Don’t Let the FDA Ban Weight Loss Supplements!
Following the withdrawal last week of a leading weight loss drug, the battle between natural approaches to weight loss and the drug companies is likely to intensify.
12 Oct
2010
21 Sep
2010
Over-diagnosed and Over-treated: The medicalization of childhood
John Abramson, MD, award-winning Harvard family practitioner, author of Overdosed America (log onto www.overdosedamerica.com to read further) has sagely weighed in as new normals have been adopted for blood pressure, cholesterol levels, blood sugar and new diseases like osteoporosis have been developed. According to Dr. Abramson, “American medicine has medicalized symptoms to market medications.”
21 Sep
2010
Summer’s Produce Stand
The power of the produce-stand now resplendent with the rich colors and inviting smells of ripe fruit and summer’s vegetable bounty is lost to all-too-many Americans. Walk the aisles of a public or farmer’s market at summer’s end and marvel over the blueberries, strawberries, raspberries and blackberries, the grapes and currants, fragrant peaches, and the […]
14 Sep
2010
Breaking News: NEW “Food Safety” Threat—Urgent Action Alert!
A brand new bill has just been introduced in the Senate. It’s supposed to hold accountable those who taint our food supply on purpose. But as drafted, it actually gives license to the FDA to target supplement and natural health product companies. Please take action today!
07 Sep
2010
Supplements Are Contaminated, Drugs Pure. Right? No, Wrong
Are megabucks of drug company advertising buying major media silence about shoddy practices?
24 Aug
2010
With a new mandate of required payment of preventive testing, does the US Preventive Task Force miss the mark with women’s bone health recommendations?
The government has estimated that as many as ten million Americans have osteoporosis. Half of all American women will, according to these government estimates, have a fracture related to osteoporosis during their lifetime. Men are by no means immune to bone thinning.
10 Aug
2010
JAMA Reports that Vitamin B6 May Reduce Lung Cancer. Will the FDA Turn Natural B6 into a Drug?
In stark contrast to Consumer Reports Health’s profoundly negative view of supplements comes a new study published in the Journal of the American Medical Association reporting that high levels of vitamin B6 may reduce lung cancer risk.
10 Aug
2010
The Campaign to Cover Up Americans from Sun Exposure; what are the risks versus the benefits
The Campaign to Cover Up Americans from Sun Exposure; what are the risks versus the benefits The campaign to address Americans’ sun exposure has become the standard of care in American medicine. One of this country’s leading medical educators and researchers, Michael Holick, MD, even lost his tenure ship in dermatology at Boston University when […]
03 Aug
2010
Please Participate in Our Brief Readers’ Survey!
We want to get to know you a little better, so we can serve you better. We’d greatly appreciate it if you would participate in a short (five-minute) survey—and enter our drawing for a gift bag, as our way of saying thanks.
21 Jul
2010
Readers Corner: Unfounded, Sensationalist Claims? ANH-USA Responds.
Anna writes: July 15, 2010 at 2:36 am