--------- Forwarded message ---------- From: John Hammell <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Date: Tue, 19 Dec 2000 11:52:53 -0500 Subject: Anti Codex Web Radio Broadcast Wednesday Noon-1pm US Eastern Time/Listen World Wide Please Sign Anti Codex/Anti EU Vitamin Petition See Article on Safety of Dietary Supplements Message-ID: <[email protected]>
IAHF Webmaster: Put this under breaking news, Codex oversight, all countries All Webmasters: Please post. Everyone: Web Based Radio Broadcasts which provide an in depth expose of the Codex Vitamin Scam are few and far between, so it is very important that we all tune in to the one tomorow Wednesday December 20th Noon-1pm US Eastern Time http://www.vitalcast.com to hear Gary Null interviewing a number of health freedom fighters from different countries, each providing valuable insight and information on how we can best fight back against the EU Vitamin Directive and Codex. SEE program times in different time zones world wide below, and tell more people please! The show might be archived on the web, but never count on this! The EU Vitamin Directive will be shoved down our throuts by March of next year unless stopped now. Consumers world wide must help people in Europe fight back because what happens in the EU will heavily impact Codex in 2002, but we can't wait that long! American vitamin companies are being lied to on the Codex vitamin issue by pharmaceutically dominated vitamin trade associations CRN and NNFA and consumers are being lied to by so called "Citizens for Health". These pharmaceutically dominated bodies are lying to people by saying that what is happening at Codex "can't impact US law". It can, as you will see from http://www.iahf.com "US Law Not Safe" section. The exemption clause in the Federal Statute that allegedly protects our laws from harmonization to international standards is nothing more than a paper tiger. It does not in FACT protect our laws! Due to the threat of trade sanctions imposed by the WTO, Congress has changed our laws many times already and this has been thoroughly documented by Public Citizen and other groups. Our sovereignty is being destroyed,and there is a need for more cosponsors on the American Sovereignty Restoration Act sponsored by Ron Paul which would get us out of the WTO. You can listen to this show at http://www.vitalcast.com from noon-1 US Eastern Time, see below for showtimes in different time zones world wide and tell your friends! PLEASE SIGN ANTI CODEX, ANTI EU VITAMIN DIRECTIVE PETITION At the same time it is very important that more people sign the Anti Codex, anti EU Vitamin Directive Petition at http://www.laleva.org/ English version of the site is at http://www.laleva.org/indexeng.html See text of petition below, also see Ron Law's excellent article on the safety of dietary supplements which accompanies the petition. SHOW TIMES IN DIFFERENT TIME ZONES WORLD WIDE: Gary Null Show Exposing the Codex Vitamin Scam N. America: East Coast Noon- 1 PM Wednesday December 20, 2000 Midwest: 11 am- noon Mountain: 10 am-11am West Coast: 9am-10am England and Ireland 5 Hours Ahead so 5-6 pm Italy, Germany, France, Netherlands, Denmark, Sweden, Norway 6 hours ahead so 6-7 pm South Africa 7 hours ahead 7-8pm Australia Sidney 16 hours ahead (other time zones in Australia figure per Sidney) 6 am- 7am on Thursday December 2 New Zealand 18 hours ahead 8am-9am on Thursday December 2 http://www.laleva.org/petizione/english/intro_eng.html Food supplements have shown to be extremely safe. Yet there are international efforts in progress to limit nutrient dosages and types of ingredients, both at the European level (Council of Europe, European Commission, European Parliament) and world wide, through Codex Alimentarius. The reason for these legislative efforts is trade, more precisely the facilitation of international trade. Pharmaceutical lobbies are working hard to limit the scope and effectiveness of food supplements, presumably because healthy people do not buy their medicines as readily as sick people. Government nutritionists are not of much help. They do not generally recognize the vast preventive potentional of supplements supplying high doses of selected nutrients and natural co-fractors. The needs of consumers and of alternative health practitioners are not taken into account in the legislative talks. We have therefore drafted a petition which we are asking you to sign, demanding that legislators take into account freedom of choice of the consumer. Who are we? La Leva is an association of consumers concerned with freedom of choice. Why is consumer action so important? Please read this article for some background information. What are the statistics on supplement safety? Read the article by Ron Law comparing the safety of food supplements and pharmaceutical medicines on the basis of actual death statistics. What are we asking for and why? Read the full text of the petition. Ready to go? SIGN THE PETITION! PETITION We the undersigned, users of natural health products and food supplements, ask legislators and administrators in all European countries and delegates to Codex Alimentarius discussions world wide to take into account the following: Considering that international legislation on the subject of food supplements is currently under discussion at both Codex Alimentarius and in the European legislative system (Council of Europe and the European Parliament); considering further that in both venues of discussion there are heavy pressures brought to bear by pharmaceutical interests, to limit the effectiveness and the availability of natural health products and food supplements to the detriment of consumer choice and public health; considering that approved, regulated and properly prescribed pharmaceutical medicines are causing hundreds of thousands of preventable deaths each year, having become the fourth most common cause of death in several countries (see statistics and article by Ron Law from New Zealand); considering that vitamin supplements and other natural health products have a clean bill of health, having been used for decades by millions of consumers world wide without more than a handful of confirmed lethal outcomes; considering that the clearly visible pressures of pharmaceutical interests to limit the effectiveness and availability of natural health products are dictated by motives of monetary profit and and considerations of market share, not by concern for the health of consumers; considering that true health preservation today is achieved through the widespread use of natural health products and supplements (see recent prevention references in Ron Law's article) and considering that consumers should not be deprived of the health preserving and health promoting means of their choice merely by reason of the distraction of legislators or the greed for profits of the mentioned pharmaceutical interests, let it be said then that the consumers of natural health products and food supplements, both in Europe and internationally, demand that legislators and administrators, in discussions concerning food supplements, take into account the following: 1.Natural health products and food supplements, in the absence of specific regulations in place internationally, have shown to possess an unsurpassed safety record and to be of great benefit to health as evidenced by scientific studies and by the personal experience of the undersigned users. 2.It does not therefore make any sense to limit the dosages of essential nutrients in supplements except where consumption of such substances has shown actual, health risks; 3.It does not therefore make any sense to limit the availability of nutrients or other ingredient substances by socalled "positive lists" as contemplated in current international legislative proposals; 4.It would seriously undermine programs for the promotion of public health and the prevention of illness as well as the practice of non conventional methods of therapy, to put limits on the availability of these products, even if ostensibly "in the name of consumer protection" for these reasons, we demand that: ANY EUROPEAN OR INTERNATIONAL LEGISLATION BE CAREFULLY STRUCTURED SO AS TO GUARANTEE THE FREE ACCESS TO NATURAL HEALTH PRODUCTS AND FOOD SUPPLEMENTS THAT HAVE PROVEN TO BE SAFE AND ARE IN DEMAND BY CONSUMERS, OR BE INDEFINITELY SHELVED. ANY SUCH LEGISLATION SHALL NOT CONTAIN PROVISIONS LIMITING THE DOSAGES OF NUTRIENTS OR ACTIVE SUBSTANCES IN SUCH PRODUCTS EXCEPT WHERE ABSOLUTELY AND CLEARLY NECESSARY TO AVERT PROVEN, NOT FICTITIOUS OR ASSUMED DANGERS TO THE HEALTH OF CONSUMERS ANY SUCH LEGISLATION SHALL NOT LIMIT THE SCOPE AND VARIETY OF NUTRITIVE AND OTHERWISE HEALTH PROMOTING SUBSTANCES BY THE USE OF ANY KIND OF LISTS, POSITIVE OR NEGATIVE, EXCEPT WHERE SUCH SUBSTANCES CAN BE SHOWN TO HAVE CAUSED DAMAGES SIMILAR TO THOSE EVIDENT TODAY IN THE PROPERLY APPROVED AND REGULATED PHARMACEUTICALLY PRODUCED MEDICINES In support of these principles and requesting that legislators and administrators take into account these demands, we hereby sign: (go online to sign at http://www.laleva.org/petizione/english/intro_eng.html Article mentioned above by Ron Law re Safety of Dietary Supplements http://www.laleva.org/petizione/english/ronlaw_eng.html: Note- Article has graphs that you can only see on the web Safety of Dietary Supplements Its fascinating how when there is one suspected adverse reaction to a dietary supplement it makes the headlines, and yet officials and the media are oblivious to the plethora of deaths due to properly regulated, properly prescribed and properly used drugs not to mention avoidable deaths due to medical misadventure. This graph highlights the relative safety of dietary supplements compared to many other causes of death. Although they are USA figures, by and large they compare with NZ figures. Figure 1 Statistical comparism of frequent causes of death (USA) Note: 1.Properly researched, regulated, prescribed and properly used drugs are the fourth most common cause of death but they are never reported. (Source, Journal of the American Medical Association - Range 90,000 to 160,000 deaths per year.) Thats a Boeing 747 crashing every day! 46 people die every day from Aspirin alone in the USA. 2.Avoidable medical misadventure is the sixth most common cause of death. (Source, CDC - range 40,000 to 90,000) In Australia 9,000 people die from avoidable medical misadventure every year. (Source, Australian Medical Journal). In Australia 50,000 people are maimed by medical misadventure every year. (AMJ) 3.The figures used in this chart are at the lower end of the range (we wouldnt want to be accused of exaggerating!) 4.Food poisoning/adverse reactions causes between 5,000 to 9,000 deaths per year. (Source, CDC.) 5.Dietary supplements have averaged less than 5 confirmed deaths per year over the past 25 years in the USA. Most of those relate to a single batch of genetically engineered tryptophan introduced in the late 1980s. (Source, CDC/FDA) There have been no proven deaths to dietary supplements in NZ. 6.A wide range of dietary supplements are consumed by over 50% of the population in both the USA and New Zealand (Source, NIH/MOH) 7.You are less likely to die from taking a supplement than dying from bee stings, sports injuries, lightening, animal bites, horse riding, radon gas, etc, etc. 8.Dietary supplements are incredibly safe. 9.Dietary supplements have the potential to reduce deaths from cancers and heart disease by over 50%. (Optimists would go as high as 75%) 10.Greater than 26,000 times more people die from preventable medical misadventure and properly regulated, properly prescribed and properly used drugs than from dietary supplements. 11.You can have every confidence in assuring the safety of dietary supplements. 12.There have been two deaths reported as being linked to dietary supplements in NZ both were in people with malignant cancer who consumed the herbal mixture K4. Neither were proven to be due to K4. The coroner in one case said there was no evidence to link K4 to one of the deaths he had terminal cancer of the liver, took K4 and died of liver failure. Officials tried to blame his death on K4. Despite the evidence to the contrary, K4 was banned. 13.There was a recent media report linking Ginkgo Biloba to the death of a heart patient due to cerebral haemorrhage. The patient had been taking Ginko for some time. He was taking blood thinning drugs which are notorious for causing cerebral haemorrhage. Contrary to media reports, papers obtained by the NNFA under the official information act revealed that the MARC did not find Ginkgo to be the cause of death. Think about this... Vets have long known and recommended not to feed your nutrient deficient leftovers to your pets theyll get sick so... all commercially prepared pet foods contain dietary supplements. Cattle, sheep, horses, goats, laboratory rabbits & rats etc need dietary supplements to remain healthy. Weve long known that pastures and crops need dietary supplements (fertiliser) to grow well. Yet it is still denied by officials that humans need dietary supplements despite the plethora of evidence and commonsense that says otherwise. Our regulators are tying to convince use that despite the fact that our pets need supplements, our farm animals need supplements, our crops need supplements humans dont. Stunning Reports on Cancer Harvard University recently released a report on the prevention of cancer of the colon. Top of the pops were exercise and longterm folic acid containing multivitamin supplementation. Harvard University has been undertaking a longitudinal study of nearly 100,000 nurses for about twenty years. Their research has shown that the impact of folic acid supplementation reduces cancer of the colon by a massive 75-80%. (See figure 2.) At the same time John Hopkins Medical Centers nutrition department recently stated, Based on studies where people take a supplement, vitamin E seems to reduce risk of some cancers by 60 to 70 percent. Increased levels of vitamin E also appear to decrease the amount of fat (lipids) in the arteries, and to reduce the risk of heart disease by 80 to 90 percent. WOW! They then go on to say that they dont recommend supplements. Hello? Figure 2 Reduction of risk of cancer of the colon Larry Clark from Arizona University found, in a controlled multi centre study, that a daily selenium supplement cut cancer mortality in half, leading at the same time to a 46-63 percent reduction in the incidence of lung-, prostate-, and colorectal cancer. (www.selenium.org) Given that New Zealand has one of the highest rates of all three cancers, and given that the cure rates for these three forms of cancer are relatively low, less than 10% for lung cancer, and about 50% for bowel cancer, it makes sense to recommend folic acid and selenium supplements to your customers. Ask them what they would prefer, lowering the risk of getting and dying from cancer by 50% or get it and then have less than a 50% chance of a cure? Not to mention the unpleasant treatment, nor the fact that 20% of cancer suffers get a second cancer due to their treatment without being told this fact. Eat right and take a Multivitamin [with folic acid]. The current evidence suggests that people who take such supplements and their children are healthier. Dr G Oakley from the Center for Disease Control talking about standard multivitamins with 400 ug of folic acid. NEJM, April 1998. If every one in NZ took a multivitamin.... This article was prepared by Ron Law, executive director of the New Zealand National Nutritional Foods Association and member of a New Zealand government working group advising on strategies for reducing medical error *** DEFEND HEALTH FREEDOM**** DOWNLOAD THE CODEX REPORT FROM BONN: http://www.lef.org/fda/fda.htm PASS IT ON!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! -- The silver-list is a moderated forum for discussion of colloidal silver. To join or quit silver-list or silver-digest send an e-mail message to: [email protected] -or- [email protected] with the word subscribe or unsubscribe in the SUBJECT line. 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