VIBRATIONAL HEALTH

Juice May Contain Arsenic and Lead

2012-01-29T13:04:00.000-05:00

A new Consumer Reports investigation suggests that high levels of arsenic and lead may be in some juices.

Arsenic is a semi-metallic naturally-occurring chemical. Arsenic is in the environment and all individuals are all exposed to small doses on a regular basis. Arsenic poisoning is difficult to detect as it is generally odorless and flavorless, meaning people have little idea when it is around. Lead exposure is especially harmful to fetuses or young children, as it may adversely affect brain and nervous system development.

Consumer Reports tested apple and grape juice from a variety of popular brands. According to the report, approximately 10 percent of juice samples from five brands had total arsenic levels that exceeded federal drinking-water standards.

One in four samples had lead levels higher than the U.S. Food and Drug Administration's (FDA) bottled-water limit of five parts per billion. Currently, no federal limit exists for arsenic or lead levels in juice.

The FDA issued a statement emphasizing that they are "confident" in the safety of juices in the United States, adding that most tested juices contain low levels of arsenic. Further research is necessary.

For more information about arsenic or lead poisoning, please visit Natural Standard's Environment & Global Health Database.

2012-01-28T11:36:00.000-05:00

Creating a "Frack-as": Physician Group Calls for Halt on Hydrofracking

Physicians and public health advocates met in Washington, DC, earlier this month calling for an immediate stop to hydraulic fracturing (aka “Fracking”), a controversial natural gas extraction method in which water and toxic compounds are pressure-injected underground to release trapped gas.

Fracking has been on the rise in recent years, particularly in the Northeast, where massive gas deposits are sequestered under shale plates.

Health concerns include: leaching of carcinogens and neurotoxins from spent fracking fluid into public water, release of subterranean heavy metals and radioactive elements, and air pollution. That’s on top of ecosystem damage and potential geologic disruptions.

Science on fracking’s health impact is sorely lacking. There are reports of unusual illness patterns in fracked regions, but no systematic registries or epidemiologic studies to quantify risks.

“I am very concerned that we are leaping before we are looking,” said Jerome Paulson, MD, of George Washington University, at the day-long summit sponsored by Physicians, Scientists & Engineers for Healthy Energy (PSEHE), an independent non-profit. He and others called for a nationwide moratorium on fracking until comprehensive safety studies have been done.

The Great Cancer Hoax: The Brilliant Cure the FDA Tried Their Best to Shut Down...

2011-06-13T12:19:00.002-04:00

http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2011/06/11/burzynski-the-movie.aspx

Burzynski, the Movie is the story of a medical doctor and Ph.D biochemist named Dr. Stanislaw Burzynski who won the largest, and possibly the most convoluted and intriguing legal battle against the Food and Drug Administration in American history.

In the 1970’s, Dr. Burzynski made a remarkable discovery that threatened to change the face of cancer treatment forever. His non-toxic gene-targeted cancer medicine could have helped save millions of lives over the last two decades had his discovery not been criminally suppressed by the US government, as his therapy, called “antineoplastons,” have been shown to effectively help cure some of the most “incurable” forms of terminal cancer.

This documentary takes you through the treacherous 14-year journey Dr. Burzynski and his patients have had to endure in order to finally obtain FDA-approved clinical trials of antineoplastons.

His story is yet another testament that fact can be far stranger than fiction, as the film exposes the powerful, unscrupulous forces that work to maintain the status quo of the medical- and pharmaceutical industry at any cost—including the lives of millions of people.

Sources:

Burzynskimovie.com

REPORT: Why the Natural Health Product Regulations should be Suspended and Reviewed

2011-03-09T12:27:00.001-05:00

How Health Canada diverted what was intended for Natural Health Products and the associated industry; how they have hidden it from the elected representatives, and what it means for Canadians

A report prepared for Canadian MPs Submitted March 2, 2011

On behalf of Freedom of Access to Dietary Supplements Association

**Note: This report does NOT pertain to Bill C-36.

As Bill C-36 excludes the Food & Drugs Act, it does not apply to Natural Health Products.

Suspend and Review the Natural Health Product Regulations - Summation for Canadian MPs Recommendation: That the enforcement of the Natural Health Product (NHP) Regulations be suspended pending a

review by the Standing Committee on Health.

Rationale:

A. The NHP Regulations were never supposed to take the form that they did, and opposed the will of the Canadian Public and Parliament.

B. The NHP Regulations are unconstitutional for numerous reasons.

C. The NHP Regulations are damaging Canadian citizens, both physically and economically.

D. The NHP Regulations are adding to already astronomical government/public expenditures on healthcare by eliminating self-help options that Canadians want access to, and are willing to pay for privately.

The Solutions:

A. Remove NHPs from the DRUG category, and create a truly distinct category. Regulate them via a separate Ministry as set out in “The Charter of Health Freedom”.

B. Define NHPs according to what they are, and their relative levels of risk, rather than on what they are intended to be used for, as is currently the case.

C. Create a situation within the distinct category where claims are voluntary. IF a Natural Health Product makes an official claim, THEN it has to be substantiated with appropriate evidence, while allowing safe products with no claim to remain on the market with a general discussion on the label to inform consumers of their purpose.

D. Award a government-issued seal of approval for approved claims, to indicate to consumers which claims have met standards, and to provide a market advantage to those companies that achieve this.

Discussion of Rationale

A. The Natural Health Product Regulations were never supposed to take the form they did, and opposed the will of the Canadian Public and Parliament.

As administered by Health Canada, the regulations have taken a drastically different direction, and produced many outcomes opposite to what was loudly demanded by the Canadian public majority, and what was set out by the Standing Committee on Health, and Parliament.

When Health Canada tried to pass the Establishment Licensing Act in 1997, Canadians protested loudly that they did not want Natural Health Products regulated as “DRUGS”. The largest petition ever at the time, called “Our Foods are Not Drugs”, gathered over 150,000 signatures. The Act was halted, and a lengthy review by the Standing Committee on Health culminated in 53 recommendations to Parliament, all of which were accepted. Recommendation #1, was that “There shall be legislative reform... [i.e. changes made to the Food and Drugs Act]...to provide a category for Natural Health Products that was distinct from either Foods or Drugs, and which recognized their low risk nature. This general directive was echoed repeatedly in the Standing Committee’s final report, and in the final report of the Transition Team... but it never happened.

Health Canada failed to create a truly distinct category by amending the Act, as was specifically recommended on page 11 of the Standing Committee’s final report. Had they done this, the Food and Drugs Act, in essence, would have become the “Food, Drugs, and Natural Health Products Act”.

Instead, Health Canada took advantage of loopholes in the wording of the Report and the 53 Recommendations, and placed NHPs as a subset of DRUGS. They simply created a separate directorate and a new set of regulations for NHPs, claiming that amending the Food and Drugs Act would take too long.

That Natural Health Products are regulated as DRUGS is commonly known in the NHP industry, and is reflected in their definition, which is largely verbatim of that for pharmaceuticals. However, to find published evidence of this fact is difficult. One of the only references in government records indicating that NHPs are actually regulated as DRUGS is found under the Natural Health Products Regulations Regulatory Impact Analysis Statement, published in the Canada Gazette part I, page 4913, Dec.22, 2001, where it is stated bilingually:

“NHPs would be considered a subset of drugs under the Act. The new Regulations would apply

to products falling within the definition of an NHP.

The very next line in the text carries on: “Based on recommendations from the Standing Committee (set out in its report entitled A New Vision), the main components of the Regulations are definitions, product licensing, adverse reactions reporting, site licensing, good manufacturing practices, clinical trials, and labelling and packaging.”

This provides the definite impression that Health Canada was simply proceeding based on the recommendations from the Standing Committee. But Health Canada failed to follow the most important one, i.e. Natural Health Products were never supposed to be regulated as Drugs. Such a regulatory arrangement was specifically ruled out by the Standing Committee in Chapter 4 of its final report.

The “OPTIONS FOR THE NEW REGULATORY AUTHORITY” are depicted in Table 1, page 13 of the Report. On page 14 it is stated: “The Committee in rejecting Option 3 and Option 4... [i.e. regulating NHPs under Drugs or Foods]... gave serious consideration to these views. However, its final assessment is based on its own belief that the assessment of NHPs would benefit from a fresh approach, one where NHPs are evaluated in a forum and through a process detached from either pharmaceuticals or foods.” (Insert and emphasis added.)

As the DRUG assessment model currently being applied to NHPs was originally formed, and used for decades, to assess pharmaceuticals, this is not using a process detached from pharmaceuticals, as was recommended. What was meant, as is very apparent when one reads the report, is that in order to be regulated fairly, NHPs must be regulated out of the DRUG category. So, Natural Health Products were never given the distinct category everyone was expecting. Furthermore, since as DRUGS, Natural Health Products are presumed dangerous until proven safe, this fails to recognize their high safety levels, as was repeatedly referred to by the Committee.

Since sidestepping what they were told to do, and simply giving NHPs a separate directorate and regulations, Health Canada has been able to obscure the situation by advising MPs and the public alike that: “Natural Health Products and drugs are regulated separately, and have been since 2004”, (which many MPs in turn have told their constituents.) The wording of this statement is deceptive and inaccurate. It plays on the fact that when someone hears the word “drugs”, they automatically assume it to mean pharmaceuticals. The accurate way to state the situation is to say that: Though NHPs and pharmaceuticals are regulated separately, the fact is that BOTH are regulated as subsets of DRUGS under the Food and Drugs Act, and as such both must meet certain “drug” standards, discussed below. Yet, Health Canada fully knew the majority of NHPs would not be able to achieve this.

Why so many NHPs are being forced off the Canadian market

Moving NHPs into the DRUG category ensured the majority would be eliminated by creating a “rock and a hard place” scenario for proving claims in humans.

As “DRUGS”, in order to gain market approval, each NHP is forced to make a claim as to its intended use, and then must prove that claim in humans. Yet, until 2004, the majority of NHPs were classified as FOODS. Therefore, studies proving efficacy in humans were seldom done since there was no financial or legal incentive to do so. (As an analogy, bananas may provide a health benefit, but how many human trials have actually been performed to prove this?) There may be plenty of other forms of evidence for a given natural ingredient, but because of their expense, human trials are uncommon. So, for thousands of NHPs, official evidence proving benefits in humans is not pre-existing. Therefore it cannot be included in “the broad range of evidence” Health Canada claims to accept for NHPs.

Yet, creating this type of evidence is simply not financially feasible, because Natural Health Products are not patentable. When the evidence for an NHP does not meet Health Canada’s Standards of Evidence, the agency is demanding double-blind human trials. Such trials are extremely expensive, and at their conclusion, with no patent protection any competitor can simply copy the product in question and use the study results, without incurring the costs. The sponsoring company is practically guaranteed to lose money, so the product is simply discontinued.

So, on one hand, the necessary evidence to prove their claims often doesn’t exist, and on the other, it is not financially feasible to create it, because NHPs are not patentable. Health Canada knew this.

Outcomes: Out of the 70,000+ NHPs that they had access to in 2004, Canadians have lost access to well in excess of 40,000 products, i.e. they have been pushed off the market by the Regulations, and are no longer available for domestic purchase. This includes over 20,000 documented U.S. imports that retailers used to be able to order and sell in their stores, and in excess of 18,000 licence application refusals by Health Canada.

In addition, since the regulations began in 2004, virtually all Canadian NHP suppliers have continually reduced the number of products they offer due to the cost of compliance, and/or the likelihood of license refusals. At first, slow sellers were discontinued, followed by a continual onslaught of multiple ingredient products. They have been eliminated not because they are unsafe, or unpopular, but simply cannot meet Health Canada’s burden of proof for efficacy in humans for the reasons mentioned above.

Alternatively, Health Canada commonly decides that in order to meet regulatory requirements and remain on the market, long-standing effective herbal combinations need to be withdrawn and reformulated. However, when they return, they are rarely, if ever, as effective as the original formula. This is quickly reflected in their sales.

To compound the problems, a high number of U.S. companies that were actually stationed in Canada in 2004, either with their own manufacturing plants or through distributors, have simply stopped doing business in Canada, taking their products with them. Many had been sold in Canada for decades, with no problems or issues. The most recent of many examples is EAS, a sports nutrition icon in Canada that has been here since the 1980’s. As of January 2011, they pulled all of their operations out of Canada. These companies simply can no longer justify the expense or hassle of doing business in Canada.

Meanwhile, Health Canada has awarded less than 25,000 NHP#s. This number does not include product duplicates that simply piggyback off an awarded licence, which Health Canada commonly quotes, inflating their stated numbers.

Between 6000 and 8000 NHPs are still in the queue, having been given “Exemption Numbers” (EN#) while they are waiting to have their applications processed. Many have had their applications submitted for five or more years. If the ratio of approved to unapproved products continues, 5000 or less of these NHPs will likely be approved, bringing the total to approximately 30,000 or less...just over 40% of what we had in 2004. How does eliminating 60% of our choices achieve Health Canada’s stated intention for the Regulations of increasing Canadian’s access to NHPs?

Health Canada keeps maintaining that safety is their utmost priority for the Regulations, but the vast majority of refused applications have been denied for failing to prove efficacy, based on inappropriate standards, as mentioned. Out of the 18,000+ product license applications that have been refused by Health Canada, less than 1% of them have been denied for failing to prove safety, including a parsley product. Be clear, this does not necessarily mean that these products weren’t safe. It simply means that according to Health Canada, their applications did not prove safety, even if other products with identical ingredients received approval on their application.

It is often not the NHPs themselves that are being refused. Rather, it is just the paperwork. (One supplier got a refusal for not putting down a fax number!) Moreover, if Health Canada doesn’t want to approve an application, it doesn’t matter what evidence is presented, they don’t approve it. Products that work too well are particularly prone to such treatment. The standing joke is: “If it really works, you better buy lots, because it won’t be around for long.”

Also, the individuals now processing NHP applications are simply bureaucrats with no expertise in the field. Leading up to the NHP Regulations, another change in policy direction that was repeatedly identified as necessary by all involved groups was to have people with expertise in the field of natural health making the decisions. (See Chapter 4 of the Standing Committee Report.) But this was only adhered to very briefly after 2004.

Health Canada is playing regulatory games with potentially serious consequences for Canadians who were relying on NHPs they can no longer purchase. The agency is simply not applying the NHP Regulations based on what is reasonable, or what is good for Canadians. They are taking natural substances which have been part of the global food chain for millennia, and with regulations that are totally out of proportion to the levels of risk involved, making all manner of NHPs unavailable to consumers, practitioners, and/or the stores that sell them. They are driving up costs, and are on the verge of putting many companies out of business.

Health Canada was fully aware of the effects that regulating NHPs as DRUGS would have on the availability of NHPs. This is presumably why they were so stubborn about putting NHPs into the “DRUG” category. They tried in 1997, and despite all the public protests and government directives against it, ended up doing it anyway in 2004.

As mentioned, the Standing Committee spent the better part of two years establishing that NHPs do not belong in the DRUG category, which is clearly reflected in all the tone and rhetoric in their Final Report. This intention was also very apparent in the Final Report of the Transition Team, which was established to ensure that Regulations arrived at were fair and balanced. However, several members of the Transition Team simply quit because they weren’t being listened to, saying that Health Canada had already made-up their minds, so what was the use.

**Eliminating so many NHPs is the opposite of Canadians #1 stated desire, as identified by Health Canada.

After Parliament accepted the 53 Recommendations from the Standing Committee, Health Canada embarked on cross-country consultations with the Canadian public and stakeholders, with the stated intention of finding out what Canadians wanted. As was publicly announced by Health Canada, “By far” the number one request received from Canadians was that they wanted “greater access to a broader range of NHPs.” (Note: they did not say they wanted Health Canada to go on a witch hunt for efficacy, and eliminate over half the market.)

This overwhelming request is what resulted in Health Canada’s expressed purpose of the NHP Regulations becoming to: “increase Canadian’s access to Natural Health products.” How does eliminating 60% of the products on the market achieve this?

Moreover, what is the use of having a democratic mechanism if, after the people and the elected officials spend years establishing what they want, it is simply steamrolled by the bureaucracy?

With all the talk about a distinct category that is in both the final reports mentioned, and with Health Canada’s own announcements about what Canadians asked for, there is ample evidence that regarding the NHP Regulations, Health Canada has acted against the will of the Canadian people and Parliament.

Discussion of Rationale B. The Natural Health Product Regulations are unconstitutional for numerous reasons.

**Reason 1: Section 7 of The Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms guarantees the right of Canadians to life, liberty, and security. By restricting access to natural products that a Canadian may require to be healthy, the NHP Regulations interfere with the right to life. This interference with life is amplified when, after losing access to a natural product previously used for a health problem, Canadians substitute a much higher risk pharmaceutical for the NHP they can no longer buy here, (which, after over 40,000 NHPs have been eliminated, has no doubt happened many times since 2004). Since pharmaceuticals have a much higher risk level associated with them, this makes adverse side effects, including death, more likely. This interferes with the right to life.

In Canada, pharmaceuticals are responsible for thousands of deaths each year, versus zero recorded deaths ever for all NHPs. When an NHP used successfully for a health problem is eliminated by the NHP Regulations, and a Canadian who can no longer buy it uses a pharmaceutical in its place, it is clear that the risk of death and side-effects becomes

substantially greater. In such circumstances, by making death, and/or injury requiring medical attention more likely, the NHP Regulations interfere with life. (They also increase government expenditures on healthcare, discussed below.)

When the Regulations force an NHP off the market, it should only happen if the question of who it will harm has been addressed. Yet, Health Canada has carried out no risk analyses whatsoever regarding what the risks are of blocking or eliminating access to any of these NHPs will be. In some circumstances, consumers have tried every possible treatment for serious health concerns, and found that the only effective treatment for improving and/or maintaining their wellness is a Natural Health Product. If Health Canada then restricts access to the NHP they need via the NHP Regulations, once again, they make illness, pain, and/or death more likely. This is unconstitutional.

How many deaths will the NHP Regulations ultimately cause by making necessary, useful health support products unavailable to Canadians, forcing them to suffer, and/or use far higher risk treatments? This question becomes all the more relevant when the extremely small risk/benefit ratio of NHPs is considered, i.e. their relative risks are very small, and they have potential for meaningful benefit in a wide range of situations.

That the risks of using NHPs are relatively small is evidenced by their safety record. As mentioned, in Canada, according to poison control statistics, the total number of Canadian deaths on record as being caused by a Natural Health Product is ZERO (0)...EVER.

If, as is stated in section 3 of the CANADA HEALTH ACT, (Chapter C-6, Dept of Justice, current to Jan. 31, 2011), under the heading: CANADIAN HEALTH CARE POLICY, (quote)

“3. It is hereby declared that the primary objective of Canadian Health Care Policy is to protect, promote and restore the physical and mental well-being of residents of Canada and to facilitate reasonable access to health services without financial or other barriers. 1984, c. 6 s. 3.”

And if, as the Minister of Health always states in her letters to citizens:

“Maintaining the health and safety of Canadians is a priority for the Government of Canada. Health Canada’s mandate is to ensure that Canadians have access to the safest possible products.”

Why then are so many Natural Health Products being eliminated in the face of such overwhelming evidence that NHPs are indeed relatively extremely safe? Is it really because they don’t work?

If so many natural health products don’t work, why are they so popular, and continuing to grow in popularity? And if the NHP Regulations are reasonable, as Health Canada claims, why are so many people upset about losing their access to NHPs? It is more likely true that most NHPs actually do work for the people who use them, but just can’t PROVE efficacy according to Health Canada’s standards in their current classification as DRUGS. Further it is evident that Health Canada knew full well what they were doing when they set it up this way. As evidenced by their ever growing popularity, and the 2,000,000 plus peer reviewed papers being published on them annually around the globe, the potential benefits of NHPs can be many, and varied.

Moreover, particularly for the products that waited, or have been waiting, for years to have their applications assessed, if an NHP is safe enough to be on the market since 2004 without problems, and is effective enough to survive market pressures, (i.e. it must be working for someone if people are still buying it) what valid rationale is there for eliminating it now? This same question can also be applied to the countless products already eliminated after being sold here for decades.

The Standards of Evidence that Health Canada is using to eliminate NHPs for failing to prove efficacy are invalid.

They are structured around a pre-existing drug-model template that was originally designed for assessing single- molecule pharmaceuticals. In contrast, many NHPs, particularly herbal combinations, are extremely complex. NHPs can consist of hundreds of identified constituents. Accordingly they can have multiple effects on multiple systems in the human body. With over 88,000 identified substances in the human food chain, there is simply no way Health Canada can accurately account for all the potential benefits of NHPs, or the reasons people may use them with the current DRUG assessment methods.

Yet, Health Canada can control the direction of future innovations and discoveries. Given the expense of “proving” NHP claims in human trials, and considering that NHPs are non-patentable, any future discoveries are now, for the most part, the domain of large (presumably pharmaceutical/transnational) corporations, as they are the only ones with enough resources. Very few NHP suppliers or manufacturers can afford such trials. But, with NHPs not being patentable, chances are no one is going to do the studies anyway.

Hence, the Regulations have ground product innovation in the NHP industry to a virtual standstill. By stifling future discoveries and innovations, the NHP Regulations are exerting control over Canadian consumers’ health options and preventing an untold number of NHP benefits from ever reaching the public.

As Health Canada obviously knew the implications of their own regulations, whose purposes are the Regulations really serving? Is it those of the Canadian people?

With the burgeoning popularity of NHPs, a good argument can be made that what Health Canada is really doing with the Regulations is collaring the direction and development of the NHP market. There are many indications that the market is being pruned, simplified, and made less effective overall, as innovative and effective products made by smaller companies are forced off the market, while what remains on store shelves are simpler, more mainstream products from large corporations. (Ironically, the first product awarded a Natural Health Product licence by Health Canada was the sugar and caffeine-rich stimulant drink, Red Bull, produced by an Austrian transnational giant.)

On the other hand, there has been more than one instance where if an NHP works too well, and supplies too much evidence, indicating that a product is extremely effective for a serious health issue, the therapy is usurped by the medical/pharmaceutical industries.

An excellent example of this is an anti-inflammatory proteolytic (protein digesting) enzyme NHP called Serrapeptase. Since entering the market in the late 1990’s, it has been used with great success for pain relief, and to clear arterial plaque by slowly digesting proteins that hold the plaques together. After more than 5 years of submitting ever more evidence to answer Health Canada’s Information Request Notices, the NHP applications for the two highest strength products in the most popular brand were denied. Within six weeks of this occurring, a new medical procedure was approved by Health Canada for injecting proteolytic enzymes into the arteries to clear plaque. This would seem to be more than just coincidence.

It is also relevant to note that even though Natural Health Product themselves are not patentable, if an identified constituent in a botanical can be isolated, and a unique use identified for it, that use CAN be patented.

Bayer, for example, reportedly owns several hundred of these patents on such isolated constituents from botanicals, and this is to become the new frontier in drug development. Yet such drugs will be much less marketable if the whole plant form, from which the isolated constituent was derived, is still widely available as an NHP.

Not surprisingly, Bayer, along with several other pharmaceutical groups, is a member of the Program Advisory Committee for the NHP Regulations.

In the regulation of NHPs there needs to be a mechanism in place where claims are not mandatory, and/or if claims for a product are disallowed, it is still at least allowed market access with a general discussion as to its purpose, and a name that simply identifies what it contains. This way Canadians can still get products that they need to be healthy, or that they felt they were getting benefits from. Due to the complexity inherent in many NHPs, Health Canada can simply not account for all of the reasons a person may use it, or why it may benefit them. If the product truly does not work people will stop buying it, and it will be culled by free market pressures.

**Reason 2: Health is a provincial jurisdiction. In order for the federal government to exercise authority, a matter must be criminal. To be considered criminal, it is necessary for a matter to exceed a threshold of risk. With zero Canadian deaths on record where a Natural Health Product is listed as being the cause, NHPs do not reach this threshold. Therefore Health Canada is out of its jurisdiction.

Every year Canadians die from anaphylactic reactions to nuts. (This is why we have “nut free zones” in many Canadian schools.) Anaphylactic reactions to shellfish and various other foods also occur, and according to CBC News, one in nine Canadian emergency room visits are due to side effects or negative reactions to prescription drugs. It is well established that pharmaceuticals account for thousands of Canadian deaths each year. Therefore, being on record as having caused zero Canadian deaths ever, it can be easily established that NHPs as a group are safer than either FOODS or DRUGS. As such they do not pose enough of a risk to be governed by criminal legislation at a federal level.

Health is the jurisdiction of the provinces, and as their title assigned by Health Canada indicates, Natural Health Products are most commonly used for maintaining wellness and prevention, or for treating concerns before they require medical attention. As such, given their safety, NHPs should be regulated at a provincial level.

It is relevant to note that natural health practitioners are a Provincial jurisdiction. As stated in the NHPR Regulatory Impact Statement mentioned above, (pp. 4913-4914), a practitioner can compound any natural formulation they want for someone they are advising. This begs the questions: If practitioners are allowed to compound anything they want, why is Health Canada blocking so many imports that health practitioners were formerly using, and striking so many products off pricelists where the company only sells to health professionals? Why is the practitioner granted autonomy in one situation, but not the other? By overriding the practitioner’s decisions about whether or not these products are needed, is Health Canada not practicing medicine without a licence? Are the bureaucrats making these decisions trained in the appropriate areas, and who is being put at risk? If a practitioner offers a general formulation to the public meant to simply enhance vitality, and be healthy overall for anyone, why isn’t it still a provincial jurisdiction? Why is it suddenly a criminal matter, where it wasn’t before? What gives Health Canada jurisdiction?

This same type of inconsistency exists regarding personal importation of NHPs. As long as an NHP is not banned, or provided only by prescription in Canada, a person can import a three month personal supply of any NHP from the U.S., or abroad. Yet, when it comes to importing that same product for resale, Health Canada claims jurisdiction, and blocks the import, saying that the product must have an NHP#. So, if the NHP in question was safe enough for any individual to import privately and use, why does Health Canada’s jurisdiction over safety and fraud suddenly kick in when it comes to importing the exact same product for the purpose of resale, when anyone purchasing it here could have imported it from the U.S. anyway?

Recently, Health Canada has also claimed jurisdiction over NHP exports to other countries, stating that with the exception of the U.S., (with whom we have a free trade deal), any exported product must have an NHP#, even when the country of destination does not require it. Moreover, is Health Canada’s actual concern safety, fraud, or simply controlling the commerce of NHPs, and what are the implications for Canadians?

In their Regulatory Impact Analysis Statement, (Canada Gazette, Part I, Dec 22, 2001, Pg. 4914) Health Canada states:

“The Regulations are not aimed at regulating the activities of retailers of NHPs.”

Yet they have several times provided deadlines after which retailers are no longer able to sell an NHP that does not have either an NHP# or an EN#. After that, it has been made very clear to all retailers that Health Canada will be launching enforcement, as inspectors go to health food stores around the country to remove products from the shelves that they deem are non-compliant. (So much for not regulating the activities of retailers.) Health Canada is constantly engaging in a process of “Bureaucratic Creep”, where they expand their actions into an increasing number of areas, whether they have jurisdiction or not. The NHP Regulations are a perfect example.

Overall, it appears Health Canada is much more concerned about controlling NHP commerce, than they are with remaining in their area of jurisdiction over fraud, and safety issues involving risks worthy of criminal legislation.

**Reason 3: When applied to NHPs, which pose relatively very low levels of risk, the "use based” definition of a drug is unconstitutional, because it regulates the intended use of a safe substance, instead of the substance itself. When it comes to NHPs that are established as being safe, this amounts to censoring an individual’s actions for no reason, and is unwarranted State control that serves no benefit, and can be detrimental.

For a banned street drug like crystal meth, it doesn’t matter whether it is in powder, or capsule form, it is still treated the same, i.e. the substance itself is regulated. But when it comes to turmeric, cinnamon, or parsley for example, if they are bagged, and you use one of them in cooking, Health Canada considers them FOODS. Yet, if you put any of these same substances in capsules, and swallow them for their health benefits, they are considered DRUGS. What changed was the "intended use", i.e. your intention. But you were going to ingest it one way or another, so regulating your intention served no rational purpose other than unwarranted State control. They are the same substances considered safe one moment, but considered “dangerous until proven safe” in the next. This is invalid and unconstitutional, because it isn't the State's business why you are putting a safe substance in your body.

With pharmaceuticals, there are risks involved which can be used to rationalize this. But for Natural Health Products, with zero deaths ever in Canada, regulating your intention of what you are going to use for cannot be rationalized.

As an analogy, if you buy a hairbrush, what business does the State have in telling you whether you can brush your hair with it, or scratch your back? It is safe either way, and having the State regulate your intention of what you are using it for is unwarranted and unconstitutional.

NHPs need to be regulated according to what they are, and their safety level, rather than what they are intended to be used for, as is currently the case. The creation of a truly distinct third category, completely out of the DRUG category, is necessary if fairness to consumers is to be maintained.

Furthermore, with skyrocketing healthcare expenditures, the time has come to enact new legislation that would protect Canadians’ rights to maintain their own health and wellness, free of bureaucratic or political interference. Such legislation could be overseen by a new ““Ministry of Wellness”, and has already been written. It is entitled the “Charter of Health Freedom”.

Discussion of Rationale

C. The NHP Regulations are damaging to Canadians, both physically and economically.

There are many indications that Health Canada’s true intent for the Regulations right from the start was to reduce the NHP market, both in terms of the number of products, as well as the companies that supply them.

The NHP Regulations are having many damaging effects at every level of the supply chain in the NHP industry.

Consumers are frustrated because they can no longer get many safe products they want, and/or need. Furthermore, due to their inappropriately onerous demands, the Regulations have driven up NHP prices for the consumer. And whether a product is unavailable, or simply unaffordable, the net effect is still reduced access.

Natural Health Practitioners are being hobbled both professionally and financially, because they can no longer get the products they were formerly using to help the people seeking their advice. In this regard, the net effect that the agency is achieving is health suppression, not health protection.

Retailers are losing all manner of unique specialty products, whose NHP license applications are failing. As more and more of these innovative products disappear, the selection in health food stores increasingly becomes the same as mass market, against whose prices they simply can’t compete. (In essence, the Regulations are removing the “specialty” from the specialty market.)

Distributors are having all manner of products blocked and disallowed at the Canadian border, putting many of them in an extremely tenuous business situation, with an ever-looming question of whether they will be able to continue.

Manufacturers are having all manner of products eliminated due to license application failures for a variety of reasons, mentioned above. Cross-country scores of NHP manufacturers are nervously wondering which of their products will be “picked off” next.

Was this really what was intended by the Standing Committee when they came out with their recommendations, or what was asked for, or wanted by Canadians? The answer would seem to be a resounding “NO”.

Discussion of Rationale

D. The NHP Regulations are adding to already astronomical government/public expenditures on healthcare by eliminating self-help options that Canadians want access to, and are willing to pay for.

That the government is allowing Health Canada to remove so many NHPs, and drive up prices, when medical and pharmaceutical-dominated, publically funded healthcare is bankrupting the nation defies logic. Then again, very few M.P.s are aware of what is going on with NHPs, or actually understand the issues at hand. Many MPs respond to their constituents who voice their concerns about the Natural Health Product Regulations as if their inquiries are being made about Bill C-36, even though this is never mentioned.

It is high time the MPs educate themselves on the matter. The huge majority of the NHPs that have been eliminated to date were safe self-help alternatives that people want, and are willing to pay for! If, as the Globe and Mail on Feb. 27, 2011 states: “Health care costs could eventually swallow all levels of government if left unchecked”, why aren’t we increasing our access to these products, rather than eliminating so many of them?

And what about the cost of the NHP Regulations to taxpayers, which long ago was well in excess of 100 million? (Updated figures not released.) Canadians are paying the wages of Health Canada bureaucrats to wipe-out their health options. Yet, Health Canada claims that they are increasing our access to NHPs. This is simply untrue.

Even the most patriotic of government officials wouldn’t have a hard time believing that these NHPs are being eliminated en masse because of influence from some of the largest corporations, and vested interests in the world. Hopefully our MPs can come to the aid of their constituents who want to maintain their ability to take care of themselves before all of their tools have been eliminated, and the industry as we know it know has been transformed, becoming exclusively controlled by big business and pharmaceutical/ transnational corporations.

Discussion of Solutions

If Natural Health Products were removed from the DRUG category, and a truly distinct category was created, then NHPs could be regulated based on what they are, and their relative levels of risk, rather than what they are intended to be used for, as is currently the case. A situation could then be created within the distinct category where claims are voluntary. IF a Natural Health Product displays a claim, THEN it must be proven, while still allowing products deemed safe to remain on the market with general discussions, and names that simply identify what they contain.

If one of Health Canada’s goals is actually to provide the consumer with more information on what a product is for, then more explicit product discussions than the restrictive ones Health Canada has permitted to date should be allowed. Further, standardized symbols, (similar to universal washing instructions), could be displayed on labels to indicate what level of testing a product has undergone. (Given the relative safety of NHPs, why not allow more information, and leave the decision to purchase or not up to the consumer and free market pressures?)

If the right to display a seal of approval, (akin to the CSA approval sticker found on helmets) was awarded to products with an approved claim, this would provide them with a definite competitive advantage in the marketplace. In fact, achieving this could easily become a much stronger motivating factor for proving claims and quality assurance than the current regulatory situation, which is considered onerous, and unwarranted.

Apart from that, the wheel doesn’t need to be reinvented. There are many aspects of the Regulations that are workable and reasonable if administered properly. So the parts that work can still be used. Yet, to achieve fairness, history has clearly shown that NHPs cannot be regulated by Health Canada. A separate Ministry, i.e. the Ministry of Wellness needs to be created, from which the savings to healthcare budgets could be substantial.

Contrary to media portrayals, the NHP industry wants regulations. They want confidence and acknowledgement from public and government that they are following high standards for testing materials, and other forms of quality assurance, including Good Manufacturing Practices, to ensure that what is on the label is in the bottle. But, it makes it very difficult to achieve when the bureaucracy seems intent on squeezing you out of business, and disrupting streams of income from all manner of products that suppliers want to, or used to, offer.

Avoid Flu Vaccines & Seek Natural Remedies: Stay Immune Strong!

2010-09-23T11:44:00.000-04:00

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The Public Health Agency of Canada has once again given their seal of approval for the injection of a dangerous cocktail of toxic chemicals they call a trivalent vaccine. The 2010/11 recipients of AstraZeneca's FLUMISTwill be exposed to several strains of live viruses including H1N1 and H3N2. The vaccine also contains MSG and other known neurotoxins and immunotoxins.

Similar to last year's Arepanrix Vaccine, FLUMIST was approved without evaluating its safety and effectiveness on a single Canadian.

The vaccines are especially being promoted for children since the nasal spray vaccine can be marketed as less invasive due its intranasal delivery that does not require needles. Ontario's chief medical officer of health said a non-injectable vaccine is an "attractive option." The product has been on the U.S. market for the last seven years.

There are currently NO clinical trials or results which have validated the long-term safety and efficacy of the FLUMIST vaccine. Regulatory health agencies are refusing to acknowledge this fact or the nature of toxicity levels associated with the FLUMIST and its ingredients. The well documented toxicity evidence for each ingredient presented above are simply ignored.

Most of the ingredients that are considered non-clinically relevant excipients are ALL TOXIC and yet still injected in every person that receives the vaccine.

One of the most critical elements which defines the toxicity potential of any vaccine are its pharmacokinetic properties. AstraZeneca and Medimmune do not consider the study, analysis or evaluation of the pharmacokinetic properties of any vaccine ingredients or excipients including FLUMIST. This means that the bodily absorption, distribution, metabolism and excretion of ingredients within the vaccine are not known or even considered in safety assessments.

FLUMIST has not been evaluated for its carcinogenic or mutagenic potential or its potential to impair fertility. There have also been NO animal reproduction studies or studies in pregnant or lactating women and it is not known whether FLUMIST is excreted in human milk.

An increased rate of hospitalizations (for any cause) through 180 days after final vaccination dose of FLUMIST was observed in children 6-11 months of age.There were eight deaths reported within 180 days of FLUMIST dosing. Of the 8 deaths, 4 occurred within 42 days after the last dose of FLUMIST. 43 and 180 days after FLUMIST dosing, deaths were due to diarrhea and sepsis, encephalopathy, suffocation, and posterior fossa tumor and malignant hyperthermia.
- Pain, redness, swelling,fatigue, headaches, arthralgia (joint inflammation. myalgia (muscle inflammation), shivering, sweating,swollen lymph nodes, fever, vomiting, tingling or numbnessof the hands and feet, shortness of breath, vasculitis (inflammation of the blood vessels).

Serious Adverse Reactions

Congenital, familial and genetic:

- Exacerbation of symptoms of mitochondrial encephalomyopathy (Leigh syndrome)

Immune system:
- Anaphylactic reactions, facial edema and urticaria

Nervous system:
- Guillain-Barré syndrome, Bell’s Palsy

Respiratory, thoracic and mediastinal:
- Epistaxis

Skin and subcutaneous tissue:
- Rash

The information above clearly demonstrates that the Public Health Agency of Canada and Health Canada have no interest in meeting some of the most basic precautions to safeguard the health of Canadians.

Last year, just as flu activity increased across Canada, federal authorities warned Canadians not to buy natural remedies and to strictly confide in the anti-viral drugs and vaccines authorized by Health Canada.

172,000 doses were eventually recalled and withdrawn after serious adverse reactions, notably in the heart and lungs, and hundreds of deaths were reported.

Please protect yourself naturally from the flu. Learn what colds and flus really are and use common sense to the best of your ability.

Jerry Cutler,

Cardiff, ON

Is Everyone Creative?

2010-09-22T14:22:00.002-04:00

By Amandha Dawn Vollmer, Holistic Health Consultant & Spiritual Mentor

Creativity is innate within each and every individual. It is a product of the connectivity between the heart-mind of that individual and the Creator One Mind, that all have access to by birthright. It has been understood by wise sages and true seekers alike since time began, that we are all interconnected and supported by Love.

More recently quantum physics has been able to explain that everything is energy, everything is vibration and is in constant movement and expansion. If we tap into that infinite creative flow that is not our brain 'thinking' but the heart-mind connecting, creativity is limitless for any and every human on this planet. Everyone has this ability.

It is the ego that is limited in it's creative endeavours. The ego wants to control, stifle and manipulate. The ego forgets it's infinite power. Certainly we are free to learn methods and teachings from other free creators about ways to open up this flow, so of course there are aspects that can be taught. However, free flowing, unique creativity begins when we let go of the ego illusions and play, child-like in the sandbox of the Divine Source that we are.

The Quantum Field - an Unknown Realm

2010-08-20T14:44:00.004-04:00

For centuries now physics has been trying to describe and prove a unified field theory that would be most helpful in humanities understanding of life and what forces come into play and have an affect on us. It started clear back in 1867 with Isaac Newton. His veiw was the universe as a massive mechanical system where space and time are absolute. We now know that to be flawed, but he was pretty close for the time.

Then in 1867 came field-theory physics. James Maxwell proposes the existence of forces that cannot be explained by Newton`s physics. His research, along with Michael Faraday`s, leads to the discovery of the universe as fields of energy that interact with each other.

Then came Quantum Physics in 1900. Max Planck publishes his theory of the world as bursts of energy called "quanta". Experiments on the quantum level show that matter exists as "probabilities" and tendencies rather than absolute things, suggesting that reality may not be so real or solid after all.
In 1905 Albert Einstein brings us Relativity Physics. He proposes that time is relative rather than absolute. A key aspect of relativity is that time and space cannot be seperated and exist together as a fourth dimension.

65 years later, in 1970, comes String-Theory Physics. Physicists discover that theories describing the universe as tiny vibrating strings of energy can be used to explain the observations of both the quantum and everyday worlds. The theory is formally accepted by the mainstream physics community in 1984 as a possible bridge to unite all other theories.

In 2000 and something came the new and improved unified theory of physics which someday in the future, physicists wil discover a way to explain the holographic nature of what we observe in the quantum universe, as well as what we see in our everyday world. They will formulate the equations to unify their explanation into one consistent story.

This is where I come in and show you that our logic and common sense should supercede what the science community believes. They believe that if you can`t prove it, it therfore does not exist. Isn`t that a little bit silly? We can`t prove when the first human came into existence, does that mean that we don`t exist? Our common sense overides that, for here we are. Let us go with our logic a little bit further.

There has to be a medium, a field if you will, that has to exist in order for us to function as we do, and to make everything work the way it does. For example, what does a jet fly through? A long time ago it was thought of as an ether type of field. But ether lacks a good description of it. Some people think it is the wind we fly through. But if the wind is not blowing what is it we`re flying through? Others think it is just the air we`re flying through. But does air alone have enough consistency to it to let a 350,000 pound jet glide through it? I think there has to be a little bit more to this than meets the eye.

Now here is where it get`s tricky. We`re flying planes around in something that we can`t even see, but we know there must be something because we do it all the time. My logic tells me that it can`t just be air, because we breathe it all the time and I don`t really think it can substantiate 350,000 pounds (this is based on a 767 max takeoff weight) no matter how fast you can go. So there must be something more than just a field of air or ether.

But what is it if we can`t see it or prove that it exists? I am going to coin the phrase of simply the "Quantum Field" for it has always been there and we have proven it by flying through it. But wait, there`s more. More that everybody fails to recognize. Let`s take all the waves that are shooting around out there. Radio waves, cell phone waves, and a plethora of other waves. You might call them signals, but that word just doesn`t do them justice. And there`s also light waves and micro waves to name a few more.

So all these waves are out there shooting around, but shooting through what? It`s not the air, although you would be led to believe so. It`s the "quantum Field", you know, the one we can`t see. And here`s something else to think about. How do all of these waves go right through walls of concrete and brick to your cell phones and other devices we use? Surprise! Everthing is not as solid as your brains would have you believe. Your brain is the matrix device that makes everything you experience real. It`s magic in it`s own sense, but because it happens all the time it is taken for granted.

Let`s say you are at the table looking out the window. it`s a beautiful day with the sunshine coming in through your window. By rights, your window is solid and shouldn`t let anything in. But it`s clear, so that should let the light in, which it does. You put your hand on the table where the light is shining through and you feel the heat from the sun. That shouldn`t be possible because your window is solid, but yet you feel the heat. How can the heat pass right through something that`s solid? On this count, It`s not because it is clear, it`s because it`s not as solid as you think it is. And all the while your brain is telling you that it is because the glass is clear even though it`s solid. Here we come to the paradox. It is, but it isn`t.

My friends, the world is full of paradox`s. It is, but it isn`t. That means that anything is possible. It`s the quantum field that makes it possible. We live in a world where anything is possible. It comes down to the matter of belief. Our belief is so powerful that it took us to the moon. Now we are looking to go beyond. Let`s take a look clear back when they built the Pyramids. In those days it must have really seemed impossible to do, because even today, with our technology, we still can`t figure out how they did it. People think it was the HEB`s that helped them. ( What you call aliens I call Higher Evolved Beings, or HEB`s) I think that the HEB`s showed them how powerful their beliefs are. Einstein has proven that mass equals energy squared, so why couldn`t the Egyptians have changed the mass of the huge blocks they put into place to energy, thereby making them much lighter? Just a thought.

The thing that gives me the credentials to say all of this is the fact that I suffered a stroke ten years ago. I shouldn`t even be sitting here writing this. I had a supernatural experience that healed me of it. This led me on to do research on quantum physics, the universe, the near death experience, our reality, and the nature of "The All`, whom you refer to as God. I have made many startling realizations. One`s that ordinary people will call me crazy for because they are almost that unbelievable.

I have been awakened, for what purpose I do not know. What I do know is that there is so much more out there that we choose not to believe. We are all a part of "The All", which in essence makes us Godlike in our own manner. So what I am trying to do here is to make you think and start using your own common sense and logic to the things that are right before our very eye`s, such as the "Quantum Field". Once we understand it, it will no longer be an "unknown realm". I have much more to awaken you to which I am writing another book about. For now, I am just trying to get you to understand that through our combined consciousness, we can do the miraculous. After all, miracles aren`t miracles when you understand them.

Source: http://thesop.org/story/world/2010/01/31/the-quantum-field-an-unknown-realm.php

Lights at Night Are Linked to Breast Cancer

2010-06-11T18:31:00.003-04:00

Study Bolsters Theory About Interference With Production of Key Hormone

By Rick Weiss

Washington Post Staff Writer
Wednesday, February 20, 2008; A04

Women who live in neighborhoods with large amounts of nighttime illumination are more likely to get breast cancer than those who live in areas where nocturnal darkness prevails, according to an unusual study that overlaid satellite images of Earth onto cancer registries.

The finding adds credence to the hypothesis that exposure to too much light at night can raise the risk of breast cancer by interfering with the brain's production of a tumor-suppressing hormone.

"By no means are we saying that light at night is the only or the major risk factor for breast cancer," said Itai Kloog, of the University of Haifa in Israel, who led the new work. "But we found a clear and strong correlation that should be taken into consideration."

Scientists have known for years that rats raised in cages where lights are left on for much of the night have higher cancer rates than those allowed to sleep in darkness. And epidemiological studies of nurses, flight attendants and others who work at night have found breast cancer rates 60 percent above normal, even when other factors such as differences in diet are accounted for.

On the basis of such studies, an arm of the World Health Organization announced in December its decision to classify shift work as a "probable carcinogen." That put the night shift in the same health-risk category as exposure to such toxic chemicals as trichloroethylene, vinyl chloride and polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs).

The mechanism of such a link, if real, remains mysterious, but many scientists suspect that melatonin is key. Secreted by the pineal gland in the brain, the hormone helps prevent tumor formation. The body produces melatonin primarily at night, and levels drop precipitously in the presence of light, especially light in the blue part of the spectrum produced in quantity by computer screens and fluorescent bulbs.

In keeping with the melatonin hypothesis, mice in cages with night lighting have normal cancer rates if they get shots of the hormone. And blind women, whose eyes cannot detect light and so have robust production of melatonin, have lower-than-average breast cancer rates.

Kloog and his colleagues took a previously untried approach to testing the link. They obtained satellite data from NASA that showed in great detail how much light was emitted spaceward from neighborhoods throughout Israel.

Although the light levels that reached the satellite were about one-tenth their intensity on Earth, the approach provides an accurate measure of which areas are brighter or darker than others and by how much.

The team then overlaid that map with local statistics on cases of breast cancer and, for comparison, lung cancer, which is caused mostly by smoking and so would not be expected to be linked to light.

After using neighborhood data to correct for other factors that can affect cancer rates, including wealth, ethnicity and the average number of children in families living in those localities, the researchers found no link between night lighting and lung cancer, they report in this week's online issue of the journal Chronobiology International.

But the researchers found the breast cancer rate in localities with average night lighting to be 37 percent higher than in communities with the lowest amount of light; and they noted that the rate was higher by an additional 27 percent in areas with the highest amount of light.

Abraham Haim, a University of Haifa chronobiologist involved in the study, said the findings raise questions about the recent push to switch to energy-efficient fluorescent bulbs, which suppress melatonin production more than conventional incandescent bulbs. "This may be a disaster in another 20 years," Haim said, "and you won't be able to reverse what we did by mistake." He called for more research before policies favoring fluorescent lights are implemented, and for more emphasis on using less light at night.

Jim Burch, a University of South Carolina epidemiologist and biostatistician familiar with the study, called the approach and findings "fascinating."

"The study has limitations," including not measuring levels of indoor lighting, "but it supports the overall idea," Burch said. "I think there is enough evidence to suggest we ought to be thinking about this more carefully."

Chia Superfood

2010-05-06T12:12:00.000-04:00

I want to be the first to tell you about a new superfood that you’re likely to start hearing a lot more about. It’s called chia and is the richest source of omega-3 fats from the vegetable kingdom, plus many other valuable nutrients.

While you may be unfamiliar with chia, you are probably aware of the health benefits of flax seeds. At one point, this golden seed was pretty unknown too, but now you can buy it in every supermarket. Chia, however, is nutritionally superior to flax. It also tastes better and stores and remains fresh for longer.

The first record of chia’s human consumption is 3500BC and by 1500BC, it had become a cash crop in Mexico. But chia dropped out of the Meso-American diet because it was banned by the Spanish conquistadores as it was considered a sacred food.

An ideal staple

However, chia is now making something of a come back – and rightly so. Along with the South American grain quinoa, chia is a highly-nutritious food that should become a daily part of our diet, going a long way to restoring our essential fat intake back towards more omega 3 than omega 6.

Like flax, chia is a very good source of protein – about 20%, which is much higher than grains, including quinoa. However, chia is richer in soluble fibre than flax – and also contains more omega 3 oils (65% compared to 58% for flax) and omega 6 (19% compared to 15%); three times as much calcium; 25% more magnesium; and a lot less sodium than flax.

Get half your daily antioxidant quota at breakfast

I have a 15 gram serving of chia every day (a heaped dessertspoon), which gives me 100mg of calcium and 70mg of magnesium, a really decent amount. A 15g serving also has an antioxidant rating of 1,335 ORAC points. Ideally, you want to achieve over 6,000 ORAC points a day, so 15g represents more than a fifth of your daily target. Having a quarter of a cup of berries is another 1,000, as is four walnuts or pecans. So all three with breakfast is more than half your ideal daily antioxidant intake.

None of the anti-nutrients of flax

Flax has some disadvantages, which have probably stopped it becoming a staple food. Historically, it was used more for clothing and for oil. Unlike chia, is has quite high levels of anti-nutrients such as glycosides, trypsin inhibitors, phytic acid and others. I don’t want to put you off eating flax but these anti-nutrients don’t make it the ideal food in large quantities, while you could literally live off chia. Being very high in antioxidants, chia also stores for longer.

Taste-wise, chia has a much nicer, slightly nuttier flavour than flax and tastes good on its own, added to cereal, bread or cakes and in salads or soups.

Patrick Holford

http://www.patrickholford.com/

How the Sun affects Our Weather

2010-05-05T20:35:00.000-04:00

Mitch Battros presents fascinating, and sometimes shocking, research from the world's top scientists. After years of dialogue with these experts, Mitch has been accepted into the guarded halls of NASA, NOAA, ESA, Royal Observatory, the US Naval Observatory and other highly esteemed scientific bodies. In addition to the latest research on the Sun's influence on our "weather", Mitch also presents ground-breaking evidence of how the Sun and other celestial orbs produce 'charged particles' and their impact on humanity.

Just as the Sun's solar activity affects the Earth's magnetic field which has a dramatic affect on Earth's weather i.e. earthquakes, floods, volcanoes, hurricanes; so does this wave of electrical currents affect the human body's magnetic field. Mitch also reveals a little-known development from modern medicine known as Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (TMS). TMS provides empirical evidence of how magnetic fields can influence human emotions.

Solar Cycle 24 has begun - and it has been predicted by NASA, NOAA and ESA to be up to 50% stronger than its 'record breaking' predecessor Cycle 23 which produced the largest solar flare ever recorded. The Sun will reach its 'apex' (maximum) in late 2011 into 2012.

"I believe it will be the magnetic influence produced by the Sun which will usher in what is described by our ancient ancestors as "the transition" bringing us to a new state-of-being". (Mitch Battros)

http://earthchangesmedia.com/

URGENT CONSIDERATION REQUESTED RE BILL C-6

2009-09-11T14:21:00.002-04:00

HI Friends and Relatives

Even though Bill C-6 has taken supplements out of the picture, there are serious flaws with this Bill. It is currently before the Senate and 2nd reading takes place this Monday Sept. 15. Below is a list of the senators which you can copy and paste into the To line or the BCC line.

Please take the time to forward this to the Senate and any of your friends.

Thanks

Deb Aaron

From Helke Ferrie

WHAT’S WRONG WITH BILL C-6 AND DEMANDS EXPLANATION:

1. “For the first time in Canadian history”, lawyer Shawn Buckley explains, “Bill C-6 not only abolishes the law of trespass, but also allows warrants to be issued to search private homes without evidence of criminal wrongdoing … in violation of Section 8 of the Charter.” What ?!

2. Under Bill C-6 (various sections) , “guilt (of anybody considered to violate this act, if the Minister thinks this is so) is determined by the Minister”, not by the courts! (As was the case for the past thousand yearssince England’s Magna Carta). Since when has any minister greater powers than the courts of the country? Since when is any government official, elected or otherwise, above the law?

3. Bill C-6 , in its preamble on page 1 and again in Section 2 (e) and (f), defines our government as including “a government of a foreign state or of a subdivision of a foreign state”, and “an international organization of states”. Canadians cannot question (or vote out) foreign governments. Canada has the right to enter into treaties – if our elected representatives agree to it, and we have the right to change or rescind such treaties by turfing out our government in the next election - but we did not give our government the right to change the very definition of what we own.

4. In Bill C-6, under Section 36 (2) (a) “any regulation made under this Act may be incorporated by [not by us the voters, but by]… a person or body (who the heck is this?) other than the Minister [i.e. a Canadian, elected MP], including by an organization established for the purpose of writing standards [ Codex? What organizations? Where?] … an industrial or trade organization [on whose boards we don’t sit, whose products we may not want, e.g. pesticide companies etc], or a government” [which one or ones?]. Forget the explanation/doublespeak – REMOVE this section immediately.

Whatever else Bill C-6 states and no matter how benevolent its intended protections – nothing warrants the removal of basic rights, the subversion of the Constitution, the usurpation of our courts, and the dis-empowering of Canadian citizens. C-6 CANNOT be amended – it must be withdrawn totally. Any other bill, containing those provisions, already passed or currently proposed, must also be withdrawn.

To find your MP google MPs + Canada, find your MP on the alphabetical list, put your postal code in the dialogue box, if you don’t know his or her name, to get it. You will be given the mailing and e-mail addresses, phone numbers etc. Go to my website: www.kospublishing.com and download for free my book What Part of No! Don’t They Understand? Rescuing Food and Drugs from Government Abuse (Kos, 2008). It explains the provisions being questioned below as they were also part of the former bills C-51/52 which the current bill C-6 replaces. Also, read the legal analysis of C-6 on www.nhppa.org .
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(Note: Helke's analysis is a better explanation than nhppa's.... rely on this one as it's a stronger message! ~dee)

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Subject: URGENT CONSIDERATION REQUESTED RE BILL C-6

To the Canadian Senate
Dear Senators:

Re: Bill C-6 “The Canada Consumer Product Safety Act”
and Violations of the Charter of Rights and Freedoms

Upon the return of the Senate, its first order of business will be the second reading of the above-noted bill, and I am writing to tell you that according to the research of numerous authoritative sources, Bill C-6 is unconstitutional: its language violates the provisions of the Charter of Rights and Freedoms as follows:

Authorization is given to

a. search private property without a warrant
b. seize private property without Court supervision
c. destroy private property without Court supervision
d. take control of businesses without Court supervision
e. in some circumstances to keep seized private property without a Court order
f. impose penalties without a Court order

These rights are enshrined in the Charter of Rights and Freedoms as our right of due process under the law. According to the Book of Criminal Procedurethe Charter is “the supreme law of the nation”and any legislation which abrogates Charter rights and freedoms isab initio“of no force or effect”: in a word, Bill C-6 is unconstitutional, because it could not stand a Charter Challenge, due to the fact that it removes the rights of ordinary Canadians.

“For the first time in Canadian history,” lawyer Shawn Buckley explains, “Bill C-6 not only abolishes the law of trespass, but also allows warrants to be issued to search private homes without evidence of criminal wrongdoing, in violation of Section 8 of the Charter.”

In the guise of a “consumer protection” act, yet containing language arbitrarily removing our rights, C-6 purports not to affect Natural Health Products, nor to abrogate the rights of anyone other than those importing unsafe/illegal products for use by Canadians. However, as you must be aware, language from one piece of legislation may be moved by ministerial regulatory change to any other. This means that as egregious as Bill C-6 is, for its denial of due process of law and consequent violation of the Constitution Act and Charter of Rights and Freedoms, its provisions may also be moved to apply to other contingencies, including martial law and a suspension of Canadian rights, for whatever purpose, including forced vaccinations.
I note that in the state of Massachusetts, which is currently reviewing a Bill containing many of the same provisions, the Senator who introduced it is facing a call for impeachment proceedings on grounds of treason. (More info HERE) I would venture to say that that if an affront to the US Constitution is a treasonous offence, it is equally a treasonous offense to deny Canadians -- any Canadians, for any reason, at any time -- their right of due process of law.
I also wish to point out that since you are now informed as to the nature of Bill C-6and its inherent risk to the freedoms guaranteed us in the “Supreme Law of the Land”your support of it could, would, and should be viewed as a violation of your senatorial oath, and treason against the people of Canada.

Kindly govern yourselves accordingly: voting in support of Bill C-6 is not an option for any law-abiding governor.

Sincerely yours,
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The Beautiful Truth

2009-09-09T14:50:00.005-04:00

Watch the full video here:
http://vids.rationalveracity.com/v/677,the-beautiful-truth.html

Watch the trailer here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ZmV8b1wr10

Garrett is a 15-year old boy living in the Alaskan wilderness with a menagerie of orphaned animals. Growing up close with nature has given him a deep understanding of nutritional needs required by diet sensitive animals on the reserve. Unfortunately, the untimely and tragic death of his mother propelled him into a downward spiral and he risked flunking out of school. This led to his father’s decision to home-school Garrett. His first assignment was to study a controversial book written by Dr. Max Gerson. Written over 50 years ago, Dr. Gerson found that diet could, and did, cure cancer. Controversial at the time (and even today), Garrett took on the challenge of researching this amazing therapy, which drew the interest of his neighbors in the small Alaskan community. With the help of Dr. Gerson’s daughter, Charlotte Gerson, and grandson, Howard Strauss, they gave him the ammunition needed to go in search for the truth – a truth that would affect not only him, but his entire Alaskan village – all of whom wanted to know if these claims were true. After a number of cancer patients, who were diagnosed as terminal, shared their stories and their medical records with Garrett, it became abundantly clear that, contrary to the disinformation campaign spear-headed by the multi-billion dollar medical and pharmaceutical industry, a cure for virtually all cancers and chronic diseases does exist – and has existed for over 80 years! Garrett’s mission now is to tell the world.

If you enjoy this documentary, please support the filmmakers by purchasing the DVD here: www.amazon.com/Beautiful-Truth-Garrett-Kroschel/dp/B001J66JQ8

In Memory of Dr. Hulda Clark

2009-09-09T11:26:00.004-04:00

On The Crossing Over of Hulda,

I am sad to announce the passing of Dr. Hulda Clark. She passed away September 3rd 2009. Hulda, thank you for your courage and amazing volume of work you gifted to this realm.

I first learned of Dr. Clark by coming across her zapper technology of which I was fascinated. This was 8 or 9 years ago and I was just starting to learn about frequency, vibrational health and understanding deeper physics, primarily quantum physics. Being also very interested in homeopathy I found many connecting links between her work and 'vibrational matching' in order to bring about deep healing by influencing the subtle realms and energy fields, also found in homeopathic medicine and other vibrational therapies, like reiki, colour therapy and radionics.

We have lost so many medical greats this year, from Hoffer to Juliette of the Herbs and now Hulda. It looks like a new era is emerging among us.

With respect,
Amandha Dawn Vollmer, BSc., ND cand. Reiki Master,
Founder & Director of Great Central Sun Naturopathic Healing Arts

In Memory of Dr. Hulda Clark

by David P. Amrein

Dr. Clark passed away last Thursday, 3 September, as a result of complications from a spinal cord injury.

The first time I heard of Dr. Hulda Clark was in 1995, when I came across her book about cancer. This sparked my interest and gave my whole life a new perspective. I met Dr. Clark personally in the summer of 1996. She immediately came across as an energetic woman whose only interest is her work and her patients. Dr. Clark would work every minute that she did not spend with her grandchildren, either at the clinic or doing more research at home.

What amazed me about Dr. Clark was her complete disinterest in material things. Often enough I was a bit worried when I saw her driving around in her old clunker. She just had no needs that went beyond just the basic needs. That mindset led Dr. Clark to share her research freely with the whole world. Except for the books themselves, Dr. Clark never had any commercial interests, but published her findings in her books for everyone to use. She even allowed anyone to freely make copies of her books, if they were not sold. I remember a time when someone illegally published one of her books in Mexico and when she was asked if she did not want to do something about that, she said: “oh well, at least the public can read my books”.

Dr. Clark’s interest in her research became apparent the many times I saw her speak in public. Even to audiences who had little knowledge of her findings, she would prefer to speak about her latest research, rather than give a general overview. Her research took her down many avenues: she can be called a true pioneer in a number of areas. Her frequency approach to cancer was unique, but in the last couple of years low intensity electric field treatments for cancer have been rather well studied and shown to work. Though parasites were an issue in holistic medicine among the bio-resonance testers especially, it was Dr. Clark who made this a major topic starting with the publication of her first book in 1993. She also focused on the importance of dental health, as well as environmental factors. Those topics had already been recognized as important in holistic medicine, but her major contribution was the proposition of a complete protocol that included all the important factors, namely environmental factors, dental health, nutrition, herbal approaches and cleansing, and frequencies.

Dr. Clark has not only given my life a new slant, but has touched the lives of hundreds of thousands around the globe who have been able to help themselves with the knowledge that she has brought forth. Dr. Clark has suffered severe attacks from adversaries and Government and has nevertheless carried on, for the benefit of health and mankind. I feel that the world loses a great find, and so do I. We are thankful for Dr. Clark’s dedication and contribution and she will always be in our hearts. Thank you, Dr. Clark, for everything!

We will continue our efforts in her spirit and keep bringing her wisdom to the world.

According to her wishes, Dr. Clark will be cremated and her ashes given to the Pacific Ocean, which she so loved, in a private ceremony.

Condolence cards can be sent to:
New Century Press
1055 Bay Blvd #B
Chula Vista, CA 91911
USA

The 1918 Influenza Epidemic Was a Vaccine - Caused Disease

2009-07-31T21:30:00.001-04:00

Very few people realize that the worst epidemic ever to hit America, the Spanish Influenza of 1918 was the after effect of the massive nation-wide vaccine campaign. The doctors told the people that the disease was caused by germs. Viruses were not known at that time or they would have been blamed. Germs. bacteria and viruses, along with bacilli and a few other invisible organisms are the scapegoats which the doctors like to blame for the things they do not understand. If the doctor makes a wrong diagnosis and treatment, and kills the patient, he can always blame it on the germs, and say the patient didn't get an early diagnosis and come to him in time.

If we check back in history to that 1918 flu period, we will see that it suddenly struck just after the end of World War I when our soldiers were returning home from overseas. That was the first war in hich all the known vaccines were forced on all the servicemen. This mish-mash of poison drugs and putrid protein of which the vaccines were composed, caused such widespread disease and death among the soldiers that it was the common talk of the day, that more of our men were being killed by medical shots than by enemy shots from guns. Thousands were invalided home or to military hospitals, as hopeless wrecks, before they ever saw a day of battle. The death and disease rate among the vaccinated soldiers was four times higher than among the unvaccinated civilians. But this did not stop the vaccine promoters. Vaccine has always been big business, and so it was continued doggedly.

It was a shorter war than the vaccine-makers had planned on, only about a year for us, so the vaccine promoters had a lot of unused, spoiling vaccines left over which they wanted to sell at a good profit. So they did what they usually do, they called a meeting behind closed doors, and plotted the whole sordid program, a nationwide (worldwide) vaccination drive using all their vaccines, and telling the people that the soldiers were coming home with many dread diseases contracted in foreign countries and that it was the patriotic duty of every man, woman and child to get “protected” by rushing down to the vaccination centers and having all the shots.

Most people believe their doctors and government officials, and do what they say. The result was, that almost the entire population submitted to the shots without question, and it was only a matter of hours until people began dropping dead in agony, while many others collapsed with a disease of such virulence that no one had ever seen anything like it before. They had all the characteristics of the diseases they had been vaccinated against, the high fever, chills, pain, cramps, diarrhea, etc. of typhoid, and the pneumonia like lung and throat congestion of diphtheria and the vomiting, headache, weakness and misery of hepatitis from the jungle fever shots, and the outbreak of sores on the skin from the smallpox shots, along with paralysis from all the shots, etc.

The doctors were baffled, and claimed they didnt know what caused the strange and deadly disease, and they certainly had no cure. They should have known the underlying cause was the vaccinations, because the same thing happened to the soldiers after they had their shots at camp. The typhoid fever shots caused a worse form of the disease which they called para-typhoid. Then they tried to suppress the symptoms of that one with a stronger vaccine which caused a still more serious disease which killed and disabled a great many men. The combination of all the poison vaccines fermenting together in the body, caused such violent reactions that they could not cope with the situation. Disaster ran rampant in the camps. Some of the military hospitals were filled with nothing but paralyzed soldiers, and they were called war casualties, even before they left American soil. I talked to some of the survivors of that vaccine onslaught when they returned home after the war, and they told of the horrors, not of the war itself, and battles, but of the sickness at camp.

The doctors didnt want this massive vaccine disease to reflect on them, so they, agreed among themselves to call it Spanish Influenza. Spain was a far away place and some of the soldiers had been there, so the idea of calling it Spanish Influenza seemed to be a good way to lay the blame on someone else. The Spanish resented having us name the world scourge on them. They knew the flu didnt originate in their country.

20,000,000 died of that flu epidemic, worldwide, and it seemed to be almost universal or as far away as the vaccinations reached. Greece and a few other countries which did not accept the vaccines were the only ones which were not hit by the flu. Doesnt that prove something?

At home (in the U.S.) the situation was the same; the only ones who escaped the influenza were those who had refused the vaccinations. My family and I were among the few who persisted in refusing the high pressure sales propaganda ,and none of us had the flu not even a sniffle, in spite of the fact that it was all around us, and in the bitter cold of winter. Everyone seemed to have it. The whole town was down sick and dying. The hospitals were closed because the doctors and nurses were down with the flu. Everything was closed, schools, businesses, post office everything. No one was on the streets. It was like a ghost town. There were no doctors to care for the sick, so my parents went from house to house doing what they could to help the stricken in any way they could. They spent all day and part of the night for weeks, in the sick rooms, and came home only to eat and sleep. If germs or viruses, bacteria, or any other little organisms were the cause of that disease, they had plenty of opportunity to latch onto my parents and “lay them low” with the disease which had prostrated the world. But germs were not the cause of that or any other disease, so they didnt “catch” it. I have talked to a few other people since that time, who said they escaped the 1918 flu, so I asked if they had the shots, and in every case, they said they had never believed in shots and had never had any of them. Common sense tells us that all those toxic vaccines all mixed up together in people, could not help but cause extreme body-poisoning and poisoning of some kind or another is usually the cause of disease.

Whenever a person coughs or sneezes, most people cringe, thinking that the germs are being spread around in the au and will attack people. There is no need to fear those germs any more, because that is not the way colds are developed. Germs cant live apart from the cells (host) and cant do harm anyway, even if they wanted to. They have no teeth to bite anyone, no poison pouches like snakes, mosquitoes or bees, and do not multiply, except in decomposed substances, so they are helpless to harm. As stated before, their purpose is useful, not destructive.

The 1918 flu was the most devastating disease we ever had, and it brought forth all the medical bag of tricks to quell it, but those added drugs, all of which are poisons, only intensified the over-poisoned condition of the people, so the treatments actually killed more than the vaccines did.

Source:

Vaccination The Silent Killer: A Clear And Present Danger by Ida Honorof and E. McBean (Paperback - 1977) Out of Print–Limited Availability

There is a Hunger Coming Like a Run-Away Freight Train: Created by Congress

2009-07-25T21:11:00.003-04:00

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2301179/posts
http://standeyo.com/NEWS/09_Food_Water/090728.food.dust.bowl.html

July 25, 2009
Clint Richardson

I've driven the almost 400 mile stretch of Interstate 5 from L.A. to Sacramento dozens of times. Quite honestly, it's as boring as it gets with only the usual gas stations, mini-marts, fast-food, home-cookin' restaurants, and strangely a newer batch of Starbuck's Coffee shops sprouting up everywhere. In between... farms, orchards, cattle, and dirt.

On July 15th, as I began my trip to Utah, I came off the Grapevine decline and hit the flat 250 or so mile stretch of interstate which begins the farming belt in the valley. Almost immediately I noticed what I had only heard about on the radio and in the papers. Where once there were vast
fields of green, now there where empty, barely recognizable rows of unplanted dirt and growing weeds. Only sporadically at first, but once I passed Bakersfield and for about a 200 mile stretch, I could not believe my eyes. Field after field laid fallow. And not really fallow, but unattended... as if it was not going to be planted in the near future either.

Signs were staked in the ground on almost every patch of barren farmland. The most common one, which was yellow and obviously a group effort to wake up the sleeping travelers of their future plight, read:

"CONGRESS CREATED DUST BOWL"

Others, which looked more homemade were posted on non-operational farm equipment parked as close to the freeway as possible, stated things like:

"FOOD ONLY GROWS WHERE WATER FLOWS" -and- "NO WATER = NO JOBS = NO FUTURE"

At one point, after 150 miles or so of seeing this horror, I broke down in tears and had to pull over to the side of the road. I saw the aqueduct, which followed Interstate 5 most of the way, and large fields of dead trees which were planted just a few feet from the flowing cement river. I
imagined how those trees would feel, imprisoned in the dying dirt by their own roots, if they could indeed comprehend that their source of life was just a stones throw away.

It was like some horrific story-book come to life; science fiction in real time. I was thinking of the farmers and their families and wondering what would become of them and their land. I was thinking about the consequences of hundreds of miles of food no longer being grown, and adding together the other states like Campo, Colorado which have the same situation... only planting 60% of their crops this year.

This deadness went on until the brink of civilization once again began to show. When I approached the Stockton/Modesto highway interchange area the carnage seemed to stop, and the fields appeared to be healthy and bountiful. I can only guess that this is because more people drive on that stretch of the freeway, and so the powers that be are trying to keep up
appearances. No other explanation came to mind.

To the readers of this, I can only say that living in the city has literally blinded me to the truth, even though I knew it was happening. I wonder how many other things I ignore? Many economists and trends predictors have called for food shortages and food riots in the fall, and
with what I saw last week, I have new reason to believe them. But then, that's the real problem isn't it? Belief...

If you believe that the food will continue to flow (magically appearing on store shelves in a grocery store near you) and just dismiss the very real claims of shortages worldwide, including a severe wheat shortage in this country due to a harmful fungus, then I might boldly say that you deserve whatever fate befalls you.

I challenge you all to take a drive up the 5 and see this for yourself. Please! Don't let this go unseen. If you are camera or video savvy, I think it would be a really great photo exhibit or website showing the true nature of our common problem. And you better believe, as you take your daily shower, flush your toilet, and water your fertilized-non-edible grassy yards, that this is indeed a Congress created crisis. So please tell as many people about it as possible.

Lastly, if you haven't already... buy storable food! Go to the dollar store and buy rice and beans. Buy pasta, canned and jar foods, or anything with a shelf-life of more than 6 months.

What's the worse that can happen? You'll have food for 6 months.

What's the best that can happen? You'll have food for 6 months.

Take care. Spread this information. Get mad. Fight tyranny. And...

Don't be a sheep.
Clint Richardson

http://standeyo.com/NEWS/09_Food_Water/090728.food.dust.bowl.html
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2301179/posts

LIVE H2O WEEKEND FOR WATER HEALING

2009-05-29T21:14:00.007-04:00

Great Central Sun Naturopathic Healing Arts is inviting all members of the public and media to the LIVE H2O weekend water healing event at their center in King Township, and at the Ashbridges Bay, Toronto Beaches.

Join with master musicians, vocalists, science experts and millions around the world in a historic summer solstice celebration from Fri. June 19 - Sun. June 21 to honour the living water and pray for world peace, health, ecological responsibility, and spiritual integrity.

When: Friday, June 19, 7-11pm at Great Central Sun Naturopathic Healing Arts

Saturday, June 20, 11am-11pm at Great Central Sun Naturopathic Healing Arts

Sunday June 21, 1-10pm at Ashbridges Bay, Toronto Beaches

Where: Friday & Saturday at Great Central Sun Naturopathic Healing Arts

225 King Summit Road, King City, ON, L7B 1A3 (just north of King Rd & Jane St)

Sunday at Ashbridges Bay, Toronto Beaches

Schedule of events:

FRIDAY, JUNE 19^th

7-8pm Opening Celebration

8-11pm Musical Performances on our rooftop stage

SATURDAY, JUNE 20^th

11am-1pm David Francis talk: Energy Worlds -Relationships Between H₂O & Energy-

1-6pm Musical Performances on our rooftop stage - PLUS Oil & Water Chakra Sharing, Art Co-Creations, Atlantean Healing, Yoga, Labyrinth, Swim

2-4pm Live H2O Mandala Making

4-6pm Floating Drum Circle, Pool Play

6-8pm David Francis talk: Holy Water -How Energies are Held by Water-

Bree Leggett talk: Dr. Emoto -Liquid Love, the Intentional Messenger-

8-11pm Musical Performances continue - PLUS Collective Conscious Celebration, Fire Fun

SUNDAY, JUNE 21^st

1-6pm Beach Playshops: Dance & sand sculpt, Yoga, Meditation, Water Within

6pm Drum Fun, Ceremonial Drumming

8pm Invitation, prelude to live h2o global prayerful love chant

9pm Collectively, Locally & Globally Healing the Water in the World

Prayerful chant ‘ah’ in 528 frequency, global love water experiment

LIVE H₂O HEALING THE WATERS OF THE WORLD

An unprecedented global “Concert for the Living Water” to give thanks and express LOVE for H₂O has been scheduled by a coalition of humanitarian and spiritual organizations for June 19-21^st. The 3-day event features experts, artisans, and recording artists honouring water for its sustaining, supporting, healing and purifying presence.

Celebrities, authors, film-makers, recording artists, spiritual teachers, religious leaders, and regular people from all cultures will grace nine main stages internationally at venues adjacent to important bodies of water. Toronto is one of the international venues and will be linked via the internet with a worldwide participating audience. Friday and Saturday’s events are hosted at Great Central Sun Naturopathic Healing Arts in King Township; Sunday’s events are at the Ashbridges Bay, Toronto Beaches. (For detailed events schedules please visit www.torontoliveh2o.info)

LIVE H₂O is planned to test the omni-spiritual power of human hearts focused on LOVE and thanks for everything water provides. This is testing the power of human hearts to co-create a better world by marrying the “universal solvent” and the “universal language” – music, to activate the “universal healer” – LOVE. Lasting peace, world health, and widespread prosperity are intended outcomes.

Featured speakers and performers are more than idealists – many are leading scientists, philosophers, and experts in solving humanity’s greatest problems using water. Examples include pollution-free hydrogen-fueled engines that operate hydroelectrically; hydrosonically-treated trace mineral waters featuring oxy-silver molecules proven to restore health and eliminating infectious diseases in people worldwide; and new methods of harvesting water from air to hydrate the world’s parched populations and plantations.

“Water reflects more than light,” says Japanese water scholar, Dr. Masaru Emoto, co-creator of the Global LIVE H₂O festival and author of the New York Times best-seller, The Hidden Messages in Water. Dr. Emoto published evidence linking music and language to water’s dynamic capacity to alter its molecular structure in response to sonic energy including prayer.

Great Central Sun Naturopathic Healing Arts

Our pristine woodland facility offers access to Naturopathic Doctors, Yoga Classes, Thai Yoga Massage, spiritual counseling, water healing, energy healing, and an indoor fresh-water pool.

Amandha Vollmer, ND, Danielle Seville, Counselor; and Bree Leggett, Water Healer are the core team at GCS. Rosita Stone is musical director for the festival, and Darinka Blagaj coordinates Sunday’s Ashbridges events in conjunction with her annual Aleila Festival.

For more information, contact Danielle Seville, Marketing & Press Relations 905-833-3440 or danielle@greatcentralsun.com
www.greatcentralsun.com

Juliette de Levy Bairacli went home

2009-05-29T15:15:00.002-04:00

Juliette de Levy Bairacli went home

She past away at the 28. of May 2009 peaceful without pains.

We don't organize an official announced funeral,
we plan to bring the ash back to Kythera.

In Loving Memory,
Luz, Gunter and Adaya

Juliette with gypsy friend

read stories by Luz Lancha de Bairacli Levy

read excerpts from Juliette's writings
Spanish Mountain Life
A Gypsy in New York

About Juliette

Juliette de Bairacli Levy is a world renowned herbalist, author, breeder of Afghan hounds, friend of the Gypsies, traveller in search of herbal wisdom, and the pioneer of holistic veterinary medicine. Juliette has a long record of spectacular cures to her credit and the books she has written have been a vital inspiration for the present day herbal renaissance.

Juliette was born on the 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11 month, almost in 1911 (actually 1912) in Manchester, England. Her parents were Jewish - her mother from Egypt and her father from Turkey. Juliette was raised in a household with three sisters and two brothers, a nanny, chauffeur, maid and gardener. She was educated at Lowther College, one of the best girls schools in Britain, and went on to study veterinary medicine at the Universities of Manchester and Liverpool. However, Juliette did not approve of the vivisection and animal experimentation that was going on in the universities in the name of science and health. So she left university after two years and went to study with the Gypsies and peasants of the world. In the late 1930's Juliette ran a distemper clinic in London where, at a time when many dogs were dying from this disease, she treated and cured hundreds of dogs with fasting, herbs and a natural diet. When many Afghan hound puppies were dying of distemper, Juliette raised a litter of puppies on her natural rearing methods and these puppies won Best of Show at Crufts Dog Show.

It was in the 1930's that Juliette developed a line of herbal supplements for animals known as Natural Rearing Products. For the next 50 years these were the only products of their kind on the market. Today these supplements are still distributed world wide.

During the World War II Juliette worked in the Women's Land Army gathering sphagnum moss which was used on soldiers' wounds. After the war she went to Yorkshire where she cured thousands of sheep who had been declared incurable by conventional vets. This work brought her to the attention of Sir Albert Howard, founder of the Soil Association and creator of modern day "organic" farming methods. Sir Albert Howard encouraged Juliette to learn all she could about herbal treatments for animals.

In the 1940's, while travelling in America, Spain, France, North Africa and Turkey, Juliette gathered herbal remedies from the nomadic and peasant peoples of these lands. When her Complete Herbal Handbook for Farm and Stable was published in 1951, it was the first veterinary herbal ever to be published as before this time, the art of farriers, gypsies and peasants had been passed on only by the spoken word.

Thus Juliette became THE pioneer of what is known today as holistic animal care. She went on to write The Complete Herbal Book for the Dog. Both these books together with Juliette's Illustrated Herbal Handbook for Everyone and Natural Rearing of Children have become classics and many generations of humans & animals have been raised & healed on these books.

Faber and Faber, one of Juliette's publishers, say that for the past 50 years they have always received more inquiries about Juliette than about any of their other authors who include T.S. Eliot, Ted Hughes and William Golding.

Juliette's two children, Luz and Rafik, were born in the early 1950's. She took her children to live in Israel where they raised owls, hawks, dogs, goats, donkeys and bees. Juliette became famous for saving her hives of bees from shell attack during the six day war. In Israel and later when she moved to Greece, Juliette continued to write, to raise Afghan hounds, to garden and to gather herbal remedies. As well as her herbal books, she has written several travel books, two novels and three books of poems.

For the past many years Juliette has been coming to America every summer to give lectures, workshops and seminars on herbal medicine. In America she has become recognized as the grandmother of today's herbal renaissance. In 1998 at their HerbFest in Iowa, Frontier Herbs presented Juliette with a Lifetime Achievement Award for her contribution to the herb world.

send love letter and words in memory to wisewoman@herbshealing.com

Dr. Abram Hoffer In Memoriam

2009-05-29T13:27:00.001-04:00

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

OBITUARY

written by John Hoffer, MD, PhD

Abram Hoffer, MD, PhD. Died in Victoria on May 27, 2009 after a brief illness.

Born November 11, 1917 on a farm in Hoffer, Saskatchewan, Abram Hoffer attended a one-room schoolhouse and studied on horseback, eventually graduating from the University of Saskatchewan (BSA, MSA), the University of Minnesota (PhD) and the University of Toronto (MD). He specialized in psychiatry and was, for many years, director of psychiatric research for the Saskatchewan Department of Public Health and associate professor of medicine at the University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon. In these capacities he carried out groundbreaking research in several areas, ultimately authoring more than 500 peer-reviewed and popular articles and more than 30 academic monographs and popular books.

He challenged the then-dominant view of schizophrenia as a psychological disorder caused by poor mothering, and contributed importantly to the formation of the field of neuropsychopharmacology. He co-authored research on the genetics of schizophrenia with the renowned geneticist, Ernst Mayer. He co-discovered the first effective lipid-lowering agent, the B vitamin niacin. He developed a controversial treatment for acute schizophrenia based on the principles of respect, shelter, sound nutrition, appropriate medication and the administration of large doses of certain water-soluble vitamins, in the process carrying out among the first controlled clinical trials in psychiatry. He advanced a plausible biochemical hypothesis to explain the cause of schizophrenia and how niacin and vitamin C could eliminate its symptoms and prevent relapses. Intrigued by the concept of metabolic "models of madness," he and his research colleagues, notably his close collaborator Humphry Osmond, studied the properties of the hallucinogens and pioneered the use of LSD, which in conjunction with skilled compassionate psychotherapy, was found to be an effective treatment for alcoholism. His work with alcoholism led to a close friendship with Bill W., the founder of Alcoholics Anonymous. He organized a self-help organization for people with schizophrenia, Schizophrenics Anonymous. Participants at SA meetings occasionally exchanged the friendly greeting, "Salutations and hallucinations!" His colleague and friend, the American chemist Linus Pauling, championed the biochemical model for treating schizophrenia that was developed in Saskatchewan and provided a conceptual underpinning for the notion that large doses of certain naturally occurring substances can favorably alter disordered brain biochemistry, coining the term "orthomolecular psychiatry."

Abram Hoffer moved to Victoria in 1976 where he practiced psychiatry for many years, becoming a founding member and president of the Senior Physicians Association of British Columbia. Sometimes criticized from afar for his controversial views, he was beloved by his many patients and close colleagues. He devoted his life to the goal of curing - not palliating - schizophrenia. His son Bill died in 1998 and his wife Rose died in 2001. He is survived by his daughter, Miriam (and her husband Guy Ewing), by his son John (and his wife Yehudit Silverman), and by four grandchildren: Adam, Megan, Joshua and Rebecca. At his request, the funeral will be private. We are immensely grateful to the nurses and physicians on West 2 of the Royal Jubilee Hospital. We are indebted to Dr. James Spence for his thoughtful and compassionate attention. Donations can be sent to the International Schizophrenia Foundation, founded by Abram Hoffer.

International Schizophrenia Foundation
16 Florence Avenue
Toronto, ON M2N 1E9 Canada
Tel: 416 733 2117
Email: centre@orthomed.org
Website: www.orthomed.org

'Alternative' Medicine Is Mainstream

2009-03-30T13:10:00.003-04:00

The evidence is mounting that diet and lifestyle are the best cures for our worst afflictions.

THE WALL STREET JOURNAL, Jan. 09 2009 (Shortened by Daan Vanderwal)

By DEEPAK CHOPRA, DEAN ORNISH, RUSTUM ROY and ANDREW WEIL

Many people tend to think of breakthroughs in medicine as a new drug, laser or high-tech surgical procedure. They often have a hard time believing that the simple choices that we make in our lifestyle -- what we eat, how we respond to stress, whether or not we smoke cigarettes, how much exercise we get, and the quality of our relationships and social support -- can be as powerful as drugs and surgery. But they often are. And in many instances, they're even more powerful.

These studies often used high-tech, state-of-the-art measures to prove the power of simple, low-tech, and low-cost interventions. Integrative medicine approaches such as plant-based diets, etc. may stop or even reverse the progression of coronary heart disease, diabetes, hypertension, prostate cancer, obesity, hypercholesterolemia and other chronic conditions.

A recent study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences found that these approaches may even change gene expression in hundreds of genes in only a few months. Genes associated with cancer, heart disease and inflammation were downregulated or "turned off" whereas protective genes were upregulated or "turned on." A study published in The Lancet Oncology reported that these changes increase telomerase, the enzyme that lengthens telomeres, the ends of our chromosomes that control how long we live. Even drugs have not been shown to do this.

Our "health-care system" is primarily a disease-care system. Last year, $2.1 trillion was spent in the U.S. on medical care, or 16.5% of the gross national product. Of these trillions, 95 cents of every dollar was spent to treat disease after it had already occurred. At least 75% of these costs were spent on treating chronic diseases, such as heart disease and diabetes, that are preventable or even reversible.

The choices are especially clear in cardiology. In 2006, for example, according to data provided by the American Heart Association, 1.3 million coronary angioplasty procedures were performed at an average cost of $48,399 each, or more than $60 billion; and 448,000 coronary bypass operations were performed at a cost of $99,743 each, or more than $44 billion. In other words, Americans spent more than $100 billion in 2006 for these two procedures alone.

Despite these costs, a randomized controlled trial published in April 2007 in The New England Journal of Medicine found that angioplasties and stents do not prolong life or even prevent heart attacks in stable patients (i.e., 95% of those who receive them). Coronary bypass surgery prolongs life in less than 3% of patients who receive it. So, Medicare and other insurers and individuals pay billions for surgical procedures like angioplasty and bypass surgery that are usually dangerous, invasive, expensive and largely ineffective. Yet they pay very little -- if any money at all -- for integrative medicine approaches that have been proven to reverse and prevent most chronic diseases that account for at least 75% of health-care costs.

The INTERHEART study, published in September 2004 in The Lancet, followed 30,000 men and women on six continents and found that changing lifestyle could prevent at least 90% of all heart disease. That bears repeating: The disease that accounts for more premature deaths and costs Americans more than any other illness is almost completely preventable simply by changing diet and lifestyle.

It's time to move past the debate of alternative medicine versus traditional medicine, and to focus on what works, what doesn't, for whom, and under which circumstances. It will take serious government funding to find out, but these findings may help reduce costs and increase health.

Dr. Chopra, is guest faculty at Beth Israel Hospital/Harvard Medical School. Dr. Ornish is clinical professor of medicine at the University of California, San Francisco. Mr. Roy is professor emeritus of materials science at Pennsylvania State University. Dr. Weil is director of the University of Arizona Center for Integrative Medicine.

Jury Trials In 2008 Expected To Expose SSRI Maker's Dirty Secrets

2009-02-22T12:35:00.004-05:00

2008 Trials Expected To Expose SSRI Dirty Secrets

Thursday, 24 January 2008, 9:15 am
Opinion by Evelyn Pringle

The blockbuster sales figures for the new generation of selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor antidepressants (SSRI's), which have resulted from their promotion for so many unapproved uses, represents the most profitable off-label marketing coup in the history of modern medicine. Sales total about $21 billion a year, according to IMS Health.

However, in the end these drugs will probably also hold the title for the most lawsuits filed against drug companies for overstating their benefits while concealing their serious side effects from as far back as 20 years ag o.

The SSRI's include Prozac by Eli Lilly; Paxil marketed by GlaxoSmithKline, Zoloft by Pfizer, and Celexa and Lexapro from Forest Laboratories. Cymbalta by Eli Lilly and Effexor by Wyeth are often called SSRI's, but they are actually serotonin norepinephrine reuptake inhibitors (SNRI's). Wellbutrin sold by Glaxo is an inhibitor of the neuronal uptake of norepinephrine and dopamine. Several of these antidepressants now have generic counterparts.

In 2008, at least a dozen jury trials are scheduled all over the country for Paxil suicide-related cases, all of which allege that Glaxo failed to warn consumers and doctors about the known risk of suicide associated with the drug. Many of these cases will be tried by Baum, Hedlund, Aristei & Goldman, the national law firm with the longest track record of handling SSRI cases.

Going into the trials, Baum Hedlund will be armed with the largest collection of internal GSK documents, depositions of GSK employees and experts, as well as the fruits of the firm's investigation of antidepressants and their makers for the past decade and a half.

During litigation, virtually every Paxil-related document obtained by Baum Hedlund was stamped "confidential" by Glaxo and sealed under a court order. However, through a series of legal challenges, the firm was able to unseal many of the documents, in part, by forcing Glaxo to admit that they did not contain trade secrets and should never have been sealed to begin with.

Read full article here: http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0801/S00197.htm

Crestor Study Highlights Corruptness of Modern Medical System

2008-11-12T14:07:00.005-05:00

Note to all Knowledge of Health readers: the recent publication of a report in The New England Journal of Medicine regarding the use of rosuvastatin (Crestor) among healthy American adults for prevention of heart disease represents evidence for:

1. The treatment of "health" with a "side effect pill." Crestor has the worst side effect profile among all statin drugs and its approval was initially declined by the FDA.

2. The collaboration by the news media, medical publications, health authorities and industry to foist off pseudo-science upon the public. Would you take an expensive pill ($3.45 a day), when you are perfectly healthy, a pill that is only going to prevent a heart attack in less than 1 in 100 users, and places you at risk for liver toxicity, memory impairment and muscle wasting. The best you could possibly get out of this pill is that it would induce memory loss and you would forget to take it. Health authorities know how to read scientific literature. There is a concerted effort to mislead the public here. The maker of Crestor wants to expand the use of statin drugs to adults with low or normal cholesterol levels. Their target market is 7.7 million middle-aged Americans, which would reap $8.8 billion in annual sales.

3. The report published in The New England Journal of Medicine failed to distinguish mortality from non-mortal heart disease, so we don't really know how many lives would be saved. Their estimation is 1 life saved for every $500,000 spent. If this drug therapy were taken by the masses and it prevented even half of the 1 million heart attacks annually it would bankrupt most health insurance plans.

4. The New England Journal of Medicine report provides more evidence that modern medicine is no longer affordable to most Americans.

5. The report will likely spur TV advertising which the FDA and the FTC will permit, without mention that side effects are more likely to occur than any health benefit and that the chances of the pill preventing a cardiac death is less than 1 in 100. This means false advertising will continue to be permitted by the FDA and FTC when it comes to drugs, but not dietary supplements. Doctors will prescribe this problematic drug because it will bring patients to their offices via TV advertising. The masses will fall for this false advertising, as they did for Vioxx which led to the premature death of 20,000 Americans. The public must have gumption and begin to resist recommendations made by their doctors.

6. The Crestor study represents disease substitution, not disease prevention, as it increased the risk for doctor-diagnosed diabetes.

7. The concerted effort to publish studies in the Journal of the American Medical Association on the same day as the release of the Crestor study, studies that falsely show vitamin C and E do not prevent heart disease, is more evidence of modern medicine's orchestrated efforts to dismiss alternatives to drugs. The dosage of vitamin C (500 mg) used in that study could not significantly raise blood levels for more than 2-4 hours, and the dosage of vitamin E (400 mg) was not correlated with the oxidative stress levels of the subjects in the study. Therefore, both studies are bogus.

You are urged by this writer to practice self care and to advise your family and loved ones that adoption of modern medicine is hazardous to one's health. The Crestor study adds to the growing list of bogus health recommendations by public health authorities, namely the use of statin drugs for heart disease, ineffective flu vaccines to prevent winter-time illness, and the use of sunscreens which have only served to increase skin cancer-related mortality. The US healthcare system is an unaffordable, self-serving, dysfunctional system.

-Bill Sardi, Knowledge of Health, Inc.

Recreational Drugs FAR Less Likely to Kill You than Prescribed Drugs!

2008-07-23T22:30:00.002-04:00

Drugs are Dangerous Whether Pushed or Prescribed

While approximately 10,000 per year die from the effects of illegal drugs, an article in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) reported that an estimated 106,000 hospitalized patients die each year from drugs which, by medical standards, are properly prescribed and properly administered. More than two million suffer serious side effects. [3]

An article in Newsweek [4] put this into perspective. Adverse drug reactions, from "properly" prescribed drugs, are the fourth leading cause of death in the United States. According to this article, only heart disease, cancer, and stroke kill more Americans than drugs prescribed by medical doctors. Reactions to prescription drugs kill more than twice as many Americans as HIV/AIDS or suicide. Fewer die from accidents or diabetes than adverse drug reactions. It is important to point out the limitations of this study. It did not include outpatients, cases of malpractice, or instances where the drugs were not taken as directed.

According to another AMA publication, drug related "problems" kill as many as 198,815 people, put 8.8 million in hospitals, and account for up to 28% of hospital admissions. [5] If these figures are accurate, only cancer and heart disease kill more patients than drugs. Has the situation improved since the publication of this information? Hardly. Null [6] et al have published the most comprehensive and well-documented study I have seen of deaths associated with medical practice. In this report, their research revealed some shocking facts. The findings are summarized in the abstract:

See full article here: http://www.nwo101.com/2008/01/recreational-drugs-far-less-likely-to.html

Pushing Prescriptions: How the Drug Industry Sells Its Agenda at Your Expense

2008-07-23T22:14:00.002-04:00

The drug industry, Washingtons's largest lobby, spent more than $189 million on lobbying last year, a recent investigation from the Center for Public Integrity shows. That's up 32 percent since 2006 and -- get this -- nearly three times the amount they spent on lobbying in 1998, the first for which year complete data is available.

CPI's report, Pushing Prescriptions: How the Drug Industry Sells Its Agenda at Your Expense, also shows that Big Pharma has significantly upped its campaign contributions to Democrats since their November 2006 win. Nearly half of that money went to members of the House Committee on Energy and Commerce, House Committee on Ways and Means, and Senate Committee on Health, Education and Labor -- all of which are supposed to regulate the pharmaceutical industry.

Apparently, all that cash did the trick. The drug companies' intense lobbying -- I wish we could just say "bribing" and call it what it really is -- has sped up the drug approval process (arguably decreasing the attention given to drug safety), delayed the entry of lower cost generic drugs to the market, increased direct-to-consumer advertising (which has risen 20-fold in the last 10 years), created incentives for performing drug testing on kids, and resulted in a serious conflict of interest by "making the FDA dependent on the industry it regulates for budgetary resources."

Source: http://www.alternet.org/bloggers/www.alternet.org/92037/

Beware of Rogers & The Other Big Internet Providers

2008-07-19T13:21:00.005-04:00

They are doing the sneaky dance and "we don't know what you are talking about" game, feigning ignorance. The only downfall? WE AREN'T STUPID!

It would be nice to know where Rogers, Telus and the other big guns stand on Net Neutrality, Package Shaping, Internet 2 and freedom to access ALL websites on the internet without making things slow to respond to servers not "liked" by our controlling government and corporate suppression. Where are your press releases & votes of confidence boys? Why are you so quiet?

Here are a few examples:

"Geist offers the example of profs who post their lectures online via an application called BitTorrent, free software designed to send large amounts of multi-media data from point A to point B. He says lately these video clips and audio files "slow to a crawl" when students try to download them because of "package-shaping" practices by companies like Rogers."

"Another wrinkle with deregulation is what happens when the carriers start to peep at what it is they're carrying, and then discriminate based on what they see. The landmark example -- the one that even advocates in the U.S. cite -- actually took place here in Canada when Telus blocked a website run by striking Telus employees called "Voices for Change.""

Sources: http://www.michaelgeist.ca/
http://thetyee.ca/Mediacheck/2007/01/17/NetNeutrality/I am concerned that the freedom of information & speech is dwindling away with these 403 errors & slow connections. What's really going on Rogers? Another slow and sneaky way to deter us from Truth websites (all the ones I have errors with happen to be awareness sites: http://www.airapparent.ca/ & http://www.thank-water.net/ etc.)

WE NEED TO START ASKING THESE COMPANIES MORE QUESTIONS & PUT THE PRESSURE ON! THANK YOU!

Visit: http://www.neutrality.ca/
http://www.savetheinternet.com/
http://www.openinternetcoalition.com/index.cfm

Global Warming 'Scare Tactics' in Full Swing

2008-07-03T11:42:00.002-04:00

by Mitch Battros - Earth Changes Media

This would be funny if it wasn't so serious. The first thing you will notice is the classical 'double-speak' when outlining this new threat. The headline reads: "Midwest Floods Show Signs of Global Warming". Kind of screams: "George Bush was right, we need to stay in Iraq to fight the "evil doers" or we will all die".

But when you read this "did I scare you" article, what we find is a simple warning that there will be warming and cooling trends. No kidding, I did not know that. :-)) Here is the embarrassing statement made by a proclaimed climate scientist.

"Although no single weather event can be attributed to global warming, it's critical to understand that a warming climate is supplying the very conditions that fuel these kinds of weather events," said Amanda Staudt, a climate scientist with the National Wildlife Federation.

The double-speak gets even more entertaining after this 'critical thinking' moment. Instead of quoting these outrageous 'watch-the-bouncing -ball' trickery of manipulation, you must read it for yourself. Laughter aside, this really does have a very serious implication.

As stated in my book "Global Warming: A Convenient Disguise", mass migration is a real and probable outcome. There is a real danger of 'blowback' caused by the global warming regime initiating this 'red herring' in the very same manner as the Bush administration and Iraq. The end result is no one believes or trusts Bubba and his regime because of all the flagrant lies and overt manipulation. So when real threats of national security were to arise, we may not act fast enough. The global warming army has cast themselves in the same mold.

Full Article: http://earthchanges media.com/ secure/3247. 326/article- 9162522228. php
More info: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1350746/posts

The Greatest SCAM in history is what John calls the fear and media hype that's going on about Global Warming. Mr. Coleman can barely believe how many people have fallen for the global warming claims and predictions of disaster. Coleman said that climate change is a big lie. Coleman, a weatherman himself who founded the Weather Channel, claims to have read dozens of scientific papers and spoke with numerous scientists, and they also agree that there is no such thing as global warming. Calling global warming and climate change one a scam, Coleman believes that in time the climate theory will be proven to be a scam when none of the predicted catastrophic events actually materialize.

More: http://media.kusi.clickability.com/documents/Comments+on+Global+Warming02.pdf