Every year in every country, state, province, and city, there are more laws written and proposed - some passed, some not - for the sake of providing a better and more controlled and stable place to live. The real reason that more laws are proposed is to give some politicians importance and purpose when most of the time they just aren't necessary. The 63,000 plus pages of tax code should be indication of this fact. When government starts to intervene with the companies that make natural supplements and dietary products to help support a natural way of health and healing, then the only ones who win are companies that have a vested interest in seeing the products 'regulated' - i.e. pharmaceutical companies.

In Canada, for instance, a new law has been introduced that may outlaw about 60% of natural health products and even make it a crime for parents to give their children supplements. For those of us who seek to support our diet and our health through supplementation, this could be the start of a major negative effect on the health of a nation. While not all supplements or supplement companies are on the "up and up", the ones that do provide a valuable resource for nutritional support, for example, may be compromised in their ability to provide their useful and beneficial products. This would translate into a further decline in the health of that country's citizens, and further perpetuate the use of doctors and medications. Here's more on what's going on in Canada --

Among the changes proposed by the bill are radical alterations to key terminology, including replacing the word "drug" with "therapeutic product" throughout the Act, thereby giving the Canadian government broad-reaching powers to regulate the sale of all herbs, vitamins, supplements and other items. With this single language change, anything that is "therapeutic" automatically falls under the Food and Drug Act. This would include bottled water, blueberries, dandelion greens and essentially all plant-derived substances.

The Act also changes the definition of the word "sell" to include anyone who gives such therapeutic products to someone else. So a mother giving an herb to her child, under the proposed new language, could be arrested for engaging in the sale of unregulated, unapproved "therapeutic substances." Learn about more of these freedom-squashing changes to the law at the Stop51.com website: http://www.stopc51.com/ .  Read more from Natural News.com ....

Bottom line: Protect your right to access nutritional supplements or the health of a nation may spiral further out of control.

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The Health & Wellness Institute, DC PC

The fat acceptance gals are NOT going to like this but from the desk of Health & Wellness, out of CHICAGO - New research challenges the notion that you can be fat and fit, finding that being active can lower but not eliminate heart risks faced by heavy women.

“It doesn’t take away the risk entirely. Weight still matters,” said Dr. Martha Gulati, a heart specialist at Northwestern Memorial Hospital.

Previous research has gone back and forth on whether exercise or weight has a greater influence on heart disease risks.

About two in five U.S. women at age 50 will eventually develop heart attacks or other cardiovascular problems. Excess weight can raise those odds in many ways, including by increasing blood pressure and risks for diabetes, and by worsening cholesterol. Exercise counteracts all three.

“It is reassuring to see that physical activity really does make an impact,” said lead author Dr. Amy Weinstein of Boston’s Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center. However, she added, “If you’re overweight or obese, you can’t really get back to that lower risk entirely with just physical activity alone.” read teh entire article http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/24356209/

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Commentary

I was recently the KeyNote speaker at a large American Heart Association "Go Red" luncheon. 300 women attended the event to learn about heart health and how to improve theirs. I spoke for about 45 minutes about the importance of exercise, water, healthy diet, fruits and vegetables and empowerment. I then asked "who here will commit to eating 2 more raw fresh fruits or vegetables, just 2 additional servings than you already do and I swear to you, only 7 hand raised! 7 out of 300 women there to learn about getting healthier felt they could commit to eating 2 servings more a day.

How sad. How easy to see why the studies say what they do. We have reached a day where people say they want to be healthier but they really don't want to put forth the effort it would take to actually get themselves healthier--they want a pill, powder or potion to do it for them.

Fortunately, there are some that exist! 

Compared with normal-weight active women, the risk for developing heart disease was 54 percent higher in overweight active women and 87 percent higher in obese active women. By contrast, it was 88 percent higher in overweight inactive women; and 2½ times greater in obese inactive women.

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