Why Detox?

We have a had an article submitted to the library site on the importance of detoxing. This is concise and about as "to the point" as I have seen in such few words. I have provided the first paragraph and a link below for your convenience. Detoxing in today's world really is vitally important. There are many ways to approach a detox program. Some methods are better than others, but it is more important to at least do *something*. I hope you will take the time to read this.

"Every day we are exposed to external toxins from our environment and internal toxins produced as the byproduct of our digestive and metabolic processes. Toxic and unwanted inorgranic chemicals are found in our foods, water and air in the form of fertilizers, pesticides, heavy metals and other pollutants. Working in climate controlled environments is a source of airborne microorganisms and debris and home and work environments expose us to paint and carpet fumes. Everything from plastic containers to dry cleaned clothes to skin and haircare products and cosmetics bombard our bodies with unwanted pollutants. All of these fall in the categoryof environmental toxins..."

For the rest of the article, click below:

http://www.appliedhealtharticles.com/Article/Why-detox-/40

History of Dieting

We just received a very interesting post to our Health Articles Library (Applied Health Articles) about the history of dieting. For anyone who is a chronic dieter, you might enjoy reading this. Even those of us who don't diet will find it interesting.

To read the article, click the link above to go to the Articles home page and scroll down and click on the "Weight Loss and Obesity" section. The article is called

Digesting The Often Unpalatable History Of Dieting.
Modern dieting fashions often follow ideas that have been tried before. Dieters need to place what they are doing within a detailed history of diets and to understand that any diet cannot be the whole story of weight-control because only fundamental behavior change can ensure long-term weight-loss success.

Or you can go directly to the article by clicking here:
Digesting The Often Unpalatable History Of Dieting.

Enjoy!

FDA Scientist Survey Results on Political Influences

For some time now, we have been hearing the news about the embattled FDA’s appearance of a conflict of interest between their mandate to protect the American public, and their close ties and associations to the pharmaceutical companies they review. We can go into considerable depth of past events where the FDA allowed a “fast track” to be employed on the drug approval process due to the urgings of the pharmaceutical companies, but I think one of the most telling examples of the internal conflicts plaguing the FDA is indicated in a recently released survey.

Just shy of 1000 FDA scientists responded to a blind survey conducted by the Union for Concerned Scientists, with almost one fifth of those saying they "have been asked, for non-scientific reasons, to inappropriately exclude or alter technical information or their conclusions in a FDA scientific document."

Yikes!

We already know that the scientists who have stood up as whistle blowers in the early stages of approval processes for drugs like Vioxx routinely experience a backlash from their superiors. I cannot help but wonder how many more scientists would have reported similar tactics if they had complete confidence that the survey was truly confidential.

For the full story on the survey results, go here:
http://www.ucsusa.org/news/press_release/fda-scientists-pressured.html