The Food and Drug Administration has released proposed guidelines for regulating genetically engineered animals, paving the way for them to enter the food supply. This news has stunned many consumer groups. It is estimated that as many as two dozen applications to sell genetically engineered animals are already pending before the FDA.
Conventional Medicine Ignores the Science behind Preventing Sudden Cardiac Death with Fish Oil The U.S. has waged a five-decade war on heart disease thanks to the information gleaned from the Framingham Study and the studies that followed it. That war has been dominated by the use of prescription drugs, surgery, and procedures that include angioplasty […]
Research and Markets has coverage of the Nutrition Business Journal’s “Complementary and Alternative Medicine and Practitioner Supplement Sales Report 2007.” The CAM Report 2007 presents detailed analysis on the $39.5 billion (yes, that’s “billion” with a B) complementary and alternative medicine services market and $1.7 billion practitioner channel supplement market in the U.S.
As discussed in the 9/9/08 issue of Pulse of Health Freedom, the FDA has ignored other government experts and sided with industry on BPA, a widespread chemical that another government agency has deemed potentially dangerous. An important update to that story is the 9/16/08 Journal of the American Medical Association article linking BPA to both […]
The Board of Directors of the American Association for Health Freedom has voted to support a key resolution in the U.S. House of Representatives that would include “sustainable wellness programs that address the underlying causal factors of chronic disease” in an effort to re-engineer our healthcare reform. H.Con.Res. 406 has detailed language to change the […]
Freedom of healthcare choice in New Jersey is facing a serious threat with the NJ Assembly Bill A2933 / Senate Bill S1941 vote scheduled for early in October. This bill and its identical counterpart in the NJ Senate would prevent any practitioner other than a dietician to teach, consult, or advise about health, nutrition, supplements, […]
Source: Alliance for Natural Health The vitamin D paradox Here we have yet another study demonstrates the benefits of the sunshine vitamin, vitamin D.
Haven’t we heard this story before? The FDA is charged with regulating BPA (bisphenol A), a chemical found in plastic bottles, baby bottles, food cans, dental fillings, sealants, and cements. It knew that the government’s National Toxicology Program (another division of Health and Human Services) was about to issue a report and that Yale researchers […]
In recent issues, we have told you about Medicure Pharma’s so-called Citizens Petition to the FDA to ban any dietary supplements containing the natural and active form of vitamin B-6 called pyridoxal 5′-phosphate (P5P). A reader has asked: what is the difference between pyridoxine, the most common form of B-6, and P5P? Most supplements contain […]
Some of the natural substances taken through the FDA approval process don’t appear to be dangerous. For example, Omacor, the FDA approved fish oil, is only a problem because it is so expensive compared to regular fish oil. All of us who pay Medicare taxes are bearing this cost since Medicare won’t reimburse any other […]