NCAHF News, 1996 Index

Volume 19, No. 1, Jan/Feb 1996

• Major Antioxidant Supplement Goes Bust
• Pro-Oxidant Effects of "Antioxidant " Vitamins
• Vitamin A Versus Folic Acid: Will Birth Defects Messages Get Equal Time?"
• Indictment Makes Burzynski Quackdom's Latest "Martyr"
• Flouride & Bone Cancer: A Short History
• Flouridation Battles Loom in California
• Kombucha Tea
• Malpractice Judgment Against Hal Huggins
• Sugar and Kids' Behavior
• Lethal Love Potion
• Alzheimer's Sufferers' Use of Unproven Remedies
• DHEA
• Cooper Clinic Doesn't Endorse Met-Rx
• Environmentalists' Tactics in Sync with the Unabomber
• Vegan Zealors Promote Radical Restrictive Diet to School Children
• Motivator Tony Robbins Settles FTC Charges
• First Tax-Supported "Natural Health" Clinic to Open

Volume 19, No. 2, March/April 1996

• Acupuncture Dangers
• Cancer Treatment Centers of America Falsely Advertised Treatments
• Facts Catching up with Melatonin Fad
• Administrative Law Judge Revokes Huggins' License
• Perfect Sprouts?
• French Concerned About Vitamin Abuse
• Veggies Costly the Pill Way
• Ginseng Popular but of Dubious Value as Performance Booster
• Super Silly Quackery
• Chelation Doctor to Pay $2.5 Million in Damages
• Minnesota Appeals Court Upholds Antiquackery Law
• New at the Book Center
• Growing Concerns Over Blue-Green Algae
• Dead Doctors Don't Lie! But This Living Veterinarian Does!
• Experience at a Mexico Cancer Clinic

Volume 19, No. 3, May/June 1996

• Death Caused by Chiropractic Neck Manipulation
• Book Exposes New Age Thinking Foundations of Alternative Medicine
• Vinegar Remedy Gone, But not Forever
• Mannatech
• Is the Claim that Natural Products Cannot be Patented True?
• Growth Hormone Limited in Value for Rejuvenation
• Use of Alternative Health Care by Canadian Children
• Antiflouridationists, The Flat Earth Society, Holocaust Deniers, and Those Who Say We
• Never Landed on the Moon
• Columbus Award to Evan Shute, MD as Evidence Mounts that Vitamin E Protects
• Against Heart Attacks

Volume 19, No. 4, July/Aug 1996

• Aroma Therapy
• Health Food Industry: Little to do with Either Health or Food
• Californians Favor Flouridation Nearly 5-1
• Weight Loss Quackery
• 1996 Slim Chance Awards
• Fight to Save Ephedera Weight Loss Products Taking Shape
• Medical Licensing Boards' Meeting Shakes Quackdom
• Health Foods Industry Group Gets Naturopathic Practice Act in Urah
• Huggins Vows to Fight on After License Revocation
• Ginseng Said to Help Diabetic Patients
• Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy
• Senator Hatch Goes to Bat for Quacks

Volume 19, No 5, Sept/Oct 1996

• How to Check Out a Doctor
• Magnet Promoter Warned
• Myth: "Only 10-20% of Medical Procedures are Proven
• Lawrence Taylor, MD-Ex
• Holistic Harm
• Second Coming of Shark Cartilage
• DHEA Still a Puzzle
• Ozone Therapy for AIDS
• Redux
• ACSH Web Site Available
• Melatonin Alert!
• Quackery and the Media
• Potential Medicines in the Rainforest

Volume 19, No 6, Nov/Dec 1996

• Colloidal Silver Products Widely Condemned
• Yam Products
• Nebraska Outlaws Ephedra Dietary Supplements
• GNC Removes Ephedrine Products
• Chiropractic Center at NIH
• Patients Can Help Detect Health Insurance Fraud
• Rand Finds Little Justification for Neck Manipulation
• Kenney Picks a Bone with The Zone
• Chromium Picolinate Promoters Settle FTC False Advertising Charges
• Can Standard Medicine Employ "Alternative" & "Complementary" Medicine without
• Liability?
• A Mothering Ground of Quackery
• New Book on Magnetism Provides Tools for Debunking Vitalism