If you have recently been to a U.S. theme park, it is startling to most to notice the waistlines of American families. Mom and Dad are overweight and more often than not, every child is overweight, too. Many experts were quick to comment that obesity must be related to genetic susceptibility. Really, what about mother […]
Pundits have said it takes at least 100 deaths for the FDA to act regarding pulling a prescription drug from the marketplace. The playing field is far from level for risky medications versus the risks of supplements including herbs. It is of little comfort to consumers that the FDA has no written guidelines for deciding […]
Government Is Not A Parent ******* Action Alerts For This Campaign ******** No action alerts at this time. Read More About: Judge Revokes Bloomberg’s Ban on Extra-Large Sugary Drinks March 12, 2013 “Arbitrary and capricious,” the judge called it. Last year we pointed out that the mayor also has the science wrong. Read More>> Eat […]
Natural health is a tremendous growth industry. Over the next few decades, it will generate millions of jobs. Europe will get few. Asia many. What about the US?
Sour milk politics; Congress tries to improve school lunches; court says no to Monsanto; and Harvard researchers develop Frankenstein machine.
Articles written by ANH Europe Executive and Scientific Director Rob Verkerk, Ph.D.: Traditional Plant Medicine: Why A Rescue Plan is Desperately Needed, appearing in Truth Matters, August 2010 Protect Your Rights to Natural Medicine!, appearing in Caduceus, June 2010
The New England Journal of Medicine in a November 2008 issue published research that had tracked nearly 360,000 men and women in 9 European countries for nearly 10 years. The results confirm research that has proliferated in the U.S. medical literature that is, a full to bursting waistline is a stronger predictor of premature death […]
Washington University, in a NIH-funded grant request in 2005 to study ginseng and its blood sugar modulating effects, called diabetes an epidemic. They predicted 10% of the US population would be type II diabetic within the year.
Thanks to the imagination of a school girl in WV, a growing appreciation exists of our exposure to pharmaceutical drugs in our water supply system. It was her school experiment after reading about drugs in Swiss lakes that sparked the US Geological Service to launch a survey of streams, rivers, lakes, and ponds. The results […]
Why Do The Major Media Get It So Wrong? ********Action Alerts For This Campaign******** Last Monday the Archives of Internal Medicine, released a study claiming that vitamin use might lead to an earlier death. The study was “junk science” at its worst. Worst of all, the media have skewed and misreported the study with devastating […]