Janice M. Horowitz
Janice M. Horowitz covered health for Time magazine for more than two decades. She created and hosted the public radio segment, Dueling Docs: The Cure to Contradictory Medicine and has contributed to The Economist, Allure, The New York Times, Newsweek and PBS's Next Avenue. She is the author of Health Your Self: What's Really Driving Your Care and How to Take Charge.
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Yum, that's me crunching on a food substance that arrived in my mouth by way of industrial engineering. Food scientists manufactured it to hit bliss points - a perfect balance of salt, sugar and, for a flawless mouth feel, just the right amount of fat. -
I've been known to feel deathly ill when the reading on the thermometer is … 99.3. To me, it feels like a raging fever, but to doctors, not so much.
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I’m going to tell you a story which will make you think I’m something of a nut. It’s about CT scans which use radiation to see your insides vs MRI’s, which don’t. They use magnetic fields and radio waves.
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Chocolate lovers, before you unwrap your next bar, brace yourselves. Researchers just came out with the not-so-sweet news - bite your tongue - that chocolate doesn’t have a single health benefit to recommend it.
