NCAHF Newsletter articles from March 1995

NCAHF Newsletter archives from March 1995

Attributions for long life. (adapted from Reuter's World Report, March 6, 1995)
March 1, 1995... The story of a French woman who turned 120 years of age this year was widely reported. Born in 1875, she had met Van Gogh and seen the construction of the Eiffel Tower. It was reported that she smoked two cigarettes a day, and had given up wine...

Citizen's petition asks FDA to ban "stress vitamins." (Center for Science in the Public Interest)
March 1, 1995... Stephen Barrett, MD, has petitioned the FDA to issue a public warning and to ban vitamin "stress formulas" with no proven ingredients. Barrett believes that virtually all such products are bogus. So-called "stress formulas" are dietary...

Cured! critique available. (Cured! Secrets of Alternative Healing)
March 1, 1995... The Sept-Oct issue of this newsletter ("Quackery goes prime time") the NBC program CURED! Secrets of Alternative Healing was severely criticized. It was stated that later in the year that an investigative source would reveal that none of the...

Dr. David Williams. (natural health guru)
March 1, 1995... Recently we've seen a proliferation of slick, four-color mini-magazines extolling various individuals as health gurus. "Dr. David Williams" once claimed merely to be "leading the worldwide search for natural remedies." Since then he has humbly...

California medical board tackles chelation therapy abuse.
March 1, 1995... The Health Quality Enforcement Section of the California Attorney General's (AG) Office contends that it prosecutes three or four cases a year involving the use of EDTA chelation therapy (CT) to treat patients for a variety of ailments other than...

Juice Plus+. (food supplement)
March 1, 1995... Juice Plus+ is a food supplement in which gel capsules contain flash-dried powders of juiced vegetables and fruits. Flash-drying prevents the full degradation of enzymes associated with slower methods of food processing. According to company...

Minnesota milk-cure case ends with mistrial. (adapted from the Minneapolis Star Tribune, March 16, 1995)
March 1, 1995... The trial of Minnesota dairy farmer Herb Saunders, 66, ended in a mistrial on March 10. Saunders was charged with practicing medicine without a license for selling bovine colostrum ("first milk") as a potential cure for cancer and other serious...

Fetzer Institute manipulates information conduits for its antiscience message.
March 1, 1995... David Zimmerman exposes the aggressive efforts by the $200 million endowed Fetzer Institute (FI) to "broaden the view of science to include ways of knowing that are beyond the analytical and experimental models," to "incorporate subjective and...