Doctor-Patient Confidentiality Threatened

Today, I received an email from the American Association for Health Freedom.  Usually they focus on issues relating to restrictions on the sale of vitamin and herbal supplements.  Big pharma lobbys heavily in favor of such restrictions. 
This issue is potentially more serious.  It is beyond me why it is attached to the economic stimulus [...]

Finally! Help Deciphering Nutritional Labels

We try to make good food choices, but, too often, the nutritional labels are confusing instead of helpful. Now, thanks to Diane Manning, there’s a way to decipher them.
Manning, who suffered for years with a digestive illness that could be controlled only through diet, created Labelwatch.com, a site with nutritional data for over 25,000 different [...]

Study Shows Drinking Tea is Healthier than Drinking Water

by Teresa Neumann – writer for Elijah List

Tea provides antioxidants, replaces fluids, strengthens bones and protects against dental plaque. An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure, as they say.
(United Kingdom)—The European Journal of Clinical Nutrition has reported that tea not only rehydrates as well as water does, but it can also protect [...]

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Calcium Supplementation Risks

Last week I wrote about recent research concerning the best calcium supplements.
Today I received a newsletter from my insurance company citing a recent research project conducted in New Zealand.
Post menopausal women who took Citracal, a calcium citrate compound, had more heart attacks and strokes than women in the placebo group. And not just a [...]

Hang on to Those Brain Cells

Aimee Herd (August 3, 2008 ) writer for Elijah List
Research has found that exercise not only helps protect current nerve cells in the brain, but can actually help to grow new ones!
For a long time people have heard that there are many benefits to a regular regimen of exercise. Now there is even more [...]

Coffee Makes You Gullible?

Interesting post by Jonathan Fields – Coffee makes you gullible.

Best Calcium Supplement

At my recent annual checkup, the nurse practitioner said, “Tell me about the calcium you are taking.”
As with any other part of my life, there never is a simple answer. I told her about the five different calcium compounds I’m taking which total the recommended 1500 mg per day. One type [...]

New Tomato Vaccine Could Prevent Alzheimer’s

Teresa Neumann (July 13, 2008 )
“Developing a vaccine is currently the subject of a lot of exciting research. This study suggests that it might be possible to derive vaccines from plants.”
The Daily Mail reports that scientists have genetically modified tomatoes to create an edible vaccine that “fires up the immune [...]

Whole Foods – God’s Pharmacy

I believe it is our responsibility to take good care of our bodies. Whole foods are certainly a great place to start.
A friend sent me this via email. Fascinating!
It’s been said that God first separated the salt water from the fresh, made dry land, planted a garden, made animals and fish… all before [...]