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Jan 12, 2013
Why the New Vitamin D Recommendations Spell Disaster For Your Health
On November 30, 2012, the Institute of Medicine's Food and Nutrition Board (FNB) released their updated recommendations for vitamin D (and calcium), which has sent shockwaves of disappointment through natural health community....[full story]
Jan 12, 2013
15 Dangerous Drugs Big Pharma Shoves Down Your Throat
"In the pharmaceutical industry's rush to get drugs to market, safety usually comes last. Long studies to truly assess a drug's risks just delay profits after all -- and if problems do emerge after medication hits the market, settlements are usually less than profits. Remember, Vioxx still made money."...[full story]
Jan 12, 2013
Consider the advantages and disadvantages of a raw food diet for cats and dogs
Processed, packaged pet food is usually an unhealthy diet for dogs and cats. This article examines the pros and cons of a raw food diet for domestic animals and looks at providing a quality, natural diet for pets....[full story]
Jan 12, 2013
US life expectancy falls as failure of conventional medicine becomes obvious
U.S. life expectancy has dropped yet again, according to a report released by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's National Center for Health Statistics. While overall life expectancy slipped from 77.9 years to 77.8 years, the report uncovered a surge of deaths from chronic lower respiratory diseases....[full story]
Jan 12, 2013
How to Live Longer - Reduce Your Need for This
A new study recently compared patient-physician relationships and relief of symptoms between complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) and conventional primary care (COM). The study was part of a Swiss evaluation of complementary and alternative medicine....[full story]
Jan 12, 2013
Why do One in Ten Kids in the U.S. Have ADHD?
A U.S. government survey claims that 1 in 10 U.S. children now has ADHD. This is a sizable increase from a few years earlier. ADHD (attention deficit hyperactivity disorder) makes it hard for children to pay attention and control impulsive behavior. About two-thirds of the children diagnosed with ADHD are on some form of prescription medication. According to AP medical writer Mike Stobbe:...[full story]
Jan 12, 2013
Demand for food is costing the Earth
Hardly a morning passes without food making the headlines. This week has brought us the burger that thinks it’s a pizza and news that eating asparagus helps you stay slim (fingers crossed it’s the type covered in melted butter). And we heard that, if you eat pickled squid guts and single cream together, it tastes like strawberry shortcake....[full story]
Jan 12, 2013
3 out of 4 People Should Avoid This Common Food
Scientists have begun exploring what can be learned from the diet of cavemen who lived ago, based on vegetables, fruit, nuts, roots and meat. Cereals, potatoes, bread and milk were not featured at all. It was only with the dawn of agriculture (around 10,000 years ago) that our diets evolved to include what we think of as staple foods now....[full story]
Jan 12, 2013
The Best Kept Secret for Avoiding Alzheimer's...
People who consume foods rich in vitamin B12 could be at lower risk of developing Alzheimer's disease. Researchers analyzed blood samples from more than 270 individuals who showed no evidence of dementia. They tested for levels of vitamin B12 and for levels of homocysteine, an amino acid that has been linked to an increased risk of Alzheimer's disease, and then tracked the study participants for seven years....[full story]
Jan 12, 2013
Working together to Improve the Health Canada internal culture to more effectively protect the good health and well-being of Canadians
These Red Flag Issues need to be immediately addressed by HEalth Canada officials or else our rights, freedoms and liberites will continue to be repressed....[full story]
Jan 5, 2013
EFSA: “Too lenient” with sports drinks health claims?
In what must be a world first, the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) has been accused of lax scientific substantiation requirements for approval of health claims. But a closer look suggests EFSA might yet again have allowed itself to bias its evaluation process in the interests of some of the largest businesses on the planet....[full story]
Jan 5, 2013
High Intensity is Key for Both Cardio and Weight Benefits
Researchers looking to confirm the benefits of resistance training for cardiovascular fitness found that myocardial function appears to be maintained, and perhaps enhanced, by high intensity resistance training. The results, however, depend on performing the exercises to what is referred to as “muscular failure.” ...[full story]
Jan 5, 2013
Flu Vaccine: No Good Evidence
Is it wise to have the flu vaccine, or Tamiflu, or would you get better protection just from taking vitamin D? Having a vaccine should be a matter of personal choice; we don't think that government or insurance companies or medical societies should be telling you what to do. If you're bothering to read this then you're clearly smart enough to make your own decisions about your own health. While you are deciding, here is a second opinion....[full story]
Jan 5, 2013
Warning: If You Feed Your Pet These Popular Treats - Please Stop Now
The FDA has issued yet another warning to veterinarians and pet owners about chicken jerky dog treats imported from China. The most recent FDA Center for Veterinary Medicine (CVM) update is dated November 18, 2012...[full story]
Jan 5, 2013
Mainstream science validates healing properties of plants
Are plant-based therapies, including potential natural cures for cancer, mostly pie-in-the-sky wishful thinking promoted by "health nuts" and old hippies? Not at all -- and the evidence for the validity of the healing power of plants is coming from none other than mainstream science....[full story]
Jan 5, 2013
Big Pharma Given Access To Your Private Medical Records
This so-called double-dip recession is bringing the worst out in politicians... especially when they start to see pharmaceuticals as a cornerstone of economic growth....[full story]
Jan 5, 2013
GMO babies now being engineered in labs under guise of preventing incurable disease
Life, whether human or otherwise, is no longer sacred to many of today's scientists, who actually believe that tampering with the genetic blueprints of living beings will somehow improve humanity and create a better world. And this disturbing reality became ever more apparent recently when genetic butchers at Oregon Health & Sciences University (OHSU) announced their discovery of a way to manipulate the DNA of human embryos to obstruct normal gene transfer and create genetically "superior" babies that are supposedly less prone to disease....[full story]
Jan 5, 2013
Study: 97 percent of children affected by 2009 mumps outbreak were vaccinated for condition
More evidence has emerged showing the complete failure of modern vaccines to provide any real protection against disease. A recent study published in The New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM) reveals that an astounding 97 percent of children affected by a mumps outbreak that swept the Northeast back in 2009 had already been vaccinated for the condition in accordance with recommended government guidelines....[full story]
Jan 5, 2013
APPROVAL OF WIND PROJECT A DISGRACE: RUNCIMAN
Senator Bob Runciman has blasted the Ontario Ministry of Environment for its approval of a wind energy project at Ostrander Point in Prince Edward County....[full story]
Jan 5, 2013
ALL POWER IS ABOUT POLITICS, CONTROL AND PROFITS.
The secret to effectively transferring more Power to the People for all activist Freedom Movements is to formally join coalition alliances under Friends of Freedom International as an umbrella organization.  ...[full story]