Sugar’s sweet invitation to disease by Dr. Martha Grout — If, for years, you eat more sugar than is needed by the muscles for exercise, you strain the pancreas, asking it to constantly make excess insulin to lower your blood sugar level. Eventually, the pancreas cannot make enough insulin, and the blood sugar level remains […]
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Community forums, scientists criticize FDA
March 5, 2012
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The need to “fix the FDA” tops the list for government reforms, according to an unusual community forum in Tempe, Ariz., moderated by Dr. Martha Grout. Some 250 people gathered at the Southwest Institute of Healing Arts (SWIHA) on December 28, 2008, to discuss health care reform. The meeting was in response to the Obama […]
Recognizing mercury’s toxicity
March 5, 2012
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The United States agreed to join an international treaty to reduce mercury emissions. At the international forum in Nairobi, Kenya, in February 2009, the current Obama administration described mercury pollution as the world’s gravest chemical problem. This represents a 180-degree change in existing government policy. Mercury is a heavy metal, known to damage the human […]
May 31, 2014
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