This month we again serve up the most interesting bits of the health and medical news. This time we cover: the link between starch and tumors, does your weight reflect your health, 3 mins of exercise to prevent diabetes, simple ways to improve your eyesight, and more about drugs: vitamins and drugs (which claims more lives?), drugs and kids, drugs and cancer.
Relax, move and laugh
Relax, move and laugh
- In Australia/Korea this Jan/Feb? Have a NEW YEAR BRAIN CLEAN-OUT. Delete all the stuff that's not working for you and create space for the health, wellbeing and all that stuff you'd REALLY like in 2012. And have a great relax in the process.
- JUST THREE MINUTES OF EXERCISE A WEEK COULD PREVENT DIABETES, SAY SCIENTISTS: Jumping on an exercise bike in just 20 second spurts can improve insulin function.
- THE WEEKLY HEALTH TIP: EXERCISE YOUR EYES: Most short sight is not ‘an affliction’, it’s how your eyesight has adjusted to what you use it the most for. Also, far-sightedness, poor night vision, ‘Middle-age’ sight (reading glasses), crossed eye (strabismus), lazy eye (amblyopia), and sensitivity to light, eyestrain, headaches and burning eyes can all be improved if you decide to invest some effort.
- EASY ON THE SPUDS, BUT CHOW DOWN THE CARROTS TO MEET NEW DIETARY GUIDELINES: Most Australian adults would need to change their diets drastically, eating much less potato and fatty foods and dispensing with junk food altogether to meet proposed dietary guidelines. PLUS: WHAT CHEFS PUT IN THEIR KIDS' LUNCH BOXES .
- VITAMIN D ROUND-UP: As the sun is felt less and less this time of year we turn our attention once again to the latest news on vitamin D.
- CARROTS IN THE CAR PARK. RADISHES ON THE ROUNDABOUT: The deliciously eccentric story of the UK town growing ALL its own veg. What could be possible where YOU live?
- TWENTY-SEVEN YEARS BRING NO DEATHS FROM VITAMINS BUT THREE MILLION FROM PHARMACEUTICALS: Despite mainstream medical establishments and media outlets portraying multivitamin supplements as worthless and oftentimes toxic, vitamins have led to 0 deaths over the past 27 years.
- 10 THINGS YOU MAY NOT KNOW ABOUT YOUR WEIGHT: (Mercola) Eating less, eating healthy and exercising more aren't always enough to help you drop unwanted pounds. Instead, there are 10 things you need to know -- and I've listed the 5 most important ones here...
- EATING WHITE BREAD AND PASTA COULD INCREASE RISK OF BREAST CANCER RETURNING IN PATIENTS: Women who had recovered from breast cancer were more likely to see tumours return if they followed a starch-rich diet, according to a study from the University of California, San Diego.
- CANADIAN JUDGE RULES SSRI ANTIDEPRESSANTS LIKE PROZAC CAN CAUSE CHILDREN TO COMMIT MURDER: (NaturalNews) The use of anti-depressant and psychiatric drugs, particularly among children, is an extremely risky activity that could have fatal consequences for both the individuals that use them, as well as their friends and family.
MORE THAN 20 PERCENT OF AMERICAN ADULTS NOW ON PSYCHIATRIC DRUGS FOR BEHAVIORAL PROBLEMS
MEDICAL MAFIA IN AUSTRALIA TO FORCE PARENTS TO MEDICATE ADHD CHILDREN.
- FDA WITHDRAWS APPROVAL FOR BREAST CANCER DRUG AVASTIN AFTER DECLARING IT MEDICALLY USELESS, BUT SAYS DOCTORS CAN STILL PRESCRIBE IT: (NaturalNews) Several years after declaring it to be not only medically useless but also dangerous, the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has officially withdrawn approval for the $100,000 breast cancer drug Avastin.
- VACCINE ROUND-UP: This month's edition of our regular spotlight on the latest vaccine news and views.
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