NCAHF Newsletter articles from May 1994

NCAHF Newsletter archives from May 1994

The antioxidant scare.
May 1, 1994... Vitaminophiliacs (*1) were stunned by the New England Jounal of Medicine report (1994;330:1029-35) from Finland in which male smokers ingested antioxidant exceptionally high quality intervention study concluded that antioxidants betacarotene...

Chiropractic & strokes.
May 1, 1994... A study in which 177 California neurologists responded to the survey conducted by the Stanford Stroke Center found that within a 2-year period, 56 strokes had occured among patients within 24-hours after receiving neck manipulation by a...

Chinese herbal medicine toxicity in Hong Kong.
May 1, 1994... Physicians at the Dept. of Clinical Pharmacology, Chinese University of Hong Kong, and the Prince of Wales Hospital there, have collaborated on a review of the published work on the dangers of Chinese herbal and proprietary medicines. The...

Consumer Reports unfairly attacks ACSH. (American Council on Science and Health)
May 1, 1994... Consumer Reports (CR) (5/94) carried an article, "public interest pretenders," that did a good job of exposing ostensible consumer groups which are funded by industry, such as an auto consumer group funded by the industry, a Coalition that is...

Outmoded dental infection theory trying a comeback. (focal infection theory)
May 1, 1994... The so-called "focal infection theory," popular in the early 1900s, is being touted by Root Canal Cover-up Exposed! by George Meinig, DDS. The idea is that bacteria trapped in the dentin tubules can escape and be transported to other organs of...

Deepak Chopra gets an unflattering view. (practitioner of Ayurvedic medicine)
May 1, 1994... Forbes magazines makes Deepak Chopra, MD, look more like Bozo the Clown than Robert Fulton (as in "they laughed at---") in "Lord of Immortality(*1)" (4/11/94). Chopra is portrayed as "the latest in a line of gurus who have prospered by...

ACS on questionable electronic devices. (American Cancer Society)
May 1, 1994... The American Cancer Society statement on questionable electronic devices used in the diagnosis and treatment of cancer appeared in the March/April issue of CA-Cancer Journal for Clinicians (1994;44:115-127). It includes a brief review of...

Applied Kinesiology: complete hoax or undiscovered psychological testing tool?
May 1, 1994... Applied Kinesiology (AK) (*1) (aka, Contact Reflex Analysis, Dental Kinesiology, or Behavioral Kinesiology) is a procedure in which resistance-response (aka, "muscle strength testing") explorations of an extend arm or leg is "tested...

The fruits of the anti-immunization ideology.
May 1, 1994... The San Francisco Chronicle (4/20/94) reports on an outbreak of whooping cough at the Starchild Waldorf Preschool in Sonoma County (Calif) that is the result of anti-immunzation beliefs of the families who send their children there (they also...