Public Health

Would You Change The Way You Wee To Save The World?

The critical links between water, sanitation, and our global consumption of energy – the “ energy-water nexus ” are more obvious than ever before. But how many of us will take direct action at the most basic level of all? It turns out that the way we use ...

Article - The Conversation - Dec 12 2019 - 8:10am

Operation Vapor Lock: DEA Cracks Down On 44 Websites Advertising Illicit THC Vaping Cartridges

The CDC has updated its fatality and illness list due to illicit marijuana vaping. Now there have been 54 deaths and 2,506 hospitalizations. The culprit is Vitamin E acetate, needed to make marijuana tetrahydrocannabinol (THC)products into a vapor because, ...

Article - News Staff - Dec 20 2019 - 12:55pm

Diet Influences Sperm Motility After Two Weeks- Especially High Sugar

Sperm quality can be reduced by several lifestyle factors, like obesity and related diseases such as type 2 diabetes, but a new examination of epigenetic phenomena- gene expression changing even if the DNA sequence is not changed-  finds that even diet can ...

Article - News Staff - Dec 27 2019 - 11:33am

Study Says Transcendental Meditation Reduces Congestive Heart Failure

A meditation technique promoted by the controversial Maharishi organization of Iowa claims significant decreases the severity of congestive heart failure in a small pilot study published in Ethnicity&Disease (Winter 2007). The authors from the Universi ...

Article - News Staff - Dec 30 2019 - 9:49am

Oregon Makes Goat Yoga Into A Thing

On the American Council on Science and Health Facebook page, you just never know what you are going to find, but if you had told me I would find goat yoga I'd have made...goat noises at you. Yet there it is, courtesy of the state of Oregon, the place ...

Blog Post - Hank Campbell - Jan 7 2020 - 12:01pm

Defensive Medicine And Kids: Millions Of Children Get Unnecessary Treatment

With health insurance costs having gone up for many Americans by 300 percent since the implementation of the Affordable Care Act, there is concern about ways to contain costs. No one is willing to contain costs when it comes to children, a new study shows. ...

Article - News Staff - Jan 7 2020 - 1:11pm

Is Perrier Bad For Your Teeth?

For many people, the start of a year is a time for new health resolutions – be it eat more vegetables, consume less sugar or drink more water. Keeping hydrated is essential for body functions such as temperature regulation, transporting nutrients and remo ...

Article - The Conversation - Jan 8 2020 - 7:00am

'Processed' Food Causes Obesity It Says, But The Paper Ignores Obvious Confounders

In a Current Treatment Options in Gastroenterology review, a nutritionist and a gastroenterologist claim that "ultra-processed" food causes obesity. If you are not familiar with ultra-processed food, that is a new-ish designation, an arbitrary me ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Jan 10 2020 - 11:56am

Skepticism Warranted Regarding New Study Suggesting Link Between Chemical Exposures And IQ Loss

Earlier today, Dr. Leonardo Trasande and colleagues from New York University (NYU) published yet another in a series of economic studies which they interpret to indicate that low level general population exposures to some brominated flame retardants (PBDE ...

Article - Gregory Bond - Jan 14 2020 - 10:44am

Be Wary Of Probiotic Health Claims In Media- That Means Be Wary Of Health Journalism

There is no question that our microbiome is important to health, but just like science behind mitochondrial function inside cells set off an antioxidant craze in the 1970s, all of the applied health claims about probiotics in the 2000s are nonsense. If you ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Jan 15 2020 - 5:12pm