Prominent Beverly Hills Psychiatrist & Child Custody Expert Linked to Lewd Web Photos

by Kim Christensen and Victoria Kim, Los Angeles Times
A prominent Beverly Hills psychiatrist who has helped decide hundreds of child-custody disputes was thrown off one recent case and has been challenged in at least two others after posting lewd photos of himself on Facebook and allegedly promoting illegal drug use, unprotected sex and male prostitution.
“This man […]

Judge Orders Questioning of Lab Workers in Raw Milk Shutdowns Where Listeria was Supposedly Tested

Piercing a State Lab’s Armor: Judge Orders NY Ag & Markets to Allow Questioning of Lab Workers by FTCLDF Lawyer
by David E. Gumpert
The Complete Patient

It’s our way of the highway. That’s essentially been the position of New York’s Department of Agriculture & Markets over the last nearly five years, when New York […]

Cholesterol does not predict stroke in women according to new research

by BBC News
High levels of cholesterol do not predict the risk of stroke in women, according to researchers in Denmark.
They did detect an increased risk in men, but only when cholesterol was at almost twice the average level.
Read the Full Article Here: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-12505230

The First Thing You Shoud Do When You Stay in a Hotel Room

by Dr. Mercola
Microbiologist Philip Tierno, when he has to stay in hotels, travels with an impervious mattress and pillow cover.  Lurking in every hotel mattress are skin cells, human hair, bodily secretions, fungi, bacteria, dust, dust mites, lint, insect parts, pollen, and cosmetics.
Tierno encourages everyone to use the impervious covers developed for allergy sufferers.  […]

Coconut Oil is good for combating brain fog and weight gain from menopause according to doctor

The Best Memory Food You Aren’t Eating
One doctor claims you can strengthen your brain, lose weight and more with this miracle oil

BY: CELESTE PERRON

What if somebody told you there’s a versatile food you can eat every day that would improve your memory, reduce menopausal symptoms,and help you lose weight?  You’d add it to your shopping […]

Fructose affects your brain very differently than glucose

by Dr. Mercola.
The latest Public Service Announcement warning New Yorkers about the dangers of excessive soda consumption shows exactly how much sugar you might be inadvertently drinking.

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Glucose and fructose are both simple sugars, but scientists have long suspected there are differences in the way your body processes them.
In a new study, […]

More Doctors Questioning Increase in Shaken Baby Syndrome Diagnosis

by Dr. Mercola
Emily Bazelon, a senior editor at Slate, said the following in an NPR interview:

“It used to be that the assumption was that every time you had evidence of the shaking — medical evidence — that you knew, you assumed that the baby would immediately stop breathing and go into a coma …

Now […]

CSPI: 40 years of food libeling

by junkscience.com
This year marks the 40th anniversary of the Center for Science in the Public Interest. Cleveland Plain Dealer columnist Evelyn Theiss says CSPI has “educated Americans for 40 years.” We say CSPI, not food, should be labeled as hazardous to health.
Theiss, who seems to know little about food or nutrition in the first place (she […]

Low vitamin D levels linked to allergies in kids

by Kim Newman
eurekalert.org
February 24, 2011 ─ (BRONX, NY) ─ A study of more than 3,000 children shows that low vitamin D levels are associated with increased likelihood that children will develop allergies, according to a paper published in the February 17 online edition of the Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology. Researchers from Albert Einstein College of […]

Prevent yeast infection naturally with Candida fighting foods like coconut oil

by James Schreiber
NaturalNews
(NaturalNews) Three out of four women will experience a yeast infection at some point in their lives. Symptoms like recurring vaginal infections and digestive disorders are now more common than ever before. In this article you will find a list of four healthy foods that hold the potential to prevent or […]

Sunday Devotional – God Speaks: Are You Listening?

by Brian Shilhavy
The Mighty One, God, the LORD, speaks and summons the earth from the rising of the sun to the place where it sets… Our God comes and will not be silent; a fire devours before him, and around him a tempest rages. (Psalm 50:1-3)
The author of Psalm 50 was very emphatic about […]

Vaccine Safety Advocates Demand an Apology from Bill Gates

Vaccine Safety Advocates Demand an Apology from Bill Gates
Age of Autism

Three weeks ago Microsoft chief Bill Gates labeled those who question vaccine safety as “anti-vaccine” and claimed that “they kill children” during an interview with CNN’s Dr. Sanjay Gupta.

On Tuesday of this week, the United States Supreme Court told parents […]

Bruce Overcoming Dementia with Coconut Oil Update

Health Impact News Editor note: Please be sure to read our entire article on dementia and Alzheimer’s which also recounts Bruce’s experience and the experience of others here.

His Dream Came True on Saturday
by Carol Flett

Throughout all the near death experiences Bruce had this past year, there was an important goal that kept him from giving […]

The connection between Fibromyalgia and Hypothyroidism

by Dr. Mercola
Dr. John Lowe is a skilled clinician, recognized as one of the leading experts on treating thyroid disease with natural medicine. In this interview, he discusses hypothyroidism and the lesser known thyroid hormone resistance, and how thyroid disease is connected to fibromyalgia.


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Thyroid disease, or inadequate thyroid hormone regulation, is […]

8 Cooking Oil Facts Everyone Must Be Aware Of

by Andy Bellatti
small bites
Over the past few weeks, I have received an increasing number of questions about cooking oils.  Given the apparent confusion and misinformation out there, I’ve constructed this list of facts, FYIs, and tidbits I consider absolutely crucial.
1. Oils with high omega-3 content (i.e.: hempseed oil, flax oil, walnut oil) are unsuitable for cooking. […]

Dangerous doctors slipping through the cracks: It took the discovery of guns and grenades to suspend the license of a psychiatrist who some say should have come under scrutiny years earlier

By Megan Twohey
Chicago Tribune

One night a Crestwood police sergeant doing a routine building check noticed an open door to the office of psychiatrist Joel Carroll. Stepping inside the cluttered office, he discovered roaming cats, a Colt AR-15 assault rifle and other guns, ammunition, military-grade smoke grenades, sex toys, and pornography.

“Well, for the […]

Microbes Help Children Breathe Easily? Bacteria and Fungi May Offer Protection Against Asthma, Study Suggests

ScienceDaily (Feb. 24, 2011) — Children who grow up on farms are less likely to suffer from asthma than other rural children. An international team of researchers including Dr. Markus Ege and Professor Erika von Mutius at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitaet (LMU) has published a large-scale study that now indicates that this may […]

The Religion of Nutrition: Has nutrition become a “good ‘ol time religion?”

by Jack Challem
Psychology Today

I’ve been writing about nutrition for 30-some years. As I listen to people, I often hear less science and more of what could best be described as a variety of belief systems.

There are the vegetarian, vegan, and macrobiotic sects. There’s the church of low-fat eating. And there’s the pervasive belief that […]

Do you believe Richard Dawkins exists?

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by Ellen Barrington
Creation Ministries International
Do you believe in Richard Dawkins? If your answer was yes, why? Most of us have assumed Dawkins’ existence based on very little evidence. I for one have never met him. And though I’ve seen a couple of pieces of video footage, a few pictures […]

5 Easy Ways to Reduce Your Cell Phone Exposure

by BRYAN WALSH
Time Healthland
For the past several years, a small band of doctors and activists have been raising concerns about the possible connection between cell phone use and brain cancer. The cell phone industry — along with nearly all major national and international medical associations — have always responded with the same answer: there’s […]