• WEEKLY HEALTH TIP: This common food lurking in your kitchen cabinets dramatically increases your risk of pancreatic cancer.
  
• MIKE ADAMS' VITAMIN D ROUND-UP: Vitamin D is an amazing nutrient that protect the body from all sorts of diseases and problems. Researchers continually uncover new links between lack of vitamin D and disease, illustrating the fact that it is vital to good health.
  
• UPDATE FROM THE ALLIANCE FOR NATURAL HEALTH: We know it’s easy to get disheartened by the current state of things in the natural health sector when you focus on the myriad challenges, but we’re writing to let you know the good news about some recent very positive developments.
  
• ADVISERS WALK OUT IN FURY OVER £500,000 GM FOOD PR EXERCISE: An official public consultation into genetically modified food has been thrown into chaos following protests that it has been rigged. The exercise by the Food Standards Agency could now be axed following the resignation of two leading advisers working on it.
  
• HOW TO OVERCOME CANDIDA NATURALLY: Many of us may be unknowingly suffering from candida - a yeast overgrowth. Find out what the symptoms are, how you can test for it at home and how you can get rid of it.
  
• PERHAPS DERRICK BIRD'S DEADLY RAMPAGES AREN'T SO 'INEXPLICABLE' AFTER ALL: Yet another gun massacre is followed by yet another typhoon of psychobabble, sentiment and bogus declarations that ‘this must never happen again’. As usual, there is an obvious question not being publicly asked.
• ADHD - TRYING TO BLIND US WITH 'SCIENCE': Once again the sullen, obtuse, obdurate defenders of the absurd and revolting fantasy known as 'ADHD' advance hopelessly, sightlessly, like zombies, pretending they know what they are talking about. They don't. Like zombies, they are immune to all the normal rules of argument, especially to facts or logic.
• US COURT RULES IN FAVOUR OF FREE SPEECH ON HEALTH CLAIMS: The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) lost its bid to overturn a health claim for selenium-containing dietary supplements last Thursday in the United States District Court for the District of Columbia.
• THE ‘IMPROVED’ NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE': The British Medical Association has weighed in on the new Prime Minister David Cameron’s healthcare proposals.
  
  
  
  

• THE MARKETING OF MADNESS: An introduction to the new definitive documentary on the psychiatric drugging industry. Uncover the high-income partnership between psychiatry and drug companies which has created an $80 billion psychotropic drug profit centre.
  
• MEDICINES AND TREATMENTS THAT PATIENTS DON'T NEED: Are you taking dangerous drugs for a health problem best treated with lifestyle changes? Even the American Medical Association has decided to take a close, hard look at conventional medicine's disastrous track record of doing more harm than good.
  
• YOU ARE MAKING A DIFFERENCE! MANY MORE PARENTS ARE REFUSING VACCINES! The latest data presented at the Pediatric Academic Societies Meeting this month showed that many parents have MAJOR doubts about the value of childhood vaccinations. Many are questioning whether vaccinations can cause serious health problems and whether so many vaccines are really necessary in order to be healthy.
  
• WHY HOME OF THE BRAVE IS ALSO HOME OF THE UNHEALTHY: A study has found 97.5 per cent of the Scottish population are either overweight, smokers, heavy drinkers, take no exercise or have a poor diet. The scientists behind the report conclude: 'The Scottish population seems to be living dangerously.'
  
• MOBILE PHONES RESPONSIBLE FOR DISAPPEARANCE OF HONEY BEE: The growing use of mobile telephones is behind the disappearance of honey bees and the collapse of their hives, scientists claim.

• NIGHTMARE VISION FOR EUROPE AS EU CHIEF WARNS 'DEMOCRACY COULD DISAPPEAR' IN GREECE, SPAIN AND PORTUGAL: In an extraordinary briefing to trade union chiefs last week, Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso set out an ‘apocalyptic’ vision in which crisis-hit countries in southern Europe could fall victim to military coups or popular uprisings as interest rates soar and public services collapse because their governments run out of money.
  JOHN HUMPHRYS: Have the sceptics been proved right about Europe?
• CLARKE AND DAWE ON THE EU: With the single currency in serious trouble because of racked-up EU debt, our two insightful friends from Down Under pitch in with their ten euros worth.
  
• EU MAKES UK LIABLE FOR GREEK DEBTS: The Government has finally confirmed that Britain could be liable to pay nearly £8bn of Greece's debts.
  
• SECOND FIRM WITHDRAWS DRUGS FROM GREECE OVER CUTS: Another Danish pharmaceutical company is withdrawing products from Greece in protest at the government's decision to cut the prices of medicines by 25% due to its debt crisis.
  
  
  
  
• MAILBAG: This month's collection of letters from our subscribers.

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