July 26, 2003
After misleading reports which claim to reveal the carcinogenic potential of Vitamin C, a 16-year study on the relationship between Vitamin C consumption and heart disease in women shows that Vitamin C supplement users reduce the risk of of non-fatal heart attacks and fatal heart disease by 28%, compared with non-users.
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[Journal of the American College of Cardiology 2003 Jul 16;42(2):246-52].
July 19, 2003
> The Alliance of Natural Health is very busy building the case with the only EU law team that have ever overturned a European directive following receipt of a very favourable opinion. Please help to support the lawsuit that will allow them to showcase the importance of nutritional supplements in full view of the European courts and media. Your help will be vital not only to help turn-over the present unscientifically-based Directive, but also to stop harmonisation of the Directive into Codex Alimentarius which has global implications.
July 15, 2003
Most types of mental illness, such as depression, mood swings and so on, are caused by a nutritional lack. This view was further vindicated in test that involved 231 young adult prisoners who were given either a multivitamin and mineral supplement or a placebo for 20 weeks. Compared with the placebo group, the group who had the supplements committed an average of 26 per cent fewer offences afterwards.
(Source: British Journal of Psychiatry, 2002; 181: 22-8).