by Dr. Mercola
A new report finds that U.S. doctors are too quick to prescribe drugs, and often give little thought to side effects and non-drug alternatives.
Overprescription is rampant, according to experts. Nearly half of all Americans have used at least one prescription drug in the past month. Many are being exposed to side effects, […]
by Robert Nool
Nutritiopedia
Let’s make one thing clear – when someone is going to lower carbohydrate content in their diet, they should replace it mostly with fat, not protein. Eating a lot of protein with little fat and carbs may be a short term strategy for initiating fat loss, but not a healthy way of […]
Bad Side-Effects Ahead For Pharma?
by Martin Fridson
Forbes
In 2006, according to The New York Review of Books, four-year-old Rebecca Riley died of the effects of two prescription drugs—Clonidine and Depakote.
These medications, along with Seroquel, were prescribed for Rebecca after she was diagnosed, at the age of two, with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder […]
By Dr. Mercola
Harry Hucknall, a ten-year-old boy, died after hanging himself with a belt from his bunk bed. His father blames the death on Ritalin and Prozac, two drugs that the boy had been prescribed by a psychiatrist to cure his boisterous behavior and low spirits.
At the time of his death, the child had […]
Health Impact News Editor Comments: I saw the screening to this film this past weekend in L.A. It is definitely worth seeing if you want to be educated on the issues related to food freedom in the U.S., and the current attacks against family farms. Check here for screenings: http://farmageddonmovie.com/screenings/ Below is an interview with Kristin […]
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RVwItGutqyg
You would not be wrong thinking of Joel Salatin as a kind of food evangelist.
After all, he travels the country preaching common sense and real food with
all the energetic fervor of a true believer.
Recently, Mr. Salatin spoke to a sell-out audience (co-sponsored by The
Woodstock Land Conservancy and the Woodstock Farm Festival), where he
had plenty […]
by David Gumpert
The Complete Patient
Herdshares have been sprouting like grass in a well-watered pasture out in California. No one knows exactly how many there are, but by some estimates, there are 65, or possibly even 100 or more.
As in many states, California has no explicit rules regarding herdshares–in other words, they’re not illegal. Because […]
Press Release from The Lillie Center, Inc. (Ellijay GA)
June 22, 2011
New evidence confirms dentists controlled statements by CDC on fluoridation toxicity concerns
Another King family member speaks out as Fluoridegate scandal builds in Atlanta
Ellijay, GA – Swirling questions about conflicts of interest and improper influence grew rapidly today as Freedom […]
Image: Wikimedia Commons
by Steve Watson
Prisonplanet.com
Newly released internal government documents, obtained via the Freedom Of Information Act, reveal that the TSA, and specifically the head of the Department of Homeland Security, “publicly mischaracterized” the findings of the National Institute of Standards and Technology, in stating that NIST had […]
Dad Gives Toddler Battling Brain Cancer Medical Marijuana
by Melissa Luck | KXLY4 Executive Producer
To call what the Hyde family has been through a “parent’s worst nightmare” sounds like a horrible cliche. But, it’s hard to imagine what else you could call it. Their two-year old son Cash was diagnosed last year with a stage 4 […]
How FDA and State Regulators Have Turned into “Bouncers”
by David Gumpert
The Complete Patient
If you’ve ever been in a restaurant or club patrolled by bouncers, you know the system of justice is uneven. If you somehow violate the club rules–maybe are a little unruly, or try to converse with the entertainers–the punishment usually varies according […]
INDIA’S biggest manufacturer of ghee is planning to push it as a health food
by Robin Pagnamenta
The Times
Excerpts:
Ghee is the raw material at the heart of every authentic Indian curry and a holy offering revered in Hindu weddings.
The managing director of the Gujarat Co-operative Milk Marketing Federation, which owns India’s No1 ghee brand, Amul, […]
From Representative Aaron Libby
House District 139
Food Freedom
A Joint Resolution on Maine State Food Sovereignty passed unanimously [on June 10]. In essence a Joint Resolution has “no teeth” and does nothing. However I believe very strongly that this can and will send a message to the Federal government that we disapprove of their over regulation. […]
By Elias Hazou
Cyprus Mail
THE HOUSE voted into law a bill making it compulsory to display genetically-modified (GM) foods on separate shelves in shops and supermarkets.
GM foods and foods containing GM ingredients, will now be sold with a prominent sign stating clearly that these are GM foods, or food containing GM ingredients.
The law provides for […]
GM Crops – Farmer to Farmer
Michael Hart, a conventional livestock family farmer, has been farming in Cornwall for nearly thirty years and has actively campaigned on behalf of family farmers for over fifteen years, travelling extensively in Europe, India, Canada and the USA.
In this short documentary he […]
We have an epidemic of heart disease in our society today. Unfortunately, it is seldom diagnosed properly, and the cure is a very simple remedy. Yes, while an entire medical empire exists today armed with expensive drugs and equipment to manage high blood pressure and heart problems in the physical realm, a far deadlier disease rages out of control threatening to destroy your very existence: the disease of an unbelieving, hardened heart.
by Michael Egnor
Evolution News and Views
Jerry Coyne has a post on Darwinian medicine, which is a new branch of evolutionary biology that studies the evolutionary causes of disease and claims to provide evolutionary insights that are of therapeutic value.
I’m a professor at a medical school and I have several decades of experience […]
By Adrian MacNair – Abbotsford News
Derek Hoare had taken his eyes off his nine-year-old autistic daughter, Ayn Van Dyk, for just a moment.
Then she was gone.
Ayn had been playing in the backyard of his Mt. Lehman Road home, which was surrounded by a six-foot fence.
But somehow she had disappeared. Derek sprinted up the street […]
By Michael LaForgia
The Palm Beach Post
By the time Florida started paying Dr. Gold Smith Dorval to counsel and medicate jailed children, the Pembroke Pines psychiatrist already had experience with kids in state custody.
He had used them, authorities said, to bilk the government out of money for the poor.
When Dorval pleaded […]
In this interview with Dr. Mercola, Cherie Calbom talks about the advantages of juicing for health, and how juicing helps with Chronic Fatigue and weight loss. She also recommends coconut oil in the diet for weight loss.
Video transcript here.
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