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America's Soldiers Need Support on the War Front

4/9/2008 - (NaturalNews) Our American soldiers on the war front are finding it increasingly difficult to get the mental health care they need. As violence rose in Afghanistan, new tactics have been employed, which in turn pushed our troops there farther away from...

Exercise: The Miracle Antidepressant Drug?

11/27/2007 - (NaturalNews) Common wisdom holds that exercise boosts your mood, in addition to benefiting your physical health. Terms such as “endorphins” and “runner’s high” are afloat in the popular lexicon. If you are a person who exercises...

Study: Dogs improve health of their human companions

1/23/2007 - (NaturalNews) According to a recent study, dogs may be man’s best friend in more ways that previously thought. The study, written by Dr. Deborah Wells of Queen’s University, Belfast, for the British Journal of Health Psychiatry, found that dog owners...

UK Healthcare Commission: Mental health patients overdosed with prescription psychotropic drugs

1/22/2007 - (NaturalNews) Mental health patients in UK trusts are routinely prescribed medications in excess of the highest recommended dose, and most patients are not granted proper access to consultations with pharmacy staff, according to a new report by the Healthcare...

Breastfeeding improves mental health of infants

10/30/2006 - (NaturalNews) New Australian research has found that infants who are breastfed for longer than six months experience significantly better mental health during childhood, compared to infants breastfed for fewer than six months. Researchers from the...

Mental health crisis haunts front line U.S. soldiers serving in Iraq

10/27/2006 - (NaturalNews) Soldiers returning from the front lines of Iraq are likely to have mental health disorders that the military will not have the funds to treat. In fact, a former military commander-in-chief describes today's overextended, under-equipped military...

Psychiatric patients stage fence-climbing "prison break" from mental health treatment center

10/11/2006 - (NaturalNews) Psychiatric patients in England are climbing fences over 20 feet in height in order to break out of mental facilities, according to an investigation by the BBC's Inside Out. The television program filmed mentally ill patients climbing the...

Free mental health screenings designed to promote psychiatric drug use, health author says

10/6/2006 - (NaturalNews) The nonprofit organization Screening for Mental Health is offering free, anonymous mental health screenings at hospitals, colleges and mental health centers across the country today, but psychiatric drug critics say the screenings are scams...

Link proven between sugar consumption and hyperactivity, mental disorders in teens

9/29/2006 - (NaturalNews) New Norwegian research published in the American Journal of Public Health has found that teens in Norway who drank the highest amounts of sugary sodas experienced higher rates of mental disorders such as hyperactivity and distress. Researchers...

Study shows strong link between obesity and depression (press release)

9/6/2006 - There is a strong link between obesity and mood and anxiety disorders, especially among Caucasian Americans and those with more education and higher income, according to an analysis conducted by researchers from Group Health Center for Health Studies....

Rise in Mental Illness Linked to Unhealthy Diets, Say Studies (press release)

8/31/2006 - Changes in diet over the past 50 years appear to be an important factor behind a significant rise in mental ill health in the UK, say two reports published today. The Mental Health Foundation says scientific studies have clearly linked attention...

Music thought to enhance intelligence, mental health and immune system (press release)

8/24/2006 - A recent volume of the Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences takes a closer look at how music evolved and how we respond to it. Contributors to the volume believe that animals such as birds, dolphins and whales make sounds analogous to music out...

TeenScreen - Normal Kids Labeled Mentally Ill

8/23/2006 - Despite years of public outcry, based on recommendations by President Bush's New Freedom Commission to screen all school children for mental illness, TeenScreen is now being administered in the nation's public school system and children are being regularly...

Psychiatry and disease mongering: Road Rage Disorder is latest spontaneously "discovered" disease

6/13/2006 - Disease mongering has reached a new level of ridiculousness with the widely-reported announcement that millions of American now have undiagnosed Road Rage Disorder, also sometimes called Intermittent Explosive Disorder (IED). Desperate to scrounge up...

Outrage! Preschoolers used as guinea pigs in psychotropic drug tests

5/18/2006 - As ClinicalTrials.gov reveals, in 2005, Massachusetts General Hospital conducted an 8-week trial study that recruited children as young as four years old to be drugged and monitored, including having their blood drawn, to see if their tiny four-year-old...

Achieve optimum mental health by supplementing deficient brain chemicals instead of resorting to dangerous antidepressant drugs

3/23/2006 - Pharmaceutical antidepressants aren't the best way to conquer our society's depression and anxiety epidemic, and they often have disastrous side effects, sometimes even increasing the risk for suicide. Taking the population as a whole, we're 100 times...

TMAP, medication algorithm horrors, and the drugging of our children

2/21/2006 - In an Oct. 17, 2005 meeting, Director Charles Currie announced that the Substance Abuse & Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) no longer endorses the Texas Medication Algorithm Project (TMAP). Upon hearing this news, the Government Accountability...

Brain health dramatically improved by intake of omega-3 fatty acids and fish oils

1/2/2006 - It's no secret that long-term diet and nutrition choices have an effect on the way we look and feel; but new studies show that nutrition can also affect the way we think. As it turns out, there really is such a thing as “food for thought.” It may seem...

Taste inflation revealed: why sugar, salt and fragrance make you stupid

10/18/2005 - America is a nation that suffers from "taste inflation." Virtually all prepared foods in this country, whether they're restaurant foods or convenience foods, are made with such outrageous levels of salt, sugar and MSG that they can only be called extreme...

"The Five Habits of Health Transformation": A simple guide to health for busy people

9/23/2005 - I've spent the last year researching and writing about the true underlying causes of healing. That phrase seems strange to many: What is a cause of healing? If you think about it, a state of health is really cause and effect. If you want the effect of...

Psychiatric Drugs: Chemical Warfare on Humans - interview with Robert Whitaker

8/27/2005 - The following is a Street Spirit interview with Robert Whitaker, author of Mad In America: Bad Science, Bad Medicine, and the Enduring Mistreatment of the Mentally Ill. It is reprinted here with permission from the Street Spirit in Oakland, California....

The accelerating decline of health in America: how an entire population lost its marbles

5/29/2005 - Welcome to the degenerate USA! As you interact with people everyday in society, have you noticed that more and more of them are in a state of mental and physical degeneration? I used to volunteer at a nursing home; I brought water to residents, told...

Laughter is good medicine for reducing stress, enhancing brain chemistry

4/28/2005 - How do you actually reduce the levels of chronic stress in your body and enhance your lifespan, boost immune system function, protect your nervous system and your sanity, and give your endocrine system a much-needed rest? Fortunately there are several...

Depression and mental disorders can be prevented and treated with simple healing foods

4/7/2005 - A new study published in the February 15, 2005 issue of Biological Psychiatry shows that certain foods are better at treating depression than antidepressant drugs. The study found that omega-3 fatty acids and foods high in a compound called uridine were...

Mandatory mental health screening program would dose pregnant women with prescription drugs that cause birth defects

11/29/2004 - Bureaucrats in Chicago are currently discussing a proposal to require the mental health screening of all pregnant women and children up to the age of 18 years old. The purported mission of the program is to protect the health of the public by diagnosing...

Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, ADHD, has a simple cause: poor nutrition and food additives

8/19/2004 - New research is appearing now that's showing the link between the consumption of food additives by children -- especially food colorings -- and attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, or ADHD. Well-informed parents have long realized that the consumption...

President's Bogus Mental Health Screening Initiative Is a Thinly Veiled Scam to Boost Pharmaceutical Profits

8/7/2004 - The latest act of state-sponsored medical insanity has been announced by the Bush administration with their so-called New Freedom Commission on Mental Health that plans to conduct mental-health screening on all children and adults in the United States....

Schoolchildren Are Increasingly Dosed With Both Ritalin and Anti-Psychotic Drugs, Says New Research

8/6/2004 - Researchers from the Children's Hospital at Vanderbilt have found that anti-psychotic medications are being prescribed at an alarming rate for Tennessee children with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder, or ADHD. The use of anti-psychotic drugs...

The big Bush handout to pharmaceutical companies: mandatory mental health screening for entire U.S. population

7/23/2004 - The Bush administration's handouts to pharmaceutical companies just keep on coming. First, it was the Medicare discount drug card scam which turned out to be a system that guaranteed pharmaceutical industry profits thanks to sky-high prices of prescription...

Obesity, lack of green vegetables and avoidance of mental exercise cause Azheimer's, dementia

7/20/2004 - New studies are showing how important lifestyle choices are for preventing Alzheimer's. As demonstrated by several studies, people who were severely overweight, who avoided eating healthy green vegetables and who avoided exercising their brains were...

Obesity causes Alzheimers; massive wave of Alzheimer's to strike America in the years ahead

7/20/2004 - Future generations will no doubt look back on modern America and wonder how we could eat ourselves and drug ourselves into such a sad state of mental and physical health. But today, the links between lifestyle choices and chronic disease are only beginning...

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