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Nutrients pre- and post-Conception - the Press take Notice!

Inside and outside the McCarrison Society, its President and Chair have for decades been researching and publishing the scientific evidence that the incidence of low-birthweight babies, with severe physical ill-health consequences in infancy and adult life, can be halved by a good diet, supplemented if necessary. The UK Press is taking note at last!

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Amnesty Mother's Day Campaign

Dear Amnesty ‘Demand Dignity Campaign team’,

We strongly support you in this vital initiative. To further strengthen this case, the McCarrison Society for Nutrition and Health presents a wealth of evidence showing conclusively that the health of the childbearing mother has profound effects on the lifetime health of her child.

I draw your attention to the words of our President, of May 1st at http://www.mccarrisonsociety.org.uk/presidents-comments/712-a-message-to-party-leaders-the-neglect-of-the-mother-brings-the-threat-to-mental-health

With kind regards,

Simon House – Chair, McCarrison Society for Nutrition and Health.

Study suggests decline in UK fish stocks more severe than thought

Caroline Davies writes in The Guardian, Tuesday May 4 2010

The UK's modern fishing fleet must work 17 times harder for the same catch as their sail-powered Victorian counterparts, a study has claimed, suggesting the decline in fish stocks is more profound than previously thought. Records of fish landings dating back to the 1880s showed UK trawlers - then fishing closer to port - landed twice as much fish in 1889 as today, despite advances enabling crews to fish further, faster and deeper.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2010/may/04/fish-stocks-uk-decline

Mary Langman Prize Essay 2010/2011. £500 prize!

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The Pioneer Health Foundation exists to disseminate the ideas of the Peckham Experiment, a unique enquiry into the nature of health that took place between 1935 – 1950.

As part of its activities, the Foundation sponsors the ‘Mary Langman Prize’; an annual award for an essay that furthers the lessons learnt at the Pioneer Health Centre about the social, emotional and environmental determinants of health.

Mary Langman was personal assistant to Dr George Scott Williamson who with Dr Innes Pearse founded the Peckham Experiment.  She ran Oakley Farm at Bromley Common which produced organic food for the Experiment, and founded and ran ‘Wholefood’, the ground breaking organic shop in Baker Street, London.  She worked closely with Lady Eve Balfour of the Soil Association, and was one of its founder members with George Scott Williamson and Innes Pearse.  After Scott Williamson's death, she assisted Innes Pearse in the editing of his papers, put together in the book ‘Science Synthesis and Sanity’.

We believe that the Peckham Experiment, the emergent hypothesis and the findings, bring together a nexus of ideas that are beginning to be seen as central to problems facing society today.

Mary Langman made a generous bequest to the Pioneer Health Foundation and we feel it appropriate to use it in the creation of an intellectual platform and philosophical basis that is rational, ethical and inspired.

The annual Mary Langman prize will be awarded for an essay (3000 words) which shows understanding of the principles of the Peckham Experiment and their potential for current application.  The award will be open to all students studying at Universities and Higher Education institutions in the U.K.   The title of the essay is to be ‘The Relevance of the Peckham Experiment in the 21st Century’.

Entrants are required to register at the website their interest in entering this competition by Tuesday 30th November 2010. The deadline for essay submission will be Saturday 1st January 2011 .
Full details of the competition rules and guidelines are available on the website www.marylangmanprize.org.uk

Further information about the Peckham Experiment is available on the Pioneer Health Foundation website at www.thephf.org
 

This Mother's Day, do right by all mothers.

Urge Secretary Sebelius' department to create an Office of Maternal Health now!

This Thursday, May 6th, a team of Amnesty representatives is meeting face-to-face with a senior Health and Human Services (HHS) official. Our goal is to press for the creation of an Office of Maternal Health within HHS. Our motivation is to break down the barriers to care for pregnant women in the United States. . . .

We, as the McCarrison Society, should be pressing the point with Amnesty International that the child-bearing woman's health is absolutely vital to her child's life and health for a lifetime.

Simon.

Gene management

Scientists reveal gene-swapping technique to thwart inherited diseases

  • guardian.co.uk, Wednesday April 14 2010
  • Sarah Boseley, health editor
Scientists today offered new hope for women at risk of passing on certain inherited diseases to their children, in the form of a pioneering technique to move healthy genetic material from fertilised eggs into donated ones. Researchers from Newcastle University say their breakthrough will help women whose children are at risk of a range of mitochondrial diseases. These disorde . . . 
 http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2010/apr/14/scientists-gene-swap-technique-disease

Comment: Here is another genetic technique that is hoped to prevent disease, gene-swapping particularly for mitochondrial disorders. Others include: a closer look at IVF risks, egg-screening, drugs to switch genes on/off. Such approaches will be offered in parallel with improved nutritional and emotional nurturing. The more we can express our findings in epigenetic terms the more scientifically convincing can be the McCarrison approach in place of, or appropriately alongside, high technology. SHH
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