http://www.newmediaexplorer.org/sepp/_newsgrabs.htm en-us sepp@lastrega.com Tue, 16 Mar 2010 12:30:28 GMT http://www.newmediaexplorer.org/sepp/2010/03/16/eu_cancer_strategy_challenged_health_supreme_newsgrabs_tuesday_16_march_2010.htm ANH challenges EU strategy on cancer The Alliance for Natural Health is working with the office of Greek MEP Mr Theodoris Skylakakis, who has himself expressed concern over society’s approach to cancer, and particularly the lack of emphasis of prevention and the use of nutrition. (image found on this page) The ANH proposes "to adopt policies to support the principles embodied in the World Health Organization's Global Strategy on Diet, Physical Activity and Health launched in 2004". and calls on the Commission "to ensure that Community legislation contains incentives for researchers and industry to develop nutritional and other natural product-based approaches to cancer prevention validated through nutrigenomic and epigenetic research". Vitamin D better than vaccines at... NewsGrabs Sepp Hasslberger Tue, 16 Mar 2010 12:30:28 GMT http://www.newmediaexplorer.org/sepp/2010/03/11/reforming_medicine_health_supreme_newsgrabs_thursday_11_march_2010.htm Reforming Medicine - Can it be done? Western scientific medicine has been dominated for almost a century by a strong industrial interest group, the pharmaceutical manufacturers. This domination and the commercial interest behind it, prevent any real reform even in the face of evidence that some natural treatment method works better than the pharma-based method of choice. Since public health is deteriorating, reform seems needed... Update on Senator McCain's plans to 'Europeanise' US supplement laws So far, Senator McCain has remained publicly silent. The last public statement he made was his floor statement in which he seemed to misunderstand what was in his own bill. Technically, Senator McCain cannot withdraw the DSSA from the Senate without unanimous... NewsGrabs Sepp Hasslberger Thu, 11 Mar 2010 17:10:47 GMT http://www.newmediaexplorer.org/sepp/2010/03/08/europe_herbal_medicine_in_distress_health_supreme_newsgrabs_monday_8_march_2010.htm Europe: Traditional Herbal Medicines in Legislative Distress When the Traditional Herbal Medicinal Products Directive was passed in 2004, many herbal producers, including those producing herbs for the great and ancient traditions of Ayurveda and Traditional Chinese Medicine, saw the Directive as a ‘godsend’. Here was a piece of law that would give these herbal products a proper medicinal classification, meaning they could actually be used to help make sick people healthier. Actually it did not turn out this way. The medicinal registration process is a hurdle so difficult to take that not one product of the prolific Ayurvedic and Chinese herbal traditions has successfully navigated its pitfalls. Even Europe's own herbal tradition is not in much better... NewsGrabs Sepp Hasslberger Mon, 8 Mar 2010 09:36:46 GMT http://www.newmediaexplorer.org/sepp/2010/03/04/will_pharma_go_down_in_supplement_war_health_supreme_newsgrabs_thursday_4_march_2010.htm After Europe, it seems that the pharmaceutical industry, in collusion with certain lawmakers and regulators is now targeting the relative freedom of Americans to supplement their diet with nutrients. Do they really want to create a world wide black market in nutritional supplements? How crazy! Actions like that will only hasten the demise of pharma-controlled medicine ... as people continue to rebelliously insist on popping those nasty vitamins and herbs. USA: Goverment to Abolish Freedom of Access to Nutritional Supplements If Arizona Senator John McCain has his way, many of the supplements you rely on for good health will disappear. And the cost of the few you can still get will explode in price. Earlier this... NewsGrabs Sepp Hasslberger Thu, 4 Mar 2010 17:18:57 GMT http://www.newmediaexplorer.org/sepp/2010/02/26/adverse_drug_reactions_health_supreme_newsgrabs_friday_26_february_2010.htm USA: The Drugs That Generated Most Adverse Event Reports In the third quarter of 2009, the number of serious, disabling and fatal adverse drug events reported to the FDA numbered 29,065, compared to 26,809 in the same quarter a year earlier, an 8.4 percent rise, according to the Institute for Safe Medicine Practices. For the first three quarters of 2009 combined, the total number of reports was 8.1 percent higher than in the same period of 2008. (Link to article) Adverse drug reactions on the increase. This is a trend going in the wrong direction. How about a new strategy to reverse the trend of drugs maiming and killing ever greater numbers of patients? All it would... NewsGrabs Sepp Hasslberger Fri, 26 Feb 2010 12:54:33 GMT http://www.newmediaexplorer.org/sepp/2010/02/23/us_supplements_attacked_in_mccain_bill_health_supreme_newsgrabs_tuesday_23_february_2010.htm Those proposed new supplement regulations remind me of what we have had in Europe for a few years now. Who'd have thought the (EU) tail would ever be wagging the (US) dog... or is it a matter of McCain working for the same masters that control both of our respective areas? ... and yes, illegal doping was also used in the EU to "demonstrate the need" for a supplements directive. They aren't very original in their campaign strategies, are they? USA: New Bill Seeks to Repeal Key Sections of Dietary Supplement Health McCain’s bill is called The Dietary Supplement Safety Act (DSSA). It would repeal key sections of the Dietary Supplement Health and Education Act (DSHEA). DSHEA... NewsGrabs Sepp Hasslberger Tue, 23 Feb 2010 11:10:26 GMT http://www.newmediaexplorer.org/sepp/2010/02/18/vitamins_extend_cancer_patients_lives_health_supreme_newsgrabs_thursday_18_february_2010.htm Cocktail of five vitamins may give cancer patients an extra two years Cancer patients with terminal disease who take a daily cocktail of vitamins could extend their lives by two years or even longer, claim researchers. Three out of four in a pilot study survived an average of five months longer than the expected one year, and some were still alive three years after treatment started. Dr Bob Lister, co-author of the study by British and Danish researchers, said the results were similar to the survival gains from new drugs and in some cases better. But the important difference was there were no side effects reported by patients taking vitamins, he said. Now imagine taking those... NewsGrabs Sepp Hasslberger Thu, 18 Feb 2010 10:53:48 GMT http://www.newmediaexplorer.org/sepp/2010/02/12/pfizers_lipitor_marketing_health_supreme_newsgrabs_friday_12_february_2010.htm Lipitor is a drug that impedes cholesterol synthesis in the liver in an attempt to prevent cardiovascular illness. In a mechanical sense, this would be like taking a hammer to the red warning light to handle the lack of motor oil. In the process, the drug unbalances other vital functions of the human metabolism. Judging from the experience of many Lipitor users, the drug is dangerous. Side effects range from sometimes excruciating muscle pains to kidney failure, from disorientation and memory loss to incapacitation. Earlier articles on Health Supreme have accumulated a range of spontaneous comments from Lipitor users and their relatives that are heart-rending to consider in their full implications. Pfizer should get into trouble for... NewsGrabs Sepp Hasslberger Fri, 12 Feb 2010 11:55:56 GMT http://www.newmediaexplorer.org/sepp/2010/02/09/thirdhand_smoke_health_supreme_newsgrabs_monday_9_february_2010.htm Is the anti-smoking campaign a cover-up of ongoing pollution and other health-destroying activities? BBC reports on a Berkeley study that introduces yet another level in the anti-smoking campaign: Not only does smoking and even second-hand smoke cause cancer, but now "third hand smoke" is to be blamed as well. Wait a minute! What are those people trying to cover for? What about hundreds of thousands of deaths from pharmaceuticals, what about chemical toxins such as pesticides and herbicides we find in the environment and in our food, what about depleted uranium being liberally vaporized in "theaters of conflict", what about radioactivity from leaks in our power plants, what about microwave pollution from mobile phones and other communication... NewsGrabs Sepp Hasslberger Tue, 9 Feb 2010 10:04:49 GMT http://www.newmediaexplorer.org/sepp/2010/02/04/amino_acid_imbalance_may_be_cause_of_autism_health_supreme_newsgrabs_thursday_4_february_2010.htm Amino acid imbalance may be cause of Autism A New Jersey based think tank, The Center for Modeling Optimal Outcomes, LLC made an inadvertent and amazing discovery. According to The Center's founder, William McFaul, a retired business person and not a member of the scientific community, "Because of its universal applicability, our Life Sciences group has already used the model as a tool to identify highly probable causal paths for several illnesses and disease entities. Autism was one of most difficult illnesses The Center had attempted to analyze. If it hadn't been for so many parents insisting that vaccines were responsible for the condition, we might never have found the fact that the stabilizer in MMR... NewsGrabs Sepp Hasslberger Thu, 4 Feb 2010 17:38:40 GMT