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How Microwaving Your Food Can Damage Your Health

Using a microwave every once in a while may be convenient. But if you are trying to cook healthy foods, there's no place for radiation, especially if you take into account the potential cumulative effect of ingesting traces of those dangerous materials week after week, month after month, year after year... eventually it all adds up.

Have You Been Caught Out By The Salmon Scam?

The demand for fish has become so intense that HALF of all commercial seafood is now raised on fish farms. And unfortunately, some of the "aquaculture" techniques used on those farms are as deplorable as anything you'd find in a factory farm on dry land. So before you buy your next fish, there are three things you must know...

Are You Suffering From This Silent Epidemic?

The next time you're in a crowded space — at the supermarket filled with holiday shoppers, at a football game, in a busy restaurant — take a look around and consider this: One in every four people you see has a disease called non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) and most of them have no idea they have it because they have no symptoms. In fact, most of them have probably never even heard of it. What's MOST disturbing, is that you might be included in that one-in-four.

Protect Against Shingles Without Being Vaccinated

If you had chicken pox as a child, then you're at risk of developing a case of shingles. Long after the chicken pox is gone, the virus that caused it (varicella zoster virus, VZV) lies dormant in nerve roots. VZV may rest quietly there for all your days. But for people whose immune systems are compromised by stressful events or immunity-suppressing drugs, VZV may suddenly come roaring back as a case of shingles. The shingles vaccine (known as Zostavax) was approved by the American Food and Drug Administration (FDA) in 2006, and in the European Union (EU), in 2007. However, you know how it goes... in terms of what we know about adverse side effects, this vaccine is still brand spanking new, despite the fact that it is being used on people.

Vitamin B6 Reduces The Risk of Colorectal Cancer

A recent study that linked aspirin with a reduced risk of colorectal cancer. First — the study only included patients with Lynch syndrome, a condition that sharply increases colorectal cancer risk. So while aspirin may have protected some Lynch syndrome patients from colorectal cancer, those results can't be extrapolated to the general population. Second — subjects in the study received 600mg of aspirin daily. And that's a long LONG way from the 81mg low dose that's commonly recommended for heart benefits. Those extra 519mg per day would dramatically increase risk of stomach bleeding, heart attack, and stroke — three known side effects caused by regular use of non-steroidal anti- inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs), which includes aspirin. So let's come back down to earth with the "breakthrough" research that does not offer the average person a reasonable way to help prevent colorectal cancer.

How Safe Are Mammograms? The Myths Uncovered...

Mammograms are not safe. Compression of the breast may prompt cancer to spread. And then theres the radiation. In his book, Radiation from Medical Procedures in the Pathogenesis of Cancer and Ischemic Heart Disease, John Gofman, M.D., Ph.D. – a nuclear physicist and a medical doctor, and one of the leading experts in the world on the dangers of radiation – presents compelling evidence, that over 50 percent of the death-rate from cancer is in fact induced by x-rays. Dr. Gofman also continues to say that mammogram delivers about 1,000 times more radiation than a chest x-ray and carries a risk of cardiovascular damage... This has also been verified and well-researched by the world renowned Dr. Joseph Mercola.

Is This The End Of Resveratrol?

Last week, it came to light that Dr. Dipak K Das, director of the Cardiovascular Research Center at the University of Connecticut, in the US, allegedly doctored the results of at least 26 peer-reviewed resveratrol studies, over a period of seven years. The University launched a probe of Das in 2008, after an anonymous tipster alerted the US Office of Research Integrity. The university review board concluded that Das manipulated research data in at least 145 instances, which was cited in 26 prestigious medical journals.