Link Between Multivitamins and Asthma

Recent research show a link between infant multivitamin use and asthma.

Researchers do not understand the reason for the link, but I have some thoughts....Mutlivitamins generally don't have any appreciable magnesium because it requires too much space to fit inside the pill or tablet. So they just leave the magnesium out. Yet this leaves the multivitamins with little or no magnesium, yet chalk-full of magnesium antagonists like iron and B vitamins. Since asthma in many people has been linked to a magnesium deficiency, this study makes a lot of sense to me. I stopped giving my kids multivitamins years ago when they were having health issues associated with magensium deficiency and other readers of my CTDS site have reported similar issues with their children.

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Failings of Modern Medicine

Click here to read Death by Medicine

An interesting and well referenced article on the failings of modern health care in the U.S. and the conflicts of interest in health resarch. Written by By Gary Null, PhD; Carolyn Dean MD, ND; Martin Feldman, MD; Debora Rasio, MD; and Dorothy Smith, PhD.

Do you think you are safe and in good hands when you enter a hospital these days? If so, this article may change your mind by citing the number of deaths and injuries caused by "modern" medical care.

Benefits of Honey

I think it pays to be skeptical of what a lot of nutrition authors write about, especially when they don't have any studies to back up their claims. In many of my health books the authors warn people to avoid both honey and sugar and claim that neither one has any health benefits. Recent research shows this may not be true. Study subject who ate honey everyday were found to have higher levels of antioxidants.

Honey may have sweet health benefits

In folk and traditional medicine, honey is often used as a tonic and antibiotic.

Mad Cow Disease: There are other things to worry about

Some food for thought about health issue and real versus perceived risks -

I've been reading a lot about the risks of mad cow disease lately, and it seems like it is more of a media event that a true risk. How many people have actually died from mad cow disease compared to the number of people who have died from smoking? Oddly, there are bans on beef imports from countries where mad cow disease has been found, yet have these same countries banned the importation of cigarettes?

The media distorts the real risks of many condition by over publicizing relatively rare events and under publicizing common event that are so common they are not newsworthy.

Medical Errors Can Be Deadly

The Food and Drug Administration today proposed a new format for prescription drug labeling that will help reduce medical errors, which according to the National Academy of Sciences may be responsible for as many as 98,000 U.S. deaths annually.

98,000 deaths a year from medical errors - that statistic sure makes a statement. I think it pays to be cautious whenever one receives medical care. I've gotten vastly different opinions just by seeing differnt doctors for the same medical condition.