NaturalNews.com | Today's Featured Stories - April 2, 2010

Organic cheaters exposed by public protest at health products trade show (NaturalNews) The Organic Consumers Association has long fought against what it calls "organic cheater brands" -- personal care products that use the name "organic" in the product name or brand, yet are not truly organic products at all. This year at...

90 Percent of Parents Want to Know More About Alternative Medicine, Survey Reveals (NaturalNews) Ninety percent of parents would like to know more about alternative medical approaches for their children, according to a survey conducted by Children's Hospitals and Clinics of Minnesota (Children's), a nationwide leader in integrative...

Antidepressants simply don't work on most patients, study finds (NaturalNews) Researchers from the University of Pennsylvania have found that antidepressant drugs do little to nothing for people with mild to moderate depression. Countering the belief that drugs help everyone with depression, Robert DeRubeis...

Rogue Kidney Brokers in The U.S. Sell Black Market Organs for Transplantation (NaturalNews) The recent arrests of 44 people on charges of organ trafficking have exposed a major criminal market in illegal organ transplants, where wealthy patients purchase organs from poor Third World residents through brokers residing in the United...

Let Go of Negative Energy: Easy Techniques to Help Ever had a conversation or incident with someone that left you upset for a day or two? Maybe there's someone in your life, perhaps a boss or family member, that this happens with regularly? Energy is exchanged in conversation and in events...

Falling Potash: Stop Our Pending Agricultural Collapse Of the three big fertilizers used in agriculture (nitrogen, potassium, phosphorus), two are minerals that must be mined. Potassium ("potash") is a mineral that is mined, processed, and then spread on fields as fertilizer in most modern, industrial...

Playgrounds for Seniors: A Fun and Practical Idea Gets the Elderly in Motion In Great Britain and Japan, playgrounds are being built for seniors. In Manchester, United Kingdom, seniors can use low impact exercise equipment in Dam Head Public Park. In Japan, with birthrates falling and the numbers of senior citizens...

Vitamin and Mineral Shortages Cause Degenerative Diseases When micronutrients like vitamins and minerals are in short supply they are temporarily reserved for the most essential organs, at the expense of less pressing tasks. This is a survival mechanism, an example of physiological triage (1). Neglecting...

Today's health headlines from across the 'net

(selected by the Health Ranger for your education and amusement)

• Idaho Governor signs health care freedom act into law
• BPA contamination found in 90% of soup cans
• Oops: Tens of thousands of breast implants might be harmful to women
• Wikileads now being surveilled and intimidated by U.S. government spooks
• U.S. govt. pursues policy of "indefinite debt"
• Junk food rage: McDonald's customer slaps employee, climbs through window for Filet-O-Fish
• U.S. hospital refuses to hire smokers
• Electromagnetic pulse can be used to disrupt morality in the human brain
• Big Pharma pushing cholesterol meds onto perfectly healthy people who have no cholesterol problems
• Finally! Judge rules that human genes cannot be patented
• Now even Obama goes for more offshore drilling
• Honeybee populations continue to collapse due to chemical pesticides

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