Obesity Rate Slows, Yet the Problem Persists

Renew You Challenge Let’s start this week off right! Here is your newest weekly challenge (I mean opportunity!) to help set you off on the right foot and in the right direction for bringing health to your week. You could even add it to your calendar. Join us!   The US...

Dietary Supplement Safety

The American Association of Poison Control Centers recently published their annual report—174 pages documenting 2009 data from all 61 poison control centers across the U.S. In this report, there were no deaths reported from any vitamin, amino acid, herb, or dietary...

FDA Moves to Limit Antibiotic Use in Animals

It’s a scary thing to think about: the meat industry giving antibiotics to livestock in order to increase food production and profit. But it happens all too often, and the result has been a serious impact on human health. Decades of unnecessary drugs being pumped into...

Big Pharma Learns from Natural Medicine – Again!

I came across an interesting article recently in the Journal of Gastroenterology.  The title caught my eye – “Gut Microbes: From Bugs to Drugs”.  I have to share with you a few comments from this article.  Now, this is a mainstream gastroenterology journal.  The...