Holiday Weight Loss Advice

Mashed potatoes and gravy, pecan pie and whipped cream, homemade fudge. The list goes on and on. You only have to eat an extra 500 calories to pack on a pound. And that pound might be very hard to lose. According to a study that appeared in The New England Journal of Medicine in 2000, the extra pound that many people gain between Thanksgiving and New Year’s usually becomes a loyal friend.

Vitamin K Deficiency Linked to Osteoporosis, Cancer, and Heart Disease

Writing in the October 2009 issue of the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, researchers from Children's Hospital Oakland Research Institute in Oakland, California, said that current recommendations for vitamin K intakes need to be increased to prevent disease and ensure optimal health.

Operating under the “triage” theory for micronutrients—a theory that suggest the body prioritizes the use of scarce micronutrients like vitamin K in favor of short-term survival at the expense of long-term health—the researchers looked at the consequences of vitamin K restriction amongst vitamin K-dependent proteins.

What they found was truly frightening ...

Natural Solutions
for Eye Health

Approximately 20.5 million Americans age 40 and older have cataracts, and more than half of all Americans develop cataracts by age 80.

You need not suffer from cataracts. There are natural solutions shown to both prevent and reverse this dreaded eye disease. Check out the "Vision" section of our health library to learn more.

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Zinc—The essential mineral that can help protect you from the flu

The omnipresent news about the swine flu is making everyone nervous. Now is the time to rev up your immune system by making sure you’re getting an optimal daily dose of zinc gluconate.

Zinc is crucial to the normal development of immune cells, and plays an important role in maintaining the activity of a range of immune cells. If you are zinc deficient you are more susceptible to various viruses and bacteria.

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Groundbreaking New Article!

Is There a Calcium Conspiracy?

Examining the bone-shattering allegations behind how pharmaceutical companies, food conglomerates, and the US government’s fight against osteoporosis has actually increased the incidence of this debilitating disease.

The numbers speak for themselves ... by 2020 one in two Americans over the age of 50 will already have, or be at risk of developing, osteoporosis!1

Currently 10 million people in the United States have the bone disease osteoporosis. And an additional 33.6 million people have osteopenia, or low bone mass, and are at risk of osteoporosis and its potential complications later in life. That’s 43.6 MILLION and that’s only right now.

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New Book By Dr. Garry Gordon Provides Strongest Argument Yet for Oral Chelation

The air we breathe, the food we eat, and the water we drink is contaminated with toxins and they are slowly destroying human health and wellbeing. That’s the premise of a new book by Dr. Garry Gordon.

Detox with Oral Chelation: Protecting Yourself from Lead, Mercury, & Other Environmental Toxins (2008 – Smart Publications) is the latest book from the “father of chelation,” Dr. Garry Gordon. Co-written by noted health writer David Jay Brown, the book is the strongest indictment yet of our polluted planet and the role environmental toxins play in human sickness and disease.

According to Dr. Gordon every person on this planet—to one degree or another—is suffering from heavy metal and pesticide poisoning. Every person alive today has around a thousand times more lead in their bones than anyone who lived prior to the Industrial Age.

“The Earth has become so totally polluted that everybody today is walking around with high levels of styrene, PCBs, and dioxins. They’re in every human being we test today, as well as is lead, mercury, and cadmium... There is simply no escape from the particulate matter. We have poisoned our nest,” Dr. Gordon says in his new book.

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Take Control of Your Bladder Without Drugs

Do any of these scenarios sound familiar?

• For years, Jane leaked urine whenever she sneezed, laughed or coughed. But now her leaky valve is such a problem that she turns down social invitations. She has even stopped taking her daily two-mile walk because she’s afraid of being away from a toilet.


• Tom wakes up to go to the bathroom anywhere from two to five times a night. He’s always tired in the morning, feeling as though he has hardly slept.


• Linda’s husband hates taking road trips with her because she gets the urge to go NOW, and has to stop at all the rest stops along the way.


• Susan and her husband used to have a great sex life. Now she avoids physical intimacy because of her embarrassing incontinence.

What do all these people have in common?

It’s called Overactive Bladder, and it affects approximately 33 million adults in the United States.1 In addition to being inconvenient, Overactive Bladder (OAB) has a significant effect on quality of life, quality of sleep, and the mental and emotional health in both men and women.2

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The Scientific Secret to Healthy Shiny Hair and Nails Revealed!

The ancient Greeks believed that if you were physically beautiful you were in harmony with the universe, and that one’s own physical beauty was a miniature representation of the cosmos.

And while the ancient Greeks credited the Gods for whatever physical beauty they possessed, modern science now knows that nutrition plays a vital role in our physical appearance. Healthy, beautiful, shiny hair and nails can be yours provided you give your body the nutrients it needs to make them. It’s called beauty from the inside out and it’s easier than you might think!

Our recommended nutrients for healthy hair and nails

If your eyes are the windows to your soul, then your hair and nails are windows to your overall health. Healthy hair and nails are dependent upon adequate protein, minerals, vitamins, essential fatty acids, complex carbohydrates and water. And if you aren’t getting the necessary nutrients you need for optimal health, or if your body isn’t absorbing or assimilating them properly, the deficiency may appear as lifeless hair and nails.