IMPORTANT! This is NOT medical Advice Your oral surgeon will give you printed instructions following your surgery. Read those thoroughly and follow them to the letter. Ignore anything and everything in this survival guide that may be contradictory to your surgeon’s instructions.  Get Ready, Set ... This survival guide is designed to help you pull together (and... Continue Reading →

This article by: Athalie Redwood-Brown, Nottingham Trent University and Jen Wilson, Nottingham Trent University is reprinted printed by permission of The Conversation. We have fact-checked and accessed the web links in this article and find that they meet scientific standards. Over-imbibing is never a good idea, but "stuff" happens to many of us. Fortunately, a... Continue Reading →

3 to 5 weeks. According to the USDA: "Eggs may be refrigerated three to five weeks from the day they are placed in the refrigerator. The "Sell-By" date will usually expire during that length of time, but the eggs will be perfectly safe to use. Always purchase eggs before the "Sell-By" or Exp (expiration) date on... Continue Reading →

Sous vide (French for "under vacuum"), refers to cooking food in a vacuum-sealed plastic bag immersed in hot water. It is favored by a diverse group of loyal adherents despite peer-reviewed research indicating that heating a plastic can accelerate the leaching of harmful environmental chemicals. It's important to know that peer-reviewed studies about the potential... Continue Reading →

This paper from the British Medical Journal defines commercial bread as a highly processed food: Consumption of ultra-processed foods and cancer risk: results from NutriNet-Santé prospective cohort. What's more, supermarket bread and pastries come wrapped in plastic, their  ingredients processed, bagged and shipped to bakeries in plastic containers where they are measured, transported, mixed and... Continue Reading →

Most people are aware that that Bisphenol A  leaches into canned foods. That, according to more than 19,000 scientific studies. The same danger holds for very similar compounds BPF and BPS (known as regrettable substitutions). Unfortunately, the same bisphenol problem (along with other plastic contaminants such as phthalates) holds true for other food containers, especially... Continue Reading →

Promotions for the Teaze loose tea infuser touts itself as using  "BPA free" and "medical grade Tritan" which ignores the fact that published scientific tests (see below) of Tritan have found that it leaches an artificial estrogen in the same manner as Bisphenol A. This practice is known as a "regrettable substitution" and is the... Continue Reading →

By Lewis Perdue -- A 52-year-old man checked into an Orlando, Florida hospital suffering from severe migraines he said not been helped by previous therapy. According to a published paper, subsequent blood work and imaging revealed that --  instead of a migraine -- his brain had been infected by larval cysts from the pork tapeworm... Continue Reading →

By Lewis Perdue WHAT The recent government recall of lead-contaminated cinnamon by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has raised the uncomfortable fact that ground spices are frequently contaminated by all sorts of contaminants -- including microplastics -- during harvest, processing, and packaging. Equally concerning is the fact that spices are legally allowed to... Continue Reading →

By Lewis Perdue Cinnamon’s tasty tang can bring an enjoyable and healthy taste to your menu. But to get the best benefits (and avoid a few negatives), you should choose your cinnamon carefully. This is because there are two types Cassia and Ceylon and they have some significant differences in both taste and health effects.... Continue Reading →