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Links to Sites About Health

Links last checked on 22 May 2005.

This page is no longer maintained. We recommend the Weston A. Price site as a beginning point for your health exploration (see below).

Much of what is commonly believed about health is just plain wrong. We owe it to ourselves to educate ourselves about health issues and not remain at the mercy of "common" wisdom and what we see and hear in the mass media.

See also: links to interesting sites.

Favorite Sites

• The Weston A. Price Foundation – To quote from their site: "The Foundation is dedicated to restoring nutrient-dense foods to the American diet through education, research and activism." Be sure to check out:
  • Nutrition Basics
  • Myths & Truths About Nutrition
  • Know your Fats
  • Women's Health
  • Soy Alert
  • Thailand – Land of the Coconut

• Thyroid Disease with Mary Shomon – Excellent information on this site about this important and underdiagnosed illness. Check out:
  • Basic Information About Hypothyroidism
  • 10 Things Your Doctor Won't Tell You About Your Thyroid Condition
  • 15 Reasons Why Your TSH May Be Fluctuating
  • Arthritis and Joint Paint with Thyroid and Autoimmune Disease

• Second Opinions – by Barry Groves. Contains excellent, well-researched articles on many topics. Chock out:
  • Sunlight, Skin Cancers, and Vitamin D
  • The Naive Vegetarian
  • Fluoride – Health or Politics?
  • The Soft Science of Dietary Fat, by Gary Taubes.
  • The Cholesterol Myths

Information on Fats, Oils & Cholesterol

• Websites
  • The International Network of Cholesterol Skeptics – excellent information and links.
  • Know Your Fats – on the Weston A. Price website.
  • The Cholesterol Myths by Uffe Ravnskov, MD, PhD – Excerpts from his book of the same name show that we are very misinformed about cholesterol.
  • Ban Trans Fat – good information including information on the new food labels.

• Articles
  • The Skinny About Fats at the Weston A. Price Foundation. An excellent overview.
  • What if It's All Been a Big Fat Lie by Gary Taubes. This excellent article is from the New York Times Magazine.
  • The Oiling of America by Mary G. Enig, Ph.D. and Sally Fallon – a two part article covering the history of the misinformation and who benefited.
  • Why the Cholesterol-Heart Disease Theory is Wrong by Malcolm Kendrick, MD.
  • What Protects the French from Heart Disease (It's Not What You Think) by Malcolm Kendrick, MD.
  • The Soft Science of Dietary Fat, by Gary Taubes, recently appeared in Science Magazine.
  • Health Risks from Processed Foods and Trans Fats: Part I & Part II & Part III – An interview With Dr. Mary Enig by Richard A. Passwater Ph.D.
  • The Great Con-ola by Sally Fallon and Mary G. Enig, PhD. Learn the truth about this alleged "health oil."
  • Fatty Acid Peroxidation & Free Radicals by Greg Watson. Why unsaturated fats are prone to oxidizing and creating health-attacking free-radicals.
  • Coconut Oil Link Page

• Articles on Cholesterol
  • The Cholesterol Myth, by Barry Groves – perhaps the best summary of information about medical testing and cholesterol.
  • The Cholesterol Myth, by Thomas Moore, is an excerpt from his book Heart Failure.
  • High cholesterol may protect against infections and atherosclerosis by Uffe Ravnskov. Includes two tables of special interest:
    • Studies of elderly people where high cholesterol did not predict coronary morbidity or mortality (12 studies)
    • Studies of elderly people where high cholesterol did not predict all-cause mortality or where mortality was inversely associated with cholesterol (13 studies)

Statin Drugs

• Articles
  • Statin Drugs – A Critical Review of the Risk/Benefit Clinical Research by Joel M. Kauffman, Ph.D.
  • Uffe Ravnskov'sComments on the new cholesterol guidelines regarding statins.
  • Transient Global Amnesia Associated with the Statin Drugs By Duane Graveline, MD, MPH
  • Cholesterol Skeptics and the Bad News about Statin Drugs By Maryann Napoli
  • Do Statins have a Role in Primary Prevention?" – An unbiased review of ten major studies.
  • Statins: Did your doctor tell you . . .? – the short version.
  • Statins: Did your doctor tell you . . .? – the long version with many references.

What About Soy?

For a more complete listing of links with descriptions, check out our Soy Links Page.

• Websites
  • Soy Online Service
  • Weston A. Price Soy Alert

• Articles
  • Tragedy and Hype by Sally Fallon and Mary G. Enig, PhD
  • The Shadow of Soy or, How I stopped loving and learned to worry about the bean by Sean Carson.
  • Soy Isoflavones – Panacea or Poison? by Mike Fitzpatrick, PhD, MNZIC.
  • Dangers of Soy Infant Formula by Sally Fallon.
  • The Dark Side of Soy from BusinessWeek.
  • Links on Soy and More Links on Soy

Genetically Modified Food

• Websites
  • Gene Watch – Ethics and Risks of Genetic Engineering
  • Arpad Pusztai's Home Page – The home page of a scientist who was fired for discovering possible problems with genetically modified potatoes.

• Articles
  • Views Differ Sharply Over Benefits, Risks Of Agricultural Biotechnology – Chemical & Engineering News, August 21, 1995
  • As Biotech Crops Multiply, Consumers Get Little Choice – NY Times, June 10, 2001
  • 50 Harmful Effects of Genetically Modified Foods

Microwave Ovens

• Articles
  • The Hidden Hazards of Microwave Cooking from Nexus Magazine.
  • The Dangers of Boiling Water in a Microwave

Raw Milk

• Websites
  • A Campaign for Real Milk
  • Raw Milk dot Org – The right to choose healthy food.

• Articles
  • The Health Benefits Of Raw Milk From Grass-Fed Animals – by Ron Schmid, ND
  • Abstracts on the Effect of Pasteurization on the Nutritional Value of Milk

Fluoridation

• Websites
  • Fluoride: Protected Pollutant or Panacea?

• Articles
  • "The Absurdities of Water Fluoridation: This Practice Is Unethical, Unnecessary, Ineffective, Unsafe, And Inequitable" by Paul Connett, PhD.
  • "Why I Changed My Mind About Water Fluoridation" by John Colquhuon.
  • Why EPA's Headquarters Union of Scientists Opposes Fluoridation."
  • The Fluoridation Fiasco by Gary Null, Ph.D.
  • Fluoride – Health or Politics?

Aspartame

• Websites
  • Aspartame dot com – Horrible design, lots of good links.

• Articles
  • Aspartame: A Bitter Sweetener from From Complementary Health. Excellent summary of hot Aspartame endangers the brain.
  • Aspartame Consumer Safety Network Fact Sheet – London Smith, M.D. (NBC TV's former Network Physician).

Articles About Farming, Health, and How We Become Deceived

• Behind the Organic-Industrial Complex By Michael Pollan. From the NY Times Magazine, an excellent survey of the state of organic farming.
• Power Steer By Michael Pollan. From the NY Times Magazine. A look at how most beef in America is raised.
• Fish Futures By Bud Hazelkorn. Think that farmed salmon is the same as wild salmon? Guess again.

Articles on Other Topics

• Why We Need Germs. Garry Hamilton / The Ecologist Report June, 2001. Is there such a thing as being too clean?
• Mobile Phones & Cancer. A spate of reports during 2002 is confirming links between electromagnetic radiation from mobile phones and cancer. Dr. Mae-Wan Ho reports.
• "The Salt controversy: The Diet 'Dictocrats' are at it Again!" By Paul J. Rosch, MD, F.A.C.P.

Books

• Know Your Fats: The Complete Primer for Understanding the Nutrition of Fats, Oils, and Cholesterol by Mary G. Enig, Ph.D. Bethesda Press, 2000, ISBN: 0967812607 – Your best bet for comprehensive information on the whole coconut oil/fat issue.
• Nourishing Traditions , by Sally Fallon with Mary G. Enig, Ph.D. NewTrends Publishing, revised edition October 1999, ISBN 0967089727 – Loaded with interesting information on all aspects of nutrition. Actually a cookbook with nutritional information. A fun read.
• The Cholesterol Myths: Exposing the Fallacy That Saturated Fat and Cholesterol Cause Heart Disease. By Uffe Ravnskov, M.D., Ph.D. NewTrends Publishing, 2000, ISBN 0-9670897-0-0.
• The Healing Miracles of Coconut Oil, by Bruce Fife, N.D. Piccadilly Books, Ltd, Healthwise Publications, Colorado Springs, CO, 2000, ISBN 0-941599-51-5.

• All Thumbs Book Reviews is the Weston A. Price Foundation's list of recommended books about nutrition.

Links last checked on May 22, 2005.

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