Since the beginning of hospital birth, research supporting its use for low risk women has been lacking. The last 15 years has produced 17 studies all supporting attended planned homebirth as safer for low risk women.
Research reveals that there are only 2 acute conditions that might occur at homebirth in which the mother or baby may have a...
Promoted for decades as a "safe" sugar alternative, presumably to prevent or reduce symptoms of diabetes, Splenda (sucralose) has been found to have diabetes-promoting effects in human subjects.
The artificial sweetener sucralose, which is approximately 600 times sweeter than sucrose (table sugar), and marketed under a variety of brand names, su...
While millions around the world consume foods and beverages sweetened with Splenda (sucralose) with abandon, an accumulating body of research indicates that this synthetic chemical is far from safe, may contribute to obesity and blood sugar disorders, and more recently has even been linked to leukemia in animal experiments.
For several y...
A groundbreaking new study published in the prestigious journal Nature has revealed how non-caloric artificial sweeteners (NAS) drive obesity- and diabetes-related changes in both mice and humans.
The study titled, "Artificial sweeteners induce glucose intolerance by altering the gut microbiota," states:
"Here we demonstrate that consumption...
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By conventional wisdom it is excellent news. Researchers from Iowa have shown that organic farming methods can yield almost as highly as pesticide-intensive methods. Other researchers, from Berkeley, California, have reached a similar conclusion. Indeed, both findings met with a ve...
Originally titled, "A Critique Of Scientific Literature: Pesticides and Polio," this article by Jim West was first published in The Townsend Letter for Doctors and Patients, June 2000, then republished as a 2nd edition in 2002 by The Weston A. Price Foundation, with additional material and the editorship of Sally Fallon. The ...
Pomegranate is an antioxidant powerhouse and food-as-medicine approach to metabolic syndrome.
Metabolic Syndrome and its Disease Sequelae
Cardiovascular disease represents the leading cause of morbidity and mortality worldwide (1). Metabolic syndrome, on the other hand, is an aggregate of risk factors, including atherogenic dyslipidemia, hyp...
The majority of additives in U.S. foods have undergone either inadequate or zero regulatory oversight. American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) just issued a policy statement about the risks to children's health of the more than 10,000 chemicals directly or indirectly added to food and "food contact materials" in the U.S. with three primary aims: (1)...
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National Vaccine Injury Compensation Program: Adding the Category of Vaccines Recommended for Pregnant Women to the Vaccine Injury Table
This public comment is being submitted on behalf of more than 200,000 supporters of the nonprofit National Vaccine Information Center, a charity founded in 1982 by paren...
Chapter 10: K28658_Nutrition and Integrative Medicine: A Primer for Clinicians_Bakhru. ISBN: 978-1-4987-5948-9 TAYLOR and FRANCIS
Revisioning Cellular Bioenergetics: Food As Information and The Light-Driven Body
What if everything you ever thought was true about the body, and how it produces energy and communicate...