Issue 3 | March 2008 |

"The reason that most people do not accomplish their goals in life is because they spend too much time preparing and thinking rather than focusing and doing."
-- Dr. Loretta Lanphier, ND, CN, HHP, CH

We invite you to visit Dr. Lanphier's Oasis of Health & Wellness Blog.
New articles and commentary posted daily!

Current topics include:

Incidence of Strokes in Women On the Rise
Pharmaceuticals in Water Supply
Lo-Cal Foods and Beverages May Encourage Weight Gain
New Turn in Vaccine-Autism Cases
Breakfast: A Critical Component of Wellness
The Pros and Cons of Wine for Your Health
More Benefits of Probiotics

Allergies

Do we all have an equal chance of being allergic, or are there certain risk factors that can affect the odds either way? Let’s investigate...
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Branding Pregnancy As Mental Illness

The Mothers Act is pending legislation that will indoctrinate hundreds of thousands of mothers into taking dangerous psych drugs. Urgent consumer action is needed to stop this atrocity...
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Aluminum and Vaccine Ingredients: What Do We Know? What Don’t We Know?

Thimerosal, which contains the organic compound ethyl mercury, is a known neurotoxin and used to be a major ingredient in childhood vaccines...
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Prostate Cancer Prevention

Tips on how to prevent prostate cancer...
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All About Magnesium

Information about Magnesium directly from the Office of Dietary Supplements...
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Forgiveness: How to let go of grudges and bitterness

When we hold on to pain, old grudges, bitterness and even hatred, many areas of our lives can suffer...
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March Healthy Recipes

Chipotle Black Bean Soup
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Male smokers who consume more magnesium appear to have a lower risk for cerebral infarction, a type of stroke that occurs when blood flow to the brain is blocked, according to a report in the March 10 issue of Archives of Internal Medicine. Read article at physorg.com

Chromium picolinate linked to brain activity boost - A daily supplement of chromium picolinate may increase brain activity in older people experiencing early memory decline, researchers have reported. Functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) scans showed that a daily dose of 1,000 micrograms led to greater activation in various parts of the brain, researchers from the University of Cincinnati presented the study results at the 19th annual meeting of the American Neuropsychiatric Association. Read article at nutraingredients.com

Typical North American diet is deficient in omega-3 fatty acids - New research from the Child & Family Research Institute shows the typical North American diet of eating lots of meat and not much fish is deficient in omega-3 fatty acids and this may pose a risk to infant neurological development. Read article at physorg.com

Study finds pharmaceutical drugs in tap water - A vast array of pharmaceuticals – including antibiotics, anti-convulsants, mood stabilizers and sex hormones – have been found in the drinking water supplies of at least 41 million Americans, an Associated Press investigation shows. Read article in the Dallas Morning News (USA). Comment: Far from being limited to the United States , contamination of the water supply with chemical drug medicines is now a worldwide problem. In the UK, for example, powerful cancer and psychiatric drugs have been found in tap water, leading doctors to express concern about exposing pregnant women to drugs that could harm an unborn child.

Widespread contamination of U.S. corn, soybeans and other crops by genetically engineered varieties is threatening the purity of organic and natural food products and driving purveyors of such specialty products to new efforts to protect their markets. A range of players, from dairy farmers to natural food retailers, are behind an effort to introduce testing requirements and standards for certification aimed at keeping contamination at bay. That goal is rapidly becoming harder, however, as planting of biotech corn, soybeans, and other crops expands across the United States. The USDA has a set of national standards for foods labeled "organic" as part of its marketing service, but the industry players seeking independent testing said the USDA has not gone far enough to require organic and natural foods are free from biotech contamination.

There’s more bad news for advocates of the MMR (measles-mumps-rubella) vaccine with the discovery this week that it can cause a blood disorder. Researchers have found that it may trigger immune thrombocytopenic purpura (ITP), an immune system malfunction that destroys the body’s own blood platelets.

Watermelon juice may provide a novel source of the essential amino acid arginine, says a new study that shows the juice is a rich source of its metabolic precursor. Researchers from the ARS, Texas A&M University, the University of Nevada, and Oklahoma State University, have reported that blood arginine levels increased by 22 per cent after three weeks of drinking watermelon juice with every meal.

Study finds folate-breast cancer link - The mandatory fortification of certain foodstuffs being considered in places like the UK and Australia has been dealt a blow after a study found folic acid contributed to the risk of developing certain breast cancers.