Coming to you soon—and you probably won’t know that you’re eating it.
Month: August 2010
Flawed Study, Bad Science—Outrageous Conclusion
You may have read that eating more omega-3 fatty acids doesn’t help heart patients. You absolutely will not believe what the researchers did to arrive at this result.
“We are the Experiment”: Greater than 9 in 10 Canadians found to carry Bisphenol A as well as 90% of Americans and Europeans
The first national survey about bisphenol A (BPA) conducted by Statistics Canada has revealed that 91% of Canadians have a body burden of this chemical known to have hormone-like effects. Click here to read in further detail http://www.theglobeandmail.com/life/health/statscan-survey-finds-bpa-present-in-91-per-cent-of-canadians/article1674153/. What does not mean? Honestly, no one knows because “we are the experiment.”
Free Market Forces in Health Care
The U.S. health care industry has remained an anathema to the American economy whose strengths have historically been built on a free market system. Harvard economist Regina Herzlinger, PhD in her book Market Driven Healthcare describes why the lack of free market forces are but one of the reasons US healthcare is, in many ways,… Continue reading Free Market Forces in Health Care
Even for a ligament tear, the way we have always done it (surgery) doesn’t appear to be the best way
The news has subtly crept into the public consciousness. Muscle/ligament/ tendon tears are not always candidates for surgical repair. That is a huge paradigm shift for practitioner and patient alike who have been culturally conditioned to think in terms of structure rather than function. For example, researchers at Children’s Hospital in Boston have found it… Continue reading Even for a ligament tear, the way we have always done it (surgery) doesn’t appear to be the best way
Should Your Charity Dollars Be Given to a For-Profit Drug Company?
The National Multiple Sclerosis Society has given a $5 million grant to a pharmaceutical manufacturer to help create a new drug for MS. No matter that the drug’s key ingredient is readily available at a lower cost elsewhere. Or that good natural health alternatives are largely ignored.
I’ll Have a Happy Meal with a Side Order of Statins, Please
Fast food outlets could provide statin drugs free of charge so that customers can neutralize the heart disease dangers of fatty food, according to a new study highlighted by ANH–International. Burgers, fries, and dangerous drugs from your drive-through!
The Government Tells Another Healthcare Whopper
—which the New York Times, the American Association for Retired Persons (AARP), and others fall for….
With a new mandate of required payment of preventive testing, does the US Preventive Task Force miss the mark with women’s bone health recommendations?
The government has estimated that as many as ten million Americans have osteoporosis. Half of all American women will, according to these government estimates, have a fracture related to osteoporosis during their lifetime. Men are by no means immune to bone thinning.
The New American Family-mother and dad are overweight and the children are overweight, too: Obesity can now be inherited
If you have recently been to a U.S. theme park, it is startling to most to notice the waistlines of American families. Mom and Dad are overweight and more often than not, every child is overweight, too. Many experts were quick to comment that obesity must be related to genetic susceptibility. Really, what about mother… Continue reading The New American Family-mother and dad are overweight and the children are overweight, too: Obesity can now be inherited