View this email in your browser     ANH-Intl eAlert No 356 | 21 June 2017         e-ALERT     Cherry picking the science           Our belief systems can be so unshakable that we find ways of carefully selecting pieces of science to support them while ignoring those that contradict them. Well, that’s what opponents of the alternative medicine community like to say. The fact is, the alternative medicine community is getting better and better at reading the relevant science – and it’s now the mainstream medical community’s turn to be put under the pseudoscience spotlight. Our two lead stories this week pick up on this. We’ve reviewed the American Heart Association’s edict requesting that we swap our saturated fats for polyunsaturated fats – just like we were told to do over 30 years ago with disastrous consequences. You can only get there if you’re a master cherry picker. In our second piece, as leading British health journalist Jerome Burne explains, the same goes for the conventional oncologists who refuse to look at the emerging science on natural products and so-called alternative cancer treatments. Fortunately, moves to redress this scientific imbalance are afoot. In our weekly news roundup, we pick up on disappointing news from the EU. That includes the European Court’s ridiculous decision to ban the use of dairy terms for non-dairy milk substitutes (should I say, oh dairy me?) and the EFSA’s likely plan to keep glyphosate registered despite it being now classified by the WHO as a probable human carcinogen.   In health, naturally Rob Verkerk, PhD Founder, executive & scientific director           For fat’s sake, don’t follow those guidelines! Why the American Heart Association has it wrong — again!!       ANH-Intl Guest Feature: Cancer orthodoxy takes note of alternative treatments Has the time come for mainstream medicine to acknowledge the benefits of 'alternative' cancer therapies?       News Alerts: Week 25, 2017 When is milk not milk?; Glyphosate: lies, lies and more damn lies; To tax or not to tax, that’s the...       Your support counts. It allows us to keep on with our work, which preserves your access to natural medicine. We're fully donation funded, please consider supporting our work with a contribution. Any amount is valuable.           HELP SUPPORT US BY FORWARDING TO A FRIEND               Copyright © 2017 Alliance for Natural Health International. Please share or forward this e-ALERT widely using any of the provided share tools. You may copy, reproduce, reprint or forward any content on the condition that attribution is made clearly to Alliance for Natural Health International including date and link to original content. Alliance for Natural Health International. The Atrium, Curtis Road, Dorking, Surrey RH4 1XA, UK   Unsubscribe