The bottom line is that the human body is complex and subtle, and oversimplifying - as common sense sometimes impels us to do - can be hazardous to your health.

Human beings have survived for millennia because most of us make good decisions about our health most of the time.

If we can make the correct diagnosis, the healing can begin. If we can't, both our personal health and our economy are doomed.

The World Health Organization has recognized acupuncture as effective in treating mild to moderate depression.

I have argued for years that we do not have a health care system in America. We have a disease-management system - one that depends on ruinously expensive drugs and surgeries that treat health conditions after they manifest rather than giving our citizens simple diet, lifestyle and therapeutic tools to keep them healthy.