Bills to Oppose+Support for Health Freedom

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Tuesday, January 25, 2005 2:32 PM

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

 

 

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> Thanks, Misty.

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

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> " Misty L. Trepke " <mistytrepke

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> Monday, January 24, 2005 9:38 PM

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

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> > Comments?

> > Misty L. Trepke

> > http://www..com

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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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> > 1145 Marine Drive Bellingham, WA 98225

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> > www.pulseplus@e...

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