Category: Nutrition Forum

The Breast Cancer Prevention Diet: The Powerful Foods, Supplements, and Drugs That Can Save Your Life – Review Jane Reinhardt-Martin The Breast Cancer Prevention Diet: The Powerful Foods, Supplements, and Drugs That Can Save Your Life by Bob Arnot, MD (New York: Little, Brown & Company, 1998), 258 pp., $24 hardback, ISBN 0-316-05114-4. Bob Arnot […]

Web Watch Stephen Barrett BEST Full-text versions of JAMA and all ten of the AMA’s specialty journals are accessible on-line, free of charge, at jama.ama-assn. org/. All issues since December 1998 are retrievable. The full text of Nutrition Perspectives, a quarterly newsletter published by the University of California Extension Division, is available at nutrition.ucdavis.edu/perspectives/ MEDLINEplus […]

Gilda’s Disease: Sharing Personal Experiences and a Medical Perspective on Ovarian Cancer. – book reviews Manfred Kroger Gilda’s Disease: Sharing Personal Experiences and a Medical Perspective on Ovarian Cancer by M. Steven Piver with Gene Wilder (Amherst, NY: Prometheus Books, 1996), 184 pp., $22.95 (hardback). Here are four books in one: (I) film star Gene […]

Cancer: Your Guide to Complementary Therapies, Alternative Techniques, Conventional Treatments Manfred Kroger A Dangerous Way Cancer: Your Guide to Complementary Therapies, Alternative Techniques, Conventional Treatments by Philip Baron (Rockport, MA: Element Books, Inc., 1998), 136 pp., $5.95 paperback, ISBN 1-85230-799-4. Another in the “Natural Way” series, this slender booklet steers the reader away from conventional […]

Update on Jeffrey Bland – dietary supplement supporter Jeffrey S. Bland, PhD, of Gig Harbor, Washington, has been one of the health-food industry’s most prolific interpreters of nutrition-related scientific developments. His interpretations consistently favor the use of supplements. A former chemistry professor, he has appeared frequently at trade shows, written and edited publications, produced audio- […]

Malpractice verdict – for incorrect uterine cancer care A jury in New York City has awarded $2.5 million in actual damages and $150,000 in punitive damages to a former patient of Nicholas Gonzales, MD. The woman testified that she had been diagnosed with an early stage of uterine cancer in 1991 and underwent a hysterectomy. […]

Juicing for fun and profit: taking a good thing too far Therese Walsh They say you can’t have too much of a good thing, but as many marketers are proving, you can make too much out of a good thing–if that thing is juicing. Juicing is the consumption of juices from raw fruits and vegetables. […]

The sour truth about apple cider vinegar – evaluation of therapeutic use Beth Fontenot Apple cider vinegar is an old folk remedy claimed to be beneficial in treating a long list of ailments. Proponents say that it can cure arthritis, guard against osteoporosis, lower blood pressure and cholesterol, prevent cancer, destroy infection, assist in digestion […]

The sour truth about apple cider vinegar – evaluation of therapeutic use Beth Fontenot Apple cider vinegar is an old folk remedy claimed to be beneficial in treating a long list of ailments. Proponents say that it can cure arthritis, guard against osteoporosis, lower blood pressure and cholesterol, prevent cancer, destroy infection, assist in digestion […]

The Gerson Diet and coffee enemas Saul Green The use of diets and coffee enemas to treat cancer is based on the teachings of Max Gerson, a German MD who practiced about 75 years ago when the biology of cancer was virtually unknown. He believed that cancer was a degenerative disease that developed when aerobic […]