Welsh Cadw’n Heini am Geiniog a Dimau: In Wales the Food Standards Agency is supporting the Sports Council for Wales in its campaign to help win the battle of the bulge. The 'Shape up on a Shoestring' campaign is designed to give the Welsh public all the essential tools needed to maintain a healthy lifestyle. The Sports Council has collated a series of expert tips on low-cost exercise options; motivational mantras to help slim down waistlines links to the Eatwell website.
Each year Ian Moseley distributes bottled water during the London Marathon, and is usually stationed at the 18 mile point. If you want to join the bottled water distribution team, or want to help as a volunteer in other ways, please either contact Ian or the Marathon organisers.
Very informative website that lists all of the "Food Weeks" across the United States, fixed dates each year and variable events. Some UK Food Festivals are also publicised. There are also Food Reference and Book Reviews; History, Trivia, Festivals, Cookery Schools and Recipes.
"Pick Your Own" information covering the US. This site also incorporates information on Unusual Fruits. There are linked websites that cover "Pick Your Own" information in Australia, Canada, New Zealand, South Africa, and the UK.
February 2010: Each year, Dr. Greger reviews the world’s scientific nutrition literature for groundbreaking developments and compiles key findings into an annual “Latest in Nutrition” talk.
Dr Greger has recorded the three most recent talks, i.e. 2007, 2008 and 2009 on 90-minute DVDs, and he has kindly offered to send copies of these DVDs by regular mail, not email, plus a copy of his DVD on Bird Flu to any IVU (International Vegetarian Union) member organisations who send him their postal address. This includes readers of The Meeting Point. You can contact Dr Greger and subscribe to his free electronic Newsletter.
February, 2009: Dr Greger published two articles in the peer-reviewed scientific literature. They are available free, full-text.
In March, 2009 Dr Greger appeared on US TV on the comedic Colbert Report.
Saturday 13th March, 2010: The Abu Dhabi International Triathlon has one of the world's most lucrative prize pots! $250,000 US for elites AND age group athletes. Full Course 3km swim | 200km bike ride and 20km run. Half course 1.5km swim | 100km bike | 10km run.
The Alliance for Natural Health (ANH) is an advocacy group founded in 2002 by Robert Verkerk. It is based in the United Kingdom. The ANH was initially founded to raise funds to finance a legal challenge of the EU Food Supplement Directive, and there is now an anti GM food campaign that can be linked from their website.
The British Acupuncture Council. is the UK's main regulatory body for the practice of acupuncture with over 2,800 professionally qualified acupuncturists registered.
West London based "CROC" is an active group of share-holder residents, and the CROC website contains helpful tips for other leaseholders unfortunate enough to be under seige! Why reinvent wheels? On the CROC website concerned residents explain how to challenge someone who is suspected of "enhancing their own qualifications".
Environmental Health Officers (EHOs) and Trading Standards Officers (TSOs) are employed by local Councils (UK Local Government). On these you can find relevant Press Releases and a broader overview of the work of EHOs and TSOs. Environmental Health Officers enforce the quality of hygiene in British food shops and restaurants, and outside London they often oversee farm animal welfare, including abattoir conditions. Outside London, Trading Standards Officers enforce the farm animal welfare regulations, including slaughter house regulations. TSOs are the starting point for querying mislabelled, or misleading product descriptions, and they investigate, and enforce the law when non-organic food products are passed off as organic, Richmond-upon-Thames being one of the leading prosecutors in this respect. Trading Standards Officers enforce the law on underweight, or out-of-date, food purchases. They verify the quality of awarded qualifications, and whether a person may have "enhancing their own qualifications". TSOs investigate the growing number of web-based university, and qualification-awarding websites, and close down the scams.
This link is to the list of individual contacts for administrative sections of the Food Standards Agency. These include the Allergy and Food Intolerance Research group and the Vegetarian and Vegan Labelling section.
5th August, 2009: FSA Enforcement News: Company found guilty of novel food breaches at Abertillery Magistrates Court.
With the "Credit Crunch" the number of FOOD FRAUDS are likely to increase. The (British) Food Standards Agency has set up a special food fraud hotline to gather information on known or suspected fraudulent activity in the sale or marketing of food. Many such frauds will additionally have international ramifications.
Japanese Journal of Clinical Nutrition meets on Wednesday afternoons. tel.+ 44 (0)1372 372348. There is also an active local homeopathy group in nearby Epsom.
On 15th December, 2008 in London, a Bottled Water Legislation Seminar was held as part of the continuing commitment to engage with producers and local authorities to support practical understanding of food law.
This "world clock" charts the incidence of disease, and is constantly updated with information on world population, births, deaths illness patterns. In particular, it documents vividly the rise of the numbers of sufferers of diet-related diseases, such as diabetes and cardiovascular illness.
Many health conscious people in the U.S. have turned to vegetarianism because of the American Dietetic Association's 1997 recognition of the preventative effects of vegetarian diets.
Link to a PowerPoint presentation in English by Tobias Leenaert of Ethical Vegetarian Alternative (EVA), Belgium’s biggest vegetarian organisation.
Directory of American Alternative Medicine Clinics. e.mail: Atkinson_Patty@bmwplanet.com . Call: 00 1 206-600-6530. You might find be able to access it through the US Interlibrary Loan Scheme (ILLiad).
The (US) Association for Holistic Health, incorporating the Chronicle of Holistic Health and The Foundation of the Healthcare of the Future . GSPI, POB 8381, Delray Beach, FL 33482, USA.
Using this helpful feature you enter a food, a food combination or drink into the "Search a Term" box. Use the singular of the search word - e.g. USE bilberry NOT "bilberries". Click "nutrition value", and the nutritional breakdown is displayed, just as it would be on a product label.
The George Mateljan Foundation is a non-profit organization without commercial influences. The purpose is to provide FREE, unbiased scientific information about nutrient-rich foods.
freegan.info (NO www.) is a US-based collective for alternative living.
MADD (Mothers Against Drunk Drivers), P.O. Box 541688, Dallas, TX75354-1688, USA. 1-800-438-6233. In the US over 5,000 young people are killed each year in this manner.
Non-Profit Directory CD contains more than 85,000 Non-Profit
Organizations and Foundations located in the United States and Canada. Fully searchable. There is a wealth of information to either finance your next project, or team up with other organizations through Non-Profit Name; clickable URLS to their website, and a full description of their activities and objectives. To order please call: 00 1 450-224-9275: CD costs around US$150.
This 84 minute Australian-made film was released in December 2008. A Delicate Balance can be viewed on-line at a cost of US$4.95 per viewing. It documents the latest discoveries of some of the most prominent experts on nutrition in the world. Over 50 years of research is skilfully woven into what feels like a detective unravelling the mysteries behind the disease epidemic which has struck affluent countries with a vengeance. Disease has been escalating over the last 50 years resulting in 1 in 2 men and 1 in 3 women being diagnosed with cancer. There are selected full screen showings in most Australian universities, and some US ones during 2009.
In the town of Hasslet in Belgium officials are planning to start a similar scheme in October, and San Paola in Brazil is too. In the US and the UK there is the The Meatless Monday campaign supported by Sir Paul McCartney, again with the help of Dr. Pachauri.
Link to a PowerPoint presentation in English by Tobias Leenaert of Ethical Vegetarian Alternative (EVA), Belgium’s biggest vegetarian organisation.
Excellent Food, Health and Nutrition Information and Newsletter in English from the CCLEF, the Commonwealth Countries League Education Fund changes lives through Education and Friendship.
Ghana : East Africa's first Vegetarian/Vegan Library opened in May 2008. It is in the premises of Assase Pa, Ghana’s original vegetarian restaurant based in Accra. The "green oasis" atmosphere, and the beautifully restored building in the middle of Accra make the Library an attractive centre for learning.
People for Animals organise a scheme through which you can arrange to adopt an unwanted dog in India.
Seedballs as an environmental weapon have recently been "invented" in Japan!
A vegetarian magazine has just been launched in Japan. The publisher and editor-in-chief is vegetarian. She wants to raise awareness and to foster an environment for veg-related businesses, but realizes that it will take a while for this kind of magazine to become profitable in Japan.
Professor Dr. Mitsuru Kakimoto, the President of the Japan Vegetarian Society, has a research paper in the prestigious Japanese Journal of Clinical Nutrition, No. 4 (2009), entitled "Vegetarianism and Vegetarian Diets - History and Types". Nowadays almost all international airlines that arrive at, and depart from Japan's airports, offer vegetarian options for the airline meals, so one can say that vegetarian food is world food! ... The author discusses the various types of vegetarians, and explains that the IVU's definition of vegetarian includes vegans, lacto vegetarians and lacto-ovo vegetarians. The next issue of the Japanese Journal of Clinical Nutrition will carry an article on vegetarian diets in hospitals.
Portugal: Dr. M. Rodrigues Pereira is an HIV activist, founder and former President of ABRACO (Portugal's first HIV/AIDS Non Government Organisation or NGO). He has been HIV POSITIVE for over 18 years.
"Vegetarian Dogs Singapore" is a Facebook Group for Vegetarian Dogs and Their Human Friends! Despite “Singapore” being in the group’s name, it is open to vegetarian dog anywhere, and is run by Pauline Vegemight .
