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FDA Breaks Promise on Proposed New Supplement Rules
by Alliance for Natural Health
FDA promised not to enforce the NDI guidance until it was final. Last Friday, they broke that promise.
The specific provision that FDA has decided to enforce is the one that says synthetic botanicals will no longer be considered New Dietary Ingredients and must never be sold as supplements, only as […]
Take Action: Support Rep. Dan Burton’s Call for Congressional Hearings on Autism
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Representative Dan Burton recently published the letter below in The Hill calling for Congressional hearings into the causes of autism (including mercury and vaccines), the inadequacy of the Federal government’s response to the autism epidemic, and the failure of the […]
The Diet Myth That Is Destroying the Health of the World
Diet myths abound in the health industry, but one of the biggest myths of all is the idea that a calorie is a calorie, no matter where you get it from, or what the chemical or nutritional makeup of it is.
Evidence On The Dangers Of Lowering Cholesterol Dates Back 20 Years
The failure of cholesterol lowering to affect overall survival justifies a more cautious appraisal of the probable benefits of reducing cholesterol concentrations in the general population.
New Fluoride Warning Coming Soon to Your Water Bills
by Dr. Mercola
The largest state legislature in the U.S. recently passed a bill mandating infant fluoride warnings on all water bills in fluoridated communities. On March 15, the New Hampshire House of Representatives voted 253-23 in favor of the bill.
Thanks to a 13-2 recommendation from the House Resources, Recreation, and Development committee, there was […]
Removing Heavy Metals Like Mercury from the Body Is “Dangerous”?
by Alliance for Natural Health
Not only are doctors being advised to reject chelation therapy—they’re being asked to report on their colleagues who practice it.
The American College of Medical Toxicology held a conference at the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) this past February about the “use and misuse” of chelation therapy—a misleading […]
It’s Not Me: It’s My Adrenals! How Your Adrenals Govern Your Vitality
by Dr. Sara Gottfried, M.D.
saragottfriedmd.com
Do you wilt in the face of stress? Feel more anxious when you have to step up your game? Think you might be burned out?
It may not be you – it may be your hormones. Specifically, your stress hormones. Figure this out now, before you hit menopause, and your forties will […]
FDA “Concerned” About Safe Supplements with Zero Death Rate
By Dr. Mercola
Vitamins, minerals and herbal supplements have a tremendously safe track record, yet they are often singled out as being potentially dangerous by government agencies like the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA).
This – the notion that dietary supplements are unsafe — is the premise behind the FDA’s Draft Guidance on New Dietary […]
Chocolate Gives Statins A $29 Billion Run For Their Money
by Sayer Ji
GreenMedInfo.com
With the blockbuster cholesterol-lowering class of drugs known as statins being widely promoted for the primary prevention of cardiovascular disease, despite their having over 300 documented adverse health effects (including heart failure!), how does chocolate sound as a viable, heart-friendly alternative?
We already connect amorously with chocolate (to the tune of 6 billion lbs of cocoa […]
Battlefield acupuncture offers a safer, more effective alternative to dangerous painkiller drugs for soldiers
by: Christina Luisa
NaturalNews
(NaturalNews) Psychiatric drugs and painkillers are now being routinely used across the U.S. military, where violent suicides have skyrocketed to levels never before seen in history. In the military today, soldiers who suffer TBIs — Traumatic Brain Injuries — frequently receive treatment with mind-altering psychiatric drugs that have known side effects of […]
99 Percent of Breast Cancer Tissues Have Parabens From Cosmetics
by Dr. Mercola
New research has detected the presence of paraben esters in 99 percent of breast cancer tissues sampledi. The study examined 40 women who were being treated for primary breast cancer.In 60 percent of cases, five of the different esters were present.Parabens are chemicals with estrogen-like properties, and estrogen is one of the […]
It is Time to End the War on Salt
by Dr. Mercola
For many decades now, U.S. policy makers have been attempting to get Americans to eat less salt. But the drive to do this has little basis in science. In fact, a recent meta-analysis by the Cochrane Review involving a total of 6,250 subjects found no strong evidence that cutting salt intake reduces […]
Heart Disease: How Inflammation May Be The Real Culprit, Not Cholesterol
Dr John Briffa
The Cholesterol Truth
Excerpts:
Someone sent me an interesting link this week. It was to a letter which had been published in the Daily Mail newspaper on 13th March. Entitled ‘Medical statistics which just don’t add up…’ it was written by Dr G Edlin, a doctor based in north-west London in the UK. In the […]
FDA Wants $220M from Food Producers After Congress Already Said No
by Alliance for Natural Health
Can’t get what you want by legitimate means? Just try an end-run around the system!
The FDA has submitted its budget funding request for FY 2013. That request includes $220 million in food facility registration fees. FDA would use the money to “increase its capacity to establish an integrated national food […]
The cholesterol hypothesis: time for the obituary?
Dr. Schersten, professor of Vascular Surgery, University of Göteborg and previously the Principal Secretary of the Swedish Medical Research Council, headed up this study which was recently published in the Scandinavian Cardiovascual Journal.
Abstract
The cholesterol hypothesis links cholesterol intake and blood levels to cardiovascular disease. It has had enormous impact on health care and society during […]
American Medical Revolutions: How the AMA Took Over America
About 170 years ago our ancestors forced the repeal of licensing laws which had created a monopoly over the practice of medicine for orthodox physicians. Ordinary people, farmers, artisans, tradesmen and others got together and forced politicians to act on their behalf. They were tired of bloodletting, and harsh medications like mercury compounds that ruined their teeth and weakened their bodies. They opted for kinder and gentler alternatives with lower casualty rates, particularly the newly introduced homeopathy. They were impressed that tiny doses of medicine were able to cure cholera much better than the massive doses used by orthodox physicians. Today physicians who practice alternative medicine, in competition with regular physicians, are subject to harassment. In the state of Washington about 30% of them are being harassed at this time. Those who make substantial advancements in medical science often find the Federal Government moving against them. The FDA and FTC have used taxpayer money to suppress new technology in a number of cases. The purpose of the new licensing laws was to protect the public but, in fact, monopolized medical care, according to reports, has been killing over 200,000 of us every year and promises to bankrupt the country. These laws are used to prevent free public access to less lethal, more effective and less expensive therapies. As Daniel Haley so eloquently wrote, in Politics in Healing, “we don’t need government protection from things that can’t hurt us”. Medical science should be a search for the truth and many medical scientists have spent their lives in this search. Unfortunately scientific medicine, as practiced by the medical monopoly during the last century, has rejected the discoveries of a number of medical scientists. Too many promising technologies have been consigned to the dust bin of history. As a result, medical services are much more expensive than they should be and lower in quality than they could be. Less suppression and more competition can make people healthier at lower cost. One hundred years of suppression of advancements in medical science is enough! It is time for another "American Medical Revolution."
“FDA Went Too Far” Says Judge
by Alliance for Natural Health
A court has stopped FDA’s latest attempt to censor food and supplement science. Action Alert!
An FDA disclaimer about green tea and the risk of cancer is so strongly worded that it “effectively negates” the manufacturer’s qualified health claim (QHC) and violates the First Amendment, according to US District Court Judge […]
Putting The Myth To Rest: There Is No Such Thing As Bad Cholesterol
by PreventDisease.com
Perhaps one of the biggest health myths propagated in western culture and certainly in the United States, is the correlation between elevated cholesterol and cardiovascular disease (CVD). Unfortunately, despite dozens of studies, cholesterol has not been shown to actually cause CVD. To the contrary, cholesterol is vital to our survival, and trying to […]
Heart Surgeon Admits He was Wrong About Low Fat Diet and Heart Disease
We physicians with all our training, knowledge and authority often acquire a rather large ego that tends to make it difficult to admit we are wrong. So, here it is. I freely admit to being wrong. As a heart surgeon with 25 years experience, having performed over 5,000 open-heart surgeries, today is my day to right the wrong with medical and scientific fact. I trained for many years with other prominent physicians labelled “opinion makers.” Bombarded with scientific literature, continually attending education seminars, we opinion makers insisted heart disease resulted from the simple fact of elevated blood cholesterol. The only accepted therapy was prescribing medications to lower cholesterol and a diet that severely restricted fat intake. The latter of course we insisted would lower cholesterol and heart disease. Deviations from these recommendations were considered heresy and could quite possibly result in malpractice. These recommendations are no longer scientifically or morally defensible. The long-established dietary recommendations have created epidemics of obesity and diabetes, the consequences of which dwarf any historical plague in terms of mortality, human suffering and dire economic consequences. Despite the fact that 25% of the population takes expensive statin medications and despite the fact we have reduced the fat content of our diets, more Americans will die this year of heart disease than ever before.
Can Probiotics Prevent the Development of Celiac Disease?
by Dr. Mercola
Probiotics, or “friendly bacteria,” are essential in establishing a healthy gut flora, and this may be a crucial factor both in helping to prevent celiac disease, an autoimmune disorder that affects at least 3 million Americans,i as well as in reducing adverse (though seldom diagnosed) symptoms associated with […]