New Cholesterol-lowering Drug During Trials Caused Death

by Dr John Briffa
The Cholesterol Truth

Excerpts:

Many drugs have been developed which modify cholesterol levels in one way or another. Because there is a fervent belief within the research community that cholesterol causes heart disease, there is also slavish adherence to the belief that modifying cholesterol will translate into ‘clinical benefit’. But oh how often […]

Research: Foods/Spices Slow, Perhaps Reverse Alzheimer’s

by Sayer Ji
GreenMedInfo.com

Did you know that so-called “incurable” neurodegenerative conditions such as Alzheimer’s disease can be slowed, if not also partially reversed? Regeneration, after all, is the default state of the human body.

This may sound all the more surprising when you consider that over 1,000 clinical trials have been performed, and billions of dollars expended, […]

FDA Agrees to Revise NDI Guidance in Victory for Supplement Industry

Breaking News: We Win Major Concession on New Supplement Guidance
by Alliance for Natural Health

FDA reverses itself– for now.

We have pointed out for months that the FDA’s NDI (new supplement) guidance threatens our access to supplements and indeed could destroy the industry, leaving drugs with a total monopoly.

After adamantly digging in its heals and refusing […]

Are Vaccines Creating Superbugs?

by SaneVax
[SaneVax: A research team from the University of Georgia is working on the development of a new vaccine for mumps because there are currently 12 genotypes of mumps virus circulating around the globe. In fact, the mumps outbreaks in 2006 and 2010, which occurred primarily in the vaccinated population of the United States, […]

Vermonters Defend Health Liberty & Vaccine Choices

by Barbara Loe Fisher
 “I never thought this would turn into the mess it turned into.” – State Senator Kevin Mullin (R-Rutland), co-sponsor of a failed bill to eliminate philosophical exemption to vaccination in Vermont.
In the first five months of 2012, NVIC staff and volunteers have helped citizens in Vermont and California take a stand in […]

Oregon parents reject government vaccine schedule – Pediatrics Journal

by Michael Belkin
A new Pediatrics journal study laments the growing number of Oregon parents who refuse to follow the CDC-recommended childhood vaccine schedule. The percentage of parents who opt out of recommended shots rose from 2.5% to 9.5% between 2006 and 2009.
Government health officials and pediatricians are unhappy when parents don’t follow their dictates. It […]

5 Medical Doctors with Gary Taubes and Robb Wolf Discuss Coconut Oil and Alzheimer’s Disease

Comments by Brian Shilhavy
In this video from Specialty Health, you can listen to a panel discussion with five medical doctors, Gary Taubes, and Robb Wolf regarding the problem of insulin resistance and the damaging effects of a high carbohydrate diet on Alzheimer’s Disease, and how coconut oil can be effective in treating Alzheimer’s Disease.
The […]

URGENT: Congress to consider dangerous rider in support of genetically engineered crops

Alliance for Natural Health
Congress is considering a sneaky, pro-GMO rider to a funding bill, and it may become law without anyone realizing it—unless you take action NOW!
The biotech industry has managed to insert a dangerous rider in support of genetically engineered crops into the FY 2013 Agriculture Appropriations bill. It is scheduled to be […]

Why genetically engineered food is dangerous: New report by genetic engineers

Earth Open Source
LONDON, UK – Aren’t critics of genetically engineered food anti-science? Isn’t the debate
over GMOs (genetically modified organisms) a spat between emotional but ignorant activists
on one hand and rational GM-supporting scientists on the other?
A new report released today, “GMO Myths and Truths,”[1] challenges these claims. The
report presents a large body of peer-reviewed scientific […]

Sugar, Not Fats and Oils, is What is Causing the Obesity Epidemic

Why our food is making us fat
We are, on average, 3st heavier than we were in the 60s. And not because we’re eating more or exercising less – we just unwittingly became sugar addicts
by Jacques Peretti
guardian.co.uk
Up a rickety staircase at the Newarke Houses Museum in Leicester, England hangs a portrait of Britain’s first obese man, […]