November 15, 2011

Contents:

1. Are you interested in participating in an environmental illness study?
2. 6 Simple Tips to Avoid the Flu
3. Charter of Health Freedom Updates
4. Action Alert: Write to Agriculture Canada: No Legal Contamination from Unsafe GMOs
5. The Sickness of Evidence-based Medicine
6. Classifieds--Excellent retreat centre or self-sufficiency potential

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Are you interested in participating in an environmental illness study?

A new intake has been approved for participants in an environmental illness study. Those accepted into this guided self-help program will include those with the following illnesses:

- Autism
- Electro-Hypersensitivity (EHS)
- Multiple chemical sensitivities (MCS)
- Attention-deficit conditions
- Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD)
- Anxiety disorders
- Sleep problems

This work is being conducted under the auspices of the non-profit Science and Public Policy Institute, Comparative Effectiveness Research Program, based in Washington, D.C., the Health Sciences Consortium, based in Washington, D.C, the Institute for Healthful Adaptation, based in Washington, D.C. and the Health Action Network Society, based in British Columbia, Canada. The principal investigator for this study is Dr. George L. Carlo.

Research assistants and guides, who will be identified to you through the course of the study as you encounter them, will carry out all major tasks in the work. The study design has been peer-reviewed and approved by the SPPI internal Institutional Review Board. Costs covered by the participants are $1,800 for this 18-month program. Please contact Milt Bowling at 604-949-1502 for details.

Harvard Physician Warns of Smart Meter Dangers, Stresses Need for Analog
Political commentator Rafe Mair recommends: All concerned about the smart meters issue should see the following and pass it on (video, 2:23 min) >> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n7L21XOC2wA

Website for the Initiative Petition to Stop Smart Meters in British Columbia >> http://stopsmartmeters.ca/

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6 Simple Tips to Avoid the Flu

by Sharon Gurm, ND

The Port Moody Naturopathic Basic Immune Support Protocol

Tip #1 Get your monthly "Immune Boost." For years we've used Engystol and Grippe Heel homeopathics with our patients for its proven effectiveness in preventing and treating colds and flu. Safe for all ages, the Immune Boost Protocol is best given by injection--once per month in healthy individuals and twice per month in those who are more susceptible--but can also be given in oral form for infants and children. Ideally, the protocol should commence in September (before the flu starts spreading) and continue monthly until March or April. Read tips #2 to #6 >> http://www.hans.org/magazine/921/6-Simple-Tips-to-Av...

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Charter of Health Freedom Updates

by Natural Health Products Protection Association

The Natural Health Products Protection Association (NHPPA) has received more than 81,500 signatures for the Charter of Health Freedom petition. And this is without running a national campaign! Look for the Charter of Health Freedom national petition drive coming soon. Thank you to all of you who have sent in a petition and those who send petitions in on a continual basis. If you have not already, please download and print the Charter petition >> http://nhppa.org/

Perspectives on the Natural Health Product Regulations and Licensing Crisis
An excerpt from NHPPA's MP package was recently reprinted in the fall 2011 issue of Health Action magazine. See the reprinted excerpt >> http://www.hans.org/magazine/901/NHP-Regulations--an...

November 5, 2011, radio interview
If you missed Shawn Buckley's November 5, 2011 interview on Lisa Live you can listen to the 45-minute interview here >> http://nhppa.org/

Shawn's New Whole Life Expo Lecture, Toronto, Sunday, November 27, 2011
If you are in Toronto, mark the date in your calendars! Shawn Buckley, constitutional and criminal lawyer and president of the Natural Health Products Protection Association, speaks from 4:00 to 5:00 pm in lecture hall 104: Occupy Your Body: A National Protest against Regulations That Force Natural Health Products Off the Market and Restrict Personal Health Freedoms.

You will have an opportunity to speak personally with Shawn on all three days of the Expo: Friday, November 25, Saturday, November 26 and Sunday, November 27 at booth 176. Please stop by and sign the Charter of Health Freedom petition, contribute to the legal challenge, talk with a NHPPA team member and pick up new material to distribute.

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Action Alert: Write to Agriculture Canada: No Legal Contamination from Unsafe GMOs

by Canadian Biotechnology Action Network

Deadline November 25, 2011

Stop Canada from legalizing contamination from unapproved GM foods. Write to Agriculture Canada from the online form at http://www.cban.ca/llpaction

The Canadian Government is proposing to allow contamination of our food supply with genetically engineered foods that have not been approved for safe eating in Canada. Agriculture Canada has opened a comment period until November 25, 2011.

The Canadian government wants to allow a percent, 0.1% or higher, of our food to be contaminated with genetically modified (GM, also called genetically engineered) foods that have not been approved by Health Canada for safe human consumption. The GM foods will have been approved for safety in at least one other country but not yet evaluated as safe by our own regulators. The federal government calls this "Low Level Presence" or LLP and argues that this "low level" of contamination from unapproved GM foods is not harmful.

Find out why LLP is unacceptable and unjustifiable >> http://www.cban.ca/llp

Write your letter today from http://www.cban.ca/llpaction

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The Sickness of Evidence-based Medicine

William B. Grant, PhD, of Sunlight, Nutrition and Health Research Center in San Francisco strongly recommends this book to those working on natural ways to reduce the risk of disease.

Tarnished Gold: The Sickness of Evidence-based Medicine
by Steve Hickey, PhD, and Hilary Roberts, PhD
342 pp, ISBN 9781466397293
Available from Amazon.com

The book is a strong critique of modern health care systems as controlled by the FDA and NIH in the US and NICE in the UK. Read selected quotes from the concluding summary of the book, like this one: "The large-scale randomized trials and meta-analyses of EBM are not appropriate for clinical medicine." >> http://www.hans.org/magazine/922/The-Sickness-of-Evi...

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Classifieds--Excellent retreat centre or self-sufficiency potential

$145,000 Land in Slocan Valley for Sale
Level lot 1.03 hectares near Nelson, Winlaw and New Denver, BC. Good year-round road, easy hydro access, license on spring-fed creek, good winter sun. Tested and found to be "extraordinarily low" in EMFs, out of cellphone range. Guest house on adjacent property. More info http://cranbrook.en.craigslist.ca/for/2634116906.htm...

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