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A Well-Established Balancing Act

18 Oct 2024

Some things can be classified with high acidity, like lemon juice, or low acidity, like bicarbonate. Acidity is often measured on a pH scale. This is because Danish chemist Søren Peter Lauritz...

The Windmills in Donald Trump's Mind

11 Oct 2024

This article was first published in The Montreal Gazette. The mind works in mysterious ways.

Processing Information About Processed Meat

8 Oct 2024

The International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC), an arm of the World Health Organization lists processed meats in its “Category 1,” reserved for substances known to cause cancer in humans....

We Are Exposed to Thousands and Thousands of Chemicals

4 Oct 2024

This article was first published in The Montreal Gazette. “Three thousand six hundred food packaging chemicals detected in human bodies: How reheating food is killing us.”

Bret Weinstein, Would-Be Galileo

27 Sep 2024

Galileo has many heirs. I don’t mean biological descendants; rather, some intellectuals see Galileo’s face in the mirror staring back at them. Freed from the shackles of academia (or simply kicked...

Your Hairdresser Will Heal You Now

20 Sep 2024

My hairdresser brings me to an isolated room. On the sparsely decorated walls, a framed drawing of the head meridians and a yin-yang symbol representing the Chinese body clock, in which different...

Real Gold or Fool’s Gold: The Controversies of Bee Pollen

20 Sep 2024

The earliest evidence of human consumption of bee products can be traced back to a painting from between 8000-5000 B.C. in Spain. The Greeks considered pollen to be the food of kings. There is a...

What Does a Health Canada Issued “Natural Product Number (NPN)” on a Supplement Mean?

18 Sep 2024

Prescription drug sales in Canada amount to roughly $50 billion a year. That’s a lot of money, but the $13 billion pulled in annually by the natural health products industry isn’t small potatoes...

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