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Are Federal “Expert Panels” Essential to Overhauling the Nation’s Healthcare System?
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Nov 3, 2015 1The Monopoly On Your Health
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“Regulate Supplements Like Drugs!”: Senator Durbin on NPR
In just under five minutes, he reveals his plan, which would effectively eliminate supplements from the shelves. Action Alert! We’ve told you before about Sen. Dick Durbin’s (D-IL) Dietary Supplement Labeling Act. Recently, he went on National Public Radio’s Science Friday to drum up suppor...
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Sep 13, 2016 0Halt the FDA’s Attack on Supplements
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The Science of Cherries: The FDA Calls Cherries a Drug
A 1999 peer-reviewed report in the Journal of Natural Products published by the American Chemical Society, the world’s largest scientific society, concluded that tart cherries may relieve pain better than aspirin and other anti-inflammatory drugs. The consumption of about twenty cherries reduces i...
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AAHF Has a Question for the Obama Administration
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Mar 19, 2015 1Daily Show Skewers Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics
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