The Big Con: Prescription Drug Advertising in the US Prescription drug advertising is big business. Really big. So much so that the pharmacy industry currently spends over $4 billion a year to push the sales directly to the consuming public. And this investment works well too. Slick marketing vignettes that accentuate the attractiveness of their…
Sports Drinks are a booming business! Such popularity with the buying public, it is no wonder that these sports supplements continue to be touted as fantastic enhancements to a person’s exercise efforts. Yet the darker side to this industry is that the true efficacy of sports drinks is questionable. Artificial colors, unnecessarily high sugar content…
It’s time to drop Body Mass Index (BMI) from our conversations about what makes a healthy body. If for no other reason than it is too wrong too much of the time. The problem with BMI is that it is much like using a scale to tell us if we are Healthy. Five pounds of…
We had our fun, didn’t we? Fun food, fun drink, and a general disregard for all of those healthy choices we had been making leading up to the season of… well… FUN! Welcome to the no-guilt part of having a healthy lifestyle. You can’t change the past so chalk it up to experience. It is…
If you’re reading this… Congratulations, you’re alive. If that’s not something to smile about, then I don’t know what is. ― Chad Sugg, Monsters Under Your Head
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