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An area of science is an ecosystem in the sense that research builds on other research. In an ordinary ecosystem the animals and plants need each other. Different organisms add different things. Their contributions...
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A company called Michael Foods has recalled more than one million hard-boiled eggs because of possible contamination with Listeria monocytogenes. These especially nasty bacteria grow happily at refrigerator...
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A reader named Murray Love made a comment about Vitamin D3 and sleep that at least sounds negative: As a counterpoint [to this post], I’ve been taking 4-5,000 IU of D3 for a couple of months now and...
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This morning, Walmart announced a new FOP labeling program: The logo will go on Walmart’s in-house brand products that meet the company’s nutritional criteria. These criteria are sim ilar...
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At the recent Fancy Food Show in San Francisco, the most impressive product I encountered was a honey wine vinegar made by Slide Ridge Honey, a small family business in northern Utah. I interviewed th e...
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Over the past few days, a number of people have sent me a video of the push-up competition that went down on the daytime show, Ellen, between the show’s host and the first lady, Michelle Obama.
Although...
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On the occasion of the two-year anniversary of Michelle Obama’s Let’s Move! campaign, it’s time to reflect again on what the campaign means for the White House, for childhood obesity and...
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A reader named Tim G commented: Blood tests last year [2011] showed I had low Vitamin D levels so I was put on a 50,000 IU once/week regimen for 3 months using a prescription D2 (ergocalciferol). A re check...
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So many comments came in to my blog post on Paula Deen’s diabetes announcement, “weighing in on Paula Deen,” that I thought it was worth revisiting in my monthly (first Sunday) column...
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Jenny West, the Englishwoman who discovered independently the value of taking Vitamin D3 in the morning, wrote again: Since reading some of the other D3 stories, I increased my D3 [morning] dosage to 5000...
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