In an interview with raw-food advocate David Wolfe, Mercola argues that reliance on processed food, about 90 percent of what Americans buy each year, drives heart disease, cancer, obesity and diabetes, and that artificial flavors mask its lack of nutrition.
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Comments
STOP! Read This Before Vaccinating for Anything
Barbara Loe Fisher sets out three points for parents weighing vaccination: informed consent is a human right, states have held authority to mandate vaccines since a 1905 Supreme Court ruling, and all 50 states allow medical exemptions, 48 religious ones and 18 personal-belief ones.
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Shocking Facts You Didn’t Realize About Your Food…
Between 1977 and 2002 the share of Americans eating three or more snacks a day rose from 11 percent to 42 percent, and packaged snack sales reached $68 billion in 2008. Mercola ties the shift to over-scheduled children and the death of the family dinner.
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“Sweet Misery: A Poisoned World,” You Can Finally View FREE Online
Mercola announces that Sweet Misery: A Poisoned World, a documentary attacking the artificial sweetener aspartame, is now free online in full. He cites more than 10,000 FDA complaints and a Calorie Control Council survey finding 79 percent of adults still buy sugar-free products.
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Dairy Atrocities Provoke New Laws, Dumped Suppliers
An undercover video shot for Mercy For Animals at New York's largest dairy shows a worker gouging calves' eye sockets while burning off horn buds, and cows left to suffer without veterinary care. Leprino Foods dropped the farm as a supplier at one plant; a state ban on tail docking was proposed.
Opinion
If You Liked Bovine Growth Hormone, You'll love Beta Agonists
Ractopamine, a beta agonist fed to pigs, cattle and turkeys in their final weeks before slaughter, is banned in Europe, Taiwan and China but used in 45 percent of U.S. pigs. Its label warns humans against exposure, and residues stay in meat because there is no withdrawal period.
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After Awful Swine Flu Fiasco How Can You EVER Believe the Media About Health Again?
Dr. Mercola points to the UK government trying to unload a billion pounds of unwanted swine flu vaccine after the predicted epidemic never arrived, and argues the WHO-led warnings, including a forecast that 40 percent of Britons would fall ill, followed a familiar pattern of scares.
Opinion
How Just One Drug than the Entire Vietnam War, Part 1 of 4
Dr. Mercola recounts how he drew his “doctors are the third leading cause of death” headline from a 2000 JAMA article by Barbara Starfield, who later told him she disagreed with that conclusion, and explains why he built his site to challenge conventional medicine.
Opinion
Holiday Dieting--An Oxymoron
Holiday dieting is really caloric relapse and damage control, this humor column argues, running through the familiar excuses -- it happens once a year, tomorrow I'll fast, an extra 7,000 calories won't show -- and the penance waiting on the treadmill.
Comments
Flu Season: Factory Farming Could Cause A Catastrophic Pandemic
Michael Greger of the Humane Society says influenza is the disease to watch because flu viruses are the only known pathogen capable of infecting billions of people within months. He traces the pandemic risk largely to factory farmed meat, though he says accurate prediction is not possible.
Opinion
"Pig Hell" at Pork Supplier Captured On Video
An undercover Mercy For Animals investigator's diary and video from a Country View/Hatfield Quality Meats hog farm document botched captive-bolt killings and piglets still breathing hours after carbon dioxide gassing. MFA says no farm welfare law was broken, because none exists.
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Banana diet, water spray in stores, and diet and cancer
Karen Collins of the American Institute for Cancer Research answers reader questions, saying the Banana Diet's reported results likely come from its other rules rather than bananas, and that grocery store misting of produce has not been shown to reduce nutrient value.
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Are Psychiatric Drugs Necessary?
Medical journalist Robert Whitaker challenged psychiatrist Herbert Meltzer in a televised debate, citing Vermont patients discharged in the 1950s and 1960s, a third of whom had fully recovered 30 years later and had all stopped taking anti-psychotic drugs.
Opinion
More Fruits & Veggies: Talk But No Action
NHANES data show the share of Americans aged 40 to 74 meeting the minimum five daily servings of vegetables and fruit fell from 42 percent in 1988-94 to 26 percent in 2001-06, even though modest increases could pay off substantially in health.
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How sweet it was: AHA says limit sugar intake
The American Heart Association recommends women hold added sugars to about 100 calories, roughly 6 teaspoons a day, and men to 150 calories, about 9 teaspoons, less than one 12-ounce soda. Survey data put average US intake at 22.2 teaspoons a day, with sweetened drinks the leading source.
Letter to Editor
Reader's response: New HoMedics Product Offers Germ Free Water - Restore
A reader's letter to the site introducing HoMedics' Restore water purification system, which pairs a filter for heavy metals and chlorine with UV light to disinfect drinking water.
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Reader's Comment: Chocolate and Heart Attacks
A reader's letter responding to an article on chocolate and heart attacks, recommending a cold-pressed chocolate product she markets and linking to several promotional websites for it.
Comments
Mayo Clinic DEAD Wrong on Diabetic Recommendations
Researchers at North Carolina State and the Mayo Clinic built a computer model weighing each diabetes patient's heart attack and stroke risk against the cost of statins to decide when to start treatment. Mercola answers the timing question with a flat never.
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