Wendy Hinckley on Surprise E-Cigarettes DangerousJamie, I think the point is that they are far less dangerous than traditional cigs and it seems most people's...
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U.S. Recommendation for Vitamin D and Calcium Supplementation is Too Low
by William B. Grant, Ph.D. Government Gets it Wrong Again The U.S. Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF) reviewed the evidence regarding vitamin D and calcium supplementation for preventing cancer and osteoporotic fractures in adults and concluded that there is insufficient evidence to assess the balance of the benefits and harms of vitamin...
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Clamping Down on Nutritional Information
In Europe, You'd Better Watch What You Say about Supplements Commentary by Gert Schuitemaker, PhD (Netherlands) and Andrew W. Saul (USA) The government of the Netherlands, one of 27 European Union countries, continues to clamp down on alternative medicine. The Netherlands Food and Consumer Product Safety Authority (NVWA, http://www.vwa.nl/english) has the tools...
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Niacin is the Safest and Most Effective Way to Control Cholesterol
But You'd Never Know it from the Media. The health benefits of niacin are again being challenged. Why? The simple answer is to follow the money. Cholesterol-controlling drugs are cash cows for the trillion-dollar-per-year pharmaceutical industry. Niacin is cheap, non-prescription and safe. Drugs are much more dangerous and considerably less effective....
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Vitamin D isthe Most Popular Vitamin
by William B. Grant, Ph.D. There were 3600 publications with vitamin D in the title or abstract in 2012 according to PubMed.gov. This brings the total number of publications on vitamin D listed at PubMed to 33,800 (http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed). This total compares to 35,100 on vitamin C or ascorbic acid, 21,700 on...
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Cataracts and Vitamins: The Real Story
by Damien Downing, MBBS, MSB, and Robert G. Smith, PhD (OMNS Mar 5, 2013) "Hidden danger of everyday supplements is revealed" blared the headline in the UK Daily Mail - a newspaper that is well known for declaring that, for example, "coffee causes cancer" and "coffee reduces cancer risk" on...
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What Really Causes Kidney Stones (And Why Vitamin C Does Not)
A recent widely-publicized study claimed that vitamin C supplements increased the risk of developing kidney stones by nearly a factor of two. The study stated that the stones were most likely formed from calcium oxalate, which can be formed in the presence of vitamin C (ascorbate), but it did not...
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Are Tropical Fish in Danger of Getting Kidney Stones from Vitamin C?
They Make So Much More than the RDA Commentary by Andrew W. Saul, Editor Once again, the possibly over-medicated media are trying to scare you off vitamin C supplements. Not to worry: this happens every now and then. In my 37 years in the natural health arena, I have observed that the...
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So Where Are the Bodies?
Vitamin Supplement Safety Confirmed by America's Largest Database The new annual report of the American Association of Poison Control Centers shows zero deaths from multiple vitamins; zero deaths from vitamin A, niacin, vitamin B-6, vitamin D, or vitamin E. Two people are alleged to have died from vitamin supplements in the year...
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Reduce Cancer Risk WIth Daily Multivitamin
Even Low-Dose Supplementation Would Save 48,000 Lives Annually by Robert G. Smith, PhD A major new health study published online last week found that everyday multivitamin supplements lower your risk of cancer by 8%. This important result confirms what nutritionists and medical researchers have known over the past 50 years, that supplements...
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Food Supplements Restrictions are Based on Misinformation
An alert from Europe to the rest of the world by Gert Schuitemaker, PhD Introduction: "It can't happen here" qualifies for top placement on the all-time list of famous last words. The United States still has, for now, over-the-counter access to nutritional supplements. But no one who reads newspapers, watches televised...
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The Health Hazards of Disease Prevention: Vaccines
A Personal Viewpoint by Damien Downing, M.D., London, U.K. "No pharmaceutical drug is devoid of risks from adverse reactions and vaccines are no exception. Vaccination is a medical intervention and should be carried out with the informed consent of those who are being subjected to it." (Dr. Lucija Tomljenovic, University of...
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End Fluoridation Say Physicians and Scientists
Available Online Video Archive Features Experts Speaking Out in Their Own Words Opposition to water fluoridation is not new. It started back in the 1940's. The number of experts opposing the practice appears to be at all-time high. Some of this...
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Two Vitamin C Tablets Every Day Could Save 200,000 Lives Every Year
Recent research has reported that risk of heart failure decreases with increasing blood levels of vitamin C . Persons with the lowest plasma levels of ascorbate had the highest risk of heart failure, and persons with the highest levels of vitamin C had the lowest risk of heart failure. According to...
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Public Library Censors Nutritional Research
U.S. National Library of Medicine is Biased and Taxpayers Pay for It. Commentary by Andrew W. Saul, Editor Most medical journals are easy to access on the internet through a huge electronic database known as Medline or PubMed. (http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sites/entrez or http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed) This...
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Evidence-Based Medicine: Neither Good Evidence nor Good Medicine
by Steve Hickey, PhD and Hilary Roberts, P Evidence-based medicine (EBM) is the practice of treating individual patients based on the outcomes of huge medical trials. It is, currently the self-proclaimed gold standard for medical decision-making, and yet it is increasingly unpopular with clinicians. Their reservations reflect an intuitive understanding that...
