CONTENTS
1) Editorial
2) Issues Updates
-- Urge Canada’s Top Greenhouse Gas Polluters to Cut Emissions
-- Tell FDA: No Food From Cloned Animals!
-- Who Owns Organic?
3) Media Watch
-- Facing Global Warming: Are People Like Frogs?
-- Critics Skeptical of Canadian PM’s New Green Image
-- Canadian Government Pressured Over Environment
-- Canada’s Environmental Official Says She Was Fired
-- Clean Energy 50 Percent of World Supply by 2050, Report Says
-- Cofunding Eco-deal Reached for Canadian Rainforest
-- Fluoride Treatment Awash with Risks
-- Fluoride Debated Anew in Senate
-- The Teflon Deception Continues
-- Beyond the Green Corporation
-- New Rules May Aid Crystal Meth Makers: Regulators
-- BC Voters Demand GE Labelling
-- Global GE Crop Area Exaggerated
4) Calendar of Events
-- Pamper Your Valentine, Feb 3, Vancouver
-- German New Medicine Seminar ONE, Feb 3 and 4, Vancouver
-- Whole Foods for Health, Feb 8, North Vancouver
-- Purchasing and Preparing Whole Foods, Feb 15, North Vancouver
-- Food Issues, Feb 17, North Vancouver
-- Vegetarian Nutrition, Feb 17, North Vancouver
-- German New Medicine Seminar ONE, Feb 17 and 18, Vancouver
-- Yoga and Nutrition, Feb 22, North Vancouver
-- Cause and Prevention of Heart Attacks, Feb 22, Vancouver
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1) Editorial
Dear HANS Members and Friends;
Let’s talk about Health Action Magazine, the voice of HANS! It’s a new year, and our next step has been made in print.
Over the next several days, you should receive your winter edition of Health Action. Note that it’s now full colour and glossy, making it more competitive with other magazines. It’s also chlorine-free and printed on recycled paper, with 100 percent vegetable based inks. Our print run for this issue was our biggest ever. 20,000 copies!
If you’re a member and have not received your copy by mail, call Pauline in membership services at 604-435-0512. If you’re a professional member, we’d be happy to supply you with extra copies for your patients or clients but really appreciate your help with postage costs. If you’re interested, call Pauline (again).
The next issue of Health Action, Spring 2007, will include our full HANS Wellness Directory, now seen at www.hans.org and in addition to your listing (included in the cost of Professional HANS Membership), you are very welcome to support this work by placing a display ad. Our rates are very reasonable. E-mail ads@hans.org.
Who else should be in this Wellness Directory?
We are asking members to let us know of great goods and services that SHOULD be in our Wellness Directory. Just give us their name and contact information, and we will try to contact them, keeping in mind that our next deadline is February 14th.
And for all you Professional Members, please check your listing on www.hans.org and confirm your information for us. If it needs updating, please call us, or email hans@hans.org.
We have an active year planned for 2007 and hope you will be able to participate, in whatever way you can!
Warm regards,
Lorna J Hancock
Executive Director & Founding Member
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2) ISSUE UPDATES
Urge Canada’s Top Greenhouse Gas Polluters to Cut Emissions
Gifts can be a wonderful expression of thoughtfulness, caring and love. Then there are the bad gifts - like ugly sweaters, or the 120 million tonnes of greenhouse gasses Canada’s top polluters gave us last year.
In addition to causing climate change, the pollution these companies are emitting is causing major environmental and property damage from acid rain. Sulfur dioxide inflicts a serious health toll in terms of asthma attacks and lung ailments, and pollution from power plants is linked to heart and lung diseases, which contribute to more than 20,000 premature deaths a year. Mercury is a highly toxic metal that, once released into the atmosphere, settles in lakes and rivers, where it moves up the food chain to humans.
Sponsored by Environmental Defense Canada, urge Canada’s top greenhouse gas polluters to cut emissions this year at http://www.thepetitionsite.com/takeaction/611735915?...
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Tell FDA: No Food From Cloned Animals!
Just as 2006 was drawing to a close, the Food and Drug Administration announced it had finished its long-awaited assessment of the risk from eating milk or meat from cloned animals. The agency said it found no significant health risks to humans eating these products, despite the fact that no long-term studies have been done and cloned animals often suffer from serious defects and health problems. The agency’s announcement kicked off a 90-day comment period on their draft “risk assessment” document.
Right now there is a “voluntary moratorium” on the sale of milk and meat from cloned animals or their offspring. The FDA could lift that moratorium, allowing the sale of cloned food products, after it finalizes the risk assessment. This means that the agency is likely to approve the sale of food from cloned animals sometime in 2007.
FDA’s support for animal cloning ignores widespread scientific concern about the health problems suffered by clones, and the uncertainty about whether or not it is safe to eat milk or meat from these potentially sick animals. The FDA’s position also ignores the ethical and animal welfare concerns that come with the cloning process. To make matters worse, FDA has said that cloned food will not have to be labeled, so consumers will have no way to avoid these controversial experimental foods.
Sponsored by Food and Water Watch, send the FDA a letter at http://www.democracyinaction.org/dia/organizationsOR...
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Who Owns Organic?
With major food processing corporations wanting to profit from the lucrative market in organic foods, below is a link to a map that identifies the top 25 companies and the brands they’ve bought or introduced.
A few examples of 2006 activity: Anhueser-Busch bought Stone Mill and Hershey bought Dagoba; and Kraft and Kellogg introduced their own organic lines. Dr Phil Howard, an Assistant Professor at Michigan State, created the map in 2002 and updates organic food business charts for The Cornucopia Institute, a group dedicated to economic justice for family farms.
Check out the map at http://cornucopia.org/index.php/who-owns-organic/
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4) MEDIA WATCH
Facing Global Warming: Are People Like Frogs?
http://www.enn.com/today.html?id=12088
Critics Skeptical of Canadian PM’s New Green Image
http://www.planetark.com/dailynewsstory.cfm/newsid/3...
Canadian Government Pressured Over Environment
http://www.enn.com/today.html?id=12122
Canada’s Environmental Official Says She Was Fired
http://www.planetark.com/dailynewsstory.cfm/newsid/4...
Clean Energy 50 Percent of World Supply by 2050, Report Says
http://www.enn.com/today.html?id=12095
Cofunding Eco-deal Reached for Canadian Rainforest
http://www.planetark.com/dailynewsstory.cfm/newsid/3...
Fluoride Treatment Awash with Risks
http://www.ottawasun.com/Lifestyle/2007/01/20/341265...
Fluoride Debated Anew in Senate
http://www.portlandtribune.com/news/story.php?story_...
The Teflon Deception Continues
http://www.mercola.com/2007/jan/16/the-teflon-decept...
Beyond the Green Corporation
http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/07_05/b...
New Rules May Aid Crystal Meth Makers: Regulators
http://www.canada.com/nationalpost/story.html?id=ed4...
BC Voters Demand GE Labelling
http://www.greenpeace.org/canada/en/gelabelling-in-b...
Global GE Crop Area Exaggerated
http://www.i-sis.org.uk/GlobalGMCropsAreaExaggerated...
For more current stories, check out “News” at www.hans.org.
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4) Calendar of Events
Pamper Your Valentine
Who: Julieta Criollo, Clinical Herbalist, Wellness Trading Post
When: Saturday Feb 3, 9:00 am to 4:00pm
Where: Douglas College, Surrey Training Centre, 10060 King George Hwy, Surrey
Cost: $69
Contact: Douglas College, 604-588-7772
Join us in this workshop and learn how to create natural pampering products for that special person in your life, or yourself. Learn beautiful and simple wrapping methods to present your creation to your loved one for Valentines Day or any special occasion. All materials are included in the cost of the course. Participants will take home: whipped shaving cream, aftershave, face scrub, massage infused oil, bath salt.
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German New Medicine Seminar ONE
Who: Caroline Markolin, PhD, approved German New Medicine teacher
When: February 3 - 4, 2007; 9 am - 4 pm
Where: VEC-Vancouver English Centre, 250 Smithe Street
Cost: $250
Contact: Information and Registration: 604-681-2474; cmarkolin@germannewmedicine.ca; website: www.germannewmedicine.ca
After a thorough introduction into GNM, Seminar ONE covers Dr Hamer’s medical findings about the emotional causes (“conflicts”) related to lung cancer, breast cancer, uterus cancer, uterus fibroids, prostate cancer, colon cancer, rectal cancer, Crohn’s disease, IBS, candida infections, liver cancer, lymphoma, kidney cancer, water retention, arthritis, gout, osteoporosis, bone cancer, osteosarcoma, leukemia, spleen enlargement, testicular cancer, ovarian cancer, cervical cancer, hypertension, elevated cholesterol, angina pectoris, heart attacks (coronary infarction), and lung embolism. The seminar presents a broad selection of Dr Hamer’s case studies. NO PREREQUISITES. Everybody is welcome!
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Whole Foods for Health
Who: Sandra Tonn
When: Thursday, February 8, 2007, 6:30-9:30 pm
Where: Carson Graham (2145 Jones Avenue, North Vancouver)
Cost: $26
Contact: 604-903-3333 or register online at: www.conted44.com
Whole foods are the foods the body requires for creating health and preventing disease. This seminar will explain why processed foods are responsible for our declining health. The links between processed foods and disease will be discussed as well as label reading and the dangers of many food additives and sugar substitutes. The benefits of whole foods will be covered as well.
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Purchasing and Preparing Whole Foods
Who: Sandra Tonn
When: Thursday, February 15, 2007, 6:30-9:30 pm
Where: Carson Graham (2145 Jones Avenue, North Vancouver)
Cost: $26
Contact: Call 604-903-3333 or register online at: www.conted44.com
Whole foods contain all of the nutrients we require to be healthy. Eating whole foods is the most natural way to heal from illness, achieve an ideal weight, and to increase health and physical well being. This seminar will emphasize the importance of whole food and cover topics including, grocery shopping, organic vs. non-organic foods, food storage, proper preparation of whole foods, and safe cookware options.
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Food Issues
Who: Sandra Tonn
When: Saturday, February 17, 2007, 9 am - 12 pm
Where: Lucas Centre (2132 Hamilton Avenue, North Vancouver)
Cost: $26
Contact: Call 604-903-3333 or register online at: www.conted44.com
Are you confused about the information pertaining to genetically modified foods, farmed fish, irradiation, health claims, food labels, avian flu, and mad cow disease? Registered Holistic Nutritionist and natural health journalist, Sandra Tonn will deliver the facts on today’s food issues, along with practical advice about how to keep food decisions simple and eating safe and enjoyable. This seminar includes viewing of the film “The Future of Food”, which is about genetically modified foods.
Note: Sign up for both Saturday courses and lunch is included.
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Vegetarian Nutrition
Who: Sandra Tonn
When: Saturday, February 17, 2007, 1- 4 pm
Where: Lucas Centre (2132 Hamilton Avenue, North Vancouver)
Cost: $26
Contact: Call 604-903-3333 or register online at: www.conted44.com
Whether you are vegetarian, want to become vegetarian, or simply want to eat less meat, this seminar will help you understand why and how a vegetarian diet can be a healthy choice. Practical information about vegetarianism in terms of both healing and preventing chronic disease will be provided, as well as tips for creating balanced and satisfying vegetarian meals.
Note: Sign up for both Saturday courses and lunch is included.
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German New Medicine Seminar ONE
Who: Caroline Markolin, PhD, approved German New Medicine teacher
When: February 17 - 18, 2007; 9 am - 4 pm
Where: VEC-Vancouver English Centre, 250 Smithe Street
Cost: $250
Contact: Information and Registration: 604-681-2474; cmarkolin@germannewmedicine.ca; website: www.germannewmedicine.ca
After a thorough introduction into GNM, Seminar ONE covers Dr Hamer’s medical findings about the emotional causes (“conflicts”) related to lung cancer, breast cancer, uterus cancer, uterus fibroids, prostate cancer, colon cancer, rectal cancer, Crohn’s disease, IBS, candida infections, liver cancer, lymphoma, kidney cancer, water retention, arthritis, gout, osteoporosis, bone cancer, osteosarcoma, leukemia, spleen enlargement, testicular cancer, ovarian cancer, cervical cancer, hypertension, elevated cholesterol, angina pectoris, heart attacks (coronary infarction), and lung embolism. The seminar presents a broad selection of Dr Hamer’s case studies. NO PREREQUISITES. Everybody is welcome!
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Yoga and Nutrition
Who: Sandra Tonn
When: Thursday, February 22, 2007, 6:30 - 9:30 pm
Where: Carson Graham (2145 Jones Avenue, North Vancouver)
Cost: $28
Contact: Call 604-903-3333 or register online at: www.conted44.com
Most people do not consider nutrition a part of yoga, but it is. Shopping, cooking and eating are all opportunities to practice yoga. This seminar will provide valuable information for the modern day yogi by relating the diet to yoga’s ten living principles, the Yamas and Niyamas. Topics will include conscious shopping, food quality, balanced eating, how yoga improves digestion, and more. The seminar will include a mini yoga class relative to nutrition. Bring your yoga mat, a pillow, a blanket, a journal or paper, and your passion for food and yoga.
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Cause and Prevention of Heart Attacks
Who: Caroline Markolin, PhD
When: February 22, 2007; 7:15 - 9:45 pm
Where: Best Western Sands Hotel, Banquet Room, 1755 Davie St. (x Denman), West End
Cost: $20 (at the door)
Contact: 604-681-2474. Registration not necessary. website: www.germannewmedicine.ca
This German New Medicine presentation covers Dr Hamer’s discoveries about the relationship between emotional distress and the development of heart conditions such as angina pectoris, heart arrhythmia, etc. You will learn about the importance of cholesterol in the healing and maintenance of the coronary vessels. Dr Hamer’s medical research also offers a solid explanation for why hormone drugs, e.g. HRT, increase the risk of a heart attack. Understanding the nature of heart attacks in a psychological, biological, and evolutionary framework allows us to practice real preventive medicine.
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