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Issue No.77

Friday 6th January 2012

ANH-Intl eAlert: Happy New Year! Happy New Year to you all! We hope most of you have had a well deserved break of some sort, and have indulged in healthy foods, mindful physical activity, rest, relaxation and sleep. Let’s face it, even governments are finally beginning to realise that these behaviours—each one within our individual control—are fundamental to us maintaining good health and wellbeing for us much of our lives as possible.    Skeptic alert January is always an interesting time for advocates of natural health. It’s generally open season for the anti-natural-health skeptics who remain fervent—against a vast and growing body of published scientific evidence—that particular foods, herbs and lifestyle regimens can’t enhance the body’s successful elimination of accumulated or internally produced toxins. Any attempt by us to defend the millennia-old practice of detoxification, something that is integral to all of the long-standing, holistic healthcare modalities, generates hate mail. Our article in this week’s release will be no different. But what astounds us is the lack of interest these skeptics have in engaging with the scientific matters they contest. We’ll engage with them, when they engage with the science; until that time, we’ll just feel a little sorry for them in that they won’t allow themselves to experience the benefit of a good cleanse or detox.   2012: high stakes This year the stakes are high for those of us committed to maintaining our freedom to look after our bodies naturally—and to openly speak about the benefits of foods and nutrients. For the Europeans among our readership, we're waiting for the European Parliament to commence its scrutiny of the EU regulation that will turn into law the list of 222 health claims on foods and food ingredients, while banning thousands of others. When it does, we’ll be calling on you to write or communicate with your Member(s) of the European Parliament. Please be prepared for this — it could happen any day now. In addition to health claims legislation, there are a rash of other regulations and bills is set to come down the line in Europe this year. While it’s easy to feel overloaded by the pressure coming from governments and large corporations, allowing ourselves to feel empowered— both in terms of our approach to healthcare as well as our ability to influence the elements of democratic system that remain—should give us the spark we need in 2012

ANH, Asian herbal medicine – and the world’s top science journal Nature journal comes to ANH for views on regulation Read More

Detox – what the medical establishment appear not to understand It’s January and we’re being told not to detox. Why? Read More

Government advice on nutrition: will it help you or make you sick? ANH evaluates some of the diet and lifestyle advice issued by governments Read More

 

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Westminster Food & Nutrition Forum Keynote Seminar

Obesity 2012

 

with

Liz Woodeson, Director of Health and Wellbeing, Department of Health

and

Professor Paul Gately, Professor of Exercise and Obesity, Leeds Metropolitan University and Technical Director, MoreLife

Professor David Haslam, GP and Chair, National Obesity Forum and Bariatric Physician, Luton & Dunstable Hospital NHS Foundation Trust

Paul Lincoln, Chief Executive, National Heart Forum

Professor Klim McPherson, Visiting Professor of Public Health Epidemiology, Nuffield Department of Obstetrics & Gynaecology and New College, University of Oxford

Dr John Middleton, Director of Public Health, Sandwell NHS Primary Care Trust and Vice President, UK Faculty of Public Health

Professor Harry Rutter, Director, National Obesity Observatory

Chaired by

Karen Lumley MP, Member, All-Party Parliamentary Group on Body Image

 

Morning, Tuesday, 7th February 2012

Central London

 

Our Website | Book Online | Live Agenda

 

 

This seminar will be a timely opportunity to assess progress towards reducing obesity in the UK in light of a new publication on tackling obesity expected from the Department of Health later this year.

 

Following recent research which predicts that adult obesity in the UK will rise over the next twenty years – leading to extra cases of diabetes, heart disease and cancer – this seminar will critically examine whether current Government programmes including Change4Life and the Public Health Responsibility Deal go far enough to deal with obesity, and whether tougher action – such as a ‘fat tax’ or global targets for reducing obesity are needed to address the obesity crisis and to head off future costs for the NHS.

 

As local authorities move closer to implementing Health and Wellbeing Boards, delegates will examine how Boards will work alongside the NHS at the local level, and will look at the priorities for commissioning weight management services in a cold economic climate.

 

Planned sessions include:

·        Fresh thinking on levels of obesity in the UK – including an update on the findings of the National Child Measurement Programme;

·        Examining the Responsibility Deal – do voluntary pledges on healthy eating go far enough, and how will the Deal’s progress be monitored?;

·        Addressing the obesogenic environment – exploring the links between obesity and deprivation, access to food and levels of activity;

·        The role of the GP in tackling obesity; and

·        Commissioning weight management services in the new policy landscape.

 

The draft agenda is copied below my signature, and a regularly updated version is available to view online here. The seminar is organised on the basis of strict impartiality by the Westminster Food & Nutrition Forum.

 

Speakers

 

We are delighted to be able to include in this seminar keynote addresses from: Liz Woodeson, Director of Health and Wellbeing, Department of Health.

 

Other confirmed speakers include: Professor Paul Gately, Professor of Exercise and Obesity, Leeds Metropolitan University and Technical Director, MoreLife; Professor David Haslam, GP and Chair, National Obesity Forum and Bariatric Physician, Luton & Dunstable Hospital NHS Foundation Trust; Paul Lincoln, Chief Executive, National Heart Forum; Professor Klim McPherson, Visiting Professor of Public Health Epidemiology, Nuffield Department of Obstetrics & Gynaecology and New College, University of Oxford; Dr John Middleton, Director of Public Health, Sandwell NHS Primary Care Trust and Vice President, UK Faculty of Public Health and Professor Harry Rutter, Director, National Obesity Observatory.

 

Karen Lumley MP, Member, All-Party Parliamentary Group on Body Image has kindly agreed to chair the second session at this seminar.

 

Further senior participants are being approached, but if you or a colleague would like to be considered as a speaker at this seminar, please contact us at speakeroffers@westminsterforumprojects.co.uk and we’ll get back to you as soon as possible. If you are offering to speak yourself please don’t fill in the booking form, as this will be taken as an order and you will be charged for a place subject to our T&Cs.

 

Attendees

 

Westminster Food & Nutrition Forum seminars present an opportunity to engage with key policymakers and other interested parties, and are CPD certified. Typically, attendees at our seminars are a senior and informed group numbering around 140, including Members of both Houses of Parliament, senior officials from the Department of Health and other relevant Departments, public health professionals, representatives of the food and drink industry, including manufacturers, retailers, and suppliers, local government officials and representatives of the dietetic and pharmaceutical industries, academia, charities and consumer groups, together with representatives of the national and trade press.

 

Output and About Us

 

A key output of the seminar will be a transcript of the proceedings, sent out within a week of the event to all attendees and a wider group of Ministers and officials in central government departments affected by the issues; as well as Parliamentarians with a special interest in the subject. This document will include transcripts of all speeches and questions and answers sessions from the day, along with access to PowerPoint presentations, speakers’ biographies, an attendee list, an agenda and sponsor information. It is made available subject to strict restrictions on public use, similar to those for Select Committee Uncorrected Evidence, and is intended to provide timely information for interested parties who are unable to attend on the day.

 

All delegates will receive free PDF copies and are invited to contribute to the content.

 

The Westminster Food & Nutrition Forum is strictly impartial and cross-party, and draws on the considerable support it receives from within Parliament and Government, and amongst the wider stakeholder community. The Forum has no policy agenda of its own. Forum events are frequently the platform for major policy statements from senior Ministers, regulators and other officials, opposition speakers and senior opinion-formers in industry and interest groups. Events regularly receive prominent coverage in the national and trade press.

 

Booking arrangements

 

To book places, please use our online booking form.

 

Once submitted, this will be taken as a confirmed booking and will be subject to our terms and conditions below.

 

Please pay in advance by credit card on 01344 864796. If advance credit card payment is not possible, please let me know and we may be able to make other arrangements.

 

Options and charges are as follows:

 

• Places at Obesity 2012 (including refreshments and PDF copy of the transcripts) are £190 plus VAT;
• Concessionary rate places for small charities, unfunded individuals and those in similar circumstances are £80 plus VAT. Please be sure to apply for this at the time of booking.

 

For those who cannot attend:

 

• Copies of the briefing document, including full transcripts of all speeches and the questions and comments sessions and further articles from interested parties, will be available approximately 7 days after the event for £95 plus VAT;
• Concessionary rate: £50 plus VAT.

 

If you find the charge for tickets a barrier to attending, please let me know and we will do our best to see you are not excluded. Please note terms and conditions below (including cancellation charges).

 

If you would prefer not to receive any more occasional communications from us, please contact remove@westminsterforumprojects.co.uk, and we will remove you from our mailing list.

 

I do hope that you will be able to join us for what promises to be a most useful morning, and look forward to hearing from you soon.

 

Yours sincerely

 

Lizzie Sayer

 

Lizzie Sayer

Producer, Westminster Food & Nutrition Forum

 

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Old Bracknell Lane West

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Dear Friend BHMA October newsletter Trustees strategy for 2012 Climate change. What is to be done? Why reforming the NHS doesn’t work More exercise or less food for fat children?   Trustees strategy for 2012 ‘Networking’ is the word that summarised the trustee’s strategy for 2012 as a result of their meeting on 4th October. For 2011 it was ‘sustainable survival’ and having achieved that we wish to link with more like-minded organisations as a way of promoting holism in medical care. That prompted a high energy discussion at that meeting of the old question, ‘What is Holism?’ and how can the BMA as an organisation promote it?’ You can read some of the changes of emphasis on what we consider to be holism on the website and the inside cover of the next journal. Doubtless there will be further modifications in the future. Climate change. What is to be done?  ‘We do not know? That was an answer that from the conference at the end of October on health and security perspectives of climate change held at BMA house. And it is worse than we thought. -at least they are being honest. Climate change is now is the greatest risk to human health, more so than communicable and non-communicable diseases. So why are we not acting? And that includes you and me, health leaders, politician’s organisations and governments.  The delegates did produce a statement from the conference, ‘Climate change poses an immediate, growing and grave threat to the health and security of people in both developed and developing countries’ and have urged for tougher cuts on greenhouse emissions. What you can do is read and support the full statement from the conference by signing it at http ://climatechange . bmj . com/statement Why reforming the NHS doesn’t work Why reforming the NHS doesn’t work is the title of a book that you are free to download and it sounds interesting. The author, Valerie Iles, writes about the importance of understanding how good people offer bad care and asks how is it that politicians with good intent insist on reform that makes care more expensive and less caring? You may have your own views but she gives a sensible and insightful perspective on this issue. http ://www . reallylearning . com/Free_Resources/Really_Managing_Healthcare/why-reforming-nhs-book . html More exercise or less food for fat children? I would definitely say more exercise for kids is the way to prevent obesity. But a paper recent published suggests it is better to give them less calories as the way to reduce obesity. Parents are bombarded by information about how to feed, exercise, and care for their kids. They say that much of the information given to parents is misleading, conflicting, not evidence based, unhelpful, and guilt inducing. Ok if I disagree I better go and read the original article to understand how they reached their conclusion, but in the meantime my advice would ‘get off your bottom and go outside and play’. Archives of Diseases in Childhood 2011;96:942-947 Kind regards The BHMA Team

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