Newsletter Subject Index 2008-2009

January 2008

- For the Love of Grains

February 2008

- Intensive Therapy Means You Will Die Sooner with Good Looking Numbers

Cutting Food Costs in These Times of Economic Downturn
Favorite Five Articles from Recent Medical Journals
- - DIGOXIN IS BEST FOR ATRIAL FIBRILLATION
  - MAD COW PROTEINS DETECTED IN DAIRY PRODUCTS
  - DIET, FERTILITY AND BIRTH DEFECTS
  - ANTACIDS REDUCE VITAMIN B12
  - YOU CAN CONTROL YOUR FUTURE

- Four More Health and Medical Considerations for Your Financial Future
- Patients Commonly Receive Misinformation on Osteoporosis Treatments
- Readers’ Comments on Bill Clinton’s Madness

- International Year of the Potato, 2008
- Favorite Five Articles from Recent Medical Journals
  - Should You Drink 8 Glasses of Water Daily?
  - Animal Fat May Accelerate Prostate Cancer
  - Monitor Blood Pressure at Home Says the AHA
  - Eat Yourself Impotent
  - Vitamin Supplements May Increase Breast Cancer
- Further Discussions on the Use of Fosamax for Osteoporosis

- A Posthumous Interview by Tim Russert, Former Host of
  Meet the Press, with John McDougall, MD
- Report on the Celebrity Chef Weekend of June 27 to 29, 2008

- Overcoming Four Greatest Obstacles to Following the
  McDougall Diet
- Comments on My Posthumous Interview with Tim Russert

August 2008

- Salt: The Scapegoat for the Western Diet
- Highlights from the July 2008 Costa Rica Adventure Trip

September 2008

- Our President’s Personal Health Matters
- Report from the September 5 to 7, 2008 Advanced Study Weekend

October 2008

- The Organic Food Movement—Too Little, Too Late
- Comments on my September 2008 Newsletter Article: Our President’s Personal Health Matters

November 2008

- The First Imaginary Conversation between President-Elect Barack Obama and His Newly Appointed Surgeon General, John McDougall, MD
- Advertising Passed Off As Research Confuses the Public Study Published in New England Journal of Medicine Expands the Indications for Statins—and the Public Suffers
- More than 2000 people have viewed the 17 minute video about the 10-day McDougall Program in Santa Rosa, California

December 2008

The Fat Vegan
Favorite Five Articles from Recent Medical Journals:
- Undeniable Evidence: Diabetes Treatments Do More Harm Than Good
- Brain Impairment from the Atkins Diet
- Breast Cancers Spontaneously Disappear
- The Ancient Human Diet Is Starch-based Diet
- Benefits Prostate Cancer (Another Ornish Contribution)

January 2009

- The Multiple Sclerosis and Diet Saga—The End and a New
  Beginning
- A Personal Profile by Jeff Novick, Registered Dietitian at the McDougall Program

February 2009

- Introduction to New McDougall Book — The Starch Solution
- Report from the February 20-22, 2009  Advanced Study Weekend

- People Passionate About Starches Are Healthy and Beautiful
- Urgent: Support the Proposed New Law in California Requiring Doctors to Provide Patients with Information on Diabetes and Heart Disease
- Report on the February 2009 Costa Rica Trip

- Dr. McDougall, Why Do You Act That Way?
- Urgent: Support the Proposed New Law in California Requiring Doctors to Provide Patients with Information on Diabetes and Heart Disease. Part 2 – Diabetes

- A Starch-based Diet Supports Spontaneous Healing: Atherosclerosis, Arthritis, and Sometimes Cancer
- Preparing for Swine Flu and Other Animal-borne Infections

Real Healthcare Reform Has Health As the Primary Goal
Favorite Five Articles from Recent Medical Journals
- - Swine Flu Alert: Do Not Take Aspirin or Other NSAIDs
  - Red Yeast Rice Is an Alternative to Statins for Cholesterol-Lowering
  - Meat Kills People and Planet Earth
  - Fish Is Not Brain Food
  - A Vegan (No Milk) Diet Is Healthy for Bones

- Two Teaching Opportunities for Healthcare Reform in America: Sonia Sotomayor, US Supreme Court Judge; Regina Benjamin, MD, Surgeon General
- Vegetarian Diet “Weakens Bones”? (Worldwide headlines July 2, 2009)

August 2009

- Larry King Live on Prostate Cancer Screening (PSA)Show Sets a New Standard for Disease Mongering
- Report on the July 2009 Costa Rica Adventure

September 2009

It Is Better to Be Hated than Ignored—When Change Is the Goal
My Favorite Five from Recent Medical Journals
- - Profound Statements from the Former Editor of the Journal of the American Medical AssociationSeven Ways to Reduce Unnecessary Medical Costs — Right Now! by George Lundberg, MD
  - “No Treatment” IS Better for Prostate Cancer
  - Vegetarians Make Plenty of Essential Fats (DHA)
  - Cholesterol-lowering Statins Weaken Muscles and Cause Falls
  - Osteoporosis Drugs May Cause Esophageal Cancer

October 2009

- The American Cancer Society Reverses Its Strong Position on Mammograms and PSA Testing
- Report from the September 11 to 13, 2009 Advanced Study Weekend

November 2009

- Nuts Come in Hard Shells—for Reasons
- How I Treat Patients with Elevated Blood Pressure

December 2009

Pick a Category to Work on This Year—A New Years Resolution Based on Three Decades of Success
Simple Care for Diabetes
How A Bone Disease Grew To Fit The Prescription—by Alix Spiegel