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Vitamin D Recommendation Missing From Breast Cancer Task Force Report on Black Women Mike Adams, the Health Ranger See article keywords and concepts

By combining their ignorance into a "Task Force," they have managed to create a pompous-sounding document that purports to explain why black women die from breast cancer at much higher rates than white women; yet all they've really created is a self-serving presentation of medical myths grounded upon the false belief that breast cancer is essentially caused by a deficiency in mammograms. In 113 pages of text containing 37 recommendations for how to solve the breast cancer problem with black women, there is not a single mention of vitamin D.

This July 4th, declare your independence from America's failed health care system Mike Adams, the Health Ranger See article keywords and concepts

Most drugs actually cause damage to patients, either through liver damage, kidney damage, weight gain or interference with normal physiological function (such as statin drugs blocking the creation of cholesterol -- a nutrient that's extremely important for your health, despite the medical myths promoted by cholesterol drug companies). We all know this to be true by simple observation. Think of the last person you saw admitted to the hospital for chemotherapy, for example. How are they doing two or three years later?

Critical Condition: How Health Care in America Became Big Business Donald L. Barlett and James B. Steele See book keywords and concepts

CRISIS AND OPPORTUNITY Creating a Federal Reserve-style council to deal with the crisis in health care would be controversial and bitterly opposed, because it would disrupt the powerful health care industrial complex, and because it would challenge many medical myths. Resistance would come from health care providers themselves; from insurers, some of whom would go out of business; from some in the U.S.

The Omega-3 Connection: The Groundbreaking Anti-depression Diet and Brain Program Andrew L. Stoll See book keywords and concepts

The Fat of Life: A Nutritional Guide to Fatty Acids One of the great medical myths of the past fifty years has been the notion that fats (more properly called lipids) are evil. Of course, like all other enduring myths, there is a grain of truth at the core. Literally thousands of studies over the past half century have traced high-fat diets to increased risk of heart disease. The most famous of these, the Framingham Heart Study, followed a representative sample of 5,209 adults in Framingham, Massachusetts, to examine the circumstances and risk factors associated with heart disease.

Textbook of Natural Medicine 2nd Edition Volume 1 Michael T. Murray, ND See book keywords and concepts

Since its incorporation into standard laboratory diagnosis, the ESR has been shrouded with medical myths and is often misinterpreted or misused. This chapter provides a rational guideline for its use as a non-specific measure of inflammatory, infectious, and neoplastic diseases.1"3 Normally, erythrocytes settle quite slowly, as the gravitational force of the erythrocyte's mass is counteracted by the buoyant force of the erythrocyte's volume.

Viral Immunity J. E. Williams, O.M.D. See book keywords and concepts

Here are a few of the medical myths that I have found to be the greatest obstacles in healing: • Killing all the germs is the only way to get well. In the case of viruses, not only is that usually impossible, but to emphasize complete sterilization of microorganisms in the body causes other imbalances in the immune system, often resulting in a worse condition than the one you began with. Since viruses are part of our own cellular material, we can never completely destroy them without eliminating ourselves in the process.

Eat Right, Live Longer: Using the Natural Power of Foods to Age-Proof Your Body Neal Barnard, M.D. See book keywords and concepts

Varicose veins have been the subject of more medical myths than just about any other condition. Authoritative treatises have attributed them to the evolution of upright posture in the human species, even though in countries where varicose veins are rare people stand just as upright as they do in countries where varicose veins are common. Other authorities have held that the condition is a result of pregnancy, even though the countries with the highest birthrates have low rates of varicose veins.

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