The Mountain Dew Mouse

A recent issue of Chemistry and Engineering News had a feature story about a man who filed a $50,000 lawsuit against Pepsi claiming that he found a dead – but fully intact – mouse in a can of Mountain Dew.[1]  He said he had gotten violently ill with the first sip before he discovered the mouse.…

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Vitamin K

I was asked a question on our Facebook page about vitamin K and bone health, and supplementation of such. While the original questioner has more experience in the nutrition field than many, I’ve elected to address the topic briefly here for the benefit of all our readers. Vitamin K is indeed essential in the diet…

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Take a Grain of Salt and Call Me in the Morning!

Why You Should Be Careful To Understand What The Media Is Reporting A very knowledgeable person wrote to me last week, saying “Did you know it’s now been shown that low levels of vitamin D cause short stature?” In other words, people who don’t have enough vitamin D don’t get as tall. She believed that…

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