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Some help for Leaky Gut problems, especially Ulcerative Colitis, "Pouchitis" and IBS
By Mike Abrahams

Sometimes ulcerative colitis can get so severe that surgery becomes necessary, and the large intestine is removed and replaced by a pouch ingeniously constructed from a small part of the patient's own small intestine.

Natural Remedies for RSI/Carpal Tunnel/Frozen Shoulder/Tennis Elbow
By Mike Abrahams

We have been getting consistent results with people suffering from RSI. Using a fairly strict dietary regime, inappropriate diet seems to be the primary cause, equally for tennis elbow and carpal tunnel etc, rather than the activity.

Omega-3 fatty acids boost child brain power
By Dr Madeleine Portwood

A study of primary school children has confirmed that supplements of the Omega-3 fatty acid found in fish and flax seed oils could take them from bottom of the class to the top in just two school terms.

Fatty acids in dyslexia, dyspraxia, and the autistic spectrum
By Dr Alex Richardson

We regard this article as essential reading for anyone wishing to understand the mechanism of fatty acids, and specifically why our supplement eye q may be beneficial for those with the said learning disorders.

 Osteoporosis and the Menopause
By Mike Abrahams

It's becoming increasingly clear that the only relationship between osteoporosis and menopause is the time frame within which they manifest themselves.

Grape seed extract may be a useful supplement to blunt hypertension in postmenopausal women
By the American Physiological Society

Nearly two years ago, the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) reported that women who took estrogen for ten years or more after menopause were twice as likely to die of ovarian cancer as nonusers. For the 20 million Americans who used estrogen alone or in combination therapy, the news reports have been devastating.

Bird flu: what to do?

By Andrew W. Saul

My daughter's parakeet is in grave danger.
Need you ask why? Because the Bird Flu is coming!
With all this terrifying talk about bird flu, I have a lingering question...

Life After Aspartame - Splenda
By Pat Thomas

Aspartame should never have reached the marketplace. But even if the authorities were to remove it from sale tomorrow, how much faith should consumers place in the other artificial sweeteners on the market?
Nutrition

So you think you have a balanced diet?

By Mike Abrahams

Evidence that a) people who should know better don't know what a balanced diet really is, and/or b) that balanced diets no longer contain the nutrients they should, is piling up from all corners of the health (or rather, sickness) scene.

It's not the fruit it used to be...
By Jonathan Leake

Britain's fruit is becoming sweeter and its vegetables less healthy. A study has shown that modern farming methods and plant breeding are stripping produce of many of the nutrients essential for human health.

Fluoride: Stop this medication
letter to the the Westmorland Gazette

The Sunday Times published another letter this week from the scientists involved in the government commissioned York Review saying "that fluoridation does not reduce inequalities in decay. No drug would be licensed for effectiveness or safety on the present evidence."
GMOS

Monsanto whistleblower says genetically engineered crops may cause disease
By Jeffrey M. Smith

Monsanto was quite happy to recruit young Kirk Azevedo to sell their genetically engineered cotton. Kirk had grown up on a California farm and had worked in several jobs monitoring and testing pesticides and herbicides. Kirk was bright, ambitious, handsome and idealistic - the perfect candidate to project the company's "Save the world through genetic engineering" image.

Have we just lit the fuse on a time bomb?
By Wild Oats

Mutation: In biology, a change to the genetic material (usually DNA or RNA) of an organism. Mutant: A cell microorganism that manifests new characteristics due to a change in its genetic material.
   Mutations occur all the time in all species. It’s a natural process. However, the chances of a mutation creating a mutant capable of better surviving its environment are vanishingly small. Most do not survive in nature.
   For Mutant, now read Gentically Modified Organism (GMO).

Are GM crops safe? Who can say? Not Blair
By Michael Meacher

At Prime Minister's Questions in the Commons last Wednesday Tony Blair stated that "it is important for the whole debate [on genetic modification] to be conducted on the basis of scientific evidence, not on the basis of prejudice".
    Exactly so. But what does the science actually indicate? Not, I think, what he appears to believe.

GMOs

By Mike Abrahams

If you try to modify a living thing by interfering with it's genes you enter a world of Pandora's box. There is no relationship between it and natural breeding or interbreeding. Even if you decided for the hell of it to reproduce an existing species using GE technology, even here you would end up with something different. Why? Read "GENETIC ENGINEERING IS NOT AN EXTENSION OF CONVENTIONAL PLANT BREEDING"...

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European Commission attempts to force GM contamination blueprint on reluctant member states.

GM crops contaminate up to 50% of organic maize in Northern Spain: New research published in Spain confirms that 'coexistence' between GM and organic farming in Europe does not work.

Iatrogenics

Severely suppressed bone turnover: a potential complication of Alendronate therapy
By Clarita V. Odvina et al

Alendronate, an inhibitor of bone resorption, is widely used in osteoporosis treatment. However, concerns have been raised about potential oversuppression of bone turnover during long-term use. We report on nine patients who sustained spontaneous nonspinal fractures while on alendronate therapy, six of whom displayed either delayed or absent fracture healing for 3 months to 2 yr during therapy.

Bayer settles more than 2900 lawsuits

German drug maker Bayer AG said Wednesday it has now settled more than 2,900 suits related to its cholesterol-lowering drug Lipobay, or Baycol, paying more than US$1.1 billion in out-of-court deals. Bayer pulled Lipobay, marketed as Baycol in the United States, in 2001 after it was linked to a rare muscle-wasting syndrome and about 100 patient deaths.

Popular shampoos contain toxic chemicals linked to nerve damage

From Newstarget

Researchers at the National Institutes of Health have found a correlation between an ingredient found in shampoos and nervous system damage. The experiments were conducted with the brain cells of rats and they show that contact with this ingredient called methylisothiazoline, or MIT, causes neurological damage.
   Which products contain this chemical compound MIT? Head and Shoulders, Suave, Clairol and Pantene Hair Conditioner all contain this ingredient.

Celebrex trial halted due to adverse cardiovascular events
By Yael Waknine

Alert: The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has warned healthcare professionals and patients via a statement that use of celecoxib (Celebrex, made by Pfizer Inc.) may be associated with an increased risk of adverse cardiovascular (CV) events, including cardiovascular death, acute myocardial infarction (MI), and stroke. Celecoxib is indicated in the treatment of osteoarthritis, rheumatoid arthritis, pain, and colon polyps.

 Commonly prescribed antibiotic implicated in autism
By Yvonne Linney

In a study released this week, the antibiotic AugmentinTM has been implicated in the formation of autism. The study strongly suggests the possibility of ammonia poisoning as a result of young children taking Augmentin.

FDA allows VIOXX
By Mike Adams

Following the death of as many as 60,000 Americans from COX-2 inhibitors, an FDA advisory panel has now voted to allow the drugs to return to the market with full FDA safety approval. The fact that a single COX-2 drug has reportedly killed more Americans than the entire Vietnam War is apparently not sufficient for the FDA to characterize it as unsafe.



Naproxen may increase risk of heart disease
By Salynn Boyles

Naproxen appears to be the latest of the nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs) that may be linked to an increase in cardiovascular events. On Monday, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) halted a large Alzheimer's disease prevention trial involving the drug after finding that patients receiving naproxen had a 50% greater incidence of cardiovascular events.

Non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs
By Chris Gupta

With all negative news concerning Non Steroidal Anti Inflammatory Drugs (NSAID's) and the Cox 2 inhibitors Vioxx, Celebrex and Naproxin, it is notable that all the experts have failed to mention one salient fact. All of these drugs, including the oldest pain killer Asprin, deplete the body of the B vitamin Folic acid.
Health frauds

Why Retroviruses Appear in AIDS, Cancer andAutoimmune Diseases
By Cal Crilly

Why do pregnant women generally test positive for HIV? What is a retrovirus? This article highlights the outdated science behind current treatments and shows the true causes and cure. Anyone who has been told they are "HIV positive" and anyone who is considering taking the test should read this one as an absolute priority.

Merck misled on vaccines
From the National Vaccine Information Center

Drug maker Merck & Co. continued to supply infant vaccine containing a mercury-based preservative for two years after declaring that it had eliminated the chemical.



Even pharmaceutical companies are vulnerable to loss of faith
By Steve Hickey

The scientific process depends on trust: we assume that authors acknowledge influences such as the involvement of pharmaceutical companies. Increasingly, companies subcontract papers to apparently respectable experts. Such ghostwriting should have no place in journals claiming to report primary scientific results.

More on FDA and Big Pharma

From hemscott.com

Big pharma has taken a big hit following the extraordinary allegations in recent days of serious shortcomings at the US Food and Drug Administration, including that its relationship with drug companies is far too cosy.

How to blow the whistle on a drug company and clean up
Story from BBC NEWS

Our man of the week is Douglas Durand who's just walked away with $46.5 (£29.7m) after he blew the whistle on UK drugs giant AstraZeneca over one of their prostate cancer drugs.
   The company had given illegal financial inducements to up to 400 doctors to try the new drug on their patients. The inducements included free samples of Zoladex, which the physicians then billed to Medicare, financial grants, and free travel and entertainment.

Monsanto fined $1.5m for bribery
From Friendsoffreedom.org

The US agrochemical giant Monsanto has agreed to pay a $1.5m (£799,000) fine for bribing an Indonesian official. Monsanto admitted one of its employees paid the senior official two years ago in a bid to avoid environmental impact studies being conducted on its cotton.


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