That buttery aroma that fills the room when you open that flavored popcorn may be the smell of your lungs dying.
The concern about the flavoring has been around since the early 1990s when workers in the mid-west handling the flavoring began to contract a debilitating disease, bronchiolitis obliterans, that quickly destroys the [...]

In the United States, about one in every 750 babies is born with cleft lip and/or palate. A new study finds that women who take folic acid supplements early in their pregnancy can substantially reduce their baby’s chances of being born with a facial cleft.
Researchers at the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS), [...]

Australia’s famous Great Barrier Reef could be dead within decades because of the effects of global warming, according to a leaked report.
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The New Mexico Legislator is taking the lead on the fight to ban Aspartame. Although he FDA continues to call the artificial sweetener “safe”, the claim has been disputed by medical researchers for years , and the sweetener is banned in Canada and from children’s products in the European Common Market.
Aspartame is made of 3 [...]

A new study provides more evidence that lifestyle changes can significantly reduce cancer risk. Eating good whole grains may reduce breast cancer risk in pre-menopausal women by 50%. Of course, we suggest you make that grain organic to reduce the pesticide load on your body.
The new research was done at [...]

A first-of-its-kind study published Jan. 29 in the Annals of Family Medicine raises serious questions about all those drug ads that are clogging up the airways.
Currently, the United States and New Zealand are the only developed countries that permit direct-to-consumer television advertising of prescription drugs. The government of New Zealand is considering an [...]

As the epidemic of dementia spreads in the older population, an important new pilot study has found that using acupressure can significantly to help manage agitated behavior in dimentia patients
The study is in the February issue of the Journal of Clinical Nursing. According to the researchers at the National Yang-Ming University in Taiwan, “Participants [...]

Reuters 1/27/2007 - Artemisinin an ancient herb from Chineese medicine for over 1,500 years is now recognized as the best availabe cure for malaria. Doctor Ge Hong (283-363 AD) who first wrote about it in his Book of Emergency Medicine when he served as a Taoist priest in this mountainous region.
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The movement to ban dangerous trans fats uis spreading. The latest proposed ban is in Maryland. A bill introduced by Democrat James W. Hubbard.
The bill would ban the artery clogging fats in restaurants, fast food restaurants and mom-and-pop eateries alike. The legislation would limit servings of margarine, shortening or other fats containing [...]

The increasing mass industrialization of our food supply continues with it’s growing concern over the safely and quality of what we eat. It also increases the vital importance of the local small growers. Supporting local farmers is a wonderful way to support community and health in one swing.
This is why Natural Medicine supports the [...]