2014-06-07: The biology, business and politics of good nutrition are central themes this week

Summary: Comments on food issues such as added sugar and dependence on prepared foods; Followup with a listener with skin cancer — monoclonal antibody treatments are in clinical trial; More discussion about nutrition in schools and other food issues; Probiotics, e.g from fermented foods, are important after heavy antibiotic doses; A woman has trouble finding yogurt without added sugar; Comparison of using colonoscopy vs. fecal blood test for colon cancer screening; How to shift ratio of cholesterol to HDL; A person newly diagnosed with type 2 diabetes and is not obese should be screened for pancreatic cancer; Urine is not sterile — the prevalence of commensal bacteria all throughout the body; A wide-spectrum light sensor has medical uses and can be printed by your laser printer! Theintentionexperiment.com conducts interesting research in affecting things by group concentration; Possible causes for nerve damage from corticobasal degeneration