The Useless Appendix and Other Darwinian Myths

by Casey Luskin
Evolution News and Views
At the Center for Science & Culture’s Facebook page, a commenter asks how we would respond to a graphic that is making the Internet rounds, humorously imagining a dialogue between God and an angel. It’s a conversation about “intelligent design,” with the angel playing the role of the skeptic and […]

O Canada! HPV Vaccine May be a Medical Experiment on Older Women

by Leslie Botha
menstruationresearch.org
It appears that women ages 27 to 45 in Canada are being subjected to the same type of Gardasil® advertising campaign adolescents and their families are in the United States. The full page advertisements are running continuously in magazine supplements in Sunday newspapers north and south of the border.
‘Now women ages 27 […]

Supplement Safety: What You Need to Know about ConsumerLab.com—and More

by Alliance for Natural Health

One of the most prominent testing laboratories does not appear to us to be either independent or impartial.
ConsumerLab.com says its stated mission is “To identify the best quality health and nutritional products through independent testing.” Unfortunately, their claim to independence does not appear to us to be valid.
ConsumerLab.com (CL) approaches […]

Coconut oil saved my hair from bleach damage

The Long Hair Community Forums

User RedheadMistress writes:
I had bright red hair, dyed it dark to grow out my natural colour and have it blend it, regretted it months later. So a few days ago I decided to bleach all my hair (thinking I will lose half my length to bleach damage). So I drenched my hair […]

Newest Scam to Increase Statin Cholesterol-lowering Drugs If You’re Older than 50

by Dr. Mercola
A UK Daily Mail headline from May 2012 read: “Why EVERYONE over 50 needs to be taking statins.”iIf you find the notion that taking medications should be construed as something for everyone, like drinking water or breathing air, as appalling as I do, then you will probably be equally taken aback by […]

Coconut Oil Reverses Alzheimer’s in Woman Married for 45 Years

by barrerasfj
Alzheimer’s Weekly
About 1½ years ago, I was seeing my wife of 45 years rapidly slip away from me with Alzheimer’s disease. I felt devastated, hopeless and angry. The emotional burden was almost unbearable.
But in the summer 2011, my wife started consuming 6 tablespoons of coconut oil plus other natural supplements on a daily basis. Three […]

Are Infant Formulas a Contributing Cause of Infant Deaths in the US?

Suboptimal Breastfeeding Kills Over 1 Million Infants A Year
by Sayer Ji, founder
GreenMedInfo.com

A recent review published in the journal Archives of Disease In Childhood titled, “Marketing breast milk substitutes: problems and perils throughout the world,” revealed a disturbing statistic:
Currently, suboptimal breastfeeding is associated with over a million deaths each year and 10% of the global […]

Registered Dietitian Accuses Dietetics Association of Violating Its Own Code of Ethics with Junk Food and Pharmaceutical Sponsors

by Alliance for Natural Health

At issue is the organization’s support of the junk food industry.

Nutrition organizations and health advocates have long criticized the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics (the former American Dietetic Association) for its collusion not only with the junk food industry, but with the pharmaceutical and agriculture industries. Now it seems even […]

Why Banning HFCS Drinks May Do More Harm than Good

You Think HFCS Drinks Are Dangerous, Mr. Mayor? Why Do You Think Diet Drinks Are Better?
by Alliance for Natural Health

A proposed ban on large-sized sugary sodas may drive consumers to sodas filled with formaldehyde. Action Alert!

On June 12, in an attempt to combat the obesity epidemic, New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg will ask […]

Man 86 with Very Last Stage of Pick’s Dementia is Recovering Personality and Physical Health after Starting Coconut Oil

by Villafish
Alzheimer’s Weekly
My father was in the very last stage of Pick’s, a form of dementia, when we placed him in a care facility in Nov. of 2011.  It was expected that he would not survive past the holidays.
When we heard about coconut oil as a dementia therapy, our family thought, ”why not?  What can it possibly hurt at this point?  Wouldn’t it be neat if coconut oil helped his symptoms?”
My father, age 86, has been taking coconut oil since December of 2011 and he is […]