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Are your PCPs really Safe?
Does Medical Screening Turn Healthy People into Patients?
Natural health physician Dr. Joseph Mercola interviews Alan Cassels, a drug policy researcher at the University of Victoria in British Columbia, about medical screening.
Could More Women Be Harmed than Helped with Mammography?
” The FDA secretly monitored the personal e-mail of a group of agency whistleblowers for two years. All of the monitored employees worked in the office responsible for reviewing medical devices, including those for cancer screenings and were expressing concerns over several devices. Some of the employees were harassed and/or terminated, and six of them are now suing the agency.
There’s a lot of compelling evidence that the dangers of mammography are being covered up, and that a Congressional hearing is well overdue.
While roughly 15 percent of women in their 40’s detect breast cancer through mammography, many other women experience false positives, anxiety, and unnecessary biopsies as a result of the test, according to the data. In fact, a full decade ago, a Danish study published in The Lancet concluded that previous research showing a benefit of mammograms was flawed and that widespread mammogram screening is unjustified.
According to the Cochrane Collaboration, for every 2,000 women getting mammography screening over the course of 10 years, just ONE woman will have her life prolonged. Meanwhile, 10 healthy women, who would not have been diagnosed with cancer had it not been for the mammography screening, will be misdiagnosed as having breast cancer, and will be treated unnecessarily. “
Does BPA exposure cause heart disease?
As one of the world’s highest production volume chemicals, Bisphenol-A is incredibly common in food and drinks packaging, as well as in other places you probably wouldn’t expect, like receipts.
A study in Analytical and Bioanalytical Chemistry found that of 13 thermal printing papers (the type often used for receipts) analyzed, 11 contained BPA.v Holding the paper for just 5 seconds was enough to transfer BPA onto a person’s skin, and the amount of BPA transferred increased by about 10 times if the fingers were wet or greasy.
Read Eating Canned Food Shown to be Linked to Heart Disease
by Dr. Mercola, March 15, 2012
Many thanks to Ruth for this key find and comment 🙂
The High Price of “Convenience” Products
” A typical American comes in regular contact with some 6,000 chemicals and an untold number of potentially toxic substances on a less frequent basis. There are about 75,000 chemicals regularly manufactured and imported by U.S. industries, so you could be exposed to any number of them. Disturbingly, many of them have never been fully tested for safety. ”
In his latest post about endocrine disrupting chemicals, Dr. Joseph Mercola covers:
Read Common Household Chemicals Linked to Human Disease
by Dr. Joseph Mercola, HuffPost Healthy Living, May 9, 2013
Key to Brain Cancer Recovery?
” This type of diet, in which you replace carbs with moderate amounts of high quality protein and high amounts of beneficial fat, is what I recommend for everyone, whether you have cancer or not. It’s simply a diet that will help optimize your weight and health overall, as eating this way will help you convert from carb burning mode to fat burning. ”
Read Ketogenic Diet by Dr. Mercola, includes:
Several Factors Make Weight Loss for Men Easier
The gender gap is a phrase usually used to describe disparities in income between men and women, but it may very well apply to weight loss as well.
Read weight loss for women by Dr. Mercola via J. Ruth Kelly
Some of medicine’s most glaring mistakes and deliberately ignored
Read Dramatic Example of how Health Truth may take up to a Century to be accepted found via J. Ruth Kelly.
The HPV Vaccine Risks You’re Not Being Told About
There are currently two HPV vaccines on the market, but if there was any regard for sound scientific evidence, neither would be promoted as heavily as they are.
Read New Evidence Demolishes Claims of Safety and Effectiveness of HPV Vaccine
Bisphenol A, a chemical found in plastics, can lower the fertility of women’s eggs, the latest study suggests.
UPI reports:
The researchers noted BPA — found in the urine of nearly everyone tested in a 2004 U.S. analysis — is an endocrine disruptor that either mimics or blocks body hormones.
