FDA draft guidance to cripple natural products sector and health freedom, decimate supplement innovation

FDA draft guidance to cripple natural products sector and health freedom, decimate supplement innovation
by Ethan A. Huff, staff writer

(NaturalNews) The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is on a mission to seize control of the dietary supplement industry, and cripple it from being able to freely innovate and market potent, effective health products to consumers.

In fact, as we reported a few weeks ago, the agency’s draft guidance proposals threaten to actually ban many supplements that were introduced after the passage of the Dietary Supplement Health and Education Act of 1994 (DSHEA), but that are safely and effectively used by millions of Americans today — and YOUR help is required to stop this affront to health freedom (www.naturalnews.com/032924_d…).
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Protein-Making Machinery in Bacteria Successfully Re-Engineered

Protein-Making Machinery in Bacteria Successfully Re-Engineered

ScienceDaily – Yale University researchers have successfully re-engineered the protein-making machinery in bacteria, a technical tour de force that promises to revolutionize the study and treatment of a variety of diseases.

“Essentially, we have expanded the genetic code of E. coli, which allows us synthesize special forms of proteins that can mimic natural or disease states,” said Jesse Rinehart of the Department of Cellular and Molecular Physiology and co-corresponding author of the research published in the Aug. 26 issue of the journal Science.
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Medical science may use genetically modified pigs to grow human replacement organs

Medical science may use genetically modified pigs to grow human replacement organs
by PF Louis

(NaturalNews) There are too many heavily funded, highly praised scientists who think they can outwit nature and play God. A recent medical science development in Japan is leading the way to using animals for creating organs to be transplanted into humans. Though hailed as a solution for many who await organ transplants, this actually extends medical science’s departure from natural healing further with more rationale for animal suffering.
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Breast cancer drugs may stop cancer, but they also cut life short due to toxicity

Breast cancer drugs may stop cancer, but they also cut life short due to toxicity
by S. L. Baker, features writer

(NaturalNews) Here’s another case of a so-called “wonder drug” heavily promoted by Big Pharma having a darker side than anyone knew. It turns out aromatase inhibitors (sold under the names Femara, Aromasin, and Arimidex), widely prescribed to huge numbers of women who’ve been diagnosed with estrogen receptor-positive breast cancer, could be so toxic in the body they do nothing to prolong life — and might even shorten it.

Based on the findings of several studies, most doctors now recommend one of the aromatase inhibitor (AIs) after women with estrogen-positive breast cancer have initial treatment with surgery and often chemotherapy and radiation therapy. An AI medication has been considered a better choice than the other anti-estrogen treatment, tamoxifen, because AIs have been thought to have more benefits and fewer serious side effects.
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Boomers Will Be Spending Billions to Counter Aging

Boomers Will Be Spending Billions to Counter Aging

NEW YORK – Baby boomers heading into what used to be called retirement age are providing a 70 million-member strong market for legions of companies, entrepreneurs and cosmetic surgeons eager to capitalize on their “forever young” mindset, whether it’s through wrinkle creams, face-lifts or workout regimens.

It adds up to potential bonanza. The market research firm Global Industry Analysts projects that a boomer-fueled consumer base, “seeking to keep the dreaded signs of aging at bay,” will push the U.S. market for anti-aging products from about $80 billion now to more than $114 billion by 2015.
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Vitamin Water exposed as sugar water in Food Investigations video

Vitamin Water exposed as sugar water in Food Investigations video
by Mike Adams, the Health Ranger

(NaturalNews) In a new Food Investigations video entitled, “The Vitamin Water Deception,” the non-profit Consumer Wellness Center (www.ConsumerWellness.org) takes aim at the misleading marketing and high sugar content of Vitamin Water (a Coca-Cola product). The video was created by the Consumer Wellness Center and narrated by Mike Adams, the Health Ranger, who also created the hugely popular “Blueberry Deception” video which has received over one million views across the internet.
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Boys Reach Sexual Maturity Younger and Younger

Boys Reach Sexual Maturity Younger and Younger: Phase Between Being Physically but Not Socially Adult Is Getting Longer

ScienceDaily – Boys are maturing physically earlier than ever before. The age of sexual maturity has been decreasing by about 2.5 months each decade at least since the middle of the 18th century. Joshua Goldstein, director of the Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research in Rostock (MPIDR), has used mortality data to demonstrate this trend, which until now was difficult to decipher. What had already been established for girls now seems to also be true for boys: the time period during which young people are sexually mature but socially not yet considered adults is expanding.

“The reason for earlier maturity for boys, as with girls, is probably because nutrition and disease environments are getting more favourable for it,” says demographer Joshua Goldstein. It has long been documented by medical records that girls are experiencing their first menstruation earlier and earlier. But comparable data analysis for boys did not exist. Goldstein resolved this gap by studying demographic data related to mortality. When male hormone production during puberty reaches a maximum level the probability of dying jumps up. This phenomenon, called the “accident hump,” exists in almost all societies and is statistically well documented.
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Dietary Supplement Industry Threatened By Anti-Consumer Legislation

Dietary Supplement Industry Threatened By Anti-Consumer Legislation
by Kendall Antekeier

United States Senator Dick Durbin has introduced legislation that could essentially slaughter the entire dietary supplement industry.

Durbin presented S. 1310, “The Dietary Supplement Labeling Act,” under the pretenses of improving the “safety of dietary supplements.”

However, the bill actually grants the FDA overreaching authority over the approval and disapproval of dietary supplements and supplement ingredients.
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Things the Government Approves that are More Dangerous than Raw Milk

Things the government approves that are more dangerous than raw milk
by Christina Luisa

(NaturalNews) Among all the raw milk madness happening right now, NaturalNews recently covered the biased information coming from government sources and how it makes dispelling the myths and regulations surrounding raw milk difficult.

The government’s continual condemnation of raw milk’s safety and presentation of false statistics meant to frighten the public have begun a fierce campaign against this wholesome and nutritious food. Yet more and more people are being made aware of the truth about raw milk’s ability to improve nutrition and enhance health.
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Proof that the FDA’s assault on raw milk has nothing to do with consumer safety

Proof that the FDA’s assault on raw milk has nothing to do with consumer safety
by Mike Adams, the Health Ranger

(NaturalNews) An astonishing two-thirds of all fresh chicken meat sold in grocery stores today is contaminated with salmonella (www.naturalnews.com/028661_c…). Diet soda is laced with aspartame, a chemical sweetener made from the feces of genetically engineered bacteria (www.naturalnews.com/030918_a…). “Natural” corn chips are made from genetically modified corn plants linked to widespread infertility when consumed by mammals (www.naturalnews.com/025001.html).

Processed meats are laced with cancer-causing sodium nitrite (www.naturalnews.com/007024.html) and everything from soups to salad dressings is “enhanced” with the chemical excitotoxin known as MSG which promotes obesity (www.naturalnews.com/009379.html).
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Major drug research company faked thousands of documents to get drugs approved, FDA says no big deal

Major drug research company faked thousands of documents to get drugs approved, FDA says no big deal

(NaturalNews) It is truly astounding to witness the utter corruption that takes place — and practically in plain sight — within the pharmaceutical drug industry. The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has announced that drug firm Cetero Research, for many years knowingly forged thousands of clinical trial documents for drug companies in order for them to gain drug approval. The FDA’s response to this, though is that this massive corruption is basically no big deal.

It is no secret, of course, that the FDA routinely works in illicit tandem with drug companies to get dangerous drugs on the market in exchange for cash. One example of this includes the Lexapro scandal in which the FDA approved this dangerous antidepressant drug for children at the same time as federal and state governments were suing Forest Laboratories, maker of the drug, for pushing it on children.
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The Anabolic Effect of Garlic

The Anabolic Effect of Garlic

Garlic powder boosts testosterone production and reduces cortisol production. This discovery was made by researchers at Kobe University and pharmaceuticals company Riken in Japan. Rats given garlic powder in their feed retain more proteins to boot.

It wasn’t the first time that these researchers had studied the pharmacological effects of garlic. In the late nineties they published an article on garlic’s ability to break down fat. This is because garlic boosts the production of noradrenalin. [J Nutr. 1999 Feb; 129(2): 336-42.] On this occasion, however, the researchers were examining the anabolic effects of garlic.
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Questionable Motives Behind Supplement Bill

Questionable Motives Behind Supplement Bill
The Washington Times

Michelle Minton got it exactly right in her July 29 article, “The coming war on vitamins.” We feel further compelled to explain that Sen. Dick Durbin, Illinois Democrat, has a credibility problem.

He says his bill, the Dietary Supplement Labeling Act of 2011 (S.1310), is addressing “a product on the market now that is escaping regulation as an adulterated food by marketing itself as a ‘dietary supplement.’ ” He is referring to Lazy Cakes, the notorious brownies laced with melatonin, a sleep-inducing hormone. But the Food and Drug Administration already has moved against Lazy Cakes and shut down their production.
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How Fatty Diets Cause Diabetes

How Fatty Diets Cause Diabetes

ScienceDaily – Newly diagnosed type 2 diabetics tend to have one thing in common: obesity. Exactly how diet and obesity trigger diabetes has long been the subject of intense scientific research. A new study led by Jamey D. Marth, Ph.D., director of the Center for Nanomedicine, a collaboration between the University of California, Santa Barbara and Sanford-Burnham Medical Research Institute (Sanford-Burnham), has revealed a pathway that links high-fat diets to a sequence of molecular events responsible for the onset and severity of diabetes.
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Large Study Confirms that Omega3′s Produce Healthy Babies

Large Study Confirms that Omega3′s Produce Healthy Babies
by Jonathan Benson, staff writer

(NaturalNews) Consumption of omega-3 fatty acids is crucial for the development and maintenance of the brain and nervous system, especially in young children (www.naturalnews.com/016353.html). And a new study published in the journal Pediatrics adds to this, having found that pregnant women who supplement with Docosahe