politics

“The Weight of the Nation”: Documentary Sends the Wrong Message

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This week, a new documentary about the obesity crisis premieres on HBO. It’s called “Weight of the Nation”. And it’s take-home message is wrong, wrong, wrong. You’ll be hearing a lot about this documentary, if you haven’t already. And with good reason. It’s the result of an unprecedented collaboration between the three major public-health institutions [...]

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Revamped School Lunch Menus a Mixed Bag

If you’ve ever stepped foot in a school cafeteria, you likely bore witness to the chicken nuggets, tater tots, and other Frankenfoods that somehow pass for nourishment for our kids. Recently the government gave a much-needed cleanup to federally subsidized school lunches for the first time in 15 years. Many critics, along with First Lady [...]

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New Cholesterol Guidelines: Utter Madness

Usually I try to write these newsletter articles with a modicum of objectivity and fairness, checking my passion at the gate. But this latest travesty from the Cholesterol Establishment is simply too much to take sitting down. On Nov 11, The National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute issued new guidelines on cholesterol. They now advise [...]

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FDA Trying To Take Away Your Right To Buy Supplements!

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has recently commenced a new assault against the dietary supplement industry – one that could… threaten the availability of supplements currently on the market discourage manufacturers from innovating new and more beneficial products in the future In July, the agency issued a draft Guidance document which sets forth its [...]

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FDA Says Walnuts Are Illegal Drugs!

The following article was written by William Faloon, editor of Life Extension Magazine. Mr. Faloon has been a tireless advocate for consumers in the area of health. This article is so important, we felt it imperative to publish it in its entirety so that you can see what the government is up to when it [...]

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What the Heck is Coenzyme Q10 Anyway?

Coenzyme Q10 just might be the most important energy nutrient you’ve never heard of. It’s not a vitamin and not a mineral, but it’s found in every cell in your body. It was first discovered in 1957 by two different researchers working in completely different parts of the world—Frederick Crane, PhD, of Wisconsin, who isolated [...]

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Book Review: “Sugar Nation”

As you know, I don’t often do book reviews, but once in a while a book comes along that is so important that I just have to tell you about it. Gary Taube’s brilliant, Why We Get Fat was one such book. The one I’m about to discuss- Sugar Nation—is another. There have been a [...]

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More Big Brother Tactics from the FDA

The following editorial appeared in the Townsend Newsletter for Doctors and Patients and was written by my good friend, nutritional medicine guru Alan Gaby, MD The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has a long history of causing needless human suffering by restricting the availability of safe and effective natural remedies. Now they have outdone [...]

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