Nutrition Health Review

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Articles in Fall, 1990 issue of Nutrition Health Review

• Antibiotics and diarrhea - spore growth results from antibiotic use
• To reduce blood sugar, delay food absorption
• Postural hypotension in the elderly - low blood pressure and dizziness may lead to falling and broken bones
• Smoking can affect hormone levels - women who smoke have an earlier menopause
• Colon cancer hidden by appendicitis symptoms
• The hazards of macrobiotics - macrobiotic diet and vitamin deficiency
  by Valerie Richards
• A triumphant army? - Iraqi troops eating animals at Kuwait zoo
• Alternative medicine also has its abundance of unethical sharks, charlatans and quacks - includes related articles on quackery and advertising, dental fillings, acupuncture and growth hormone treatments for aging
  by William Renaurd, Jr.
• High doses of niacin can cause liver damage
• Some tea and wine may cause cancer - tannin, found in tea and red wine, linked to esophageal cancer
• Crash diets cause gallstones
• Women more overweight than men
• The Cancer Industry. - book reviews
• You Just Don't Understand. - book reviews
• Hypertension and skin color - Blacks prone to high blood pressure
• Deadly Blessings: Faith-Healing on Trial. - book reviews
• Myths about aging denied
• Dermatitis linked to preservative in moisturizers - Kathon CG found to be cause of cosmetic allergy
• Study: gargling no help for laryngitis
• Parasite infections on the rise - intestinal protozoal parasite infections
• Coffee drinking and sexual desire - prostate cancer, bicycle riding and sexual interest, vaginal spotting, penile implants, diet and fertility, spontaneous orgasm - The Doctor's Casebook - column
  by Edwin Flatto
• The return of electroshock - treatment for depression
• Examining Holistic Medicine. - book reviews
• Aspirin warnings stressed
• Tagamet patients should beware of tyramine - drug interferes with normal liver elimination of tyramine
• Ultrasonic humidifiers linked to pneumonitis
• Laxative use becoming serious problem
• False despair - alternative cancer therapies vs. chemotherapy - column
  by Ralph W. Moss
• The Compassionate Beast: The Humane Side of Humankind. - book reviews
• The Faith Healers. - book reviews
• More surgeons advocate autologous transfusions
• Younger generation grazers, not diners
• Sea salt no better than regular salt - both are sodium chloride
• Slowing down may be inevitable, but good health need not be affected
• Sexuality in older women
  by Edith Kermit Roosevelt
• Overcoming Bladder Disorders. - book reviews