Our relationship with aging can remain as a loving friendship throughout our lives when we understand that it’s a cumulative experience that provides us with an ever-changing variety of psychological and spiritual gifts –– if we are open to anticipating and accepting them.
Surprising Dangers of Vitamins and Supplements
That’s the banner headline across the cover of the September, 2012 issue of Consumer Reports. The subtitle is “How To Protect Your Family.”
Here’s the link if you want to see the full report. The parts that resonated with me are summarized b…
The Over-Medication of Us, the Elderly
Over the past months, several themes keep recurring on my blog. One repeated topic is the key way that diet and exercise affect our health and well-being. Another – and the focus of today’s post – is the potential harm that often results f…
Warning on Supplements from Best-Selling "The End of Illness" Author
Earlier this month, a series of pieces about dietary supplements on this blog ended with a post reviewing the lack of evidence supporting their use. We hear this concern more and more these days. For example, I just finished reading…
SUPPLEMENTS: Do I Need a Daily Aspirin and Multivitamin?
Note: Here’s a slogan I’ve come to believe: “there are no coincidences.” I’ve been looking forward to doing this series of posts on our increasing use of dietary supplements. I wrote the post below as the second in the series on Thursday morn…
