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‘Health disaster’ in French Caribbean linked to pesticides

By John Lichfield in Paris
Published: 19 September 2007

The indiscriminate use of toxic pesticides on banana plantations in the French Caribbean has left much of the islands of Martinique and Guadeloupe poisoned for a century to come, a report to the French parliament warned yesterday. The two islands and their 800,000 inhabitants faced a “health disaster”, with soaring rates of cancer and infertility, said Professor Dominique Belpomme, a French cancer specialist.

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Complementary health therapies on offer for Nottinghamshire patients

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Alternative medicine now mainstream

Alternative medicine now mainstream Channel 4 news 27.7.07

Herbal and homeopathic remedies are shrugging off their hippy image and hitting the mainstream, sales figures suggest.

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Selenium supplements may reduce the risk of heart disease by inhibiting the oxidation of LDL (”bad”) cholesterol, suggests a small study from Italy

Selenium supplements may reduce the risk of heart disease by inhibiting the oxidation of LDL (”bad”) cholesterol, suggests a small study from Italy Continue Reading »

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Serum and Urine Selenium Concentrations in Patients with Cardiovascular Diseases and Relationship to Other Nutritional Indexes

Miguel Navarro-AlarcÃ³n^a, Herminia LÃ³pez-Garcia de la Serrana^a, Vidal PÃ©rez-Valero^b, Carmen LÃ³pez-MartÃnez^a

^aDepartment of Nutrition and Bromatology, Faculty of Pharmacy, University of Granada, and^bLaboratory of Clinical Analyses, Motril Hospital, Motril, Granada, Spain Continue Reading »

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Antioxidant Vitamin C helps to prevent cancer growth

Science Daily: Nearly 30 years after Nobel laureate Linus Pauling famously and controversially suggested that vitamin C supplements can prevent cancer, a team of Johns Hopkins scientists have shown that in mice at least, vitamin C - and potentially other antioxidants - can indeed inhibit the growth of some tumors just not in the manner suggested by years of investigation.