Healthy Choices E-News
Helping you make healthy choices for life
March 2005
Welcome
to this month's edition of the Healthy Choices newsletter
and a special welcome to all our new subscribers.
Each
month we feature up-to-date information on health issues that may affect you
and your family. We also look at one of
our many product ranges; provide details of our latest special offers plus
give you a chance to win one of the products from our toxin-free range.
This
month’s main article discusses the recent food scare with Sudan-1 and poses the
question on whom we can trust with our health.
Do
remember to enter our competition this month if you live in the UK or
Europe. This month's prize offers our popular deodorant, free
from aluminium and other potentially harmful chemicals.
I
hope you find this month's newsletter interesting and informative. If you
have any suggestions for future articles, I'd be happy to hear from you.
Best
wishes
Sue
Bedford
RGN
Diploma in Nutrition
Contents:
·
Who can we trust?
·
Health Bites
·
NEWAYS Skin Care range
·
March's Special Offers
·
Competition – chance to win a 50ml bottle
of Subdue Deodorant from the Personal Care range
·
Business Opportunity
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Who can we trust?
With the recent
Sudan-1 food scare, consumers are left bewildered as to how this was allowed to
happen and why it took so long for action to be taken. But this is not new. We
have had similar scares for decades. The salmonella in eggs and the BSE in beef
scares are just two that come to mind. In both of these cases, dramatic action
was taken to remove "contaminated" foods from the shelves causing
devastation within the food industry.
In this recent scare,
people have been shocked to realise just how many food products actually
contain the potentially carcinogenic (cancer-causing) dye, Sudan-1. The current
list can be found at http://www.food.gov.uk/news/newsarchive/2005/feb/sudanlist#h_4.
It highlights the fact that so many of us have come to rely on processed foods
for our meals, rather than cooking from scratch. Processed foods contain far
fewer nutrients than freshly prepared foods. If you look on their labels, you will
find a whole list of artificial flavours, colours and preservatives.
Ironically, many of these artificial additives have been found to be
potentially carcinogenic in animal studies, just like Sudan-1, so why have they
not been withdrawn from the market?
One expert who was
interviewed on TV about the Sudan-1 scare stated that if animal tests showed a
substance caused cancer in animals, then it should never be used in our food.
If only the governing bodies, who are supposed to protect us, would listen to
that statement! But it is never that simple because the manufacture of
chemicals used as artificial additives has become big business. The
manufacturers denigrate any study that shows potential toxicity of their
chemicals on animals.
Take aspartame, the common
artificial sweetener, now available in thousands of products throughout the
world. The trials commissioned by the Food & Drug Administration (FDA) in
the US showed the damage that aspartame caused to the brains of mice, including
the development of glioblastomas, a rare type of brain tumour, now increasing
rapidly in humans. Yet huge pressure was placed on the advisory panel at the
FDA for years to allow aspartame to be permitted as an artificial sweetener (it’s 200 times sweeter than sugar). Eventually,
the FDA gave in and allowed it and we are now paying the price for that
decision with our health. Where is the public outcry against aspartame? Well,
it wasn’t produced in India for
starters. To read more about the scandal of aspartame see www.healthychoices.ukhq.co.uk/Aspartame.html
.
Aspartame is just one
example. Saccharin, also an artificial sweetener, has been shown to cause
cancer in animal studies but potentially harmful food additives are only part
of the problem we face. To a degree, we have some protection from stomach acid
when we ingest these substances. The hydrochloric acid which breaks down our
food chemically, can also help to neutralise some of the artificial chemicals
we ingest. However, little attention is paid to another route into the body – our skin.
For years, scientists
believed that our skin was a total barrier and nothing from the outside could
pass through. They now know differently and have discovered that substances of
a low molecular weight (size) can pass through very easily. Nicotine patches
are an obvious example of how this discovery is being used. Without the
presence of hydrochloric acid to chemically change the drug, smaller doses are
able to pass through the skin into the bloodstream, unhindered. The downside of
this discovery is that many man-made chemicals in products that come into
contact with our skin can also pass through if their molecular weight is small
enough.
As with food additives,
there are hundreds of animal studies showing the carcinogenic effects of
chemicals we use on our skin every day. See a list of them at
http://www.preventcancer.com/press/pdfs/hazardous.pdf . The National Institute
of Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) identified 884 potentially harmful
chemicals in cosmetics and toiletries, some of which were found to be
carcinogenic.
Again, where is the
public outcry to ban these substances and use safe alternatives? Who is
protecting us from the potential harm that chemicals can do to our health?
Unfortunately, most of these chemicals fall under the Cosmetics Act of 1996 and
it is left to the manufacturers to safety test their products – very reassuring!
If we learn one thing
from this Sudan-1 food scare it should be this: we cannot rely on our
government agencies to protect our health. Instead, we need to take
responsibility to protect ourselves by keeping up to date. As E-News
subscribers, you obviously want to do that but there are other sources that I
recommend you check out, too. Those that I endorse are:
Dr Mercola at www.mercola.com which offers a twice
weekly e-newsletter.
What Doctors Don’t Tell You at www.wddty.co.uk which offers a weekly e-newsletter
Campaign for Truth at http://campaignfortruth.com/Eclub
which offers a monthly e-newsletter.
A statement I heard
recently really made me think – "If we choose not to listen – our children never will". I am so
glad that I have chosen to listen and to take action, too, because now my
family’s exposure to
carcinogens has been dramatically reduced by converting our home to toxin-free
versions of products we used to buy. I hope you have chosen to do the same for
your family.
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Health Bites
Vioxx: Can we trust the
regulators?
Moving on from our main article – many of you will be aware that the arthritis pain-killing
drug Vioxx was suddenly taken off the market last year because it was found to
significantly increase the risk of heart attacks. It is estimated to have
caused 55,000 deaths in the US, alone.
Well, the FDA who pulled it off the market have changed their
minds! Apparently, the manufacturer of
Vioxx was threatening to blow the whistle on two similar drugs, Celebrex and
Bextra (Cox 2 Inhibitors). Ten of the 32 members on the expert advisory panel
at the FDA had financial ties with the manufacturers of these drugs. If those ten had not cast their votes, the
panel would have voted 12 to 8 to withdraw Bextra and 14 to 8 to keep Vioxx off
the market. However 9 of the 10 did cast their votes and Vioxx will now be
allowed back on the market and Bextra will not be withdrawn.
If anyone thinks that governing bodies set up to protect us have
our best interests at heart, then maybe they will think again. Although the FDA is a US governing body, in
the UK our own medicines advisory panel has members with ties to pharmaceutical
companies, too. We shall wait to hear if they will allow Vioxx back here.
Source: What Doctors Don’t
Tell You E-News; 3rd March 2005
Cancer – a sunshine cure?
There have
been numerous studies showing how beneficial sun and sunlight can be to our
health, yet we are constantly being told to use sunblock, usually full of toxic
chemicals (except for Neways’, of course!), to prevent our skins from receiving
any sun. Two separate studies have
found that the sun can fight malignant melanoma and non-Hodgkin’s
lymphoma. Scientists in New Mexico
found that people who had high exposure to the sun were less
likely to die from skin melanomas, which goes against what conventional
medicine has told us. The key may be the
health-giving benefits of vitamin D, which triggers the immune system.
In Sweden,
researchers have found that UV rays in sunlight and from sunlamps can actually reduce
the risk of cancer – especially non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma – by up to 40%.
Source: Journal of National Cancer Institute,
2005;97: 195 –9 (melanoma study), 199 209 (lymphoma study).
Stanford
Professor dubs PSA test 'almost useless'
Professor Thomas Stamey of Stanford
University Medical School has publicly stated what a number of experts have
felt privately for years.
Whilst UK experts have been
suggesting that as many as two thirds of men with high PSA readings merely had
an enlarged, non-malignant prostate, Professor Stamey goes further. "The
PSA era is over; it indicates nothing more than the size of the prostate".
Critics add that even after a high
PSA reading and a biopsy which indicates cancer, there is still no real
indication whether the cancer is fast or slow-growing. By far the majority are
slow-growing and, only recently, the Royal Marsden confirmed that in at least
50 per cent of cases carefully monitored observation (active surveillance) was
far preferable to surgery.
Source: Icon E-News, February, 2005
Chamomile
soothes menstrual cramps
Five cups of
chamomile tea for two weeks can beat the common cold and menstrual cramps,
according to researchers from London’s Imperial College. The tea increases
levels of glycine, which can ease muscle spasm, and hippurate, a naturally
occurring anti-inflammatory. Glycine
and hippurate levels remained high for a further two weeks after the
tea-drinking stopped.
Source: WDDTY.
March 2005, vol 15 no 12; p6
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NEWAYS Skin Care range
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* Competition *
(Available to residents
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