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Don’t Throw the Baby Out With the Hydrogenated Bathwater

23 Feb 2024

This article was first published in the Montreal Gazette. “Congratulations! You have in your hands one of the best available tools to increase your health and vitality.”

No, Chocolate Isn’t Good for You. Sorry

16 Feb 2024

This article was first published in the Montreal Gazette....

Chicken Soup's Label As 'Jewish Penicillin' Is More Whimsy Than Fact

26 Jan 2024

This article was first published in the Montreal Gazette. “As the Good Book says, when a poor man eats a chicken, one of them is sick.”

The Vitamin D Puzzle

24 Jan 2024

Walk into any pharmacy or health food store and you will see shelves filled with vitamin D supplements. Then stroll over to a bookstore and you will find all sort of books touting the wonders of...

Mindfulness Meditation Often Fails the Scientific Test

19 Jan 2024

Mindfulness meditation is primed to save all of us from anxiety and depression, it would seem. It’s also big business: in 2015, this growing industry made nearly USD 1 billion. The money comes from...

Macropanic Over Nanoplastics?

11 Jan 2024

I keep teasing my analytical chemist colleagues that they are responsible for the anxiety that so many people have about chemicals invading their lives. Hardly a day goes by without some report of...

What is next in the evolution of GLP-1-based therapies for diabetes and obesity?

15 Dec 2023

The first glucagon-like peptide-1 (GLP-1)-based therapeutic was approved by Health Canada in 2011 for the treatment of hyperglycemia in patients with Type 2 diabetes. Little was it suspected at...

Wasabi-More than Just a Sushi Condiment?

14 Dec 2023

Wasabi, or “Japanese horseradish,” is a plant in the same family as broccoli, cabbage, mustard, Brussels sprouts, kale, cauliflower and regular horseradish. The common feature here is that these ...

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