Posted April 4, 2018
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We Gather the News You Need to Stay Informed!
By being aware, you can bring about effective change. You have busy schedules, so we scan major advocacy news sites to keep you informed about important legislation that could restrict your health freedom.
By being aware, you can bring about effective change. You have busy schedules, so we scan major advocacy news sites to keep you informed about important legislation that could restrict your health freedom.
Supply Chain Problems Will Persist Because The System Is Being Sabotaged
In a recent interview with Bloomberg, the executive vice president of UPS asserted that “regionalization” of the supply chain is critical to economic stability as geopolitcal conflicts expand. The word “regionalization” is basically a code word to describe decentralization, a concept which the UPS representative obviously did not want to dive into directly. Read more.
FDA Working to Stifle Lab Testing Options
Another dangerous policy has been slipped into legislation that must pass Congress by the end of September. Action Alert! For months now, we’ve been telling you about the dangers of mandatory product registration for supplements; one key threat is that this policy has been snuck into the reauthorization of drug user fees which must be approved by the end of September. Read more.
5 Health Benefits of Golden Milk
NYT’s Supplement Vendetta is Getting Old
Frightening conclusions are being drawn from a flawed vitamin D study. Action Alert! You can almost see the smile on the reporter’s face at The New York Times who wrote the headline: “Study Finds Another Condition That Vitamin D Pills Don’t Help.” The study on which the article is based did indeed conclude that vitamin D supplementation did not reduce the risk of bone fractures compared to placebo. Read more.
New Bill to Remove FDA Control Over Supplements
A new bill would take food and supplements out of the FDA’s jurisdiction under a new food safety agency. We are cautiously optimistic, but there are concerns. Action Alert! The new bill, introduced by Sen. Dick Durbin (D-IL), Sen. Richard Blumenthal (D-CT), and Rep. Rose DeLauro (D-CT), moves all of the FDA’s food safety authorities, which include dietary supplements, to a newly-created Food Safety Administration. This would be a very positive move, as we’ve long argued that the FDA has a massive conflict of interest in regulating drugs and supplements, which are competitors, while FDA receives substantial funding from the drug industry. Read more.
Why There is No Such Thing as ‘Safe’ Tap Water
Despite being at the top of the global food chain and industrial developmental ladder, the United States has a poor track record for delivering uncontaminated drinking water to the public. Even the nicest restaurants are guilty of serving you directly from the tap. It’s time to get real about the ‘tap water problem,’ one of the most significant vectors of toxicity of our age… Read more.
COVID-19 Mystery: Why Some People Get It and Others Don’t
All of the things that someone would do if they wanted to contract COVID, I unknowingly did all of those things before I knew that he had it. We drink from the same water bottle, I finished his food for him, we’d take naps together… he accidentally coughs in my face. I tested negative six times, and with each subsequent time that I would test negative I would just think this is unbelievable, and I challenged science to explain this. Read more.
Aged Garlic Extract for Heart Health
With garlic’s long history of use as traditional medicine, the health benefits of garlic are well known to both healers and the health conscious. Hippocrates himself is believed to have prescribed garlic for ailments like parasites, digestive problems and fatigue, among other maladies. Read more.
Why Eat Local Food? 10 Reasons to Consume More Locally Grown Food
Locally grown and raised food has been in the spotlight more and more over the past few years, but folks who want to buy local do face some challenges. For example, it’s not always as easy to find locally produced food as it might be to walk down the produce aisle at the local grocery store. This means that finding local food may take a little more effort, requiring special trips to the local farmer’s market, hunting down farm stands, searching online, and the like. Read more.
New 2,4-D and Dicamba Data
MU weed scientists, who led the charge on early investigations of dicamba volatility and temperature inversions, have now turned some of their attention to 2,4-D-choline as its use on 2,4-tolerant Enlist crops ramps up. Here are four big takeaways for farmers to keep in mind for the 2021 spray season: Read more.
