Health Resources and Help

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CONSUMER INFORMATION

Organic Consumers Association (OCA)
Led by Ronnie Cummings, the OCA monitors and reports on important issues impacting all things organic: Food and produce, cosmetics, personal care products, etc.
http://www.OrganicConsumers.org
  
Environmental Working Group
This organization focuses on the environment, educating readers with articles about toxic chemicals in foods and consumer products, threats to the environment, and corruption between commercial interests and government regulators.
http://www.EWG.org
 
 Commercial Alert (CA)
Founded in part by Ralph Nader, and currently headed by Gary Ruskin, Commercial Alert is fighting against the abusive, overreaching power of corporations and their desire to exploit the public in any way that generates higher profits.
http://www.CommercialAlert.org
 
PLoS Medicine
For those who enjoy a more technical read, there's only one medical journal I know of that blatantly refuses to accept drug money from pharmaceutical companies: PLoS Medicine. This open-source, fiercely-independent medical journal consistently publishes honest, hard-hitting studies that expose the fraud of disease mongering, the false claims in drug ads and many other important issues.
http://journals.plos.org/plosmedicine/
 

HEALTH AND WELLNESS

Doctor Yourself.com
Research, articles and information on the use of nutrition for the treatment of mental and physical disease. Excellent newsletter available.
http://www.doctoryourself.com/
 
Health Issues - Online Medical Guide
Health-Issues.org provides basic information on various common day-to-day life diseases with their cure, symptoms, causes, and treatment methods. There are a number of diseases, some serious, others not so serious, which are either incurable or can be cured only with great difficulty.
http://health-issues.org
 
Kids Health
Tired of trying to get your kids to take their vitamins? Go to this site with your kids for topics like "All about what vitamins and minerals do". It's a fun and informative website
http://kidshealth.org/kid/index.jsp 

 

 
ADDITIONAL RESOURCES