Added dietary sugar contributes to heart disease, cancer, metabolic syndrome, type 2 diabetes, and arthritis…

  The huge quantity of  added sugar which we in the United States consume is now known to contribute to heart disease,  cancer, and metabolic syndrome and type 2 diabetes, not to mention premature wear and tear in joints which were  simply never designed to bare the burden of an overweight body. Researchers have demonstrated [...]

Complex Back Surgeries Skyrocket, Raising Concerns About Cost, Complications

NPR: “Too many complex back surgeries are being done and people are suffering as a result, according to a study in the current issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association. The general tendency noted in the study — that many patients and doctors think more medical care is always better — has implications [...]

Low Back Bone Spurs Linked to Diet, Smoking & Alcohol

A new study titled, “The effect of beta-carotene on lumbar osteophyte formation”, links low blood levels of carotenoids with low back (lumbar) bone spurs (osteophytes). The Japanese study, published in the December 2011 of Spine, found that 48 of 286 elderly individuals had lumbar ostephytes. Lumbar osteophyte formation was most common in males with a history of [...]