Pops: "Best Multivitamin 2008" Kitchen Table Award

That would be the Pops!

See here. Boy are WE ever proud of THAT.

Thanks,

Dr. Nicole Sundene
Naturopathic Physician
Editor-in-Chief of Kitchen Table Medicine

Research on mice links fast food to Alzheimer's

They test mice because their workings inside are so much like humans...

LONDON (Reuters) - Mice fed junk food for nine months showed signs of developing the abnormal brain tangles strongly associated with Alzheimer's disease, a Swedish researcher said on Friday.

The findings come from a series of published papers by a researcher at Sweden's Karolinska Institutet...

"On examining the brains of these mice, we found a chemical change not unlike that found in the Alzheimer brain," Susanne Akterin, a researcher at the Karolinska Institutet's Alzheimer's Disease Research Center, who led the study, said in a statement...

Alzheimer's disease is incurable and is the most common form of dementia among older people. It affects the regions of the brain involving thought, memory and language. More here.

Science journalist Gary Taubes hypothesizes that the excessive amounts of sugar and refined flour in American diets are contributing to Alzheimer's. He reports increases in the incidence of Alzheimer's in Japanese immigrants to the U.S. and in African Americans compared to rural Africans. Type 2 diabetics have about twice as much risk of contracting Alzheimer's disease as non-diabetics. And diabetics on insulin therapy have a fourfold increase in risk. (Taubes, 2007, Good Calories Bad Calories, pp 205-209)

CONTEST. What's an ER chicken versus a regular one?

And who cares, anyway?

Hint: You can use this little cartoon to find the answer.

Winner: Auditor spot in the next live ER Fat Burn Formula program.

(Jan 24 - Feb 28, 2009. Worth $145.)

Winner must do both parts of the question. What's the difference, and who cares, anyway?

You Need to Know This If You Eat Tyson Chicken

Yikes! Eat ER chicken, ok?

"Tyson Foods, the world's largest meat processor and the second largest chicken producer in the U.S., has admitted that it injects its chickens with antibiotics before they hatch and then labels them as raised without antibiotics. The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) has told Tyson to stop using the antibiotic-free label, but the company has sued for the right to keep using it.(!)" More here...

Some observations about deceptive practices by the industrial food establishement Dr. Mercola here...

"Tyson’s claim may be technically true -- which makes it just about the worst kind of deceptive advertising there is without outright lying. It’s this kind of semantics that can drive even the sanest person wild.

When they say that their chickens are “raised without antibiotics", they are clearly trying to give the impression that their chickens do not contain any kind of antibiotics.

However, the chicken on your plate is anything but antibiotic-free since they’ve injected the eggs with antibiotics, and raised the hatchlings on feed that contains antibiotics..." More here, bottom of page.

News Keeps Getting Worse for Vitamins

From the New York Times, a series of studies showing the worthlessness of vitamins (90% of them) and harmful effects of many...

"The best efforts of the scientific community to prove the health benefits of vitamins keep falling short.

"This week, researchers reported the disappointing results from a large clinical trial of almost 15,000 male doctors taking vitamins E and C for a decade. The study showed no meaningful effect on cancer rates.

"Another recent study found no benefit of vitamins E and C for heart disease..."

And that's just the beginning, reports the New York Times...More here. (PDF here in case.)

What's the problem?

We'd say it's because the run-of-the-mill vitamins people take are synthetic and filled with junk - like artificial colors.

Are Your Vitamins Safe? tells the sorry story and offers a new type of whole food multi alternative...

Don't trust food labels that say gluten-free at Whole Foods

Exclusive Chicago Tribune investigation finds the gourmet grocer's brand products with "good manufacturing" labels on them pose risk to people with allergies. Also, check out the Trib's searchable database of foods recalled for allergen misinformation. (Thanks, Digg.)

Is your doctor or favorite radio host getting payola to push drugs?

Every day we're discovering that's what's happening. Doctors, university department heads, and now a popular radio show host - all being paid millions - promoting the drugs of big pharma. Only no one knew it. Until now.