NCAHF Newsletter articles from March 2001

NCAHF Newsletter archives from March 2001

Cardiovascular risk reduction from vitamin E still unverified.
March 1, 2001... Vitamin E (300 milligrams of synthetic oxtocopherol per day) showed no effect on the frequency of major fatal and non-fatal cardiovascular events in a controlled, randomized (but not double-blind) prevention trial on 4,495 men and women 50...

Colorado rebirthers convicted; new state law passed to protect children.
March 1, 2001... Larry Sarner Member, Quackwatch Board of Scientific and Technical Advisors Linda Rosa, RN NCAHF Colorado Coordinator On the 20th of April Connell Watkins, 54, a pioneer in the treatment of "attachment disorder" in children, and her...

Reasons to be wary of herbal treatments.
March 1, 2001... As part of a special section on herbal medicine published in the Fall/Winter 2000 issue of The Scientific Review of Alternative Medicine (SRAM), Varro E. Tyler, Purdue University distinguished professor emeritus of pharmacognosy explains how...

Sram focuses on "alternative" public health threats.
March 1, 2001... Many proponents of "alternative" healthcare promote much more than dubious methods of treatment, prevention, and diagnosis. They also make dubious claims about what threatens the health of the public. A symposium edited by NCAHF president...