• WEEKLY HEALTH TIP: This month's article features an overview of common skin conditions with a look at the possible causes and thoughts on prevention and treatment.
  
• VITAMIN D ROUND-UP: Vitamin D is an amazing nutrient that protects the body from a host of diseases and problems. Researchers continually uncover new links between lack of vitamin D and disease. Here are the latest.
  
• DID YOU KNOW THAT VITAMIN C CAN TREAT OVER 30 MAJOR DISEASES? Vitamin C has been known to cure over 30 major disease for over 50 years. But why haven't you heard more about it?  Why haven't more doctors used Vitamin C as medicine?
  
• HIGH DEMAND PUSHES UP MEAT PRICES BY 25% IN THREE YEARS: We’re eating more meat than ever before and market forces are driving many to seek alternatives. Little, however, is mentioned of the damage the excess consumption of animal protein causes to human health.
  
• CHILDREN ARE BEING EXPLOITED TO EXTEND PHARMACEUTICAL PATENTS: Want to protect your kids from high cholesterol? Just give ’em drugs—like the new, chewable form of Lipitor. Yes, chewable. Like candy. A new Action Alert asks Congress to repeal a really rotten law that encourages this.
  
• NIACIN TO BOOST YOUR HDL, 'GOOD,' CHOLESTEROL: Niacin, a B vitamin, has long been used to increase high-density lipoprotein (HDL), the "good" cholesterol. HDL cholesterol helps sweep up low-density lipoprotein (LDL), or "bad" cholesterol, in your bloodstream. Although niacin is readily available and effective, it hasn't gotten much attention compared to other cholesterol drugs.
  
• COULD TAKING VITAMIN B SAVE YOUR MEMORY? Researchers at Oxford University found that the mild memory problems suffered by healthy people stopped getting worse when they took a high-dose, combination B vitamin supplement.
  
• DIABETES. ARE YOU NEXT? To date, nearly 24 million Americans have been diagnosed with diabetes—and these numbers are predicted to skyrocket to at least 30 million by the year 2030. Elsewhere in Australia, Britain, Canada and New Zealand, diabetes is the fifth-leading cause of death. The condition is considered ‘incurable’ and linked to serious problems such as blindness, lower limb amputations, and increased risk of heart attack and stroke. Here, Dr Julian Whitaker, one of nutritional medicine’s leading spokesmen, takes you through his highly successful approach to eliminating this menace once and for all.
  

 

• BRAIN STIMULATION CAN HELP PARTIALLY PARALYZED STROKE PATIENTS REGAIN USE OF THEIR MUSCLES: Stroke patients who were left partially paralysed found that their condition improved after they received a simple and non-invasive method of brain stimulation, according to research in the September issue of the European Journal of Neurology.
  
• ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE: Andrew Saul PhD: “FACT: More than half of nursing home beds are occupied by AD patients. FACT: Alzheimer’s disease is the number 4 killer of Americans, causing over 100,000 deaths each year in the USA alone.”
  
• OSTEOPOROSIS: On average, one in three women and one in 12 men over 50 suffer from osteoporosis in the western cultures. The word actually means ‘porous bone’. The disease is all but unknown in those consuming agrarian diets (which should have alarm bells ringing immediately).
  
• A DECADE LATER, GENETIC MAP YIELDS FEW NEW CURES: Ten years after President Bill Clinton announced that the first draft of the human genome was complete, medicine has yet to see any large part of the promised benefits.
• HURRAH FOR GWEN OLSEN: One of the pharmaceutical industry’s best reps dishes the dirt on this creepy, self-serving industry.
  
• THE TROUBLE WITH FISH: Rod Stewart and his pregnant wife Penny Lancaster have revealed how they were forced to turn to IVF after a long battle to have another child. Miss Lancaster, 39, said she had cut fish out of her diet after doctors discovered very high levels of mercury in her body. She then became pregnant on her third round of IVF.

 

 

• JUNIOR DOCTORS AND THE BRITONS DYING BECAUSE WE WON’T STAND UP TO THE EU: Those of us who are troubled by Britain’s loss of sovereignty to Brussels have always been aware that EU membership poses risks to our political health. Even so, few could have foreseen that belonging to the European Union can literally kill you. Yet this now appears to be happening.
  
• A UNITED EUROPE? Belgium  faces being 'broken up and abolished', one of the country's leading politicians has warned. Socialist MP Laurette Onkelinx believes the animosity between the country's two main regions could trigger a split.
  
• TOO LITTLE TOO LATE: Details of a 'referendum lock' to prevent more powers being handed to Brussels without the British people having a say will be published today. Europe Minister David Lidington last night said the move would prevent a repeat of the Lisbon Treaty fiasco in 2008, which saw Labour abandoning a pledge to hold a referendum over signing up.
  
  
  
  
  
• MAILBAG: This month's collection of letters from our subscribers.

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