If you’re a label reader, you may have taken comfort in the word “natural” that sometimes appears next to “flavoring.” It's time to think twice. Some of what falls into that category is hydrolized vegetable protein, which also sounds innocuous but from some...
Celilo Health Category Archive: chronic disease
untangling autism
Autism is in the news this week after the top-flight medical journal, The Lancet, retracted a pivotal research paper linking autism to vaccine preservative thimerosal. That study has been unsupported by subsequent research and epidemiology, and recently the study's...
fish as brain food
You've always heard that fish is brain food. Now, a growing body of research is supporting that contention. One study published in the February 2010 edition of the Archives of General Psychiatry found that fish-oil supplements high in omega-3 fatty acids warded off...