#8: Acupuncture. There were originally 360 acupuncture points (based on the number of days of the year rather than on anatomy). Currently more than 2,000 acupuncture points have been ‘discovered,’ leading one wag to comment that there was no skin left that was not an acupuncture point. There were either 9, 10 or 11 meridians–take [...]

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#7: What to Eat: Food. Not Too Much. Mostly Plants. “Organic” has become a meaningless buzzword; I flinch when I see it on a label: it inclines me not to buy that product. What we really want is sustainable agriculture that does minimal damage to the environment and produces food that is nutritious, tastes good, [...]

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#6: Homeopathy: Still Crazy After All These Years: Homeopathy was invented by Samuel Hahnemann in the late 1700s. It is based on the now-outdated principle that “like cures like”, and the more dilute the dose the better in homeopathy. How dilute? Serious dilution, as in comparable to one drop diluted in all the water on [...]

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