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Avoid This Before Bed if You Want a Good Night's Sleep

A trial gave 100 postmenopausal women with insomnia either 530 mg of concentrated valerian extract or placebo twice daily for four weeks. Sleep quality improved in 30 percent of the valerian group against 4 percent on placebo, a statistically significant difference.

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Why are They Raising a Fuss Over Raw Milk When these Infections are FAR Worse?

Mercola sets the FDA's campaign against raw milk, tied to more than 800 illnesses since 1998, or about 61 a year, against Cargill's recall of 36 million pounds of salmonella-contaminated ground turkey, which infected nearly 80 people in 26 states and killed one.

Aug 22, 2011

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The Shocking Truth About Freshly Squeezed Orange Juice

Industrially produced orange juice sits in deoxygenated holding tanks for up to a year, which keeps it from spoiling but strips its flavor, so companies add engineered 'flavor packs' to restore it. Because those packs derive from orange essence and oil, they need not appear on the label.

Aug 16, 2011

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This Popular Supplement Can Spike Your Heart Attack Risk by 30%...

An analysis reported in the British Medical Journal found a 30 percent higher risk of myocardial infarction among people taking 500 mg or more of elemental calcium, leading its authors to call for a reassessment of calcium supplements in osteoporosis management.

Aug 15, 2011

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Eating Fat Won't Make You Fat but These 10 Things Will

Mercola passes on Yahoo Health's list of habits that add weight, among them eating “low-fat” foods, drinking one or two sodas a day including diet, eating too fast or after 8 PM, sleeping too little or too much, using larger plates and taking big bites.

Aug 8, 2011

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The 9 Foods the U.S. Government is Paying You to Eat

The federal government paid US farmers $12.3 billion in 2009. Mercola cites The Atlantic's list of the most heavily subsidized products, led by corn at over $77 billion from 1995 to 2010, and argues the subsidies let junk food undersell nutritious food.

Aug 3, 2011

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The Case Against Drinking 6-8 Glasses of Water a Day

Scottish GP Margaret McCartney calls the advice to drink six to eight cups of water daily “thoroughly debunked nonsense” pushed by bottled water firms. Other experts told the Los Angeles Times the answer varies by person and that most people do well drinking when thirsty.

Aug 1, 2011

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Another Reason to Ditch Your Non-Stick Cookware

Blood samples from California women in the 1960s, 1980s and 2009 showed PFOS at the highest concentration in every period, and roughly a tenfold rise in PFOA from the 1960s to the 1980s. Longer-chain perfluorocarboxylic acids built up continuously through 2009.

Jul 30, 2011

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The Studies You Should Never, Ever Believe

Two reports published days apart reach opposite conclusions on whether microwave radiation harms health. Mercola notes the one finding no brain tumor link came from authors funded by mobile industry groups and holding telecom shares, who still declared no conflict of interest.

Jul 28, 2011

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This Substance Fools Your Metabolism - and Tricks Your Body into Gaining Pounds

Fooducate's read of the annual Trust for America's Health obesity report: adult obesity rose in 16 states over the past year and fell in none, twelve states now exceed 30 percent, Mississippi leads at 34.4 percent, and only Colorado stayed below 20 percent.

Jul 26, 2011

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Who Knew this Cocktail of up to 20 Chemicals Was in Your Glass of Milk?

Spanish and Moroccan researchers using a sensitive test found traces of as many as 20 drugs and hormones in samples of cow, goat and human breast milk, the most in cow's milk. Among them were the anti-inflammatories niflumic acid, mefenamic acid and ketoprofen, and 17-beta-estradiol.

Jul 26, 2011

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Pesticides in Your Toothpaste and Other Legal Dangers

The piece reports that triclosan, the antibacterial in Colgate Total toothpaste, breaks down into chloroform in tap water and dioxin in the environment, impairs thyroid function and shows up in human breast milk, urine and blood, and it questions drug and pesticide residues in meat.

Jul 25, 2011

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When It Comes to Fruits and Vegetables, Which Color Is Healthiest? The Winner Is...

Dutch researchers tracked the diets of 20,069 healthy people for 10 years and found deep orange produce carried the biggest benefit: the highest consumers had 26 percent lower heart disease risk, with carrots especially powerful. Published in the British Journal of Nutrition.

Jul 19, 2011

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New Vegan Diets 101 Course (Health Professionals Earn Credit!)

PCRM has posted Vegan Diets 101, an hour-long video by nutrition education director Susan Levin followed by a test at NutritionCME.org. It covers how a vegan diet relates to heart disease, diabetes, obesity and cancer, and is worth one contact hour for nurses, dietitians and physicians.

Jul 11, 2011

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What State Uses More Antibiotics on Livestock Than Entire U.S. on Humans?

Mercola cites a New York Times column noting North Carolina feeds more antibiotics to livestock than the entire U.S. uses for people, and calling for a ban on antibiotics in healthy animals, after Germany's E. coli O104:H4 sprout outbreak.

Jul 9, 2011

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Hidden Documents Reveal CDC Fluoride Support Controlled by Dentists

Documents released under the Freedom of Information Act show that since the 1970s the CDC's Oral Health Division alone has shaped the agency's support for water fluoridation, with no input from its toxicologists, minority health professionals or diabetes experts.

Jul 9, 2011

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Simple Way to Shed Pounds and Decrease Tiredness - Stop Eating This

In 1911 low-quality bread made up 40 percent of the diet of Britain's poor and was blamed for widespread ill health, and refined white flour still holds almost no natural vitamins or minerals. Mercola notes white bread is now more than 50 percent of what Britons buy.

Jun 30, 2011

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New Study: Fluoride Can Damage the Brain – Avoid Use in Children (pr)

A press release from the New York State Coalition Opposed to Fluoridation cites a Neurologia review concluding that prolonged fluoride ingestion may significantly damage health and the nervous system, and urging people to avoid fluoride toothpaste, especially in children.

Jun 23, 2011

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