminated with Lead?

Dozens of lipsticks and lip glosses are put to the test. “Over the past years, using cosmetic products has increased worldwide at an alarming rate due to unending pursuit for individual beautification…” There’s nothing necessarily wrong with that unless cosmetic...
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Fiber: An Effective Anti-Inflammatory?

Most Americans get less than half the recommended minimum daily fiber intake, which is problematic as the benefits of fiber go way beyond bowel regularity. “Hippocrates, the father of western medicine, believed that all disease begins in the gut.” Of...

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