CAPOM is the acronym for Canadian Association for Preventive and Orthomolecular Medicine. This was an organization which was founded in May 1975, and it published its first newsletter, the CAPOM Comment, in Spring 1976. The first President of the organization was Loyd Wisheart, followed by Ida Le Comte, and then Inge Hanle.

The Honorary Advisory Board included Carl Reich, MD, Cert. Spec. Int. Med; Wilfred E Shute, BA, MD; Ross Hume Hall, PhD; and Linus Pauling, PhD.

The objectives of the organization, as taken from its first pamphlet, was:
1) To promote and develop Preventive and
Orthomolecular Medicine
2) To encourage the improvement and quality
of all foods as well as the elimination of all
harmful addititives and adulterants.
3) To ensure that all Canadians have the
freedom of choice in the selection of their
health practitioner.
4) To educate the public through the conduct
of meetings, seminars, public lectures, and
publications to accomplish the above
objectives.

'We feel that our organization, with the accent on preventive and orthomolecular medicine and by not zeroing in on any one specific illness, offers to Canadians an 'umbrella-type' organization that can be forceful and effective to educationally drive home the total inadequacies of our present health care systems, the deteriorating quality of our foods, and the environmental hazards with which we are compelled to live.' (Words from the welcoming letter, written by Ida Le Comte. )

CAPOM members became members of the newly created Health Action Network Society in July, 1984, at which point CAPOM ceased to exist.