By Cathie Dunal, MD, MPH: The media’s most recent — and unsubstantiated — medical claim comes from the Iowa Health Study in an article in the Annals of Internal Medicine: researchers state that mortality rates increase in older women who take daily multivitamin and mineral supplements. This claim has circled throughout the major media carriers, […]

What is “preventive”?  Whole-person, common-sense, logical, proactive.  And not always in line with our established, maladaptive-but-comfortable habits. What is “chronic illness”?  For one thing, expensive.  Chronic medical conditions need constant maintenance so they don’t spin out of control.  This usually means medication in our healthcare world, or a restricted diet, or ongoing consumption of therapies […]