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If you have difficulty reading this e-mail, please visit:

http://www.theomnivore.com/June_10_2005_Newsletter.html

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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

 

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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

 

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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

 

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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

 

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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

 

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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. "

 

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