While there is no clear scientific evidence that diet affects thyroid activity, a diet high in organic and citrus foods, fresh seafood, good oils and certain nuts and grains can help to improve the thyroid's production, according to Dr. Ivan F. Kelley, III of The Natural Health Place and and George Mateljan, founder of the World's Healthiest Foods ...
canon law. n. 1. (Ecclesiastical Terms) the law governing the affairs of a Christian Church, esp the law created or recognized by papal authority in the Roman Catholic Church. See Corpus Juris Canonici, Codex Juris Canonici.
Thus from the beginning, two fundamental notions of law were wrapped up in the word: law as something that permits or approves and law that forbids by punishing. In English, the word sanction is first recorded in the mid-1500s in the meaning law, decree..