Research news on nutrition, environmental medicine and health
Robert H. Lustig, MD, and a team of the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) researchers argue that sugar should be controlled like alcohol and tobacco to protect public health. In a new report, they maintain that sugar is fueling a global obesity pandemic, contributing to 35 million deaths annually worldwide from non-communicable diseases like diabetes, …
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The UN plan to eradicate Organic Farming & to destroy the Natural Health Industry Never heard of Codex Alimentarius? That’s exactly what they want! With biting political analysis, Ian R. Crane probes (2007) the track record of those who openly crave the introduction of a One World hierarchical Government. Exposing the agenda of those who …
Public Lecture at Cardiff Metropolitan University, Wales This open lecture was given on 7 February 2012 by the nutritionist Zoë Harcombe. In the UK, obesity has increased ten fold since the 1970′s. Clearly it cannot increase ten fold again or 250% of us will be overweight. However, the prediction of the Foresight report is that 90% of today’s …
A Harvard scientist says the drugs used to treat depression are effective, but for many, it’s the placebo effect that’s making people feel better. Do antidepressants work? Since the introduction of Prozac in the 1980s, prescriptions for antidepressants have soared 400 percent, with 17 million Americans currently taking some form of the drug. But how …
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If you are what you eat, then what does it mean that the average American consumes 130 pounds of sugar a year? Dr. Sanjay Gupta reports on new research showing that beyond weight gain, sugar can take a serious toll on your health, worsening conditions ranging from heart disease to cancer. Some physicians go so …
This is a good, but a little known documentary about water fluoridation. Directed and edited by Brandon Kovatch.
A compound found in red wine, grapes and other fruits, and similar in structure to resveratrol, is able to block cellular processes that allow fat cells to develop, opening a door to a potential method to control obesity, according to a Purdue University study. Kee-Hong Kim, an assistant professor of food science, and Jung Yeon …
Julian Whitaker, MD (born August 7, 1944), graduated from Dartmouth College in 1966, and received his medical training at Emory University Medical School in Atlanta in 1970. He is a member of the American Medical Association and is board certified in anti-aging medicine. In 1979 Dr. Whitaker opened the Whitaker Wellness Institute in Newport Beach, California, and today …
According to Bradfield & Foster ( 2006) is it possible to reverse all the symptoms of AIDS in dying patients using nutrition alone. This requires selenium and the amino acids, cysteine, tryptophan and glutamine. Dr. Harold D. Foster, Ph.D. (1933-2009) was one of the giants in orthomolecular medicine with boundless enthusiasm and a prolific gift of …
Researcher Karl-Ludvig Reichelt and his colleagues at the National Hospital in Oslo have found that autistics have more peptides, or fragments of proteins in the urine than healthy people. The effect of this peptide accumulation is an opium-like effect in the brain. The autistics function better socially and achieve greater benefit from teaching and other stimulus …
