Federal Official says to Avoid BPA

Federal Official says to Avoid BPA

A high-level federal health official warns Americans not to be exposed to a ubiquitous chemical, found in many plastics, baby products, bottles, canned foods and more.

Daily Green | Dan Shapley | The Food and Drug Administration was to have ruled Monday whether Bisphenol A is safe for continued use in food packaging and other food-related products, including some water bottles, baby bottles and an array of food packaging. But one key federal official has already reached a decision, according to another in a series of revelations about the controversial chemical in the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel.

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New Report: Childhood Diabetes Caused by High Fructose Corn Syrup

New Report: Childhood Diabetes Caused by High Fructose Corn Syrup

Fructose can cause dangerous growths of fat cells around vital organs and is able to trigger the early stages of diabetes and heart disease.

Times Online | Lois Rogers | Scientists have proved for the first time that a cheap form of sugar used in thousands of food products and soft drinks can damage human metabolism and is fuelling the obesity crisis.

Fructose, a sweetener derived from corn, can cause dangerous growths of fat cells around vital organs and is able to trigger the early stages of diabetes and heart disease.

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Resveratrol May Prove Beneficial for Women’s Health

Resveratrol May Prove Beneficial for Women’s Health

Resveratrol might be the most promising candidate for HRT and prevention of breast cancer.

Menopause is a natural part of aging in women between the ages of 45 and 55. It is characterized by a drop in estrogen levels, with symptoms that include hot flashes, fatigue, and weight gain, and health risks that include osteoporosis (1). In an effort to counter menopause symptoms, many women try hormone replacement therapy. But studies in 2002 (2) and 2004 (3) found that hormone replacement therapy increases risks for both cancer and deep vein thrombosis.

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Beer Appears to Prevent Prostate Cancer

Beer Appears to Prevent Prostate Cancer

Beer-drinking may be reduce chances of developing prostate cancer with every pint, tests by scientists have revealed.

Sky News | Lewis Dean | Beer-drinking men may be reducing their chances of developing prostate cancer with every pint, tests by scientists have revealed.

Experiments have shown that xanthohumol, a compund derived from the hops in beer, blocks a chemical reaction that can lead to the development of cancer.

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Food Safety Experts Will NOT Eat These Seven Foods

Food Safety Experts Will NOT Eat These Seven Foods

The Food Safety Experts stay away from these seven food items.

OCA | Want to know the foods that the “food safety experts” won’t eat? Prevention Magazine decided to ask. They posed the question, “What foods do you avoid?” to the people whose work is to uncover what's safe to eat – or not. Here's what they said:

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Cooking Up Cancer in the Kitchen

Cooking Up Cancer in the Kitchen
How much does cancer have to do with contaminants in our water or air -- or in certain plastic containers in our kitchens?

The battle over health care focuses on access to insurance, or tempests like the one that erupted over new mammogram guidelines.

But what about broader public health challenges? What if breast cancer in the United States has less to do with insurance or mammograms and more to do with contaminants in our water or air -- or in certain plastic containers in our kitchens? What if the surge in asthma and childhood leukemia reflect, in part, the poisons we impose upon ourselves?

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Gluten Disorder Rising

Gluten Disorder Rising

Wheat and Gluten intolerance is four times more common today than 50 years ago, a new study reveals.

Living Healthy | Dr. Mercola | A study using frozen blood samples taken from Air Force recruits 50 years ago has found that intolerance of wheat gluten, a debilitating digestive condition, is four times more common today than it was in the 1950’s.

The findings contradict the conventional wisdom that the sharp increase in diagnoses of wheat gluten intolerance has come about because of greater awareness and detection. It now seems likely that dramatic changes in the American diet have played a role.

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Vaccines are Big Money for Big Pharma

Vaccines are Big Money for Big Pharma

Vaccine sales are excpected to double, from $19 billion last year to $39 billion in 2013.

Omaha World Herald | Malaria. Tuberculosis. Alzheimer’s disease. AIDS. Pandemic flu. Genital herpes. Urinary tract infections. Grass allergies. Traveler’s diarrhea. You name it, the pharmaceutical industry is working on a vaccine to prevent it.

Many vaccines could be on the market in five years or less.

Contrast that with five years ago, when so many companies had abandoned the vaccine business that half the U.S. supply of flu shots was lost because of contamination at one of the two remaining manufacturers.

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Household Toxins Reach Babies Before Birth

Household Toxins Reach Babies Before Birth

New research shows that chemicals from everyday products contaminate women's bodies, and that their children enter the world already exposed to known toxics.

Sphere | Andrew Schneider | It is one of the worst nightmares for a mother-to-be: She's poisoning the baby in her belly, and there is little she can do about it.

Now new research out Tuesday has put hard numbers to those fears, showing that chemicals from everyday products contaminate women's bodies, and that their children enter the world already exposed to known toxics.

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Red Yeast Rice Helps Colon Health in Addition to Reducing Cholesterol

Red Yeast Rice Helps Colon Health in Addition to Reducing Cholesterol

In a recent study red yeast rice significantly stopped growth of colon cancer cells.

Nutrition for Optimal Wellness | Greg Arnold, DC, CSCS | Red yeast rice is a fermented rice eaten throughout Asia ⁽¹⁾ that has been used for medicinal purposes for more than 1,200 years ⁽²⁾. Red yeast rice has been shown for more than a decade to be very effective in helping maintain healthy cholesterol levels. A 1999 study showed that 2400 mg per day of red yeast rice produced an 18% decrease in total cholesterol and a 23% decrease in LDL cholesterol ⁽³⁾. Now a 2008 lab study ⁽⁴⁾ suggests that red yeast rice may also help maintain colon health.

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Is BPA Turning Off Your Sex Life?

Is BPA Turning Off Your Sex Life?

Erectile dysfunction and ejaculation problems were two side effects in a recent study of men exposed to high levels of bisphenol A, or BPA.

AlterNet | Elaine Shannon | When people ask whether modern synthetics are damaging their health and endangering future generations, Topic A is nearly always bisphenol A (BPA), a synthetic estrogen, an integral component of polycarbonate plastics and epoxy resins and one of the highest volume industrial chemicals in existence.

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Coffee and Cancer

Coffee and Cancer
Women who drink at least two cups of caffeinated coffee a day may have a lower risk for this cancer of cells lining the uterus.

Women dread a diagnosis of endometrial cancer, but those who drink at least two cups of caffeinated coffee a day may have a lower risk for this cancer of cells lining the uterus.

Coffee drinking seemed to particularly protect overweight and obese women, study co-author Dr. Emilie Friberg, at the Karolinska Intstituet in Stockholm, Sweden, told Reuters Health by email.

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Non-Stick Cookware Hazards

Non-Stick Cookware Hazards

Toxic fumes from the Teflon chemical are released from pots and pans at high temperatures, potentially killing pet birds and causing people to exhibit flu-like symptoms.

EWG | Non-stick cookware has been popular because, well, it's non-stick -- very convenient to use and clean. But it also emits toxic fumes when overheated. Environmental Working Group recommends that you choose safer cookware to reduce the risk of inhaling toxic particles when you let that non-stick pan get a little too hot. And who doesn't do that occasionally?

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Niacin Lowers Cholesterol Better than Prescription Drugs

Niacin Lowers Cholesterol Better than Prescription Drugs
A new study out shows vitamin B3, also known as niacin, lowers bad cholesterol more effectively than common statin drugs.

A new study out shows vitamin B3, also known as niacin, lowers bad cholesterol more effectively than a common statin drug, ezetimibe, sold as Zetia. Statins inhibit the absorption of cholesterol from the intestine, which then reduces the amount of LDL (bad cholesterol) in the blood stream. Since high cholesterol has been linked to cardiovascular disease, lowering LDL levels has been widely adopted as good preventive medicine.

However a new study, published in the New England Journal of Medicine, not only shows niacin contributing to a more significant drop in bad cholesterol (LDL), but also shows increases in the amount of good cholesterol (HDL). Niacin seems to reduce the plaque-like build up in veins and arteries when compared to ezetimibe. Most importantly, the study concluded “The incidence of major cardiovascular events was lower in the niacin group than in the ezetimibe group (1% vs. 5%, P=0.04 by the chi-square test).”

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Mirafit FBCx Reduces Caloric Absorption Confirmed by Clincial Study

Mirafit FBCx Reduces Caloric Absorption Confirmed by Clincial Study

Mirafit fbcx is a soluble fiber derived from corn that reduces human body absorption of consumed fat.

Reuters | A scientific study presented at the annual meeting of The Obesity Society confirmed significant weight loss using the pill mirafit fbcx(R). Dr. K-L Catherine Jen and Dr. Joseph Artiss, principals at ArtJen Complexus USA, LLC, presented these clinical study findings on October 27, at The Obesity Society 2009 annual scientific meeting at the Marriott Wardman Park Hotel in Washington, D.C., The Obesity Society's 27th annual scientific meeting.

According to Drs. Jen and Artiss, "Mirafit fbcx is a soluble fiber derived from corn that reduces human body absorption of consumed fat. Taken as directed, six tablets a day will reduce caloric absorption from 2,000 kilocalories/day to 1,500. This is equivalent to approximately 50-60 percent of fat or 25-30 percent of calories from the typical American diet. Five hundred kilocalories per day becomes 3,500 kilocalories per week, which equates to a weight loss of about 1-1 1/2 pounds per week."

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Lower Cholesterol Equals Lower Cancer

Lower Cholesterol Equals Lower Cancer

Low total cholesterol is associated with 60 percent lower risk of prostate cancer while higher levels of good cholesterol HDL may protect against lung, liver cancers.

Most people know that healthy cholesterol levels can help protect your heart. But new research suggests another potential benefit: a lower risk of developing some types of cancer.

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Chemicals, Cancer, and Conflict of Interest

Chemicals, Cancer, and Conflict of Interest

“Everyone should know that the ‘war on cancer’ is largely a fraud.” – Dr. Linus Pauling, winner of the Nobel Peace Prize and the Nobel Prize in chemistry

A new documentary looks at some of the major chemical makers – including Dow Chemical, Bayer, Dupont, Monsanto – and how they produce cancer causing chemicals that pollute our environment, while at the same time, they are developing cancer treatments and profiting from the very disease their products are causing.

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Drugging Our Children For Behavior Control

Drugging Our Children For Behavior Control

Is little Johnny misbehaving? Perhaps he's jumping out of his chair at school and talking out of turn. For many people the solution is simple: fill those energetic children with drugs! They fit right into the mold (any mold for that matter) that a teacher / administrator / guardian may want.

The amount of prescriptions for psychotropic drugs for America's children has more than doubled between 1995 and 2000. There certainly exists devastating consequences of this excessive medicating of our children with mind-altering drugs.

The medical establishment, in partnership with the pharmaceutical megaCorporations, have decided that being a kid: fidgeting, speaking out of turn, not wanting to sit still, is a disease and it must be treated with dangerous (and expensive) drugs.

The diagnosis of ADHD is often made based on anecdotal evidence and standardized assessments from parents and teachers, without giving consideration to other potential factors like home life, diet and nutrition, and environmental toxins.

The end result for kids diagnosed with ADHD, as the video below shows, is almost always medications.

It gives one pause to wonder: For over 200 years the children of America have had easy access to guns and other weapons, yet RARELY ever committed suicide or violent acts in schools. Why is it that today a month doesn't seem to go by before children are acting like deranged killers? Take a look at this important video.

This revealing documentary by Gary Null details the devastating consequences of this excessive medicating of our children with mind-altering drugs.

The film focuses on children who have been diagnosed with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), even though evidence to verify such a diagnosis is lacking.

Warning: If you care about the children of America, this film could be disturbing.

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A Glass of Wine Every Day May Be Good in Six Ways

A Glass of Wine Every Day May Be Good in Six Ways

The list of wine’s benefits is long—and getting more surprising all the time. Already well-known as heart healthy, wine in moderation might help you lose weight, reduce forgetfulness, boost your immunity, and help prevent bone loss.

With America likely to edge out France and Italy in total wine consumption in the near future, according to one analyst, and with women buying more than 6 out of every 10 bottles sold in this country, we’re happy to report that wine may do all of the following:

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The New Religion of Consumerism

The New Religion of Consumerism
Our enormously productive economy demands that we make consumption our way of life, that we convert the buying and use of goods into rituals, that we seek our spiritual satisfaction and our ego satisfaction in consumption. We need things consumed, burned up, worn out, replaced and discarded at an ever-increasing rate.
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Decreasing Alzheimer's Agitation with Lemon Oil

Decreasing Alzheimer's Agitation with Lemon Oil
A medical study funded by the Alzheimer's society, has concluded that there are therapeutic benefits in aromatherapy for psychiatric disorders. Alzheimer's disease was included in the study. Clinical trials have shown a potential for effective treatment, but more clinical trials are needed.
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Autism, Mercury and Vaccines

Autism, Mercury and Vaccines
Thimerosal... is directly related to the Autism epidemic. And it could have been prevented if the FDA was not alseep at the switch because of misplaced protectionism of the pharmaceutical industry.
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Life Support Systems on Earth Failing

Life Support Systems on Earth Failing

By some estimates, 12,000 species go extinct every year, and the rate is accelerating. Akin to a cataclysmic asteroid, pollution, logging, over-exploitation, consumption, land use changes and engineering projects have produced the planet's sixth great extinction of species.

Freshwater ecosystems may be the first collapse of one of Earth's life support systems in 13,000 years. Species that live in lakes and rivers are vanishing four to six times faster than anywhere else on the planet, said Klement Tockner of the Leibniz-Institute of Freshwater Ecology and Inland Fisheries in Germany.

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Red Palm Oil - Ancient Healing Power

Red Palm Oil - Ancient Healing Power

For generations, red palm oil has been revered as both a nutritious food and a valuable medicine. Even now, scientists are beginning to recognise the value of the prized plant in the treatment and prevention of several diseases. Ben Ukwuoma writes on the latest scientific work presented at the International Biomedical Science Congress held in Birminghan United Kingdom by a Nigerian scientist, based in Cape Town South Africa on the nutritional and healing properties inherent in the plant.

It was prized by the Pharaohs of ancient Egypt as a sacred food. The oil was so highly valued that it was entombed with the Pharaohs so that they would have access to it in the afterlife.

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Low-Level Mercury Exposure, Zinc Deficiency and Learning Disabilities

Low-Level Mercury Exposure, Zinc Deficiency and Learning Disabilities

Child learning and behavioral disorders are on the rise. Increasingly, diet-related factors like synthetic food dyes, mercury contamination and mineral deficiencies are being linked to these problems.

A new study in this month's issue of the peer-reviewed Behavioral and Brain Functions Journal suggests an important new model for how these disparate factors in the food system may be interacting to create a much bigger overall problem than typically is appreciated by looking at these diet factors individually.

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Curry Kills Cancer

Curry Kills Cancer
A molecule found in a curry ingredient can kill esophageal cancer cells in the laboratory, suggesting it might be developed as an anti-cancer treatment, scientists said on Wednesday. Researchers at the Cork Cancer Research Center in Ireland treated esophageal cancer cells with curcumin -- a chemical found in the spice turmeric, which gives curries a distinctive yellow color -- and found it started to kill cancer cells within 24 hours.

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Stomach Flu... Or Industrial Meat?

Stomach Flu... Or Industrial Meat?
The CDC has estimated there are 76 million cases of food-borne illness that happen in America each year. And in all likelihood, most were was created by factory farming.
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Children Lacking Vitamin D at Risk for Health Problems

Children Lacking Vitamin D at Risk for Health Problems
Elizabeth Cohen | Millions of children could be at risk for health problems because they lack vitamin D. CNN's Elizabeth Cohen reports. READ MORE AND WATCH VIDEO.

Cheap Food... Is Neither

Cheap Food... Is Neither
Somewhere in Iowa, a pig is being raised in a confined pen, packed in so tightly with other swine that their curly tails have been chopped off so they won't bite one another. To prevent him from getting sick in such close quarters, he is dosed with antibiotics. The waste produced by the pig and his thousands of pen mates on the factory farm where they live goes into manure lagoons that blanket neighboring communities with air pollution and a stomach-churning stench. He's fed on American corn that was grown with the help of government subsidies and millions of tons of chemical fertilizer. When the pig is slaughtered, at about 5 months of age, he'll become sausage or bacon that will sell cheap, feeding an American addiction to meat that has contributed to an obesity epidemic currently afflicting
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High Fructose Corn Syrup, When Heated, Can Become Downright Dangerous

High Fructose Corn Syrup, When Heated, Can Become Downright Dangerous

If you know anything about the food supply, you know that honey bees are a crucial part of the food production chain. In the United States, they pollinate roughly one-third of all the crops we eat, and without them, we’d be facing a disastrous collapse in viable food production.

That’s why, when honey bees started to disappear a few years ago, scientists scrambled to find the root cause of the phenomenon, which has since been dubbed “Colony Collapse Disorder”.

The name is a bit of a misnomer, though. It’s not really a “disorder.” It’s more of a poisoning. Or at least that’s what we may be learning from new research that’s just been published in the ACS’ Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry.

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How Plants Protect Us From Disease

How Plants Protect Us From Disease
Everyday foods, beverages, and spices contain healthful compounds that help us fight harmful inflammation. And, in doing that, these phytochemicals —- the resveratrol in red wine or the catechins in green, white and black teas, for instance—may also reduce our risk of diseases associated with chronic inflammation, including cancer and diabetes.

At the Agricultural Research Service (ARS) Western Human Nutrition Research Center in Davis, Calif., research molecular biologist Daniel H. Hwang conducts studies to solve the complex puzzle of precisely how phytochemicals fight inflammation. His investigations with cells cultured in his laboratory have uncovered probable modes of action used by phytochemicals from red wine, green tea, garlic, curcumin and cinnamon.

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Botany of Desire by Michael Pollan

Botany of Desire by Michael Pollan

Michael Pollan has been awfully busy these days, and in addition to the new Omnivore’s Dilemma for Kids (out now!), his upcoming Food Rules: An Eater’s Manual, and a live online chat last week, PBS will soon premiere The Botany of Desire, a television special based on one of his earlier books.

The Botany of Desire was the first of Michael’s books that I read, and it helped ignite my fascination with food history and zeal for understanding where our food comes from, so I am really excited to see the show. By examining the intricate relationship between humans and four plants (apples, potatoes, tulips, and marijuana), Botany reveals how certain plant species have used us to their advantage and proliferated exponentially by offering attractive qualities to us.

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Top Ten Swine Flu Protection Supplements

Top Ten Swine Flu Protection Supplements
As we all nervously await the oncoming H1N1 Swine Flu pandemic, the media is awash in controversy about Big-Pharma and the Governments solution: the untested, and potentionally dangerous vaccine. Here are the top ten, natural Swine Flu Protection Supplements for those looking to protect themselves without the experimental vaccine.

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Planting Hemp on the Lawn of the DEA Farmers are Arrested

Planting Hemp on the Lawn of the DEA Farmers are Arrested
You want to dig a garden, you need a shovel. You want to dig a guerrilla garden of illegal hemp on the front lawn of Drug Enforcement Administration headquarters and get arrested for the cameras, you need a symbol.

Shortly before they all were happily handcuffed Tuesday, the farmers took one look at what the activists had brought to dig with, and just shook their heads.

The symbolic shovels were shiny, chrome-plated affairs, the kind for turning the earth in a Washington photo op, stamped with slogans: "Reefer Madness Will Be Buried." When the shovel blades were experimentally pressed into the mulch outside the group's hotel, they bent like toys.

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Does the Vaccine Really Even Matter?

Does the Vaccine Really Even Matter?
Whether this season’s swine flu turns out to be deadly or mild, most experts agree that it’s only a matter of time before we’re hit by a truly devastating flu pandemic—one that might kill more people worldwide than have died of the plague and aids combined. In the U.S., the main lines of defense are pharmaceutical—vaccines and antiviral drugs to limit the spread of flu and prevent people from dying from it. Yet now some flu experts are challenging the medical orthodoxy and arguing that for those most in need of protection, flu shots and antiviral drugs may provide little to none. So where does that leave us if a bad pandemic strikes?
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Boosting the Value of Compounds that Fights Alzheimer's

Boosting the Value of Compounds that Fights Alzheimer's

The polyphenols found in red wine are thought to help prevent Alzheimer's disease, and new research from Purdue University and Mount Sinai School of Medicine has shown that some of those compounds in fact reach the brain.

Mario Ferruzzi, a Purdue associate professor of food science; Connie Weaver, Purdue's head of foods and nutrition; and Elsa Janle, a Purdue associate professor of foods and nutrition, found that the amount of polyphenols from grapeseed extract that can reach a rat's brain is as much as 200 percent higher on the 10th consecutive day of feeding as compared to the first. Many previous experiments, in which absorption was measured after single or sporadic doses, often found very little, if any, of the bioactive polyphenols reaching brain tissues. However, more chronic exposure appears to improve absorption.

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Brain Damage from Mobile Phone Radiation Approaching Epidemic

Brain Damage from Mobile Phone Radiation Approaching Epidemic

A collaborative team of international EMF activists has released a report detailing eleven design flaws of the 13-country, Telecom-funded Interphone study.

The exposé discusses research on cell phones and brain tumors, concluding that:

• There is a risk of brain tumors from cell phone use

• Telecom funded studies underestimate the risk of brain tumors

• Children have larger risks than adults for brain tumors

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Possible 75% Cancer Mortality Rate Reduction with Vitamin D

Possible 75% Cancer Mortality Rate Reduction with Vitamin D
We are aware of substantial scientific evidence supporting the role of vitamin D in prevention of cancer. It has been reasonably established that adequate serum vitamin D metabolite levels are associated with substantially lower incidence rates of several types of cancer, including those of the breast, colon, and ovary, and other sites.
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Supplements for Common Ailments Index

Supplements for Common Ailments Index
Brief Reference listing common ailments and the vitamins, herbs and supplements which are taken for support and management.
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The Genetic Conspiracy

The Genetic Conspiracy
How safe is the so-called "Green Genetic Engineering" really? Monsanto, the world's largest genetic engineering corporation, insists it is safe. Numerous studies claim genetically modified plants can cause allergies and cancers. However, commercial and political interests are determined to make genetic engineering the norm.
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Swine Flu Protection with Probiotics

Swine Flu Protection with Probiotics
Although no one can say categorically that taking probiotics will prevent you from getting swine flu or any other kind of flu, there is plenty of evidence that these beneficial bacteria are good for the immune system. When the immune system is strong, it is in a much better position to fight off viruses, like the swine flu.
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20 Diseases And Conditions Directly Caused by Being Overweight

20 Diseases And Conditions Directly Caused by Being Overweight
Carrying around excess weight to the point of being obese is becoming an epidemic in North America. While one of the initial concerns with obesity is usually all about how you look and how you feel about yourself as a person, the longer the problem exists for you the more medical problems are going to arise, some of which can be fatal.

Obesity is a growing concern especially because overweight rates have doubled among children and tripled among adolescents. This increases the number of years that they are exposing themselves to dangerous health risks associated with obesity. While it is difficult to truly predict the future impact of obesity, there is strong scientific agreement that obesity significantly increases the risk of serious chronic diseases and contributes to overall mortality.

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Rigged Medical Research

Rigged Medical Research
Ghostwriting: Why No Outrage Among Our Nation’s Most Prestigious Peer-Reviewed Medical Journals?
The bedrock of healthcare reform has been that our nation’s medical care will improve, and money will be saved by implementing a government plan utilizing prescription drugs and procedures shown to be the most effective - but now we learn that the medical research is rigged.
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Black Elderberry and Swine Flu Pandemic

Black Elderberry and Swine Flu Pandemic
Elderberry extract shows significant promise in the prevention and treatment of swine flu, and influenza in general. During a pandemic, it is critical that people use common-sense hygiene practices, good nutrition, and appropriate, safe supplements to boost their immunity and prevent viral infections from taking hold or becoming life-threatening.
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Vaccine Nation

Vaccine Nation
Vaccines actually have never been proven to be safe and effective for anyone... ever. A groundbreaking film by Gary Null.
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Health Care Reform, Without Natural Medicine, Isn't.

Health Care Reform, Without Natural Medicine, Isn't.
Since the drug companies began using their power for profit, health care has gone spiraling down the tubes, and so has the general population's well being. Prior to the 1930's the only available medicines were picked from plants. Since the 1950's and television, the rate of drug use in the U.S. is out of control. Too many people rely on drugs made from chemicals, and those chemicals have dangerous side effects, often creating more health problems in other areas of the body.

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Growing AIR - recycle indoor air 100%

Growing AIR - recycle indoor air 100%

Researcher Kamal Meattle shows how an arrangement of three common houseplants, used in specific spots in a home or office building, can result in measurably cleaner indoor air. This is accomplished with 3 types of carefully selected basic and common waist high potted plants. Areca Palm, Mother-in-law’s Tongue and “Money Tree”. This without dobut is using green to go green to be sustainably healthy.

Of particular note is that studies show, 20% productivity improvement in workers and a 1% increase in blood oxygen ( measured after only 10 hours ). Impressive. It would seem that if you must plant a tree, put one of these 3 in your office or home at the very least, and at the best, follow Kamal’s simple guidance for trees per person for 100% balance, essentially erasing your own exhaled C02 footprint such as it is, and being healthy while doing it.

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Amount of People with Alzheimer's to nearly double every 20 years

Amount of People with Alzheimer's to nearly double every 20 years
By 2010, an estimated 35.6 million people around the world will be living with dementia. The number is expected to hit 65.7 million in 2030 and 115.4 million in 2050.
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Astragalus Protects Against H1N1 (Swine) Flu Virus

Astragalus Protects Against H1N1 (Swine) Flu Virus
Dr. Andrew Weil Suggests Alternative Herbal Root as Possible Anti-Virus Preventive Dr. Andrew Weil appeared on CNN's "Larry King Live" Thursday evening to talk about his new book, Why Your Health Matters, and said that people looking for a low cost immune boost, they should try the herb astragalus. As the H1N1 (Swine) Flu virus continues to make the news and apparently is headed back for a second wave to the United States, people are attempting to prepare for the coming and ongoing pandemic. One way to do that, Dr. Andrew Weil said, would be to supplement one's diet with herbal and natural foods. As astragalus has shown antiviral properties, it can be used to help protect against the coming cold season in addition to the H1N1 (Swine) Flu virus.
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Ice Cream and Burger Brain Control

Ice Cream and Burger Brain Control

It's official. That tub of ice-cream really can control your brain and say "eat me." A U.S. study by UT Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas has found that fat from certain foods such ice-cream and burgers heads to the brain.

Once there, the fat molecules trigger the brain to send messages to the body's cells, warning them to ignore the appetite-suppressing signals from leptin and insulin, hormones involved in weight regulation -- for up to three days.

"Normally, our body is primed to say when we've had enough, but that doesn't always happen when we're eating something good," said researcher Deborah Clegg in a statement.

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Getting ready to buy resveratrol?

Getting ready to buy resveratrol?
Scientists across the country have identified a substance in red wine called resveratrol that they believe might do more than just protect the heart, but could - in very high concentrations - significantly extend life by preventing a number of age related illnesses. If they're right, we all may soon be taking a resveratrol pill that could give us an extra decade or two of healthy old age.

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Hand Washing Not a Silver Bullet for Flu

Hand Washing Not a Silver Bullet for Flu
According to some experts, you can wash your hands all you want, and it won't do much to stop the spread of influenza, including the H1N1 variety.

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Cancer Cosmetics - Toxic Personal Care

Cancer Cosmetics - Toxic Personal Care

The Cancer Prevention Coalition and Organic Consumers Association warn of major risks to health from the great majority of cosmetics and personal care products.

As the Obama Administration works with Congress to pass comprehensive health care reform legislation this year, President Barack Obama told reporters at the July 10 Group of 8 news conference, "We have to bend the cost curve on health care, and there are some very specific ways of doing that - - game changers that incentivize quality as opposed to quantity, that emphasize prevention."

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