Now we need your help to make the FDA stop its cover-up. Action Alert! US consumers are in dark about mercury in dental products—and they are kept there deliberately by the government. This is documented in a new report being released this week by Consumers for Dental Choice called “Measurably Misleading: Evidence the FDA and […]
The manufacturer and some doctors are trying to dismiss the new research, despite mounting evidence of Tylenol’s dangers. Action Alert! A study just published in JAMA Pediatrics finds that Tylenol (acetaminophen) taken by women during their pregnancy may raise the risk of ADHD (Attention Deficit Hyperactive Disorder) and similar disorders in their children up to […]
We’ve got good news and bad news. And very bad news. Action Alert! The good news: more and more companies and government bodies are concluding that the endocrine-disruptor bisphenol-A (BPA) is bad for you! China has banned BPA in baby bottles; the European Union banned use of the chemical entirely; Canada declared BPA to be […]
Could the same thing happen in the US? Analysis by guest columnist Shawn Buckley, LLB, president of Canada’s Natural Health Products Protection Association and a Canadian constitutional and criminal lawyer. He has appeared before the Senate and House Committees of the Parliament of Canada as an expert witness on constitutional and health issues. In the […]
Compounded medications aren’t being covered—which means FDA-approved drugs will own the marketplace. Action Alert! Pharmacy benefit managers, or PBMs, are companies that process prescriptions for insurance companies and corporations, and use their size to negotiate low prices with drug makers and pharmacies. They act as an intermediary between the payor and everyone else in the […]
We and our allies have had a successful year so far fighting monopoly in nutritional advice. Here’s an update, including new federal recognition of nutritionists. On July 15, Michigan Governor Rick Snyder signed HB 4688 into law, repealing the state’s monopolistic licensure law for nutrition professionals. The Center for Nutrition Advocacy, an initiative of the […]
Some prescription drugs dull your senses—and weaken your body’s ability to repair itself. Recent Duke University research showed that enhancing the taste and smell of foods for patients in a retirement home resulted in stronger immune systems. (In a side benefit, they also got better grip strength in both hands!) In other studies, this same […]
We’ve joined with two natural health powerhouses to argue that this action is illegal. Urgent Action Alert! We have been telling you about the FDA’s latest sneak attempt to ban another B vitamin—natural folate. Folate is the naturally occurring form of the water-soluble vitamin B9. It is found in foods such as black-eyed peas, chickpeas […]
But she hasn’t yet succeeded. The recent annual conference of the School Nutrition Association (SNA), which, along with various labor unions, represents our country’s 55,000 school food workers, was sponsored by Domino’s Pizza, PepsiCo, Tyson, General Mills, and AdvancePierre Foods, a pre-packaged sandwich provider, the largest in the nation. The exhibition hall was filled with […]
As his popularity with Americans grows—and with it a new openness to integrative medicine—mainstream medicine is alarmed. Last year, when he was a second-year medical student, Benjamin Mazer took it upon himself to ask both the Medical Society of the State of New York (MSSNY) and the American Medical Association (AMA) to address what he […]