Canada Declares BPA Toxic
Last week, the government of Canada formally declared bisphenol A to be a toxic substance. The US still denies it.
19 Oct
2010
31 Aug
2010
“We are the Experiment”: Greater than 9 in 10 Canadians found to carry Bisphenol A as well as 90% of Americans and Europeans
The first national survey about bisphenol A (BPA) conducted by Statistics Canada has revealed that 91% of Canadians have a body burden of this chemical known to have hormone-like effects. Click here to read in further detail http://www.theglobeandmail.com/life/health/statscan-survey-finds-bpa-present-in-91-per-cent-of-canadians/article1674153/. What does not mean? Honestly, no one knows because “we are the experiment.”
17 Aug
2010
Drugs in Our Water
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 […]
03 Aug
2010
ANH–USA Files Petition to Ban BPA in Cash Register Receipts
Today, the Alliance for Natural Health USA is filing a Citizen Petition with the Consumer Products Safety Commission to have bisphenol-A (BPA) banned from cash register receipts, the little-known but most common pathway into your body. Please help make the CPSC pay attention to the latest science.
06 Jul
2010
Are “Natural” Household Cleaners Really Safer?
Concerned about the chemicals in traditional household cleaners? A new standard provides customers the information they need to make informed decisions.
22 Jun
2010
How Somebody’s Medicines May Be Making You Sicker
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.
21 Jun
2010
Something Had Gone Terribly Wrong
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”?
14 Jun
2010
Tell FDA to Ban Arsenic in Animal Feed!
The chickens you buy at the grocery store are given feed with arsenic added to make them gain weight faster. Yes, arsenic—the deadly poison and carcinogen. A petition had been filed with the FDA to remove arsenic from animal feed and the FDA had until June 15th to respond. ANH-USA forwarded the thousands of comments our readers submitted in support of the arsenic ban to the FDA. Thank you all for taking action!
14 Jun
2010
Fluoride is Not Enough—Now They Want to Add Calcium to Our Drinking Water!
In the wake of the World Health Organization’s swine flu vaccine scandal we told you about last week, we have learned of even more WHO foolishness: they’re now recommending that municipal water supplies and foodstuffs be fortified with added calcium.
01 Jun
2010
Senate Hearing Headlines: The Media Gets It Wrong Again. Here Is Some Of What You Need To Know About Supplement Safety.
In last week’s newsletter, we reported that the staff of the Senate Committee on Aging, led by Senator Kohl (D-WI), was preparing a surprise ambush of dietary supplements in a Senate hearing held last Wednesday. We were right. But we didn’t anticipate how seriously distorted the major media news stories would be.