Bills to Oppose+Support for Health Freedom

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Thanks, Misty.

 

Apathy in this country is going to ruin it for all of us.

 

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" Misty L. Trepke " <mistytrepke

 

Monday, January 24, 2005 9:38 PM

[s-A] Bills to Oppose+Support for Health Freedom

 

 

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> Misty L. Trepke

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> Your right to choose your vitamin, mineral and other supplements may

> end in June of this year (2005). After that U.S. supplements will be

> defined and controlled by the World Trade Organization (WTO) and the

> World Health Organization (WHO). The CODEX ALIMENTARIUS (Food Code)

> is setting the supplement standards for all countries in the WTO.

> They will be enforced by the WTO and will over ride U.S. laws. The

> U.S. President and Congress agreed to this take-over when the WTO

> Treaty was signed. Violations are punished by WTO trade sanctions.

> CODEX drastically restricts vitamins, minerals, herbs and other

> supplements. CODEX met secretly in November, 2004 and finalized

> " Step 8 (the final stage) " to begin implementation in June, 2005.

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> The CODE includes:

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> (1) No supplement can be sold for preventive or therapeutic use.

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> (2) Any potency higher than RDA (minimal strength) is a " drug "

> requiring a prescription and must be produced by drug companies.

> Over 5000 safe items now in health stores will be banned,

> terminating health stores as we now know them.

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> (3) CODEX regulations become binding internationally.

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> (4) New supplements are banned unless given very expensive CODEX

> testing and approval.

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> CODEX now applies to Norway and Germany, among others, where zinc

> tablets rose from $4 per bottle to $52. Echinacea (an ancient immune-

> enhancement herb) rose from $14 to $153 (both examples are now

> allowed by prescription only). They are now " drugs " . Vitamin C above

> 200 mg, niacin above 32 mg, vitamin B6 above 4 mg-all are banned

> over-the-counter as drugs. No amino acids (arginine, lysine,

> carnitine, et c. = essential amino acids!), essential fatty acids

> (omegas 3, 6, 9, etc.), or other essential supplements

> such as DMEA, DHEA, CoQ10, MSM, beta-carotene, etc. are allowed.

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> The CODEX rules are not based on real science. They are made by a

> few people meeting in secret (see web sites below), not necessarily

> scientists. In 1993 the FDA and drug corporations tried to put all

> supplements under restriction and prescription. But over 4 million

> Americans told Congress and the President to protect their freedom

> of choice on health supplements. The DSHEA Law was passed in 1994,

> which does so. But this will be over ruled by CODEX and the World

> Trade Organization.

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> Virtually nothing about it has been in the media. What the drug

> corporations have failed to do through Congress they have gotten by

> sneak attack through CODEX with the help of a silent media. What can

> be done at this late hour?

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> (1) Spread the word as much as possible. Inform yourselves fully at

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> www.ahha.org, www.iahf.com, and www.alliance-natural-health.org.

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> (2) Oppose bills S.722 and H.R.3377. These support the CODEX

> restrictions with U.S. laws, changing the DSHEA law.

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> (3) Support H. R.1146 which would restore the sovereignty of the U.S.

> Constitution over CODEX, etc.

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> (4) Express your wishes to the President, Senators and

> Representatives

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> (They got us into this!) ASAP.

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> (5) Contact multi-level health marketing groups that can get their

> members to inform the government.

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> (6) Send donations, however small, to the British Alliance for

> Natural Health (see web site above). It has succeeded in challenging

> the CODEX directives in World Court later this month or next. They

> need help financially, having carried the fight effectively for

> everyone. CODEX and the FDA wish to protect us by controlling

> supplements in the same way they do prescription drugs. A study of

> the latter by three medical scientists was reported in the Journal

> of the American Medical Association, April 15, 1998-Vol. 279, No.

> 15, p. 1200 " .Incidence of Adverse Drug Reactions (ADR's) was found

> to be extremely high. " Covering 30 years (1966 to 1996) it was found

> that in the U.S. an average of 106,000 hospitalized patients

> per year (290 per day)! die from ADR's and 2,200,000 need more

> hospitalization for recovery. These were FDA approved drugs,

> properly administered by competent professionals in hospitals--none

> were considered malpractice. This is the number four cause of death

> in the U.S. When combined, these account for 7% of all hospitalized

> patients. This is equivalent to a 9-11 attack every ten days. There

> are very few fatalities from supplements or the news would be on

> every front page. There is no need for more FDA control of

> supplements than is already in place, which is substantial. Instead

> of drastically restricting supplements, why doesn't the FDA better

> control and restrict the extremely dangerous pharmaceutical drugs

> which are now killing us at the rate of a major airline crash per

> day?

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> Wallace G. Heath, Ph.D.

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