THS reader Roselle sent in this question:
Is vitamin/mineral supplementation truly beneficial before & during pregnancy for women with a healthy diet?
The first thing I'd like to emphasize is the importance of this question. Adequate maternal nutrition prior to conception and during pregnancy can protect the baby from diabetes, stroke, heart disease, kidney disease and memory loss later in life.
Intuitively, most mothers know that what they eat will have a significant impact on the developing fetus. ...
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THS reader Chad sent in this question:
Antidepressants - effective or placebo?
The use of antidepressant medication has become so widespread and commonly accepted that it seems almost sacrilegious to question it. But alas, questioning is the name of the game here at The Healthy Skeptic!
And what do you know? Antidepressants aren't all they're cracked up to be. In fact, a recent meta-review of published studies on the efficacy of antidepressant drugs revealed that selective serotonin ...
The popular perception that the U.S. has the highest quality of medical care in the world has been proven entirely false by several public heath studies and reports over the past few years.
The prestigious Journal of the American Medical Association published a study by Dr. Barbara Starfield, a medical doctor with a Master's degree in Public Health, in 2000 which revealed the extremely poor performance of the United States health care system when compared to other ...
The Healthy Skeptic reader Jessica wrote in with this topic suggestion:
“I like the “what to feed children” idea. But it has to be food they will actually EAT.”
The question of how to nourish our children so they develop into healthy adults is one of the most important questions we can ask. Tragically, the answers that the medical mainstream has come up with have contributed to unprecedented epidemics of childhood disease and endangered the health and ...
I'd like introduce a new feature here at The Healthy Skeptic. Once a month (or so) I'll invite you to submit any questions you have or topics you'd like to see addressed on the blog. I'll keep a list of your requests and add them into the mix of content I have planned for the coming month.
Wondering whether saturated fat and cholesterol actually cause heart disease? Not sure what to feed your kids ...
There's no doubt that optimal nutrition plays a significant role in supporting our health and well-being. But nutrition, as important as it is, obviously isn't the only factor that influences our physiology.
Over the past several years, an increasing amount of research has focused on the role of emotions, behavior and beliefs in contributing to both health and disease. In fact, an entirely new discipline called "psychoneuroimmunology" (say that three times fast!) has emerged to ...
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