Important Updates on ANH website

6th March 2009

New, improved ANH website!

As the international campaign to promote natural health continues to escalate in the face of increasing pressure—ranging from regulatory limits on vitamin levels, to restrictions on traditional herbal medicinal products in Europe and the push by certain governments for more genetically modified food—we’ve taken onboard your feedback and have made some significant changes to our website.

Some of the key new features you’ll now find are:

• A Google Translate function (upper right side of homepage): this new tool will provide crude translation of text on the ANH website into 34 different languages. Our campaign is an international one and we lack the resources to translate our material manually, so this is the next best thing.  We gather the translations are somewhat crude, particularly where technical language is used.  However, we hope that the translator will allow more people around the world to become familiar with the some of the key campaign issues affecting natural health—and most importantly—to be part of the movement that reclaims our fundamental right to natural health.  We have looked at a number of different translation engines and the Google translator was the best one we could find across a range of major languages.
• An online petition: please sign our key and critically timed petition against the European Commission’s imminent proposal to limit maximum dosages of vitamin and mineral food supplements across the European Union.  You can find the link to the petition and further information about it on the lower right of the homepage.  Please get as many people as you know to sign this petition—we need to demonstrate to European regulators—as well as to governments at Codex—that unnecessary limits on food supplements are an infringement of our right to natural health. Such limits must be based on proper science, not arbitrary science that is heavily influenced by political concerns.  So, from whatever country you reside in, if you agree with the concerns expressed in the petition text, please sign the petition—and ask as many of your friends, relatives and contacts to do the same. It would also be helpful to distribute this link by email as far as you can: http://www.ipetitions.com/petition/anh-vitaminrestrictions or you can click on the ‘email friends’ tab on the top of this petition to inform your contacts.
• International news: this now scrolls across the homepage.  Find out about the latest international news.  This is updated twice a day and helps consumers, practitioners, companies and anyone else with an interest in natural health to stay on top of the issues.  We filter over 60,000 media sources every day!
• Forums: whilst we have run forums on our website since we launched the website in June 2008, we’ve found many people have had difficulty locating the forum area and have asked for a dedicated area to express their views.  We hope that the new direct access on the homepage (left side beneath ‘YourViews’) will solve this problem.  Please take a look and express your views on a variety of subjects.  The General Discussion tab takes you into a range of subjects, but email us on info@anhcampaign.org if you would like us to consider a new subject area.
• Multimedia section: this area needs plenty more development, but will become an increasingly important part of our website.  Check out the multimedia tab on the left side navigation on the homepage to browse images, audio or video.  You might be interested to hear leading US integrative medicine doctor Dr Julian Whitaker present his views on Codex in the audio section—in around 60 seconds!
• ANH Document Archive: we’ve had a lot of people telling us that our previous Document Archive was too complicated to search.  Well, we’ve now made it easier using a smartsearch box and much simpler navigation.  Check it out yourself if you want to find articles of interest.

We hope you find these important updates to the ANH website to be beneficial.  You can let us know how you feel through the ANH Support / feedback section on the Forums.

And now over to some key news items:

More evidence of B12 requirement for women

With an Irish study showing the need for more than the RDA of another vitamin, is the Irish government's position untenable?

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Three-in-one: three positive studies in one scientific journal!

One edition of the Archives of Internal Medicine contains three studies showing benefit of high-dose nutrients or supplements on health.

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European Commission fails to lift Austrian and Hungarian GM bans

An historic vote against the European Commission by the majority of European government's indicates national sovereignty might not yet be dead

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From industrial medicine to ecological medicine

ANH medical director, Dr Damien Downing, addresses medical students at the PharmAware AGM, Bristol, UK.

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