Debunking the Myth About High Cholesterol Levels

by Dr. Mercola
Could it be possible that nearly everything your doctor and the media is telling you about high cholesterol and how it relates to heart disease and strokes is wrong?

Absolutely!

The media and health experts have been giving out massive misinformation about cholesterol. In a thought-provoking two-part series, Dr. Ernest N. […]

Love: The Power to Heal

What is love? What power does true love have to bring about healing?

American Eugenics on the Eve of Nazi Expansion: The Darwin Connection

by Michael Flannery
Evolution News
In the face of strong and convincing evidence linking Darwinism to the evolutionary ethic and “racial hygiene” of the Nazis (see Richard Weikart’s From Darwin to Hitler and Hitler’s Ethic; see also the Nazi propaganda film “Upfer der Vergangenheit” [“Victims of the Past”]), Darwinian ideologues have typically reacted with denials and indignation. […]

In Vitro Conception now Allows Parents to Choose or “Discard” Babies Based on Their Gender

[Health Impact News] Tom Kisken of the Ventura County Star wrote an article this week discussing the practice of parents choosing the gender of their babies using a controversial in vitro procedure. He highlighted the story of a family that had given birth to three boys and wanted to be sure their fourth child was […]

Cholesterol and Vitamin D are Crucial for Pregnant Women

By Dr. Stephanie Seneff
Mercola.com
Just about everyone in America is convinced of two well-established tenets for how to live a long and healthy life:

Eat a low-fat diet
Avoid the damaging rays of the sun

My goal in this essay is to convince you that these two tenets, […]

Dietary intake of saturated fat NOT associated with cardiovascular disease

Homemade Mayonnaise
[Health Impact News] It’s amazing how analysis of scientific studies regarding saturated fats and heart disease changes when one does not start out with the presupposition that “saturated fat is evil and causes clogged arteries and heart disease,” which has been repeated so many times over the past couple of decades that it came […]

American Academy of Pediatrics Promotes Big Pharma Agenda—Labeling and drugging 4-year-olds

Citizens Commission on Human Rights

4-year-olds on drugs? You betcha. The  American Academy of Pediatrics issued new treatment guidelines for “Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder” that say ADHD can be diagnosed in kids as early as age four, and that Ritalin and similar drugs are an appropriate treatment even for children this […]

Drugging of children for “ADHD” has become an epidemic

by Dr. Peter R. Breggin
The New York Times

Excerpts:
The drugging of children for A.D.H.D. has become an epidemic. More than 5 million U.S. children, or 9.5 percent, were diagnosed with A.D.H.D. as of 2007. About 2.8 million had received a prescription for a stimulant medication in 2008.
The A.D.H.D. diagnosis does not identify a […]

Are Vitamin Supplements Dangerous?

by Alliance for Natural Health
New info about last week’s horribly flawed vitamin study. This story keeps getting worse and worse. A new Action Alert!
Last Monday the Archives of Internal Medicine released a study claiming that vitamin use might lead to an earlier death. This set off a major media feeding frenzy, wave […]

CDC caught in blatant lies about pandemics and vaccines

by: PF Louis
NaturalNews

(NaturalNews) The CDC relies on an authoritative presence to influence not just USA health policy, but world health policy. This prestigious presence also demands more federal funding, which is being questioned. It seems that the CDC’s research, practices, and expenditures have been under scrutiny lately.

Although very few know […]

Michele Bachmann Proved Right About Gardasil

by Autism Action Network

Canary Party Press Conference Today in Las Vegas

Turns out that Michelle Bachmann was right about Gardasil: the Canary Party will present proof of girls with cognitive impairment from the controversial vaccine at a press conference preceding the GOP debate tonight in Las Vegas.

Here is the Canary Party’s press […]

Doctors speak out: healthcare has been reduced to a making money factor

by S. L. Baker
NaturalNews

(NaturalNews) Two doctors from Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard’s teaching hospital, have taken an unusual step for the medical profession. These courageous physicians are speaking out about today’s healthcare system which emphasizes money over individualized patient care.

In an article just published in The New England Journal of […]

Why You Should Maintain Optimal Dietary Cholesterol Levels

by Dr. Mercola

Dr. Stephanie Seneff is a senior research scientist at MIT where she has been conducting research in computer science for over three decades. She also has an undergraduate degree in biology from MIT, and a minor in food and nutrition. She’s affiliated with the Weston A. Price Foundation […]

New Research Highlights High Antioxidant Activity of Traditionally Made Coconut Oil

Health Impact News Editor Comments: As the first ones to export organic traditionally made virgin coconut oil from the Philippines to the United States ten years ago, we were very interested in reading about this research done in Sri Lanka published today. Laboratory tests done at the University of the Philippines back in 2006 […]

Why You Might Want to Think Twice Before Donating to Anti-Cancer Charities

By Dr. Mercola
In a scandal that has reverberated around the world of cancer research, the Office of Research Integrity at the U.S. Department of Health found that a Boston University cancer scientist fabricated his findings. His work was published in two journals in 2009, and he’s been ordered to retract them. But important studies […]

Warring drug companies put profit above patients

By Tom Kisken
Ventura County Star

Excerpts:
Drug companies Johnson & Johnson and Amgen battled each other so bitterly in a market share war that they pushed drugs and dosages jeopardizing patients’ lives, said the Santa Barbara author of a book about Johnson & Johnson whistle-blowers. Kathleen Sharp’s “Blood Feud” focuses on anemia drugs […]

Report on Medicare Cites Prescription Drug Abuse

By ROBERT PEAR
New York Times
Medicare is subsidizing drug abuse by thousands of beneficiaries who shop around for doctors and fill prescriptions for huge quantities of painkillers and other narcotics far exceeding what any patient could safely use, Congressional investigators say in a new report. The investigators, from the Government Accountability Office, […]

The Damaging Effects of Pharmaceutical Drugs

By Dr. Mercola
In 2009 in the U.S. there were nearly 4.6 million drug-related visits to emergency rooms nationwide, with more than half due to adverse reactions to prescription medications – most of which were being taken exactly as prescribed.

What’s more, these types of ER visits jumped by more than half just between 2004 and […]

High Cholesterol Levels Not a Health Risk: May Increase Life Span

by Dr John Briffa,
The Cholesterol truth

Excerpts:
A couple of weeks ago my blog post featured some research which found no association between total cholesterol levels and heart disease in a huge sample of individuals living in England. Moreover, this research found that higher levels of cholesterol were associated with a reduced risk of death due […]

How American Conventional Nutritionists or Dieticians are Regularly Manipulated by the Food Industry

by Dr. Mercola
The American Dietetic Association’s (ADA) annual conference is often called “the world’s largest meeting of food and nutrition experts.” According to the ADA, the conference brings together “more than 10,000 registered dietitians, nutrition science researchers, policy makers, health-care providers and industry leaders to address key issues affecting […]