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Committee – BAHVS
President – Jane Keogh j.keogh5@btinternet.com
Senior Vice-President – Mark Elliott homeopathicvet@btinternet.com
Junior Vice-President – Chris Day cday-avmc@hotmail.co.uk
Hon. Secretary – Stuart Marston sec@bahvs.com
Treasurer – Wendy McGrandles wendy@glenbrae-vet.co.uk
Magazine Editor – Malene Jørgensen malene@laforcevitale.eu
Communications Officer – Nick Thompson nickthompson@holisticvet.co.uk
IAVH Representitive – Nick Thompson nickthompson@holisticvet.co.uk
Faculty Veterinary Representitive – John Saxton john.saxton@talk21.com
Mag distribution – Cheryl Sears cheryl.sears31@btinternet.com
Committee – IAVH
President – Edward de Beukelaer pg.ahimsa@virgin.net
Treasurer – Don Hamilton donhamiltondvm@gmail.com
General Secretary – Helene Widmann helene.widmann@chello.at
Coordinator subcommittee for education – Stefan Kohlrausch stefan.kohlrausch@arcor.de
Head of IAVH Office – Markus Mayer office@iavh.org
Newsletter subcommittee – Malene Jørgensen malene@laforcevitale.eu
IAVH Communications Officer – Nick Thompson nickthompson@holisticvet.co.uk
LIGA contact – Marc Bär info@homeopatte.ch
Good health is not an option by John Saxton, UK
So now, in Britain, alcohol is officially bad for you and you shouldn’t drink any – BAHVS conferences will never be the same again! This is just the latest pronouncement from the scientific wing of the nanny state. It follows such gems as:
‘Red meat is bad for you – only eat a mouthful a week’
‘Bacon and sausage are bad for you – only eat a mouthful a month’
‘Fats are bad for you – no they’re not if they’re good fats, we’ll tell you which’, etc.
Of course not all of the advice offered is useless or pointless, but there are hidden dangers in the impression that this approach can give. It can appear as a string of instructions for living issued by the medical (and to a lesser degree the veterinary) establishment. If you follow these faithfully then the ‘Powers That Be’ will award you the appropriate number of brownie points that you can exchange for a longer and healthier life. Good health is regarded as a reward for good behaviour issued by the medical profession rather than what it really is, the natural state of affairs.
Hahnemann clearly states this when he talks about the ‘unimpeded progress of life’ in relation to the function of the Vital Force. The inevitable challenges that the body meets are countered to restore the unimpeded progress that is good health.
However, once the myth of ‘man-made good health’ is accepted then the concept of continuous intervention inevitably follows – enter statins etc. Continuous intervention means continuous challenge, the very antithesis of good health.
Then science rears its head. All these instructions for health have been arrived at scientifically – now doesn’t that give you
Dame Sally Davies
confidence!? England’s Chief Medical Officer, Dame Sally Davies, that razor-sharp mind, which considered the evidence for homeopathy and declared it implausible and a therapeutic myth, has spearheaded the latest advice on alcohol. Defending her alcohol advice in the press (Daily Mail Jan 20th) she wrote: “Our figures were based on entirely alcohol-related liver disease deaths estimated in 2010 to be more than 5000 a year”’
Now there’s scientific accuracy for you! Granted she was writing in the popular press, but what does she mean? Is her official advice based on a six-year-old estimate of one condition? If she
“Never rely on any statistics you haven’t falsified yourself”
has more accurate data why not give it?
How has she ensured that all her deaths were entirely alcohol related? Could it be that she relied on the wonderful catchall of ’correction
was made for other environmental factors’?
It all calls to mind Winston Churchill’s dictum:
“Never rely on any statistics you haven’t falsified yourself”
Somehow I think BAHVS conferences will be the sameagain!
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