In search of true organic food — outside the supermarket
While Big Ag and Big Food continue to water down organic standards – how can you be sure to get wholesome organic food? (Source: Alliance for Natural Health)
Source: Alliance for Natural Health - February 19, 2014 Category: Complementary Medicine Authors: Sophie Tags: agriculture allotment antibiotics europe GM herbicides international organic box scheme orgnanic pammy riggs pesticides Providence Farm supermarket Waitrose World Wide Opportunities On Organic Farms WWOOF Source Type: news

How contaminated are your food supplements?
ANH-Intl investigates particular concerns over contamination of certain products with polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) and heavy metals (Source: Alliance for Natural Health)
Source: Alliance for Natural Health - February 19, 2014 Category: Complementary Medicine Authors: Sophie Tags: algae aluminium Aristolochia arsenic Ayurveda botanicals cadmium carcinogenic Chinese medicine Chlorella cigarette smoking contamination cyanobacteria EFSA europe European Food Safety Authority food supplements forest fir Source Type: news

ANH-Int News Alerts
EU Commission pushing GM Maize, Polish farmers protesting, GM in Africa, Bach flower remedies, and vitamin C linked to reduced risk of stroke (Source: Alliance for Natural Health)
Source: Alliance for Natural Health - February 19, 2014 Category: Complementary Medicine Authors: Sophie Tags: Africa American Academy of Neurology Amflora Anne Glover Bach flower Dr Stéphane Vannier dupont EPA group europe European Commission European Parliament Greens GM GM potato Greenpeace hemorrhagic stroke ICPPC international Source Type: news

EFSA sides with industry pests on pesticides
Europe’s food safety regulator ignores the dangers of pesticide chemical mixtures (Source: Alliance for Natural Health)
Source: Alliance for Natural Health - February 12, 2014 Category: Complementary Medicine Authors: ANH Admin Tags: EFSA europe European Food Safety Authority international organic PAN-Europe pesticide Pesticide Action Network Source Type: news

ANH-Intl Feature: Does folic acid protect from – or cause – cancer?
We unpack some of the latest folate science and show why going natural with folate and optimising your status of the vitamin are likely the smartest options (Source: Alliance for Natural Health)
Source: Alliance for Natural Health - February 12, 2014 Category: Complementary Medicine Authors: Sophie Tags: Alzheimer & #039;s disease cancer cell division cognitive health DHFR dihydrofolate reductase DNA repair energy production europe fatigue folic acid homocysteine metabolism immune function international mammary tumours me Source Type: news

ANH-Intl News Alerts
News on health claims for Ashwagandha, salt and obesity, GM, Weston Price Conference, sugar, junk food ads, seed regulation, fake-food and statins (Source: Alliance for Natural Health)
Source: Alliance for Natural Health - February 12, 2014 Category: Complementary Medicine Authors: Sophie Tags: Agricultural Committee Ashwagandha Ayurveda big food British Heart Foundation Canada Canadian monograph system cardiovascular disease cholesterol conference diabetes dupont europe fake-food Germany GM Health Canada health Source Type: news

European Commission trains its anti-natural sights on seeds
Proposed new ‘seed law’ uses familiar tactics to help the big seed companies (Source: Alliance for Natural Health)
Source: Alliance for Natural Health - February 5, 2014 Category: Complementary Medicine Authors: Sophie Tags: AGRI Agriculture and Rural Development Animal & amp; Plant Health Package APHP Common Catalogue of Seeds ENVI environment europe impact report international Public Health and Food Safety Seed Freedom seed law Seed Sovereignty Source Type: news

Progress for UK herbal practitioners: Do the best things come to those who wait?
While a UK government-led working group gets cracking on UK regulation, we ponder the bigger picture (Source: Alliance for Natural Health)
Source: Alliance for Natural Health - February 5, 2014 Category: Complementary Medicine Authors: Sophie Tags: Andrew Lansley chinese medicie David Tredinnick ECJ europe European Benefyt Foundation European Court of Justice herb herbalist international judicial review legal challenge MHRA sell-through statutory regulation THMPD work Source Type: news

ANH-Intl News Alerts
ANH-Intl t-shirt campaign, supplements, Weston A. Price conference, health focus, digital eye strain, beta-blockers, raw milk, pesticides and Big Foods open-door access to ministers (Source: Alliance for Natural Health)
Source: Alliance for Natural Health - February 5, 2014 Category: Complementary Medicine Authors: Sophie Tags: American Optometric Association athletes Australian government beta-blockers big food CCD CHC colony collapse disorder Complementary Healthcare Council of Australia Darrel Francis digital eye strain Dr Michael Antoniou europe evo Source Type: news

The global dietary supplement attack
We review how bad science is being used as the lynchpin for an assault on supplements  (Source: Alliance for Natural Health)
Source: Alliance for Natural Health - January 29, 2014 Category: Complementary Medicine Authors: Yvonne Tags: 1st amendment antioxidants Australia bad science Camellia sinensis Canada Catechins CGMP Codex dietary supplements DSHEA Durbin EU law europe FDA food supplements Food Supplements Directive FSD Green tea health claims Source Type: news

Why Facebook is failing – especially for non-profits
How to be sure of receiving our posts, and why we’re stuck with Facebook for now (Source: Alliance for Natural Health)
Source: Alliance for Natural Health - January 29, 2014 Category: Complementary Medicine Authors: Sophie Tags: algorithms edgerank eSocialMedia europe facebook Informed Planet international Kieran Hannon Promoted Posts social media Source Type: news

ANH-Intl News Alerts
News snippets on FDA beverage guidelines, crackdowns on dietary supplements, TCM, GM labelling and the loss of a leading East-West integrator (Source: Alliance for Natural Health)
Source: Alliance for Natural Health - January 29, 2014 Category: Complementary Medicine Authors: Sophie Tags: Acumedic acupuncture Athletics Australia avocado beverage guidelines CFDA Chinese Food and Drugs Administration Chinese Medical Institute and Register Chinese medicine Chinese Medicine Council CMIR diabetes dietary supplements Dr Source Type: news

Ayurveda group receives reassurances from UK government
UK Justice Minister holds out promise of herbal legislation in current Parliament (Source: Alliance for Natural Health)
Source: Alliance for Natural Health - January 22, 2014 Category: Complementary Medicine Authors: Sophie Tags: Amarjeet S Bhamra Ayurved Ratan Award Ayurveda Ayurvedic Practitioners Association Ayurvedic Trade Association David Whitley Dr Geoffrey Mead Dr Shantha Godagama Dr Vasanth Vijay europe herbs international Justice Minister MHRA Source Type: news

Project Wild Thing: selling nature time to the public
Filmmaker David Bond appoints himself as Marketing Director for Nature (Source: Alliance for Natural Health)
Source: Alliance for Natural Health - January 22, 2014 Category: Complementary Medicine Authors: Sophie Tags: ADHA Biophilia children david bond depression edward wilson europe exercise Green Lions hospital international National Trust nature outdoors overweight playtime Project wild thing RSPB the wild network wellbeing Source Type: news

ANH-Intl News Alerts
News snippets on surgery to reduce obesity, GM, vertical farming, spy technology, sugar addiction, and the Prince of Wales wanting regulation (Source: Alliance for Natural Health)
Source: Alliance for Natural Health - January 22, 2014 Category: Complementary Medicine Authors: Sophie Tags: addiction Bariatric surgery coronary heart disease dispatches ecojustice europe GM GM Watch honey hypertension Imperial College international Maize MON810 NHS obesity osteoarthritis pesticide pollen prince charles p Source Type: news