Good Health is Your Greatest Wealth……Virgil
TACT was funded by the NIH more than a decade ago as part of a much-publicized initiative to study the claims of alternative medicine. In 2008 enrollment in TACT was temporarily suspended in response to claims that the trial was unethical. The trial …
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In mid-September, however, an independent monitoring board advised NIH that it be stopped in its current form because the weight–loss “intervention” wasn't having its hoped-for effect. The Look AHEAD (Action for Health in Diabetes) trial involved …
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Within the NIH there is a center that uses taxpayer money to fund all sorts of studies on New Age therapies – the National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine (NCCAM). Below are just a some of the questionable taxpayer-funded studies …
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According to a study supported by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) has showed that an intensive diet and exercise programme resulting in weight loss does not reduce cardiovascular events such as heart attack and stroke in people with …
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| What is alternative medicine? NIH studies in 2002 and 2007 listed 10 alternative medicine therapies and the percentage of individuals using each of these alternatives. What was interesting is that prayer for self was by far the most used form of … See all stories on this topic » |
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| An estimated 12 percent of children use some form of complementary medicine, such as herbs and dietary supplements, massage or acupuncture, according to the latest data from the National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine (NCCAM). See all stories on this topic » |
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Several independent studies, including the NIH multicenter study known as Look AHEAD (Action for HEAlth in Diabetes), have shown that losing as little as 5%-10% of body weight can slow the progression of type 2 diabetes, help people improve their …
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In the past two weeks, there has been some negative press about dietary supplements, especially about weight loss supplements. One young woman who wanted to lose weight and used the product, SlimQuick™ – which contains Green tea extract – “suffered …
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However, Josephine Briggs, director of the National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine at the NIH, says, “We are not sure if it is a reasonable goal to tease apart the property of opioids that relieves pain and the part that causes …
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Today, the National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine (NCCAM) of the NIH launched a new education campaign to provide information to consumers about alternative therapies and to encourage them to talk to their doctors openly about their …
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The effort is managed by the National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine (NCCAM) at the National Institutes of Health. A resource in NCCAM's Time to Talk campaign, the series highlights specific health topics, such as the safe use of …
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By comparison, NIH is expected to spend $521 million on complementary alternative medicine and $823 million on obesity. Lets first get some context here.
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