FDA attempts to violate court ruling against it, thirty years ago

If you wish your health freedom to be protected so that you can access proven health care of your choice that helps clear arteriosclerosis more safely and less expensively than the current medical approach you should be speaking with your representatives and senators today!FDA’s Stealth Attack on Chelation Therapy for Cardio-Vascular Disease The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) recently released a Public Health Advisory on Edetate Disodium (EDTA). The advisory reflects FDA’s current analysis of data available concerning this drug. The advisory is meant to alert patients and healthcare professionals about EDTA.In this relatively innocent looking letter, the FDA is warning hospital pharmacies that there have been 11 deaths associated with di-sodium EDTA since 1971. They indicate that to...

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Don't let flu hit you full force...

One of the very nice things about being a health care professional and having access to the internet is to receive information from others in natural health care who are trying to educate the public in the same manner as we have done for the past twenty years through our various venues.This is helpful information from another fellow professional with which I agree, although I am for usually more vitamin C and A. Enjoy!Flu season is here in force. The next few newsletters will focus on flu prevention and treatment to keep everyone healthy through the winter season. Preventing the FluAdultsMaintain a healthy immune system. Many forms of supplements will fortify immunity so that an attack by viruses will be less successful. If you tend to get acute illnesses easily, then begin a program of immune...

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CHG Favorites of the Week: Super Bowl Edition

Blog of the WeekSlashfoodA giant among cooking blogs, Slashfood summarizes nearly every bit of food news from around the web in a smart, funny way. What’s more, there are recipes galore for all kinds of diet. This week’s entries are focusing on Giants/Pats, so if you get the chance…Comedy of the WeekBill Swerksi’s Superfans - SNLIn which Mike Myers, Chris Farley, George Wendt, and Robert Smigel answer the eternal question: in a fight, could Mike Ditka beat a hurricane, also named Mike Ditka? Whether you’re a fan of da Bullsss or da Bearsss, this is classic, sausage-soaked SNL. Michael Jordan, at the height of his career, looks on wonder.Organization...

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Cheap Healthy Party Food

With the big Giants/Pats showdown only four days away, it’s time to start thinking about food. What should you bring to a get-together? What will you serve at your own shindig? How can you keep from gaining 14 pounds in a single afternoon?That’s where Cheap Healthy Party Food comes in. Gathered from five prominent websites, the following 60 recipes are less expensive, healthier alternatives to the chips/dips/wings combo typical of Super Bowl Sunday. Plus, as it’s a football game (THE football game), all the dishes are party-friendly. There is no spa food, and nary a spinach salad or fat-free flaxseed muffin to be found. Instead, the list is chock...

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Posted in: Cooking,Desserts and Snacks,Dips and Sauces,Mains,Meat and Fish,Sides

Infection Control Nightmare Decades Old, No Sign of Remission

The issue of over use of antibiotics leading the charge toward higher infection rates in hospital and community has been heartily debated for decades. While there seems to be no end in sight, especially prescribing antibiotics for almost every ill in a time when many antibiotics fail, this study does suggest some helpful methods.Handwashing is without a doubt one of the best methods for preventing cross contamination. Gels, however, do contain a high alcohol content which is drying to the skin. Unlubricated dry skin leads to cracks in the skin and an opportunity for bacteria to pierce this protective layer. Many commercial products used for moisturizing skin contain harmful chemicals that ultimately fail to keep the skin well lubricated. This group includes many so called natural products...

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Drug errors or other?

This is not a nursing or pharmacy only problem. The drug companies need to come up with solid accountability for causing confusion when dreaming up names for their dangerous drugs. Thousands of drugs seem to have confusing generic and trade names as the article states.Just consider that levaquin is a fluoride based antibiotic, similar to CIPRO, with extremely serious side effects and limited effectiveness. Similar issues surround the drugs listed on the Top 10 Rx sellers; all make the name confusing list.Drug-name mix-ups hurt patients, getting worse By Maggie Fox, Health and Science EditorTue Jan 29, 2008Dr. Julius Pham's stomach churned when he saw a critically ill heart patient getting an antibiotic instead of a drug to support his blood pressure -- the kind of mix-up that is increasingly...

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Are you in the dark about adverse effects of Gardasil?

Perhaps it is really the Big Pharma-FDA-CDC cartel wanting to keep it that way...Search for our other Gardasil posts for more information...

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Back to basics? It's about time!

A number of years ago a group of doctors in the Seattle are decided to try and get off the insurance-con-game-merry-go-round by going to a cash only system.These doctors would as well help the patient with needed statements to apply on their own for reimbursement. The doctors believed they would be able to offer better care and provide more individualized care, and I am sure they were correct.Now into the 21st Century, we stumble upon a doctor who believes in the real thing, practicing medicine as if the patient should be the focus of care.This isn't much different than the service I have been providing to people around the world since 1995, as an on-line health detective. Having been a nurse practitioner for more than enough years in a system that promoted "the sick state" made it an easy...

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Tuesday Megalinks: Super Bowl XLII Edition

In honor of the impending game, today's list is a two-parter. Up first, a gaggle of Super Bowl links.About.com: Healthy TailgatingWhile the title looks like an oxymoron (a la jumbo shrimp), author Shereen Jegtvig has some out-of-the-box ideas on pre-game parking lot cookouts. Good suggestions for the angina prone, Ditka-lovin’ Superfan in your life.About.com: Planning a Low Fat Super Bowl PartyWhat: Giants/Pats shindig with all the fatty-looking fixings.Where: Your living room.How: Substitutions. Fiona Haynes makes up a pretty straightforward menu, but subs in secret healthy ingredients. Guests may never know the difference.Chowhound: ISO Atkins...

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Lightened Seven-Layer Taco Dip: A Super Bowl OF FLAVOR

As a nutritionally minded blogger, I normally advocate fresh, whole, prepared-from-scratch meals in modest proportions.But, dude. The Super Bowl’s coming.With the possible exception of Thanksgiving, no other event requires Americans to consume their body weight in onion dip. Nor can I think of another quasi-holiday where quesadillas are designated as health food. Sure, your party of choice might have a token crudite platter buried behind the wings, but essentially, Super Bowl Sunday is to diets what Lawrence Taylor was to Joe Theismann’s leg. (Caution: this video might kill you.)Yet, us weight-conscious folks need options come February 3rd. And...

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Himalayan Salt FAD May Be a Health Risk

UPDATE: 4/2010 -  As volcanic ash spews from Iceland's erupting volcano a new news report from the UK looks at fluoride poisoning and its effect on livestock.  Farmer's are indeed worried because they know that the natural minerals holding fluoride in the rocks and ash spewing from the volcano contain fluoride, and they know fluoride is a cumulative poison.The Himalayan salt hucksters offer up the fact that the fluoride in this salt, regardless of the amount won't hurt you because it is a "natural" form.On this very point they are incorrect, and this salt, with its fluoride and other toxic heavy metals, even though they argue this issue of ocean toxicity, is much more harmful than naturally farmed sea salt.The fluoride in volcanic ash is the type defended as safe by the hawkers of...

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Consider Vaccination Risks Above All Else!

Folks down at the CDC say they are 'disappointed' because many elderly folks aren't lining up for their shots. Maybe next we'll see SWAT Teams at al assisted living or other facilities forcing these risky solutions into the bodies of another run of test subjects.A healthier person or companions animal is one who has sound nutrition and avoids a plethora of jabs.CDC: Too few adults get their vaccines By LAURAN NEERGAARD, AP Medical WriterThu Jan 24, 2008Vaccines aren't just for kids, but far too few grown-ups are rolling up their sleeves, disappointed federal health officials reported Wednesday.The numbers of newly vaccinated are surprisingly low, considering how much public attention a trio of new shots — which protect against shingles, whooping cough and cervical cancer — received in recent...

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Aspirin is a risky pill to swallow

The issue surrounding the use of aspirin for any so-called health protection is outweighed by the risks of silent bleeding and further for the risk of failure of the clotting mechanism in general, similar to long term warfarin therapy, and disruption of the cell wall membrane.Herbs with "blood thinning" capacity without untoward effects are available, as is vitamin E. Both nutrient classes of natural supplements will aid in this effort.Caution that high-dose aspirin is not recommended for routine long-term use in cancer prevention in a healthy population and carries the risk of gastrointestinal bleeding and other adverse effects.Aspirin Prevents Colorectal Cancer but Risks Too High By Crystal Phend, Staff Writer, MedPage TodayPublished: January 24, 2008 BOSTON -- Long-term, higher-dose aspirin...

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UPDATE - Herbal extract extends heart patients' lives: study

Posted originally March 2007It is unfortunate that Bill Berkot failed to do his research when he wrote this story report.Hawthorne has been the preemminent herb for the heart for hundreds of years and is used in the states (US) daily for CHF and related cardiovascular conditions. It has additional uses as well for health especially in people over 40. When using hawthorne make sure that you inform your physician as it can and will lower your blood pressure.Send us your questions about its use and effectiveness. You can order organic hawthorne extract made in the proper way from us too. Hawthorn contains oligomeric procyanidins, flavonoids (including vitexin-2-rhamnoside) and other compounds. This product is standardized to contain 6.01 mg per tablet of vitexin-2-rhamnoside and 15 mg per tablet...

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Study shows connection: asthma, early vaccinations

From the Canadian Press, important but probably something you won't see written up in the US media venues.U of M researcher links asthma, early vaccinations By Jen Skerritt Thursday, January 24th, 2008 Children who have their routine vaccinations delayed by two months or more cut their risk of asthma by half, a University of Manitoba researcher has found.Anita Kozyrskyj, an asthma researcher in the U of M faculty of pharmacy, studied the immunization and health records of 14,000 children born in Manitoba in 1995.Kozyrskyj found nearly 14 per cent of the children who received their first shot of diphtheria, pertussis, tetanus vaccine at two months of age developed asthma — compared with only 5.9 per cent of children who were vaccinated more than four months after the scheduled date.Manitoba...

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