Are Organic Foods Safer or Healthier Than Conventional Alternatives?: A Systematic Review. From Veterans Affairs Palo Alto Health Care System, Palo Alto, California; Division of General Medical Disciplines and Lane Medical Library, Stanford School of Medicine, Stanford, California; and Center for Health Policy/Center for Primary Care Outcomes Research, Department of Management Science & Engineering, and Department of Statistics, Stanford University, Stanford, California.
Note: As the corresponding author and guarantor of the manuscript, Crystal Smith-Spangler, MD, MS, takes full responsibility for the work as a whole, including the study design, access to data, and decision to submit the manuscript for publication. Acknowledgment: The authors thank the staff of DocXpress at Lane Medical Library for document retrieval. Financial Support: Ms. Pearson was supported by a Stanford Undergraduate Research Grant.
Potential Conflicts of Interest: None disclosed. Current Author Addresses: Dr. Dr. Ms. Dr. Mr. Dr. Insurer: Hey, these climate-related disasters are getting expensive. There is no industry less enthusiastic about climate change than the insurance industry.
The Truth About Small Business - UP /w Chris Hayes 10-07-12 (Part I) Small Business and Job Creation: Dissecting the Myth and Reassessing theFacts. NBER Working Paper No. 4492Issued in October 1993NBER Program(s): EFG LS This paper investigates how job creation and destruction behavior varies by employer size in the U.S. manufacturing sector during the period 1972 to 1988.
The paper also evaluates the empirical basis for conventional claims about the job-creating prowess of small businesses. WSJ: Solar a “Mortal Threat” to Utilities. Three weeks ago, I had my 5 minutes at a local “listening session” on energy, put on by the Governor of my fair state.
My main message was that a technological sea change is coming in energy production – and if regulatory and utility policy do not anticipate the further build out of wind, solar, and distributed energy, the transition is going to be ugly. Traditional energy producers who think they can hold back the tide will be like typewriter makers trying to bad-mouth word processors. They are going to go away. I had coffee last week with a well-informed friend, who agreed with me that this is an oncoming freight train. Glossary of Mathematical Mistakes. By Paul Cox This is a list of mathematical mistakes made over and over by advertisers, the media, reporters, politicians, activists, and in general many non-math people. These come from many sources, which will appear in parenthesis. I will try to find an actual example of each for learning purposes.
Note: In this document, I attack errors made by popular social organizations. Boost Your Immune System? This post is a wee bit of a cheat in that it is a rewrite of a Quackcast, but I have three lectures and board certification in the near future, so sometimes you have to cook the wolf.
Cigarettes may be useful for distance runners?!? (or, How to prove anything with a review article) Hello there!
If you enjoy the content on Obesity Panacea, consider subscribing for future posts via email or RSS feed. Also, don't forget to like us on Facebook! (Image source) Last winter the Canadian Medical Association Journal published a fascinating article by Ken Myers discussing the (as-yet unexamined) benefits of cigarette smoking on endurance running performance. Top 10 Myths About The Common Cold. Health Winter is on its way (to the Northern Hemisphere) and with it comes myths of the common cold.
We all grow up with a variety of beliefs about the common cold that often differ from home to home, but the fact is, most of them are wrong. With this list we will help to educate everyone about the myths relating to the cold and flu and hopefully help us to be better prepared to cope with it in future. Special Features: Myths of the Common Cold. 1.
Approximately 25% of people who get a cold virus infection do not develop symptoms and yet they get over the infection as well as people who do have symptoms (5, 72, also see How Virus Infection Occurs). 2. The nose can only respond to irritative events such as a cold virus infection or dust or pollen entering the nose in a limited number of ways. Sneezing and nasal secretions are useful in removing dust and pollen from the nose but do not eliminate cold viruses since the virus is multiplying inside the nasal cells where it is safe. Myths of immunity. How Yoga Can Wreck Your Body. The Death of “Near Death”: Even If Heaven Is Real, You Aren’t Seeing It. Fibonacci Flim-Flam. The Fibonacci Series Leonardo of Pisa (~1170-1250), also known as Fibonacci, wrote books of problems in mathematics, but is best known by laypersons for the sequence of numbers that carries his name: This sequence is constructed by choosing the first two numbers (the "seeds" of the sequence) then assigning the rest by the rule that each number be the sum of the two preceding numbers.
This simple rule generates a sequence of numbers having many surprising properties, of which we list but a few: