Piercing a State Lab’s Armor: Judge Orders NY Ag & Markets to Allow Questioning of Lab Workers by FTCLDF Lawyer by David E. Gumpert The Complete Patient It’s our way of the highway. That’s essentially been the position of New York’s Department of Agriculture & Markets over the last nearly five years, when New York [...]

by BBC News High levels of cholesterol do not predict the risk of stroke in women, according to researchers in Denmark. They did detect an increased risk in men, but only when cholesterol was at almost twice the average level. Read the Full Article Here: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-12505230

by Dr. Mercola Microbiologist Philip Tierno, when he has to stay in hotels, travels with an impervious mattress and pillow cover.  Lurking in every hotel mattress are skin cells, human hair, bodily secretions, fungi, bacteria, dust, dust mites, lint, insect parts, pollen, and cosmetics. Tierno encourages everyone to use the impervious covers developed for allergy [...]

What if somebody told you there’s a versatile food you can eat every day that would improve your memory, reduce menopausal symptoms,and help you lose weight?  You’d add it to your shopping list pronto, right?  Well that’s exactly what I did after talking to Dr. Larry McCleary about coconut oil.

by Dr. Len Saputo Natural News A core principle of what we call Health Medicine is a patient’s right to freedom of choice and their right to know. Whom are we kidding when, because of monopolistic medical practices, patients are not informed of all the treatments known from evidence to benefit their condition — especially [...]

Sources: Chicago Tribune February 10, 2011 Diabetes, Obesity, and Metabolism March 2011; 13(3): 229-234 Dr. Mercola’s Comments: People everywhere are finally waking up to the indisputable fact that all simple sugars are not the same when it comes to the physical end results they create. The latest Public Service Announcement warning New Yorkers about the dangers [...]

by Dr. Mercola Emily Bazelon, a senior editor at Slate, said the following in an NPR interview: “It used to be that the assumption was that every time you had evidence of the shaking — medical evidence — that you knew, you assumed that the baby would immediately stop breathing and go into a coma [...]

by junkscience.com This year marks the 40th anniversary of the Center for Science in the Public Interest. Cleveland Plain Dealer columnist Evelyn Theiss says CSPI has “educated Americans for 40 years.” We say CSPI, not food, should be labeled as hazardous to health. Theiss, who seems to know little about food or nutrition in the first place [...]

by Kim Newman eurekalert.org February 24, 2011 ─ (BRONX, NY) ─ A study of more than 3,000 children shows that low vitamin D levels are associated with increased likelihood that children will develop allergies, according to a paper published in the February 17 online edition of the Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology. Researchers from Albert Einstein College [...]