Archive for April, 2008

Diet determines gender? Read on…

As some of you may know, I get all of my worldly news from the Yahoo! front page. If it’s not on there I might not know about it….
Having said that I woke up this morning and found the following title, “Mother’s diet can help determine sex of child: study”
I have been saying for years that there is a trend towards female babies but my friends and fellow doctors thought I was crazy. This study looked at 740 women in Britain who did not know the sex of their unborn baby and asked them details about their [...]

Plastic – Potentially Toxic?

The federal National Toxicology Program said Tuesday that experiments on rats found precancerous tumors, urinary tract problems and early puberty when the animals were fed or injected with low doses of the plastics chemical bisphenol A.
This is something that environment groups have known for years…but what is it?
Bisphenol A is a chemical found in shatter-proof hard plastics such as baby bottles, storage containers, water bottles, food containers…etc. The idea is that it is an “endocrine disruptor” in that it mimics the actions of estrogen.
Eek! The world does not need more estrogen! Our kids do not need more estrogen!
According [...]

Vitamin D – Much More than a Sunny Day!

Did you know that Vitamin D is really a super powered steroid hormone with multiple functions in your body beyond correcting rickets disease?
Did you know that even if you stand outside in the sun chances are you don’t absorb very much because you’re wearing sunglasses and SPF sunblock which limits Vitamin D from entering your body?
Did you know common symptoms of vitamin D deficiency are muscular weakness, feeling of heaviness in the legs, chronic musculoskeletal pain, easy tiring, fatigue, and low mood in the darker/dreary seasons?
Did you know that optimal levels of Vitamin D ‘may’ help with some cancers, the [...]