Natural healing from the hive

Trying to find health food or nutritional supplement for anti-cancer, anti-aging, and anti-acne, all in one?

Try Brazilian propolis!

Propolis is one of nature’s most potent antibiotic containing anti-microbic, anti-inflammatory, anti-aging, anti-oxidant, and anti-tumour properties. Propolis has the ability to activate & strengthen immune system. The bees use propolis (a mixture of tree resins, bee wax & saliva) to clean, repair & fill any cracks in the hives.

Must-read: Propolis - A miraculous nutritional supplement and health food from mother-nature (for treatment of cancer, anti-aging, and acne)

Women's Health: Dioxin in feminine hygiene products can cause cervical cancer and endometriosis!

There are some products that are an unfortunate necessity in life and for the companies that manufacture these products the marketing and sales of them bring specific problems and issues as well as opportunities.

Menstrual products are one of them.

Picture this. A box of 30 of the leading brand, Tampax, retails at £2.58 at Tesco (as of 26th August 2005). In the lifetime of a woman therefore the number of tampons used will be 10,000, which in turn would mean buying around 333 boxes of Tampons. Given the retail price quoted (and bearing in mind that inflation and wage increases would make some difference to the overall figures) the total amount spent by the average woman over their lifetime on this product is £860.

If we relate this back to the number of women in the world (the world's population is currently around 6.5 billion. Of that figure around 3.2 billion are women) it is easy to see that the potential market is very big indeed - around £2,752,000,000,000,000!

Yet, these are some of the issues confronting the industry:

- The Irony of Toxic Products & their Sanitary Protection Claims
- Unraveling the Truth About Pads & Tampons
- TSS: Safety of Feminine Sanitary Products Questioned
- Passing the Buck
- Unsettling Statistics in the Past
- Napkins Vs Tampons - Competition Heats Up
- Tampon Applicators & their Impact on the Environment
- Controversies Surrounding Feminine Hygiene Products
- Use of FHPs & Reproductive Ailments: A Disconcerting Connection
- FHPs: Caught in a Quagmire of Chlorine Bleached Products
- The Dioxin Issue: Haunting the Industry
- What the Manufacturers Have to Say?

Must-read: Capitalizing on the curse: The business of menstruation

Impotence drugs: The hidden big business behind your doctor’s diagnosis and prescription

In 2003, Eli Lilly introduced Cialis (tadalafil), a competitor to Pfizer's blockbuster Viagra for erectile dysfunction. In April 21, 2006, the Bloomberg News reported the sales of Cialis:

“Icos Corporation, which is based in Bothell, Wash., reported that sales of Cialis, an erectile dysfunction drug, rose 48 percent, to $222.7 million. Cialis, a competitor to Viagra from Pfizer, is now the market leader in 11 countries… Eli Lilly, says net income rose 1.3 percent, to $834 million, from $736 million year earlier; revenue rose 6.2 percent, to $3.71 billion…”

What you didn’t know is that Cialis, including Viagra and Levitra, might even kill you, and it is the doctor and the drug companies who will be running happily to the bank.

Must-read: Censored Scientific Findings on Sexual Health and Yet Big Business!