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With Huffington Post sold to AOL, NaturalNews invites top alternative health authors to join truly independent news network

By Mike Adams, NaturalNews Editor
February 8 – The Huffington Post was sold to AOL for $315 million yesterday, meaning the site, which was once the darling of independent media, is now clearly positioned as institutionalized media. As the editor of NaturalNews…

Sun exposure and vitamin D may prevent multiple sclerosis

By S. L. Baker, features writer
February 8 – Embargoed for release: 7-Feb-2011 16:00 ET (7-Feb-2011 21:00 GMT) For decades, scientists have noticed something odd about the condition known as multiple sclerosis (MS). This chronic disease of the brain…

Iron, folic acid supplements during pregnancy make kids smarter

By David Gutierrez, staff writer
February 8 – Giving pregnant women folic acid and iron supplements may increase the intelligence of their children later in life, according to a study conduced by researchers from Johns Hopkins University and published in…

Famous Brazilian supermodel condemns conventional sunscreen, calls it ‘poison’

By Ethan A. Huff, staff writer
February 8 – Brazilian supermodel Gisele Bundchen recently made the bold move of publicly denouncing conventional sunscreens. According to a report in the New York Daily News Bundchen called the toxic lotions “poison,” and…

Obesity has nearly doubled worldwide since 1980

By Jonathan Benson, staff writer
February 8 – New research published in the journal The Lancet has revealed that global obesity rates have doubled since 1980. Some Western countries have been able to slightly reduce overall blood pressure and cholesterol…

Dogs can sniff out cancer in people, but doctors are waiting for a machine to do it

By Mike Adams, NaturalNews Editor
February 7 – The mainstream media is suddenly reporting on the idea that dogs can sniff out cancer in human beings. This concept is no surprise to NaturalNews readers, of course, as we’ve talked about this before, but until…

Government offers cash prizes to doctors who recruit new mental illness patients

By Ethan A. Huff, staff writer
February 7 – The U.K. National Health Service (NHS) has decided to turn its health care system into a giant game where doctors who recruit the most new mental patients win cash prizes. The equivalent of over $243 million…

Feds blame US health care system, not poor diet and lack of exercise, for widespread heart disease

By Jonathan Benson, staff writer
February 7 – Political agendas often make the government say some pretty strange and illogical statements at times, including a recent announcement from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) that the…

RSB health freedom radio show launches to worldwide audience, MP3 downloads coming soon

By Mike Adams, NaturalNews Editor
February 7 – The Robert Scott Bell health freedom radio show is in full swing this week, its second week of broadcasting on the NaturalNews network. This week we’re rolling out downloadable MP3 archives of the show so that…

Drug companies panic as thirteen ‘blockbuster’ drugs about to lose patent protection

By Jonathan Benson, staff writer
February 7 – Reports indicate that the drug industry is in a panic over the patent losses of 13 big-money drugs, and many others, within the next few years. Everyone knows that the drug industry thrives on developing “blockbuster…

Mainstream media admits diabetes can be reversed through major diet, lifestyle changes

By Ethan A. Huff, staff writer
February 7 – The mainstream media is just now catching on to what NaturalNews and other natural health advocates have been saying for years: type 2 diabetes can be reversed through dietary and lifestyle changes, and without…

Infant death rate falls after drug companies stop selling cough medicines for children under two

By David Gutierrez, staff writer
February 7 – The number of infants and toddlers sent to emergency rooms (ERs) by cold and cough drugs fell dramatically after manufacturers stopped marketing those products to children under the age of two, according to…

Mindfulness meditation benefits and changes brain structures in 8 weeks

By Sherry Baker, Health Sciences Editor
February 7 – Meditation is just a way to relax and maybe calm you down for the moment, right? Wrong. Not only will most regular meditators tell you that meditation makes them feel better emotionally and physically…

General Mills imitation blueberries story keeps spreading; Total cereal exposed as deceptive

By Mike Adams, NaturalNews Editor
February 5 – It’s the story that just keeps going viral. We broke it here on NaturalNews with the release of The Blueberry Deception, a mini documentary that exposed the truth about many name-brand food products that fake…

EU Commission tries to destroy zero tolerance policy for GMO food contamination

By Jonathan Benson, staff writer
February 5 – The European Union (E.U.) Commission, at the behest of lobbyists from the biotechnology, food, and animal feed industries, is proposing to undo a long-held “zero-tolerance” policy that protects the European…

Popular cancer drugs increase risk of death, study finds

By Ethan A. Huff, staff writer
February 5 – A new study published in the Journal of the American Medical Association has revealed that the popular cancer drug Avastin (bevacizumab) raises patients’ risk of death by up to 350 percent when combined with…

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