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Does Vitamin E Reduce Or Increase Mortality? By Christine Doyle In case you read the recent scare stories about vitamin E causing death and are worried that the supplement you are taking is doing you more harm than good, I’d like to explain that this isn’t what the recent review of seven studies, published in the Annals of Internal Medicine, actually found. Before explaining the results, there are two factors you need to be aware of—the people involved and the statistical significance. ...

VITAMINS FIGHT DISEASE: Nutrients Effective But Overlooked Orthomolecular Medicine News Service, Jan 30, 2007 Vitamin supplementation fights disease. Although medical research has repeatedly shown this, such has not always been the case in the news media. Recently, however, the popular press is picking up more of the good news: Nutritional therapy is cheaper, safer, and often more effective than pharmaceutical drugs. NIACIN FIGHTS CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE The New York Times just reported1 that inexpensive...

The “Expensive Urine” MythWhat About Those “Wasted” Vitamins? Orthomolecular Medicine News Service, November 10, 2008 Ever heard this one before? “Your body doesn’t absorb extra vitamins. All you get from taking vitamin supplements is expensive urine.” Sure you have. And you still will, at websites such as www.dietitian.com. Even the BBC has reported this: (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/109881.stm) Some people will tell you that any vitamin consumption hi...

META-ANALYSIS: A New Tool To Discredit Natural Health Supplements? By Dr Robert Verkerk, Executive & Scientific Director, Alliance for Natural Health On 24 March 2006, The British Medical Journal published a meta-analysis (a study of other studies) on omega-3 fatty acids1 that prompted headlines around the world to the effect that “fish oils don’t work”. This is not the first time a meta-analysis has triggered headlines that discredit natural health supplements. The vitami...

Hidden Hazards of Vitamin and Mineral Tablets A wise practitioner once said never to purchase parachutes, contact lenses or pacemakers based solely on bargain basement prices. The same principle holds true for vitamin and mineral supplements. You usually get exactly what you pay for. Following time honoured practices of the drug industry, many “natural” food supplements contain an awesome list of synthetic fillers. In general, the more filler, the cheaper the supplement. If it’s in ...

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Top 20 Additives to Avoid Name E # Usage Facts you need to know Allura Red AC E129 Food colouring in snacks, sauces, preserves, soups, wine, cider, etc. Avoid if you suffer from asthma, rhinitis (including hayfever), or urticaria (hives). Amaranth E123 Food colouring in wine, spirits, fish roe. Banned in the U.S. Avoid if you suffer from asthma, rhinitis, urticaria or other allergies. Aspartame E951 Sweetener...

Monarch Butterflies And Humans Both Utilize Milkweed's Medical Properties New York City: NY, USA | Oct 20, 2010 By Debbie Nicholson Even with conventional medicine trying to deny healing properties of natures’ herbs and plants, the insect world has no issues in using what nature has provided for healing.A new study which has been published in the journal of Ecology Letters, takes note of the Monarch butterfly’s common use of medical plants to aide its offspring in th...

Who’s Confused About Alternative Medicine? By Robert Verkerk MSc DIC PhD, Executive & scientific director, Alliance for Natural Health (www.anhcampaign.org)   PROFESSOR EDZARD ERNST, the UK’s first professor of complementary medicine, gets lots of exposure for his often overtly negative views on complementary medicine. He’s become the media’s favourite resource for a view on this controversial subject. Yesterday’s report by Barbara Rowlands in the Daily Mail (Comple...