Date:25 April 2025
Content Sections
- ● In Brief (click on the links to read more)
- ● Natural News
- ● ANH-USA Update
- ● Covid related
In Brief (click on the links to read more)
- Protective effects of vitamin D
- Sweeteners trick your brain
- UK Think tank takes beef, lamb and dairy off the table
- Biotech companies piggyback RFK Jr to sell their wares
- Campaign to ban amalgam fillings
- Microplastics found in women’s ovaries
- Caduceus magazine
- Lab-grown meat approvals
- Reframing lab-grown meat
- Synthetic milk protein manufacturer sued
- Switzerland contemplates relaxing regulations for NGTs
- How to label – or not – gene edited products
- Changing from a traditional African to Western diet starts inflammatory process
- Strength training protects against dementia
- Increase in childhood ASD diagnoses in US
- Social media fuelling unhealthy eating in young people
- US authorities call for water fluoridation ban
- ANH-USA Update
- Covid related
Natural News
- Vitamin D plays a crucial role in the prevention and treatment of colorectal cancer. A new literature review published in Nutrients by Hungarian researchers found that vitamin D reduces inflammation, regulates immune responses, promotes cell death and inhibits tumour angiogenesis
- A separate systematic review and meta-analysis of vitamin D’s role in the prevention of acute respiratory infections (ARIs), published in The Lancet, concludes that regular vitamin D supplementation doesn’t provide protection against ARIs. However, the researchers did find a protective effect in a sub-set of the data, where supplementation was given daily in doses of 400-1000 IU.
>> Find out more about the essential role of vitamin D in a protecting and promoting our health and wellbeing
- Consuming non-nutritive sweeteners tricks your brain into thinking you’ve eaten something sugary, which affects the way your brain controls your feelings of satiety and hunger. It also changes the way your brain communicates, which could trigger people to keep eating even when they’re no longer hungry as the body doesn’t recognise the satiety signals, according to a clinical trial, published in Nature Metabolism
- UK tables could be devoid of beef, lamb and dairy products in 25 years time in order to meet the UK government’s Net Zero targets according to the latest dystopian report from UK FIRES, a highly influential think tank. The report also pushes the introduction of lab-grown meat to fill the gap left by the restriction of animal products
- Biotech companies are leveraging comments made by Robert F Kennedy Jr advocating a reduction in the use of toxic agricultural pesticides to promote ‘biologicals’ as a ‘natural’ way to control pests and diseases. The companies promoting such products fail to mention the products being pushed, are often genetically modified, are potentially harmful to the environment and are unregulated by the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA), as they seek to hijack true regenerative farming practices.
>>> The Battle for Food Sovereignty is Hotting Up
- Calls are being made to stop NHS dentists from using amalgam fillings following the ban of their use by the European Union in January of this year. Find out more about the campaign to ban the continued use of amalgam fillings from the European Network for Environmental Medicine
- Microplastics have been found in the fluid in women’s ovaries raising questions about the potential impact on women’s fertility and reproductive health. The alarm has been raised by Italian researchers, publishing in Ecotoxicology and Environmental Safety, working with samples from women undergoing IVF
>>> The scourge of microplastics
- The latest copy of Caduceus magazine has hit the shelves and landed in the ANH office. For those not familiar with the publication, Caduceus has been a leading magazine for the health conscious amongst us since 1987 due to its focus on psychological, emotional, spiritual, ecological and environmental health, therapy and growth, including natural, holistic, energy and complementary medicine — and of course, latterly, covid! Check out Issue 113 for a raft of fascinating articles from covid, to antidepressants and statins libel!
- Lab-grown quail has been approved for use in food products in Australia and New Zealand. The approval follows two rounds of public consultation following Vow Food’s original novel food application submitted in January 2023. In the US Mission Barns has become the third company to receive regulatory approval from the US food and Drug Administration (FDA), to sell a lab-grown meat product. Its cultivated pork fat will be mixed with plant-based ingredients to create food products
- Consumers aren’t readily adopting lab-grown meat – described as “a sort of engineered tissue”. That means the industry needs to pivot and reframe its development. The latest reframe sees it being offered as way to create new organs and be used in medical research in order to gain greater public acceptance of its existence and smooth its introduction into food chains
- US food technology company, Perfect Day, has been hit by a lawsuit brought by the Organic Consumers Association and GMO/Toxin Free USA. The lawsuit alleges Perfect Day’s marketing claims that its synthetic whey protein ‘ProFerm’ contains “animal-free diary proteins” that are “identical to those found in cow’s milk and have “a smaller environmental footprint than conventional whey protein isolate” are false and misleading. The Defender has the full story
- Switzerland has released proposals for public consultation, to make it easier for biotech companies to obtain authorisation of plants created through the use of ‘new genomic techniques’ (NGTs) such as CRISPR. Unlike many countries, such plants would require a full environmental assessment, “when no comparable plant exists” — which isn’t much of a protection given claims from the biotech industry that NGTs are comparable to naturally occurring or conventional plants, need safety assessments and must be labelled
- As the push to deregulate gene edited plants ramps up, a new Working Paper, published in UniCatt, discusses different ways to label, or not, NGT products in order to hide the true nature of products using NGTs from consumers, in order to gain ‘acceptance’ of the products.
>>> Bioengineering and GMO 2.0: ready to make an informed decision?
- Changing from a traditional African diet to a Western style diet causes inflammation, reduces immune response to pathogens and activates chronic disease pathways in just two weeks according a new study published in Nature Medicine
- A new Brazilian study, published in GeroScience, found strength training helps improve memory, supports healthier brain connections, and protects some brain areas from shrinking in people with mild cognitive impairment
- The unrelenting increase in autism diagnoses in children, continues according to new data from the US Centers for Disease Protection and Control (CDC). In 2022 figures show 1 in 31 children were diagnosed with autism, a jump from 2020 when it was estimated 1 in 36 children were diagnosed as being on the autism spectrum
- Social media is fuelling the consumption of ultra-processed foods by young people. A recent scoping review published in BMJ Global Health, finds children and teens are being targeted via social media platforms by food companies, often without them realising they’re being targeted. The researchers conclude that social media is being used as a commercial determinant of health to fuel children’s desire for highly-processed foodstuffs, increasing their risk of developing chronic disease at ever younger ages.
>>> Beat the marketing hype with the ANH Food4Health guidelines to help you and your family eat in a way that optimises and futureproofs health
- In a joint press conference, US Health Secretary, Robert F Kennedy Jr and US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator, Lee Zeldin, called on US states to ban the fluoridation of water due to the known and potential health issues associated with the practice. Zeldin also revealed plans to review allowable levels of fluoride in water. Fluoride Alert has more.
- If you’re based in the UK and would like to prevent the UK government’s ongoing campaign to fluoridate water supplies please contact Joy Warren at Fluoride Free Alliance UK on:- [email protected].
>>> Coming to a tap near you
ANH-USA Update
- As US Health Secretary, Robert F Kennedy Jr (RFK Jr), turns his attention to reforming the GRAS (Generally Recognised as Safe) pathway, the ANH team released a ground-breaking white paper proposing reform that will allow the elimination of toxic ingredients, whilst preserving access to safe, beneficial ingredients through the GRAS self-regulation system. Find out more and download the Media Pack
- The US team reveal the grim truth about the state of Americans’ health as they dive into the data, showing the USA had the worst chronic disease score when compared to 49 other countries. Read more…
- Robert F Kennedy Jr has announced new federally funded research initiatives to investigate environmental factors contributing to the rising rates of autism spectrum disorder (ASD) in the US. Challenging the notion that increased diagnoses are solely due to better awareness, Kennedy emphasises the need to examine pollutants, food additives, and indoor toxins as potential triggers, alongside conventional medicines, ultrasound technology and genetic vulnerabilities. This initiative aims to uncover the complex interplay between environmental exposures and genetic factors in the development of ASD. Read more…
- Senator Dick Durbin, known for his persistent efforts to impose stricter regulations on dietary supplements, has announced he will not seek re-election. Throughout his tenure, Durbin repeatedly introduced legislation aimed at granting the FDA greater authority to ban certain supplements, often attempting to attach these measures to essential spending bills. Durbin’s retirement marks the end of a significant chapter in the ongoing debate over supplement regulation. Read more…
Covid related
- Negotiators for World Health Organization (WHO) member states have beaten out a draft Pandemic Agreement, after three years of negotiations, to present at the upcoming World Health Assembly (WHA), in May. It appears that the agreement is a document of compromises to be developed in the same way as the IHR amendments. At this point it seems to be more a symbolic gesture than an agreement with teeth
- The ANH team raised the issue of pathogenic priming early in the covid crisis. A new preprint using data from Thailand, shows pathogenic priming is real as it correlates increases in mortality with third booster doses of mRNA covid ‘vaccines’. James Lyons-Weiler has more
- An Australian court has refused the government’s request to dismiss a covid vaccine injury class action, involving thousands of Australians harmed by the jabs, to give the plaintiffs time to simplify their submissions
- New data from Saudi Arabia suggests that the production of spike protein, following covid jabs, continues for at least a year in young men and older adults. The Defender discusses the study, published in Immunity, Inflammation and Disease.
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