[Health&Healing] $153 Bottle of Prescription Only Echinacea? Ask Germany+Norway

[Guest guest]

Now is the time to make as much noise as possible and spread the

word. In 1994 we made such an impact that Congress had to protect

our health freedom. Now we have to do it again- the price of

democracy is eternal vigilence...

 

Best Wishes,

Misty L. Trepke

http://www..com

 

Ready for $153-a-bottle (prescription only) Echinacea? Just

ask Germany and Norway

 

http://proliberty.com/observer/20050110.htm

 

HEALTH FREEDOM ALERT

While Americans are preoccupied with stories and images of wars and

tsunamis abroad, largely unreported is a cataclysmic domestic event

that may hit home by August, 2005.

by Wallace Heath, Ph.D.

 

Your right to choose what vitamins, minerals and other supplements you

want to take may end in August, 2005. After August, U.S. supplements

will be defined and controlled by the World Trade Organization (WTO)

and the World Health Organization (WHO). Codex Alimentarius

(stringent food/supplement regulations) is setting the food and

nutritional supplement standards for all countries in the WTO. Codex

standards are to be enforced by the WTO and will supercede U.S. law.

The U.S. president and Congress agreed to this take-over when the WTO

treaty was signed. Violators of Codex and other WTO-sponsored

international laws will be punished by WTO trade sanctions.

 

Codex drastically restricts our free access to vitamins, minerals,

herbs and other supplements. The International Codex Commission met

secretly in November, 2004, and finalized " Step 8 (the final stage) "

which is scheduled for implementation seven months from now. Under

Codex, no supplement can be sold for preventive or therapeutic use;

any potency higher than RDA (Recommended Daily Allowance - minimal

strength) is a " drug " requiring a prescription and must be produced

by drug companies (over 5,000 safe items now in health food stores

will be banned, terminating health food stores as we now know them);

Codex regulations enforced in the U.S. will be internationally

binding; new supplements will be banned unless the developer is

willing to endure a very rigorous and expensive Codex approval

process.

 

Codex standards, as currently enforced in Norway and Germany, caused

the price of zinc tablets to rise from $4 per bottle to $52;

echinacea, an herb used for immune system enhancement, rose from $14

per bottle of 100 capsules to $153. Both zinc and echinacea are only

available by prescription since they are now classified as " drugs. "

Vitamin C above 200 mg, niacin above 32 mg, vitamin B6 above 4 mg are

only available by prescription. Essential amino acids such as

arginine, lysine, proline, and carnitine; essential fatty acids (such

as omegas 3, 6 and 9) and other essential supplements such as DMEA,

DHEA, CoQ10, MSM, beta-carotene, will NOT be available for purchase

unless prescribed by a licensed physician. These Codex rules are not

based on real science.

 

They are regulations influenced by pharmaceutical giants who have used

the Codex model to take control of vitamins and supplements in order

to protect the lucrative pharmaceutical drug industry.

 

In 1993 the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and drug corporations

tried to put all supplements under restriction and prescription, but

over four million outraged Americans demanded that Congress and the

President protect their freedom to purchase essential health

supplements without a prescription. As a result, the Dietary

Supplement Health and Education Act (DSHEA) was passed in 1994. But

unless health-conscious consumers worldwide get involved, DSHEA will

be trumped by Codex and the World Trade Organization.

 

What can be done at this late hour?

 

(1) Spread the word as much as possible by making copies of this

article and sharing with others on talk radio shows,

 

(2) Go to the following websites, become fully informed and contribute

what you can to this life saving cause: http://www.iahf.com,

http://www.alliance-natural-health.org, http://www.ahha.org

 

(3) Contact your legislators, telling them to oppose bills S.722 and

H.R.3377. These support the CODEX restrictions with U.S. laws

harmonizing with them, in effect repealing DSHEA.

 

(4) Support H. R.1146, The American Sovereignty Restoration Act that

repeals the United Nations Participation Act of 1945 and other

specified related laws so that WTO sanctions and CODEX will not apply

to the U.S.

 

(5) Contact multi-level health marketing groups that can mobilize

their significant numbers to inform their representatives in

government.

 

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

Natural Health (ANH - see web site above). It has succeeded in

challenging many Codex directives in World Court. The ANH challenge

in the European Court of Justice is due to be heard on January 25,

2005. ANH is also leading initiatives to offset proposed limits on

dosages and health claims through Codex legislation.

 

These critical events in Europe are ever more likely to lead to

restrictions in the U.S. and elsewhere, as there is considerable

political and commercial pressure for trade harmonization and

regulation at a global level.

 

Decide NOW what it's worth to protect your right to natural

healthcare. Codex and the FDA are attempting to " protect " us by

controlling supplements in the same way they do prescription drugs.

With the latest Vioxx scandal, a drug that was FDA approved, do you

trust their approval methods? A study of prescription drugs 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 ADRs 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 percent of all hospitalized patients.

This is equivalent to the deaths on 9-11 occurring every 10 days.

 

Due to the pharmaceutical/government controlled media, if a death

occurred due to consumption of an over-the-counter nutritional

supplement, 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 crashing a 757 every day?