Guest guest Posted June 12, 2005 Report Share Posted June 12, 2005 If you have difficulty reading this e-mail, please visit: http://www.theomnivore.com/June_10_2005_Newsletter.html --- STRAIGHT OUT OF MY INBOX 7! In this installment of Straight Out Of My Inbox!, Anthony lets loose as he answers scandalous accusations that he is receiving kickbacks from the meat industry and other vested interests! He also addresses claims that saturated fat causes diabetes by attacking the pancreas, and that we would all be much better off if we could only ram our cholesterol levels down to 150 or less. He also answers questions about protein, insulin and weight loss; soy and cancer; statins; CRP; and the anti-low-carb rhetoric emanating from a well-known Paleo 'guru'. http://www.theomnivore.com/Straight%20out%20of%20my%20inbox%207.html --- HEALTH AUTHORITIES VALUE CORPORATE MONEY MORE THAN YOUR HEALTH Due to their pervasive financial links with vested food and drug company interests, most 'prestigious' health authorities are actually among the worst possible sources of impartial and scientifically valid diet and health advice. A recent interview with Richard Kahn, chief scientific and medical officer with the American Diabetes Association, only further underscores this fact. Kahn claims that there is no evidence linking sugar consumption with diabetes or obesity. Click here to find out why Kahn's claims are utterly false: http://www.theomnivore.com/ADA_sugar_2005.html --- REVERSING DNA DAMAGE WITH VITAMIN SUPPLEMENTS The older we get, the more damage we do to our own individual blueprint for life: our DNA. The consequences of a lifetime's DNA damage include a range of degenerative diseases and cancers. Australian researchers have made an exciting discovery: taking folate and B12 supplements may help reverse damage to our DNA! http://www.abc.net.au/catalyst/stories/s1381311.htm --- THE WTO TRAP This outstanding article by William Norman Grigg is a must read. Grigg explains why the World Trade Organization, a Geneva-based body composed of foreign bureaucrats, will control the United State's economic destiny unless American's wake up and get out -- now! http://www.stoptheftaa.org/artman/publish/article_154.shtml --- DRUG COMPANIES HIDE TEST RESULTS Pharmaceutical companies have altered medical research statistics and concealed negative trial results to make their products seem more effective or safer. A survey of 823 medical specialists in Australia revealed many who had worked on trials funded by drug companies were concerned about the quality of the research. " We found a lot of potentially negative outcomes of those research relationships such as failure to publish key findings, editing of reports and even concealment of negative findings, " said University of Newcastle professor of clinical pharmacology David Henry, who led the study. His research, published today in The Medical Journal of Australia, uncovered 374 reports of " potentially negative research outcomes " . Complaints included premature termination of a study by a drug company, failure to publish key findings, concealment of relevant findings and alteration of patient data. Read the full story at: http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/common/story_ page/0,5744,15521716%255E2702,00.html Free full text of Henry et al's study available at: http://www.mja.com.au/public/issues/182_11_060605/hen10805_fm.html --- CODEX UPDATE: EUROPEAN COURT ANNOUNCES DATE OF RULING ON EU SUPPLEMENTS DIRECTIVE LEGAL CHALLENGE Consumers, practitioners, retailers and innovative food supplement companies came together in 2003 under the umbrella of the Alliance for Natural Health, to challenge the European Food Supplements Directive. This Directive, set to affect over 30% of Europeans who regularly consume food supplements, has the potential to ban some 75% of vitamin and mineral forms, especially those found naturally in foods, affecting around 5000 products in the UK alone. The case was brought initially in the High Court in London in October 2003, and was successfully referred and expedited to the European Court of Justice in Luxembourg in January 2004. Oral hearings were presented to the Court a year later, culminating in an Opinion from the Court's Advocate General, issued on 5 April this year. The Advocate General, Leendert Geelhoed, declared in his Opinion that the Directive was fundamentally flawed, and contravened EU law. He concluded: " …that the Directive infringes the principle of proportionality, because basic principles of Community law, such as the requirements of legal protection, of legal certainty and of sound administration have not been properly taken into account. The Directive is, therefore, invalid. " The European Court of Justice has now declared that the judgment, made by the thirteen Judges presiding over the case, will be handed down at 09:30 h on 12 July 2005, in the Courtroom of the Court, Boulevard Konrad Andenauer, Luxembourg-Kirchberg. Executive director of the Alliance for Natural Health, Dr Robert Verkerk, commented: " The judgement will hopefully give rise to an amendment to the Directive that will result in much greater clarity for consumers and manufacturers of food supplements across Europe. This amendment is needed to prevent important nutrients being lost in food supplements. The Alliance for Natural Health is now close to commissioning an independent group of risk assessment scientists in Europe to help develop a new regulatory framework that is based on good science and good law. Such a framework would be likely to suggest that a Regulator should not determine which ingredients are allowed in supplements without also determining, based on all available science, the maximum dosages. The Food Supplements Directive currently separates these two issues. If this work had been undertaken before the Directive had been finalised, we would never have seen the attempted implementation of a defective Directive. " The ruling will potentially have significant impacts on the parallel development of international guidelines for vitamin and mineral food supplements by the Codex Alimentarius Commission, which are near finalisation. This body, composed of delegates from around 90 governments and 40 non-governmental organisations, will meet in Rome on 4 to 9 July to decide whether to finalise these guidelines. Since this Codex meeting occurs just before the date of the European Court ruling, the Alliance for Natural Health argues that it would be premature to finalise the Codex guidelines on vitamin and mineral food supplements before both the EU Food Supplements Directive is amended, and an improved system for risk assessment of nutrients is developed. Dr Verkerk adds, drawing a further parallel with the Food Supplements Directive case: " There is good evidence that in the effort to push through the Codex guidelines, procedural errors have again been made. Governments and regulators, as well as the many interests in this area, need to work together to put these right. There is a huge amount at stake for the future of natural healthcare. " --- Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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