30 Nov
2010
30 Nov
2010
Senate Food Safety Update
The bill, with language that is substantially different from its original version, passed the Senate on Tuesday morning by a vote of 73 to 25. Our update has up-to-the-minute information.
30 Nov
2010
Institute of Medicine Report on Vitamin D is Wrong, Wrong, Wrong
A new report, released today by the health arm of the National Academy of Sciences, says that few people are vitamin D deficient. The scientific research says otherwise.
30 Nov
2010
Top Ten Integrative Medicine Therapies
The Mayo Clinic has its list; we have ours. Which complementary and alternative medicine modalities are most important to you and your family?
30 Nov
2010
Time for a Paradigm Shift: Nutritional Medicine
If the Mayo Clinic’s guide is “Integrative Medicine Lite,” the genuine article is found in another new book, Nutritional Medicine by Alan R. Gaby, MD.
23 Nov
2010
Food Safety Bill Update
Things can change very quickly on Capitol Hill. On the heels of last week’s triumph stopping the completely unacceptable Leahy bill, we have more news on the Senate Food Safety Bill (S. 510).
23 Nov
2010
Action Alert: Natural, Bioavailable Forms of B6 in Peril!
Everyone says, “Take your vitamins.” If only they’d let us! Vitamin B6 is something of a miracle worker. The FDA bans one of the most bioavailable forms of it so a drug company can monopolize it. Now even the form of B6 we can’t live without is at risk of being banned for the same reason—because a drug company wants it!
23 Nov
2010
An Epidemic of Type II Diabetes
Seven to eight years ago a NIH-grant request from Washington U. to study Ginseng and type II diabetes treatment noted that by the end of the decade up to 10% of the U.S. would be type II diabetic and as many as 40% of Americans pre-diabetic. As 2010, the end of the decade, draws to […]
23 Nov
2010
The War for Nutrition Science Integrity
One nutrition organization looks to be in the pocket of Big Pharma and the worst of the junk food manufacturers. Another organization has been a more independent voice for nutrition. Guess which one is attempting to swallow the other?
19 Nov
2010
Victory! Leahy’s Draconian Food Safety Bill Language Defeated For Now!
We’re thrilled to announce that today that, thanks to your calls and letters, the Senate Food Safety bill (S. 510) will not include those obscene ten-year jail sentences for food and supplement manufacturers who violate complicated FDA rules. Senate offices were deluged with your messages, and the Senate leadership listened to you!