March 15, 2009
Contents:
- HANS Media Advisory: BC Experts Speak About Natural Cancer Treatment and Prevention on March 29, 2009
- Help Ban Bisphenol A in All Food and Beverage Containers! Send an Email Now to the Ministers of the Environment and Health.
- Facial Rejuvenation with Acupuncture and Homeopathic Injections
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HANS Media Advisory: BC Experts Speak About Natural Cancer Treatment and Prevention on March 29, 2009
VANCOUVER (March 11, 2009) - Many people in the Lower Mainland are willing to spend a day running for a cancer cure. It only makes sense that we'd also dedicate at least a day to learning about the many ways natural strategies and therapies can both prevent and heal cancer.
There were an estimated 87,000 new cases of cancer in Canadian men in 2008 and 79,400 cases in women, according to the latest Canadian Cancer Society statistics. Based on current incidence rates, 45 percent of Canadian men and 39 percent of Canadian women will develop cancer during their lifetimes.
Last year, the Health Action Network Society-sponsored a one-day Cancer Prevention and Healing Conference, bringing interested people together under one roof to listen to speakers who could educate, inspire and answer their questions. Many lives were changed as a result. This year an even bigger turn out is expected and the line-up of expert speakers promises to make the conference a day of increased awareness, understanding and hope in relation to both preventing and healing cancer with the power of nature in mind.
Who:
Lisa-Marie Bhattacharya (Whitaker) RHN - Holistic nutrition expert (Spread Vitality, Ubiquity Wellness and Inspire Health)
Dr. Gurdev Parmar, ND - First Canadian board certified naturopathic oncologist
Michael Wakeman, BSc, MSc - Executive director of Nature's Defense, UK
Caroline Markolin, PhD - Mind-body cancer researcher and teacher (German New Medicine)
Julie Hardy, B.TECH, SBA, LEEDap - Environmental risk exposure specialist (JMH Home Environmental Solutions)
When:
March 29th, 2009, 10am-5pm
10:00 am - Nutrition and Cancer
11:25 am - Integrative Oncology
1:40 pm - Cancer Cell Science
2:50 pm - Cancer's Emotional-Physical Connection
4:00 pm - Cancer and Our Home Environment
Where:
Centennial Theatre - 2300 Lonsdale Ave, North Vancouver
Tickets:
HANS Members: $20.00 in advance, $25.00 at the door (with valid membership card); Non-Members: $35.00 in advance, $40.00 at the door. To obtain advance tickets call 604-435-0512 or visit www.hans.org
Media:
To arrange pre-conference interviews and/or media passes contact Angela Nat, special events coordinator, at the HANS office by e-mailing angela@hans.org or by calling 604-435-0512.
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Help Ban Bisphenol A in All Food and Beverage Containers! Send an Email Now to the Ministers of the Environment and Health.
by Environmental DefenceBisphenol A has made front page news again, and this time the concern is over bisphenol A found in cans of pop and energy drinks.
Recently, a study conducted by Health Canada found bisphenol A in 96 percent of all of the drink cans tested, including carbonated, non-carbonated, diet, non-diet, fruit-flavoured and energy drinks.
You might have seen the story in the Globe and Mail, on CTV National News and in many other media outlets across Canada.
It was because of your support, along with other Environmental Defence supporters, that Environmental Defence was able to get bisphenol A banned from hard plastic baby bottles last year.
At that time, we also called on the federal government to ban bisphenol A in pop cans, food cans and all other food and beverage containers; but the government did not think it was an issue.
Now, with the spotlight on bisphenol A in drink cans, we need to use this momentum to get rid of the harmful chemical in cans that many children drink from every day.
We need your help to do that. Today please add your voice to the growing demand for government action. We need you to:
Write and email the Ministers of the Environment and Health by following this link:
http://petition.environmentaldefence.ca/bpa_in_drink.../
Let them know that you want all food and beverage containers to be free of bisphenol A. We know the potential dangers of bisphenol A. International organizations, expert panels and more than 150 peer-reviewed studies have associated bisphenol A with a variety of health problems (obesity, attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, breast cancer and a wide range of developmental problems), often at surprisingly low levels of exposure.
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Facial Rejuvenation with Acupuncture and Homeopathic Injections
by Jeni Lim, DTCMHave you ever tried acupuncture and homeopathic injections to treat for wrinkles, muscle tone, sagging skin, moisture replacement and acne? These procedures are designed to reverse, improve or erase the earliest signs of aging.
In our 40s, the collagen and elastin support network in our skin begins to break down. Our skin becomes dryer, the blood flow begins to slow and new cell production decreases. All of those increase wrinkle formation. At the same time, the underlying fat cells in our face shrink and excess skin begins to sag.
Facial acupuncture helps to stimulate the body's natural processes of cell reproduction and growth. It has been shown to increase circulation of the blood and lymph and to maintain healthy skin and muscle tone.
You are your face. The face is an external projection of your inner self and the reflection of your emotional world. In traditional Chinese medicine (TCM), emotions are mental stimuli that disturb the mind and spirit and alter the balance of the internal organs and the harmony of Qi (or chi, life's energy force) and blood. Balancing the interconnected systems of the human body to maintain healthy function is one of the main philosophical concepts that TCM is based on.
For this reason, emotional stress is an internal cause of disease that injures the internal organs directly. On the other hand, the state of the internal organs also affects our emotional state.
Wrinkles reflect the repetitive emotional expression and wrinkles are the expression of the internal organs.
Facial acupuncture is not only a superficial treatment of wrinkles. It is also a therapy that treats the organs.
Homeopathic remedies are also an effective alternative to conventional pharmacological treatment of skin aging. Injection on acupuncture points with these remedies will reduce wrinkles and improve tissue tone.
Why not treat your face and body? With acupuncture and homeopathic injections, you can reduce the signs of aging and enjoy a preventative health treatment.
Dr. Jeni Lim can be reached at 604-876-1150 in Vancouver, BC.