Rep. Mike Pompeo’s voluntary GMO labeling bill has been amended to include another brazen giveaway to Big Food and the biotech industries. Action Alert! We’ve been closely monitoring the progress of the bill introduced by Rep. Pompeo (R-KS) and backed by industry. It’s titled, deceptively, the “Safe and Accurate Food Labeling Act of 2015”—and the… Continue reading Updated “DARK Act” Will Block States from Banning GE Crops
Tag: Pulse of Natural Health
Dentists Take Advantage of Children on Medicaid
They’re raking in hundreds of millions of dollars across multiple states. Over the past couple of years, the Office of the Inspector General (OIG), which is part of the Department of Health and Human Services, has been looking into a colossal scandal across the country. Thousands of dentists have been implicated in a series of… Continue reading Dentists Take Advantage of Children on Medicaid
ConsumerLab.com Comes Out Firing at ANH-USA
Yet the company still fails to answer the most serious questions we’ve raised. Why is CL continuing to avoid them? Action Alert! Over the last few years, we’ve raised numerous concerns about the business practices of ConsumerLab.com (CL), an organization that purports to help consumers identify the highest quality dietary supplements. CL responded to our… Continue reading ConsumerLab.com Comes Out Firing at ANH-USA
Will Big Food Control Nutrition “Science?”
A new report details how Big Food appears to have captured yet another key nutrition group, the American Society of Nutrition. Action Alert! You may remember that a few weeks back we reported on the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics’ (AND) ill-fated partnership with Kraft Foods. Kraft was permitted to place the AND’s “Kids Eat… Continue reading Will Big Food Control Nutrition “Science?”
ANH-USA Takes the Initiative against Monopolistic Dietetics Boards
With your help, we can stop them from gagging free speech about nutrition. ANH-USA has identified seventeen states with the most monopolistic scope-of-practice laws, and has sent letters to those states’ dietetic boards, their attorneys general, and key policymakers warning them that they are vulnerable to federal felony prosecution and civil damages under antitrust law… Continue reading ANH-USA Takes the Initiative against Monopolistic Dietetics Boards
New Amendment May Help Save Compounded Drugs
Please help us get Sen. David Vitter’s critical amendment passed! Action Alert! As you know from our continuing coverage, the FDA has been issuing rules to implement the Drug Quality and Security Act (DQSA). This legislation was passed by Congress in 2013 in response to a meningitis outbreak in 2012 involving a single bad actor—a… Continue reading New Amendment May Help Save Compounded Drugs
AMA Prepares Gag Order for Medical Dissenters
The American Medical Association’s latest attempt to shore up their medical monopoly could have stiff consequences for practitioners who don’t toe the line. Action Alert! Angered by what they call “quack MDs,” the AMA recently decided to “actively defend the profession.” In particular, it plans to create ethical guidelines for physicians in the media, write… Continue reading AMA Prepares Gag Order for Medical Dissenters
Yet Another Anti-Supplement Sneak Attack from Blumenthal and Durbin
This time it’s been slipped into a defense bill. Major Action Alert! We suspected it would only be a matter of time before Sen. Dick Durbin (D-IL) launched his next broadside against supplements. Once again, Durbin and his allies, including Sen. Richard Blumenthal (D-CT), are pouncing on must-pass legislation and attaching last-minute amendments that would… Continue reading Yet Another Anti-Supplement Sneak Attack from Blumenthal and Durbin
Feds to Reinvent School Lunches—with Flavored Skim Milk Full of Toxic Additives!
Another ill-fated government foray into nutrition recommendations. Action Alert! Reps. G.T. Thompson (R-PA) and Joe Courtney (D-CT) recently introduced the School Milk Nutrition Act of 2015, which seeks to increase dairy consumption in children by mandating low-fat and non-fat flavored milk for each school meal. This follows changes to the USDA National School Lunch and… Continue reading Feds to Reinvent School Lunches—with Flavored Skim Milk Full of Toxic Additives!
Lactose Intolerant? A Better Milk Is Coming!
Alas, many of its health benefits will be ruined by ultra-pasteurization—just so it can be more conveniently marketed. In April 2015, a New Zealand-based company, the a2 Milk Company, launched its brand in the US. The milk has all the properties of normal supermarket milk varieties you might buy, with one important difference: all of… Continue reading Lactose Intolerant? A Better Milk Is Coming!