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What is the Dietary Supplement Health and Education Act (DSHEA)?

July 28, 2008 – 8:11 am
Posted by H. Sandra Chevalier-Batik

Inconvenient Women PAY ATTENTION
As Big Phama lobbies “Your” Congressional representatives to “control” the American public’s access to natural, “food-based” supplements it is probably a good thing to review the “LAW” that has been in place since 1994. Recently Congress has shown an alarming propensity to write new law instead of adequately enforcing existing legislation. [...]

By H. Sandra Chevalier-Batik | Also posted in Big Pharma Watch, FDA (FOIA), Health Care Costs, My Opinion, Proactive Nutrition, Take Action!, Woman’s Health | Comments (0)

Young women gain weight combining Internet, alcohol, and little sleep

July 26, 2008 – 11:56 am
Posted by H. Sandra Chevalier-Batik

Adolescent girls and young women were found by a U.S. study to put on extra weight when they recreationally use the Internet more than average, do not get enough sleep, and drink a lot of alcohol.
American medical researcher Catherine Berkey and colleagues from Harvard Medical School (Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.A.), the Channing Laboratory, Department of Medicine, [...]

By H. Sandra Chevalier-Batik | Also posted in Health Advisory, Sleep, Tired and Sleepless, Weight Gain | Comments (0)

Big Pharma Threatens To Deprive Individuals of Natural Weight Loss Alternatives

July 25, 2008 – 12:54 pm
Posted by H. Sandra Chevalier-Batik

Help Protect Health Freedom Today!
Since when has natural health been a crime?
As if the present war on natural health alternatives wasn’t enough, GlaxoSmithKline Consumer Healthcare (GSK), is now petitioning the FDA to determine that dietary supplements claiming to promote, assist or otherwise help with any aspect of weight loss are “disease claims,” and thereby [...]

By H. Sandra Chevalier-Batik | Also posted in Big Pharma Watch, Follow The Money, Health Care Costs, Questionable Medicine | Comments (0)

COMMENTARY

July 11, 2008 – 9:06 am
Posted by H. Sandra Chevalier-Batik

Innocent ‘Kissing’ Book Offers Date-Rape Tutorial
By Kristen Tsetsi - WeNews commentator
Editor’s Note: The following is a commentary. The opinions expressed are those of the author and not necessarily the views of Women’s Enews.
(WOMENSENEWS)–Almost 70 percent of all teens who had sex by age 14 have gone through one or more types of abuse in [...]

By H. Sandra Chevalier-Batik | Also posted in Exploitive Behavior, My Opinion, Sex Education | Comments (0)

Better Information for Pregnant Women

June 13, 2008 – 11:46 am
Posted by H. Sandra Chevalier-Batik

Pregnant Women to Benefit from Better Information

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Why FDA is Taking Action
Labeling Background
Look of the New Labeling
What’s Next?

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has taken action to give women and their health care professionals better information about the effects of medicines when used by a woman who is pregnant or [...]

By H. Sandra Chevalier-Batik | Also posted in FDA Press Release, Pregnancy, Woman’s Health | Comments (0)

Estrogen powers women, like testosterone in men

May 30, 2008 – 11:24 am
Posted by H. Sandra Chevalier-Batik

According to a University of Michigan study, estrogen appears to be the critical factor in what motivates women to be competitive—very similarly to how testosterone makes men aggressive.

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By H. Sandra Chevalier-Batik | Also posted in Hormones and Behavior, Woman’s Health | Comments (0)

Apostolic Succession and Western Medicine

May 13, 2008 – 11:46 am
Posted by H. Sandra Chevalier-Batik

How the “God Complex” Proliferated
Most western Doctors have a definite sense of infallibility — it even has a name —the ‘God Complex’.
Am I the only one who wonders, what could possibly occur in an individual’s life that gives them the inalienable correctness?
It can’t be 20-odd years of education, other professionals rack-up that level of educational [...]

By H. Sandra Chevalier-Batik | Also posted in My Opinion, Woman’s Health | Comments (0)

Cellular Memory

May 8, 2008 – 10:37 am
Posted by H. Sandra Chevalier-Batik

You Are What You Feel
“Your cells are constantly are constantly processing experience and metabolizing it according to your personal views. You don’t just funnel raw data through your eyes and ears and stamp it with a judgment. You physically turn into the interpretation as you internalize it. Someone who is depressed over losing his job [...]

By H. Sandra Chevalier-Batik | Comments (0)

Beating Tension

May 2, 2008 – 7:15 am
Posted by H. Sandra Chevalier-Batik

Research shows anticipation of laughter helps
reduce body’s release of stress hormones
Anticipating a good laugh reduces the release of stress hormones that can weaken your immune system over time, according to a new study.
The researchers, who previously had found that the build-up for mirthful experience boosted health-protecting hormones, suggested that mirth may be a key to [...]

By H. Sandra Chevalier-Batik | Also posted in Woman’s Health | Comments (0)

Medical Model Teaches Students Art of Gentle Exams

April 14, 2008 – 10:00 am
Posted by H. Sandra Chevalier-Batik

“I provide a vagina and breasts to medical students learning to do their first pelvic and breast exams…”              —Amy Littlefield, WeNews correspondent
There is a second-year medical student standing in front of me, looking at my vagina. He is holding a speculum and does not know what to do with it. I wonder if he [...]

By H. Sandra Chevalier-Batik | Also posted in Woman’s Health | Comments (0)