THE RECORD July 10 - 2013
Community patrol launched
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Welcome to Abundant Health
by Kent Caddick
The newly launched Malvern Community Patrol could be on the beat from this weekend.
Welcome to the weekly Abundant Health column in the ‘The Record’. By way of introduction, I have been involved with complementary health for over 15 years. My main role in my company Abundant Health is product formulation and manufacture. I am also a qualified Nutritional Medicine practitioner and offer personalised health advice to help people improve and protect their health. I welcome reader feedback and am happy to answer your questions and to provide personalised advice. Through this weekly column I will try and give practical advice, often related to specific problems. Today we want to briefly look at the importance of maintaining good levels of vitamin D especially through the winter months. ‘Wardlaw’s Perspectives in Nutrition’ is one of the most widely used university level nutrition textbooks. In the section on vitamin D, Robert Heaney (Professor of Medicine) makes the comment that in the past 10 years scientists have gained new insight into vitamin D. He states that it has a major role in controlling genes involved in colon, prostate and breast cancer, cardiovascular and autoimmune diseases. People with any brush with cancer, or have increased cancer risk need their vitamin D levels to be at the top of the normal 75–140nmol/l range. I know one GP who tries to keep her breast cancer patients at around 200nmol/l. Vitamin D also has a role in general immunity, allergies, asthma, mood illnesses like seasonal affective disorder, depression and many more. Some diseases especially autoimmune diseases have direct links to low levels of vitamin D. For example the rate of MS increases from North to South with Otago and Southland having the highest levels in NZ (B. Taylor et.al 2010). Regardless where you live we have a national vitamin D deficiency which is causing havoc with our health especially those problems linked to poor immunity. My advice is to ensure your daily multi-vitamin has 500–1,000IU daily. I would then add 1,000–2,000IU daily from May to October or get the monthly 50,000IU (1.25mg) on prescription. Please call or email if you would like further information. John Arts (B.Soc.Sci, Dip Tch, Adv.Dip.Nut.Med) is a Nutritional Therapist and founder of Abundant Health Ltd. Contact John on 0800 423559 or email john@johnarts.co.nz. Join his weekly newsletter at www.johnarts.co.nz. For product information visit www.abundant.co.nz
Darfield Township Committee member Graham Smith, left, and Malvern Community Patrol chair Errol Ashby with the patrol’s new vehicle
The impetus for the patrol came from the Darfield Township Committee in response to a number of vandalism incidents around the township as well as a desire to help local police. Over 40 people turned up to the Malvern Community Patrol’s first public meeting in Darfield last week, which was also attended by police and Anne Smith from Community Patrols New Zealand, under whose umbrella the patrol falls. MCP chair Errol Ashby says they were extremely pleased at the turnout with over half of those attending signing up to become volunteer patrollers to go with around 20 they already had on their books. “We have had some outstanding support from the local business community in getting this up and running — it has been beyond our expectations,” Ashby says. “We have been extremely fortunate to secure a vehicle thanks to Regan Coleman and Drummond and Etheridge.” Ashby says local companies like Frew’s Transport, Fonterra and Leech Drainage have also been very generous in support of the venture. Initially MCP will be running patrols around Darfield and Kirwee but intend to go further afield to places like Sheffield and Coalgate once they have consulted with those communities to get their approval to run the patrols. Darfield Township Committee member and MCP patroller Graham Smith says the police were extremely supportive of the idea when they were approached. Senior Constable Dave Pitkethley from Darfield Police told the public meeting they have a big patch to cover.
“With one officer covering 8500 square kms we cannot always be in the right place at the right time so any assistance is welcome.” He told the budding patrollers that at times it wasn’t so much about what the patrollers saw but who saw them. “A community patrol car acts as a deterrent, particularly with young people and the payoff is in crime prevention.” While community patrollers do not have powers of arrest they will have a direct line into central police communications who can dispatch officers to an area should the need arise. Potential patrollers will be trained up and need to go through a police check before they are allowed to patrol. Anyone interested in being a part of the Malvern Community Patrol can contact Errol Ashby on 03 318 8588. ¢
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