by Alliance for Natural Health
Just as everyone was making last-minute holiday preparations, the FDA quietly announced they would no longer try to restrict the routine use of antibiotics in animal feed. An Action Alert update!
The so-called “preventive” use of antibiotics in livestock is routine and widespread. Factory farms use […]
by Anthony Gucciardi
NaturalSociety
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The United States is threatening nations who oppose Monsanto’s genetically modified (GM) crops with military-style trade wars, according to information obtained and released by the organization WikiLeaks. Nations like France, which have moved to ban one of Monsanto’s GM corn varieties, were requested to be ‘penalized’ by the United […]
by John Moody
Food Clubs & Coops
Last week, the Obama administration gave its official response of “NO” to the 6,078 signors of a petition on WhiteHouse.gov who requested federal-level legalization of all raw milk sales.
Written by Doug McKalip, the White House senior policy adviser for rural affairs, the response is full of […]
by Dan Charles
NPR
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Our friends over at Planet Money produced a delightful podcast last Friday called “Who Killed Lard?” They finger a corporate perp: Proctor and Gamble’s brilliant marketing campaign for the original Crisco, an alternative to lard that went on sale in 1911. “It’s all vegetable! It’s […]
Dr John Briffa
The Cholesterol Truth
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It’s the New Year, a time when many of us feel motivated to get fitter and healthier. I’ve noticed that there are television adverts currently doing the rounds encouraging us to eat cholesterol-reducing foods. As I’ve written before, there really is no good evidence that taking dietary steps to reduce […]
By Jeffry John Aufderheide
Vactruth.com
Sometimes gems are difficult to come by. However, when we find them, just clean them up a bit and we can appreciate their ‘real value’. The little treasure I discovered was a document located on Merck Pharmaceutical’s website. It disclosed how much Merck paid doctors as speaking fees in the […]
Coconut oil is nature’s richest source of MCTs that increase metabolic rates and lead to weight loss. MCTs promote what is called thermogenesis. Thermogenesis increases the body's metabolism, producing energy. But do all lose weight when using coconut oil?
By Bruce E. Levine
AlterNet
Drug industry corruption, scientifically unreliable diagnoses and pseudoscientific research have compromised the values of the psychiatric profession.
Why do some of us become dissident mental health professionals?
The majority of psychiatrists, psychologists and other mental health professionals “go along to get along” and maintain a status quo that […]
by Karen De Coster
Karendecoster.com
The greatest things always seem to happen to me. By “greatest,” I mean the kind of really offbeat stuff that just doesn’t seem to happen to a lot of other people. Stuff that makes for such good stories that it almost sounds fabricated.
Two weeks ago, I received a […]
Dr John Briffa
for The Cholesterol Truth
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As people age, they can find themselves becoming increasingly forgetful and absent-minded. Some will end up being affected by Alzheimer’s disease or some other form of dementia. I often find that my patients believe that there is quite a lot they can do to maintain and even improve the […]
