FDA Approves Controversial Diet Drug Despite Warning of Suicide Risk
Contrave has terrible side effects, is expensive, includes a hidden antidepressant, and barely even works. So why did the FDA approve it?
16 Sep
2014
11 Sep
2014
ANH Honored at Awards Gala
EMORD & ASSOCIATES HONORS LEADERS IN NUTRITION, INTEGRATIVE MEDICINE, MEDICAL SCIENCE, AND JOURNALISM AT SPECTACULAR GALA Cambridge, Maryland—On September 5 and 6, 2014, the constitutional and administrative law firm Emord & Associates, P.C. held a spectacular celebration and awards program at the Hyatt Regency Resort on the occasion of its 20th anniversary and in honor of George […]
10 Sep
2014
ANH Responds To Wall Street Journal
Recently the Wall Street Journal published a story that was a thinly veiled promotional piece for GMO technology. Here is our response: Regarding your August 22 article, “Meet Mr. Frankenfoods:” This piece—little more than a GMO promotion; let’s be generous and call it an “advertorial”—starts with erroneous definitions and ends with woefully inaccurate information. For […]
09 Sep
2014
Flawed Analysis Misleads Public About Calcium and Heart Attack Risk
The media is at it again — reporting deceptive propaganda by the medical establishment as if it were scientific fact. Just imagine the epidemic of osteoporosis that will occur if women stop taking their calcium supplements. That will happen if the public relies on mainstream news reporters to make their health decisions. In a biased and horrifically flawed analysis, a group […]
09 Sep
2014
Don’t be Fooled by Misleading Headlines
The media won’t stop posting attention-grabbing headlines that contradict the actual findings of positive scientific studies. On November 4, 2010, a news source stated:1 “BENEFICIAL EFFECTS OF TESTOSTERONE FOR FRAILTY IN OLDER MEN ARE SHORT-LIVED” From this headline you might infer that there was an initial benefit to testosterone replacement therapy that was not sustained. […]
09 Sep
2014
Federal Government-Funded Study Fails to Recognize Value of Vitamin D
VITAMIN D TOXICITY Scientific ignorance of past findings often has dire consequences for the present. In 1934, the Journal of the American Medical Association published a study on vitamin D overdose.24 The authors reported on 300 patients given high doses of vitamin D2 (ergocalciferol) for asthma and hay fever. The authors reported that each unit dose of […]
04 Sep
2014
Response to New York Times Opinion Piece “Don’t Take Your Vitamins”
The New York Times published an opinion piece by Dr. Paul Offit on June 8th, 2013 titled Don’t Take Your Vitamins.1 The article calls into question the benefit of vitamin supplementation. The opinion posits that most people get the nutrition they need from food and should not take supplemental antioxidant vitamins. Dr. Offit also suggests that vitamins could be […]
04 Sep
2014
Fish and Prostate Cancer Risk: Fact or Fiction
By William Faloon, Luke Huber, ND, MBA, Kira Schmid, ND, Blake Gossard, Scott Fogle, ND Several scientific studies have found a reduction in prostate cancer associated with increased omega-3 intake.1-11 A recent report purportedly showed the opposite.12 This report was based on a single blood test of plasma fatty acids in a group of 834 men who were followed up to six years to assess prostate […]
03 Sep
2014
Findings from Flawed Study Used To Discredit Multivitamin/Mineral Supplements
Our earliest concern was that free radicals generated by supplemental iron would increase cancer and heart disease risk. Our fears were born out shortly thereafter in published studies showing that elevation in markers of iron intake increased risk (by more than fivefold) of common degenerative diseases including heart attack and cancer.1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11,12,13,14,15,16,17Starting in 1983, the Life […]
02 Sep
2014
Congress Says Americans Too Stupid For Labeling
That is the conclusion of a Congressional Panel after several days of testimony from ‘experts.’ The bipartisan panel released a statement claiming that GMO labeling would be too confusing for consumers who are ‘ignorant’ of the real nature and risks of GMOs. So despite numerous surveys showing that over 90% of Americans want foods containing […]