by Dr. Mercola
A review of the medical research on zinc shows that when it is taken within one day of the first symptoms, it can cut down the time you have a cold by about 24 hours. It also greatly reduces the severity of symptoms.
The authors of the review did not make any suggestions […]
Think it’s a good idea to flush your antibiotics when they expire? Think again! Flushing any medication risks contamination of our drinking water.
by BodyEcology.com
What you flush down the toilet can end up your drinking water.
Out-dated pharmaceuticals or prescription medicine that you no longer need can be tricky to get rid of. If you throw pharmaceuticals […]
By BodyEcology.com
What do pregnancy and an underactive thyroid have to do with each other?
These are two seemingly unrelated conditions. However, postpartum hypothyroidism is more common than most people think and does not always show up in traditional thyroid blood tests that only test for thyroid stimulating hormone (TSH). If you feel […]
by Jeannie Moulton
There’s a long list of anti-inflammatory foods that can help manage inflammation and pain in the body – and ginger may be one of the best. In a new study, ginger was found to be superior to common non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs).
Read the Story Here: http://eatdrinkbetter.com/2011/03/02/is-ginger-better-than-drugs/
Cheddar cheese being produced at Morningland Dairy during happier times.
by David E. Gumpert
The Complete Patient
A few weeks ago I asked in a post whether a Missouri judge might be willing to explore new directions suggested by the Farm-to-Consumer Legal Defense Fund before condemning $250,000 worth of Morningland Dairy raw cow’s and goat’s milk cheeses.
The […]
By Leigh Krietsch Boerner
(Reuters Health)
Drinking yogurt with extra vitamin D may help people with diabetes regulate their blood sugar, a study from Iran finds. In the trial, 90 adults with diabetes were divided into three groups, all given daily yogurt drinks: one group received plain yogurt, one got yogurt with extra vitamin D, […]
Alliance for Natural Health
In North Carolina, a blind mother of three autistic boys took on North Carolina Medicaid—and won.
Meleah Corner had been taking her sons to a clinic for hyperbaric oxygen therapy (HBOT) treatment for their autism. Both Meleah’s pediatrician and a neurologist noted clinically that there was a definite improvement […]
by oneindia living
Peeling lips is a common feature in the season of spring/summer. While in other parts of the body has 16 layers of skin, lips have 3-4 layers and thus are prone to cuts, bruises and seasonal changes. During the Spring/Summer season, the wind tends to dry the lips by making it devoid of […]
by Dana Ullman, MPH
(NaturalNews)
The Academy Award-winning film of the year, “The King’s Speech”, depicts the compelling story of King George VI and his speech therapist, Lionel Logue. Lionel Logue was neither a physician nor a conventional speech therapist, but his treatment strategies were impressively successful. What is less well known is that King George VI […]
By: JAMIE STENGLE
The Washington Examiner
As the weather warms and the brown landscape turns green, Stephanie Weyenberg’s thoughts turn to planting for her family’s early spring garden.
Gardening is more than just a hobby: She and her husband, Matt, grow most of the fruit and vegetables […]
by Margie King
Nutrition Examiner
Recently the Harvard School of Public Health issued its criticism of the new USDA 2010 Dietary Guidelines for Americans, complaining that among other things, the new guidelines were too soft on red meat. It points out that a porterhouse steak has 44 grams of fat, 16 of which are […]
By MELISSA CLARK
N.Y. Times
Excerpts:
“Two groups have helped give coconut oil its sparkly new makeover. One is made up of scientists, many of whom are backtracking on the worst accusations against coconut oil. And the other is the growing number of vegans, who rely on it as a sweet vegetable fat that is solid at room […]
by Tom Philpott
Grist
Dean Foods is by far the largest U.S. dairy processor. According to Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), Dean processes 40 percent of fluid milk consumed in the U.S., which it distrubutes in a dizzying array of brands. Its dominance extends to organic milk, too — Dean’s Horizon brand is the largest […]
By WALT BOGDANICH and KRISTINA REBELO
New York Times
Dr. Sclafani noticed that a newborn had been irradiated from head to toe — with no gonadal shielding — even though only a simple chest X-ray had been ordered.
“I was mortified,” he wrote on July 27, 2007. Worse, technologists had given the same baby about […]
From AboutLawsuits.com
A federal judge has refused to toss out a whistleblower lawsuit backed by the Department of Justice (DOJ), which accuses Johnson & Johnson of involvement in an illegal kickback scheme to push their antipsychotic drugs on elderly nursing home residents that did not need them.
Johnson & Johnson sought to have […]
From DrugWatch.com
Approximately 700,000 visits to the emergency room were linked to drug-related poisoning in 2007, according to a new study published February 28 on the Nationwide Children’s Hospital website. Researchers found that 44 percent of poisonings were caused by prescription medications such antidepressants and opioid pain relievers.
The study found […]
by Peter Ballerstedt, PhD
Nature Votes Last
Temperature, humidity, soil, sunlight, electricity, vital force, express themselves primarily in vegetable existence that furnishes the basis of that animal life which yields sustenance to the human race. What a man, a community, a nation can do, think, suffer, imagine or achieve depends upon what […]
by Keith Line
Natural Food List
5. Because the world should eat more food that is less nutritious
Kicking off the countdown, we start with the biggest “duh” moment for the organic foodies out there. We need to eat food that is lower in vitamins and minerals. Now, there are plenty of reports […]
Energy Drinks
Raw Milk
your child can choose to buy this wholesome drink in any store
but they cannot choose this dangerous
beverage in most places
by C. M. Brubaker
Chilliwack Times
Re: raw milk.
I would like to get my two cents in on this one.
I concur with all the other reasons stated why we should be able to buy […]
by Dr. Mercola
U.S. researchers have found that people who used two types of pesticides were 2.5 times as likely to develop Parkinson’s disease. The pesticides in question are paraquat and rotenone, which are not approved for house and garden use. Research on animals had already linked paraquat to Parkinson’s.
According to Yahoo News: “Rotenone directly inhibits the […]
