Category | Health & Fitness
Posted on 02 September 2010
Mainstream nutritionists often claim that conventional produce is no different than organic produce. But a new study recently published in the online, peer-reviewed journal Public Library of Science (PLoS) One proves otherwise, revealing that organic fruits and vegetables pack a greater nutritional punch and produce better, healthier soil than their conventional counterparts.
Tags: organic fruits and vegetables, organic produce, pesticide, public library of science, soil science, washington state university
Posted on 02 September 2010
People in the Indian capital New Delhi have rejected the H1N1 shot en masse following the news that a separate measles inoculation killed four children, as the global revolt against dangerous vaccinations, and specifically the swine flu scam, accelerates even in the face of government PR drives to make people take the combined swine flu/seasonal flu vaccine.
Tags: debilitating diseases, flu vaccine, inoculations, measles, seizures, sudden death, swine flu, vaccination program
Posted on 31 August 2010
It’s hard to see it sometimes, but the natural health community has achieved many important victories over the last few years in exposing the truth about dangerous chemicals and food ingredients. Here are some of the major victories we’ve collectively achieved
Tags: dangerous chemicals, fast food, food ingredients, health movement, high fructose corn syrup, kfc, monosodium glutamate, natural health, trans fatty acids
Posted on 30 August 2010
A mother whose son suffered severe brain damage after he was given the controversial MMR vaccine as a baby has been awarded £90,000 compensation.
Tags: brain damage, epileptic fits, measles, mmr vaccine, Mumps, rubella
Posted on 26 August 2010
Finland’s National Institute for Health and Welfare (THL) has suspended the use of the H1N1 vaccine over fears that the shot is linked with a 300 per cent increase in cases of the neurological disorder narcolepsy among children and young people over the last six months.
Tags: finland, flu jab, flu shots, narcolepsy, neurological disorder, rasmussen poll, swine flu, vaccines
Posted on 24 August 2010
For years it was blamed on bread contaminated with a psychedelic fungus – but that theory is now being challenged.
Tags: CIA, ergot, Frank Olson, Hank Albarelli, LSD, poisoning
Posted on 23 August 2010
Barbara Loe Fisher, founder of the National Vaccine Information Center, discusses the outcome of last year’s swine flu debacle, and the potentially harmful changes that are being made to this season’s flu vaccine as a result.
Tags: barbara loe fisher, flu vaccine, national vaccine information center, Scandal, swine flu
Posted on 18 August 2010
A diet including unlimited amounts of junk food can cause rats to become so addicted to the unhealthy diet that they will starve themselves rather than go back to eating healthy food, researchers have discovered.
Tags: brain chemistry, drug addiction, eating healthy food, junk food, nature neuroscience, rats, unhealthy diet
Posted on 18 August 2010
New findings published this month in the journal Cancer Research by University of California Los Angeles researchers could further sour the public’s sentiment toward the super-sweet, super-cheap syrup and reduce its use even further.
Tags: cancer cells, high fructose corn syrup, obesity, processed food, sweetener, tumor cells
Posted on 16 August 2010
Even the most powerful antibiotics available are largely inadequate at tackling the emerging forms of new and powerful “super” bacteria
Tags: antibiotics, bacteria, infectious diseases, Lancet, Pandemic
Posted on 08 August 2010
Two new studies have added more reason for concern that high-fructose corn syrup causes significantly more harm to the body than its mere sugar content would suggest.
Tags: fructose, glucose, HFCS, obesity, Pharmacology, sucrose, sugar
Posted on 08 August 2010
Mainstream physicians usually prescribe Acyclovir ointment or other topical medications to treat herpes outbreaks. But new research shows that nature has a better solution.
Tags: Acyclovir, healing, Herpes, Honey, infection, nature, nutrition, remedy
Posted on 06 August 2010
The rise in male infertility has been linked to a chemical commonly used in food and drinks containers.
Tags: bp, cartons, infertility, plastics, sperm counts, UK
Posted on 01 August 2010
Flu vaccine manufacturers generate huge profits during the Christmas season and they’ve already begun shipping this year’s winter season flu vaccines to U.S. pharmacies and hospitals. Along with the big vaccine push comes the inevitable vaccine propaganda.
Tags: flu jab, flu season, flu strains, flu vaccine, flu vaccines, propaganda, seizures in children
Posted on 31 July 2010
The U.S. government gestapo is at it again in its crusade against raw milk. Recently, the jackboots swarmed a Pennsylvania Amish man’s private dairy farm for the second time, falsely accusing him of violating the ridiculous prohibition on selling raw milk across state lines.
Tags: amish man, dairy farm, pennsylvania, private property, prohibition, raw milk, warrant
Posted on 29 July 2010
The careless disposal of toxic pharmaceuticals is proving to be highly destructive, despite reassurances by some that it’s not that big of a deal. The health of the planet and all of its amazing biodiversity is now threatened by the steady poisoning of toxic chemical pharmaceuticals.
Tags: biodiversity, contamination, dental fillings, human body, masculinity, pharmaceutical drug, poisons, public healthcare, public water supply
Posted on 28 July 2010
Homeopathy will continue to be available on the National Health Service (NHS) despite an influential health committee condemning it as medically unproven, a British minister said.
Tags: complementary and alternative medicine, homeopathy, medicines, national health service
Posted on 21 July 2010
Government, public health and dairy industry officials want to restrict the sale and distribution of raw milk, citing safety concerns.
But small dairy farmers, organic consumers’ advocates and raw milk drinkers say that safety isn’t the real issue — it’s control of the dairy market.
Tags: dairy farmers, dairy industry, milk drinkers, organic consumers, raw milk
Posted on 19 July 2010
Many artificial food dyes that colour everything from breakfast cereal to ice cream should be banned because they pose cancer risks, a new report from the Center for Science in the Public Interest says.
Tags: artificial colours, artificial food, breakfast cereal, bright colors, food dyes, synthetic chemicals
Posted on 16 July 2010
Now researchers have found that consuming foods sweetened with fructose raises the risk of developing one of the top killers in the U.S. — high blood pressure, also known as hypertension.
Tags: fruits and vegetables, heart attacks, high blood pressure, high fructose corn syrup, kidney failure, processed foods, soft drinks