NCAHF Newsletter articles from September 1992

NCAHF Newsletter archives from September 1992

Dangers of iron include vitamin C supplementation.
September 1, 1992... A Finnish study that found that serum iron was a stronger predictor of heart attack than LDL cholesterol has led to extensive media coverage. Dr. Victor Herbert has been pointing this out for several years, and discussed the problem in the...

A Reader's Guide to "Alternative Medicine."
September 1, 1992... A Reader's Guide to "Alternative Medicine," written by Kurt Butler and edited by NCAHF board member Stephen Barrett, MD, is a treasure trove of information on scores of dubious products and practices. Two chapters take on leading "diet gurus"...

Hatch-et job on consumer protection reforms. (Sen. Orrin Hatch, dietary supplements labeling, and the Health Freedom Act of 1992)
September 1, 1992... Senator Orrin Hatch has become a champion for the health food, supplement and herbal industries opposed to consumer protection reforms of the Nutrition Labeling and Education Act of 1990 (NLEA). At the urging of his constituents, Hatch...

Quackery: a national scandal. (preventing quackery through consumer protection laws)
September 1, 1992... A comprehensive article on the size and nature of the problem of quackery in America today written by NCAHF president, William Jarvis, was published in the August, 1992, issue of Clinical Chemistry (38:1574-1586). The article focuses upon the...

Chiros target children. (chiropractic care for infants and children)
September 1, 1992... One of the most disturbing features of chiropractic entrepreneurialism is the targeting of infants and children for chiropractic care. An ever-increasing barrage of chiropediatric promotions are coming to our attention. Chiropractors have not...

Living Without Dieting.
September 1, 1992... The simple facts are that body weight is the effect. The causes are genetics (body type & metabolism) and lifestyle (diet and physical activity). Unsound weight loss programs focus upon the effects, rather than the causes. That's why the...

Those misguided "medical freedom" laws.
September 1, 1992... Several states have passed, or are considering, so-called "medical freedom" laws which require medical licensing boards to prove that harm has resulted from "alternative" medicine before action could be taken against maverick doctors. The...

Revici may have killed again. (Emanuel Revici and medical quackery)
September 1, 1992... "A nightmare that lives on" (New York Daily News 6/5/92) tells the story of 23-year-old Virginia Good and the cold indifference of "so-called doctors" who discarded her like "some soiled rag" after failing to cure her breast cancer as they...

Political favoritism, not merit created the NIH Office of Alternative Medicine. (National Institutes of Health)
September 1, 1992... Quacks are, first and foremost, promoters of their scams and schemes. Many are already using their NIH invitations in their promotions to dupe the public into believing that they have been legitimized. Desperate people don't need much urging...

Cancer Treatment Centers of America.
September 1, 1992... Aggressive advertising by the Cancer Treatment Centers of America (CTCA) attracted the attention of reporter Jeffrey Weiss, staff writer of the Dallas Morning News. What is touted as a new "powerful and relentless enemy" of cancer is about 60...

Is osteopathy regressing? (The Bulletin Board)
September 1, 1992... Osteopaths are generally regarded as on a par with medical doctors. The profession began as a sect* founded upon the teachings of Andrew Taylor Still (1828-1917). Around 1874, Still developed his own system of medicine based upon the idea that...

Prevalence of cancer quackery. (The Bulletin Board)
September 1, 1992... In 1989 the American Cancer Society's Committee on Questionable Methods of Cancer Management commissioned a national study on the prevalence of use of unproven cancer remedies by Leo J. Shapiro & Associates, an organization that conducts...