• SYNDROME X: This condition sounds like some alien flesh-eating disease but it isn’t. Endocrinologist and professor emeritus of medicine, Gerald M Reaven of Stanford University coined the term in 1988 to unify the underlying causes behind a modern ‘epidemic’, whose symptoms include obesity, diabetes and cardiovascular-related symptoms.
  
• VITAMIN D ROUND-UP: The April 2011 edition of our regular feature on vitamin D news and research.
  
• THE APRIL ESSAY: It’s a mad, mad world out there. Indeed, we are told that at no other time in human history has a greater segment of society been diagnosed ‘mentally ill’ than today.
  
• AVOID MEDICAL TESTING DISEASE: Millions today drug up their kids on the basis of fraudulent ‘diagnoses’ like ADD, bipolar, OCD and schizophrenia, naturally assuming the ‘experts’ know what they’re talking about. They don’t. Millions more are talked into taking statins for non-existent heart conditions, warfarin (rat poison) for chunky blood that could be thinned out permanently by diet and exercise.
  
• BEHAVIOUR DRUGS GIVEN TO FOUR-YEAR-OLDS PROMPT CALLS FOR INQUIRY: Children as young as four are being given Ritalin-style medication for behavioural problems in breach of NHS guidelines, the Guardian has discovered, prompting the leading psychological society to call for a national review.
  
• IF THE HEALTH HAZARDS OF DISEASE PREVENTION: At a conference held in London this month by the British Society for Ecological Medicine, the main topic was vaccinations. Not one person speaking was anti-vaccination; most said they were in favor of vaccination, but even more so of vaccine safety. One speaker summarized it this way: “Most vaccines offer benefit to most children most of the time. Some vaccines do harm to some children some of the time.”
• WOMAN CONVICTED OF MURDER COULD FACE LIFE IN PRISON FOR TRYING TO PROTECT HER AUTISTIC SON FROM CHEMOTHERAPY: The US justice system has turned over a new leaf in judicial insanity with the recent murder conviction of Kristen LaBrie, a 38-year-old woman whose autistic son died of cancer in 2009.
  
  
  

• WHAT COCONUT OIL CAN DO FOR YOU: This site includes the original body of research on coconut oil that was published in 2000 and started the current coconut oil revolution in the U.S. and around the world.
  
• MOTHERS 'SHOULD BE GIVEN DRUGS TO BEAT MORNING SICKNESS'?: Women with morning sickness should be prescribed drugs, medical experts said yesterday. No they shouldn’t. They are chronically dehydrated.
  
• SOME SCIENTISTS ARE VIGOROUSLY OBJECTING TO GENETICALLY MODIFIED FOODS. ARE YOU EATING THEM? Dr. Philip Bereano has spent the last three decades looking into genetically engineered organisms (GMOs) in foods, crops, animals, and humans—both nationally, here in the United States, and internationally. His work led him to participate in the negotiation of two international treaties under the United Nations that dealt with issues relating to GMOs.
  
• THE LATEST SCIENTIFIC ABOMINATION: GENETICALLY MODIFIED COWS PRODUCE HUMAN BREAST MILK: There seems to be no limit to the violations of natural law that will be committed in the name of ‘science’. The latest is an effort to make cows produce human breast milk by using genetically modified embryos crossed with human genes, then implanted into surrogate cows.
  
• CONFIDENTIAL DOCUMENTS REVEAL QUEENSLAND'S PUBLIC HOSPITALS ARE RISKY BUSINESS: The Queensland Health documents reveal incidents in hospitals ranging from admission or behaviour problems, to falls, infections, medication, nutrition or treatment issues.
  

 

• THE EU HERBAL DIRECTIVE: There is an imminent threat posed by the EU to a small, harmless and in many cases beneficial community of complementary health practitioners and small businesses. These are people who produce and use traditional herbal remedies.As from 30th April 2011 herbal products will, in effect, be banned by the EU.
• NAVIGATING THE SERPENTINE EU HERBAL DIRECTIVE: This flawed piece of European Union (EU) legislation will make many hundreds of perfectly safe herbal products illegal overnight in Member States like the UK, if their manufacturers have not obtained a Traditional Herbal Registration (THR) for them under the scheme.
• THE FINNS CAUSE PROBLEMS: More and more Europeans are getting fed up with the Stasi-esque behaviour of the EU. The Finns are creating an interesting dilemma…
  
• EUROPEAN COURT OF HUMAN RIGHTS AND NICK CLEGG'S CHILLING EFFECT: Not a day goes by without yet another gagging order against the Press by judges using the European Court’s privacy laws (though whatever happened to freedom of expression is another matter).
  
• THE LAST STRAW FOR BRITISH TAXPAYERS: £400 PER FAMILY DEMANDED BY EU: Downing Street reacted with fury last night after Eurocrats demanded an inflation-busting budget increase which would saddle British taxpayers with a £10billion EU bill - the equivalent of £400 per household - for the first time.
  
  
  
  
• MAILBAG: This month's collection of letters from our subscribers.
  
  

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