NCAHF Newsletter articles from November 1990

NCAHF Newsletter archives from November 1990

How health fraud works.
November 1, 1990... HOW HEALTH FRAUD WORKS A group of feature articles by The Kansas City Star (6/10/90). "Doctors of Deceit" reveals common ways that health fraud is perpetrated by doctors, pharmacists, chiropractors, and hospitals. Some of the tactics...

Society to be plagued by crank ecology books.
November 1, 1990... SOCIETY TO BE PLAGUED BY CRANK ECOLOGY BOOKS Diet books are always leaders in the popular trade market, and the slant they take seems to follow trends (eg, hypoglycemia, weight loss, fiber, low cholesterol, immune system enhancement). The...

Toning tables fail test. (continuous assistive-passive exercise)
November 1, 1990... TONING TABLES FAIL TEST Devices promoted by health spas called "toning tables" employ the theory that continuous assistive-passive exercise (CAPE) will achieve a significant measure of physical fitness. A test of CAPE divided 43 sedentary,...

Miracle at Loma Linda? (infant with hypoplastic left-heart syndrome was awaiting transplant when his heart spontaneously developed to nearly normal)
November 1, 1990... MIRACLE AT LOMA LINDA? National media reports proclaimed that a miracle had occurred at Loma Linda University Medical Center (LLUMC) in which an infant born with a hypoplastic left-heart syndrome (HLHS) and small mitral and aortic valves who...

Golden Pride Products. (false & misleading health claims)
November 1, 1990... GOLDEN PRIDE PRODUCTS Golden Pride Products is a West Palm Beach, Florida company that markets its product line by a multilevel scheme. Promotional literature contains health misinformation and obviously illegal medical claims: Formula #1...

Health textbooks fail to warn about quackery. (health textbooks used in California schools)
November 1, 1990... HEALTH TEXTBOOKS FAIL TO WARN ABOUT QUACKERY NCAHF President William Jarvis was asked by the California Textbook League (CTL) to evaluate the coverage given quackery in health textbooks used in California schools. The CTL asked Dr. Jarvis to...

"Buccaneer entrepreneurialism." (how free enterprise can be harmful if not regulated)
November 1, 1990... "BUCCANEER ENTREPRENEURIALISM" NCAHF founders rejected Ralph Nader's adversarial approach that delineates "consumers" versus "industry" as separate classes of people as wrongheaded in a free enterprise society such as ours. Consumerism...

Big Green and big lies. (California Proposition 128)
November 1, 1990... BIG GREEN AND BIG LIES Big Green (California Proposition 128), the radical environmentalist's solution to pollution, lost big at the polls. No one knows for certain why, but the best-guessers are pointing to voter's rejection of every...

Illinois DC acknowledges chiropractic failings. (Mark Sanders)
November 1, 1990... ILLINOIS DC ACKNOWLEDGES CHIROPRACTIC FAILINGS Mark Sanders, DC a practicing Illinois chiropractor, and former chiropractic school instructor, writes: "If you suspect that diagnostic shortcomings and therapeutic abuses still plague the...

Alternative cancer patients show lower survival. (Bristol Cancer Help Center)
November 1, 1990... ALTERNATIVE CANCER PATIENTS SHOW LOWER SURVIVAL The Bristol Cancer Help Center (BCHC) was set up in 1979 to offer a variety of alternative therapies in the United Kingdom. Included is a stringent diet of raw and partly cooked vegetables with...

6892 Questionable Doctors.
November 1, 1990... QUESTIONABLE DOCTORS BOOK The national media widely covered the book 6892 Questionable Doctors compiled by the Public Citizen Health Research Group (PCHRG) in June, 1990. NCAHF obtained a copy and checked it against its own listing of...