Health Supreme

After Europe, it seems that the pharmaceutical industry, in collusion with certain lawmakers and regulators is now targeting the relative freedom of Americans to supplement their diet with nutrients. Do they really want to create a world wide black market in nutritional supplements? How crazy! Actions like that will only...

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USA: The Drugs That Generated Most Adverse Event Reports In the third quarter of 2009, the number of serious, disabling and fatal adverse drug events reported to the FDA numbered 29,065, compared to 26,809 in the same quarter a year earlier, an 8.4 percent rise, according to the Institute for...

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Those proposed new supplement regulations remind me of what we have had in Europe for a few years now. Who'd have thought the (EU) tail would ever be wagging the (US) dog... or is it a matter of McCain working for the same masters that control both of our respective...

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Cocktail of five vitamins may give cancer patients an extra two years Cancer patients with terminal disease who take a daily cocktail of vitamins could extend their lives by two years or even longer, claim researchers. Three out of four in a pilot study survived an average of five months...

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Lipitor is a drug that impedes cholesterol synthesis in the liver in an attempt to prevent cardiovascular illness. In a mechanical sense, this would be like taking a hammer to the red warning light to handle the lack of motor oil. In the process, the drug unbalances other vital functions...

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Is the anti-smoking campaign a cover-up of ongoing pollution and other health-destroying activities? BBC reports on a Berkeley study that introduces yet another level in the anti-smoking campaign: Not only does smoking and even second-hand smoke cause cancer, but now "third hand smoke" is to be blamed as well. Wait...

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Amino acid imbalance may be cause of Autism A New Jersey based think tank, The Center for Modeling Optimal Outcomes, LLC made an inadvertent and amazing discovery. According to The Center's founder, William McFaul, a retired business person and not a member of the scientific community, "Because of its universal...

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By the way ... today's date is 01022010 ... if we adopt the European way of writing dates. Palindrome anyone? The Rise Of Marketing-Based Medicine “While much excitement has been generated surrounding evidence-based medicine, internal documents from the pharmaceutical industry suggest that the publicly available evidence base may not accurately...

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PsychRights whistleblower suit challenges psychiatric prescriptions, charges medicaid fraud "Even though the drug companies have been using these methods to induce psychiatrists to prescribe these drugs, it is the psychiatrists' responsibility to base their decisions on the facts, not drug company marketing," said Mr. Gottstein, continuing, "the uncritical acceptance of...

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Poison Control Statistics Prove Supplements' Safety: No Deaths from Vitamins, Minerals, Amino Acids or Herbs There was not even one death caused by a dietary supplement in 2008, according to the most recent information collected by the U.S. National Poison Data System. The new 174-page annual report of the American...

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New study puts “saturated fat causes heart disease” meme to rest The recent review I’m talking about is a meta-analysis published this week in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition. It pooled together data from 21 unique studies that included almost 350,000 people, about 11,000 of whom developed cardiovascular disease...

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New ANH Study exposes flawed nature of EU plans to limit vitamin dosages Dr Verkerk claims that outputs from the models most favoured by European authorities have never been subject to proper scientific validation. The paper reveals that proposed maximum amounts for some vitamins and minerals are so low they...

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Europe is very restrictive in what it allows to be said about the health properties of foods on product labels. In their latest article, the Alliance for Natural Health points out that there is a campaign for US regulations to follow the European directives in this instance. If we think...

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Welcome to 2010. I won't bother you with the 10 worst scandals of the past year or the 10 best trends projected for the future. Life will go on without that and - hopefully - we will be more and more in control of our own destiny. But remember, we...

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Merry Christmas, Winter Solstice or whatever the festivity is you are observing in these days to all my friends and readers - and may this coming year of 2010 bring wellness and success for you and some healthy changes for all of our human family! Science, media, and Loch Ness...

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