Saturated fat is not the main culprit for poor health in India: it is the overwhelming presence of carbs in the Indian diet

Dr. Alok Kalia speaking at the event
by Ritu Raju
Indo American News
HOUSTON: The Indian American Cancer Network (IACAN) presented a talk by eminent physician, author, and speaker Dr. Alok Kalia titled “The South Asian Diet, the Grandmother, and the Scientist- A Cautionary Tale.” The event, held on March 13th at India House, attracted a full […]

Fraudulent Medical Research Could Affect Your Diagnosis

by Dr. Sherri Tenpenny

Huffington Post
The press has led us to believe that the recall of a medical research paper represents a rare, media-worthy event. Case in point: the week-long blitz announcing the retraction of a single, disputed paper, published in The Lancet in 1998. By comparison, the retraction of more than 100 papers by two medical researchers […]

Head of CA Department of Pesticide Regulation Leaves Post to Work for Chemical Giant

by Bridget Huber
Civil Eats
California’s top pesticide regulator is leaving her job to work for Clorox. Mary-Ann Warmerdam, the director of the Department of Pesticide Regulation (DPR), announced her resignation on Tuesday. Warmerdam’s departure was voluntary, but environmental and public health advocates have been pushing for her removal for months. They say she let the chemical industry’s […]

Bouncing on a rebounder strengthens every cell in the body

by: Melissa Makris
(NaturalNews) In addition to its many health benefits, rebounding has one thing that sets it apart from all other exercises. It is the only one that strengthens, cleanses, and tones every cell in the body.
Other forms of exercise only strengthen bones, ligaments, tendons, and muscles. Rebounder exercise has the advantage of promoting […]

A Nasty Predilection Some Psychiatrists have for Medicalising Normality

FIRST OPINION – Marika Sboros ponders madness
At the heart of this matter is a nasty predilection some psychiatrists have for medicalising normality

by MARIKA SBOROS
BusinessDay

Shrinks on the couch as they ponder who is and is not crazy. Diagnosis is a slippery slope. It involves concepts that are virtually impossible to define precisely with bright lines at […]

NEW Studies Reveal Alarming Hidden Cause of Breast Cancer

by Dr. Mercola
By Russell L. Blaylock, MD, CCN

Breast cancer is one of the leading causes of cancer death in women worldwide and breast cancer rates are increasing rapidly.

A compelling number of studies, though not all, have shown that free iron concentrations in breast tissue, especially the ductal tissue, is playing a major role in […]

CLA Eases Airways for Asthmatics

by Dr. Mercola
Conjugated linoleic acids (CLA) may improve the airway hyper-reactivity in asthmatics, according to the results of a new study. A dose of 4.5 grams of CLA each day produced significant reduction in airway hyper-responsiveness. It also had favorable effects on body weight.
CLA is a fatty acid, which is found in ruminant meat […]

Feedlot Meat Has Spurred a Soy Boom That Has a Devastating Environmental and Human Cost

by Jill Richardson
AlterNet
South America is being taken over by a handful of companies in the soy business that are destroying ecologically sensitive areas and pushing people from their ancestral land.
March 17, 2011 – Much of South America is rapidly coming to resemble Iowa. Where one might expect to see virgin Amazon rainforest, lush grasslands […]

Iodine Supplementation Cautions from Dr. Tenpenny

by Dr. Sherri Tenpenny
NaturalNews.com is putting out a lot of good information about the uses of iodine and disaster planning. I’m working on an article about iodine that will be done soon. In the mean time, I wanted to share a few important points.
Iodine chemistry, iodine/thyroid issues are really complex. When it is ingested, it is rapidly […]

Gardasil Vaccine Victims and Deaths

Video launched from http://www.DutytoInform.org 3/17/11. This video was created as a plea to Merck, the FDA and the CDC to take appropriate action and stop all Gardasil vaccination. The evidence of harm caused by the Gardasil vaccine is overwhelming and not worth the questionable benefit. When an unsafe vaccine stays on the market, […]

Taking Antibiotics for Gastritis? A New Treatment Alternative May Surprise You

Taking antibiotics to treat gastritis? The remedy may be as simple as boosting your inner ecosystem with beneficial microflora.
by BodyEcology.com
Gastritis: also known as inflammation of the stomach lining.
It’s a burning or gnawing pain in the central stomach area at about the level where your ribcage comes together in the center of the chest. This feeling […]

Eat to Boost Your Mood! Serotonin is a neurotransmitter that is associated with mood regulation

Regulating your serotonin levels during pregnancy can protect your child’s brain development and reduce their risk for ADHD!
by BodyEcology.com
Serotonin is a neurotransmitter that is associated with mood regulation, gut motility, sleep, appetite, and pain modulation.
What do low serotonin levels look like? A person who is deficient in the neurotransmitter serotonin may experience depression, inner rage […]

Vatican Radio is Told to Pay Out Over Transmitter Cancer Risk

by Dr. Mercola
The Supreme Court of Italy has ordered Vatican Radio to compensate Cesano, a small town near Rome, following allegations the broadcaster’s high-powered transmitters put children at a higher risk of cancer.
Reports emerged in 2001 that electromagnetic radiation produced by Vatican Radio’s transmitters near the town was above the legal limit. A health […]

Psychiatric Electroshock: It’s Not Treatment, It’s Torture

by Citizen’s Commission on Human Rights

Electroshock is the “treatment” psychiatrists employ when their first line of “treatment”— drugs—fail to work.  And the drugs inevitably fail to work,  simply because they are no more effective than placebo, yet have side effects rivaling the most hardcore street drugs.    In the U.S. alone, […]

Coconut Oil: A Miracle in a Jar?

by Kenda Robertson
associatedcontent.com

Even though coconut oil has been used as cooking oil for thousands of years, it has gotten a bum rap in the last 20 years or so.

Though there is scientific proof that the highly saturated coconut oil provides many health benefits, the campaign to demonize saturated fat, which started in the 1980s, and […]

Seroquel Marketing Undeterred by This Week’s Deceptive Marketing Settlement

by Martha Rosenberg
opednews.com
Google the word “depression” and the first search result you’ll get is for the antipsychotic Seroquel XR.
Visit WebMD and the home page hosts similar ads for Seroquel XR, above and adjacent to the lead news story.
Who would know AstraZeneca inked the largest multi-state consumer protection settlement on record relating to deceptive […]

The collapse of native Iraqi agriculture, and the prosper of US Biotech and GMOs in Iraq

One more war crime: Death of Iraqi agriculture
by Richard Brenneman

Way back when esnl was a budding anthropology student, we learned about the history of agriculture, and the development of wheat cultivation and irrigation in the Fertile Crescent, the flood basins of the Nile, Tigris, and Euphrates rivers.

Now, thanks to the American military […]

There’s a reason psychiatrists prescribe drugs rather than talking therapy: talking makes no money for drug companies

More than one in ten Americans takes Prozac; the US comprises 5% of the world’s population, yet consumes two thirds of psychological medications. Photograph: Stone/Jonathan Nourok/Getty
by Harriet Fraad
guardian.co.uk
The New York Times recently led with a front-page splash about psychiatry’s propensity to prescribe pills, “Talk Doesn’t Pay, So Psychiatry Turns Instead to Drug Therapy”. That […]

Study reveals lymph node removal surgery useless for many breast cancer patients

by David Gutierrez
NaturalNews
(NaturalNews) The common practice of removing the lymph nodes of breast cancer patients does nothing to reduce the rate of cancer recurrence, according to a study conducted by researchers from the John Wayne Cancer Institute and published in the Journal of the American Medical Association.
In about one-third of breast cancer cases, the […]

GMO Contamination: What’s an Organic Farmer To Do? Find out in this webinar

Presented by Jim Riddle, University of Minnesota, this webinar recording discusses issues surrounding GMO contamination and how to control the risk associated with it.