Doc Handal, M.D.
Don’t Be Faked Out By Food Labeling Tricks, Part II Trans Fat & Decaf
What you eat defines you or at least your health! This week I will share hidden trans fats in our foods. Despite deemed no longer safe to consume, it still is very much present in our food supply. Read how again we are faked out when it comes to trans fat and 'decaf'....
Don’t Be Faked Out By Food Labeling
Naturally, if you are anything like me you rely on the veracity and hence accuracy of food labeling. Is there truth in labeling? We know there isn't in advertising. Companies have discovered the right buzzword or phrase on the face of the product allows for a...
Astonishing Medical News – Mushrooms, HIV, Depression
Prostate Saving Ingredient - White Capped Mushrooms Recently found that prostate cancer cells mixed with white button mushroom extract suppressed androgen receptor activity The chemicals present in white button mushrooms may slow the progression of prostate cancer,...
Health Help for Consumers
A week does not go by without someone asking me what is the 'best vitamin C to get?' That question could end with calcium or zinc and the possibilities go on. Would it not be great if there was an FDA-type organization for over-the-counter (OTC) health products?...
Reckoning Pandemic or Endemic
The prevailing educated guess is that the pandemic will go endemic! Endemic means that there are always people who are infected, who pass the infection to somebody else and then recover. Only 2 ways a pandemic can end either go on to be endemic or virus is eradicated....