NaturalNews.com | Today's Featured Stories - January 5, 2010

As an American, I refuse to buy mandatory health insurance that supports corrupt conventional medicine (NaturalNews) Even if Obama's health care reform bill becomes law, mandating that all Americans buy health insurance policies for a failed system of "sick care", I will refuse to comply. I've read the U.S. Constitution and its Bill of Rights, and nowhere...

Scientists discover how Cordyceps mushrooms fight cancer (NaturalNews) For thousands of years, the mushroom known as Cordyceps has been used in traditional Chinese medicine to treat problems ranging from coughs and fatigue to impotence and cancer. And once Western scientists started considering that anecdotal...

Obesity Will Cost U.S. $344 Billion a Year in Health Care Costs (NaturalNews) An analysis of projected health care costs has revealed that by the year 2018, obesity-related medical expenses will top $344 billion. Current estimates suggest that in just ten years 43 percent of Americans will be obese if obesity continues...

Cure Cervical Cancer through Diet, Yoga and Meditation Cervical cancer is the second most common cancer among women and almost 4,000 cases were fatal just last year. Conventional treatments for cervical cancer such as chemotherapy, radiation, surgery, hysterectomy, or the removal of lymph nodes...

Drug Side Effects Blamed for 20 Percent of Hospital Readmissions (NaturalNews) One in every five patients readmitted to the hospital within a year of an inpatient treatment ends up there because of an adverse drug reaction, according to a study conducted by researchers from the Royal Liverpool and Broadgreen University...

Get Saturated: Four Reasons Saturated Fat is Healthy Today we are caught between two philosophies: one says saturated fat is killing us; the other says these fats are necessary for true vitality. There is a heated back-and-forth, a constant tug-of-war scenario, with society caught in the middle...

Use Homeopathic Remedies to Cure Disease and Improve Your Health Homeopathy is a form of medicine that treats the whole person, not just a specific symptom. It is based on the theory that "like cures like" which means treatments are similar to the illness it is designed to cure. While the roots of homeopathy...

Food Stamp Program Takes Steps to Encourage a Whole Foods Diet The Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), administered by the USDA, helps low-income individuals and families put food on the table. It is commonly and historically known as the Food Stamp Program. The new name was adopted following...

Vote on the "Best of the Year" awards for superfoods, vitamin retailers, skin care and more (NaturalNews) With 2009 now over, it's time to vote on the "Best of the Year" awards! If you'd like to cast your vote, simply go to the voting page at http://naturalnews.com/index-polls.html You can cast one vote for each category. The categories include...

Today's health headlines from across the 'net

(Hand-picked by the Health Ranger for your education and amusement)

• The 15 most heinous climate villains
• Bayer pesticide banned over threat to honeybees
• Whole Foods being slowly taken over by profit-minded corporate suits
• Corruption of physicians by Big Pharma now "limited" to $500 an hour
• So much excess swine flu vaccine that France sells it off!
• Exercise can fight aging
• Don't have health insurance? Pay a fine to the IRS
• Mad cow disease prions capable of evolution, even without DNA
• Cherry juice for arthritis
• Full-body airport security scanners to fry travelers with ionizing radiation
• Fast food burger meat injected with ammonia?
• Garlic prices soar in China as population protects themselves against swine flu

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