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Update: Why Mixed Martial Arts Training is Good for Children (opinion)

4/12/2008 - (NaturalNews) I received quite a bit of feedback to my recent article that asked whether children should train and compete in Mixed Martial Arts (MMA). Most of the feedback was critical of my advocacy of children's involvement in this sport, and while...

Protecting Our Children From Toxic Toys

4/11/2008 - (NaturalNews) Protecting one’s children is of utmost important to parents. Unfortunately, it is now necessary to educate ourselves about how to keep our children safe from potentially harmful chemicals in their toys. Parents should be striving to limit...

Confident Parents Raise Confident Children

4/9/2008 - (NaturalNews) Remember the news headline from a few months ago about the 2 year old who called 911 to report that his grandmother was not feeling well? The news was full of praise about the kid’s actions, but the real story is about the grandmother or...

Survey: 98% Say Parents Should Have Right to Refuse Vaccination of Children

4/8/2008 - (NaturalNews) A public survey posted on NaturalNews.com reveals that 98% of survey participants (1919 out of 1954) believe that parents should have the right to refuse vaccinations for their children. The online survey was conducted from April 6 to April...

CNN Helps Autism Debacle Blow Up in Government's Face; Vaccine-Autism Link No Longer in Question

4/7/2008 - (NaturalNews) On April 2, 2008 CNN spent the day bringing awareness to the problem of autism. Larry King's segment, which included Jenny McCarthy along with a panel of guests, was particularly enlightening. My hat is off to Jenny, a celebrity mother...

Maine Middle School May Drug 11 Year Old Girls with Birth Control Patches

4/3/2008 - (NaturalNews) A middle school in Portland, Maine is considering a proposal to provide birth control pills and patches to students as young as 11 years old. King Middle School launched a reproductive health program after five of the 135 students who visited...

Antidepressant Drugs Linked to School Shootings

4/2/2008 - (NaturalNews) A parents' rights organization has called on Congress to investigate a potential link between psychiatric drugs and school shootings, and called for parents to be better informed about the risks of such medications. New York-based Ablechild...

Doctors Interrogate Children as Informants on Parents' Behavior

3/3/2008 - (NaturalNews) Encouraged by the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP), pediatricians across the United States have begun questioning children about their parents' habits, in some cases even filing police reports based on this information, according to...

School Lunch in the Era of Processed Food: To Buy or Not to Buy?

2/28/2008 - (NaturalNews) This should not even be a question for most parents. But, unfortunately it is. When asked what she thought of the school lunch program in public schools, Camele McIntosh, certified holistic health practitioner and store manager for Harvest...

Building a Child's Immunity the Natural Way

2/15/2008 - (NaturalNews) New Jersey’s Public Health Council gave its citizens a Christmas present that will not please the health-conscious, as it became the first state in the nation to require flu shots for preschoolers. Starting in September of 2008, all children...

WiFi and EM Radiation - The Rest of the Autism Story

1/31/2008 - (NaturalNews) As has been well documented on NaturalNews*, there is a clear link between mercury poisoning, especially through thimerosal in vaccinations, and autism, along with other neurological disorders. There is, though, another factor that has recently...

American Academy of Pediatrics Unleashes Hysterical Attack on Fictional Television Show about Vaccine / Autism Link

1/31/2008 - (NaturalNews) The American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) has gone ballistic over a fictional television program airing on ABC that shows a family successfully suing a vaccine manufacturer for their child's autism. Not satisfied to push dangerous vaccines...

Eat Better to Live Better - 5 Steps for Preventing Childhood Obesity

1/29/2008 - (NaturalNews) “You are what you eat.” A once universal theme of awareness has become all but lost to us when it comes to improving our children’s eating habits. I fondly remember my first grade teacher, Mrs. Hooks, warmly walking down each row of desks...

The Role of Hypnotherapy in Pediatric Cancer Patients

1/29/2008 - (NaturalNews) Two years ago I received a call from a doctor in my area needing my assistance. She was wondering if I would be interested in using hypnosis to help a couple of her patients. I was immediately interested in hearing more so I met her in her...

Vaccines Exposed: A Hidden Crime Against Our Children

12/18/2007 - (NaturalNews) "The greatest lie ever told is that vaccines are safe and effective," said Dr. Len Horowitz. I am a father, and in the course, I have spent a reasonable amount of time researching vaccines in order to determine the most sensible cause of...

Why Doctors are Idiots: 150 Years of Disatrous Advice on Children's Health (satire)

12/15/2007 - (NaturalNews Satire) With mandatory vaccines suddenly being forced onto parents by doctors and so-called "health authorities" in places like Maryland, New Jersey and Texas, you might think that doctors being full of bunk is a new phenomenon. But no, it's...

Vaccines and Medical Experiments on Children, Minorities, Woman and Inmates (1845 - 2007)

12/14/2007 - Think U.S. health authorities have never conducted outrageous medical experiments on children, women, minorities, homosexuals and inmates? Think again: This timeline, originally put together by Dani Veracity (a NaturalNews reporter), has been edited and...

MTV: Smut-Peddlers or Eco-Activists? Make Up Your Mind

12/8/2007 - (NaturalNews) In 2001, two friends poured lighter fluid on 13-year-old Jason Lind’s legs and feet and set him on fire in Torrington, Connecticut. In 2003, a 26-year-old Australian placed lit firecrackers between his buttocks. He is now incontinent and...

Maryland Health Officials Who Coerce Vaccinations Qualify as "Terrorists" Under New Senate Legislation

11/30/2007 - As we reported yesterday, the U.S. Senate is about to vote on a bill that would criminalize the "planned use of force" to promote a political, religious or social belief. While we strongly disagree with the passage of the law, one curious effect is that...

Renegade School Board Member Educates Parents on ADHD Alternatives

11/26/2007 - (NaturalNews) Can you believe the audacity of some renegade school board member in Virginia who dared to send fliers home to parents informing them of nutritional alternatives to prescription ADHD medication?  What is this world coming to when parents...

Children herded like cattle into Maryland courthouse for forced vaccinations as armed police and attack dogs stand guard

11/19/2007 - (NaturalNews) Following the State of Maryland's threats against parents who refuse to have their children vaccinated, children were herded into a Price George County courthouse being guarded by armed personnel with attack dogs. Inside, the children were...

Medical Tyranny in Maryland: Parents Threatened With Jail Time for Not Vaccinating Children

11/14/2007 - (NaturalNews) This is an action item alert for all those who believe in health freedom. State and County officials in Maryland have announced they will send parents to jail if they don't submit their children to forced vaccinations. State Attorney General...

Halloween sugar, food additives and the commercialization of holidays

10/30/2007 - This year at the annual sugar-and-food-additives fest for children called "Halloween," I think parents should skip the middle step of handing out candy and just hand out Ritalin directly to the kids. I say this in jest, of course, since I am adamantly...

ADDitives and ADHD: A Comprehensive Look

10/26/2007 - (NaturalNews) ADHD has been a hot topic in the media for a few years due to raising diagnoses, medication concerns, and debates to whether it is even a real health condition. New research has found that a few food additives can cause the symptoms that...

Infants as young as six months old now being treated for obesity

9/28/2007 - (NaturalNews) In many cases, children as young as six months old are obese enough to require medical treatment, according to 50 pediatricians consulted by the BBC. The doctors expressed concern that parents have a poor conception of the types and quantity...

Hospital admits breaking state laws in surgical mutilation of stunted daughter

9/24/2007 - (NaturalNews) A Washington hospital has admitted that it violated the law when it performed a hysterectomy on a mentally underdeveloped child solely to make it easier for her parents to care for her. The Children's Hospital and Regional Medical Center...

Top 20 things that are more dangerous to children than lead paint in Mattel toys

9/5/2007 - The mainstream media is amusingly irrational when it comes to reporting scare stories. The latest example involves the lead content of Mattel toys made in China. The Consumer Product Safety Commission has issued a third recall of Mattel toys involving...

Gunpoint medicine: Teenager arrested, jailed for refusing TB treatment at hospital

8/28/2007 - Health officials in Lawrenceville, Georgia have arrested and jailed Francisco Santos, a teenager who tried to walk out of a hospital and go home after being diagnosed with TB (tuberculosis). Instead of allowing him to leave the hospital, health authorities...

Ritalin stunts growth of children; long-term risk to children's health unknown

7/23/2007 - New research published in the August, 2007 issue of the Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry finds that Ritalin, the amphetamine drug used to treat a fictitious medical disorder labeled Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder,...

Parents fail to recognize when their children are obese

4/30/2007 - The British Medical Research Council (MRC) has claimed that even parents who understand the importance of diet and exercise still have trouble recognizing when their own children are obese. In response, the British government has launched a plan to help...

Animals are smarter than humans when it comes to feeding their children (opinion)

4/6/2007 - Humans are the only species on the planet who actually go out of their way to feed their children crap. All other animals instinctly seek out the best nutrition they can find. Birds find grubs, worms and insects to feed their young, honeybees painstakingly...

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