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Just When You Thought Big Food Couldn’t Sink Any Lower…

In All Health Watch, Big Pharma, Diabetes, Diet and Nutrition, Featured Article, Health Warning

In the 1960s, the sugar industry perpetrated a huge fraud on the public.

People were starting to blame sugar for the sudden rise in heart disease in America. So sugar makers hatched a plot to keep their profits rolling in. They called it Project 226.1

Under the scheme, they bribed Harvard professors to publish fake research. Their “studies” showed heart disease was not caused by sugar, but by fat.… Read More

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Just One Day on an Opioid Drug Can Turn You Into an Addict

In All Health Watch, Big Pharma, Featured Article, Health Warning

Your back suddenly locks up… You have a wisdom tooth pulled… You have a bout with shingles… You have a kidney stone…

Your doctor is likely to prescribe an opioid painkiller when you’re hit with severe pain caused by one these common medical conditions—or dozens of others.

By now, just about everybody knows these drugs, which include Vicodin and OxyContin, are at the root of America’s deadly addiction epidemic.… Read More

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Two-Thirds of Doctors on Big Pharma’s Payroll, New Study Finds

In All Health Watch, Big Pharma, Featured Article

We like to think that we can trust our doctor—especially when it comes prescribing drugs. But a disturbing new study confirms a grim suspicion we—and many others—have held for years…and it should have every patient concerned.

The vast majority of doctors are on Big Pharma’s payroll.

Researchers at Drexel University randomly surveyed more than 3,500 adults who had visited a doctor within the last year.… Read More

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When a Man Takes a Hair-Growth Drug, He’s Taking a Giant Risk

In All Health Watch, Anti-Aging, Big Pharma, Featured Article, Men's Health, Sexual Health, Sexual Health

More than 40 million American men suffer from hair loss. That means there’s a huge market for baldness drugs.

The most common are Propecia (finasteride), Proscar (also finasteride), and Avodart (dutasteride). Men spend $225 million each year on these medications.1

Most men take these drugs, grow some hair, and do fine.

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