Archive for the 'Family Health' Category

Flu Vaccinations: A Shot in The Dark?

Flu Vaccinations: A Shot in The Dark?
When I was 8, one of my friend’s dad died suddenly, at the ripe old age of 35, of the flu. Not cancer, not a heart attack, not a car wreck — the flu.
One day he was sick in bed with fever, chills, and headache. The next day he [...]

CT Scans And Radiation Risks In Children - Is It Really Worth It?

Opinion By Nurse Mark
We have become very quick to request CT scans for just about every complaint these days - for ourselves, and especially for our children.
And who can blame a worried parent: little Suzy has a tummyache, or little Johnny fell and thumped his head, or there is that nagging cough that hasn’t gone [...]

Lettuce And Spinach To Be Secretly Irradiated! Say It Isn’t So!

It Isn’t So!
There has been somewhat of a flurry of outrage recently with the FDA announcement that on August 22, 2008, they published a final rule allowing the use of irradiation on fresh iceberg lettuce and fresh spinach. The FDA claims that this will make them "safer and last longer without spoiling."
Opponents are claiming all [...]

Gardasil, Mandatory Vaccinations, And Health Freedom - What Can History Teach Us?

Do we learn nothing from history?
Be it the "Swine Flu" vaccine in the 1970’s that caused more deaths than the swine flu did, or the polio vaccine in 1955 that cause more disease than it prevented (known as "The Cutter Incident"), it looks like we need to be reminded over and over again that when [...]

"Double Standards" and Natural, "Non-Conventional" Health Care

I was discussing the subject of drugs and drug testing with a friend online the other day, and thought that the following might be of interest to HealthBeat readers:

My friend wrote:
The problem: pilots are human, and subject to all the normal problems everyone else goes through. When a pilot gets depressed, they cannot seek help, [...]

When "Sorry" Doesn’t Help

A Commentary By Dr. Myatt
When I was a child, I would occasionally do something I wasn’t supposed to. ("Oh, no, NOT Dr. Myatt!" I can hear you thinking :-)) Sometimes when I would apologize, my dad would say "Sorry doesn’t help." Like the time I deliberately dropped one of my mom’s antique bowls on the [...]

The 5 Most Important Supplements For Health and Longevity

Many nutritional supplements and herbs have documented value in maintaining health and possibly also extending lifespan. The following list of recommendations comprises my picks for the 5 most important supplements the average person should take to preserve or reclaim optimum health and vitality. I have chosen this list based on what I call the "preponderance [...]

Similase and Similase Jr: - What’s The Difference?

We get a lot of product questions - and digestion and digestive enzymes make up a large part of those questions. There is no doubt that this important physical function is poorly understood - even by most doctors. No wonder so many lay-people are confused! Here is an example of a recent question, [...]

More "Dangerous Drugs"…

It seems that every day brings yet another drug warning - and you can be sure that the FDA doesn’t issue these warnings lightly, since they affect the profit picture of the drug companies and thus the budget of the FDA (who relies upon "fees" from the drug companies for it’s income…).
Today’s little tidbit [...]

"Shorts" from This Month’s Conventional Medicine News

I get a summary of major world medical "breakthroughs" and reports of medical study findings on a daily basis. Here are recent "findings" from conventional medical journals that may be of interest or humor to you.
Aren’t you glad I read all of these medical reports so you don’t have to?!
1.) "Keeping Active, Not Smoking Can [...]