• WEEKLY HEALTH TIP, HYPOTHYROIDISM: Hypothyroidism is the term used to describe subnormal activity of the thyroid gland, situated in the base of the neck. It is estimated that about twenty percent of women and five percent of males have some sort of underactive thyroid in the industrialised world.
  
• VITAMIN D ROUND-UP: Vitamin D is an amazing nutrient that protects the body from a host of diseases and problems. Researchers continually uncover new links between lack of vitamin D and disease. Here are the latest.
  
• ALL FALL DOWN: Children are under assault, diagnosed with fraudulent mental disorders and forced onto dangerous and addictive psychotropic drugs. With prescription scales skyrocketing and government screening programs on the rise, the stimulant drug industry is big business. But how much is this plague costing our children? Spread this link far and wide please.
  
• ANH-INTL ANTI EU-HERB CAMPAIGN IS HEATING UP! From Alliance for Natural Health: "Great news! Since we began our ‘call to action’ regarding the upcoming ‘Herb Challenge’ against the EU’s Traditional Herbal Medicinal Products Directive (THMPD), £33,574.82 (= €39,605.37 or US$53,878.25) has been raised as of today!"
  
• IS MAINSTREAM MEDIA CATCHING ON? Don’t hold your breath. The Sydney Morning Herald: “Many of us have heard that healthy nutrition plays an important role in preventing a number of types of cancer, and may help to reduce the spread of cancer once it has started.”
• THE EMINENT GEOLOGIST WHO SAYS HER 'PLANT PROGRAMME' MAY COMBAT CANCER: Professor Jane Plant is an eminent geologist. In 1987, aged 42, and with two young children, she was diagnosed with breast cancer for the first time. She now promotes a dietary regimen for cancer, declaring that going non-dairy and eating cancer-protective foods helped cure her breast cancer where conventional Western medicine had failed.
  
• STATIN DRUGS CAUSE LIVER DAMAGE, KIDNEY FAILURE AND CATARACTS, SAYS BMJ: Cholesterol-lowering statin drugs significantly increase a person's risk of cataracts, muscle weakness, liver dysfunction and kidney failure, according to a study in the British Medical Journal. See cartoon.
  
• COCONUT OIL IS MORE EFFICACIOUS FOR ALZHEIMER'S THAN ALL BIG PHARMA HAS TO OFFER: A doctor’s husband made a remarkable reversal of his serious Alzheimer’s problem by ingesting coconut oil daily. See: A COMPENDIUM OF RESEARCH ARTICLES ON COCONUT OIL.
  
• CHILDREN WITHOUT MMR JABS SHOULD BE BANNED FROM SCHOOL, CLAIMS PUBLIC HEALTH OFFICIAL: Dr Sohail Bhatti, a director of one of the largest health trusts in Britain, said the draconian measure was the only way to ensure higher uptake of the vaccine. Phillip Day says, “What a wonderful way to stay out of the clutches of the risible British state school system.”
• FAT BUT MALNOURISHED STUDENTS ON THE RISE IN KOREA: Obesity and unhealthy diet are emerging as major issues for elementary, middle and high school students in South Korea. The obesity rate of elementary, middle and high school students last year was 13.2 percent, 2 percent higher than that of the previous year, according to a survey conducted on 194,817 students by the Education Ministry.
  
  

• HALAL MEAT IS BEING SERVED IN SCHOOLS, HOSPITALS AND PUBS - EVEN THOUGH VETS SAY ISLAMIC SLAUGHTER IS CRUEL: Killing an animal by cutting its throat without stunning is illegal in Britain. ­However, there is a legal loophole allowing this if it is being done for religious reasons — in other words, for the production of halal or kosher meat.
  
• ABSOLUTELY REFUSE THIS ROUTINE PROCEDURE, or expose your baby’s brain to severe danger. Most parents won’t, and therein lies the tragedy.
  
• WHY YOU SHOULD AVOID ROOT CANALS LIKE THE PLAGUE: Important information you need to know about root canals. Hopefully you read this BEFORE having a root canal ...
• PLACEBO FRAUD ROCKS THE VERY FOUNDATION OF MODERN MEDICAL SCIENCE; THOUSANDS OF CLINICAL TRIALS INVALIDATED: You know all those thousands of clinical trials conducted over the last few decades comparing drugs to placebo pills? Well, it turns out all those studies must now be completely thrown out as utterly non-scientific.
  
• ONLY THE GERMANS COULD DO THIS: If the Brits tried it, everyone would be on strike in three months.
  

 

• EU ACCOUNTS ARE REJECTED FOR THE 16TH YEAR IN A ROW! Billions of pounds of EU funds were spent wrongly, such as farmers being paid for crops that were never grown, or sheep being double counted to get extra grants.
  
• DEFENCE PACT WITH FRENCH 'RISKS ALLIANCE WITH THE U.S.', WASHINGTON'S FORMER AMBASSADOR TO THE UN WARNS: David Cameron was warned last night that his new defence pact with France will provoke a split with the Americans. John Bolton, the former U.S. ambassador to the UN, said that to share nuclear secrets and aircraft carriers with France is not supported by large sections of the American defence community.
  
• NATION STATES ARE DEAD: EU CHIEF SAYS THE BELIEF THAT COUNTRIES CAN STAND ALONE IS A 'LIE AND AN ILLUSION': In one of the most open proclamations of the goal of a European superstate since the heyday of Jacques Delors, Herman Van Rompuy went on to denounce Eurosceptism as the greatest threat to peace. Then he says, IRELAND'S DEBT CRISIS COULD KILL THE EUROPEAN UNION STONE DEAD.
  
• 'PERVERSE' DEFENCE CUTS LEAVE OIL-RICH FALKLAND ISLANDS OPEN TO ATTACK, EX-ADMIRALS WARN: Scrapping Britain’s flagship aircraft carrier and fleet of Harrier jets is ‘inviting’ Argentina to invade the Falklands, retired Royal Navy officers warned yesterday.
  
• CAMERON FUMES AND POSTURES OVER THE EUROPEAN COURT OF HUMAN RIGHTS. SO WHY WON'T HE STAND UP TO IT OVER VOTES FOR PRISONERS? So prisoners in British jails are ­finally to be ­given the right to vote in general elections. The general, law-abiding public has a right in turn to be as dumbfounded as it is outraged. The genesis of this decision lies in a ruling in 2004 by the European Court of Human Rights that Britain’s blanket ban on prisoners’ voting rights was discriminatory. 
  
  
  
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