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N.Y. Times News Report: Most Sunscreens Don't Work - Does Yours?

An investigation of nearly 1,000 brand-name sunscreen products finds that 4 out of 5 contain chemicals that may pose health hazards or don't adequately protect skin from the sun's damaging rays. Some of the worst offenders are leading brands like Coppertone, Banana Boat, and Neutrogena: Sunscreen Ratings by Environmental Working Group

High Cholesterol Good! High Cholesterol Slows Memory Loss

A British study of 3,700 people found that at age 55, people with low HDL cholesterol had a 27% higher risk of memory loss.

At age 60 those with low HDL cholesterol had a 53% higher risk of memory loss than those with high "good" HDL cholesterol levels.

Total levels of cholesterol and triglycerides had no association with memory decline. "Good" Cholesterol Slows Memory Decline * Brain Science: What's Good for the Heart's Good for the Brain *

Children: Insomnia and Cellphone Use Linked for Teens

The more children or teens use their cellphones, the more they have trouble falling asleep, have disrupted sleep, stress, restlessness and fatigue. Insomnia and Cellphones Linked * Insomnia: Why Catch 8 Hours of Sleep? * Sleep: Natural Discoveries for Better Sleep *

Women Unaware of Fatal Heart Attack Symptoms

Women, more often than men, experience heart attack symptoms such as extreme or unexplained fatigue, nausea and vomiting, shoulder pain, jaw pain, headaches and muscle spasms. Heart Disease Causes Death of 41% of Women, 37% of Men * Statins e.g. Lipitor not Effective for Healthy Men, Women & People over 70?

Breast Feeding Improves IQ in Children

Children who are breast fed exclusively for three months do better in verbal, non-verbal and overall intelligence tests and have significantly higher academic ratings in reading and writing at the age of six than those who received formula. Large Study: Breast Feeding Improves IQ * Doctors Change Rules for Breast Feeding

Drug Company Fudges Science: Merck's Clinical Trials

Court documents reveal that Merck hired "ghost writers" to design, conduct and write up the results of Vioxx studies and then found academics or physicians willing to put their names on the papers before submitting them to journals for publication. "This casts doubt on the integrity of medical science," says Catherine DeAngelis, editor of JAMA. How Merck Misrepresented Risks * Arthritis Pain and the Immune

Eating Bad Carbs Can Cause Blindness

Preventing poor eyesight and Macular Degeneration as you get older may be as simple as cutting out white bread, white rice, sugar and high glycemic index foods, say researchers at Tufts University. * About Bad Carbs and the Glycemic Index * Nutrition for Preventing Macular Degeneration, Glaucoma and Cataracts *

Antidepressants Not as Good as Reported

The effectiveness of antidepressants has been exaggerated because the good news is published but the bad news is not. * Antidepressant Effectiveness Overstated * Hormone Disruptors Linked to Weight Gain Epidemic *

How To Know The Products You Buy are Really "Green?"

When buying your shampoo, your food, toys or a printer, how do you tell genuine environmental claims from "green-washing?"

Look for certifications such as ECO-LOGO on products that are really good for the environment -- products that have their environmental claims properly backed up rather than "green-washed:" How To Recognize the "Six Sins of Greenwashing"

Is Your Prescription Based on Research or Promo?

Researchers find that drug companies spend their money on promo to doctors, and that the more doctors heed the promo, the more their judgment is affected when they write prescriptions. Drug companies have their eye on their share holders, not on research or on your health. * $57- billion Cost of Pushing Pills * Overlooked Nutrition Discovery Restores Health *

Flouride Harmful After All: Scientific American

After 3 years of scrutinizing hundreds of studies, a National Research Council (NRC) committee "concluded that fluoride can subtly alter endocrine function, especially in the thyroid -- the gland that produces hormones regulating growth and metabolism." John Doull, professor emeritus of pharmacology and toxicology atthe University of Kansas Medical Center, who chaired the NRC committee thusly, reports that "The thyroid changes do worry me." Reuters: Second Thoughts About Flouride * Thyroid Disrupting Foods and Chemicals

Gene Therapy for Chronic Pain in Mice

Researchers use gene therapy to stop pain signals before they reach the brain, at Mount Sinai School of Medicine in New York, by simulating the pain-killing effect of opiate drugs. While this genetic therapy is not available for people, see instead, discoveries for re-storing health from chronic pain.

Lack of Vitamin D Doubles Heart Disease Risk and Causes Seizures

Moderate vitamin D deficiency nearly doubles the risk of myocardial infarction, stroke and heart failure in patients with high blood pressure, according to Harvard researchers.

And Vitamin D deficiency still persists in babies, say doctors, which can trigger seizures, and if prolonged, can result in brain damage. * Most Overlooked Vitamin for Preventing and Curing Disease *

Yet Another Study Links Diabetes Drug to Heart Attack and Death

Many risks have been found for the drug Avandia (GlaxoSmithKline) in older people with diabetes. Dr. Curt Furbeg, professor of public health sciences at Wake Forest University School of Medicine says that in his view we don't need this drug, because the bad news is that it:

1)more than doubles the risk of heart failure, 2) doubles the risk of fractures in women, 3) increases heart attacks by 40% and 4)in some cases, causes blindness. See Lorraine Lipscombe, a lead author of an Avandia study at the Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences: Risk of Heart Failure Increased by 60% with Avandia * Diabetes Drug Unsafe: Studies, NYT * Researchers Find New Diabetes Cures *

Cough Medicine Recalled, but Researchers Find a Better Home Remedy

Why has there been a call for a complete ban of cough medicine for children age 6 and under by an expert panel of the U.S. FDA, and what are researchers recommending instead? Home Remedies for A Child�s Cough Flus Colds and Asthma?

Health Alert: Toxicity of Parkinsons Drugs

A �Second Set� of symptoms for Parkinsons Disease has been identified by researchers and doctors. While the drugs used to treat Parkinsons Disease are successful in providing the missing dopamine in the brain, eventually there is a toxic build-up caused by the drugs, resulting in a serious second set of symptoms which often lead to death. This toxic build-up is preventable say researchers:

� Parkinsons �Second Set of Symptoms� Treatment Found *

Health Breakthrough: Closer to Breast Cancer Cure

Big new pieces of the puzzle have been found that explain why breast cancer rates are so much higher in the developed world and away from the equator. Scientists are revealing simple ways to prevent and treat breast cancer based on these dramatic health discoveries:

� Finally Solving Breast Cancer? Major Discoveries for Breast Cancer Prevention and Treatment *

Health Alert: Low-Dose Chemicals in Most Plastics Disrupt Hormones

Not just toys from China! Scientists raise the alarm about the safety of hidden chemicals in toys, soda cans, shampoos & most food containers.

� Find out about the most toxic plastics: # 3 # 5 and # 7: �Low-dose Toxicity� of hormone-disrupting plastics

Health Breakthrough: Degenerative Diseases Stopped and Reversed

Nutritional and lifestyle strategies for reversing and preventing disease are being proven by scientists and people world-wide. You will want to know about:

� Nutrition Against Macular Degeneration Cataracts & Glaucoma * Diabetes: Researchers Find Diabetes Cures * Auto immune Disease: Reducing Pain Inflammation & Meds * Alzheimers Disease And Prevention: Exciting New Approaches *

Health Alert: Addictive Anxiety and Sleeping Pills

Anti anxiety and sleeping meds are addictive even though there are plenty of safe, non pharmaceutical ways to improve your sleep and get over anxiety.

� Scientists Sound the Alarm About Addictive Sleeping Pills and Meds * Why Catch 8 Hours of Sleep? * Natural Discoveries for Better Sleep *

Health Alert: Doctors Urge New Rules for Infant Feeding

For a stronger immune, less asthma, fewer allergies and later-life health problems, doctors are urging breast milk only for the fists six months of life -- not even cereals -- but ONLY breast feeding.

Health Breakthrough: Simple Heart Health For Life Without Meds

Scientists are showing that diet and lifestyle are as good as or better than heart meds. With diet and exercise they are getting people off of their medication in as little as three weeks:

� What Nutrition Helps Heart Health Compared to Meds? * Better Predictor than High Cholesterol Found * Discoveries For Heart Surgery Nutrition *

Health Alert: Brain Strokes Caused by Warfarin

People rarely understand the trade-offs they are making by taking high-cholesterol drugs such as Lipitor, Zocor, and �blood thinners� such as Warfarin, which are increasingly causing bleeding and brain strokes:

� Brain Strokes Found To Be Warfarin Side Effects *

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