HANS e-News - October 15, 2005
CONTENTS
1) Editorial
2) Feature: An Auto Accident Survivor Recovered to Write about it. Complementary Medicine Helped. ICBC Paid.
3) Issue Updates
--US Organic Standards at Risk, Join the Safeguard Organic Standards Campaign
--Energy Supply and Demand in Canada, 2004
4) Media Watch
--Most Fuel-Efficient Cars for 2006
--Official Report Slams Canada over Environment
--As Child Obesity Doubles, France Acts Against Advertisers
--Acute Illnesses Associated with Pesticide Exposure at Schools
--Physicians Divided on Impact of CAM on US Health Care
--South African University Slams “AIDS Vitamin” Doctor
--Exercise Can Trim Deep Abdominal Fat
--Obesity Rates in Canadian Children Double, Study
--Fried Food Leads to Fatter Kids
--Canada Tobacco Warnings Now Considered Modern Art
--Oh Brother, Where Artificial Thou: Fight over Synthetic Ingredients Splits Organic Industry
--Toronto’s Now Magazine Takes on the Corporate Takeover of Organics
--Organic Diets Lowers Children’s Exposure to Agriculture Pesticides
--Scientists Create GM Mosquitoes to Fight Malaria and Save Thousands of Lives
--Genetically Engineered Crops “Ruin Fields for 15 Years”
--Inconclusive Evidence Puts Adderall Back on Canadian Market
--Chemical Industry is Now EPA’s Main Research Partner
--EU Study Suggests PCBs May Damage Human Sperm
--Cranberries Have Novel Bacteria-Blocking Benefits, Says Study
--Fish Fuels the Brain
--Processed Meat Linked with Risk of Pancreatic Cancer
5) Calendar of Events
--First Annual BC Organic Harvest Awards, Nov 5th
--Emotional Freedom Techniques, Nov 6th
--Energy Psychology, Psychotherapy and Self-Healing, Nov 19th
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1) Editorial
Hi! It’s me again.
I’m still stuck on the Potter-Foster duo who have swept into our HANS world this fall, so I want to bring them up again. First of all, don’t do as I did and mix up their names. It’s Gerry Potter, and Harry (as his friends call him) Foster, not Harry Potter.
If it were Harry Potter, then we’d see a lot of magic happening, and everyone in the world would be scrambling to hear about them, or read about them. These two men would be well on their way to fortunes, and the world would be more resolved about cancer and AIDS … ironies of ironies.
Alas, it’s Gerry Potter and Harry Foster, both of whom not only donate their own time and money to cancer and AIDS causes, but who also have to wade through the thick wall of convention to try and reach the public.
At a recent HANS event, Dr. Potter was close to tears in his preliminary comments when he spoke of his cousin, a young, beautiful girl in her thirties, now dead from cancer. A product called Salvestrol sat tied up in regulations, unavailable to her. Would it have helped her? We will never know, but it is helping more than 30 per cent of people using it as a food supplement. The DVD of Dr. Potter’s lecture is available for order from the HANS office at (604) 435-0512.
Foster, that’s Dr Harry Foster, will be speaking in Burnaby on November 17th, and this is definitely worth attending, a time to see, hear, and consider. Is it possible that inexpensive natural ingredients are the solution to AIDS, a disease that is eating up billions of dollars, and is estimated to kill one-sixth of our global population by the year 2015?
Please come. We’d be happy to see you there.
All the best,
Lorna Hancock
Founding Member & Director
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2) An Auto Accident Survivor Recovered to Write about it. Complementary Medicine Helped. ICBC Paid.
By Jill Franklin
As an author, ghostwriter or editor of 10 books on meditation, eastern religion and western psychotherapies, I’m often asked why I’ve written a consumer advocacy book, the Auto Accident Survivor’s Guide for British Columbia. As with my earlier books, my personal experiences led me to the subject, and what I learned I wanted to share.
I was hit by a car in Vancouver as I was coming home from visiting my daughter at graduate school in the United States. A backpack filled with laundry, I’m convinced, saved my life.
Despite landing 60 feet from where I’d been hit, I didn’t have a spinal cord injury, but every part of my body unprotected by my backpack was damaged - from my brain to shattered bones that required lengthy surgery.
I spent two weeks in hospital, then was bedridden for months, multiple pelvic fractures making it too painful to be in a wheelchair for more than a few minutes. I cried a lot and meditated a lot. I don’t remember being bored. A nurse came to bathe me every morning, leaving lunch beside my bed. Someone brought me tea every afternoon. A massage therapist came every few days, sent by the Insurance Corporation of British Columbia (ICBC).
At night my husband slept on the floor beside our bed, crowded out by my pillows but wanting to be nearby if I needed him. It was months before we let our daughters visit from the United States, assuring them in the meantime that I was fine. We didn’t want them to know how badly I’d been hurt. It was too soon after our son’s murder (two years earlier) for them to know how close I’d been to dying.
Physiotherapy taught me to walk again. By the time I went on a book tour two years after my accident (for a book completed shortly before it), I only used a cane for long distances. I wasn’t satisfied. I wanted to visit Borneo. Be strong enough to pick up grandkids if I had them. Independent enough go places on my own. I wanted my life back. For that, I needed different treatment modalities than ICBC (or MSP) covered.
My doctor suggested I try the Diane Miller Pilates Centre in Vancouver where a rehabilitation program was designed to fit my needs. There was little actual Pilates in my program, but the results were impressive enough that my physiotherapist began going to the Centre, too. Diane recommended applied kinesiology; my physiotherapist recommended prolotherapy, then craniosacral work. Each new approach made me stronger. The applied kinesiologist introduced me to ‘touch for health’ and naturopathy. I started getting weekly massages and acupuncture treatments.
The Court eventually ordered ICBC to pay for everything.
Since then, I’ve been to Borneo and Costa Rica. I babysit for four grandkids, drive, swim and go for long walks. I’ll never do a strenuous trek again, but I know how to deal effectively with lawyers, insurers and the health care system: a reasonable trade-off.
Auto Accident Survivor’s Guide for British Columbia: Navigating the medical-legal-insurance system is available in bookstores or online at: www. stonemountainbooks.com. For discounts to HANS members, contact: sales@stonemountainbooks.com.
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3) ISSUE UPDATES
US Organic Standards at Risk? Join the Safeguard Organics Campaign
The US organic community has built up a multibillion dollar alternative to industrial agriculture, based upon strict organic standards and organic community control over modification to these standards.
Now, large corporations, such as Kraft, Wal-Mart and Dean Foods - aided and abetted by the US Department of Agriculture (USDA) and members of the Organic Trade Association - are moving to lower organic standards by allowing Bush appointees in the USDA National Organic Program to approve a broad list of synthetic ingredients and processing aids that would be allowed in organic production.
Even worse, these proposed regulatory changes will reduce future public discussion and input, and take away the National Organic Standards Board traditional lead jurisdiction in setting standards. What this means, in blunt terms, is that USDA bureaucrats and industry lobbyists, not consumers, will have near total control over what can go into organic foods and products.
For more on this issue and to support the Organic Consumers Association, visit http://www.organicconsumers.org/sos.cfm.
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Energy Supply and Demand, 2004
Canada’s appetite for energy from fossil fuels increased for the third year in a row in 2004, although the pace of growth is slowing. Despite increases in prices, energy use derived from the three main fossil fuels rose 1.4 per cent, due to gains by the industrial, transportation and commercial sectors.
Visit http://www.statcan.ca/Daily/English/051012/td051012....
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4) MEDIA WATCH
Most Fuel-Efficient Cars for 2006
http://us.cnn.com/2005/AUTOS/10/12/most_efficient_ca...
Official Report Slams Canada over Environment
http://www.planetark.com/dailynewsstory.cfm/newsid/3...
As Child Obesity Doubles, France Acts Against Advertisers
http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=1508&e=6&u...
Acute Illnesses Associated with Pesticide Exposure at Schools
http://jama.ama-assn.org/cgi/content/abstract/294/4/...
Physicians Divided on Impact of CAM on US Health Care
http://healthy.net/scr/news.asp?Id=7937
South African University Slams “AIDS Vitamin” Doctor
http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=571&e=4&u=...
Exercise Can Trim Deep Abdominal Fat
http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=571&e=1&u=...
Obesity Rates in Canadian Children Double, Study
http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=571&e=6&u=...
Fried Food Leads to Fatter Kids
http://www.nutritionhorizon.com/newsmaker_article.as...
Canada Tobacco Warnings Now Considered Modern Art
http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=571&e=5&u=...
Oh Brother, Where Artificial Thou: Fight over Synthetic Ingredients Splits Organic Industry
http://www.grist.org/news/muck/2005/09/29/organics/i...
Toronto’s Now Magazine Takes on the Corporate Takeover of Organics
http://www.nowtoronto.com/issues/2005-10-13/cover_st...
Organic Diets Lowers Children’s Exposure to Agriculture Pesticides
http://www.nutritionhorizon.com/newsmaker_article.as...
Scientists Create GM Mosquitoes to Fight Malaria and Save Thousands of Lives
http://www.checkbiotech.org/root/index.cfm?fuseactio...
Genetically Engineered Crops “Ruin Fields for 15 Years”
http://www.organicconsumers.org/ge/ruin101105.cfm
Inconclusive Evidence Puts Adderall Back on the Canadian Market
http://www.cmaj.ca/cgi/content/full/173/8/858?etoc
Chemical Industry is Now EPA’s Main Research Partner
http://healthy.net/scr/news.asp?Id=7946
EU Study Suggests PCBs May Damage Human Sperm
http://www.planetark.com/dailynewsstory.cfm/newsid/3...
Cranberries Have Novel Bacteria-Blocking Benefits, Says Study
http://www.nutritionhorizon.com/newsmaker_article.as...
Fuels the Brain
http://www.medicinenet.com/script/main/art.asp?artic...
Processed Meat Linked with Risk of Pancreatic Cancer
http://www.nutritionhorizon.com/newsmaker_article.as...
For more current stories, check out “News” at www.hans.org.
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5) Calendar of Events
First Annual BC Organic Harvest Awards
When: Saturday, Nov 5th
Where: Coast Plaza Hotel, Vancouver
Join this celebration of great organic food, fine local wine and good company, which promises to be BC’s leading industry event. There is much to celebrate! We will recognize members who have made a difference; those who’ve established strong, profitable businesses, and those who’ve launched innovative concepts to increase our growth.
Applications for each category are available on the COABC web site at www.certifiedorganic.bc.ca. The deadline for submissions is Sept. 30, 2005. There is no application fee.
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EFT: Emotional Freedom Techniques™
When: Sunday, November 6, 2005
Who: Dr. Alexander R. Lees, DCH
Time: 8:30 am to 4:00 pm
Where: Holiday Inn, 711 West Broadway, Vancouver, BC
Cost: $169
Phone: Melissa Atkins at 604-687-8600
E-mail: admin@acubalance.ca
Web: www.pro-d.ca
Are you under stress? Do you have phobias or fears? Do you procrastinate? Do you lack motivation? Would you like to improve your career or relationships?
Learn EFT from one of the leading experts in the field. Dr. Lees is a registered clinical counselor with a doctorate in clinical hypnotherapy. He has been in private practice for 19 years, and presents seminars and workshops across Canada, the US, and Europe.
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Energy Psychology, Psychotherapy and Self-Healing
Who: Lee Pulos, PhD, ABPP and Heather Fay, MD
When: Saturday, Nov 19th
Time: 9am – 5pm
Where: Vancouver Masonic Hall, Watson Room (2nd Floor), 1495 West 8th Avenue, Vancouver
Cost: $125/person before Nov 4/ $135 after Nov 4
(Pre-Registration Required)
Phone: 604-688-1714
E-mail: admin@hypnosis.bc.ca
Web: http://www.hypnosis.bc.ca
LEE PULOS, PhD, ABPP, is a clinical psychologist in private practice and Clinical Assistant Professor Emeritus in the Department of Psychiatry, UBC. He has also held clinical appointments at Indiana University and the University of Wisconsin medical schools and has been awarded a Diplomate (clinical) by the American Board of Professional Psychology. In addition to his clinical career, Dr. Pulos has written two books, Beyond Hypnosis and Miracles and Other Realities.
HEATHER FAY, MD, spent the first part of her career as a family physician and during those decades took training in and used many complementary therapies especially in the area of the mind/body/spirit connection. She has been featured on Discovery Channel as a resource for alternative and complementary medicine. Dr. Fay is on the clinical faculty of the Canadian Society of Clinical Hypnosis (BC). She utilizes hypnosis with the meridian therapies in her practice of integrating western and eastern medicine for mind-body healing.
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