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The Downside of Doping Up
Citius, altius, fortius. Swifter, higher, stronger. This Olympic motto is based on the Greek ideals of discipline, dedication, sweat and fair play. Today it has a shadowy side.

Vitamin Potencies On The Block–An International Fight

If you take mega doses of vitamin C to help fight heart disease, for instance, you may soon find that a 60-milligram tablet is the maxi.

Let Food Be Your Medicine and Medicine Be Your Food
Isn’t it absurd that we call the modalities of natural healing "alternative medicine"? Obviously, "alternative" refers to something other than the accepted or the standard. The opposite to "alternative medicine" is what we now call orthodox or allopathic medicine, which then makes it the standard.

Common Prescriptions Linked To Cancer
Canadians spend an estimated $15.5 billion annually on drugs, according to the Canadian Institute for Health Information. This represents 15.2 per cent of total health-care spending.

Human Nutrition

Drug Approval in Canada
The tragic death of fifteen-year-old Vanessa Young did more than send one family into despair. It highlighted serious—and life-threatening—issues within Canada’s drug approval system.In March 2000, Vanessa died of cardiac arrest in her father’s arms.

Canadian Drug Surveillance: A Sick System?
Pop a pill. Cure your headache…. Damage your liver? In recent years, critics have pointed fingers at Canada’s drug monitoring system, claiming that inefficiencies in how drugs are tracked after approval contribute to needless injuries and deaths.

Where Do Doctors Get Their Information on Drugs?
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Fighting for Natural Health
The passion in Stefan Doll’s voice, during our hour-long telephone interview, is especially evident when he talks about his St John’s wort oil, winner of two Alive awards for excellence.

Fair Trade?
Globalization and free trade policies have been promoted by many large western governments, the World Bank, the International Monetary Fund, and the World Trade Organization and opposed by people worldwide.

False Claims by Drug Companies
Late last year we heard the terrifying news that several antidepressant drugs prescribed for adolescents were unsafe, and have led to suicide in some children.

Take Control of Your Health
It’s spread like cancer, controlling seed companies, national agriculture, mainstream food producers, international media, and government.

Drug Flaws
It’s a sunny Sunday morning as you reach for the grapefruit juic.

BC Naturopathic Doctors Fight for their Rights—and Ours!

Common Drugs Deplete Nutrients

Take a Pill
Governments are increasingly made uneasy by conflicting impulses surrounding the drug industry. It used to be that they couldn’t live without the industry. Now they are realizing that they cannot live with it either.

Gentle Giants
They’re housed one by one in small cages. Injected with strains of HIV and hepatitis, they scream and thrash in protest, only to be silenced by dart guns. Chimpanzees, our closest primate relatives, have been used in biomedical research for the past 15 to 20 years.

Selling Sickness: How the World’s Biggest Pharmaceutical Companies Are Turning Us All into Patients
“With less than 5 percent of the world’s population, the United States and Canada make up almost 50 percent of the global market in prescription drugs,” write Australian health reporter Ray Moynihan and Canadian drug policy researcher Alan Cassels in their book, Selling Sickness.

Nutrients In the News
There have been 32 adverse reactions to vitamin C as of May 2008, according to the Canada Vigilance Online Database hosted by Health Canada. But hold on! Before you get nervous and chuck out the bottle that you just bought, let’s dig deeper.