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Cosmetic surgery may improve your looks, but nutrition and physical fitness are far more effective

By Mike Adams, May 10 2004
Most people considering cosmetic surgery don't want to radically alter their appearance, says a new study by the American Society for Aesthetic Plastic Surgery. Instead, they just want to enhance their appearance with natural-looking improvements. In other words: they don't want a total nose job, but a simple tuck that conceals excess skin flaps under the chin would be nice. It's an interesting trend in cosmetic surgery, but it's also educational in the sense that these same results...

Hair loss may be slowed by adding soy milk to your diet, says new research

By Mike Adams, May 10 2004
New research published in the journal Biology of Reproduction reveals that consuming soy milk and other soy products could reduce hair loss and male pattern baldness. How? When the body breaks down isoflavones from soy products, one of the resulting compounds is equol, which blocks a form of testosterone called DHT that has been linked with hair loss and baldness. The hair loss prescription drug, Propecia, works in much the same way by blocking the conversion of testosterone into DHT...

Diet pills make comeback with ephedra-free weight loss supplements

By Mike Adams, May 10 2004
Following the politically movitvated ban on ephedra by the FDA, makers of diet pills and weight loss supplements have been frantically reformulating their products to achieve ephedra-like results. The most common alternative? Caffeine. The real story on diet pills, however, isn't so simple. For starters, there's the ephedra ban which has been illegally initiated by a rogue government agency that primarily serves to protect the pharmaceutical industry while discrediting all nutritional...

Depression myths exposed by psychiatry professor, but the real myths come from the pharmaceutical industry

By Mike Adams, May 9 2004
A noted professor in the field of psychiatry is publicly challenging some of the myths about depression. Prof. Malcolm Lader, emeritus professor of clinical psychopharmacology, Institute of Psychiatry, London, says that fewer people are subject to depression than currently believed. For the real story on busting myths about depression, however, let's dig deeper. When it comes to clinical depression, the biggest myth of all is that depression is a disease that you can't do anything about...

HGH supplements don't compare with the natural Growth Hormone created during strength training

By Mike Adams, May 9 2004
MSNBC is taking a closer look at Human Growth Hormone (HGH) with a roundup of research on the substance. Their bottom line? HGH is somewhat effective in enhancing lean body mass and reducing body fat, especially in men, but the best bet is to stick with diet and physical exercise. The real story? For once, I agree with the information found in the mainstream press. HGH is a phenomenal substance for longevity and health, but only if you create it yourself. I don't believe in taking Human...

Vitamins under attack by distorted research: attempts to discredit nutritional supplements continue

By Mike Adams, May 9 2004
The mainstream press is awash in headlines claiming that vitamins are now suddenly bad for your heart. It's hogwash, of course. Their evidence? Certain vitamins were found to inhibit the liver's ability to break down so-called "bad cholesterol." Now here's the real story on this study. First, look at the motivation and funding: it's part of the ongoing effort to discredit vitamins and push people towards using prescription drugs to manage their health -- a strategy that pays off handsomely...

Doctor invents disease name for low-carb diet habits

By Mike Adams, May 9 2004
Doctors just love to come up with new disease names for behaviors or patterns of symptoms. Once you give it a label, it seems, it's suddenly a "real" affliction (like Attention Deficit Hyperactive Disorder, which was really just normal childhood behavior until they gave it the ADHD name and started doping kids with Ritalin). The latest? If you eat nothing but low-carb foods, this doctor claims you're suffering from -- get this -- Low Carb Tunnel Syndrome, or LCTS for short. It's yet...

Herbal viagra supplements give same boost, but without the pharmaceuticals (or the cost)

By Mike Adams, May 9 2004
There's an alternative to viagra that works far better at a greatly reduced price: medicinal herbs. These herbs -- like yohimbe, horny goat weed and rainforest herbs like catuaba and muira puama -- produce strong aphrodisiac effects, but without stripping your wallet bare. Let's face it: Viagra is popular because it's backed by a hundred million dollars in advertising, promotion and hype. But it's not the only way to get it on, nor is it the best way. In fact, most men who take Viagra...

What your dentist doesn't tell you may harm you: dental X-rays linked to low-weight babies

By Mike Adams, May 9 2004
A study published in the Journal of the American Medical Association links dental x-rays to low-weight babies. Women who gave birth to low-weight babies, the study says, were more than twice as likely to have had multiple dental x-rays. That's an interesting find, but the real story is that modern dental work is extremely toxic to pregnant women and their fetuses. And it's not just the radiation from x-rays, either: dentists use a great number of toxic chemicals and substances in modern...

Many people approach physical fitness for cosmetic reasons; but real strength training is about body, mind and spirit, not good looks

By Mike Adams, May 9 2004
Do you jump right into a workout without warming up? Do you "jerk" the weights when strength training? Do you overstretch in Yoga class because you don't want to look like a noob? Editors from Fitness Magazine offer some tips in this article, but I'd like to go past the obvious and get to the real story about poor fitness habits. The worst habit of all is working out purely for cosmetic reasons. You know what I mean: pumping weights just to look good instead of developing core strength...

Atkins diet more expensive to follow, but the real reason is government subsidies on high-carbohydrate, disease promoting foods

By Mike Adams, May 7 2004
A new cost analysis of diet foods reveals that following the Atkins diet or the South Beach diet can cost nearly twice as much as following the USDA's "thrifty" dietary plan. Now here's the real story behind this news: it's true that the Atkins diet or South Beach diet can be more expensive the way people typically approach them. The first reason is because low-carb packaged foods are remarkably expensive. It's simultaneously more expensive to manufacture many of these low-carb food items...

Combination of diet and physical exercise required for healthy knee joints; neither one works alone

By Mike Adams, May 7 2004
A new study published in the journal Arthritis & Rheumatism reveals that the combination of weight loss through diet and physical fitness through exercise helps the most for people suffering from knee arthritis. Neither diet nor exercise worked very well without the other, the study found. Knee arthritis, by the way, isn't something that just appears out of nowhere: it's a natural effect of carrying far too much body weight and avoiding exercise. By far the vast majority of knee joint...

FDA bans andro supplements, but won't ban prescription drugs that cause children to commit suicide

By Mike Adams, May 5 2004
The FDA has announced it is banning the sale of andro products -- pro-hormone nutritional supplements used by body builders. It's part of the FDA's ongoing campaign to destroy the nutritional supplement industry while boosting the sales of drugs. Granted, andro is a risky product with potentially harmful side effects. But Hormone Replacement Therapy drugs are just as risky, if not worse, and were heralded by the FDA and the pharmaceutical industry for decades before it was finally revealed...

New surgical procedure helps with chronic sinus infections, but avoiding cow's milk is the real cure

By Mike Adams, May 5 2004
Researchers have announced that long-term sufferers of chronic rhinosinusitis (or just "sinusitis" for short) can be helped by a surgical procedure that can be performed on an outpatient basis. That's great new, but the real story is that most sufferers of chronic sinus conditions could be free of all symptoms through dietary changes alone. The primarily culprit? Cow's milk. Cow's milk produces a strong allergic response in the human body -- especially adults -- which results in the body...

The Hamptons Diet offers new twist on Atkins Diet: healthy oils

By Mike Adams, May 3 2004
Get ready to hear about the Hamptons Diet -- a new, healthy twist on the traditional Atkins diet that encourages eaters to shift to healthier oils and avoid processed foods that contain metabolic disruptors like refined white flour. The Hamptons Diet is based on low-carb, but it goes much further in teaching people which oils to eat. It's being promoted by Dr. Fred Pescatore, former medical director of the Atkins Center. One of the problems with the low-carb diet has been the widespread...

Antipsychotic drugs may cause diabetes, but the FDA still allows their sale

By Mike Adams, January 30 2004
Some prescription drugs are so dangerous that even health related industry groups feel compelled to speak out against the drugs in order to protect the health of patients. In this case, a joint report by the American Diabetes Association, American Psychiatric Association, American Association of Clinical Endocrinologists, and the North American Association for the study of Obesity complained that an entire class of antipsychotic drugs increases the risk of diabetes. Or, but briefly...

Western medicine believes health is a war, and the body is a battleground that should be assaulted

By Mike Adams, January 30 2004
To truly understand the ideology of Western medicine, you have to take a look at the language used by doctors and researchers. Their choice of words reveals their belief systems and the models they use to understand the way they think medicine works. This article discusses a new drug delivery mechanism that delivers prescription drugs directly to tissues in the lungs. It is described as a "cluster bomb" of drugs whose purpose is to attack tumors. This sort of language is not uncommon...

Many diseases and mental disorders are actually caused by lack of sunlight

By Mike Adams, January 30 2004
As a study from the University of Maine explains, teenage girls are not getting enough vitamin D. As a result, they are at risk for disorders and diseases caused by this nutritional deficiency, including osteoporosis and possibly even cancer and high blood pressure. The cause? Lack of sunlight. Vitamin D is primarily produced by your skin when exposed to sunlight, and with so many people in the United States being brainwashed into thinking that the sun is bad for your help, few people...

USDA follows don't ask, don't tell policy with mad cow disease

By Mike Adams, January 30 2004
When it comes to testing U.S. cattle for mad cow disease, the USDA doesn't really want to mandate any sort of testing at all. Even with countries like Japan banning all US beef due to our country's lack of mandatory testing requirements, the USDA continues to resist creating new regulations that would raise the safety of US beef to the much higher standard of Japan and the UK. The USDA wants to exempt young cattle from any mad cow disease testing whatsoever, and they think the cutoff...

Flawed study says you can eat all you want, avoid exercise, and still lose weight

By Mike Adams, January 30 2004
Everybody following the Atkins diet pay attention: a new study says you can lose weight by eating a high-carbohydrate diet, eating all you want, and without engaging in any exercise at all! If that sounds too good to be true that's probably because it is. The study involved a mere 34 people, and is already being criticized as flawed by some doctors. The funny thing is, we don't need a clinical study to tell us the effects of a nonrestricted, high-carbohydrate diet with no exercise: half...

Dietary habits of expectant mothers determines longevity of children

By Mike Adams, January 30 2004
New research reveals the strong impact of a mother's nutrition on the subsequent lifespan of the child. Although it was conducted on mice, it's good research that seeks to find answers to some very important questions. Just how important is a mother's nutrition anyway? From where I'm sitting, it's crucial. If pregnant mothers would kick their high-carbohydrate refined foods diets and start eating more quality protein and nutritional supplements, their babies would be far healthier...

CT scans expose patients to 1,000 times the dose of chest x-rays

By Mike Adams, January 30 2004
The real news isn't that dentist x-rays are causing hundreds of cancer cases each year, it's the stunning revelation that CT scans expose patients to 1,000 times the does of x-rays as regular chest x-rays. If this number comes as a shock to you, you're not alone: most doctors don't know it either. One study shows that most doctors greatly underestimate the amount of radiation patients experience during CT scans.

Researchers hijack natural anti-cancer compounds in plants to boost pharmaceutical profits

By Mike Adams, January 30 2004
Junk science alert: A press release from Purdue that says its researchers have discovered a way to use plants as natural factories for producing pharmaceuticals that fight diseases cancer. Well I've got news for Purdue researchers: plants are already natural factories for anti-cancer compounds, and you don't need researchers, labs, or pharmaceutical companies to get the benefit. All you have to do is eat broccoli, or onions, or garlic, or green tea, or chlorella, or licorice root.....

Restaurants realize that low-carb menu items are not only good for customers, they're good for business

By Mike Adams, January 30 2004
The low-carb diet trend is having a huge impact on fast food restaurants. Customers don't want the bun, the bread, or the sugar candy soft drinks. They want high-protein, high-fiber meals, and if you restaurants are listening and starting to deliver what customers want. Those restaurants include Burger King, Subway, and Carl's Jr. I think it's an excellent example of how consumer demand can change the practices of an industry in a free-market society. And it isn't just fast food restaurants...

Surgery isn't as exact a science as you might hope... and much of it is entirely unnecessary

By Mike Adams, January 24 2004
The more you learn about spinal surgery, the more frightening it becomes. I've never met a person with lower back pain who was actually helped by surgery. Perhaps they do exist, but I've met one. Most people end up for the worse, and with a big medical bill to boot. This article reveals how a woman who underwent spinal surgery at the University of Wisconsin hospital was reportedly seriously harmed by the surgeons who used surgical tool to "grind at blood vessels" that were never supposed...

Some consumers think naturally-raised beef should cost the same as corporate farm beef

By Mike Adams, January 22 2004
It seems like virtually every food manufacturer wants to jump on the "natural" bandwagon, but as sharp consumers already know, the word "natural" on the label of a food product or meat package doesn't really mean much: tricky food marketers can use the word "natural" even on products containing all sorts of dangerous ingredients like MSG and sodium nitrite. Hopefully, the new labeling rules on beef, due this Spring, will provide a bit of clarity to these claims. On a slightly different...

Drug companies have strong presence, influence at medical schools

By Mike Adams, January 22 2004
Under the guide of "education," drug companies have a dominating presence at medical schools, where they indoctrinate future M.D.s with propaganda about the "benefits" of prescription drugs. The doctors, for their part, claim they are not influenced at all, and yet several studies reveal that their prescription habits are sharply altered nonetheless. Doctors, it seems, aren't very good at knowing when they're being influenced. This interaction between drug companies and medical schools...

USDA is too tough on cattle industry, say lawmakers from Virginia and Texas

By Mike Adams, January 22 2004
The USDA, which has said it will not even require the testing of herds for mad cow disease, is now being criticized for being too tough on the cattle industry. Who's laying out this criticism? Two lawmakers from Virginia and Texas, of course. You can hardly blame them, though: they're just trying to protect their jobs by pressuring the USDA into releasing cattle ranchers from any mad cow testing whatsoever. And herein lies the problem: the USDA is an agency known for caving in to industry...

The U.S. is the world's largest manufacturer and exporter of disease

By Mike Adams, January 21 2004
The U.S. is the world's largest manufacturer and exporter of disease. We manufacture the foods, the drinks, and even the government policies that keep people fat, diseased, and ridden with cancer and diabetes all around the globe. It's good business, of course, especially when your home country can sell people both the products that cause disease (soft drinks, junk foods, and the like) and the prescription drugs used to treat symptoms caused by those foods (diabetes, heart disease, cancer...

Meat ingredients secretly placed in foods by manufacturers

By Mike Adams, January 21 2004
Food manufacturers are perfectly free to add meat ingredients to their "natural" food products without listing meat on the label at all. This infuriates vegetarians, and now thanks to mad cow disease, it brings up the possibility that even meat eaters who wish to avoid cow by-products will have a very difficult time doing so. But let me point out something even more alarming to those people who seek out "natural" or vegetarian foods at the grocery store: the vast majority of vegetarian...

The FDA now plans to assault herbal medicines

By Mike Adams, January 21 2004
Prescription drugs injure 2.2 million Americans each year and manage to kill well over 100,000. The FDA is charged with the safety of such drugs, so what does the FDA plan to do now? Assault herbal medicine, of course. After banning ephedra -- an herb that has been safely use in China for literally thousands of years and has only been associated with a handful of deaths in the United States -- the FDA apparently feels compelled to go after other natural medicines that compete with the...

Following mad cow disease, now your chicken meat contains arsenic, too

By Mike Adams, January 19 2004
The news about the meat industry gets stranger at every turn. First there's mad cow disease and the revelations of the meat packing industry which engages is frightening aseembly line practices that allow spinal material to be sold as "beef." Now, in the story below, you'll read about the poultry industry and the rather bizarre fact that chicken ranchers feed arsenic to their chickens to help prevent intestinal parasites. In my view, it isn't just the cows that have gone mad: it's...

If vitamin C and vitamin E prevent Alzheimer's disease, imagine the good that comes from eating chlorella

By Mike Adams, January 19 2004
The benefits of vitamin C and vitamin E continue to mount: in this study, these two vitamins, when taken in combination, showed a protective effect against Alzheimer's disease. And if these isolated vitamins have a protective effect, imagine the health benefits of consuming whole fruits and vegetables that are loaded with a wide spectrum of healing nutrients! Better yet, imagine the disease prevention power found in superfoods like chlorella or spirulina. The fact is, whole foods and...

Meat recovery equipment squeezes bovine spinal fluid out of bones and sells it to consumers

By Mike Adams, January 19 2004
Advanced Meat Recovery (AMR) equipment is ghastly: it stuffs a cow carcass into a wringer machine, squeezes the bones until they leak, and packages the meaty liquid that comes out as "beef" for hot dogs, packaged meats. And, of course, it "reclaims" quite a bit of spinal material in the process -- precisely the material that carries mad cow disease. It's the meat packing industry's way of literally squeezing every last penny out of a dead cow, but it's also potentially deadly to U...

Kudos to Burger King for making fast food low-carb food

By Mike Adams, January 18 2004
It's rare that I have any praise for a fast food chain, but in this case, I applaud Burger King's move to offer bunless hamburgers to their customers. It's being done in response to consumer demand and the accelerating popularity of the Atkins diet, the South Beach Diet, and other low-carb diets. By removing the bun, the Whopper goes from 52 grams of carbohydrates to a mere 3 grams. That's real progress! No doubt, a Whopper without the bun is far healthier than a whopper with a bun...

Television programs teach children poor nutritional habits

By Mike Adams, January 17 2004
Unhealthy food beliefs and behaviors are learned when children watch television programs, not just advertising (as previously believed). Actors in sitcoms drink soft drinks, eat hot dogs and hamburgers, and generally consume foods known to contribute to diseases like cancer, diabetes, heart disease and osteoporosis. Children watching these shows come to believe these nutritional habits are normal, and therein lies the danger: when disease-causing foods appear normal and healthy foods...

FDA approves obesity drug labeling that promotes the drug while ignoring side effects

By Mike Adams, January 17 2004
The FDA has approved what is effectively marketing propaganda to be printed on the label of the obesity drug Xenical. In contrast, it's still illegal to print the truth about herbs, vitamins, minerals and other supplements on the labels of natural products, but the FDA happily allows Xenical labels to include information that will help it sell. (For example, folic acid supplement manufacturers still cannot state that folic acid prevents neural tube birth defects, even though every doctor...

Bayer Corp would reap tremendous profits by convincing the public to take an aspirin every day

By Mike Adams, January 17 2004
Bayer Corp, the maker of aspirin, is trying to get the FDA to approve the use of aspirin as a preventive measure against heart attacks. The ploy, of course, is to get permission to run TV ads that say, "One aspirin a day will prevent heart attacks, even if you've never had a heart attack." Bayer wants every person in the world to take one aspirin a day. Why? Because it's good for profits, of course. Very good for profits. Get the entire population believing that aspirin is good for...

FDA tries to reduce number of hospitals deaths caused by medical mix-ups

By Mike Adams, January 17 2004
The FDA is standing behind a requirement that would reduce the number of deaths caused by prescription drugs (which are now the third leading cause of death in the United States). Hospitals, it seems, have an atricious record for accuracy when delivering drugs to patients. And as research has shown, nurses will administer practically any drug to patients -- even drugs prescribed with fatal doses. The FDA aims to help, in part, by reducing the frequency of drug mix-ups by requiring bar...

It's official: researchers have discovered that low levels of fitness are bad for your health

By Mike Adams, January 17 2004
Stop the presses! Medical researchers have something Earth shattering to report: lower levels of physical fitness increase your risk of heart disease, diabetes, high blood pressure and other ailments. Yes, it's true: the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) has published the research! Now, sarcasm aside, it is nice to see some people studying the natural route to health. Body movement is key to staying healthy, and almost any form of movement works: walking, yoga, pilates...

Bizarre: Monsanto sues milk dairy for labeling milk as hormone free

By Mike Adams, January 17 2004
Monsanto is going after "organic" milk producers who don't use artificial growth hormones and state so on their milk labels. It's a classic case of mega-corporations suing the little guy for having a healthier product. But what this story doesn't say, and what Monsanto surely doesn't want you to know, is that this artificial growth hormone is suspected of causing cancer in humans (prostate cancer, in particular) and has even been outlawed in Canada and the United Kingdom. In my view...

Mad cow disease on U.S. soil exposes the disgusting nature of beef industry

By Mike Adams, January 17 2004
Mad cow wouldn't be a problem in the first place if the beef industry didn't grind up old, diseased cows and feed their parts to other cows. That mad cow is appearing is simply an inevitable result of utterly inhumane and filthy practices by corporate beef producers. Now, thanks to this single case of mad cow in the U.S., researchers have to track down where all the parts went. It's quite an education for consumers: bet you never knew that cow hooves were part of your soap, huh? And you...

New science shows that many people should avoid eating grains

By Mike Adams, January 17 2004
The science is finally starting to emerge on the negative health consequences of eating grains. Long thought to be a healthy source of calories, grains are largely consumed in their refined, nutrient-stripped form in the American diet. Of course, the U.S. Department of Agriculture continues to push grains by giving them prominent position at the top of the so-called Food Pyramid (which is, ultimately, the promotional goal of the USDA in the first place), but real people concerned with...

Bad science meant to mislead the public about the true causes of obesity

By Mike Adams, January 17 2004
When bad medicine comes to the surface, you get headlines line the one below which seems to imply that a certain gene causes insulin resistence. Of course, it's hogwash. The gene simply multiplies poor dietary habits, such as high sugar consumption and excess caloric intake. Insulin resistence wouldn't appear in any of the people tested if they maintained a healthy body weight, followed a low-carb, and exercised regularly. Don't let this research fool you: obesity isn't a genetic disorder...

Researchers are looking in the wrong place for answers to osteoporosis

By Mike Adams, January 17 2004
I'm not sure how exactly you "collect bone samples" from live bears while they're hibernating, but these researchers apparently did the job in an effort to understand why bears' bones don't go limp during their Winter hibernation. It's another effort to try to understand osteoporosis in humans. Like a lot of research, it misses the boat: osteoporosis in humans is caused by two things: 1) Nutritional habits that strip bones of calcium (such as drinking soft drinks, eating sugars, and...

Bodies don't just wear out with old age, say researchers

By Mike Adams, January 17 2004
This is good science -- and good critical thinking -- from a couple of researchers who argue against the common myth that "old people just get sick." It isn't true, these researchers explain, and they back it up with sound scientific arguments. I've argued this for a long time, too, promoting the idea that bodies don't wear out. In fact, your body can stay healthy, flexible and strong for a hundred years if you treat it right. What causes so-called "old age" is simply a lifetime of poor...

People are irrationally afraid of mad cow disease but not of eating animal fat

By Mike Adams, January 17 2004
There's a tremendous amount of education coming out as a result of the outbreak of mad cow disease on U.S. soil: fewer people are eating cow fat and cow flesh, which will naturally make them healthier human beings. As this article shows, the fear over mad cow is striking an ever-expanding collection of foods that use cow by-products, such as french fries that are fried in beef fat. Of course, people shouldn't be eating this junk food in the first place: high-starch french fries that are...

Heal your own cancer with broccoli

By Mike Adams, January 17 2004
You don't have to know how it works to gain the benefit: just eat broccoli. It's one of the most powerful anti-cancer foods you can find at any grocery store. In fact, broccoli contains such powerful anti-cancer compounds that if drug companies could put the benefits of broccoli in a pill, that pill would be front page news and cost a hundred dollars a week. Broccoli works against prostate cancer, breast cancer, multiple myeloma, lung cancer, colon cancer, and even cancers of the organs...

Northeastern University professor lays out the truth about mad cow disease: it may be in your freezer

By Mike Adams, January 16 2004
Here's a must read article on mad cow disease. It focuses on the comments from a professor at Northeastern University who says that contaminated beef is right now sitting in grocery stores and personal freezers all across the country. He goes on to state that the reason the beef and cattle industries are fighting so hard against mad cow testing other animals is because they know that many more animals are affected, and is simply don't want to be faced with the reality of finding that...

Research shows that the entire diet, not just the vitamin, must be considered

By Mike Adams, January 16 2004
This is fascinating research about the importance of looking at the big picture when researchers studying nutritional supplements, vitamins and minerals. In this study researchers were able to demonstrate that the absorbability of vitamin E was five times greater when this vitamin was supplemented with grains and cereals than when taken alone as a supplement. It's good research and it teaches all nutritional researchers and important lesson: that vitamins, minerals and nutritional supplements...



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