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Ban on Certain Vitamins and Minerals Violates E.U. Law

Nutraingredients highlights a warning by Alliance for Natural Health UK (ANH-UK) that the British Food Standards Agency’s proposal to ban certain vitamins and minerals in 2010 violates European Union law. ANH-UK argues that the agency’s new list of approved minerals and vitamins — which adds 69 to the current roster of 112 approved products —is… Continue reading Ban on Certain Vitamins and Minerals Violates E.U. Law

Help ANH-USA Teach AP About Integrative Medicine

Mike Adams, editor of www.naturalnews.com, is waging a campaign to educate the Associated Press about natural remedies. According to Adams, “The Associated Press continues its assault on alternative medicine, led by writer Marilynn Marchione who writes attack pieces on everything under the sun (including the sun itself) related to alternative medicine and natural therapies. The… Continue reading Help ANH-USA Teach AP About Integrative Medicine

Victory in the Senate!

We usually publish our newsletter on Tuesday. We held it overnight in order to report on the outcome of the Senate HELP Committee’s “FDA Food Safety Modernization Act” (Food Safety) mark up hearing. This hearing would decide whether to amend the dangerous Codex provision.  The decision would have a momentous impact on the future of… Continue reading Victory in the Senate!

Update on Last Week’s House Healthcare Bill Story

Last week we discussed the difficulty of knowing what is and is not in the nearly 2,000 page House Healthcare bill. Here is a really bizarre example. Some commentators noted that the House bill provided for jail time of up to five years for anyone who failed to buy mandated insurance and also did not pay the financial penalty. Reference was also made… Continue reading Update on Last Week’s House Healthcare Bill Story

Obesity Causes 100,000 Cancers Annually in the United States

Two recent, jaw-dropping epidemiology reports barely made a ripple in the sea of healthcare information. According to the American Institute for Cancer Research, every year obesity causes more than 100,000 cases of cancer in the United States; and the Gallup-Healthways Well-being Index reported that more than 11 percent of Americans are diabetic and, given that… Continue reading Obesity Causes 100,000 Cancers Annually in the United States

Conventional Doctors Claim Integrative Therapies Lack Research, Study

The Associated Press recently betrayed its bias in a series denouncing CAM/integrative medicine. Many who value integrated medicine were outraged by the following comment, which preceded each of four articles about complementary and alternative medicine published by AP: “EDITOR’S NOTE: Ten years and $2.5 billion in research have found no cures from alternative medicine. Yet… Continue reading Conventional Doctors Claim Integrative Therapies Lack Research, Study

Coca-Cola to Bring You Advice From One of America’s Largest Doctor Groups!

Incredible as it sounds, the American Academy of Family Physicians (AAFP) has announced a six-figure alliance with the Coca-Cola Co. to fund educational materials about soft drinks, to be posted on the academy’s consumer-health and wellness website. Although the AAFP’s CEO, Dr. Douglas Henley, insists the deal will not influence the group’s public-health message, nutrition… Continue reading Coca-Cola to Bring You Advice From One of America’s Largest Doctor Groups!