Does Anyone Remember Life Before ‘Ask Your Doctor’ Ads on TV?

by Martha Rosenberg
huffingtonpost.com
Before “Ask Your Doctor” ads on TV, all you knew about prescription drugs were creepy ads in a JAMA at the doctor’s office with a lot of fine print. Even if you knew the name of a drug, you’d never ask your doctor for it because that would be self-diagnosing and cheeky for […]

Healthy Food Options? Why You Should Never Take Nutrition Advice from Your Government

by Tyler Simmons
ericcressey.com

Many people don’t know this, but before 1979, there were no public health guidelines for what foods our citizens should eat. So where would we be now without a food pyramid?

In the 1950s, a researcher named Ancel Keys developed a theory that certain dietary fats were a major cause of heart disease. Although […]

Slow Food USA voices support for organic farmers vs. Monsanto

slowfoodusa.org

In June we shared an interview with farmer (and Slow Food leader) Tom Willey (click here to read). Tom is one of many plaintiffs in a landmark case against Monsanto.

Monsanto has a history of taking farmers to court if they’re found to be in possession of patented plant material without permission, even if the […]

Genetic Engineering in Agriculture Does Not Solve Food Insecurity in the Philippines

by Gilbert Sape
Pesticide Action Network Asia and the Pacific
A reaction to the article, “DENR exec pushes for genetically modified organisms in food production” posted last 20 July 2011. (Link: http://newsinfo.inquirer.net/26543/denr-exec-pushes-for-genetically-modified-organisms-in-food-production) to the points raised by director Marcial Amaro, Jr. of Department of Environment and Natural Resources’ Ecosystems Research and Development Bureau (DENR-ERDB) that “biotechnology, including […]

Poultry Bail Out: Your Tax Dollars are Buying Factory-Raised Cheap Chicken Nobody Else Wants

Health Impact News Editor Comments: Cheap Chicken is not really cheap! Your tax dollars pay for all the subsidies used to keep factory farmed chicken cheap. And even so, the massive poultry business needed to be bailed out, so the US government just bought $40 million dollars of chicken while politicians talk about reducing […]

The Shocking Truth About Freshly Squeezed Orange Juice

Health Impact News Editor Comments: This is an excellent report from the Dr. Mercola organization showing another instance where mass-produced food does not have complete transparency in the way their food is produced, leaving consumers uninformed about the real process used. Making healthy food choices is becoming more and more difficult. The article makes […]

Raw Milk Consumer Guide: How to Choose Your Raw Dairy Farmer

Dr. Amanda Rose has been gracious enough to let us publish her excellent Raw Milk Consumer Guide. Depending on which state you live in and the current laws in that state, you will either be able to obtain raw milk from a health food store, direct from the farm, through a buyer's club, or via a herd share type of program. Current estimates put raw milk consumers in the USA above 9 million, and quite possibly closer to 12 million, and increasing rapidly. As a result, a consumer guide like this is absolutely essential to ensure you are obtaining the quality of raw milk you desire. Farmers are like any other sector of society: there are good ones and bad ones. Just because someone is willing to sell you their milk raw, do not assume that it is the type of product you want to consume simply because it is raw.

Prozac for Pets: Now pets can have the same violent and psychotic breaks from SSRIs as humans

by Alliance for Natural Health

Now Fido can have the same violent and psychotic breaks from SSRIs as humans. Please support our new Citizen Petition to the FDA!
The FDA has approved a reformulated version of the much-prescribed SSRI (selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor) Prozac, but this one is just for […]

Antidepressant use increasing among those with no psychiatric diagnosis

By Eric W. Dolan
rawstory.com
Antidepressants became the third most commonly prescribed class of medications in the United States thanks in part to non-psychiatrist providers prescribing the drugs to individuals without any psychiatric diagnosis, according to a new study led by researchers at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.
“We’ve seen […]

Center that Reported Home School Mom to Child Protection Services has Ties to Drug Companies

Health Impact News Editor Comment: For background information on this story, read Police use Assault Weapons and Tank against Home School Mom wanting to protect daughter from Dangerous Medications first, which is the all-time most-read article on Health Impact News.
TANGLED WEB IN GODBOLDO CASE: DRUG COS., PRIVATE AND PUBLIC AGENCIES, JUDGE, DHS ALL BENEFIT FROM […]