• WOMEN IN BRITAIN ARE THE FATTEST IN WESTERN EUROPE... BUT STILL NOT AS BIG AS THE AMERICANS: Meanwhile, men in the UK have the joint fourth highest fat levels, behind Ireland in top place, Spain and Andorra.
  
• VITAMIN D ROUND-UP: The latest edition of our regular feature on vitamin D news and research.
  
• ONE IN EIGHT UK WOMEN WILL GET BREAST CANCER AS LIFESTYLE BLAMED FOR HUGE RISE IN CASES: Scientists blame obesity, alcohol and the growing tendency to delay motherhood for record levels of the disease. Up to 47,700 women are being diagnosed every year, equal to 130 a day. That is double the number 30 years ago.
  
• CAN IT REALLY BE TRUE THAT STATINS WON'T STOP HEART ATTACKS? Confused about statins? Hardly surprising when even the experts seem to disagree.
  
• KIDS GET MEASLES FROM THE MEASLES VACCINE: Now this isn’t from some wacky anti-vaccine blog. This is coming from the MMWR which is the CDC’s own weekly publication. Here are 2 examples showing that we’ve always known that vaccinated kids can contract measles from the MMR vaccine itself.
  
• NEARLY 250,000 DEATHS FROM ONE COMMON MISTAKE: HERE'S HOW TO PROTECT YOURSELF: Examining 62 million U.S. death certificates from 1976 to 2006 uncovered the startling finding that one common, but preventable error was responsible for almost a quarter-million of these deaths. What's more, health officials agree that this danger is still very much alive and tends to spike in one particular month of the year.
  
  
  
  

• ALERT: SEIZURES NOW REPORTED IN KIDS RECEIVING FLU VACCINE: Urgent information for parents considering a flu shot for yourself or your children. Plus: PARAMEDIC PARALYSED AFTER HAVING SWINE FLU JAB PROVIDED BY AMBULANCE SERVICE: Mother-of-two Sara Hornsey had the injection because the ambulance service recommended it for front-line staff. But terrifyingly, two days later, the 30-year-old woke up with no feeling from her waist down.
  
• MORGELLONS/GMO LINK MAKES IT INTO THE NEWS AGAIN: Never mind the disease, reading this alone is likely to make your skin crawl. For those that haven’t heard of Morgellons disease before, it is a condition that for many years was considered to have been invented by those who suffered from it, and as a consequence patients were treated with antipsychotics.
  
• TAKING THE DOG FOR A 23,000-MILE WALKIES... A study of 3,000 owners shows the average person walks their dog for eight hours and 54 minutes a week, covering 36 miles. It adds up to a staggering 1,855 miles a year or 23,739 miles – almost as far as walking around the world – in an average dog’s lifetime of 12.8 years.
  
• ELIZABETH EDWARDS JOINS LONG LIST OF VICTIMS KILLED BY CHEMOTHERAPY: (Natural News) Elizabeth Edwards, the wife of presidential candidate John Edwards, died recently following a six-year chemical assault on her body from cancer doctors. Will Michael Douglas follow suit, even though he’s been given the all-clear?
  
• HOW FAST ARE YOUR REACTIONS? Tranquilise these sheep and find out. Yes, really.
  

 

• EU HERB DIRECTIVE KEEPS CONSUMERS IN THE DARK: Consumers across Europe will be denied the right to use the majority of herbal remedies currently available in health food stores and on the Internet when a new European law is fully implemented on 1st May 2011.
• HERBAL MEDICINES WILL SURVIVE AFTER MINISTERS APPROVE PLAN THAT BYPASSES EU DIRECTIVE: The Government moved yesterday to protect consumers wanting herbal products that will disappear from many health food shops after April 30.
  
• EUROPE'S JUDGES HAVE 'MADE UK A SAFE HAVEN FOR TERRORISTS': Lord Carlile said rulings by the European Court of Human Rights had undermined efforts to deport dangerous individuals intent on causing mayhem. The Liberal Democrat peer and QC attacked the court for refusing to allow the risk of harm to British citizens to be weighed in deportation hearings. Instead, only the human rights of the suspected terrorist can be taken into account.
  
• 'WE EXPECT BETTER FROM THE OLDEST DEMOCRACY': European Court officials bite back after defiant MPs reject votes for prisoners. Cameron is hiding the truth about European power over 'human rights'.
  
  
  
• MAILBAG: This month's collection of letters from our subscribers.

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