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| 48adf52 | In 1999, Emily Rosa published her paper in the Journal of the American Medical Association. It was titled "A Close Look at Therapeutic Touch." Unlike Mehmet Oz, Rosa wasn't a cardiovascular surgeon. In fact, she had never graduated from medical school. Or college. Or high school. Or elementary school. When it came time to write her paper, she had asked her mother, a nurse, to help. That's because Emily was only nine years old. Her experimen.. | Paul A. Offit | ||
| 6c641e4 | LINUS PAULING WAS WRONG about megavitamins because he had made two fundamental errors. First, he had assumed that you cannot have too much of a good thing. Vitamins are critical to life. If people don't get enough vitamins, they suffer various deficiency states, like scurvy (not enough vitamin C) or rickets (not enough vitamin D). The reason that vitamins are so important is that they help convert food into energy. But there's a catch. To c.. | Paul A. Offit |