Vitamin C Cancer Use Attacked
A study published in the journal Cancer Research concluded that vitamin C given to mice or cultured cells treated with common anti-cancer drugs reduces the benefits of the chemotherapy.
10 Mar
2009
24 Feb
2009
This Is Not Science
The headlines were uniformly negative—“Vitamins Are Useless!” An “observational” study at Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center in Seattle looked at over 161,000 post-menopausal women, ages 50-79. Of the multivitamin supplements taken, none were counted if they were above tiny “recommended daily allowances,” and all reporting was done anecdotally. After eight years, researchers concluded there was […]
25 Nov
2008
What Were the Results of Giving Vitamin C and Vitamin E to Prevent Heart Disease and Cancer?
Over the past few years, there have been a series of research reports critical of vitamins.
11 Nov
2008
Decision on BPA—Is the FDA Conclusion Deeply Flawed?
The topic of bisphenol A (BPA) regulation has been discussed in the September 9 and September 23 issues of Pulse of Health Freedom. Now thirty-six scientific advisers on an independent panel have concluded that the draft decision of the FDA on BPA used “unacceptable criteria for selecting data and depend(ed) heavily upon a key paper […]
11 Nov
2008
NCI Pulls the Plug on Selenium and Vitamin E — What Do the Results Mean for Dietary Supplements?
From the 1950s on, the American population has been culturally conditioned that a magic bullet exists for every symptom that afflicts the human condition. Every pharmaceutical firm dreams of a blockbuster medication—a Claritin, a Lipitor, a Viagra.
28 Oct
2008
Vitamin Use in Cancer Care
(And You Thought the Election Rhetoric Was Vicious!) The use of vitamins—and antioxidants in particular—during cancer therapy has a long history of controversy. Many pioneers in the field of cancer care and research—Drs. Charles Simone, Ralph Moss, Kedar Prasad, and Keith Block, among others—have sifted through the conflicting research and offer an alternative viewpoint from […]
16 Sep
2008
Vitamin D: as close to a magic bullet as you can get?
Source: Alliance for Natural Health The vitamin D paradox Here we have yet another study demonstrates the benefits of the sunshine vitamin, vitamin D.
28 Apr
2008
ANH Responds to media slamming alternative medicine
A leading Harley Street physician, also President of the British Society for Ecological Medicine and Medical Director of the Alliance for Natural Health, claims that Professor Ernst, the UK’s first professor of complementary medicine, is unscientific in his approach.