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 Best Skin Care Company" award by Mike Adams, the Health Ranger, following the natural products Expo West 2007 trade show in Anaheim, California. Here, the Health Ranger offers a brief review of the company and product line:
Pangea is flat-out one of the most eco-conscious personal care product companies I've ever had the pleasure of learning about. Headed by Joshua Onysko, Pangea goes way beyond the norm in creating eco-conscious, fair trade, health-friendly soaps and personal care products ranging from soap and shower products to skin cleansers, toners and creams. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 REPPED: Nature's Path has been awarded the "Best Natural Cereal Company" by Mike Adams, the Health Ranger, following the natural products Expo West 2007 trade show in Anaheim, California. What follows is a brief review of the company:
Over many years, this natural product cereal company has proven itself an outstanding formulator of truly healthy, innovative cereals and food products. This year, they introduced a new product called Smart Bran with Psyllium and Oatbran that is simply remarkable: it offers great texture, a pleasing taste, low effective carbohydrates and whole-grain nutrition. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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| The level of deception in the natural products industry has never been higher. Everybody, it seems, is claiming "all natural" or "organic" even when they're not, and thanks to corporate influence in Washington, the regulations are watered down so much that the terms have practically lost all meaning. Folks like David Bronner at Dr. Bronner's soaps (www.DrBronner.com) have been fighting hard to eliminate fraudulent organic claims from the marketplace, but it's an ongoing battle. |
| It really is a must-see event for anyone in the industry, and the crowds were even thicker this year, meaning there's an increase in public interest in natural products. So kudos to the New Hope folks who put this together. It's no small feat to make the show work.
And now for the rest of the story...
Ahh, the fragrant smell of... cigarettes?
You would think that a hall full of 45,000 people buying and selling natural health products wouldn't smell like an ash try right outside the front door, but you'd be wrong. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 Best New Superfood Blend" award by Mike Adams, the Health Ranger, following the natural products Expo West 2007 trade show in Anaheim, California. In this review, the Health Ranger offers a brief review of the company, its founder and product line:
Jan Lovejoy, the founder of Emerald Balance, is one of the most genuine, open-hearted and truly compassionate people you will ever meet, and her love for helping people improve their health shines through her entire product line: X-Balance (superfoods for kids) and Emerald Balance (superfoods for adults). |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 Best New Protein Supplement" award from Mike Adams, the Health Ranger, following the natural products Expo West 2007 trade show in Anaheim, California. In this review, the Health Ranger offers a brief review of the Jay Robb company, its founder and product line:
Finding a good protein supplement is more difficult than you might think. First there's the choice of sweetener. Most of the popular protein products on the market are sweetened with refined sugars (obesity, anyone?), chemical sweeteners (toxicity) or sugar alcohols (diarrhea). But Jay Robb's protein products have no such sweeteners. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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| REPPED: The natural products Expo West trade show was held last weekend in Anaheim, California. I spent the show cruising the floor, interviewing vendors, sampling products and digging up new information to pass along to NewsTarget readers. (By the way, thanks to all the people who said hi to me at the show! It was nice to meet some NewsTarget readers in person.)
If you read the mainstream media, everybody's happy, happy, happy about the show and the industry as a whole, but if you go there yourself and ask questions as an independent, skeptical journalist, you get the rest of the story. |
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 What have you found to be true in your investigations of other so-called natural products in the marketplace?
Minka: My name is Minka Robinson and I am from Santa Barbara. I am the co-founder of Golden Path Alchemy. One of the reasons we started our company and why we started the lines is because we were so disillusioned with the natural products that were on the market.
It seems like you go to Whole Foods or Wild Oats and there are all these natural products, quite an abundance, especially of facial products. |
Earl Mindell, R.Ph., Ph.D.
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 For one thing, most supplements are derived from natural products, and natural products cannot be patented. Therefore, drug companies are not interested in investing the hundreds of millions of dollars in clinical testing necessary for approval from the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) because they can never recoup their investment. The new law declared supplements to be dietary products and therefore not subject to the rigorous and expensive testing required by the FDA for new drugs. |
Donna Jackson Nakazawa
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 Natural products can be very potent indeed, and some natural products are turning out to have a surprisingly profound effect in helping to quell an overenthusiastic autoimmune response. Supplements and vitamins that are currently being studied in autoimmune disease research include:
ANTIOXIDANTS. In the normal process of metabolism, cells produce unstable oxygen molecules. These unstable molecules—known as free radicals—damage cells. Exposure to pollutants can increase free radicals, as can smoking and the use of cooking oils that become overheated. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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| One of the reasons we started our company and why we started the lines is because we were so disillusioned with the natural products that were on the market.
It seems like you go to Whole Foods or Wild Oats and there are all these natural products, quite an abundance, especially of facial products. You get it home, you are reading the ingredients, and there are all these parabens and chemical preservatives. It seems like almost half of the ingredients are not natural. It seems so wrong to call your products natural just because you use a few botanical ingredients. |
Earl Mindell, R.Ph., Ph.D.
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| For one thing, most supplements are derived from natural products, and natural products cannot be patented. Therefore, drug companies are not interested in investing the hundreds of millions of dollars in clinical testing necessary for approval from the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) because they can never recoup their investment. The new law declared supplements to be dietary products and therefore not subject to the rigorous and expensive testing required by the FDA for new drugs. |
Craig Pepin-Donat
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 It needs to be repeated, just as with over-the-counter and prescription drugs, you need to remember that natural products are not always safe. This runs counter to the commonly held and faithfully perpetuated belief that supplements have no side effects and don't negatively interact with prescription drugs or with each other. This claim should be recognized on the surface as obviously false. Anything you put in your body is going to interact with your existing chemistry. If that were not true, then how could you take a supplement and expect results? |
C. W. Randolph, M.D.
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 The reason for this discrepancy is that there is no regulatory body that oversees the production or standardization of manufacturing so-called natural products. This means that there is great variation among the many over-the-counter progesterone creams on the market today.
I stumbled onto the discrepancy ten years ago when I first began treating patients. |
David W. Grotto, RD, LDN
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 Effects of soy and other natural products on LDL: HDL ratio and other lipid parameters: a literature review. Adv Ther. 20(1), 50-78.
Jin Z, MacDonald RS. Soy isoflavones increase latency of spontaneous mammary tumors in mice. /Nutr. 2002 Oct;132(10):3186-3190.
Messina M, McCaskill-Stevens W, Lampe JW. Addressing the soy and breast cancer relationship: review, commentary, and workshop proceedings. / Natl Cancer Inst. 2006 Sep20;98(18):1275-1284.
Messina, M.J. Emerging evidence on the role of soy in reducing prostate cancer risk. NutrRev. 2004 Apr6;61(4):117-131.
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Brigitte Mars, A.H.G.
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 Herbal Products
Asia natural products 590 Townsend Street San Francisco, CA 94103 415-522-1668 www.drkangformulas.com Quality Oriental herbs.
Blessed Herbs
109 Barre Plains Road
Oakham, MA 01068
508-882-3839 www.blessedherbs.com
Fresh and dried organic herbs.
Frontier Herbs
P.O. Box 299
Norway, IA 52318
800-669-3275 www. fr ontiercoop .com
Mail-order herbs and herbal products.
Guayaki Yerba Mate
P.O. Box 14730
San Luis Obispo, CA 93406
888-482-9254 www.guayaki.com
Quality organic yerba mate environmentally cultivated and harvested.
541-846-6262 or 800-545-739 www.herb-pharm. |
Donna Jackson Nakazawa
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| Instead, look for organic products that have joined the Campaign for Safe Cosmetics, such as the Body Shop, Burt's Bees, Kiss My Face, Aubrey Organics, Avalon natural products, and Terr Essentials. Or visit thinkbeforeyoupink.org for a list of companies that produce products that are paraben and phthalate free.
AVOID DARK HAIR DYES. As we learned when we went through Becky's day, women who use dark hair dye have three times the risk of developing lupus.
SKIP THE NAIL POLISH. The European Union has been moving aggressively to remove phthalates from nail polish. |
Craig Pepin-Donat
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| However, there is also a deluge of supplements and herbal or natural substances that have been cleverly packaged and marketed by unscrupulous profiteers who seek to exploit people's demand for natural products. Yet many of these miracle supplements are marketing creations with absolutely no proof of benefit. In some cases they can be harmful to your health. A product marketed as natural does not mean it is safe.
Beyond the extensive research compiled to bring you this information, I have also consulted with and interviewed two of the top professionals in the health and fitness industry. |
| A stunning change is underway: a major shift from a broken, outmoded paradigm where the natural world has been sacrificed for convenience to an interconnected world where millions of people value a holistic lifestyle of natural products, sustainable living and spiritual transcendence.
Self Improvement: The Top 101 Experts Who Help Us Improve Our Lives David Riklan ISBN: 097456723X
Book Description: The number of resources available to help you improve your life is vast. Yet the self-help process does not have to be intimidating. |
| As with most natural products such as these, little research has been done on adverse side effects, dosage requirements, restrictions or interactions. Again, buyer beware.
The Active Ingredient
There is another reason that natural does not mean safe. It has to do with knowing all the ingredients inside the pill you are thinking about taking. One of the most common examples is Ephedra. In 1999, 37-year-old Anne Marie Capati suffered a fatal stroke while working out at her gym after her trainer recommended using supplements containing Ephedra to help get fast results. |
C. W. Randolph, M.D.
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Vitamins and Supplements
When I opened my first Natural Medicine Store, I stocked the shelves with natural products from a variety of manufacturers. It was not long before the difference in my patients' and customers' responses signaled to me that not all product manufacturers could be trusted. According to a recent survey of nearly 1,000 supplements conducted by ConsumerLab.com, a product-certification company, one out of four supplements has quality problems, such as contamination or a failure to include an ingredient listed on the label. |
Craig Pepin-Donat
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| You will also find some excellent resources that will help you in your pursuit of organic foods, natural products and healthy living. All of this information will help you make wiser, more informed choices for yourself and your family. For a more extensive outline of information and resources about these topics including helpful articles visit www.FitAdvocate.com. alcoholism and addiction
Alcoholics Anonymous (AA) www.alcoholics-anonymous. |
Erich Grotewold
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 Comprehensive natural products Chemistry (Vol. 1, pp. 773-823), Elsevier. Dixon, R. A., and Steele, C. L., 1999, Flavonoids and isoflavonoids—a gold mine for metabolic engineering, Trends Plant Sci 4: 394-400. Dixon, R. A., Xie, D.-Y., and Sharma, S. B., 2005, Proanthocyanidins—a final frontier in flavonoid research? New Phytol 165: 9-28. Donnelly, J. A., and Doran, H. J., 1975, Chalcone dihalides. VII. Course of the cyclization of 2'-hydroxy-
6'-methoxyl derivatives, Tetrahedron 31: 1565-1569. Donnelly, J. A., Fox, M. J., and Sharma, T. C, 1979, cc-Halogenoketones. XII. |
Andreas Moritz
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 Black cohosh is one of the most effective natural products for menopause. It helps reduce and even stop hot flushes and other discomforts during a woman's hormonal changes. There were some anecdotal cases where the use of Black Cohosh was linked with liver problems, but the real cause was not clear. To avoid complications, it is important to discontinue taking hormone replacements while taking Black Cohosh, or best wait at least two months before starting the Black Cohosh regimen. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 Together with the FDA, they've turned the United States into a health wasteland, where consumers are forced to pay profiteering prices for synthetic chemicals that only harm their health while being denied access to the natural products that could actually save their lives.
Conclusion
While there are probably hundreds of additional ideas that would also improve the health of the U.S. population, the thirteen ideas presented here would, if enforced, probably drop cancer rates by 75% in one generation. |
Bill Sardi
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 Clinical Therapy 17: 82-87, 1995]
A combination of natural products, pollen (cernitin), saw palmetto, B-sistosterol, vitamin E) has been shown to reduce day and nighttime urinary frequency. [International Urology Nephrology 33:217-25, 2001]
Is prostate cancer an infectious disease?
It has recently been shown that men with no symptoms of prostatitis, but with an elevated PSA, will experience a decline in PSA after a 2-4 week course of antibiotics. A significant number (20-30%) of men will avoid subsequent biopsies by undergoing a course of antibiotic therapy prior to biopsy. |
| The journal CA, A Cancer Journal For Clinicians, said "natural products such as PC-SPES should be subject to the same standards and approaches as substances that are classified as pharmaceuticals. And for any anticancer modality to be considered for clinical use, it must compare favorably against a proven therapy in comparable groups of patients." [CA Cancer Journal Clinicians 51: 199-204, 2001] That's exactly what PC-SPES demonstrated, in both animal and human studies. |
| Zhongguo Yao Li XueBao 13:541-3, 1992; Journal natural products 56:849-56, 1993] Artimisinin has been used in Asia for 30-40 years as an anti-cancer treatment. inhibit tumor cell growth. [Cancer Letters 98: 83-87, 1995] Cancer researchers at the University of Washington report that artemisin, by itself, "is about 100 times more selective in killing cancer cells as opposed to healthy cells." One artemisinin compound tested was 34,000 times more potent in killing cancer cells than normal cells. [University of Washington Bulletin, Feb. |
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