View this email in your browser     ANH-Intl eAlert Week 49 | 5 December 2018         e-ALERT     Natural health justice and diet wars           Perseverance pays off. We’re thrilled to report this week on the successes of our Swedish colleagues in the highest Swedish court. This is about a 3-year battle to save high-dose vitamin supplements from over-zealous Swedish regulators who lack sufficient understanding either of the science or the law. Just how this precedent will be applied in Sweden – let alone beyond its borders – is anyone’s guess. But it’s further evidence that, when everything else fails, going the legal route to achieve natural health justice can bear fruit. It’s also a reminder that you should never give up. Huge respect to our good friend Rolf Forslund and others close to him in the Nordic Food Supplements Alliance who’ve been at the front of this movement to protect high dose supplements in Sweden. In our second piece, I’ve chosen to blog on a thorny subject: the increasing chasm that divides the polarisation of views between vegans and those who choose to eat mainly, or exclusively, products of animal origin. As with so many things in life, we all have differing views, knowledge bases, experiences and priorities. Some are concerned more about their personal health, others about the environment or the future of the planet. The science is a lot thinner on the ground than many like to suggest, so it’s no wonder that diet wars continue to rage. In this week’s news, there’s the mouse study that’s been picked up by the world’s media, that’s wrongly claiming benefits of high carb diets for humans; the deepening diabetes crisis in ASEAN countries; the continued and deeply concerning increase in autism diagnoses in the USA; FDA bans on carcinogenic artificial flavours; a German report released ahead of COP24 that calls for major sustainability reform in global food production systems; noises about a sugar tax in New Zealand – and more. In health, naturally and sustainably, Rob Verkerk, PhD Founder, executive & scientific director           Sweden’s Supreme Court overrules its National Food Agency Swedish high-dose food supplement bans overturned for breaking Swedish and EU laws       The founder’s blog: Diet wars and going beyond binary While nutrition science remains in its infancy, is there a way through the maze of conflicting dietary advice?       News Alerts: Week 49, 2018 Asian health crisis; Demented diet advice; Increases in children on autistic spectrum; FDA bans cancer causing food additives; Failing food...       Your support counts. It allows us to keep on with our work. We're fully donation funded.           HELP SUPPORT US BY FORWARDING TO A FRIEND               Copyright © 2018 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