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Death by Medicine
Natural medicine is under siege, as pharmaceutical company
lobbyists urge lawmakers to deprive Americans of the benefits of dietary
supplements. Drug-company front groups have launched slanderous media
campaigns to discredit the value of healthy lifestyles. The FDA
continues to interfere with those who offer natural products that
compete with prescription drugs.
So You're an Environmentalist; Why Are
You Still Eating Meat
There has never been a better time for environmentalists to
become vegetarians. Evidence of the environmental impacts of a
meat-based diet is piling up at the same time its health effects are
becoming better known. Meanwhile, full-scale industrialized factory
farming -- which allows diseases to spread quickly as animals are raised
in close confinement -- has given rise to recent, highly publicized
epidemics of meat-borne illnesses. At press time, the first discovery of
mad cow disease in a Tokyo suburb caused beef prices to plummet in Japan
and many people to stop eating meat.
White Poison: The Horrors of Milk
Got milk? If not, then thank your lucky stars. Because if you do,
medical research shows that you are likely to be plagued by anemia,
migraine, bloating, gas, indigestion, asthma, prostate cancer, and a
host of potentially fatal allergies -- especially if you are a person of
color.
The Hazards Of
Refined Sugar Consumption
The purpose of this
discussion is to give a comprehensive assessment of beet and cane sugar;
providing information with regard to its chemical and physical
properties as well as view its source and uses historically. Most of
all we want to examine the effects of sugar and other sweeteners during
human consumption; making a clear distinction as to the nutritional
value of sugars in whole foods as opposed to the detrimental effects
that so-called “refined” sugar has on health and vitality. Finally,
this presentation will offer suggestions for alternatives to sugar as
well as suggestions for removing refined sugar from our diet.
Their families had the history of hypertension
and coronary artery disease so common among black people. But 204 black
people who moved to Israel and converted to low-fat, low-salt food, no
smoking and regular exercise turned that around. Only 6 percent
had high blood pressure - a condition found in 30 percent of all black
people in this country. And, while half of all black women and 32
percent of all black men in this country are obese, that was true of
less than 5 percent in the African Hebrew Israelite community.
Nine
factors that affect your heart's health
If you think heart disease is inevitable, Salim Yusuf has news for you.
Nine risk factors account for 90% of the heart disease in every
population on earth, says Yusuf, a global heart specialist at McMaster
University in Toronto. Change your lifestyle and that percentage will
shrink dramatically. So will the $400 billion annual cost of heart
treatment and lost productivity; the 900,000 heart attacks and strokes;
the 1.2 million angioplasties; the 500,000 bypass operations and a
million hospitalizations for heart failure, according to the American
Heart Association.
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