Why we need both Obamacare and a new consumer-led system. The following appeared as an ad in the back page of Roll Call on June 7, 2017. Obamacare has doubled premiums and doubled deductibles while restricting doctor choice. It has failed. Even so, it isn’t necessary to repeal it totally. If Congress would just end the… Continue reading Affordable Healthcare
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Fighting Back: ANH, Allies Leading the Charge for Natural Medicine
The FDA has been waging an all-out war against natural medicine. In response, we are uniting with allies to articulate the truth. Will the FDA listen to science, or Big Pharma? We’ve been keeping readers up to date on the FDA’s salvo of new regulations and rules for the compounding industry, which makes customized, natural… Continue reading Fighting Back: ANH, Allies Leading the Charge for Natural Medicine
Lying Labels, No Response
Fraudulent organics are flooding US shores and coming to a grocery store near you. The USDA response: crickets. Action Alert! Earlier this year, we reported that millions of bushels of soy and corn imported to the US were fraudulently sold as organic. News reports singled out ETKO, a Turkish organic certifier, as a major source of… Continue reading Lying Labels, No Response
FDA Committee Sides With Big Pharma… Again
FDA’s Pharmacy Compounding Advisory Committee has voted to limit your access to drugs not made by drug companies. Action Alert! A few weeks ago, we told you that the FDA’s Pharmacy Compounding Advisory Committee (PCAC) was meeting once again to decide whether patients will have access to customized medicines. True to form, PCAC voted to reject… Continue reading FDA Committee Sides With Big Pharma… Again
Pharma Finding New Ways to Kill Us
It’s no longer just the side effects of their medicines. A new study found “excessively high” levels of antibiotic and antifungal drugs in water sources near a major drug production center in India where 50% of the country’s drug exports are produced and a fifth of the world’s generic drugs. Unsurprisingly, the researchers also found… Continue reading Pharma Finding New Ways to Kill Us
Diet Soda: Warning Label Needed?
Stroke and dementia too? Yes, you can add those to the health risks of diet soda consumption. Natural health advocates have known for quite some time that artificial sweeteners like aspartame are dangerous and to be avoided. They’ve been associated with non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma and leukemia in men. These health effects aren’t all that surprising when… Continue reading Diet Soda: Warning Label Needed?
Rotten Beef on Your Plate?
Without country of origin labeling, the meat you buy may be from a nation where meat packers are under indictment. Action alert! Recently, federal authorities in Brazil revealed an investigation into widespread corruption in the country’s meat packing industry involving payments to government officials to forego safety inspections and cover up health violations. The scandal… Continue reading Rotten Beef on Your Plate?
What is Medicine?
Credit: Trevor Spaulding/The New Yorker Collection/The Cartoon Bank Well, yes, if it “works” they call it medicine, but only after paying the government cronies billions for permission to do so! And you had better read the fine print on side effects. Other articles in this week’s Pulse of Natural Health: Rotten Beef on Your Plate? Obamacare… Continue reading What is Medicine?
ANH Founder: Food IS Medicine
The founder of the Alliance for Natural Health, Dr. Robert Verkerk, spoke this past weekend at the Natural and Organic Products Europe conference in London during what is clearly an important time for big ideas, given the changes occurring there. The potential impact of “Brexit” (the United Kingdom’s “divorce” from the European Union passed by… Continue reading ANH Founder: Food IS Medicine
Obamacare Repealed?
Like it or not, Obamacare would not be repealed by the House bill. Action Alert! Here is just some of what is wrong with it. The House of Representatives recently passed their version of the American Health Care Act (AHCA), a.k.a. Trumpcare—the bill meant to fulfill the Republicans’ promise to repeal and replace Obamacare. It… Continue reading Obamacare Repealed?