Posted by Ben: We’ve got more news out of the world of modern medicine today. This time, instead of a reversal on prescription drug efficacy (as with the Zetia and Vytorin study released earlier this week), we seem to have a reversal on one of the most common cancer screening methods: mammograms. Nearly everyone has or will be touched by...
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Posted by Ben: In case you missed the headlines this morning on all the national news shows, a new study was released today that basically called out Merck’s Zetia and Vytorin cholesterol-lowering drugs. According to the researchers who conducted the study, these two prescription drugs don’t work...at least not as well as Niacin, a good ol’ natural B vitamin. This...
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Posted by Raena Morgan: The on-going research in the field of healthy dieting and weight loss is exciting to say the least. It turns out that the fruit of the hot chili pepper, known as capsicum, can stimulate thermogenesis—stoke your metabolism in other words. Who would have thought? I know peppers make you sweat, but I had no idea they...
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Posted by Ben: I knew the E-cloth was a great product (full disclosure: I have five of them). But I had no idea that this latest giveaway would generate the most response and the most comments we’ve ever seen on our Facebook Fan Page. We had over 100 comments posted...and most of you were very excited and intrigued by the...
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Posted by Ben: Finally, we may be able to do away with all those nasty stereotypes about bad drivers. According to some recent research, being a bad driver may have nothing to do with age, race, gender or any other social distinction. Rather, your skills behind the wheel might actually be set at birth. In a small study, researchers found...
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Posted by Ben: Finally, we may be able to do away with all those nasty stereotypes about bad drivers. According to some recent research, being a bad driver may have nothing to do with age, race, gender or any other social distinction. Rather, your skills behind the wheel might actually be set at birth. In a small study, researchers found...
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Posted by Ben: A 2006 study conducted by researchers at the University of California, Berkeley, and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory looked at the potential health risks involved with common house hold cleaners. What they discovered was less than comforting: the bottles of cleaners most of us use to clean our kitchen, bathrooms, bedrooms, etc. may actually be hazardous to our...
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Posted by Ben: A 2006 study conducted by researchers at the University of California, Berkeley, and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory looked at the potential health risks involved with common house hold cleaners. What they discovered was less than comforting: the bottles of cleaners most of us use to clean our kitchen, bathrooms, bedrooms, etc. may actually be hazardous to our...
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Posted by Ben: Yes, Halloween is now over, but the sugar high is still soaring for many. We here at Swanson Vitamins celebrated in style last Friday with a company-wide costume contest, complete with prizes! I failed miserably with coming up with a costume, so I did not participate. Now that I think of it, nobody in my department dressed...
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Posted by Ben: Yes, Halloween is now over, but the sugar high is still soaring for many. We here at Swanson Vitamins celebrated in style last Friday with a company-wide costume contest, complete with prizes! I failed miserably with coming up with a costume, so I did not participate. Now that I think of it, nobody in my department dressed...
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