COVID has been treated as a national health emergency, but what about the chronic disease epidemic? A recent New York Times article highlights the devastating impact the COVID pandemic has had on people with diabetes, with 30-40 percent of all COVID deaths occurring among people with the disease. Diabetes impairs the immune system but also […]
By Sandee LaMotte, CNN Alarming levels of dangerous chemicals known as PFAS were discovered in food packaging at a number of well-known fast-food and fast-casual restaurants and grocery store chains, a new report found. The highest levels of indicators for PFAS were found in food packaging from Nathan’s Famous, Cava, Arby’s, Burger King, Chick-fil-A, Stop & […]
Bad supplement bills in Rhode Island, New York, California, Missouri, and Massachusetts that would severely restrict supplement access show where other states could be heading. Action Alert! Rhode Island state senators Mike McCaffrey, Hanna Gallo, and Joshua Miller recently sought to put ALL supplements behind the counter, and only accessible by retail clerks. This is, […]
Find out why Gates-funded meat demonization is non-science and the Global Burden of Disease data can’t be trusted. By Rob Verkerk PhD, executive & scientific director, ANH-International. THE TOPLINE Red meat eating has been demonized because of its alleged adverse impacts on the environment and on health Find out why it isn’t red meat that’s […]
Government dietary advice, courtesy of Big Pharma and Big Food. A new study has found that 19 of 20 members serving on the government’s committee responsible for developing the next round of dietary guidelines for Americans have one or more conflicts of interest with Big Food, Big Ag, or Big Pharma. This helps explain why […]
From Ronald Hoffman, MD. March is National Nutrition Month. I’ll use this occasion to issue a clarion call for making nutrition a linchpin of medical therapy across ALL specialties. Here’s a rundown of how it could advance the health of diverse patients: Gastroenterology: Rates of IBS, GERD, inflammatory bowel disease and GI cancers are soaring. Diet has a […]
Federal policies both make us sick and threaten our ability detoxify with NAC—all while industry lines its pockets. Action Alert! One government agency kowtows to special interests to expose us to dangerous chemicals, and another government agency threatens to ban the very products that can help us recover from being exposed to those chemicals. New […]
Ask the USDA, which is helping to create an agricultural system that degrades the soil, our food, and human health—which is why we need access to supplements. Action Alert! The nutrient content of our food is markedly decreasing, in large part due to industrial farming practices and the government policies that support them. We can’t […]
New USDA rules go into effect that allow Big Food to hide their genetically modified ingredients. Starting January 1 of this year, the new GMO labeling rules went into effect. Sorry, we mean “bioengineered” labeling, the term the government and industry chose to obfuscate the issue and confuse consumers. Obfuscation and confusion were the chief […]
Will the supplements you need be placed behind store counters, or locked away in a case? State-based action alerts! A number of states are considering bills that would restrict access to certain supplements. These bills would prohibit the sale of weight loss and muscle building supplements to those under the age of 18. A bill […]