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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U.S. Government Ignores Natural Swine Flu Remedies

U.S. Government Ignores Natural Swine Flu Remedies

In the US, preparations for Swine Flu center entirely on a new and untested vaccine along with anti-viral drugs that don’t work very well and have serious side effects. The Canadian government by contrast is willing to consider some other, common sense alternatives.

NutraIngredients reports that the Public Health Agency of Canada is investigating the role of vitamin D in protecting against swine flu. The study will take place over several flu seasons in order for officials to recruit enough study participants, and the goal is to see if vitamin D levels explain why most flu sufferers develop a mild illness, while a minority develops severe symptoms.

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Kiss Of Death: Lead Levels in Many Lipsticks Higher Than Reported

Kiss Of Death: Lead Levels in Many Lipsticks Higher Than Reported

A new analysis finds lead levels in many lipsticks are higher than those reported in 2007 by the consumer advocacy group Campaign for Safe Cosmetics.

This new analysis, conducted by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration and published in a recent issue of the Journal of Cosmetic Science, used new techniques to determine the lead levels.

Despite the findings, the agency reiterated its stance on the issue.

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Monsanto & Cancer Milk: Fox News Kills Story & Fires Reporters

Monsanto & Cancer Milk: Fox News Kills Story & Fires Reporters

FOX NEWS Reporters (Reporters Steve Wilson & Jane Akre) uncovered the fact that most of the Milk in the USA and across some parts of the world is unfit to drink due to Monsanto Corporation's POSILAC®, which has been proven to be a cancer-causing growth hormone.(known in short as "BGH" "BST" or "rBGH" ), but they were fired for trying to tell people the truth. This is a nonpartisan video that shows the lengths some will go to further their agendas. It ends with a Florida judge ruling that the news doesn't need to be true. This video is not doom and gloom or conjecture about what could happen, because it did happen. And I'm sure it's not just Fox that has these policies.

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French Confirm the Obvious: Organic is more nutritious

French Confirm the Obvious: Organic is more nutritious
A new report by the French Agency for Food Safety (AFSSA) has found that organic foods are better for you and contain less pesticides and nitrates, which have been linked to a range of health problems including diabetes and Alzheimer’s.
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Food Is Power and the Powerful Are Poisoning Us

Our most potent political weapon is food. If we take back our agriculture, if we buy and raise produce locally, we can begin to break the grip of corporations that control a food system as fragile, unsafe and destined for collapse as our financial system. If we continue to allow corporations to determine what we eat, as well as how food is harvested and distributed, then we will become captive to rising prices and shortages and increasingly dependent on cheap, mass-produced food filled with sugar and fat. Food, along with energy, will be the most pressing issue of our age. And if we do not build alternative food networks soon, the social and political ramifications of shortages and hunger will be devastating.

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The way we eat is trashing the fragile conditions that make human life possible

The way we eat is trashing the fragile conditions that make human life possible
In the ongoing debate about whether sustainable agriculture can “feed the world,” it’s important not to lose sight of what industrial agriculture is doing to ecosystems—both in specific areas and on a grand scale.

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Renewed call from Health Experts to Ban Aspartame

Renewed call from Health Experts to Ban Aspartame

With a new administration, some health experts long opposed to aspartame use are hoping that the FDA will review evidence against the sweetener and revoke an approval they say was marred by falsified testing data and political interference by the Reagan administration.

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How broccoli can protect your arteries

How broccoli can protect your arteries

It's long been thought that broccoli is good for your heart, and now British scientists think they know why. Researchers at Imperial College London have found evidence a chemical in broccoli and other green leafy vegetables could boost a natural defense mechanism that protects arteries from the clogging that can cause heart attacks.

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The Not-So-Happy Meal: What's Really in Fast Food?

The Not-So-Happy Meal: What's Really in Fast Food?
From the processing plants where cow manure gets ground into meat to the chemistry labs that create fast food flavors such as a “smoky, grilled taste,” the story behind every perfectly round patty hamburger and golden fry is something the fast food industry would prefer you not know.

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What's Pure, White and Deadly and Not Cocaine?

What's Pure, White and Deadly and Not Cocaine?
Robert H. Lustig, MD, UCSF Professor of Pediatrics in the Division of Endocrinology, explores the damage caused by sugary foods. He argues that fructose (too much) and fiber (not enough) appear to be cornerstones of the obesity epidemic through their effects on insulin.
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It’s Time to Throw Out the Throwaway Economy

It’s Time to Throw Out the Throwaway Economy
The throwaway economy is on a collision course with the Earth’s geological limits. Aside from running out of landfills near cities, the world is also fast running out of the natural resources that are used to manufacture and transport throwaway products.

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How Much Weed Killer Is Safe in Your Water Glass?

How Much Weed Killer Is Safe in Your Water Glass?

For decades, farmers, lawn care workers and professional green thumbs have relied on the popular weed killer atrazine to protect their crops, golf courses and manicured lawns.

But atrazine often washes into water supplies and has become among the most common contaminants in American reservoirs and other sources of drinking water.

Now, new research suggests that atrazine may be dangerous at lower concentrations than previously thought. Recent studies suggest that, even at concentrations meeting current federal standards, the chemical may be associated with birth defects, low birth weights and menstrual problems.

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Food for the Soul

Food for the Soul

The central problem with modern industrial agriculture: it’s not just that it produces unhealthy food, mishandles waste and overuses antibiotics in ways that harm us all... it has no soul.

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