Mention the word arsenic and our thoughts immediately turn to poison. But there other interesting connections as well. Arsenic rarely is found in nature in its elemental state, it is found as part...
Magical Mystery Cures" with Bob McDonald on "Doc Zone," the excellent CBC program looked at the 'anti-aging" industry. We were treated to a spectacular array of quacks outdoing each other with...
Wood burning stoves are a health hazard. Period. Not debatable. To understand, we first have to examine what combustion is all about. When cellulose and lignin, the major components of wood, burn...
Remember when it wasn鈥檛 hard to determine if someone had been into the pistachio bowl? They鈥檇 be caught red-handed! That鈥檚 because until artificially coloured foods became a pariah, pistachio nuts,...
It鈥檚 hard for us here in North America to believe that gold is killing hundreds of children in Nigeria. Well, it isn鈥檛 exactly the gold that is killing them, it is the lead oxide and lead carbonate...
William Beaumont was an army doctor stationed at Fort Mackinac in Michigan in 1822 when an accident occurred that allowed him to make the first systematic study of the process of digestion. Alexis...
