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Gut Bacteria Know Secrets About Your Future
"Right now, in your mouth, in your gut, on your skin, you are carrying about 10 times more bacteria cells than human cells...We are, in essence, only 10 percent human," Dr. Roy Sleator, lecturer at Cork Institute of Technology in Ireland, told The Daily Telegraph. "The rest is pure microbe."

http://www.npr.org/blogs/krulwich/2011/06/10/137084528/gut-bacteria-know-secrets-about-your-future?sc=fb&cc=fp

Statins May Cause Diabetes, New Study Says
"The latest cholesterol guidelines (ATP III) increased the number of Americans who should take statin therapy from 13 to 40 million. Those additional 27 million are ones without heart disease, but who have high cholesterol. This type of treatment is called primary prevention. I have extensively reviewed the research on using statins to prevent heart attacks in people who never had them. The data is weak and shows no benefit, except the Jupiter trial, which ONLY showed benefit if patients also had inflammation (high C-reactive protein), not just high cholesterol or LDL. If you just had an elevated cholesterol, statins didn't help."

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/dr-mark-hyman/statins-diabetes_b_881428.html?ref=fb&src=sp#sb=1148193,b=facebook

Healthy Home Tips for Parents

To View this Printable Guide: http://www.ewg.org/files/EWGguide_goinggreen.pdf

Shoppers Guide to Pesticides in Produce

Which Fruits and Vegetables Passed and Which Ones Failed? Produce was ranked based on the results of nearly 43,000 tests for pesticides on produce collected by the U.S. Department of Agriculture and the U.S. Food and Drug Administration between 2000 and 2005. Peach Ranked WORST...want to find out more?

To View the Full Ranking and Get your FREE Printable Guide: http://www.foodnews.org/

U.S. Doctors Too Quick to Prescribe, According to New Report

"Nearly half of all Americans have used at least one prescription drug in the past month, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and experts say overprescribing is rampant.

By definition, that means people are being exposed to side effects, sometimes fatal, without the benefits that would justify those risks.

'Often what is really bothering them is not cured with a pill, but rather through exercise, physical therapy, or diet changes," Schiff told Reuters Health.' "

http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/06/13/us-hold-those-drugs-doctor-idUSTRE75C5K720110613

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Is Sugar Toxic?

“Sugar scares me." Lewis Cantley, director of the Cancer Center at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center at Harvard Medical School

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/04/17/magazine/mag-17Sugar-t.html?pagewanted=1&_r=3

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WARNING

Issued for Patients Taking Bisphosphonate Drugs

(Fosamax, Didronel, Actonel, Boniva, Aredia, Reclast, Zometa)

"Bisposphonates may cause severe and sometimes incapacitating bone, joint, and/or muscle (musculoskeletal) pain. within days, months, or years after starting a bisphosphonate." This pain may completely resolve, partially resolve, or not resolve following discontinuation of drug.

To Read Full Article:

http://www.aafp.org/online/en/home/publications/news/news-now/clinical-care-research/20080109bisphosphonates.html

Dr. MaryK Geyer & Dr. Maleigha White

Naturopathic Physicians