Stop Attacks on Legitimate Integrative Physicians Integrative Practitioners Working Toward a Level Playing Field Integrative practitioners have had an uphill battle in protecting their right to practice medicine in a manner that assesses the whole patient—mind, body, lifestyle, and genetics. The right to exercise independent judgment in developing a course of treatment for a patient […]
Don’t Let Drug Companies Create a Weight Loss Monopoly
Protect Women’s Right to Choose Natural Bio-identical Estriol ******* Action Alerts For This Campaign ******* Save Bio-Identical Hormones ANH-USA is working to protect access to bio-identical hormones, such as Estriol, from unwarranted interference by the FDA. Take Action>> Protect Individualized Medicine Individualized medicine allows a practitioner to develop patient-specific strategies based on an individual’s composition to better prevent, diagnose, […]
Stop CODEX Global “Harmonization” of Food and Supplement Restrictions Will it or Won’t it affect your Vitamins? Background of Codex European Union U.S. Policy Codex Alimentarius Q&A Documents and Links of Interest Codex Overview Codex dietary supplement standards are expected to mirror those currently being built into European guidelines, where the maximum limit for beta […]
Bio-identical hormones studies The FDA would like you to believe that bio-identical hormones are not safer nor as effective as FDA-approved hormone therapy drugs. The studies below have shown that bio-identical hormones are both safer and as effective as FDA-approved therapy, and that they provide additional positive benefits for patients with Alzheimer’s, heart disease, and […]
A high-profile legal battle over genetically modified crops continues. The US Supreme Court in a 7-1 decision yesterday (June 21) did not accept a lower court’s total nationwide ban on GM alfalfa. But it did agree that the seeds could be dangerous and did not allow Monsanto to proceed with selling them. The US Department of Agriculture (USDA) must now complete a study examining whether the seeds will harm the environment before approving them for restricted planting, a process that could go into next year, and which could lead to more litigation.
The American Dietetic Association (ADA) wants to create a monopoly on state nutritional licensure. This organization—which lists among its corporate sponsors soft drink giants Coca-Cola and PepsiCo, cereal manufacturers General Mills and Kellogg’s, candy maker Mars, and Unilever, the multinational corporation that owns many of the world’s consumer products brands in foods and beverages—already has a stranglehold on who can dispense nutritional counseling at the state level.
This week we discuss several ways prescription drugs may be making us all sicker—whether through illnesses brought on because these medicines deplete critical nutrients in our body, or because we’re unwittingly consuming pharmaceuticals in the municipal water we drink.
Deborah Ray has been bringing quality health information to radio listeners since 1982 when she founded her radio program with her late husband, Donald J. Carrow M.D. S. Deborah has been consistently named among the top 100 most important talk radio hosts in America by Talkers Magazine, and has been host and speaker for numerous […]
According to a major international study just published in the International Journal of Epidemiology “using a cell phone seems to protect against two types of brain tumor.” Let that sink in for just a moment and then learn that even the researchers behind the study, funded in part by the cell phone industry, did not believe their results. Which prompts many of us to ask the question “can we count on the studies, the gold standard of double-blind placebo controlled randomized clinical trials”?