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GM toxins found in the blood of mothers and babies
Consumers are constantly reassured by regulators that no traces of GM material can be found in genetically modified foods. But a new study from Canada has thrown doubt on these claims.
The study was carried out by researchers at Sherbrooke University Hospital in Quebec and examined the blood of both pregnant women and non-pregnant women. The tests revealed that a high percentage of the women in both groups had a Bt toxin produced by GM insect resistant crops in their blood.
Back pain - access to effective natural treatment is limited
If you are suffering from back pain, you should be able to ask your NHS GP for a referral to a chiropractor, osteopath, acupuncuturist or other complementary practitioner. But new data suggests that access to alternative treatments is frustratingly limited.
Guidelines laid down by the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE) – which give patients the option of a three month course of alternative treatment if conventional treatment fails – have been in place for two years now.
Consumers Not Convinced of Safety of Nanotechnology
A new survey commissioned by the Food Standards Agency has found that consumers have ongoing and serious concerns about the safety of nanotechnology in food and food packaging.
Healthy Parents Make Healthy Babies
What’s the secret to having a healthy baby? According to the charity Foresight improving natural health in both parents can enhance fertility and improve the chances of successful pregnancy.
For 30 years Foresight has been helping parents preconceptually by devising individualised diet and health programmes for couples to help them to overcome issues such as infertility, low sperm count, miscarriage, birth defects and premature birth. Much of their work is with couples who are finding it hard to conceive.
A national plan for a toxin-free everyday environment
But before you get too excited it’s not in the UK, but in Sweden...
For anyone concerned about the level of toxic chemicals in the environment – and their effects on health – the Swedish government’s recent instruction to its Chemicals Agency to produce and implement a national action plan for a toxin-free everyday environment, is good news.The plan means that hazardous toxins and chemicals are to be identified, restricted and phased out.
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Dr Wakefield to BMJ: retract your allegations or face the consequences
Dr Andrew Wakefield, whose controversial research into the link between the MMR vaccine and autism has been the subject of nearly a more than a decade of argument and debate, has refused to acquiesce to his critics.
Early in January 2011, the British Medical Journal published a damning series of articles accusing Wakefield of fraud, saying his data was ‘fixed’.
In a PR Newswire statement, issued on January 13 Wakefield hit back:
Parabens – not natural, not necessary
Cosmetic manufacturers continue to go out of their way to defend their use of the controversial preservatives parabens. They will tell you they are safe, they will tell you they are natural. None of this is true and in December 2010 Denmark was the first country in the EU to take a stand against this by banning parabens in products for children under the age of 3.
EU tries to delay phase-out of animal testing for cosmetics
The EU is due to ban the sale of all new cosmetics and toiletries that have been tested on animals outside the EU from 2013. However, in spite of massive public opposition to animal-tested cosmetics, and an existing ban on conducting animal tests for cosmetics inside the EU, officials at the EU Commission are now considering extending this deadline.
The “intellectual terror” that keeps homeopathy out of the mainstream
A groundbreaking study by an independent scientist has given credence to the memory of water’ theory which underpins homeopathy.
Professor Luc Montagnier, a Nobel Laureate, credited with the co-discovery of the HIV virus, did not set out to prove that homeopathy works. He was studying novel ways of detecting the HIV virus in the body. The work involved infecting human white blood cells with a bacterium, Mycoplasma pirum, that is a common co-factor in HIV infections.
