Volume 36, No. 3
Newsletter Archive
Secondhand Chemo
Sue Crump braced as the chemo drugs dripped into her body. She knew treatment would be rough. She had seen its signature countless times in the ravaged bodies and hopeful faces of cancer patients in hospitals where she had spent 23 years mixing...
Soap & Toxic Dioxins
Dioxins are a group of highly toxic compounds that are persistent environmental pollutants. People are exposed to dioxins through the environment and the food chain -- the highest levels of these compounds are found in soils, sediments and food such...
Controversial Pesticide Worries Scientists
Odds are most supermarket strawberries come from California — that’s where 90 percent of the berries are produced. And if the strawberries are not organic, they were likely grown in fumigated soil, which is creating a stir between...
Cayenne
There's a vastly underrated herb that is commonly used as a spice for hot foods. Its powder is derived from ground up dried shells of chili peppers. Famed herbalist Dr. John Christopher was so involved with this herb that he was nicknamed Dr....
Aerotoxic syndrome
Have you ever flown on an airplane and later become mysteriously ill? Maybe you developed a headache, had trouble breathing or experienced severe brain fog? These symptoms (and many others) just might be the result of breathing toxic fumes that...
Dr. Ann Louise on Getting your ZZZ's
Nearly two-thirds of American adults suffer sleep problems several nights a week. Even worse, 58 percent of us experience one or more symptoms of insomnia, the most common sleep disorder.
Whether we have difficulty getting to sleep in the first...
Intracellular Antioxidants
The words free radical and antioxidant are in the news almost daily. "Reports of how antioxidants protect us against cancer, heart disease, and nearly eighty other diseases appear regularly in the media. Vitamin C is the major antioxidant in...
Intestinal Health
"Since being well or being sick—aside from genetic influences, attack by dangerous pathogenic organisms or other drastic factors—is mainly rooted in the way we eat and live, basic good health cannot be purchased passively, for...
F.D.A. Toughens Process for Radiation Equipment
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration said Thursday that it was taking steps to reduce overdoses, under-doses and other errors in radiation therapy by strengthening the agency’s approval process for new radiotherapy equipment.
In a...
The Hidden Toxins in Cooked Foods
Nutritionists are well aware of the benefits of fresh fruits and vegetables and that cooking destroys much of the nutritive value of foods. Many may not be aware, however, of the toxins and carcinogens that exist when food is heated past a...
Tea & the Olympics
Research carried out at London's Kingston University has revealed that athletes could mask illegal doping with testosterone by drinking green and white tea. A team headed by Professor Declan Naughton, from the University's School of Life Sciences...
Coffee Beans for Weight Loss?
Scientists have just reported striking new evidence that green, or unroasted, coffee beans can produce a substantial decrease in body weight in a relatively short time.
In a study presented at the 243rd National Meeting & Exposition of the...
Strawberry Safety
When Arysta LifeScience abruptly pulled methyl iodide off the market this week, it cited the “economic viability” of the controversial fumigant, which is used to sterilize soil before crops are planted.
But at a hearing in an Oakland...
Trans Fat Lawsuit
The City of Cleveland filed a lawsuit in state court today, challenging the State of Ohio’s recent attempt to prohibit Cleveland and other Ohio cities from restricting the use of unsafe industrially produced trans fats in the foods served to...
What is Local?
Walmart recently announced a pledge to double the amount of produce it purchases from local growers by 2015, with the three-pronged goal of saving on fuel costs, reducing spoilage and catering to a growing consumer appetite for local produce.
But...
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