Date:29 May 2025
Seções de conteúdo
- ● Em resumo (clique nos links para ler mais)
- ● Notícias Naturais
- ● Atualização da ANH-USA
- ● Free Speech
- ● Post-Covid related
Em resumo (clique nos links para ler mais)
- UK government muses digital curfew for kids
- UK government caves to food industry lobbying
- Vitamin D slows down biological ageing
- Resistant hospital bugs have evolved to eat plastic
- Importance of agrecology for food sovereignty recognised in East Africa
- Personal care products inhibit human oxidation fields
- World Health Assembly recognises importance of social connection
- Bayer considers making Monsanto insolvent
- Atualização da ANH-USA
- Controlo da liberdade de expressão
- Post-covid updates
Notícias Naturais
- How do you justify the introduction of a government imposed ‘digital curfew’ for certain social media apps for young people? Conduct a survey of just 1,300 young people in which 50% of those surveyed said that a curfew would improve their lives and then apply the results to the wider population. Publication of the survey results, carried out by the British Standards Institute (BSI), comes following comments from the UK Technology Secretary, Peter Kyle, that he’s considering enforcement options under the Online Safety Act to change the way children interact with social media platforms. We’ve long warned about the damaging and isolating effects of social media on young people but should we be using edicts to force young people into reducing ‘screen time’ or rather educating them about the benefits of reconnecting with nature and disconnecting from the toxic online worlds they’re now sucked into?
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- Following months of lobbying by food manufacturers, the UK government has caved to pressure and backtracked on its plans to move the balance of special offers in supermarkets from highly-processed foods to minimally processed foods. The Soil Association has launched a petition calling for the government to resist industry influence and put people’s health front and centre rather than corporate profits
- Vitamin D supplementation helps slow down biological aging. The VITAL randomised trial, published in O Jornal Americano de Nutrição Clínica, has found that vitamin D helps support the health of telomeres slowing down their shortening, which in turn lowers the risks of chronic disease associated with aging. The researchers estimate telomere shortening was delayed by nearly three years in those supplemented with vitamin D
- Antimicrobial resistant bacteria in hospitals have evolved to feed on plastic. Researchers found that some hospital germs, such as Pseudomonas aeruginosa, which is resistant to virtually all available antibiotics, can indeed utilise plastic as a food source. The microbes can also use it to build protective biofilms making it much harder to treat infections. Given the amount of plastics used in medical treatments these mutated bugs present a huge health issue to hospitalised patients, particularly if they’ve undergone surgical procedures
- The importance of agroecology to food production sovereignty in Africa has been officially recognised by the East African Legislative Assembly through the Committee on Agriculture, Tourism and Natural Resources (ATNR). By passing a resolution to officially recognise the strategic importance of agroecology, the ATNR has set the scene to formulate and recommend sustainable policies across East Africa thus enabling people to reclaim control over their food systems and local environments
- Walk down any street and you’re likely to be assailed by a myriad of synthetic fragrances, whether it be down to the “Lynx effect” or the raft of other smells added to everything from laundry and personal care products to air ‘fresheners’. A new study published in Avanços da Ciência, explores how the use of chemicals in personal care products is damaging, not just our air quality, but also our ability to generate personal human oxidation fields, in which hydroxyl radicals (OH) help to form a protective field around the human body. These new findings add further evidence to the damage to human health from the cocktail of chemicals we now routinely surround ourselves with on a daily basis and the disruption of social interactions, which evolved around human pheromones
- Covid restrictions severely impacted social connections, causing long-term damage way beyond that caused by the virus itself. At the recent World Health Assembly, its members approved a resolution recognising the importance of social connection to human health and resilience as part of an ecological, adaptive, multi-factorial system. It remains to be seen whether the importance of social connection will be respected should further pandemic situations be forced on the global population.
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- Bayer is allegedly considering making its subsidiary Monsanto (bought in a glare of publicity in 2018), insolvent in order to wriggle out of ongoing legal cases brought against Monsanto for injuries caused by its glyphosate product, Roundup. On hearing the news Bayer’s shares shot up in value.
Atualização da ANH-USA
- The eagerly anticipated MAHA report on Childhood Chronic Disease has been published in the US. But is it the powerhouse to fuel badly needed change or lacking the prescriptions needed for meaningful change? The ANH-USA team dive into the heart of the report to give their assessment…
- When it comes to natural health options and what can and can’t be said about their benefits there is a far from level playing field in the US as successive governments insist on pharmaceutical grade evidence to prove the healing power of foods and supplements. This week the ANH-USA team filed a petition urging the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) to embrace a totality-of-evidence approach, ban legal abuses, and restore transparency and scientific integrity to health-product regulation. Saiba mais about the team’s ongoing legal challenges…
Free Speech
- In the digital age personal data is more valuable than gold, particularly to those that use it to spy on us and nudge our decisions. In the US, the Office of the Director of National Intelligence is creating a system, known as the “Intelligence Community Data Consortium”, which will provide a one-stop shop for government agencies to cheaply access vast amounts of Americans’ data whilst avoiding constitutional and statutory privacy protections. The Intercept explores the issues and concerns about the centralisation and sale of such large quantities of personal data
- Meanwhile in the UK the government is planning to create a “National Data Library” (NDL), which will bring together a range of data ranging from healthcare data to criminal records to be sold to train AI systems. The development of the system has raised concerns about how such personal data would be used beyond training AI systems, handled and protected
- President Trump has signed the Take It Down Act into law. Designed to deal with the spread of non-consensual intimate imagery (NCII) there are concerns that it could result in overreach when it comes to censorship of online content, selective enforcement and the continued erosion of free speech under the guise of digital protection
- A post on LinkedIn attracted many positive comments as the Met Police (London) celebrated the apprehension of a man, banned from being in the company of children, with a six-year old child, through the use of facial recognition technology (FRT). Multiple comments called for further use of FRT for a range of uses. The normalisation of the wider use of FRT continues via an article in The Guardian telling people living in the UK that due to the ‘success’ of FRT, it will be rolled out across more areas. Meanwhile, Big Brother Watch has filed a legal complaint against supermarket giant, Asda, for the use of FRT in its stores. Innocent or not, live facial recognition is likely to be coming to a town, city or supermarket near you very soon, whether you like it or not. Big Brother is only a nano-step away.
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Post-Covid related
- Homeopathy used as an adjuvant to standard treatment for covid patients in India improved recovery rates. A randomised placebo controlled trial, published in Advances in Integrated Medicine, found on days five and ten, the group that received homoeopathic treatment experienced reductions in symptoms, such as shortness of breath, cough, weakness, and fatigue. The homoeopathic group also experienced significantly lower rates of ICU admission, need for a ventilator, and mortality than the placebo group
- Moderna has withdrawn its application to the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for approval of its new combined flu/covid shot after the FDA said it would require new clinical trials to support approval applications
- Moderna has taken a second hit this week as the Department of Health and Human Services notified it of the cancellation of more than $700 million in funding for the late-stage development of an avian flu vaccine along with the right to purchase pre-pandemic flu vaccines.
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