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02/19/2017 / By Howard Roark

Panera makes good on “cleaner food” promise, dumps all synthetic food additives

In a pacesetting move for its industry, Panera Bread made a promise some time ago to eliminate all artificial ingredients from food items at its restaurants. Now, after considerable effort, they have made good on that pledge. CS Monitor reports that 122 ingredients have been reformulated by Panera, and they have partnered with over 300 […]

02/03/2017 / By Howard Roark

Leaked emails mention aspartame causing holes in brains of mice

WikiLeaks has released a John Podesta email that sheds light on the artificial sweetener aspartame that is anything but sweet. Besides pointing out how gravely dangerous NutraSweet is, the leaked email also shows the treachery involved in getting the adulterant approved as a food ingredient. According to Wise Mind Healthy Body, an email chain was […]

02/01/2017 / By Howard Roark

FDA quietly bans powerful life-saving intravenous Vitamin C

It would be naive to think that the FDA endeavors to protect the public’s health as its primary focus. Indeed, that would be a conflict of interest, as it serves its master, the pharmaceutical industry. Has the Food and Drug Administration engineered a shortage of intravenous vitamin C as part of an overall attack on […]

01/23/2017 / By Howard Roark

Don’t eat food from China labeled “organic” … it’s frequently found to be contaminated

Can you trust Chinese food certified as organic? You cannot. The US Department of Agriculture allows inclusion of the organic label on foods that meet a certain standard of production and handling. And China has come up woefully lacking in these standards. Specific requirements may vary, but the USDA approved methods call for avoidance of […]

01/12/2017 / By Howard Roark

Trial to begin for pharmacist whose contaminated medications made hundreds deathly ill

On January 9th, 2017, lawyers made their opening statements in the murder trial of pharmacist Barry Cadden, owner of New England Compounding Center. CNN reports that the compounding pharmacy sold contaminated vials of the steroid methylprednisolone acetate that in 2012 were injected into the spinal columns of more than 13,000 patients. Subsequently 751 people were […]

01/11/2017 / By Howard Roark

What’s killing Americans? Top 10 prescribed medications of 2016 give us a troublesome answer

‘Let food be thy medicine’ is a saying attributed to Hippocrates, who is known as the Father of Modern Medicine. We would be well off to heed his advice, but by and large, we do not, for it is the Standard American Diet that is making us sick. A look at the most often prescribed […]

01/06/2017 / By Howard Roark

Desk jobs, fast food and the daily grind contribute to middle-aged health crisis

Public Health England (PHE) has a mission to inform its citizens that the typical modern lifestyle is ruining health. PHE is part of the Department of Health in the United Kingdom. BBC reveals an astounding statistic: Eight in every 10 people aged 40 to 60 in England are overweight, drink too much or get too little […]

01/05/2017 / By Howard Roark

Full-fat cream and cheese found to actually reduce risk of heart disease, study finds

Health and nutrition information we receive from the mainstream media often turns out to be incorrect, to such an extent that even to regular readers of Natural News, it’s really hard to know what to believe. One of the most pervasive and flawed paradigms in the field of nutrition is that saturated fats are unhealthful […]

01/01/2017 / By Howard Roark

Secondhand smoke endangers pets, raises their risk of cancer

Secondhand smoke is hazardous not only for non-smoking children and adults, but for pets as well. A new FDA Consumer Update entitled Secondhand (and Third-Hand) Smoke May Be Making Your Pet Sick details yet more reasons to quit smoking. A less informed era If you are middle-aged or older, chances are very good that as you […]

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