Are you Lactose or Casein intolerant?

There seems to be some confusion about the difference between lactose and casein intolerance. You may have heard of lactose intolerance, and those that avoid lactose or casein but what are these two substances and what is the difference? Allergy and intolerance information can be confusing and can leave people worried about what a person [...]

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Arsenic found in rice milk!

The United Kingdom's Food Standards Agency (akin to the FDA here in the United States) just published research regarding arsenic levels in rice drinks. As a result, they've issued the following advice regarding toddlers: "As a precaution, toddlers and young children between 1 and 4.5 years old should not have rice drinks as a replacement [...]

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What’s so bad about dairy?

There are actually heaps of disadvantages to drinking cow’s milk, including: Pasteurisation and homogenisation alter the protein structure of milk and kill nutrients. Homogenised milk contains artery damaging xanthine oxidase. Cow’s milk is highly mucus forming and can contribute to frequent colds, catarrh, phlegm, bronchitis or glue ear. Cow’s milk can increase allergies such as [...]

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Why do we think soy is a health food?

Large scale cultivation of the soybean in the United States began only after the Second World War, and quickly rose to 140 billion pounds per year. Most of the crop is made into animal feed, soy oil for hydrogenated fats, margarine and shortening. During the past 20 years, the industry has concentrated on finding markets [...]

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An Update on Cancer Treatments

Researchers from Belgium, France, the US and Poland have concluded that just because a tumour ‘responds’ to chemotherapy doesn't automatically mean a better chance of patient survival. They drew their conclusions from a meta-analysis of 25 randomised trials involving nearly 4000 patients with colorectal cancer. The data showed that, while different drugs produced different responses rates experimental [...]

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Grape Seed Extract ‘More Effective Than Chemo’ for Advanced Cancer

Grape see extract is more effective than chemotherapy at fighting colorectal cancer – especially in its later, aggressive stage – and may be a powerful alternative treatment for other cancers too, say researchers. The extract suppresses cancer cell growth and kills half of all stage IV colorectal cells, researchers from the University of Colorado Cancer [...]

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Cancer is Result of Low Oxygen Level in Cells – Not Mutation.

Scientists are finally realising that medicine has it wrong about cancer and the way to treat it. Many aggressive cancers are caused by low oxygen levels in cells, scientists have discovered and not by genetic mutations that need to be blasted by chemotherapy. The discovery – by scientists at the University of Georgia – means [...]

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NSAIDs Can Cause Kidney Damage in Children

Anti-inflammatory painkillers such as aspirin and ibuprofen can cause life-threatening kidney damage in children, researchers have warned this week. The NSAIDs (non-steroidal, anti-inflammatory drugs) cause acute kidney damage – sometimes requiring treatment in intensive care – in around 3 per cent of children, say researchers from the Indiana University School of Medicine. Small children up [...]

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