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Colorectal Cancer in Younger Adults: What’s Behind the Uptick?

16 Apr 2026

It was a shock to learn that actor Chadwick Boseman had died. The rising star who played Black Panther in the Marvel Cinematic Universe was 43 when colorectal cancer took his life in August 2020....

You Can’t Beat Beets!

2 Apr 2026

It doesn’t matter how good a video or an article is if you can’t get people to watch or read it. That’s why a lot of thought goes into coming up with a catchy title that grabs attention. In this...

A Simple Calculation to Determine the Quality of Your Diet

26 Mar 2026

For about 300,000 years homo sapiens has been eating just about everything that seemed edible. Plants, grains, fruits as well as parts of any creature that walks, flies, swims or crawls has...

HIV/AIDS Denialism Is Back, Courtesy of Joe Rogan

19 Mar 2026

Joe Rogan, the most influential podcaster globally, is an HIV-AIDS denialist. Imagine the backlash if the six o’clock news were espousing this decades-old, harmful pseudoscience front and centre.

You Are What You Eat

19 Mar 2026

“You are what you eat” is a widely quoted aphorism, expressing the general truth that nutrition and health are intimately linked. It is generally said to derive from the phrase “tell me what you...

The Frivolous Costco Chicken Lawsuit

4 Feb 2026

Talk about a frivolous lawsuit! These two ladies claim that they have been misled by the information on the label of Costco’s famous rotisserie chicken that states “no preservatives.” Why? Because...

“Food Preservative Linked to Cancer,” Shrieked Many a Headline

22 Jan 2026

It isn’t surprising that a paper published in the prestigious British Medical Journal linking food preservatives to cancer roused much media attention. After all, preservatives in food are not rare...

Are Levitating Trains a Health Hazard?

12 Dec 2025

For anyone who flies into Shanghai Pudong International Airport, it’s a rite-of-passage to take the Maglev -- short for magnetic levitation -- train into the city. The railway is as much a tourist...

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