Fwd: [GettingWell] Dr Rath Health Foundation newsletter

[Guest guest]

Comments?

Be Well, Misty

http://www..com

 

 

Welcome to the first Dr Rath Health Foundation newsletter!

 

Every two weeks this newsletter will bring you news, comment and

analysis related to Natural Health Care. We shall also report upon

the actions of those who seek to undermine and try to ban free

access to natural health information.

 

 

Foundation News - Developments at the Dr Rath Health Foundation.

 

You are invited to participate in an online discussion group on

Thursday, 10th April 2003 at:

6:00 pm (Central European Time)

5:00 pm (Greenwich Mean Time - UK)

9:00 am (Pacific Standard Time - USA)

12:00 noon (Eastern Standard Time - USA)

To participate, please visit: http://www4.dr-rath-

foundation.org/Chatroom and click on the 'New User' link to

register. Fill in the details requested in the 'User Signup' form

and click the 'Signup' button. At your local time on 10th April

2003, please login and select the discussion topic entitled 'Make

Health Not War.'

 

Since the pharmaceutical industry has dominated the largest health

organization in the world (the World Health Organization) a huge

battle is currently being waged there between the forces of the

pharma-cartel and those who want to promote nutrition. With the

outcome yet to be determined and for the sake of those who cannot

wait for that outcome, we need to start new, community-based,

regional projects NOW and above all with people committed to this

goal.

 

The online discussion groups are designed to enable the sharing with

others of experiences about pilot projects from your country and

these ideas will be placed on our website as a resource for all to

draw upon. We look forward to you becoming an architect for the New

Global Healthcare System in your country and we are sure that you

yourself will benefit from the ideas you gain from participation in

this group. We look forward to the discussions.

---

---------------------- >

Over the past few weeks the Foundation has published a series of Dr

Rath's open letters in newspapers around the world, which have

resulted in a huge response from supporters. World opinion is moving

rapidly against the war in Iraq and simultaneously, in the

healthcare sector, toward natural health. This is no coincidence. Dr

Rath's recent open letters have informed the world of breakthroughs

in natural health and the pharmaceutical connection with this war.

 

Volunteers are now getting together and doctors are joining us in

our efforts to promote natural health policies worldwide and to

further the implementation of a New Global Healthcare System. The

most recent countries to implement nutritional healthcare programmes

into their public health policy have been Wales and Scotland.

---

---------------------- >

During the coming weeks and months, the Foundation website will

continue to develop as the world's major resource for natural health

information. Visit the site regularly for help and advice about how

YOU can implement a New Global Healthcare System in your country.

The Ten Cornerstones of an Effective and Affordable Health Care

System in Any Country can be applied in your local community right

now. Millions of people all over the world can wait no longer for UN

organisations to return to their core values - we must all take

action NOW and help to improve the health and lives of our fellow

human beings.

 

We urge you to implement the New Global Healthcare System strategies

you will find on our website - do it today!

Make Health - Not war!

 

Legislation Watch - News on laws and organizations that affect your

right to enjoy free access to natural healthcare.

Behind the smokescreen of war, the Codex Alimentarius Committee on

Food Labelling will meet in Ottawa between 28th April and 2nd May

2003 to discuss health and nutrition claims. In case you were

wondering what this meeting is all about, here is a quote from the

Codex document Alinorm 03/22:

 

" Nutrition claims should be consistent with national nutrition

policy and support that policy. Only nutrition claims that support

national nutrition policy should be allowed. "

 

In other words, no matter whether a claim is true and can be

substantiated by scientific evidence, if Codex member governments

don't like it, you can't use it!

Need we say more?

 

This information should be of interest to our friends and supporters

in North America - the time to lodge your protests with Codex is

now!!

---

---------->

Under cover of the ephedra supplement row, the FDA is seeking

additional legislative powers to regulate all natural health

supplements in the USA. If they are allowed to get away with this,

your ability to learn about and use effective, safe and side effect

free natural health treatments will be endangered. But what about

DSHEA we hear you ask?

 

The only way the FDA can get these extra powers is by amending

DSHEA, thereby restricting your fundamental human rights and

overturning laws that were hard won back in the early 90's. Lodge

your protests with FDA NOW and please don't just leave this one to

our supporters in North America. Everyone who supports the right of

free access to natural health should lodge a protest - wherever you

are!

 

Behind The Headlines - We look behind the headlines to bring you the

real stories from the major news reports of the past two weeks.

 

Scientists from the University of Bonn have detected 'clear

indications' that vitamin D deficiency contributes to heart failure

 

The body of research confirming the essential nature of various

micronutrients for good health continues to grow.

This news report gives the startling facts that 15 million people

worldwide suffer from heart failure and that every second patient

dies within five years of being diagnosed.

What the report doesn't say is that these deaths are preventable and

are due largely to the ineffectiveness of pharmaceutical drugs in

tackling the causes of heart failure.

The research reported upon clearly establishes a link between

vitamin D deficiency and heart failure and yet this news report

fails to draw the obvious conclusion - optimum daily intake of

essential micronutrients, including vitamin D, can help to prevent

and heal this disease.

Click here for details of the natural Cellular Health approach to

heart failure.

---

------------------------->

US researchers conclude that daily vitamin and mineral

supplementation is beneficial to health

 

This is positive news for natural health, even if the study was

poorly designed.

The study to which the article refers used micronutrient intake

levels at or around RDA (the bare minimum necessary to prevent

deficiency diseases). Even so, the results achieved (particularly in

diabetic patients) were very impressive.

Imagine what results could have been achieved with micronutrient

intake levels set closer to optimum intake levels, rather than at

deficiency rectification levels?

---

---------->

Study dismisses HRT as clinically useless

After all the recent press reports about HRT and the dangerous side

effects of these drugs that have resulted in a least two major

trials being abandoned on safety grounds, we now find out that it

has no effect on the problems it was designed to treat!

So, not only is HRT clinically useless, it is also downright

dangerous and ultimately lethal.

We wonder how many other drugs like this are currently being used to

treat unsuspecting victims?

---

---------->

Kin of cancer drug victim may sue firm

 

This report illustrates how the power and influence of the

pharmaceutical industry extends all over the world. Most countries

have refused to licence AstraZeneca's anti-cancer drug Iressa

because of worries over adverse reaction reports from the testing

phase.

However, following some dubious marketing practices, the drug did

get a licence in Japan - and has so far killed more than 180 people.

We are amazed how easily governments can be persuaded to ignore

critical safety information when licensing new drugs and now we find

that the FDA is considering Iressa for a marketing licence in the

USA.

You have been warned!

---

---------->

 

For complete news coverage please click on the " News " button in the

menu bar on the homepage of our website.