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Wisconsin Raw Milk Illnesses are from Big Dairy, not Raw Milk Suppliers

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Wisconsin Raw Milk Illnesses are from Big Dairy, not Raw Milk Suppliers

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Amazing…Just As Story of WI Kids Sickened By Raw Milk Gets Interesting, the Food Safety Hysterics Fade Into the Woodwork…Did I Hear Someone Say “Hypocrisy”?
by David Gumpert
The Complete Patient
In golf, when you slice the ball into the other fairway, or dribble it into a pond, you may decide to take a […]

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52% of foster kids are prescribed psych drugs—One of them is fighting back

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52% of foster kids are prescribed psych drugs—One of them is fighting back

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By CCHR Int
At just 6 years of age, still grieving over the death of the only mother he’d ever known, his foster mother, Giovan Bazan received the first of many psychiatric “diagnoses” and drugs that would plague him for the next twelve years of his life. Moved from foster home to foster home, orphanages and other […]

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Salt consumption is not dangerous and may in fact be beneficial

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Salt consumption is not dangerous and may in fact be beneficial

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To Salt or Not to Salt, That is the Question
Newswise — A new eight year long European study concludes that salt consumption is not dangerous and may in fact be beneficial. This is certainly contrary to advice from American Medical Association, American Heart Association and the Center for Disease Control and Prevention, which […]

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80 Uses for Coconut Oil

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80 Uses for Coconut Oil

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Offering a myriad of health benefits, coconut oil is affordable, readily available and completely natural. I have completely fallen in love with coconut oil and use it for EVERYTHING. Literally. I buy it in 5 gallon increments and keep it all over my house. I even have some in the car. So here is a little information to inspire you to check out this amazing oil including 80 uses for it!

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The Federal Government’s War Against Raw Milk

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The Federal Government’s War Against Raw Milk

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Amish Buggies
by Daniel Sayani
The New American
The federal government, in using its illegitimate and unconstitutional authority to regulate various industries — such as food, pharmaceuticals, textiles, and other commodities — has raised the ire of producers and advocates of raw milk consumption, including Amish communities throughout the American heartland.
Raw milk […]

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Afghanistan’s Last Locavores

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Afghanistan’s Last Locavores

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Graveyard in Kabul – photo by Martien van Asseldonk
by PATRICIA McARDLE
New York Times
Many urban Americans idealize “green living” and “slow food.” But few realize that one of the most promising models for sustainable living is not to be found on organic farms in the United States, but in Afghanistan. A majority of its 30 million citizens […]

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Coconut Oil Increases Good Cholesterol and Lowers Abdominal Obesity

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Coconut Oil Increases Good Cholesterol and Lowers Abdominal Obesity

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by Dr. Mercola

A study has shown that dietary supplementation with coconut oil may result in a reduction in waist circumference and other benefits.

A randomized, double-blind clinical trial of 40 women divided them into two groups — one that received daily dietary supplements of soybean oil (group S) and another than received a similar amount […]

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Statin Side Effects – Why Doctors Need To Start Listening To Their Patients

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Statin Side Effects – Why Doctors Need To Start Listening To Their Patients

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by Dr. John Briffa
The Cholesterol Truth

Excerpts:

Last week, the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) recommended caution in prescribing the statin simvastatin. The evidence suggests that at doses of 80mg, this drug significantly heightens the risk of muscle damage and breakdown known as rhabdomyolosis. The breakdown products of muscle can actually go on to cause kidney […]

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New Study Shows Using Statins Actually Worsens Your Heart Function

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New Study Shows Using Statins Actually Worsens Your Heart Function

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by Dr. Mercola

A study found that statin drugs are associated with decreased myocardial (heart muscle) function.

Statin use is known to be associated with myopathy, muscle weakness and rhabdomyolysis, a breakdown of muscle fibers resulting in the release of muscle fiber contents into the bloodstream. For the study, myocardial function was evaluated in 28 patients.

According […]

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Is Your Moisturizer Increasing Your Risk for Skin Cancer?

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Is Your Moisturizer Increasing Your Risk for Skin Cancer?

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by Dr. Mercola

A study has found that topical applications of moisturizers such as Dermabase, Dermovan, Eucerin Original Moisturizing Cream, or Vanicream could increase skin cancer risk.

Irradiated mice who were treated with the moisturizers exhibited a significant increase in their rate of tumor formation and increase in tumor size per mouse. Treatment of the mice […]

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Supplements are Safer than Drugs Latest Report Confirms

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Supplements are Safer than Drugs Latest Report Confirms

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by Alliance for Natural Health
The latest 200-page annual report of the American Association of Poison Control Centers, published in the journal Clinical Toxicology, shows no deaths whatsoever in 2009 from any dietary supplement, amino acid, herb, vitamin, or dietary mineral supplement.
As a press release from the Orthomolecular Medicine News Service puts it,
Over half of the U.S. population […]

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FDA tells consumers it’s OK to put toxic substances on their skin, and advises them to avoid natural sunlight

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FDA tells consumers it’s OK to put toxic substances on their skin, and advises them to avoid natural sunlight

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by Alliance for Natural Health
After thirty-three years of deliberation, the FDA tells consumers it’s OK to put toxic substances on their skin, and advises them to avoid natural sunlight!
The US Food and Drug Administration last week issued a final rule on the labeling of sunscreen products. The regulation says that sunscreen products which pass the […]

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Action Alert: New Legislation Would Expand HSA and FSA Coverage of Dietary Supplements

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Action Alert: New Legislation Would Expand HSA and FSA Coverage of Dietary Supplements

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by Alliance for Natural Health
A new bill would expand “eligible medical expenses” in the IRS code to include herbs, vitamins, minerals, homeopathic remedies, meal replacement products, and other dietary and nutritional supplements. A new Action Alert.
Sen. Orrin Hatch (R-UT) has introduced S.1098, the Retirement Health Investment Act of 2011. The House version of the bill, HR.2010, was […]

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House Cuts FDA Budget by $285 Million – The so-called “food safety” law cannot be implemented

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House Cuts FDA Budget by $285 Million – The so-called “food safety” law cannot be implemented

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Health Impact News Editor Comments: While at first glance a headline stating that funds are not available to implement a “food safety” law might seem negative, the opposite is true if you enjoy the freedom to choose your own food from small-scale family farms rather than the industrialized food factories.
As we have been reporting, […]

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The cost-effective way to feed the world

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The cost-effective way to feed the world

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By MARGARET MELLON AND DOUG GURIAN-SHERMAN
By 2050, the world will have to feed 9 billion people, adapt to climate change, reduce agricultural pollution, and protect fresh water supplies – all at the same time. Given that formidable challenge, what are the quickest, most cost-effective ways to develop more productive, drought-, flood- […]

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Studies show that the countries with the most vaccines have the worst infant death rate

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Studies show that the countries with the most vaccines have the worst infant death rate

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UK Scraps Pneumonia Vaccines Because They ‘Don’t Work’
by Dr. Mercola

The United States requires infants to receive 26 vaccines (the most in the world) yet more than 6 U.S. infants die per every 1,000 live births. In contrast, Sweden and Japan administer 12 vaccines to infants, the least amount, and report […]

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Study of nearly 4 million people shows that statins do NOT prevent heart attacks

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Study of nearly 4 million people shows that statins do NOT prevent heart attacks

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HEALTHY DIETS AND SCIENCE

Study title and authors:
No connection between the level of exposition to statins in the population and the incidence/mortality of acute myocardial infarction: An ecological study based on Sweden’s municipalities.
Staffan Nilsson, Sigvard Molstad, Catarina Karlberg, Jan-Erik Karlsson and Lars-Goran Persson

Division of Community Medicine, Department of Medicine […]

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The Miracle that is COCONUT OIL

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The Miracle that is COCONUT OIL

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by Raw Girl in a Toxic World
My coconut craze phase has gone on for quite some time. I eat them several times a week and love consuming all parts of the coconut. At this point I’m a life long coconut fanatic…but I had yet to really test the long-term benefits of using coconut oil. […]

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Two main components of coffee cups and carry out containers identified as cancer-causing agents

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Two main components of coffee cups and carry out containers identified as cancer-causing agents

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NYDailyNews.com

WASHINGTON – The widely used preservative formaldehyde and the coffee-cup component styrene were added to a list of known and suspected carcinogens by the feds. Formaldehyde, linked to leukemia and a rare type of nasal cancer, is “known to be a human carcinogen,” according to a report by the National Institutes of Health. Styrene, often used […]

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Cell phone use linked to brain tumors

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Cell phone use linked to brain tumors

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by: Dr. Mercola

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=225qvrCiAys

Here’s some news about cell phones and cancer which even the mainstream media has found impossible to ignore. The International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC), an arm […]

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