SCAM ALERT: Healthier Patriot Remedies

Healthier Patriot advertisements pop-up in various websites.   They often look like news sites, but they aren’t.  They are far worse than “fake news”; they are insidious scams.  Beware! Fraud is prevalent on the Internet.  Scattered through the Net are Web-based infoscams that overcharge or steal your money for “products” that don’t work or can be found for … Read more

The Scary Scoop Behind the Statin Controversy

If your doctor has or, in the future, prescribes statin drugs for you, we urge you to read further. First off, we are not doctors and hold no special expertise in medicine or, more specifically, the use of statins. Recent announcements regarding new guidelines for prescribing statin drugs raises some serious red flags about which … Read more

SCAM ALERT: PureFit Keto Diet Hoax Uncovered

If an ad for PureFit Keto supplements  pops up on during a browsing session, just close the page and move on.  This scam is yet another one of the weight loss pill schemes that proliferate on the Web.  Much like the abominable Keto Ultra Diet, this one claims claims that the supplement quickly throws the body … Read more

The Paleo-Pegan Diet Puzzle

Diets are like the tide:  they inexorably come and they go.   Like clothing fashions,  diets are a la mode.  A recent Google search turned up over 100 different fad diets that are regularly searched.  Here’s our quick low-down on the  low-fat,  l0w-protein, low-carb, low-calorie, low-meat , high-hormone, low-salt, grapefruit/acai/lemon/cabbage/juice/banana/cookie/vinegar, low-glycemic, Hollywood-ized conundrum that Americans face: … Read more

COOL TIP: Intermittent Fasting Intrigue

Intermittent fasting is a form of calorie restriction that has been recently popularized by a number of diets:  5:2 Diet,  The Fast Diet, Leangains,  Eat Stop Eat, The Warrior Diet, Alternate-Day Diet, among many.   All of these diets share a common method of cycling between a period of fasting and non-fasting.   And the fasting isn’t … Read more