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Straight, No Chaser: Treatment of Food Poisoning
The vomiting, diarrhea, fever, abdominal cramps and all around bad feelings you may get with food poisoning is extremely unpleasant. We’ve previously discussed preventative meas
Straight, No Chaser: Understanding Food Poisoning (Foodborne Illness)
We make a decision with everything we place into our mouths. We also exhibit a large amount of trust that the food we eat is safe. Most of the time that’s true, but unfortunately
Straight, No Chaser: Food Contamination and Protecting Yourself From Foodborne Illness
Those of you who are regular readers of Straight, No Chaser may have heard me say that everything you place in your mouth either harms or helps you. Your mouth is the direct poin
Straight No Chaser: Gluten, Wheat and Celiac Disease
One of the reasons I enjoy writing this blog is it brings me closer to understanding you. As you respond to posts or query me, I get to better appreciate the breadth of your conce
Straight, No Chaser: Genetically Engineered Foods (GMOs) – Frankenfoods or Public Health Innovation?
Have you ever bred an animal, say a dog? Have you ever taken a vitamin or supplement? Of course you have, so let’s start the conversation there. Imagine you live in a world with
Straight, No Chaser: Prevention and Treatment of Food Allergies
Whether or not you personally have a food allergy, it is likely you will find yourself in a situation with someone who does. Food allergies affect approximately 15 million American
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Straight, No Chaser: Food Allergies
This week’s Straight, No Chaser posts will focus on your food. Today, we begin with food allergies, which sound like a cruel trick or something out of a horror movie, but un
Straight, No Chaser: Halloween Health Tips
Are you taking the young ones trick-or-treating this year? Straight, No Chaserand the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) want you to have a safe halloween. Today an
Straight, No Chaser In The News: Your Questions About Processed Meats Causing Cancer
Perhaps this news will be filed under things you already know, think you know, or know but don’t care enough for it to change your lifestyle (we are a bacon-loving nation), b
Straight, No Chaser: Beeting Back High Blood Pressure and Poor Blood Flow to the Brain
Writing this makes me feel like your mother telling you to eat your spinach, but that’s another conversation. We’ve been talking a lot lately about brain health, and we’re al
Straight, No Chaser In The News: Omega-3 Supplements Do Not Protect Against Dementia
Today’s Straight, No Chaser continues our ongoing conversation about your health not being found in a (supplement) bottle. In the news is new research reaffirming that taking ome
Straight, No Chaser Reader Request: What’s a Healthy Approach to Gaining Weight?
If you are even an occasional reader of Straight, No Chaser, you likely never thought you’d see the day when promoting weight gain was the topic of discussion. However, there are
Straight, No Chaser: Your Guide to Fighting Childhood Obesity (Works for Adults, Too!)
Would you start your child on a fad diet? Of course not. Combating obesity means consistently applying principles that bear fruit (and include fruits over time). So you have an ove
Straight, No Chaser: Childhood Obesity
Here’s the thing. Adults have control over and choices about how to live their lives. In the overwhelming majority of cases, children do not. Yet, in the overwhelming majorit
Straight, No Chaser: Healthy Eating Tips
If you want to eat healthy, you really must learn about and try to eat in accordance with the Healthy Eating Plate. It doesn’t get more complicated that that, and you shouldn’
Straight, No Chaser Vlog: Fiber and Weight Loss
In case you missed it in the hoopla of the launch of www.jeffreysterlingbooks.com and Behind the Curtain: A Peek at Life from within the ER, the Straight, No Chaser vlog (video blo
Straight, No Chaser: Superfoods – The Battle of Antioxidants and Free Radicals
People engage in a lot of fads and off the wall activity to pursue health instead of following tried and true principles of basic science. One thing that I wish didn’t fit t
Straight, No Chaser: What Do You Know About Your Drinking Water?
If I asked you what public health innovation was responsible for saving the most lives over the last century, you likely might think that antibiotics or perhaps immunizations wo
Straight, No Chaser: Treating Your Gas and Gas Pains
So… you have problems with gas. What are you to do? Well, given that gas production is a natural occurrence, it’s not like you’re going to eliminate having gas (no pun intend
Straight, No Chaser: Constipation (Part 2)
You had so many questions about constipation, it was too hard to get everything out in one sitting (or was that setting)… This Straight, No Chaser addresses treatment conside
