Date:23 May 2025
Secciones de contenido
- ● En resumen (haga clic en los enlaces para leer más)
- ● Noticias naturales
- ● Actualización de ANH-USA
- ● Post-Covid related news
En resumen (haga clic en los enlaces para leer más)
- Rob Verkerk PhD on the Functional Medicine Bitesized podcast
- Chronic disease rates in US children spiral
- Global rates of overweight & obesity in adolescents set to increase significantly
- Plant flavonols and healthy ageing
- Chickenpox is a notifiable disease + vaccine in the UK
- Sitting time dangers to health
- UPFs shouldn’t be called UPFs in scientific discussions
- New Zealand to increase allowable levels of glyphosate
- US EPA rows back on PFAS restrictions in water
- Health benefits of traditional African diets
- US approves Alzheimer’s detection blood test
- Heart disease deaths increase in the UK
- Actualización de ANH-USA
- Post-Covid related
Noticias naturales
- ANH founder, Rob Verkerk PhD, joined Functional Medicine practitioner Pete Williams on his Functional Medicine Bitesized podcast recently for another not-to-be missed conversation. Rob’s diverse background and experience as a multi-disciplinary scientist came to the fore, as the conversation touched on a multitude of areas including the importance of a holistic approach to health, our over-reliance on patented pharmaceuticals, censorship of natural health information during covid, the need for transparency and informed consent as well governmental and corporate impact on healthcare policies.
>>> Listen to Rob’s conversation with Pete Williams on the Functional Medicine Bitesized podcast
- Levels of chronic disease in American children and young adults has risen exponentially in the past two decades. Chronic conditions and functional limitations in children aged 5-17 years rose by 24% and 30% in young adults aged 18-25 years. Top of the list of conditions were asthma and neurodevelopmental conditions. In a country that’s already bottom of the pile in terms of chronic illness, the data, published in Academic Pediatrics, paints a poor picture for the future of American’s health and wellness unless true preventative healthcare is prioritised and people are given the tools they need to make informed health choices
- The number of children and young people aged 10-24 years that are overweight or obese are projected to rise to 464 million by 2030 (more than 143 million more than 2015) according to a new global report by the Lancet Commission on adolescent health and wellbeing. The report also predicts a significant increase in mental health issues, both of which are closely linked to poor dietary choices as highly processed foods become the major component of many adolescent diets.
>>> The ANH-USA team explore the dire statistics exposing the state of Americans’ health
>>> El vínculo dieta/depresión en los adolescentes
- Powerful plant phytochemicals, known as flavonoids, bring potent nutritional and medicinal properties to those who eat them. A new study, published in La revista American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, found that people who eat foods high in flavonols, such as tea, berries, red wine and apples are at less risk of physical and mental decline as they age. This is one of many reasons why plant foods including herbs and spices are considered a vital element in the ANH Food4Health guidelines.
>>> Alimentación basada en plantas: la "dieta" que no es una moda pasajera
>>> ¡Ponga sabor (y hierba) a su vida!
- Chickenpox is now a notifiable disease in the UK in order to monitor the ‘effectiveness’ of the Chickenpox vaccine due to be introduced to the childhood schedule in early 2026. In preparation for the addition of the chickenpox vaccine to the schedule, the government has also announced a raft of ‘significant’ changes to the vaccination schedule. Amongst the changes is the addition of a new routine 18 month appointment at which the MMR vaccine will be offered, rather than at 3 years, in an effort to increase uptake of the MMR shot, despite increasing health concerns about its links to autism
- Reducing the amount of time spent sitting following hospitalisation due to acute coronary syndrome improves patients’ long term health outcomes. Researchers publishing in Circulación, found those people who were more active, had an improved recovery and less risk of future heart related issues
- Another recent study, published in the Revista Británica de Medicina Deportiva, also highlights the dangers of prolonged sitting time in relation to the development of cancer. Using data from the UK Biobank of people who wore activity trackers, the researchers found that the more someone moved each day, regardless of how fast they moved, the lower their risk of developing cancer. The new research adds to a plethora of evidence showing the impact of sitting time on our health, as well as supporting recommendations to engage in regular activity and take sitting breaks throughout the day
- Ultra-processed foods (UPFs) are a hot topic these days (see our latest article), as concerns over the link between increased consumption of highly processed foods and poor health continues to increase. However, there is a growing pushback against such claims as the corporate campaign to convince people that not all UPFs are equally detrimental to health, ramps up. An open letter is one of the latest salvos in this campaign from two German scientists who tear the use of the NOVA classification system apart and call for the use of the term “ultra-processed food” to be banned from use in future scientific discussions. Such a declaration mirrors ideas put forward as part of the Nobel Prize Summit in 2023, that there is a point at which, once an arbitrary threshold of knowledge has been achieved through the use of the scientific method, further scientific discourse is considered to be unecessary. To us at ANH, this is scientific dogma, not the scientific method, which needs ongoing, open, transparent and objective scientific discourse
- The New Zealand government is consulting on a proposal to increase a hundredfold the allowable residue of glyphosate on some grains, taking the default level from 0.1mg per kg to 10mg per kg. Questions are being asked as to whether it’s purely coincidental that the proposal comes at the same as the Gene Technology Bill, which would legalise the use of gene edited crops in New Zealand, makes its way through Parliament
- In 2024, the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), introduced limits for levels of six per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) in drinking water. It has now decided to rescind the limits for four of the “forever chemicals”, although limits for two other PFAS will remain, using the excuse of providing “regulatory flexibility”. It’s also delaying the implementation of the limits for the other two PFAS until 2031. This further waters down protections for Americans and give a free pass to chemical manufacturers to continue their contamination of the environment without penalty.
>>> Another Blow to PFAS Protections in the US
>>> PFAS: El desastre químico en desarrollo
- Traditional African diets are naturally rich in a diverse range of nutrients, yet they’re increasingly being replaced by western, energy dense, convenience and ultra-processed foods that threaten traditional food supplies and the health of Africans. A new review article published in Fronteras de la nutrición, highlights the role of traditional diets and indigenous foods to promote health and wellbeing and protect food sovereignty from the ravages of global biotech giants trying to monopolise and control the global food supply.
>>> La batalla por la soberanía alimentaria se recrudece
- Rather than implement a robust prevention programme to stop people from developing Alzheimer’s, the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has just approved a blood test designed to detect Alzheimer’s. Such a test does little to prevent the development of Alzheimer’s, it’s likely to merely accelerate the introduction of big money drugs that come with a raft of unpleasant adverse reactions which, at best, may slow decline only slightly.
>>> You can prevent the development of Alzheimer’s and other neurodevelopmental diseases! Más información...
- New analysis from the British Heart Foundation, reveals a worrying rise in the number of deaths in adults aged 20-64 years between 2019 and 2023. The rate rose from 49 deaths per 100,000 in 2019 to 55 deaths per 100,000 in 2023. Multiple factors are cited as being responsible for the rise, including covid, but the possible impact of covid vaccines has been completely overlooked.
Actualización de ANH-USA
- The rise in the use of GLP-1 weight loss drugs such as Ozempic and Mounjaro, following the classification of obesity as a disease, has been stratospheric in recent years as people seek quick fix weight loss solutions. They’re now being viewed by governments and health authorities as a one stop shop to fixing the chronic disease epidemic, even for people who aren’t obese. Far from fixing the current health crisis, such thinking is likely to lead to whole new raft of health issues and potentially, the bankrupting of health systems. Leer más...
Post-Covid related news
- The World Health Organization’s (WHO) Pandemic Treaty/Agreement has been adopted by member countries at the 78th World Health Assembly. However, it’s not yet complete and will be adopted in two parts. Negotiations for an Annex on the Pathogen Access and Benefit Sharing (PABS) System, which includes the definition of what constitutes a pandemic, will continue leaving Member states unable to sign the agreement until such time as the Annex has been agreed and adopted – potentially at the next World Health Assembly due to be held in 2026
- The US FDA is to limit access to updated covid jabs to people over the age of 65 and people who are deemed to be at high risk from the virus. Recommendations for the jabs to be routinely given to pregnant women, children and teens will also be repealed. For all other uses the FDA will require data from randomised, controlled studies before approval will be granted
- The UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) is scaremongering again, as it reports that “fragments of West Nile Virus genetic material” has been found in 2 pools of 200 pools of 10 mosquitoes, in Britain. The fragments were detected using the now infamous, PCR testing, which came under significant scientific attack during covid. The UKHSA neglects to mention that this is a testing system that will find pretty much anything you tell it to as described by Rob Verkerk here.
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