What's Good for the Goose...

Just before receiving this little gem, someone alerted me to the "Public Option" being tacked on to the TARP legislation that seems to be up for votes next week. And while Congress just upped their budget, Obama gave a big chunk of change to NIH to research "cures" for health problems that already have known and effective cures, and they want more money to fund the fool's folly of war in Afghanistan and Pakistan.So why isn't this good enough for Joe and Jane Six Pack?The Real Public Option: Congress' Private Medical Clinic— By Dave Gilson | Wed September 30, 2009 Mother JonesYou can't say this enough: While members of Congress are busy protecting...

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Posted in: Congressional perks,natural health news,Obama,Public Option

Scientists Clueless About Vaccination Side Effects

Not only are scientists cluless about vaccine side effects, they seem just as clueless about side effects and risks of pharmaceuticals.This is something I hear daily from people who contact my health advocacy service looking for help. As a former provider in mainstream medicine I shudder with each new and ghastly report.As far as the new genetically engineered "swine flu" vaccine, I suggest it is well worth your time to read the following from Dr. Len Horowitz, the dentist and public health expert who first exposed Ebola and AIDS on the vaccines -America's leading promoter of getting vaccinated for the H1N1 flu, Dr. Anthony Fauci, Director of...

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Posted in: Anthony Fauci,Len Horowitz,natural health news,sauerkraut builds immunity,vaccine risk

Parade of the Pink Lids

Since I started Natural Health News over 5 years ago as an outgrowth of my original web site, Natural Healing through Natural Health, more than 100 articles have been posted here regarding cancer, and specifically breast cancer. You may locate those articles with our blog search box. Additional articles are found on that web site's Celebrating Women page. After five years of asking consumers to collect and send in Yoplait pink foil lids to raise money for Komen, Yoplait sought a way to enhance consumer involvement and elevate its brand awareness in the crowded breast cancer field. Working with Cone Inc., Yoplait created an award celebrating...

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Posted in: breast cancer,breast health,Natural Healing through Natural Health,natural health news,Pink Lids

Beware TAMIFLU

UPDATE: September 2009Following on reports of dosing and packaging problems with children's Tamiflu, we now learn that water treatment is unable to keep your water free from another drug that may have harmful side effects.It certainly appears that makers of Tamiflu failed to include water quality considerations as they promote their product, with problematic issues. Tamiflu Detected in Sewage Discharge and River Water in JapanAnother Comment on Swine Flu Vax Of 2009 - Unlicensed And Untested--------------------------------------------------Originally posted October 2005 -For several years I have posted information on the risks of flu vaccines...

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Posted in: avian flu,flu,H1N1,H5N1,Henry Niman PhD,natural health news,swine flu,Tamiflu

Thank You DaVinci Labs

I could not resist borrowing this photo from DaVinci Labs plus a bit of my own editing -Help Yourself to Quality Supplements.Act now before baseball pundits convince Congress to block further access to these health promoting substanc...

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Gardasil death and danger update

October 4: JAB 'AS DEADLY AS THE CANCER' How safe are vaccines?UPDATE: 1 OctoberPR pundits rushed to publicize a claim that anyone who has severe adverse effects from this (or any) vaccine suffered from underlying bacterial infection. It's the common ploy to attack the vaccine victim. One has to ask these folks how they can support such an idea in healthy people who sadly opt for the jabs.Media Issues Propaganda To Boost HPV Vaccine Sales And Renewed Confidence Following Children's DeathsUPDATE: September 2009NHS (UKs FDA) in UK suspends all Gardasil shots following deathCancer jab alert after girl diesHealth chiefs have launched a "full and...

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Posted in: 2009,aspartame dangers,Gardasil,Jenny Tetlock. outrage,natural health news,vaccine does not protect,vaccine risk

Many lack sick leave as flu season looms

As I have said in many interviews and articles, the US is the only country that ties health insurance to employment.Now we learn that half of employed people in this country have no sick leave as a benefit of employment.Sounds to me as if we have been stuck at the beginning of the Industrial Revolution if we still maintain this kind of worker abuse for the benefit of profit and a select few.Of course if you know me or read my articles you know I am in favor of economics as if people mattered.This also means that the old ways of pyramidal hierarchy must undergo real change, become somewhat more horizontal, and inclusive.Is it not the worker who makes the investor's dividend and the CEO mega slary with mega perks come on the back of workers?WASHINGTON, Sept. 28 (UPI) -- Nearly half of U.S. workers...

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Study links H1N1 to seasonal flu shots

REMEMBER: THERE ARE NO LONG TERM STUDIES ON VACCINES AND IT APPEARS, REPEATEDLY, THAT THOSE TAKING THESE SHOTS ARE THE ONES WHO ARE BECOMING ILL. WINNIPEG, Manitoba, Sept. 28 (UPI) -- A new study is about to be published in Canada that links the swine flu virus to seasonal flu shots, Canadian health officials say.The report, which is under peer review, suggests that people vaccinated against seasonal flu are twice as likely to contract the swine flu, The Globe and Mail of Canada reported Monday.Researchers Danuta Skowronski of the British Columbia Center for Disease Control and Gaston De Serrres of Laval University of Quebec are not allowed to...

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Listen to WA DOH with Extreme Caution: FLU SHOTS

WA DOH violating FDA recommendations on vaccines and pregnancy.I am very disturbed by the article that appeared in the Seattle Times last Friday -" State lifts limit on mercury preservative in swine-flu shots"By Sandi Doughton, Seattle Times science reporter.I am disturbed because this is another clear presentation of the ineffectiveness of Washington's Department of Health and Mary Selecky, as well as Chris Gregoire. (My experience with both Selecky and Gregoire involved intentional coverup of insurance fraud involving minor children's care. No real investigation of my complaint was undertaken so I had to go the HHS IG to get things out in the...

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Posted in: Christine Gregoire,Ken Stoller,Mary Selecky,natural health news,Sandi Doughton,Seattle Times,swine flu vaccine,vaccine,vaccines and pregnancy,WA DOH

Swine Flu and Vaccine information

I've posted these vaccine information pages many times before on my web sites and in this blog, as well as referred to the information in a number of articles I've written for print publications.http://www.whale.to/vaccines.htmlhttp://www.whale.to/vaccines/ingredients.htmlhttp://www.whale.to/vaccine/west_edda.htmlI think they are quite important today as so many this those of us who are raising questions about vaccines are a bit looney.If that's the case why is a Mayo Clinic doctor saying this?"The recurring question is, 'How do we know it's safe?'" said Dr. Gregory Poland of the Mayo Clinic.And if that's the case, after HHS has let the vaccine...

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Posted in: adverse vaccine effects,natural health news,swine flu vaccine

Vioxx maker Merck drew up hit list

This representation of corporate culture is just one reason why US healthcare costs are so high. It has nothing to do with helping people be healthy and well, its all about the product at what ever the price.Interestingly enough a Merck detail rep in Anchorage is know to me to have engaged in a similar deceptive practice while making willful false statements about some help I provided him.I guess Merck seeks out the unethical and dishonest to fill the ranks of their employees, they'll do what ever it takes to keep their job, or harm someone else, when they know they are lying. When I think how degraded the health industry has become at the expense of people, I still fondly recall our neighbor from childhood, one of the top MSD executives.Milanda Rout | April 01, 2009Article from: The Australian...

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Posted in: ethics,Greg Sipe,Merck,natural health news,VIOXX

Texas Doctor Files Against Big Insurance

More power to another Mad As Hell Doctor and his effort to stop Big Insurance methods that destroy medical care for profit.Texas Doctor Files Case Pro Se in U.S. Supreme Court Against Insurance Giant on Integrity and Unethical Practices DALLAS, Texas, Sept. 24 (SEND2PRESS NEWSWIRE) -- Dr. Dralves Edwards, a board-certified family physician in Dallas today filed a civil case in the U.S. Supreme Court against Blue Cross Blue Shield of Texas, the contractor for Medicare. For the past 13 years, Edwards has challenged the integrity and unethical practices of Blue Cross Blue Shield (BCBS) and is confident that the U.S. Supreme Court will rule in a responsible way that every Medicare provider and patient benefits. In 2003, the original suit was filed in Dallas district court alleging that BCBS engaged...

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Posted in: Dr. D. G. Edwards. Send2Press,ethics,natural health news,Texas Blue Cross Blue Shield

Judge Reverses Approval for RoundUp Ready Beets

Background information about the litigation -Food Safety Fact Sheet Findings of Fact and a win for the average consumer- September 22, 2009 Judge overturns approval of Roundup Ready beets By JEFF BARNARD, AP Environmental Writer A federal judge overturned government approval of a variety of sugar beet genetically engineered to resist a popular weed killer produced by agricultural giant Monsanto, according to a ruling released Tuesday.U.S. District Judge Jeffrey White in San Francisco found the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service violated environmental law by failing to take a "hard look" at whether "Roundup Ready" sugar beets would eventually share their genes with other crops.Noting that pollen from genetically altered sugar beets could be blown by...

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Posted in: beets,Center for Food Safety,Monsanto,natural health news,RoundUp,sugar beets

No "Cure" for Breast Cancer, data review from 1980

This leads the authors to conclude that the 2 phenomena, treatment advances and screening, have not led to a cure.1: Ann Oncol. 2009 Aug;20(8):1331-6. Epub 2009 May 22. Ann Oncol. 2009 Aug;20(8):1291-2. 'Cure' from breast cancer among two populations of women followed for 23 years after diagnosis.Woods LM, Rachet B, Lambert PC, Coleman MP.Cancer Research UK Survival Group, Non-Communicable Disease Epidemiology Unit, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, UK. laura.woods@lshtm.ac.ukBACKGROUND: Although survival from breast cancer has greatly improved over the past three decades, there is little consensus as to whether a population...

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Pink Lids Marching

Now that we are once again in the Pink Pandemonium I would like to comment on a recent interview aired from Portland OR about the fact that the woman interviewed said there is no cure for breast cancer.Well there is cure, and there is also prevention. All of this has been on the record for decades, and little attention is given to it because of the influence of the breast cancer industry.How about reporting on the well known fact that mammogram promotes breast cancer and it increases the incidence when you promote the "Annual Screening Mammogram" to women who are 40 years old.Why not report on Thermography, a non-carcinogenic screening system...

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Posted in: breast cancer awareness,mammogram causes breast cancer,natural health news,Pink Lid Parade,screening mammogram and heart disease

A Return! And a Temporary Break.

Readers! Hey there! How are you? I’ve been away for a few days, alternately babysitting and proving myself to be totally florally ignorant. (Remember: life is easy. Wedding flowers are hard.)Beyond that, the last week or so has been chock full of deep, thoughtful, uh … thinking … about CHG. I find myself lacking employment lately, and kind of need to concentrate on the job search for a little while.So. I think we’re going to put the blog on hiatus for a bit, just to regroup and get our collective mojo back. (Note: not this mojo. This mojo. Though the former is nice, too.) There’ll still be occasional posts, especially if there’s a light, inexpensive recipe that screams to be shared. And I expect we’ll be back eventually, but mostly, it’s gonna be slow going for a few weeks.In the meantime,...

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Veggie Might: From VM Labs - Miso Mashed Potatoes

Penned by the effervescent Leigh, Veggie Might is a weekly Thursday column about the wide world of Vegetarianism.Friday, I went to seen an oral surgeon for a consultation. I left the doctor’s office down two wisdom teeth and up a bolt of gauze. Had I suspected this course of events (and been running less late or less concerned with the doctor seeing clean teeth), I would have eaten breakfast.Cut to two hours later when my entire mouth is numb and I’m starving—like low-blood sugar, kinda woozy, I-need-food-now starving: Grapefruit juice to the rescue. I chugged about a quart and only a cup or so ran down from the corners of my Novocain-paralyzed...

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Posted in: Sides,Vegan,Vegetarian,Veggie Might

Baucus Bill Gets Mixed Reception

Hoping to keep you informed, and alert you to the fact that there is too much of a hand out to Big PhARMA and Big Insurance in this proposal, along with cuts to Medicaid and Medicare, NO CUTS to members of Congress' insurance plan.And BTW, where is dental and vision coverage for citizens and parity for fitness programs equal to Congressional gym privileges?I could say more but the bottom line for me is that this isn't good for consituents by a long shot.Baucus Health Plan Gets a Mixed ReceptionWayne J. GuglielmoSeptember 17, 2009 — After Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus released his healthcare reform plan yesterday, White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs characterized it as "an important building block" and a reform measure that "makes progress on the issue" in a briefing with...

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Posted in: Baucus Health Bill

Refuse Risky Vaccine, Get Deportation Threat

There are at least 20 articles here at Natural Health News dating back to 2006 raising a red flag on the risk and dangers of Gardasil vaccine. This one has to be the most outrageous, in response to a vaccine that has serious risk and extremely limited benefit for a self limitng infection. PORT ST. JOE, Fla., Sept. 12 (UPI) -- An adopted teen who has lived in Port St. Joe, Fla. since she was 3 faces possible deportation to England for refusing a vaccination, she and her mother say.Simone Davis, 17, said she has no need for the vaccine Gardasil, which guards against the sexually transmitted human papillomavirus virus, because she is not sexually active, ABC News reported.But the U.S. government requires female immigrants between the ages of 11 and 26 to receive Gardasil shots before they can...

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Posted in: deportation threat,forced vaccination,Gardasil,natural health news

Health Care Philosophy

The highest ideal of cure is rapid, gentle and permanent restoration of the health, or removal and annihilation of the disease in its whole extent, in the shortest, most reliable, and most harmless way, on easily comprehensible principles. Samuel Hahnemann, founder of Homeopa...

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Posted in: cure,Hahnemann,health,homeopathy

Gluten allergy boosts death risk

This is a timely report in terms of the article below about current cancer therapies, and the fact we have known for decades that cancer is most often a nutritional disease.Not too long ago I wrote to a physician who is doing gastrointestinal work and with people who have rheumatoid arthritis. I asked him if he was screening his patients for gluten and gliaden allergy and allergy to other foods.You guessed it, the answer was 'NO'.I think this article represents a start, but the movement has to continue. It may be up to you, instead of asking for reflux drugs, to demand proper food allergy testing. The system I use tests for 250 different foods.Don't overlook the impact of vaccines in this equation either. Tue Sep 15 CHICAGO (AFP) – The risks of gluten allergies have been underestimated, according...

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Posted in: arthritis,celiac disease,diabetes,gluten allergy,natural health news,natural news,vaccine injury

Patrick Swayze and Cancer Thoughts

I am not much of a TV watcher and for the most part I have one so I can watch movies or play the workout videos I use as part of my daily fitness plan.Last evening I made a deviation from the norm by watching the Patrick Swayze interview with Barbara Walters.I was really most interested in what Patrick had to say, and his wife of almost four decades.I also wanted to hear about the treatment he chose.I admit I'm a Swayze fan of many years. I too enjoyed some youthful romantic escapades in the Catskills, and I hope his "ghost" hangs around from time to time.He's been most courageous in his ability to be open and public through his illness and hopefully this stand will help many others. One thing he said that resonated with my work was what he said about how the chemo tore up his insides.This...

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Posted in: Cancer,Dr. Nicholas Gonzalez,Ken Schueler,natural cancer care,natural health news,pancreatic cancer,Patrick Swayze,Ralph Moss

Pink Lid Parade is on the way

October is coming quickly and once again we'll see the pundits roll out the Pink Parade to help you believe you are really contributing to the "cure". Of course you should know by now this is just a campaign to allow scientists to continue chasing down paths that fail to offer a cure.To help alert you to important issues in women's health, breast health and options for cancer, related articles till be tagged with the pink lid.Remember, cures and better care along with better screening is already available, you just aren't getting the message from standard venues.Breast cancer drugs raise blood clot riskPORTLAND, Ore., Sept. 14 (UPI) -- Drugs...

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Posted in: antioxidants for cancer,breast cancer,breast cancer drugs and blood clots,natural health news,Pink Lid Parade

Yellow Tomato Recipes, Part 2: Gazpacho and Stuffed Tomatoes

Part 2! Behold...Yellow Tomato GazpachoMakes 5 cups soupAdapted from Suzanne Goin’s Sunday Suppers at Lucques2 1/2 pounds ripe yellow tomatoes1 cucumber1/2 jalapeño, seeded and cut in half4 sprigs cilantro, plus 12 cilantro leaves2 cloves garlic, coarsely chopped2 tablespoons red wine vinegar1/4 cup extra-virgin olive oil3 tablespoons diced red or orange sweet pepper3 tablespoons diced red onion18 small cherry tomatoes, cut in half (optional)Super-good extra-virgin olive oil, for drizzlingKosher salt and freshly ground black pepperNOTE: I ate this with the red pepper and red onion, but without the cherry tomatoes or extra olive oil drizzled on...

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Posted in: Mains,Sides,Soups and Stocks,Vegan,Vegetarian

Natural Health and Psoriasis

I'm listening to NPR and their story about psoriasis. Of course it is only medical, with the standard comment "there is no cure".Because so little is known in medicine about this situation, there isn't any approach other than drugs and the new "biologicals" that severely suppress the immune system and can lead to cancer.No mention is made of very helpful natural approaches to correcting this concern, including evaluation of food allergy, especially wheat gluten and gliaden.Of course there is the psych referral...under the guise of "mind-body medicine" because as you know, everyone with a chronic health problem is depressed, and there are drugs for that.Stories like this make me think about the high number of people I have helped over the years with psoriasis. In those who wanted to be fully...

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Posted in: mainstream medicine,natural health news,NPR,psoriasis,wheat allergy and psoriasis

TV Health News Harmful to Health

UPDATE: September 22 -Mainstream Media Miss the Point on Swine Flu VaccineThe Associated Press is reporting on a study that indicates about half of all health workers, including doctors, would reject the swine flu vaccine due to concerns about its effectiveness, side effects and safety. The AP emphasizes the risk of doctors and nurses spreading swine flu if they don’t get vaccinated. We’d like to suggest a different thrust for this particular story, that doctors and nurses don’t think the swine flu vaccine is either safe or effective! Health workers are not like everyone else. They have knowledge about health and illness that the general public lacks. They are trained to diagnose and treat disease. So when they reject a course of action, everyone should pay attention. Doctors and nurses...

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Posted in: health journalism,Health News Review,natural health news,TV health news rated low