I know that the news today can be overwhelming, even just mentioning the word facts can trigger

all sorts of reactions.

I'm Dr. Michael Greggren.

I happened to really like facts, so I devoted my life to learning all there is to know about

the latest nutrition research so that you and your family can lead healthier, more productive

lives.

On today's show, we explore the vast resources that are at our fingertips for researching

nutrition facts on our own.

Let's say you hear about some news story, about breast cancer or diabetes or whatever

you're interested in, and you want to take a look at the actual study.

Well, today I'll help you figure out some places you may go to do just that.

The first issues of the first scientific journals were published back in 1665, in which

it was noted things like, hey, it looks like there's a spot on Jupiter.

Thanks to New Telescopes invented by a certain Mr. Newton, whose friend Halle described

a comet.

The same journal that reported that oranges and lemons could cure scurvy, and something

in willow tree bark could bring down a fever.

Also published a letter by some guy over in the colonies about playing with kites during

lightning storms, an account of a remarkable eight-year-old musician by the name of Amadeus.

Within this last century, some sketchings of the structure of some molecule called DNA,

a journal still in publication to this day 350 years later, available now online and

in print for the low-low subscription price of only $6666 a year.

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