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When Friends Ask:
Where Do You Get Your Calcium?
One of the first questions
concerned family and friends ask when they learn you have
become vegan and now avoid all animal products, including
dairy products is, “Where do you get your calcium?” Begin
your dialog with them by assuming that the questioners have
sincere interests in expanding their knowledge about good
nutrition—rather than just them trying to prove your diet is
deficient, and to justify their daily eating of Ben and
Jerry’s Homemade Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough Ice Cream and
French brie ripened to perfection
with a bottle of deliciously dry white wine.
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Disease Mongering:
New Women’s Guidelines for Heart Disease
The
2007 Guidelines for
Preventing Cardiovascular Disease in Women were published
February 20, 2007 in a special women's health issue of
Circulation: Journal of the American Heart Association.1
According to this report as
many women as men have heart disease and most women have
risk factors that predict they are at high risk of a future
cardiovascular tragedy. Regardless of the noble intentions
of the American Heart Association and of the individual
authors, one undeniable effect of these guidelines will be
to bring more women into the heart disease businesses and
will result in increased sales of medications and heart
surgery.
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Report on February 2007
Advanced Study Weekend
The most recent advanced study
weekend, held February 2 to 4, 2007, was an outstanding
success with more than 100 people enjoying each other’s
company, the fabulous food and the nation’s top speakers on
health. Our keynote speaker, John Abramson, MD gave three
outstanding lectures on the pharmaceutical industry, and how
to defend yourself, as a patient. The audience could not
get enough of his presentations, keeping him well beyond his
allotted time. I should also mention how much Dr. Abramson
appreciated his warmly receptive audience—he became more relaxed
and willing to passionately express himself as his
interaction with them continued throughout the weekend.
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