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Cholesterol, Earlobes and Heart Disease "...doctors know that [DELC] is only one of a number of risk factors associated with heart disease. They know that an association does no prove causation and that focusing on one risk factor is unproductive and unlikely to yield much benefit."		The Owners Manual: Under the Hood with the Heart "Over a journey of 65 years or more, your heart can pump 95 million gallons of blood over more than 3 million miles of vascular highway!"
Update on John Pozzobon "...I just kept thinking of that guy who used to shovel it in like he was starving to death and that was a huge deterrent to stuffing myself."		The Myth of Magical Food "...Adding one item of magical food to your diet won't protect you from a breakdown..."
Road Food: Powerful Pemmican "In its simplest form, pemmican is nothing more than dried meat (jerky) mixed with animal fat. The result was a high-protein, high-fat, high-nutrition and high-energy food."		Weight Loss Phenomenon, John Pozzobon, Shares his Story "I believe that soda is the number one enemy that we have. It doesn't matter if it's regular or diet, it is the worst thing for you."
Calories In/Calories Out Takes Another Punch in the Gut "Have any of the following ever happened to you... You spend January through November struggling to loose 10 pounds, then gain it all back before Christmas."		The Fight for Consumer Food Rights Comes Full Circle "This is one story about one farmer and his fight with the state to preserve your choice about what you and your family eat."
The Terrible 10 Weight Loss Myths And The Real Truth "Thin does not automatically equal healthy... The conditions that lead up to obesity are underway long before you get fat."		Forty Days on the Farm: Reconnecting with Food at the Source "No doubt, passing motorists along the distant dirt road must have imagined something else---that the grim reaper had come to Enosburg Falls."
Real Food Makes a Real Difference with Asthma "I was diagnosed with mild, persistent asthma about 4 years ago."		The Naked Truth about America's Health "For a while, we could believe that our amazing technology, our wonder drugs and our good old-fashioned know-how were finally winning the war against illness and disease."
Is Emotional Eating Another Chicken and Egg Conundrum? "Is bingeing on Oreos the direct result of an emotionally distressing event that occurred five minutes ago, or the indirect symptom of a decade of poor food choices?"		The Problem With Universal Healthcare "The system is a labyrinth of bureaucratic red tape and mismanagement and seems wholly indifferent to the suffering of the sick..."
The NAIS: A Brave and Terrifying New World "If you walk your dog, take him to the vet, to the park or a friend's house, how would you feel if you knew you were under constant surveillance?"		The Viagra of Weight Loss "Users who consume too much fat while on the drug can expect a bowel-lapalooza of gastrointestinal side-effects."
Cholesterophobia, Prostate Cancer and Faith Based Science "This troubling faith-based approach to science encapsulated in the idea that belief in a half-baked hypothesis trumps scientific truth, has reached the level of an epidemic in drug research."		Eating Nature's Way "If we eat the way nature intended, we will automatically be rewarded with the slim body and good health we were meant to have."
Holy Honey Buns! "The days of home-cooked chicken, fresh vegetables from the backyard garden and bake-sale fundraisers have given way to the Sam's-Clubization of the house of worship."		The Cholesterol Conundrum "With the recent revelations concerning Vioxx... it has become clear that we can no longer blindly assume that a recommended pharmaceutical treatment is right for us."
DIYIC (Do It Yourself Ice Cream) "Piperonal makes an excellent replacement for vanilla. It's also an effective lice killer. Let's see, it's a dessert flavoring and a head lice treatment, all in one. How convenient.?"		The "New" Food Guide Pyramid "How, for example, are we to know that the color purple stands for meat and beans? Why the very thought of purple meat alone, makes a convincing case for vegetarianism."
Advice To Parents "I don't doubt that most people love their children dearly and would stand against an army of darkness in their defense, but then there's that troubling reluctance to read and understand what's in a box of cereal. Parents, what's going on?"		On Becoming a Cheesemonger "My heart sank at the thought of the years of abuse my palate has suffered under a siege of cheap cheese products--products that now seemed about as appealing as mark-down Halloween candy on New Years day."
As the World Churns "As an experienced second grader & I concluded that making butter, like addition and subtraction, was just another example of mindless busy work for which I would have little use later in life"		Advice From the Experts "SAD's most recent health report, "Sugar: Are We Getting Enough?" advocates adding sugar to the drinking water supply. They claim it'll encourage kids to drink more water and help them get over their soda addiction."
The Wonder of Coconut "A very short list of some of the health problems noted in Eat Fat, Lose Fat, that may be ameliorated by adding healthy fats to one's diet include chronic fatigue, low energy, anxiety, food cravings, thyroid problems, depression and mood swings (tell me about it)."		The Milk Paradox "Why is it, that in America it's easier to buy drugs, guns and political favors than it is to buy a gallon of raw milk?"
The Milk Wars, Part II "If raw milk is a health hazard, why does Virginia law allow farmers to consume raw milk from their own animals and even give it away? Does selling it somehow make it dangerous? By this logic, if cigarettes were given away rather than sold, would they suddenly become healthy?"		The Suburban Frontier "Kombucha is a drink popular in the Ural mountains of Russia. It is said to have beneficial properties that assist the immune system and tastes like -- well... kombucha... "It's The Real, Real Thing."
Demonizing Dietary Fat "We have expanded the market for obesity and diabetes treatments and found more ways to die from cancer. Wasn't the low fat, high carbohydrate movement supposed to spare us the very outcome we find ourselves faced with?"		Of Bread and Money "We are awash in a steady supply of low cost consumables, many of them laced with sugar, partially hydrogenated oils and soy-based people chow that encourage the manufacture and consumption of calorie rich nutritionally poor synthetic foods."
The Trouble With Soy "Not since Jack traded the family cow for a handful of magic beans has there been a more masterful sales job perpetrated on unsuspecting consumers."