Wall Street Journal has launched an attack against high-dose vitamin supplements in a smear article

[Guest guest]

457 West Allen #117 San Dimas, CA 91773 USA www.KnowledgeofHealth.com Email: adminMarch 31, 2006 News BlastsIn This Weeks Addition:PARTNER WITH KNOWLEDGE OF HEALTH People tell us how much they enjoy the newsletter and ask how they can help get the word out; so now we have come up with a way you can help and get a free e-book too.We Let Them Die – 15 Million of Them Over 15 million Americans have died of cancer since 1976 when Drs. Linus Pauling and Ewan Cameron reported that intravenous vitamin C significantly prolongs the life of otherwise hopeless advanced-stage cancer patients. Modern medicine rejected the idea outright and then performed studies using oral-dose vitamin C to dismiss vitamin C/cancer therapy. But oral-dose vitamin C cannot achieve the concentration of vitamin C needed to kill cancer cells as does intravenous vitamin C. Fishy Fish Oil Studies Something is fishy about the recent headlines claiming omega-3 fish oil is ineffective in reducing mortality from cardiovascular disease. Regardless of the actual content of the medical journal reports, the public reads and hears the headlines only, and they are negative. The news reports emanated from a pooled analysis of 89 studies involving fish oil and heart disease. Wall Street Journal Smears Vitamin Supplements The Wall Street Journal has launched an attack against high-dose vitamin supplements in a smear article written by Tara Parker-Pope. Tara never questions most of the pseudoscience she bases her report upon, nor does she adequately obtain contrary opinions as taught in most schools of journalism. The report will mislead millions, and it’s getting big exposure on TV too. Youthfulness and longevity: what does the public want? When it comes to the public’s pursuit of youthfulness and longevity, what is the public searching for? Using search terms on the internet as a measure, ’s search marketing tool called Overture reveals some interesting numbers. In the month of February 2006 there were 82,295 searches for “anti aging.” The term “hair loss” generated 161,167 searches. A number of more detailed terms in the anti-aging category were ranked by frequency of search, as follows: Not yet a r to this free new blast? Quick signup here. Soy Lecithin Unfairly Characterized As An Allergen There certainly are a lot of challenges facing the dietary supplement industry these days. The industry has its own set of self-induced problems delivering products that don’t match label claims. Then there are the challenges posed from outside the industry. The production of pseudoscience... Then there is adverse event reporting... Then there is CODEX... But none of these yet pose the threat to dietary supplements as the Food Allergy Labeling Consumer Protection Act of 2004. Drug Companies Admit Statin Drugs Have Never Worked The widely distributed news report that a statin drug (Crestor) has, for the first time, been shown to actually reduce plaque buildup in human arteries is, on its backside, an admission that statin drugs simply haven't demonstrated any ability to prevent artery narrowing since they were first employed in 1987. Can Big Pharma Beat Nature? Maybe not this time. They are pitted in a race, to develop drugs that will favorably influence the 30,000+ recently mapped human genes. “They” are a number of developmental drug companies. Drugs that control genes are already being used to treat cancer, like Gleevec, Iressa, Erbitux, but they only target a few genes. Major chronic diseases involve many genes, hundreds of genes, and cancer is one of them. Why do We let So Many Die From Malaria? Once again President Bush in his State of the Union address underscored America's determination to do what it can to help sharply reduce the inidence of malaria around the world. The disease takes the lives of more tha a million people every year, with children particularly susceptible. Last summer the President proposed to spend an additional $1.2 billion over five years to achieve this goal. But unless a dramatic policy change is made this new effort and money will largely be for naught. The cash will mostly go to consultants and to financing seminars and workshops.ON THE BLOGPlavix plus aspirin There it was – a 6-cent aspirin tablet up against a $4.00 anti-clotting drug, Plavix. RSS Feed Add http://www.knowledgeofhealth.com/blog/atom.xml to your news reader.If you have any problems with the links in this email, let us know.© Copyright 2006 Bill Sardi, Knowledge of Health, Inc. Not for posting on other websites. You are recieving this email because you signed up for the Bill Sardi News Blasts at KnowledgeofHealth.com or NaturalHealthLibrarian.com.