Archive for May, 2005
Moms’ cosmetics linked to sons’ sexual development
For the first time, scientists have found evidence that chemicals widely used in cosmetics and plastics and found in pregnant women are adversely affecting genital development in their infant boys. The findings published by researchers at the University of Minnesota and other institutions could have implications for the chemical industry and for the U.S. Food [...]
Full StoryThe beginning of the end of chemical-based medicine
by the Health Ranger (Mike Adams) A recent study published in the medical journal “The Lancet” reveals that as many as 140,000 heart attacks, in the United States alone, were caused by Vioxx, and 44 percent of those likely died from those heart attacks. That means more than 60,000 Americans have been killed by Vioxx [...]
Full StoryDangerous Super Bugs Worry Doctors
(AP) Flesh-eating bacteria cases, fatal pneumonia and life-threatening heart infections suddenly are popping up around the country, striking healthy people and stunning their doctors. The cause? Staph, a bacteria better known for causing skin boils easily treated with standard antibiotic pills. No more, say infectious disease experts, who increasingly are seeing these “super bugs” – [...]
Full StoryContaminated Produce Top Food Poisoning Culprit
Interesting study. But if you read further down in the article, you will see the numbers. The study counts ALL produce in one category but beef, poultry, seafood and eggs each gets its own category. If you count animal proteins together, there were nearly twice as many outbreaks as there were for produce. I’m just [...]
Full StoryWhy Your Mattress May Be Killing You
By Mark Sweiger The organic movement, which started with organic food, is moving to the bedroom in a big way. “The bedroom? ” you say. Yes, my dear, the bedroom, where organic mattresses and organic bedding are becoming an important new trend in the quest for a healthier lifestyle. The organic bedroom trend is motivated [...]
Full StoryRebound Headache – Stop The Cycle
By James Cottrill You’ve been getting headaches. Finally, you find some medications that are making a difference. You’re headaches are almost all gone but wait they’re coming back! They’re getting worse! The painkillers aren’t doing the job they used to do. What’s going on? You may be a victim of rebound headache. Rebound [...]
Full StoryMen and Sperm Health
By Dr. Mike Berkley Men – What You Do On A Daily Basis Affects Your Sperm Maturation Process While a woman is born with all the eggs she’ll ever have, men produce sperm on a continual basis. Therefore, what a man does on a daily basis can affect the sperm maturation process. Smoking, drinking, drugs, [...]
Full StoryMicrowave Ovens and the Healthfulness of Microwaved Food
By Debra Lynn Dadd Microwave ovens do have benefits. They are certainly convenient. They are more energy-efficient than other cooking methods. But are they safe? And do they produce food that contributes to the health of our bodies? While there is not enough evidence to require warning labels on microwave ovens, or to remove them [...]
Full StoryHow Toxic Is Your Home?
By Debra Lynn Dadd We like to think of our homes as being a safe place to be–a refuge from a dangerous world. Yet some of the exposures that you have day-to-day that are most hazardous to your health and the health of your family happen right at home. The good news is that for [...]
Full Story4000 Year Old Secrets of Green Tea
By Gary Gresham The Chinese have known about the medicinal benefits of green tea for over 4,000 years. But recent studies are just starting to unlock these ancient secrets of green tea. Today, a great deal of research is being carried out about green tea health benefits and the findings are very exciting. Here are [...]
Full StoryTraditional Chinese Medicine and Infertility
By Dr. Mike Berkley Although health and healing are the common goals of Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) and allopathic medicine, their ideas on the etiology of disease, disease itself and the process used to regain health are decidedly different. The allopathic physician learns that disease must be cured by prescribing medicine, which kills bacteria or [...]
Full StoryTake Back Your Life
By Stephen Ayers It seems today that for every mood swing, inconvenient behavior, irritating symptom, unwanted pain, or side effect there is a distinctively colored pill to smooth the way for our hectic life styles. The advertisements are all over the TV, radio, and every form of print media telling us to ask our doctor [...]
Full StoryMegadosing
By Allen Martin If you’re constantly digging your hand into a jar of vitamins, popping one into your mouth faster than you can chew the last one, then take this word of advice. Take a chill pill. While vitamins are certainly an essential part of your everyday intake, there are certainly perils in over-indulging in [...]
Full StoryMaking Your Own Herbal Hair Shampoo
By Rudy Silva In 1990 I decided not to use the commercially made shampoos after reading Aubrey Hamptons book, Natural Organic Hair and Skin Care. In this book Aubrey tells you how to read the label on any product that you put on your skin or hair. Manufacturers are constantly using toxic chemicals in their [...]
Full StoryUrinary Tract Infections in Women May Be Difficult to Treat Because of Overuse of Antibiotics in Food Animals
WASHINGTON–New research strengthens the possibility that antibiotic-resistant urinary tract infections (UTI), which lead to about eight million physician visits a year for women in the United States, may originate from food animals, according to experts at the School of Public Health of the University of California at Berkeley. UTIs leading to kidney infections in women [...]
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