 Do Bright Lights Promote Diabetes?
The level and type of light you are exposed to could affect your weight, your health and even your life. Action Alert! A new study has found that bright light alters our metabolism. Bright light exposure increased insulin resistance compared to dim light exposure in the morning and evening. Insulin resistance leads to excess blood [...]
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Common Vitamin Could Offer Autism Key
A new study shows the promise of natural medicine for treating autism, underscoring the need both for further study and greater access to practitioners who can administer these treatments. State-based Action Alerts! A new study found that giving vitamin D supplements to mice during pregnancy prevented autistic traits in their offspring. This is exciting news [...]
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We Can No Longer Rely on Organic Standard
The USDA's organics program has been taken over by corporate interests; it's time to fight back. Action Alert! Consumers looking for clean, healthy food have for years turned to foods with the USDA's organic seal. This seal is understood to mean that the food has been grown in accordance with organic principles—most importantly, that the farming [...]
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URGENT: Feds Aim to End Vax Exemptions
Some federal officials think vaccine exemptions are used too widely and want Congress to eliminate your right to choose! Action Alert! In response to several measles outbreaks that have been reported across the US by the CDC, the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee is planning to meet on March 5 to discuss vaccine-preventable [...]
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Diapers and Menstrual Pads Laced with Toxic Chemicals
Presence of endocrine disrupting chemicals in most brands is a major hazard. Action Alert! A new report highlighted by Environmental Health News demonstrates that most diapers and menstrual pads contain volatile organic compounds (VOCs) and phthalates, endangering millions of babies and seniors who may be absorbing these chemicals through the genitalia. Congress and the FDA [...]
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Is This the Beginning of the End for Quality Supplements?
A new announcement from the head of the FDA gives reason for concern. Action Alert! Just a few days ago, FDA Commissioner Scott Gottlieb released a wide-ranging statement about the FDA's regulatory approach to dietary supplements. The statement was short on details, and without more explanation we see some potential causes for concern. Consumers who [...]
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Senate Bill Offers Hope for Health Autonomy
An important bill that expands access to natural health medicines and practitioners has been reintroduced. It needs our support. Action Alert! For years now, ANH-USA has supported the Health Savings Act. The current bill, S. 12, is sponsored by Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) and allows Health Savings Account (HSA) funds to go toward dietary supplements [...]
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Do Bright Lights Promote Diabetes?
The level and type of light you are exposed to could affect your weight, your health and even your life. Action Alert! A new study has found that bright light alters our metabolism. Bright light exposure increased insulin resistance compared to dim light exposure in the morning and evening. Insulin resistance leads to excess blood [...]
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Diapers and Menstrual Pads Laced with Toxic Chemicals
Presence of endocrine disrupting chemicals in most brands is a major hazard. Action Alert! A new report highlighted by Environmental Health News demonstrates that most diapers and menstrual pads contain volatile organic compounds (VOCs) and phthalates, endangering millions of babies and seniors who may be absorbing these chemicals through the genitalia. Congress and the FDA [...]
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We Can No Longer Rely on Organic Standard
The USDA's organics program has been taken over by corporate interests; it's time to fight back. Action Alert! Consumers looking for clean, healthy food have for years turned to foods with the USDA's organic seal. This seal is understood to mean that the food has been grown in accordance with organic principles—most importantly, that the farming [...]
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URGENT: Feds Aim to End Vax Exemptions
Some federal officials think vaccine exemptions are used too widely and want Congress to eliminate your right to choose! Action Alert! In response to several measles outbreaks that have been reported across the US by the CDC, the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee is planning to meet on March 5 to discuss vaccine-preventable [...]
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Senate Bill Offers Hope for Health Autonomy
An important bill that expands access to natural health medicines and practitioners has been reintroduced. It needs our support. Action Alert! For years now, ANH-USA has supported the Health Savings Act. The current bill, S. 12, is sponsored by Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) and allows Health Savings Account (HSA) funds to go toward dietary supplements [...]
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Is This the Beginning of the End for Quality Supplements?
A new announcement from the head of the FDA gives reason for concern. Action Alert! Just a few days ago, FDA Commissioner Scott Gottlieb released a wide-ranging statement about the FDA's regulatory approach to dietary supplements. The statement was short on details, and without more explanation we see some potential causes for concern. Consumers who [...]
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Vaccine State Action Center
Click the link on your state below to take action to protect vaccine choice. Arizona The Arizona legislature is considering bills, HB 2162 and HB 2505, that would eliminate the personal belief exemption to vaccines required for school (HB 2505 replaces it with a religious exemption). Florida The Florida legislature is considering a bill, HB 245/SB 356, [...]
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Common Vitamin Could Offer Autism Key
A new study shows the promise of natural medicine for treating autism, underscoring the need both for further study and greater access to practitioners who can administer these treatments. State-based Action Alerts! A new study found that giving vitamin D supplements to mice during pregnancy prevented autistic traits in their offspring. This is exciting news [...]
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Censoring Speech and Stealing Nature the FDA Way
FDA is ignoring Congress and attacking an affordable supplement to protect Big Pharma profits. And we wonder why health care costs so much. Action Alert! As we reported earlier this year, the Farm Bill approved by Congress legalized hemp, which is a major step towards ensuring consumer access to affordable CBD oil supplements. Unfortunately, the FDA [...]
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FDA's Deafening Silence on Ebola Cures
In the midst of another terrible outbreak, why doesn't the agency discuss natural treatments that can protect us? Action Alert! The Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) is in the midst of the second largest Ebola outbreak in history (the worst was in West Africa in 2014). Since August 2018, 740 people have been infected—30 percent [...]
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Will Natural Medicine Be Snuffed Out in Your State?
That's what a secretive, private, powerful organization is seeking to do. Action Alert! For years now, we have been reporting on the machinations of the Federation of State Medical Boards (FSMB), especially their most recent efforts to pass their Interstate Medical Licensure Compact in as many states as possible. If the FSMB isn't opposed, its [...]
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Natural Compound Doubles Cancer Survival Rates
New evidence on a key nutrient offers hope to cancer patients; will the FDA snuff it out? Action Alert! A new study on annatto-sourced delta-tocotrienol (one of the compounds contained in vitamin E) has showed incredible results for extending the life of ovarian cancer patients. It is a stunning finding that should be hailed as [...]
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NY Times Calls for Universally Mandated Vaccines
This is what happens when a free press seeks to eliminate free choice. Action Alert! A recent editorial piece in The New York Times suggests that more states should enact mandatory vaccination laws, kicking kids out of public and private schools if they do not follow the state's vaccine schedule. That's just one of a [...]
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Want Internal Bleeding? Take Aspirin Every Day
More reasons to avoid this commonly prescribed drug. Action Alert! A new study published in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) found that those taking a daily aspirin are at increased risk of experiencing severe and potentially fatal internal bleeding. The study analyzed 13 randomized clinical trials involving 164,225 participants with no history [...]
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New Super-Vaccine Approved
Here's what you need to know about the new 6-in-1 jab that's Pharma's latest coup. Action Alert! Merck and Sanofi have teamed up to produce a 6-in-1 combo vaccine to market in the US. Despite the death of six infants in clinical trials and other evidence of dangerous side effects, the FDA has given the [...]
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EPA Actively Deceiving Public on Glyphosate
New analysis shows the agency willfully ignored evidence of glyphosate's danger. Action Alert! A former executive director of the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) board on agriculture has published an analysis comparing the World Health Organization's (WHO) and the EPA's evaluation of glyphosate. The WHO famously concluded that glyphosate was a probable carcinogen, while the [...]
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America's Fraudulent Organics Industry
We thought the problem was limited to fraudulent overseas suppliers; but fake organics are also grown in the US, and the USDA is clueless. Action Alert! A Missouri farmer has been charged with ripping off food companies and consumers by falsely marketing more than $140 million worth of corn, soybeans, and wheat as organic. Observers [...]
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USDA Makes GMOs Disappear
It's official: the "mandatory" GMO labeling rule will obscure more than it makes transparent. Action Alert! The USDA has released its final GMO labeling rule, and it's not good. As we feared when the agency released its proposal earlier this year, the so-called GMO labeling law will apply only to a narrow set of foods. [...]
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FDA Flouting Congress on Pain-Relieving CBD
While Congress gives CBD the green light, FDA still has its stop sign up. Action Alert! For a while now, we've been telling you about the threats to cheap CBD oil. One of those threats has been that the DEA includes hemp and CBD in the definition of marijuana, which is a Schedule 1 drug—that [...]
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Social Media's Assault on Natural Health
Natural health sites are under attack. It's time to fight back. Action Alert! The internet has profoundly changed how humans communicate and receive information. It allows disparate individuals to form communities around shared interests. It is a new kind of forum where ideas can be disseminated freely and openly. At least, that's what sites like [...]
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New Flu Vaccine More Dangerous and Less Effective
Why does the CDC continue to push ineffective vaccines to prevent the flu while staying silent on the benefits of natural medicine? Action Alert! The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) recently greenlit the nasal flu vaccine (FluMist) after advising the public to avoid that product for the last two years because it had [...]
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Heart Disease Drugs Cause…Heart Disease
A stunning study reveals the truth about statins. Action Alert! Research published in the journal Atherosclerosis concludes that statin use increases coronary plaques, which limit blood flow and can lead to heart attacks and strokes. Yes, you read that correctly. Statins, medicines meant to prevent cardiovascular disease, are actually causing it. It should be the [...]
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What Do Crowd Control, Burning Skin, Your Street Corner, and Superbugs Have in Common?
The short answer: 5G networks, which are coming to your town. Action Alert! Recently we told you how telecom companies are working with the federal government to eliminate local control over the deployment of 5G networks, which are billed as the next best thing in wireless technology. Recent research pointing to the health implications of [...]
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They Listened: Organics and CBD Get Boost in Farm Bill
Plus, poison provisions removed from final bill. Action Alert! The last few weeks of 2018 have seen some rapid developments for the Farm Bill, the huge piece of legislation that gets passed every four years and allocates almost a billion dollars over ten years. For natural health advocates, there are some good provisions in the [...]
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Banned for Use in War, But OK for Our Crops
Apparently the Geneva Convention doesn’t protect against use in domestic agriculture. Action Alert! Researchers who recently examined studies sponsored by Dow Chemical and used by the EPA to approve chlorpyrifos, a type of insecticide, found inaccuracies in what the company reported to the agency. Worse, there is also evidence that EPA scientists pointed out these [...]
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Fungi Could Be Next Big Threat to Human Health
Another class of medically important medicines is in danger of becoming ineffective—and they're harder to make than antibiotics. Action Alert! We've been telling you about the scourge of antibiotic resistance—when the overuse of antibiotics by doctors and factory farms causes bacteria to become resistant to drugs. Unfortunately, we're heading down the same road with [...]
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2-Minute Warning December 11, 2018
5G : Crowd Control, Burning Skin, Your Street Corner, and Superbugs Banned for Use in War, But OK for Our Crops Fungi Could Be Next Big Threat to Human Health
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Drug Ad Deception
The drug industry is using deceptive practices to circumvent the law and sell you more drugs. Action Alert! We've all seen the drug TV ads: a couple walking together on a peaceful beach, or playing with the family dog in a sunny meadow—and then we get to the appalling list of side effects that, understandably, [...]
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This Loophole Allows Chemicals to Hide In Your Food
We often see "artificial" or "natural" flavors listed among the ingredients on foods we buy, but do consumers know what these terms mean? Action Alert! Recently, the FDA announced that a group of six artificial flavors would no longer be permitted to be used as food additives. They are: synthetically-derived benzophenone, ethyl acrylate, methyl eugenol, [...]
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Mayo Clinic, Cleveland Clinic: Day and Night Different on Diet: Which to Believe?
The Mayo Clinic was once the most trusted name in American medicine. Today trusting them about diet could shorten your life by decades. State-based Action Alerts! First, consider the Mayo Clinic's version of the food pyramid. Fats are near the top of the pyramid, just below sweets. This is a low, indeed an anti-fat diet. [...]
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Crony Deal Between Telecom Giants and Feds to Radiate Your Home
State and local government shut out. Health risks ignored. Action Alert! Telecom companies are preparing to unleash the next wave of wireless technology in neighborhoods across the nation, deployed block by block. The telecoms industry, with an assist by the federal government, is barring the ability of local governments to manage how the new technologies [...]
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Two-Thirds of Americans Drink Industrial Waste Daily
New evidence reveals additional dangers of adding fluoride to drinking water. Action Alert! Fluoride has been added to drinking water in towns across the United States since 1945 for the purpose of improving dental health. Now, 66% of people in the US receive drinking water with added fluoride. Evidence pointing to the dangers of this [...]
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FDA Feeling the Heat on Bioidentical Hormones
Thanks to your activism, the FDA has agreed to study bioidentical hormone replacement therapy. But the threat to hormones still looms. Action Alert! For months now, we've been telling you about the FDA's attack on estriol, progesterone, and other bioidentical hormones that are made for individual patients at specialized pharmacies. Now, thanks to the activism [...]
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EPA to Increase Your Exposure to Radiation and Mercury
New proposals would expose us to more environmental pollutants. Action Alert! It doesn't take much of a scientific background to know that exposure to radiation is bad. Yet a new rule coming out of the EPA at the behest of crony interests will increase the amount of radiation we are exposed to. Another rule will [...]
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FDA Decision Will Likely Increase Cervical Cancer Rates
The HPV vaccine was just approved for adults, despite Merck's concerning research data. Action Alert! It's official: Gardasil 9, Merck's HPV vaccine, has been approved for adults age 27-45. The FDA made its determination in the face of substantial evidence of the dangers of the HPV vaccine and the existence of safer alternatives. We must [...]
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Drug Companies are Stealing from You
…with the help of the federal government and universities. Action Alert! The high cost of prescription drugs has recently made headlines, evidenced by price-gouging schemes that cause drug prices to skyrocket 5,000% (as in the case with the infamous Martin Shkreli and the drug Daraprim) or Mylan's more recent price hike on EpiPen's to over [...]
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FDA Turned Your $10 Supplement into a $40,000 Drug
Help us ensure the supplement form remains available. Action Alert! Earlier this year, we told you about an FDA back-channel that allows drug companies to turn supplements into drugs—and remove the supplement versions from the market. This has happened to a popular and medically important version of vitamin B6 (pyridoxamine), and with the FDA's approval [...]
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More Crony Nutrition Advice on the Way?
It's very likely, unless we can make our voices heard at the FDA. Action Alert! FDA Commissioner Scott Gottlieb announced a new initiative earlier this year called the Nutrition Innovation Strategy. It is a broad-based effort to improve the health of Americans through diet, mainly by improving and updating the information on food labels—including devising [...]
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Qualified Victory for Natural Medicine
The FDA has dialed back a restrictive policy that would severely limit access to individualized natural medicines—but it's not good enough. Action Alert! The FDA has released a revised draft policy relating to customized, natural medicines made at compounding pharmacies. This revised policy demonstrates that the FDA has listened to ANH members and other stakeholders, [...]
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Think You're Buying USA-Raised Meat? Think Again
Where is the meat you're buying really from? Action Alert! Many of us look for the "Product of USA" sticker on the meat we buy in the supermarket, but we may not be aware that the USDA allows meat raised outside the US to carry that label. It's a shameful case of government-sanctioned fraud. Current [...]
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They're Causing Asthma: Does the EPA Care?
Large factory farms are spewing toxic gases into the air that are causing human health problems, but the EPA refuses to act. Action Alert! Imagine stepping onto your front porch to enjoy your morning coffee, but instead of fresh air and sunshine you're met with an overpowering stench of the manure and filth from thousands [...]
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Why Won't EPA Protect the Public from This Cancer Causing Product?
Lawsuits alleging glyphosate caused cancer are allowed to move forward. Action Alert! A California jury recently found Monsanto liable for a groundskeeper's cancer, ordering the company to pay out $289 million. It was the first lawsuit that went to trial alleging that Roundup and other glyphosate-based weedkillers cause cancer. Other research shows that cancer may [...]
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Voices of Freedom: Gretchen DuBeau, Esq.
A lifelong environmentalist and devotee to natural health and healing, Gretchen has found the perfect culmination of her interests at ANH-USA, where she works to shift the current medical paradigm to one that embraces real preventive and integrative medicine as the standard of care. More…
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$32,500 for CBD Oil?
If we don't change a key FDA policy, that's how much you may be forced to pay if you want to purchase CBD oil. Action Alert! For years, consumers have benefitted from access to cheap, safe, and effective CBD oil supplements. But now the FDA says that CBD is a drug, not a supplement—a drug [...]
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Pharma Owns LA Times
The newspaper has been bought by a biotech billionaire, further entrenching Big Pharma's control of the media. From the LA Times: Biotech billionaire Dr. Patrick Soon-Shiong on Monday will take control of the Los Angeles Times and San Diego Union-Tribune, two historic newspapers rooted in Southern California civic life for more than 135 years — [...]
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Did Acid Blockers Put Senator in Hospital?
These OTC drugs cause more problems than they fix. From Fox News: House Minority Whip Steny Hoyer was in the hospital on Wednesday after getting a pneumonia diagnosis a day earlier, and was expected to make a full recovery. The Maryland Democrat, 79, was admitted to George Washington University Hospital on Tuesday with pneumococcal pneumonia, [...]
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Healthcare Price Transparency Gets a Boost
A new Trump administration rule will allow consumers to better understand the prices for hospital procedures. From the Washington Examiner: Hospitals will be required to post the prices they charge for surgeries and other medical procedures online under a new Trump administration rule… Previously, CMS required that hospitals make the information available to anyone who [...]
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FDA to Ban More Supplements?
An advisory committee is meeting to make recommendations to the FDA on whether or not to ban certain supplements from being made at specialized pharmacies. Action Alert! On September 12, the FDA's advisory committee on compounded medicine—medicine made for individual patients at specialized pharmacies—will meet to discuss five ingredients: alpha lipoic acid, CoQ10, creatine monohydrate, pyridoxal [...]
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Say “NO” to Pesticides, and “YES” to CBD!
The 2018 Farm Bill is currently being created from the House and Senate versions. We must make sure bad provisions are eliminated, and good provisions stay in the final bill. Action Alert! Congress is in the process of completing the 2018 Farm Bill, and it is imperative that we ensure that bad provisions that would increase [...]
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Can Homeopathy Be Saved?
The FDA is threatening homeopathy's future. Here's how we can save it. Action Alert! The FDA has proposed a new policy for regulating homeopathy—a policy which is a direct threat to many, many homeopathic medicines. To fully protect consumer access to these treatments, we need Congress to pass a law. Congress and the FDA have [...]
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Voices of Freedom: Zen Honeycutt
Zen Honeycutt, founder of the advocacy group Moms Across America, talks about the reasons why mothers have become such an important advocacy group and how they make their voices heard.
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Will Supplements Be Regulated Along with Drugs?
It's music to the ears of the FDA—but terrible for consumers. We need to tell the administration: supplements under the law are food, not drugs! Action Alert! As we've been telling you, the Trump administration has proposed merging the food safety duties of the US Department of Agriculture (USDA) and the Food and Drug Administration [...]
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BPA-Free, but Not Toxic-Free
Consumers are demanding BPA-free products, but the alternatives are no safer. Action Alert! The word is out about bisphenol-A (BPA), the chemical that is commonly used in drinking containers, children's toys, and other plastic products: it's been linked to diabetes, asthma, cancer, obesity, and altered prostate and neurological development, among other illnesses. Unfortunately, the alternatives [...]
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Are Microwaves Making You Sick?
Some of the latest science says the answer may be "Yes." Action Alert! Wireless internet, cell phones, and smart meters are ubiquitous in the modern world, but some studies have shown that there is reason to be cautious about exposure to microwave radiation (MWR). The federal government, however, is not only asleep at the wheel; [...]
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Voices of Freedom: James S. Turner, Esq
Voices of Freedom, our new video series, features the men and women who help protect your access to natural health. In this inaugural episode, James Turner, one of Nader’s Raiders, gives advice about how to lead a life of activism.
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