By Dr. Mercola According to public health doctors and a medical trade association representing U.S. pediatricians, poor children in developing countries should continue to get vaccines containing the mercury preservative, thimerosal, because providing these children with mercury-free vaccines “would devastate public health efforts in developing countries,” the New York Times reports.1 The defense for keeping thimerosal in [...]

  by Christina England VacTruth.com In January 2013,  Bill Gates told the world in an interview that he had no need for money and that he believed the global vaccination program was God’s work. [1] “It’s not going to stop us succeeding,” says Gates. “It does force us to sit down with the Pakistan government [...]

Health Impact News Mississippi is one of only two states in the U.S. that does not allow any exemptions to school vaccinations, and they recently announced that they now rank first in the nation in childhood immunization rates. Unfortunately, according to the United Health Foundation, Mississippi also ranks last in many health categories, and 49th overall nationally. [...]

Health Impact News Merck’s Gardasil vaccine is perhaps the most controversial vaccine currently in the market. Their own website states this warning on its side effects: Fainting can happen after getting GARDASIL. Sometimes people who faint can fall and hurt themselves. For this reason, your health care professional may ask you to sit or lie [...]

By: Margie King, Health Coach GreenMedInfo.com Since the early 1980′s the USDA Dietary Guidelines for Americans have urged trusting Americans to eat a low-fat high-carbohydrate diet for their health and weight control. Since then, there has been an alarming increase in chronic diseases such as cancer and diabetes. In addition, obesity rates have shot up [...]

  by Alliance for Natural Health It won’t help hospital food, already notoriously bad, to outlaw advice from the most qualified nutritionists. Action Alert! Medicare claims to be reforming some of its rules in order to get rid of unnecessary or burdensome regulations. But this has created a window for the dietetics lobby to insert language [...]

Organic tomatoes accumulate more vitamin C, sugars than conventionally grown fruit Souri Somphanith eurekalert.org Tomatoes grown on organic farms accumulate higher concentrations of sugars, vitamin C and compounds associated with oxidative stress compared to those grown on conventional farms, according to research published February 20 in the open access journal PLOS ONE by Maria Raquel [...]

About 30 percent of heart attacks, strokes and deaths from heart disease can be prevented in people at high risk if they switch to a Mediterranean diet rich in olive oil, nuts, beans, fish, fruits and vegetables, and even drink wine with meals, a large and rigorous new study has found.

Give this plant its due: legalize hemp The highly useful weed has been entangled too long with that other ‘weed.’ That’s silly. L.A. Times Editorial Excerpts: Activists have been struggling to legalize hemp for decades in the U.S., but only recently has the issue seemingly caught fire in Congress. Last week, Senate Minority Leader Mitch [...]

Image from Sustainable Pulse Health Impact News Editor Comments: Boulder Colorado Congressman Jared Polis announced last week that he was introducing legislation to require labeling of GMO foods nationwide. A couple of days later, lawmakers in his own state rejected a similar proposed law to require GMO labeling within the state of Colorado. Boulder congressman [...]