Vitamin D’s Protective Effects on both Seasonal and H1N1 Influenza

From Homefirst Health Services
The reason why public health officials are worried about the current H1N1 flu pandemic1, is the fear that there will be a recurrence of the great flu outbreak of 1918 which killed millions of people.  It is this fear that has prompted them to come out with a swine flu/H1N1 vaccine.  This [...]

Will real health reform ever happen in America?

By Mike Adams
When it comes to affordable, effective health care reform in America, there’s only one question that really needs to be asked right now: What works?
In other words, what works to keep people healthy? What’s affordable, safe and supports the long-term health of the population? What’s available right now that can help people get [...]

Despite Anti-Vitamin D Bias, CDC Stumbles on Deficiency Link to H1N1 Deaths

By Dr. Joseph Mercola
So far, Swine flu, H1N1, has killed thirty-six children in U.S. and analysis of CDC data indicates Vitamin D deficient children at higher risk of death.
The CDC did not realize they discovered this. However, anyone familiar with the Vitamin D literature will recognize it.
Almost two-thirds of the dead children had epilepsy, cerebral [...]

GMO Scandal: The Long Term Effects of Genetically Modified Food in Humans

by F. William Engdahl*

One of the great mysteries surrounding the spread of GMO plants around the world since the first commercial crops were released in the early 1990’s in the USA and Argentina has been the absence of independent scientific studies of possible long-term effects of a diet [...]

Secret FDA Memos Reveal Concerns About Genetically Modified Foods (GMOs)

Food Is Power and the Powerful Are Poisoning Us

By Chris Hedges
Our most potent political weapon is food. If we take back our agriculture, if we buy and raise produce locally, we can begin to break the grip of corporations that control a food system as fragile, unsafe and destined for collapse as our financial system. If we continue to allow corporations to determine [...]

Hypnotized Frogs Cooking in the Alphabet Soup

By Les Visible
Today I went to the MSM for a quick trip through the headlines. I can wake up in the morning with the voices of distant angels ringing in my ears… shoehorning back into my body, into this lodestone for the material realm. The music fades with my first cup of tea and… no [...]

Marketers Answer Call to Eliminate High-Fructose Corn Syrup

By Emily Bryson York and Natalie Zmuda
First it was fat, then it was trans fat, and now it’s corn syrup.
Consumers are asking manufacturers to remove ingredients they believe are harmful, and high-fructose corn syrup is near the top of many a mother’s hit list. Some major manufacturers have responded by removing the offending syrup, and [...]

Monsanto to Charge as Much as 42% More for New Seeds

By Jack Kaskey
Aug. 13 (Bloomberg) — Monsanto Co., the world’s largest seed maker, plans to charge as much as 42 percent more for new genetically modified seeds next year than older offerings because they increase farmers’ output.
Roundup Ready 2 Yield soybeans will cost farmers an average of $74 an acre in 2010, and original Roundup [...]

The Rumsfeld Plague: Aspartame Brings Horror

By Hesh Goldstein
The aspartame horror began in 1981 due to Donald Rumsfeld, as head of the G.D. Searle pharmaceutical company, when he used his political clout to put a known carcinogen on the market to poison a nation all in the name of money.
In a Washington Post article of December 12, 2001 about Donald Rumsfeld, [...]