1999 - 2000 Archive
Program #24
An allergy to peanuts is dangerous and even deadly. Those with the allergy can never let their guard down, but recently doctors started to suspect that some people who've been diagnosed as peanut-allergic either grow out of it, or were never truly allergic in the first place. To test this, they give them the peanut challenge.
At any given time, 39 per cent of Canadian women and 23 per cent of men are trying to lose weight. But fad diets can be contradictory and confusing. There's one that tells you to eat according to your blood type, another calls for the elimination of all fat and others claim you can eat your fill of filet mignon without guilt. Dr. Lance Levy is a medical nutrition specialist and author of the soon-to-be-released book, Conquering Obesity. Studies on heart health are done all the time, but which ones are sure to make the front page of the newspapers? The ones that show that alcohol, whether it's liquor, or beer, or wine, is good for you. Cardiologist Dr. Rob Myers says the message that drinking can make you healthier, is a dangerous one.
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