NEWS HEADLINES
Walk/Run 4 Autism Awareness
Sunday, 3rd May 2009 – Hagley Park (North), Christchurch
Autism New Zealand Inc. Canterbury Branch is excited to announce the first annual 'Walk/Run 4 Autism Awareness’. The 2.5km, 5km and 10km fun walk/run will be at Hagley Park (North), 3 May 2009 starting at 9.30am. The World Autism Awareness Day is in April and we hope to raise awareness in our community.
Autism Awareness
NZ: Cancer report puts heat on National’s health policies
FOE Media Release, 27 February 2009-
“Opportunities to reduce New Zealand’s high cancer rate are lost as a result of National’s decision to reverse important health initiatives in the name of opposing the nanny state”, according to Dr Robyn Toomath from FOE (Fight the Obesity Epidemic). This follows release of a report calling for government intervention to prevent cancer using policies that encourage healthy eating and greater physical activity.
The report “Policy and Action for Cancer Prevention” is written by a group of leading international cancer experts and other scientists. It makes recommendations based on an exhaustive review of measures aimed at improving diet, increasing physical activity and reducing obesity.
“The recent move by the Education Minister to allow junk food back into schools is beyond belief”, Dr Toomath said, noting that the report recommends that governments require schools to meet high nutritional standards.
Dr Toomath noted that the report calls for governments to use legislation and regulations to improve the food environment. The New Zealand Government is doing the opposite. National intends to remove the ability to do this from the Public Health Bill awaiting its second reading. “It’s madness to take such a backward step that flies in the face of all the evidence about what we need to do”, she said.
The report also recommends that governments “restrict advertising and marketing of ‘fast food’ and other processed foods and sugary drinks to children, on television, in other media, and in supermarkets”. “This won’t happen after National has gutted the Public Health Bill of the tools needed to do this”, Dr Toomath said.
The report follows on from a 2007 report by the same expert group that found that poor diet, obesity and physical inactivity all contributed to the risk of cancer. About one third of all cancers could be prevented by addressing these factors.
The report is available at http://www.dietandcancerreport.org/.
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Published on 27 February 2009 in New Zealand news
Fight the Obesity Epidemic
The fight-back against school junk food starts today
03 Apr 2009
Sue Kedgley
Green Party MP Sue Kedgley is launching a nationwide petition and School Food campaign today to try to persuade the Government to reinstate the Nutritional Guidelines requiring schools to sell healthy food in school canteens, which it dropped earlier this year.
The Nutritional Guidelines had been in place since 2007 and in that time many schools had begun selling healthier food in their tuckshops. This had led to healthier schools, better eating habits and anecdotal evidence that behaviour in the classroom had improved due to children avoiding junk food high in sugar.
"I am calling on the Government to put the interests of our children and the health of the nation ahead of ideology or political point scoring," Ms Kedgley said. Read More.......
US: Congress to tackle junk food in schools
A US Congresswoman is introducing a Bill that would get junk foods out of American public schools once and for all.
The Bill will update the national school nutrition standards for foods and beverages sold in schools. This includes tuckshops and vending machines.
The Bill is likely to be addressed later this year when Congress reauthorises the Child Nutrition Act.
Read more: Center for Science in the Public Interest, 5 Mar 2009
Published on 6 March 2009 in International news, School food
Fight the Obesity Epidemic
ASPARTAME
These articles on SCOOP caught my eye today, even though it seems to be a 2007 article it was sent out on RSS as Health Most Read 3/17/09
Aspartame has been a controversial issue for a long time now and this article seems to uncover a few enlightening facts.
Aspartame: an inconvenient truth
Groups campaigning about the dangers of the artificial sweetener aspartame are disappointed that the New Zealand Food Safety Authority (NZFSA) is shooting the messenger rather than listening to the message.
The Soil & Health Association and the Safe Food Campaign have been hosting international aspartame expert Betty Martini at media and public meetings in New Zealand.
Betty Martini has been researching the artificial sweetener for over 15 years and has the authoritative 1000 page medical text Aspartame: An Ignored Epidemic by Dr HJ Roberts dedicated to her.
It's Beginning To Feel A Lot Like Victory -- Over Aspartame
Think Before You Drink is the life-saving theme of Phoenix Organics anti-aspartame campaign. They're backing their words with 20,000 free bottles of Cola labeled with the truth about this poisonous sweetener, the ingredient in Diet Coke and thousands of foods and beverages.
Bully! What a heroic and signal stand! Welcome to the Bandwagon!
NZFSA Attempts to Stumble public on Aspartame
Other links on Aspartame:
www.mpwhi.com
www.dorway.com
www.wnho.net
Aspartame Toxicity Center
Sweet Misery: A Poisoned World,
Vaccine Studies: Under the Influence of Pharma
by Barbara Loe Fisher
If you take more than a casual look at the way the mass vaccination system in the U.S. works, you see that pharmaceutical companies marketing vaccines have a lot of clout. It was the pharmaceutical industry that told Congress in 1982 that they were going to leave the nation without vaccines if they didn't get liability protection but have opposed making it less difficult for vaccine victims to obtain federal compensation in the U.S. Court of Claims under a 1986 law that gave them liability protection.
It is Pharma lobbyists, who bully the FDA into fast tracking vaccines like Gardasil and who sit at the CDC's policymaking tables urging that new vaccines be recommended for use by all children so they can persuade state legislators to mandate vaccines like influenza vaccine.
Vaccine Awakening
Gardasil Death & Brain Damage: A National Tragedy
by Barbara Loe Fisher
The tragic story of Gardasil vaccine is one that is playing out real time in the homes of trusting parents, who thought they were doing the right thing to try to make their daughters "one less," and in the 21st century cyberspace forum of public opinion as well as on television.
Gardasil Deaths
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