Herbalists are not the only herb users: What will UK herbal regulation mean for other practitioners?
We look at the consequences of herbal medicine regulation – statutory or voluntary – or maintaining the status quo (Source: Alliance for Natural Health)
Source: Alliance for Natural Health - March 26, 2014 Category: Complementary Medicine Authors: Sophie Tags: europe herbal international practitioners THMPD Source Type: news

ANH-Intl News Alerts
The HPV vaccine, food labelling, muscle mass related to lower risk of death, the mumps vaccine, GM pollen in honey, meningitis vaccine, and the ASA (Source: Alliance for Natural Health)
Source: Alliance for Natural Health - March 26, 2014 Category: Complementary Medicine Authors: Sophie Tags: allergy Alyssa Burns-Hill Alyssa Spills All ASA BMI europe food labelling FSA GM honey pollen HPV international meningitis mumps muscle mass NHS Jermey hunt research Source Type: news

EU reform of the EU Novel Food Regulation: Will it present a lesser or greater barrier for non-EU botanicals?
ANH-Intl reviews the implications of the European Commission’s proposed reform of the NFR (Source: Alliance for Natural Health)
Source: Alliance for Natural Health - March 19, 2014 Category: Complementary Medicine Authors: Sophie Tags: botanicals EC EFSA Engineered nanomaterials EU Medicines Code europe FSD GM health claims international NFR NHCR Novel Foods regulation THMPD Source Type: news

FDA nudges further towards EU and Codex in proposed changes to supplement rules
Insights on the FDA’s latest proposed rule changes for labelling of foods and supplements (Source: Alliance for Natural Health)
Source: Alliance for Natural Health - March 19, 2014 Category: Complementary Medicine Authors: Sophie Tags: Alzheimers biotin calcium CCGMP CCNFSDU Codex Codex Committee on Nutrition and Food for Special Dietary Uses Current Good Manufacturing Practice dietary reference intakes Dietary Supplement Health and Education Act DRIs DSHEA europ Source Type: news

ANH-Int News Alerts
Truth revealed about wheat and fluoride, GM material found in non-GM, modified gut bacteria, proposal for nanomaterial labelling rejected, and saturated fat good (Source: Alliance for Natural Health)
Source: Alliance for Natural Health - March 19, 2014 Category: Complementary Medicine Authors: Sophie Tags: anovulatory infertility attention deficit hyperactivity disorder autism beta-carotene BHF Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation British Heart Foundation butter calorie coeliac disease cream diabetes drinking water E. coli erectile Source Type: news

Is eating protein really as bad as smoking?
Is Big Food’s media influence behind scaremongering headlines? (Source: Alliance for Natural Health)
Source: Alliance for Natural Health - March 12, 2014 Category: Complementary Medicine Authors: ANH Admin Tags: big food CAFOs caloric restriction cancer cell metabolism concentrated animal feeding operations dairy diet eggs europe fasting GM international low glycaemic load meat National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey NHANE Source Type: news

New film unmasks UK’s Advertising (double) Standards Authority
Natural health practitioner Alyssa Burns-Hill, PhD spearheads resistance (Source: Alliance for Natural Health)
Source: Alliance for Natural Health - March 12, 2014 Category: Complementary Medicine Authors: ANH Admin Tags: Advertising Standards Authority Alyssa Burns-Hill Alyssa Spills All ASA care quality commission europe hormones international plasma Prof David Colquhoun salivary hormone testing serum tests Wall Street Journal Weight Loss Winner Source Type: news

ANH-Int News Alerts
WHO guidelines on sugar, Omega-3 helps you sleep well, antibiotics, obese teens at risk, Vitamin D and breast cancer, and BPA (Source: Alliance for Natural Health)
Source: Alliance for Natural Health - March 12, 2014 Category: Complementary Medicine Authors: Sophie Tags: antibiotics bisphenol-A Body Mass Index BPA breast cancer diabetes Dr. IglayReger europe heart disease Heather Hofflich international Journal of Pediatrics Journal of Sleep Research long-chain fatty acids Mother Jones obese Source Type: news

ANH Book Review: “Off Balance: The American Way Of Health” by Dr Leyla Ali, PharmD
The big picture on Western healthcare, done simply and done right (Source: Alliance for Natural Health)
Source: Alliance for Natural Health - March 5, 2014 Category: Complementary Medicine Authors: Sophie Tags: arthritis Bill Bailey Crohn’s disease detoxification Dr. Leyla Ali europe healthcare international meditation Off Balance: The American Way Of Health organic pharmacist Prostate Cancer UK Source Type: news

ANH-Intl News Alerts
Compensation for vaccine damage, Seralini speaks out, statin cover-up, plastics in US food, mammogram failure, seed freedom and EU childhood obesity  (Source: Alliance for Natural Health)
Source: Alliance for Natural Health - March 5, 2014 Category: Complementary Medicine Authors: Yvonne Tags: ADA advertising Azodicarbonamide biodiversity breast cancer breast screening childhood obesity cholesterol europe GMO industrial plastic international Jerome Burn mammograms narcolepsy Navdanya Pandemrix rat feeding study Source Type: news

UK herbalist regulation: Statutory, voluntary or the status quo?
We take a deeper look at a question of vital importance to the UK’s practitioners of herbal and traditional systems of medicine (Source: Alliance for Natural Health)
Source: Alliance for Natural Health - March 5, 2014 Category: Complementary Medicine Authors: Sophie Tags: BHMA British Herbal Medicine Association europe HCPC Health and Care Professions Council herbalist international practitioners statutory regulation THMPD THR traditional herbal registration Source Type: news

Can Vitamin E and selenium supplements increase prostate cancer risk?
Complex picture emerges from SELECT that suggests caution over form and dosage of supplements for some groups of men (Source: Alliance for Natural Health)
Source: Alliance for Natural Health - February 26, 2014 Category: Complementary Medicine Authors: Sophie Tags: alpha-tocopherol antioxidant Beta Carotene biopsy cancer europe FDA functional medicine international JAMA JNCI Journal of American Medical Association minerals NPC Nutritional Prevention of Cancer SELECT selenium supplem Source Type: news

Passage of Saatchi innovation bill into law dependent on public support
ANH calls for proactive response to public consultation on Lord Saatchi’s medical innovation bill    (Source: Alliance for Natural Health)
Source: Alliance for Natural Health - February 26, 2014 Category: Complementary Medicine Authors: Sophie Tags: cancer colorectal dietary Dr Max Pemberton europe functional Health Minister Jeremy Hunt heart disease herbal innovation international Lord Saatchi Medical Innovation Bill negligence NICE obesity prostate cancer RCT ski Source Type: news

Unseen and unsound: Why it’s time to cut down on food packaging
New report and the media reaction highlights sensitivity of an important debate (Source: Alliance for Natural Health)
Source: Alliance for Natural Health - February 26, 2014 Category: Complementary Medicine Authors: Sophie Tags: box scheme EDCs endocrine-disrupting chemicals europe fat FCMs food additives food contact materials hormesis international Jane Muncke kombucha organic packaging phytonutrients plastics Prof Coggon protein salad Scie Source Type: news

ANH-Int News Alerts
Patenting nature, taste linked to habit rather than health, GM, and UK hospital food not fit for pigs (Source: Alliance for Natural Health)
Source: Alliance for Natural Health - February 26, 2014 Category: Complementary Medicine Authors: Sophie Tags: Avaaz beef Christoph Then EPO europe European Patent Office fatty acid France Genewatch GM GMO hospital food international ISIS Journal of Dairy Science Maize nature NHS No Patents On Seeds Omega 3 Omega 6 organic Source Type: news