OPIOIDS: Have You Heard About the North American Wimp Epidemic?
How do people in other countries handle pain following various surgical procedures? It’s a pertinent question today in light of the debate on opioid usage …
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Got Migraines? Check out this Natural Treatment
Migraine attacks have plagued humankind for centuries and they are still a major cause of disability worldwide. During a recent reunion at the Harvard …
Fighting Obesity with a Talking Scale?!
Are readers tired of me telling them that they should step on the scale every day? No one has said, “Enough is enough!” Besides, tons …
The Mediterranean Diet – The Key To a Long Life?
Leonardo da Vinci once remarked, “Trifles make perfection and perfection is no trifle.” Trifles can make a huge difference in surgery, when building rockets, in …
HEART HEALTH: How “GAADD” Is Slowly Killing North Americans
A wise sage once remarked, “It’s not things you don’t know that gets you into trouble, it’s the things you know for sure that ain’t …
Heroin for Opioid Addicts, None for Cancer Patients
Where is the common sense and compassion in this country for cancer patients who suffer in agony? I write this because drug addicts, who largely …
Over the Edge: An Experience I‘ll Never Forget
Why would anyone in their 94th year, without consulting a psychiatrist, agree to descend from the top of Toronto’s City Hall on a rope? My …
CONSTIPATION – A Bigger Problem Than You Think…
You think constipation isn’t important? If so, an article in the American Journal of Gastroenterology suggests you’d better think again. Annually, in the U.S., 700,000 …
Why Would God Have Made Wine So Good?
Why do I like Cardinal Amand Richelieu? I’m not an expert theologian. But I remember the Cardinal was a leading character in The Three Musketeers, …
What you NEED TO KNOW About BALDNESS AND HEART ATTACKS
A Czech proverb says, “A good man grows gray and a rascal bald”. And Thomas Dekker wrote in “The Gull’s Hornbook” in 1609, “How ugly …