Newsletter Subject Index 2008-2009

• For the Love of Grains

February 2008

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

March 2008

• 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

April 2008

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

May 2008

• 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

June 2008

• 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

July 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)

• 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

March 2009

• 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

April 2009

• 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

May 2009

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

June 2009

• 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

July 2009

• 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 Association

    Seven 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