ADA Changes Name to Claim Monopoly on “Nutrition” Definition

by Alliance for Natural Health

Your activism is once again bearing fruit—but the dietetic monopoly is fighting back with its most underhanded move yet.

We are seeing a number of state victories in the battle against monopolization of nutrition services by the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics (see below). You may know it […]

USDA Decides the Current Rush to Rubber-Stamp GMO Foods Is Too Slow!

by Alliance for Natural Health
And who’s siding with Monsanto? Phony “food safety advocates” masquerading as political progressives.
In an attempt to cut already too rapid approval times for genetically engineered seeds in half, the US Department of Agriculture will, under forthcoming rules (expected in March), give GE seed companies—including the Monsanto […]

Judge Sides With Monsanto: Ridicules Farmers’ Right to Grow Food Without Fear, Contamination and Economic Harm

Monsanto’s Control Over the Federal Government. Click to expand.
from Mercola.com

by Jim Gerritsen
Wood Prairie Farm

New York, New York – On February 24, Judge Naomi Buchwald handed down her ruling on a motion to dismiss in the case of […]

Coconut Oil and Heart Disease

by Brian Shilhavy
CoconutOil.com

I imagine everyone is different, but here’s my experience so far. In 2004 at age 61 I had a mild heart attack and blocked artery. My total cholesterol was 101 in the hospital. A couple of months later it was 134, after taking my cardiologist’s drug […]

Wisconsin Raw Milk Farmer Faces Jail: Protest on March 2 Scheduled before Hearing

by David Gumpert
The Complete Patient

Wisconsin’s Attorney General has signaled his willingness to go ahead with the possibly provocative step of throwing dairy farmer Vernon Hershberger into jail.
In a package of documents sent to Hershberger, the Wisconsin Department of Justice included a letter to Judge Guy D. Reynolds, in which Assistant […]

Increase in School Shootings Linked to Antidepressant Prescription Drugs


Health Impact News Editor Comments: The article below was written by Dr. Mercola prior to the recent shooting incident in Ohio, as was the Fox News story above on school shootings and antidepressant drugs which was filmed in 2007. This was a rare story from the mainstream media taking an honest look at the link […]

The Swiss Government’s Remarkable Report on Homeopathic Medicine

by Dana Ullman
Huffington Post

The Swiss government has a long and widely-respected history of neutrality, and therefore, reports from this government on controversial subjects need to be taken more seriously than other reports from countries that are more strongly influenced by present economic and political constituencies. When one considers that […]

Cholesterol Plays A Critical Role In Brain Function

by Dr John Briffa
for The Cholesterol Truth

Excerpts:
Cholesterol is a substance that is generally painted as black by the medical and scientific communities, but the fact remains it is a substance that is innate to the body and forms a critical part of, among other things, key hormones, vitamin D and cell membranes. It’s also very […]

Super scented: Aerodynamics of odours in a dog’s nose

by Tas Walker
Creation Ministries International
What is highly sensitive to scent and can recognize the direction of the faintest odour? A dog’s nose!
Customs officers use dogs to find drugs in luggage. Police use canines to trail an escaped criminal. Emergency workers depend on man’s best friend after a natural disaster to find […]

Coconut Oil Increases Cholesterol, Yet is Still Healthy for Your Heart

Dairy Free and Gluten Free Strawberry Cream Pie made with coconut oil
Photo by Jeremiah Shilhavy
by Brandon
The Healthy Advocate
It is true. Coconut oil raises your total cholesterol. The paradox? It actually has a positive effect on cholesterol, and contains types of fats that may even help prevent heart disease. Unfortunately, many shun […]

Chiropractors and Exercise Are Better than Drugs Says New Study

by Dr. Mercola

Chronic pain is an exceedingly common condition impacting an estimated 76.5 million Americans, one-third of whom describe their pain as severe and “disabling”.i

Among them, many suffer from neck pain, which is the third most common type of pain according to the American Pain Foundation.

It is estimated that 70 percent of […]

Coconut Oil Benefits Change One Person’s Life

Holy Smokes I’m healthy!
By Dean
Coconut Diet Forums

It started out as a search for the cure for mono. Sure enough, in 2 weeks it cured my mono, not the normal 6 months.

Then I started to apply this oil for other medical issues. The following has happened:

12+ years of acne is gone off my back! (99.X% […]

FACT: Antidepressant drugs no better than placebos

by Brian Shilhavy
Editor of Health Impact News
The CBS news program “60 Minutes” has produced a story featuring Dr. Irving Kirsch’s research on placebos and antidepressant drugs. To anyone who believes that popular antidepressant drugs prescribed for depression have solid scientific evidence based on sound research, you owe it to yourself to invest 14 minutes of […]

How Standard Dietary Advice To Avoid Cholesterol-Rich Foods Is Misguided

Health Impact News Editor Comment: Dr. Briffa runs an excellent blog publishing the truth about cholesterol and cholesterol-lowering drugs. See also our article on how lowering one’s cholesterol might be one of the primary causes of Alzheimer’s Disease, since our brain is dependent on cholesterol: The harm of low-fat high-carbohydrate diets in cholesterol uptake in […]

Toxic Splenda Being Sold as a Health-Conscious Sweetener

by Alliance for Natural Health
Splenda Essentials pretend to be health-supporting, when in fact they seem to have more in common with pesticides than with sugar.
Sucralose, sold under the brand name Splenda, is simply chlorinated sugar; in chemical terms, it is a chlorocarbon. The idea behind this is that the […]

Healthy Milk: What Is It?

by Alliance for Natural Health

And what’s standing in the way of your getting it?
A report from Harvard suggests that milk from factory farms may be associated with hormone-related cancers because of the industrial agricultural practice of milking a cow throughout her pregnancy. The later in pregnancy a cow is, the […]

Oil Pulling with Coconut Oil for Dental Health

[Health Impact News] A study was published in India recently comparing the effectiveness of “oil pulling” versus chlorhexidine mouthwash in preventing bad breath and the organisms that cause it. It was a small sample size for a study, but oil pulling was more effective than the chlorhexidine mouthwash when measuring marginal gingival index, plaque index, and […]

Why a Root Canal is a Dangerous Dental Procedure

by Dr. Mercola
Do you have a chronic degenerative disease?  If so, have you been told, “It’s all in your head?” 

Well, that might not be that far from the truth… the root cause of your illness may be in your mouth.

There is a common dental procedure that nearly every dentist will tell you is […]

Pasta, Not Bacon, Makes You Fat

by Dr. Mercola
Even though the low-fat craze has ended and more people are embracing healthy fats in their diet, there’s still a sizable group that has not heard the news yet …

Eating fat will not make you fat as quickly as eating carbs will.

This, in a nutshell, is what you need to recognize if […]

Stopping the FDA’s Attack on Supplements with H.R.3380

By Scott. C Tips
National Health Federation
If the Food and Drug Administration has its way, thousands of supplements will be removed from store shelves.  We’ve heard this cry before, but this time it is very true.  Supplements that you and I might take for granted – like resveratrol, L-GABA, curcumin, bioperine, and […]