Organico Bantry

The comment below is from Bioforce (the company who make Echinaforce and other helpful herbs). It is based on news in the papers in England but we think it is just as applicable over here…

Helping Heart Health

The National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE) in England is urging GPs to prescribe more statins to patients at risk of cardiovascular disease. An extra 1.5 million people are going to be identified as potentially benefitting from these drugs. The fact that the potential benefits are hugely outweighed by the potential side effects is barely mentioned.

Apart from age and sex, smoking, raised blood pressure and raised cholesterol are the factors which contribute the most to the risk of cardiovascular disease, and out of these blood cholesterol has been identified as the ‘key modifiable risk factor’. Why does smoking seem to have dropped off the end of the scale there as vastly more modifiable?

A combination of harmless Cynara and a dairy-free diet has a truly wonderful effect on cholesterol levels, without any danger of the sort of side effects associated with statins.

For information on starting a dairy-free diet or taking Cynara, please call in to Organico Shop.

A message from the Irish Association of Healthfood Stores (of which Organico is a member) regarding the international Save Our Supplements campaign.

Please check out this YouTube video (click here) for an amusing but to the point comment on the contradictory nature of the way our lives are being regulated.

Just a reminder to e-mail your elected representatives about the EU’s over- regulation of food supplements. It’s easy! * Go to www.saveoursupplementsireland.com (copy and paste if link doesn’t work).

* Click on GET WRITING (bottom left). * Copy and paste form letter into e- mail (or re-word as you wish).

* Copy and paste e-mail address of your TDs and MEPs (do separate e-mail for each one).

* Send Preferably send off your e-mails before next Friday’s referendum, as politicians are on full alert right now. Many initiatives are currently underway in relation to protecting freedom of choice in healthcare, both in Ireland and in other EU Member States.

We would welcome any suggestions or ideas you may have. Please be sure to forward this reminder to all your contacts!