by Sayer Ji USDA organic certification affords the U.S. consumer one of the only food quality protections available today, but does it really guarantee a product is chemical free? What’s a consumer to do today? Between cause- and patently false-marketing, looking beneath the surface appearances…
Scott C. Tips Sunset pinked the German sky as the Codex delegates sat at their conference-room tables, a long first day already behind them, still debating health standards that will affect billions worldwide. Naturally a day filled with such debates – especially over technical language…
By Karen Foster There’s no doubt about it, bacteria keep us alive. They’re thought to encode more than 3 million genes in the body, and this complexity of bugs may also be responsible for immune dysfunction that begins with a “failure to communicate” in the…
By Dr. K.J. McLaughlin I think the consensus is that weight loss is possible but the difficulty arises when you want to maintain the degree of weight loss you have experienced. Most research that has assessed weight loss strategies have shown that quite frequently, weight…
by Catherine J. Frompovich What’s the difference between an allergic reaction, an adverse event, or a contraindication with regard to vaccines? Apparently there are very little or no differences because all those events mean that a vaccinee is in trouble with his or her health…
by Norma Erickson The Nationwide Liaison Association of Cervical Cancer Vaccine Victims and Parents in Japan, assisted by some of Japan’s best medical scientists, and a few politicians with strong morals are doing everything they can to get HPV vaccines banned from their country. These…
By Amanda Warren Grandpa is a good soul who overcame tremendous hardship and is alive and well to this day despite some recent medical issues he’s happily recovering from. We’ll call him Fred. We’ve studied him forever to figure out the secrets to his long…
by Daisy Luther Stockpiles: they aren’t just for pantries anymore! You might be wondering where on earth you can stash all of the food required for a one-year pantry. Unless you have a pantry the size of a master bedroom suite, it won’t take long…
by Catherine J. Frompovich HPV, the human papillomavirus, is a relatively newer health scare that has been bandied around as causing cervical cancer since 2006-08 in order to get adolescent girls to accept willingly Merck & Company’s HPV vaccine Gardasil® along with its advertising campaign,…
by Rady Ananda Last night, two real-food icons debated whether the federal government should mandate labeling of genetically modified foods: Dr Joe Smith, who runs the world’s most popular alternative health site, and farmer and author Joel Salatin, who’s been featured in several documentaries including…
by Jeffry John Aufderheide A recent post on the Great Mothers (and others) Questioning Vaccines Facebook page is starting to gain a lot of attention. According to the post, a mother who made a trip to the emergency room at Palmetto Health Children’s Hospital was…
by Dr. Victor Marchione Your gallbladder is a little sac located just under your liver. When your liver produces bile, it is stored in the gallbladder. This bile helps your body to digest fats. Normally, your gallbladder releases bile into the upper portion of the…
by Alex Pietrowski Some will blame the doctors who are swift to prescribe pharmaceuticals; others will blame patients and their desire for a quick fix; perhaps some will think the over-use of antibiotics in factory farms and dairy products is mostly to blame. Likely, it…
by Daisy Luther After 3 months of careful budgeting, shopping, food preservation, repackaging, and stockpiling, we now have a one-year food supply. This doesn’t mean that we don’t have to shop for a year, but it does mean that we have a cushion against disaster,…
By Heather Callaghan Cancer is a word…not a sentence. It’s been said that a good book lets us know about the author, but a truly good book knows you. A reader of Catherine Frompovich’s book A Cancer Answer will understand why. Hers is a real-time…
by Catherine J. Frompovich What is tobacco-science? you may be asking. Well, for those who don’t know the history of marketing cigarettes in the 1950s when, according to some researchers the apparent detrimental facts of tobacco use were known to that industry, cigarette makers used…
By Heather Callaghan Have you been following the story of 10-year-old Sarah Hershberger? She is the fully recovered Amish girl who is willing to (physically) fight if forced back back onto experimental chemotherapy. The threat of court-ordered chemotherapy still looms over the family as sheriffs…
By Heather Callaghan Cargill Inc., among the world’s biggest beef processors, is taking the road less traveled and has decided to disclose ingredients for their version of what consumers and media call “pink slime.” Rival pink slime producer, Beef Products Inc., nearly shut down in…
by Rady Ananda Tuesday’s vote on whether certain foods containing genetically modified ingredients should be labeled failed in early returns. However, the mail-in ballots have not yet been counted. Of nearly a million votes cast, only 445,730 reportedly voted for food labeling. Pundits are declaring…
By Dr. K.J.McLaughlin Arthritis is a very common condition that most of us will encounter as we age. The most common form is the age-related type where you get up in the morning and your joints are achy and tight. The more common areas affected…
