The dangers of stopping prescribed meds before their time
Recently, two pieces of medical news grabbed our attention; both had to do with the importance of taking your meds as prescribed. The first was a study in BMJ Open. It found that 30 percent of folks who'd had an earlier stroke were not following their doctor's prescription for a schedule of...
How late-night snacks sabotage weight loss and brain power
The comic-strip character Garfield loved his midnight snack. That obsession was memorialized in a song from his 1982 TV special, "Here Comes Garfield": "Around midnight, when everybody else is sacking, he'll be snacking/Now does he regret it? Yes, he feels so very blue/And...
Tomatoes' powerful SPF
European aristocrats in the 1700s believed that they got sick from eating "poison apples" - their name for tomatoes! But, according to sources at the Smithsonian Institution, the fruit wasn't the culprit; it was the pewter dishes loaded with lead, on which they were served. The acidity in tomatoes leached the lead...