Health news headlines include problems from too much red meat protein, decoding ancient grain genomes and the wonderful world of our microbiome. As always, there was plenty of interesting news, far too much for one post. So here are my…
Health News Updates
Genetically modified foods New evidence shows that that genetically modified food crops might not be “substantially equivalent” to non-modified crops after all. Up to now, that has been our governments requirement for the sale of GMO foods without any other…
Follow-Up On 3 Health News Stories
Three stories featured in previous health news round-ups have been back in the headlines lately. The new information coming out about statin drugs and a probable “better” replacement for them, glyphosphate-based herbicides and trans-fats is important enough to warrant this…
Health News Alert – AMA Will Try To Restrict What Doctors Say To Public Media
This is timely. Having just published a post a few hours ago about modern medicine’s mishandling the treatment of chronic diseases, now the AMA apparently wants to restrict what doctors can say in the public media. This seems all too…
Health News Headlines For June 2015
More and more studies show solid evidence of the health benefits of eating whole food diets The Mediterranean Diet seems to lower uterine cancer risk in women: http://www.webmd.com/cancer/news/20150527/mediterranean-diet-tied-to-lower-odds-of-uterine-cancer?src=RSS_PUBLIC Fruits have several highly positive effects on health despite a high sugar…
Antibiotic Overuse Is Finally Officially Being Addressed By The US
Antibiotics as food animal dietary supplements “Obama Takes Antibiotic Fight From Pharmacy To Farm” by WebMD.com and “FDA Puts Antibiotics For Food Animals Under Vet’s Supervision” by WebMD.com: http://www.webmd.com/news/20150603/obama-antibiotic-pharmacy-farm?src=RSS_PUBLIC and http://www.webmd.com/food-recipes/20150602/fda-puts-antibiotics-for-food-animals-under-vets-supervision?src=RSS_PUBLIC The US government, through the FDA, is finally beginning…
Recent News About Health
Government Health and Nutrition Research Is Worthless A study by the University of South Carolina has determined that one of the major sources of information used to formulate national policy on disease prevention and nutritional guidelines is not credible. The…
Recent Health News For Thought
Here are some headlines and stories from the world of health research news that caught my eye recently. I always try to fit this kind of news into the bigger picture of what makes us healthy and what has the…