This B vitamin lowers risk of stroke by twenty-five percent

by John Phillip
(NaturalNews) Stroke is the fourth leading cause of death in America each year with 700,000 people suffering needlessly from this debilitating illness. Stroke attacks with virtually no warning and can leave its victims unable to walk or perform the simplest task. Stroke risk increases with age, number of years consuming a nutrient-deficient […]

Mega-doses of vitamin D help prevent breast cancer and other diseases, study finds

by Ethan A. Huff, staff writer
(NaturalNews) Current government recommendations of 400 or 600 international units (IU) of vitamin D a day are insufficient to prevent serious diseases like breast cancer, a new study published in the journalAnticancer Researchhas found. Researchers from the University of California, San Diego (UCSD) School of Medicine and Creighton University (CU) […]

Antidepressant drugs do not work, and they have serious side effects

By Dr. Mercola


Every year, 230 million prescriptions for antidepressants are filled, making them one of the most prescribed drugs in the United States. The psychiatric industry itself is a $330 billion industry—not bad for an enterprise that offers little in the way […]

Abilify Kills

Andy Behrman, a former spokesman for Abilify and Bristol Myers Squibb, discusses his side effects from Abilify, the “wonder drug” of Bristol Myers Squibb

Dog sniffs out colon cancer with greater accuracy than colonoscopy

By W. Gifford-Jones, M.D.
The EpochTimes

Researchers collected stool samples from 48 patients who had colon cancer and 258 healthy volunteers. Stools were placed in plastic containers covered by perforated lids. A Labrador retriever was trained in the same way as those used to spot explosives and drugs—to sit down when he detected cancer in a […]

Natural remedies and tips to prevent, relieve and eliminate painful shingles outbreaks

by Tony Isaacs
(NaturalNews) Every year, millions of people suffer from outbreaks of shingles, a viral infection caused by the varicella-zoster virus (the same virus that causes chickenpox). Mainstream medical science tells us that there are no cures for shingles and that only mainstream drugs can effectively manage symptoms. In actuality, there are a number […]

Does topical fluoride really protect tooth enamel? Study suggests NO

by Ethan A. Huff, staff writer
(NaturalNews) A popular mantra in American dentistry claims that topical fluoride treatments help to protect teeth from cavities by forming a protective shield on the enamel of teeth. However, a new study published in the American Chemical Society (ACS) journal Langmuir has found that the “protective layer” created by fluoride […]

The Uncertainty of Medical Practice: A physician’s perspective

By Dr. John Briffa
The Epoch Times

Here are the opening sentences from Dr. Spence’s column this week that struck a chord:

“We are scientists. But the Big Book of Medical Facts is in fact just a pamphlet printed at home, with two paragraphs in a very large font. The only certainty of science is uncertainty.

“Medicine […]

Dogs and Owners Go Crazy About Coconut Oil

By Chris Curran
Eureka-WildwoodPatch

Has your pooch packed on a few extra pounds after this brutal winter? Here’s one, new way you can help get your dog in better shape.

Whether taken internally or applied topically, coconut oil has numerous benefits. It heals digestive disorders and enables weight loss, relieves arthritis, prevents and treats […]

Time to end the insane practice of lacing chicken feed with arsenic

by Tom Philpott
Grist.org

As a jaded observer of the meat industry, even I’m flummoxed by this fact: It’s standard practice on factory chicken farms to dose those unfortunate birds with arsenic. The idea is that it makes them grow faster — fast growth being the supreme goal of factory animal farming […]

Raw Milk Cures Many Diseases, by J. R. Crewe MD, written in 1929

Real Milk Cures Many Diseases
by J. R. Crewe, MD

The following is an edited version of an article by Dr. J. R. Crewe, of the Mayo Foundation, forerunner of the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, MN, published in Certified Milk Magazine, January 1929. We are grateful to Dr. Ron Schmid, ND of Middlebury, […]

Beyond sustainability: permaculture and polyculture

by Paul Wheaton

So this is me presenting in Missoula, Montana and taking questions from the audience.

I can’t remember what the question was, but I start off talking about sustainability. Sustainable is a word that means barely not dead.

I then attempt to compare permaculture to organic gardening. Talking mostly about […]

Why Farmers Must Move from Defense to Offense for Raw Milk Rights

The Ominous Warnings in Morningland Case–Why Farmers Must Move from Defense to Offense; VT Group Plans “Butter Appreciation Day” to Challenge Ban on Raw Dairy Teaching
by David E. Gumpert
The Complete Patient

In baseball, it’s three strikes and you’re out. The raw dairy/food rights movement has had three cases come up […]

Two Mexican states ban GM corn

The Mexican States of Tlaxcala and Michoacán each passed legislation banning the planting of genetically modified corn to protect natural plants from further contamination of transgenes.  Together, both states produce about a third of all of Mexico’s corn. Below this story is a detailed timeline of genetic contamination and legislation in Mexico.
By Aleira Lara
It’s […]

Human Hand Capabilities Impossible to Duplicate

by Brian Thomas
Institute For Creation Research

Excerpts:

“The latest and most advanced robot hand was recently described in the journal Smart Materials and Structures by two Virginia Polytechnic researchers. Their invention was supposedly optimized ‘to achieve near-human appearance and performance,’ according to a description on Physorg.com. But how close […]

Pulling the Curtains on Another CSPI Scare Campaign: Coconut Oil and Popcorn

The Center for Consumer Freedom

Better seventeen years late than never. The New York Times on Tuesday pulled the curtains on Center for Science in the Public Interest’s (CSPI) 1994 scare campaign that caused movie-theater popcorn sales to instantly plummet by as much as 50 percent. It wasn’t the popcorn itself that CSPI demonized; its […]

Soy consumption on vegan diet is related to hypogonadism and erectile dysfunction

Healthy Diets And Science

Published in Nutrition. 2011 Feb 23.

Hypogonadism and erectile dysfunction associated with soy product consumption.
Siepmann T, Roofeh J, Kiefer FW, Edelson DG.
Center for Autonomic and Peripheral Nerve Disorders, Beth Israel Medical Deaconess Center, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.

This paper can be accessed at: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21353476

Siepmann presents […]

A Big Fat Debate: the low-fat trend finally appears to be on its way out

by Kristin Wartman
Civil Eats
The low-fat trend finally appears to be on its way out. The notion that saturated fats are detrimental to our health is deeply embedded in our Zeitgeist—but shockingly, the opposite just might be true. For over 50 years the medical establishment, public health officials, nutritionists, and dieticians have been telling the American […]

Raw goat’s milk offers many benefits

by Luella May
(NaturalNews) In western civilization, most milk consumption is in the form of pasteurized and homogenized cow’s milk. Although such milk is portrayed as being healthy, it actually can lead to impaired health, including allergies, tooth decay, colic in babies, arthritis, heart disease, and even cancer. A much better choice is raw milk, […]

Obama declares state governors will enforce health care bill whether they like it or not

by Ethan A. Huff, staff writer
(NaturalNews) At a recent meeting with US state governors in Washington, DC, President Obama made clear his intent to force the individual states to comply with his unconstitutional health care overhaul. Twenty-six states have already filed federal lawsuits challenging the constitutionality of the bill — and some judges have […]