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Patients coming to the Whitaker Wellness Institute sometimes express surprise that we serve coffee. Doesn’t it increase the body’s acidity? Aren’t health-conscious people supposed to drink tea instead? Isn’t caffeine bad for you? If coffee were harmful, then every morning emergency rooms around the world would be choked with people suffering the ill effects of [...]
Drinking coffee can lower the risk of liver fibrosis, hepatitis, and type 2 diabetes; new research has shown. Coffee has also been shown to lower the risk of prostate cancer, and even Alzheimer’s disease and stroke. It is the caffeine in the coffee that is the active ingredient, but other sources of caffeine, such as [...]
People who are undergo radiation therapy for childhood cancers are significantly more likely to develop diabetes as adults, according to a new study conducted by researchers from Emory University and published in the Archives of Internal Medicine. A number of studies have found that radiation, chemotherapy, and other such treatments significantly shorten the lives of [...]
The scientific community is warning of the risk carbon nanotubes pose as a trigger for mesothelioma cancer, a disease the American medical establishment has failed to cure and continues to fear. While much attention is focused on this potential environmental hazard, medical professionals and scientists continue to ignore plant-based mesothelioma treatments that exist which could [...]
When scientists gathered in Houston recently for the American Association for Cancer Research (AACR) Frontiers in Cancer Prevention Research Conference, they heard groundbreaking evidence about how colon cancer can be prevented. The new data wasn’t about drugs or surgery, either. Instead, two separate research groups concluded natural substances appear to protect from often deadly colon [...]
(NaturalNews) According to the EPA, air pollution indoors is often two to five times worse than it is outside. In extreme cases, air pollution inside can be a hundred times worse than outside. The reason is partly because numerous chemicals, like cleaning supplies, hair sprays and perfumes, are used inside the home. Another part of [...]
(NaturalNews) Almost four decades ago, Richard Nixon signed the National Cancer Act of 1971 and the “war on cancer” began- or so the mainstream media would like us to think. The so-called war on cancer is not only a dismal failure but has also become an outright lie perpetuated by big business. Not only are [...]
Defining Cancer Cancer is a term used for diseases in which abnormal cells divide without control and are able to invade other tissues. Cancer cells can spread to other parts of the body through the blood and lymph systems. Cancer is not just one disease but many diseases. There are more than 100 different types [...]
There are lotions and creams for wrinkles available in drugstores, department stores, health and beauty stores – even on the internet that claim to decrease wrinkles and reverse or prevent damage brought about by the sun’s harmful rays. Are wrinkle creams actually successful in reducing wrinkles? Many studies have proven that some creams have compounds [...]
When you have been dropping your prescription in at the pharmacy you may have been asked if you would like a generic. There are many people who do not fully understand what that means and so they decide not to get it in case it is the wrong thing. However, if you do take a [...]