Health trends

Email this page to a friend

Want news about Health trends and more e-mailed to you? Click here for free email alerts

Positive health trends accelerated by consumer education and champions of health freedom Mike Adams, the Health Ranger See article keywords and concepts

REPPED: I have a lot of optimism in 2006 in terms of health trends. I think things are actually starting to turn around out there, especially with public awareness about the dangers of prescription drugs and the dangers of specific food ingredients such as hydrogenated oils. I'm seeing major shifts in consumer demand reflected in the inventory at retailers. For example, at Price Costco warehouses, you can now buy free-range organic chicken broth, which is something that certainly wasn't there a couple of years ago. And guess what? It doesn't even have yeast extract or MSG in it.

Teach people that food is medicine There are a lot of positive health trends I see taking shape in 2006. I think this is a year during which we're going to make some additional progress in educating people about the healing potential of foods. Suddenly people are recognizing that food should be your medicine, and they are learning about the hidden medicine found in foods. Of course, I’m one of the many passionate people out there attempting to spread the word about this, and we are winning the information race.

Not Just a Pretty Face: The Ugly Side of the Beauty Industry Stacy Malkan See book keywords and concepts

Human health trends over the past few decades provided a possible clue. A similar spectrum of health effects found in the lab animals exposed to certain phthalates was also occurring in people: sperm counts appeared to be declining in industrialized countries, birth defects of the male reproductive tract had been increasing, and testicular cancer was on the rise. Scientists called these human health effects "testicular dysgenesis syndrome," and some suspected the disorders could be caused by phthalates and other chemicals that interfere with male sex hormones.

Systems of medicine explained: Conventional, alternative, integrative, complementary and more Mike Adams, the Health Ranger See article keywords and concepts

Promoters of "complementary medicine" are usually closet drugs-and-surgery pushers who use this phrase to avoid appearing totally out of touch with health trends. The complementary medicine movement is largely an attempt by conventional medicine promoters to prevent their harmful system of medicine from appearing completely irrelevant as the public turns to safer, more effective and natural alternatives. Conventional doctors refer to it as CAM, or Complementary and Alternative Medicine.

Plants of the four winds - The magic and medicinal flora of Peru Rainer W. Bussmann and Douglas Sharon See book keywords and concepts

This makes it quite obvious that local herbalists are carefully watching international health trends to include promising species in their own repertoire. The use of hallucinogens, in particular the San Pedro cactus (Echinopsis pachanoi) is a vital component in Andean healing practices, and has been around for millennia [29, 73, 108, 109, 110, 111]. San Pedro can often be found in Cupisnique and Moche iconography [15,16].

SuperFoods Rx: Fourteen Foods That Will Change Your Life Steven G. Pratt, M.D. and Kathy Matthews See book keywords and concepts

The news of the surprising outcomes was stunning to those who follow health trends. They had become accustomed to regular positive reports that individual micronutrients help to prevent disease. What went wrong? In simplest terms, the beta-carotene found in foods, working synergistically with the other nutrients present in that food, have a very different effect on the body than a single nutrient isolated from its web of assisting and augmenting synergistic partners. The carotenoids, like many nutrients, work best as a team; break up the team and results can be unpredictable.

Smart Medicine for Healthier Living : Practical A-Z Reference to Natural and Conventional Treatments for Adults Janet Zand, LAc, OMD, Allan N. Spreed, MD, CNC, James B. LaValle, RPh, ND See book keywords and concepts

Recent years have seen certain alarming health trends in the general population, including a 50-percent drop in the sperm count of the average man; a 50-percent increase in the rate of testicular cancer; and a doubling of the incidence of breast cancer among American women. All of these conditions can result from excessive estrogen exposure.

FAIR USE NOTICE: The research quoted here is provided under the protection of Fair Use provisions and published by the 501(c)3 non-profit Consumer Wellness Center for the purposes of public comment and education. Authors / publishers may submit books for consideration of inclusion here.

TERMS OF USE: Read full terms of use. Citations of text from NaturalPedia must include: 1) Full credit to the original author and book title. 2) Secondary credit to the Natural News Naturalpedia as a research resource and a link to www.NaturalNews.com/np/index.html

This unique compilation of research is copyright (c) 2008 by the non-profit Consumer Wellness Center.

ABOUT THE CREATOR OF NATURALPEDIA: Mike Adams, the creator of this NaturalNews Naturalpedia, is the editor of NaturalNews.com, the internet's top natural health news site, creator of the Honest Food Guide (www.HonestFoodGuide.org), a free downloadable consumer food guide based on natural health principles, author of Grocery Warning, The 7 Laws of Nutrition, Natural Health Solutions, and many other books available at www.TruthPublishing.com, creator of the earth-friendly EcoLEDs company (www.EcoLEDs.com) that manufactures energy-efficient LED lighting products, founder of Arial Software (www.ArialSoftware.com), a permission e-mail technology company, creator of the CounterThink Cartoon series (www.NaturalNews.com/index-cartoons.html) and author of over 1,500 articles, interviews, special reports and reference guides available at www.NaturalNews.com. Adams' personal philosophy and health statistics are available at www.HealthRanger.org.