Nearly 30 million U.S. adults have sleep apnea, say experts. Roughly 80 percent of them don’t know it. [AASM OSA indicator report] If you keep your bed partner up with your snoring, wake up gasping for air in the middle of the night, fall asleep while stopped at red lights, or wake up with morning headaches, you may be one of them.
When it comes to food and supplements, confusion abounds. One reason: Some ideas catch on and linger, despite iffy evidence or, worse yet, studies that prove them flat-out wrong. Here’s a handful of claims to doubt.
I’ve spent a good part of my career arguing that anti-obesity drugs like Meridia and fenphen have serious side effects, are not terribly effective, and should be taken off the market. Several have been.
