Pulitzer winning journalists James Steele and Donald Barlett uncover the shocking truth about how clinical trials conducted outside the US in developing countries are used to approve drugs for use in the US. They report that there is often very little oversight by the host country or the FDA, leaving pharmaceutical companies great power […]
Health Impact News
Three new studies on coconut oil were published in peer-reviewed journals in the past couple of months.
In the June 4, 2011 volume of Lipids, a study was published by the Division of Animal and Nutritional Sciences of West Virginia University entitled “Dietary Conjugated Linoleic Acid Induces Lipolysis in Adipose Tissue of Coconut Oil-Fed Mice […]
In the video above Robyn O’Brien shares her personal story and how it inspired her to become a Real Food evangelist. Her journey started when one of her children had a dangerous allergic reaction to a “typical” breakfast, and unfolded into discovering one reason why the United States may have the highest cancer rate […]
Be a Good Egg—Support the City Chicken Project!
Through the City Chicken Project, Just Food provides the training, coops and hens that schools and community gardening groups need to raise healthy chickens and delicious eggs. This project was started in partnership with Heifer International, but Heifer is no longer funding projects in NYC, so we need […]
by Chris Kresser
The Healthy Skeptic
Excerpts:
[Coconut milk] is high in saturated fatty acids and medium-chain triglycerides (MCT), which are both easily burned as fuel by the body. MCTs are particularly beneficial in that they don’t require bile acids for digestion, and they’re directly shunted to the liver via the portal vein.
So what could be wrong […]
Health Impact News Comments: As life expectancy in the U.S. continues to drop, more media sources are picking up the story. What is sorely lacking in most of these reports, however, is any real dialog as to what is causing the problem. In the video below “obesity” is correctly observed as a correlating trend, […]
Health Impact News Editor Comments: If you think the low-carb high-fat and high-protein diet is a recent dietary fad, think again! Watch this old clip from an Andy Griffith show where Barney Fife basically repeats the common dietary wisdom prevalent back in the 1950s and 1960s, that glucose and refined carbohydrates (such as Aunt […]
by MARY CLARE JALONICK
ASSOCIATED PRESS – miamiherald.com
WASHINGTON — The House voted Wednesday to prohibit the Food and Drug Administration from approving genetically modified salmon for human consumption.
The FDA is set to decide this year whether to approve the modified fish, which grows twice as fast as the natural variety. The FDA said last year that the […]
by Casey Schwartz
thedailybeast.com
In the pendulum-swinging debate over the effectiveness of antidepressants, the latest findings by some researchers will not be good news for users and supporters of the ubiquitous meds: Used over the long term, antidepressants may “do more harm than good,” and once discontinued are more likely to cause […]
Health Impact News Editor Comments: While a common theme on this news site, even “mainstream” media can no longer ignore the prescription drug problem in this country any more, although this story did not exactly make headlines.
Reuters
msnbc.com
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U.S. doctors are too quick to reach for their prescription pads, according to a new report urging […]
