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 […]