BRAVO!!! EMPOWER PLUS VICTORY ... PIGPILL POLEVOY ON WARPATH AGAIN

With Health Canada turning their backs on him right now ... he's going
nutz again ... writing Dr. Kaplan's Department Head, any newspaper
that dares to tell the truth and debunk him! His "style" is to wage
war and email bomb anyone who dares to dispute his propaganda.



Note from Ilena Rosenthal: Shortly after I was sued by the bully,
anti-science so called Quackbusters (Barrett, Polevoy and Grell), I
began receiving calls and email from people who felt Terry Polevoy's
vexatious actions were harming their families.

Polevoy was ranting and raging as is his way, and they told me he was
harassing Health Canada to get them ban Empowerplus ... which they
felt was a lifesaver to their families..

He (very,very poorly) wrote a ebook that resembles a madman on attack
.... and Health Canada did eventually stop the scientific trials on
EmpowerPlus. Totally anti-science.

At one point, I understand, he bulk emailed associates of a Ph.D
researcher at the University of Calgary, attempting to harm her
outstanding reputation in an effort to stop her work.

He had some degree of success ... madman often do.

However, this morning brought good news!

For years, Polevoy (seen on Usenet disguised as "Vera Teasdale" etc.
etc.) has used the Healthfraud list to wage his campaign ... spouting
his onesided views and any with opposite ones, received stern
warnings.



Yet now the tide has turned ...


http://calsun.canoe.ca/News/Alberta/...66425-sun.html

Sun, August 20, 2006

Tide turns in power struggle

Alberta court victory big step for embattled depression-fighting
supplement

By LICIA CORBELLA, EDITOR


In three days, Gloria Steinlein will celebrate the 5 1/2 year
anniversary of "not being crazy."

"Not that I'm counting or anything," she says with a cheery laugh,
"but February 23, 2001 -- the day I started taking Empowerplus -- is
the day that saved my life -- literally," says the 25-year-old from a
central Alberta town who has a thriving foot-care home business during
the day and is a bartender by night.

When Steinlein was 16, she went from being a popular straight-A
honours student to becoming so depressed she ended up dropping out of
school and spending much of her time on suicide watch in Alberta
hospitals.

She was diagnosed with "major depressive disorder" at first, and at
the age of 18, a psychiatrist diagnosed her as an "indifferentiated
schizophrenic."

She was on dozens of medications -- as many as 30 at a time --
including antidepressants, anti-psychotics, anti-anxiety medications,
blood pressure and heart medications and eventually medications to
deal with the Parkinson's Syndrome she developed as a side effect from
all of the drugs she was on. Despite this, her hallucinations and the
voices in her head got worse, not better. What's more, the formerly
90-lb. girl ballooned to almost 200 lb. as a result of the
medications, though now she's back to a svelte 120 lb.

"I didn't know who I was or where I was most of the time. I didn't
recognize my own parents. My mom would come to visit me in hospital
and I just thought she was a nice lady."

That went on for four-and-a-half years.


Just before Christmas 2000, Steinlein made a very serious suicide
attempt by swallowing several bottles of Thorazine. Upon her release,
a former fellow patient from the psychiatric ward at the Red Deer
Regional Hospital contacted Steinlein's parents and told them of a
vitamin and mineral supplement developed by two southern Alberta men
that had rendered him more stable than he'd been in years.

Steinlein's parents, Klaus and Christine, asked their still-suicidal
daughter if she would meet with Tony Stephan and David Hardy, the
founders of the company Truehope and the product Empowerplus.

"We were all very skeptical," admits Steinlein. "After years of taking
every medication out there and progressively getting worse, it's to be
expected, I guess."

Steinlein started taking the vitamins and minerals that initially
heightened her symptoms and side-effects from her pharmaceutical
drugs. She decided to stop taking her pharmaceuticals and within days
she started feeling better.

"Within a month, I felt totally fine and I've never had a relapse
since and it's been five-and-a-half years."

Steinlein is one of 10,000 people taking Empowerplus with similar
remarkable results.

And now a Calgary judge's court ruling has further legitimized
Empowerplus.

In a July 28 ruling, Alberta Provincial Court Judge Gerald M. Meagher
determined Truehope was not guilty for not having a Drug
Identification Number, and in fact, he found the conduct of Health
Canada -- which seized the supplement as it crossed into Canada from
the U.S. where it is made -- was "vexatious."

He also ruled Stephan and Hardy were entitled to the 'defence of
necessity' since expert testimony at the two-week trial showed "if the
supplement became unavailable, symptoms associated with depression and
bi-polar disorder, which would include aggressive behaviour, assaults,
hospitalizations and suicides, would return," wrote Meagher in his
ruling.

One of the more interesting expert testimonies at the trial, which
took place from March 13-29, came from Dr. Charles W. Popper, a
professor of psychiatry at Harvard University and a private
practitioner in psychiatry with a specialty in child psychiatry and
child and adolescent psychopharmacology.

Popper was even more skeptical about the claims of Stephan and Hardy
than Steinlein at first. After being invited by two of his colleagues
to hear the two men, along with Dr. Bonnie Kaplan, a psychologist from
the University of Calgary, who was undergoing clinical trials, Popper
reluctantly went.

"But as I listened to them, they made some claims about this treatment
that struck me as pretty obviously ridiculous," Dr. Popper testified
under questioning by Truehope's defence lawyer, Shawn Buckley.

Claims like 80% of all mentally ill people who try Empowerplus improve
"significantly" had Popper leave the meeting one hour earlier than
planned. Before he left, however, Hardy forced a bottle of the
capsules on the skeptical doctor, who then hid the bottle in his coat
and then behind books in his office.

Shortly afterward, as a favour to a colleague, Dr. Popper agreed to
see a severely ill 10-year-old boy -- the son of another psychiatrist
and social worker -- who was having four-hour tantrums every day for
the past four months.

After they essentially pleaded with him to do something for their son
between their next assessment, Popper shrugged, told them of the
supplement and made no promises.

After four days, the father called saying " 'the tantrums are gone,
not better, not a lot better, gone. And that the kid wasn't even
irritable,' " testified Dr. Popper.

Dr. Popper now has about 150 patients on Empowerplus and they are so
stable, he has been able, for the first time in 20 years, to see new
patients.

Another 300 to 500 of other physicians' patients who consulted with
him are also doing well on the supplement.

Meanwhile, after being shut down by Health Canada, Dr. Kaplan has
resumed her clinical trials into the product at the U of C.

"The normalization of the mentally ill via nutrient supplementation
has the potential to be the most significant breakthrough in the field
of mental health since the beginning of time," says Dr. Kaplan.

As for Steinlein, she thinks Stephan and Hardy should win the Nobel
Prize for Medicine for what they have done.

"Without (Empowerplus) I wouldn't be here, guaranteed," says
Steinlein.

"I wouldn't have made it past that year, I know that for a fact. I
would have killed myself or the medications would have done it for me.
Empowerplus is a miracle."


~~~~~~~~~

http://www.BreastImplantAwareness.or...WatchWatch.htm

Health Canada betrayed trust
Canadians needlessly suffered and died as a result of
decision
By Licia Corbella

If it's true that Health Canada's mandate is to protect the
health of Canadians -- as its name suggests -- then the
federal government needs to call an inquiry into the
disgraceful and deadly actions of this agency.

During a recent trial in a Calgary courtroom, Health Canada
officials shockingly acknowledged under oath that even
though they knew stopping a vitamin and mineral supplement
-- that helps about 10,000 people with severe mental health
issues lead normal lives -- from being sold in Canada could
cause deaths, they blindly and callously followed the
letter of an outmoded law anyway.

Indeed, during the two-week March trial against the makers
of Empowerplus (Synergy Group of Canada and Truehope
Nutritional Support) one expert witness testified that he
knew of at least two people who committed suicide after
they relapsed into severe depression once they could no
longer get the supplement.

The company was on trial for not having a Drug
Identification Number (DIN). They were charged with the
crime even after the law no longer applied to natural
health products.

On July 28, Alberta Provincial Court Judge Gerald Meagher
found Truehope and the company's founders Tony Stephen and
David Hardy not guilty because the company was entitled to
the "defence of necessity."

Also evidence showed getting a DIN was impossible for
natural health products and that more than 90% of natural
health products didn't comply with the law.

Judge Meagher ruled that "the harm avoided by continuing to
sell the product was unquestionably greater than the harm
inflicted on the regulatory process."

"Everyone who undertakes to do an act is under a legal duty
to do it, if an omission to do the act may be dangerous to
life," wrote Judge Meagher.

"The defendants could have been at risk of criminal
prosecution if they stopped providing the supplement and
providing the support program," the judge ruled.

"Claiming that they had to comply with a DIN regulation
would not have provided them with any defence" against the
much more serious charges of negligence causing death.

In other words, the harm would have been far greater to not
provide Empowerplus to their clients, than to violate a
technical regulation that was soon to be changed anyway.

Ron LaJeunesse was the head of the Canadian Mental Health
Association in Alberta when Health Canada outlawed the
importation of Empowerplus into Canada from the U.S. in
March 2003.

LaJeunesse testified that he warned Health Canada
repeatedly that people were growing suicidal as a result of
being denied Empowerplus.

Sadly, his prediction came to pass.

First, a mother called saying her daughter relapsed and
became depressed after being denied the supplement for
about two weeks. The daughter overdosed on pills she had
been on previously and died. "I was invited to the
funeral," testified LaJeunesse.

"The second call came from a father who indicated that his
son had suicided as a result of not wanting to return to
the state of illness he had been in prior to taking this
product."

LaJeunesse informed Health Canada of these deaths and
eventually even made the suicides public, but Health Canada
was not swayed from its "blind" and "vexatious" adherence
to the letter of the lesser law.

Miles Brosseau, an official with Health Canada, chillingly
testified during the trial that Health Canada would enforce
its policy even if it resulted in the deaths of Canadians.

In the official court transcript, Truehope's defence
attorney, Shawn Buckley asked Brosseau: "So if you were
sent a document ... showing that people were dying because
of what Health Canada was doing ... you would just ignore
that because it's not a policy or directive?"

Brosseau answered: "Yes."

Meanwhile, Health Canada had its own health hazard
evaluation done on the supplement and described Empowerplus
as a "type 2" product, meaning that the "possibility of
harm" was "remote."

In other words, Health Canada knew, allowing the supplement
to be used was safe; not allowing it was deadly, and still
it pursued and prosecuted the company and its users.

During the trial, Health Canada was ordered to release
documents that showed more than 1,000 desperate and often
sobbing Canadians contacted Health Canada to plead for the
supplement.

Transcripts of their calls are heartwrenching. Only the
Rocky Mountains -- and apparently Health Canada officials
-- could remain unmoved.

Buckley has sent Federal Health Minister Tony Clement a
19-page letter, dated Aug. 8, detailing numerous grounds as
to why a public inquiry into the actions of Health Canada
should be held, including evidence of "abuse of process"
and ignoring harm to Canadians.

"The trust Canadians have in Health Canada to protect them
from harm has been shaken," wrote Buckley in the letter.

"If in this case Health Canada deliberately or recklessly
caused harm, the

public's confidence can only be restored by holding Health
Canada to account."

A spokesperson with Health Canada said officials are
checking to see if there is any grounds for appeal. They
have until Aug. 29.

Canadians needlessly died and suffered grief as a result of
Health Canada's stubborn following of a law they knew was
changing anyway and did on Jan. 1, 2004.

Health Canada's mandate is to protect the health of
Canadians.

An inquiry is needed to find out why Health Canada caused
so many people so much harm instead.

For more information on the product call: 1-888-TRUEHOPE
(1-888-878-3467) or log onto www.truehope.com