January 30, 2010 – 10:27 am
For those of you who are concerned about health conditions such as, breast and prostate cancer, sexual development abnormalities, and now heart disease, linked to the packaging additive bisphenol A (BPA), there is promising news for you: Earlier this month, the FDA reversed its stance on the chemical, saying it is now “taking reasonable steps [...]
November 16, 2009 – 2:41 pm
To think that cigarette smoking among adults is on a steady decline and has been since the 70′s or 80′s is actually false. Check out some of this new data: For the first time in 15 years, cigarette smoking slightly rose this year. About 21% of U.S. adults said that they smoked. This report comes [...]
October 15, 2009 – 5:22 pm
Sometimes you’ve just got to do more organically than Western society would want you to. No, I don’t mean nutritionally. I mean spontaneously, without bureaucracy and licensing and legal prep. Organic has so many meanings…and this is the abridged story of Kirsten Hoppe, who organically sells organic soup. Illegally. In San Francisco. (Yes, some things [...]
The US Federal Department of Agriculture (FDA) is trying to censure all companies producing natural product remedies which are labeled as being effective in treating the H1N1 influenza virus, otherwise known as swine flu. The situation appears to be getting so intense that the FDA is putting out notices against these companies, saying” “Firms that [...]
Dietary health supplements containing a nutritional health supplement called hydroxycut have been un increased pressure lately by the US Federal Drug Administration (FDA), with even the watchdog health administration calling for a full recall of all products containing in. Hydroxycut, manufactured and sold by a company named Lovate Health Sciences Inc. have been marketed as [...]
