18th September: 7.30pm – 10.30pm: Brighton, West Sussex, UK. Natural (Raw) Nutrition for Your Child. www.totalrawfood.com/events/&event_id=59
Central London: Saturday 25th September: 10.30 am until midnight. Creating a Healthy Future with eco-living, raw food demonstrations, healing, singing, arts and crafts etc. www.festivaloflife.net
16th October: 7.30pm to 10.30pm in Brighton, West Sussex, UK. Raw Food Chocoholics Party. www.totalrawfood.com/events/&event_id=50
24th - 26th September: 6th Raw Spirit International Festival in Arizona, USA. This is more than a raw vegan food festival – the overall vision is to integrate all forms of Healthy Living. www.rawspirit.com
UK Diary 2010
The UK University of Nottingham, Institute for the Study of Slavery seeks to pursue and develop research on contemporary, as well as historical slavery in all parts of the world. ...
6th-9th September, 2010: Conference on Slave, Forced and 'Free' Labour will include a PUBLIC evening session on Tuesday 7th September. Talks by Anti-Slavery International and the International Labour Organisation, plus a Q&A panel session. It is hoped to video the event and make it publicly available.
22nd - 23rd October: The (relaunched, rebranded and revitalised) Back Pain Show 2010: at Olympia, West London.
23rd - 24th October: Camexpo at Earl's Court, West London: Complementary, Natural and Integrated Health Show.
US and Canada Diary:
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.
February 2010: Every year Dr. Gregor reviews the world’s scientific nutrition literature for groundbreaking developments. He then compiles key findings into an annual Latest in Nutrition talk
Michael Gregor recorded his 4 most recent talks, i.e. 2007 - 2010, on 90-minute DVDs, and he has 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 asks. You can contact Michael Gregor and subscribe to his free electronic Newsletter.
February, 2009: Michael Gregor published two articles in the peer-reviewed scientific literature. They are available free, full-text.
Ian Moseley, the Hon. Chair of the Tower Hamlets Commuity Credit Union and a director of the London Biorhythm Company was one of the very first to sign up as a volunteer for the London Olympic Games. That was 19 months BEFORE London was actually chosen to host the 2012 Olympic Games. 70,000 volunteers (yes, seventy thousand! volunteers) will be needed to help with the 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games.
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. The website contains helpful tips for other unfortunate leaseholders. Why reinvent wheels? They 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.
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 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.
Vegan World Radio is run from Houston, and can be followed on Twitter.
Directory of American Alternative Medicine Clinics. e.mail: Atkinson_Patty@bmwplanet.com . Call: 00 1 206-600-6530. You might 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 . 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.
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.
84 minute Australian-made film 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 woven together to attempt to explain the mysteries behind the disease epidemic which has struck affluent countries. Now 1 in 2 men and 1 in 3 women are diagnosed with some form of cancer. There are selected full screen showings in most Australian universities, and some US ones during 2010.
In the town of Hasslet in Belgium there a similar scheme. Similarly San Paola in Brazil. 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.
Francis Amanyo a vegan in Ghana running a vegan-vegetarian restaurant selling tofu, soya ice creams; pizza, salads etc. Phone 233 243 22 75 90 for further details. We are not endorsing this person but are willing to TRY and help!
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 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 following 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.
Prof. Doutor M.J.Halpern, Retired professor of Medical Biochemistry, 1ª Tr. Rua JJ Bogalho 3-5º Esq F, Figueira da Fo 3080-143, Portugal. tel. (351) 964102137 Professor Halpern's site on complementary therapies. The main themes are: Beginning – Directories, Texts, Criticism, Concepts. Techniques listed include Acupuncture, Acutouch, Alexander Technique, Algotherapy, Apitherapy, Art Therapy, Ayurveda, Bach flowers, Biofeedback, Biorhythms, Bowen, Buteyko, Chinese Medicine, Chromotherapy, Clay Therapy, Clinical Applications, Colon Hydrotherapy, Craneosacral Therapy, Dance Therapy, EMDR, Energy, Fasciatherapy, Feldenkreis, Haptonomy, Heller, Homeopathy, Humor therapy, Hydrotherapy, Imagery, Kelation, Kinesiology, Litotherapy, Lymphatic Drainage, Macrobiotics, Magnets, Massages, Moxibustion, Music Therapy, Naturopathy, Orthomolecular Therapy, Osteopathy, Ozone Therapy, Phototherapy, Relaxation, Rosen, Sophrology, Tao-chi, Taoism, Tibetan Medicine, Yoga. A site with texts on physiopathology, nutrition and biochemistry.
"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 .
