NaturalNews.com | Today's Featured Stories - September 30, 2009

Read this, Senators: Taiwan's universal health care system provides full coverage for $21 a month - why can't we? (NaturalNews) When people ask why I oppose Obama's health care reform proposals, I point out what a consumer (and employer) rip-off the current system of drug-based medicine really is. Americans are victims in a monopoly medical scam that's enforced...

Home Births Proven as Safe as Hospital Births (NaturalNews) Women who give birth at home do not have any higher rate of complications or death than women who give birth in a hospital, according to a study conducted by researchers from the TNO Institute for Applied Scientific Research in the Netherlands...

Surprise: The Recession Could Be Good for Your Health (NaturalNews) As the U.S. continues to face economic woes, real estate melt-downs and mounting unemployment, many people worry that their standard of living may suffer. But if you think good health is a far grander treasure than a big house and fat bank...

Curcumin and Vitamin D3 may Dissolve Plaques of Alzheimer's Disease Research into methods of preventing or reversing the damaging effects on the brain caused by Alzheimer's disease is heating up -- namely with a common spice, turmeric, and something so simple, the sun. A new study by UCLA scientists and colleagues...

Placebo Effect Regularly Beats Drugs A Wired UK article just told us a dirty little secret that the drug world would rather keep quiet. That fact is: drugs are having a difficult time beating the placebo effect, and increasingly so. In fact, they're finding...

Drink a Cup of Thyme Tea Instead of Coffee and Promote Good Health Thyme is a delicate herb which is both pungent and hot with a penetrating fragrance. It is also a fabulous herb for healing a large number of ailments. It is known to increase the flow of urine and to help in menstruation. It helps in the...

Workout Warriors and Heroin Addicts Not Too Dissimilar, Say Researchers According to researchers from Tufts University, the sense of euphoria people experience during rigorous exercise sessions produces hormones similar to those produced by people addicted to opiates. Tufts University researchers discovered...

The Myth of Low-Calorie Dieting for Weight Loss Exposed Anyone who has tried to lose weight has heard the age-old formula: eat less, exercise more. This is intended to create a calorie deficit, where the body is using up more than it's taking in. The idea is to coerce your body into burning stored...

Why NaturalNews opposes Obama's health care "reform" plan: a statement of principles (NaturalNews) Today's article on health care reform has stirred up an unexpectedly vocal debate among NaturalNews readers about health care reform. Some have expressed confusion over the NaturalNews position on health care reform: Are we for it? Against...