The Unhealthy Truth: How Our Food Is Making Us Sick – and What We Can Do About It

The corruption of our food supply, described in language any parent can understand

"...study revealing the proven, negative effects of pesticides, hormones, antibiotics, factory farming, food additives, and genetically modified foods. Her..."

May 29, 2009 Food Feature by Kate Thornberry

A History of Pigs in America

"...huge factory pig-raising techniques, introducing the use of prophylactic antibiotics. Pork had become "the Other White Meat", and although..."

April 10, 2009 Food Feature by Mick Vann

The Hightower Report

Who's Making Our Medicine?; and Blackwater Metamorphosed

"...Mostly, no. Take antibiotics. The New York Times reports that ingredients for the..."

March 6, 2009 News Column by Jim Hightower

Food-o-File

Remember When Dairy brings to life memories of old-fashioned milk products while Tecolote Farm struggles to survive

"...not treated with any artificial hormones, rBGH, rBST, or antibiotics and are fed 90% grass. The Remember When product..."

July 11, 2008 Food Column by Virginia B. Wood

Rehabilitation or Torture?

Texas prison inmates say their 'therapy' has taken a dark turn

"...medicines are frowned upon or banned – occasionally even antibiotics, so women who contract staph infections must endure open..."

May 23, 2008 News Feature by Patricia J. Ruland

Naked City

"...major metropolitan areas but not in Austin. Drugs including antibiotics, anticonvulsants, mood stabilizers, and sex hormones were detected in..."

March 14, 2008 News Feature

The Hightower Report

The Price of Trucker Fatigue; and Corporate Americas

"...that burn our children, seafood laden with toxins and antibiotics, tires that come apart on the highways, pet food..."

Sept. 7, 2007 News Column by Jim Hightower

'Chronicle' Food Writers Should Follow My Agenda!

"...factory farming used by agribusiness in the USA. Pesticides, antibiotics, hormones, and manure by the millions of tons fill..."

Aug. 1, 2007 Postmarks

Melanie Sobel's Letter

Former Williamson Co. animal shelter director Melanie Sobel's open letter defending her record and recounting her experiences with Williamson Co. government

"...line item or funds for animal medical care (vaccines, antibiotics, sodium pentobarbital, sedatives, Heartworm test and FeLV/FIV test, syringes..."

July 6, 2007 News Feature

After a Fashion

Stephen drops a gay bomb and salutes the dreck that is Mahogany

"...of the Dolls and Showgirls) that you'll be craving antibiotics...."

June 22, 2007 Column by Stephen MacMillan Moser

Disappearing Bees Indicate a Threat to Us All

"...of nonorganic hives. The pesticides used against mites, excessive antibiotics, the constant moving of large hives in trucks, the..."

June 21, 2007 Postmarks

Kick the Can and Bag the Bag

A guide to preparing homemade pet food

"...animal hospitals and shelters, along with all the hormones, antibiotics, and barbiturates used to put the pets to sleep...."

May 11, 2007 Food Feature by Fran Moody

Letters at 3AM

This is the number of deaths a year caused by how we do (or don't do) health care. A decade of that, and it's as though terrorists nuked Chicago.

"...bio-weapons to attack the United States. Doctors who overprescribe antibiotics in hospitals – which experts have warned against for..."

Jan. 19, 2007 Column by Michael Ventura

To Your Health

Are there some lesser-known nutrients that would help fight periodontal disease?

"...outgrow the "unfriendly" bacteria. Acidophilus has an advantage over antibiotics, which would indiscriminately kill both friendly and unfriendly organisms...."

Nov. 24, 2006 Column by James Heffley, Ph.D.

To Your Health

Did you know that wild foods have more nutrients than domesticated plants or animals?

"...herbicide and pesticide residues on plants and hormones and antibiotics in meat...."

Oct. 27, 2006 Column by James Heffley, Ph.D.

To Your Health

What is the difference between l-glutamine and glutamine, and the same for the other amino acids?

"...their cell walls to help them resist the natural antibiotics that are produced by other bacteria. Mostly D-amino acids..."

June 23, 2006 Column by James Heffley, Ph.D.

To Your Health

What kind of magnesium is most tolerable and what foods are richest in magnesium?

"...such as renal insufficiency, if you are taking certain antibiotics, and also with myasthenia gravis. Magnesium (chemical symbol Mg)..."

May 19, 2006 Column by James Heffley, Ph.D.

To Your Health

How to keep irritable bowel syndrome under control

"...treatment for IBS is the antibiotic Rifaximin. Unlike most antibiotics that are absorbed by the blood stream and travel..."

Jan. 13, 2006 Column by James Heffley, Ph.D.

TCB

Praying for Daniel Johnston, marveling at Townes Van Zandt, and wondering 'what hath Snoop Dogg wrought'?

"...seen," he said. "We've given him a lot of antibiotics and a lot of CAT scans, and an MRI,..."

Dec. 9, 2005 Music Column by Christopher Gray

To Your Health

I have tested positive for Group B Strep and I am pregnant, what should I do?

"...during delivery, but I really don't do well with antibiotics. Is there any other option?..."

Sept. 30, 2005 Column by James Heffley, Ph.D.

About AIDS

Got medications you don't need? Don't throw them away! They could make the difference between life and death for HIV-infected people in poor countries.

"...the same problems plague AIDS patients regardless of geography. Antibiotics, pain meds, appetite boosters, and heart medications are commonly..."

May 27, 2005 Column by Sandy Bartlett

South of France by Southwest

In keeping a journal during my five days in Cannes, where my first feature, 'Room,' premiered internationally, it occurred to me that it's the creative energy in Austin that has carried me this far.

"...transfer to Bush International. A B-12 shot and jumbo antibiotics should take care of the infection. Bon voyage!May 11..."

May 27, 2005 Screens Feature by Kyle Henry

To Your Health

The pros and cons of using grapefruit-seed extract in fighting fungus problems

"...antibacterial activity, which is similar to that of many antibiotics, namely disruption of the protective cell wall and membrane..."

Feb. 18, 2005 Column by James Heffley, Ph.D.

Day Trips

The hot mineral waters of Marlin still flow from the fountain under the public pavilion

"...saw the last gasps of a once thriving industry. "Antibiotics put them out of business," he says of the..."

Feb. 18, 2005 Column by Gerald E. McLeod

To Your Health

Reducing the risk of appendicitis

"...on the lower right side of the abdomen. Before antibiotics, a ruptured appendix was often a death sentence, so..."

Jan. 28, 2005 Column by James Heffley, Ph.D.

About AIDS

HIV isn't the only STD out there

"...full AIDS. The syphilis itself can be cured with antibiotics – but participants still only regained half of their..."

Jan. 14, 2005 Column by Sandy Bartlett

About AIDS

Don't toss extra meds!

"...the same problems plague AIDS patients regardless of geography. Antibiotics, pain meds, appetite boosters, and heart medications are commonly..."

Jan. 7, 2005 Column by Sandy Bartlett

About AIDS

Poz people and staph don't mix!

"...first-line antibiotics, one's immune system is especially important in the battle...."

Oct. 1, 2004 Column by Sandy Bartlett

To Your Health

The possible link between antibiotics and breast cancer

"...Q. I am a little worried now about taking antibiotics since I heard about the link to breast cancer...."

April 2, 2004 Column by James Heffley, Ph.D.

To Your Health

Dealing with Crohn's disease

"...bout of intestinal flu that involves the use of antibiotics, often when people are fairly young. The inflammation mostly..."

March 12, 2004 Column by James Heffley, Ph.D.

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