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The DOCTOR YOURSELF NEWSLETTER Vol 2, No 12 April 24, 2002

" Free of charge, free of advertising, and free of the A.M.A. "

Written by Andrew Saul, PhD. of http://www.doctoryourself.com , a free

online library of over 350 natural healing articles with nearly 4,000

scientific references.

 

VITAMIN WORLD WAR: A SPECIAL ISSUE

(Editor's Note: In response to many letters I have received, The

DOCTOR

YOURSELF NEWSLETTER is pleased to offer the following extensive,

somewhat

divergent, but clearly expert commentary on the latest developments

in theEuropean (ANTI-) Vitamin Directive, and CODEX. The first

article is by

Paul

Anthony Taylor of London, and the second by IAHF's John Hammell. I

have

considerable respect for the views of both of these gentlemen. Free

access

to vitamins extremely important to all of us, no matter where we

live.

Yet without immediate mass action, we may actually lose this freedom

before

we know it is gone.)

 

KEEP UK, HOLLAND, IRELAND, USA SUPPLEMENTS AVAILABLE

(by Paul Anthony Taylor, Honorary Member of the UK National

Association

of

Health Stores.)

 

The recent European Union Food Supplements Directive does not, as

yet,

mean you can only buy nutrients tableted at or near RDA levels,

although

clearly this is its intended long-term aim. The earliest date that

any

high-dose vitamin or mineral could be removed from the shelves is

likely to be

around

June 2005.

 

They have won one battle, but not the war. The real arguments concern

the

upper-dose limits, which are dealt with in Article 5 of the

directive,

and

this section is open to several different legal interpretations. The

scientific arguments, political horse-trading, consumer campaigns and

build-up of celebrity support over this are still to come. With

regard

to

the latter, we currently have the support of well over forty

celebrities,

including Paul McCartney, Elton John, Cliff Richard and Phil Collins.

 

I fully agree that there is undoubtedly a real threat to the continued

availability of food supplements, both in the EU, and world-wide via

CODEX.

Only a fool could deny this. I further agree that it is difficult to

be

optimistic over this legislation. Nevertheless, there are a number of

organizations across Europe who are fighting the directive, and we

fully

realize the difficult nature of the task that we are taking on.

 

The EU Food Supplements Directive may now have far wider implications

for

the future availability of supplements than most US citizens may be

aware,

for if interpreted in a restrictive manner (as presently seems to be

the

intention) it will strongly influence the deliberations of the UN

" Codex

Alimentarius " committee, who already support tight restrictions on

the

sale

of supplements.

 

The EU now effectively controls the CODEX committee votes of the 15 EU

member states, as these 15 countries would be effectively unable to

vote

against Codex proposals that were already law in their own countries.

The EU

will also control the votes of the 12 EU candidate countries who are

presently waiting to join the EU, because they won't want to vote

against a

system that is part of their accession package.

 

The net result of all this is that the USA would then come under

strong

international pressure to implement the CODEX recommendations because

of its

having signed up to the NAFTA and GATT international trade

agreements.

As

you may be aware, countries that have signed on with these agreements

are

bound to follow the regulations established by CODEX, or be penalized

by the

World Trade Organization by sanctions and/or fines.

 

Also, given that the Trans-Atlantic Business Dialogue (TABD) have

already

stated their intention of pressing for harmonization of the regulatory

framework for vitamin and mineral food supplements on both sides of

the

Atlantic

(see http://www.crnusa.org/shellnr112000.html and

http://www.tabd.org ), and especially given the strong

representation

from

the pharmaceutical industry in the TABD, it is now evident that,

unless

the

will of the people on both sides of the Atlantic can prevent it, the

USA

will soon come under international pressure to harmonize to the EU

Food

Supplement Directive.

 

It is now therefore essential for both European and US citizens to

keep

up

the pressure against the directive. This can be done by faxing or

e-mailing

the following people to demand that " Article 5 " of the directive be

interpreted in a liberal manner, and that open access to high-dose

supplements is not restricted. "

 

ACT NOW!

You can email these key people directly:

 

Romano Prodi (President of the European Commission)

romano.prodi

Fax number 011 32 2 295 8532

 

Robert Coleman (EU Director-General for Health and Consumer

Protection)

robert.coleman Fax number 011 32 2 299 6298

 

David Byrne (EU Commissioner for Health and Consumer Protection)

David.Byrne Fax number 011 32 2 298 1499

 

Basil Mathioudakis (whose job it is to steer the Directive through the

European Parliament)

basil.mathioudakis Fax number 011 32 2 296

0951

 

For more information, you may wish to visit La Leva di Archimede

( http://www.laleva.cc ) There is an email petition you can easily

add

your

name to, right at this site.

 

READ THE FULL TEXT (37 pages worth) of the EU Directive, posted at

http://www.laleva.cc/supplements/c5-0640-01_en.pdf This is an

extraordinarily restrictive document, one well worth fighting against.

 

http://garynull.com/issues/codex/aboutcodex.htm provides a

non-technical

overview of the problem.

 

HOW YOU MAY HAVE ALREADY LOST YOUR RIGHT TO TAKE VITAMIN SUPPLEMENTS

by John Hammell, International Advocates for Health Freedom

 

In Europe, the pharmaceutically dominated vitamin trade associations

just

rammed through a mindlessly restrictive Vitamin Directive which could

lead

to the banning of hundreds of products throughout the EU, making

England,

Holland and Sweden as restricted as Germany in terms of consumer

access

to

natural products.

 

Article 5 on Vitamin Potency levels hasn't been finalized yet in the

EU, but

they're working on that next. The fact that this has not yet been

finalized

illustrates the incremental agenda by which these restrictions are

being

pushed through on us. The Pharma Cartel realizes that they can't

achieve

their objective if they try to bite off more than they can chew all

at

once

by engaging in the kind of full frontal assault that they tried in

the

USA

in the early '90s which resulted in the passage of DSHEA in reaction

to

their overreaching regulatory efforts.

 

So they have devised a very gradual, very incremental take over

process

that

is

intended to lull consumers and the supplement industry into a false

sense of

complacency. The pharmaceutical industry wants control of the dietary

supplement industry, and via the EU Directive and Codex

harmonization,

they

intend to get it, regardless of how we feel.

 

Even though protestors crashed the EU Parliament's server on the day

of

the

vote, with over 450 MILLION emails against the EU Vitamin Directive,

it

was

passed anyway over the objection of the largest referendum ever held

in

human history.

 

It is now very probably too late to stop this agenda. The only way

out

now

that the EU Vitamin Directive has gone through would be to politically

remove us from the WTO or the UN, preferably from both. Given the

degree to

which Congress is controlled by multinational corporate interests,

this

is

almost impossible, and WILL BE impossible unless we can arouse a

groundswell

of support behind the American Sovereignty Restoration Act HR 1146.

 

Suzanne Harris, JD, documents the impact passage of the EU Vitamin

Directive

threatens to have at Codex at

http://www.kcxl.com/html/ll-doc1.htm

 

On paper, American laws are theoretically " protected " from

harmonization to

international standards (e.g. a future finalized UN Codex Vitamin

Standard)

by the exemption clause 19 USC 3512 (a)(1) in the GATT Trade

Agreement.

The

FDA and pharmaceutically dominated vitamin trade associations CRN and

NNFA

are quick to point this out, but when they do they're being very

deceptive.

 

The WTO Dispute Settlement Body has ruled against the United States

several

times. Although these rulings in and of themselves can't force

changes

to

our laws, they can threaten trade sanctions, and faced with this

threat,

Congress has harmonized our laws. So the FDA is playing a game of

semantics

when they claim our laws are protected against harmonization. This

article

clearly proves that the statute cited by the FDA and by vitamin trade

associations as allegedly protecting our laws, is in fact a " paper

tiger. "

 

SECRET GOVERNMEMT-ONLY WEBSITE?

http://www.congress.gov/brbk/html/ebtra56.html is a website that is

off

limits to the public and can only be viewed by members of Congress. An

article on this site by Jeanne Grimmett of the Congressional Research

Service was faxed to me by a whistleblower that serves as proof that

19

USC

3512 (a)(1) is only a paper tiger and that it doesn't in FACT protect

our

domestic laws from harmonization. The paper has now been posted at

http://www.iahf.com/usa/20001212a.html , along with my commentary.

 

CBN REPORTING IS ACCURATE

The CBN News Story by Gailon Tetheroh ( " European Union Restricts

Vitamin

Intake of Consumers') at

http://www.cbn.org/cbnnews%2Fnews%2F020319c%2Easp

is NOT a false alarm. Nor is it a false alarm for CBN to question

whether

the US may be next to suffer due to this agenda.

 

Remember: the World Health Organization (WHO) regards all dietary

supplements to be " drugs. "

 

The USA is now powerless to stop all this, because we have just one

vote at

Codex. Any tiny little country at CODEX has as much voting power

there

as we

do. The EU has 15 votes amongst the 15 EU nations, plus the EU itself

can

now also vote so that's 16, plus the EU controls the votes of at least

another 12 countries.

 

NIACIN A DRUG?

Years ago, I attended a " pre meeting " of the US Delegation before the

Codex

meeting was to start in order to go over the US comments to be

submitted at

the meeting. I was the ONLY member of the delegation on the side of

the

grass roots, the health food stores, and small to mid sized vitamin

companies. I was the ONLY member of the delegation not wearing a

suit,

and

not representing a multinational company or sold out vitamin trade

association.

 

They told me that they considered the reddening and itching of the

skin

that

occurs with the niacin flush to be a " drug side effect " which people

must be

" protected from " . When I attempted to inform them that the niacin

flush

is

harmless, that all it is is capillaries dilating on the surface of

the

skin

indicating improved blood flow, improved circulation which is HELPFUL

to

people, they didn't want to listen to a word I said. When I attempted

to

tell them that I have been taking megadoses of niacin for over 20

years

with

no deleterious effects even though I had experienced the harmless

niacin

flush many times, they didn't want to hear a word I said.

 

I was kicked off the US Delegation and not allowed in to the meeting

as

a

member of the press because in '98, against the wishes of Chairman

Grossklauss who ordered me to turn my camcorder off and stop

videotaping, I

videotaped the first half hour of the Codex meeting. Then I digitized

footage of Grossklauss forcing me to turn my camcorder off, and put

it

on my

website in the Media Section at http://www.iahf.com for the whole

world to

see.

 

The immense level of corruption in the EU which is documented on

Dr.Rath's

website via a documentary video and other factual information at

http://www.petition450.org/english/default.html .

 

The EU's Scientific Committee on Foods and the National Academy of

Science

in the USA are pharmaceutically dominated bodies are caught in a

hopeless

conflict of interest that precludes any shred of honesty. They're all

awash

in pharmaceutical research grants. The way they make their money is to

figure out ways to " tweak " nutrients molecularly so they can be

turned

into

patentable pharmaceutical " drugs " . Then they have the job of driving

the

dietary supplements off the market via phony " safety " standards to

stop

the

competition. In some cases they find it " necessary " to get dietary

supplements permanently banned to stop unwanted competition

completely

such

as they did with L-tryptophan right at the moment Eli Lilly first

started

marketing Prozac. Maximum levels are not necessary for ALREADY SAFE

products. Where are the alleged bodies? No one is dying from safe

vitamins,

only from toxic pharmaceutical drugs that currently constitute the

world's

3rd leading cause of death.

 

The US Department of Justice busted Hoffman La Roche, Merck and many

other

companies for violations of the Sherman Anti-Trust Act and for

conspiring to

fix the prices of vitamin raw materials. Hoffman La Roche was fined a

record

amount of $540,000,000 for engaging in illegal price fixing. This is

the

largest fine ever levied by DOJ. Given this, is it really too much of

a

stretch to assert that this provides a motive for additional

conspiracy

against the smaller players?

 

Matthias Rath, M.D., explains the history of how Hoffman La Roche and

the

other companies formed the Vitamin Cartel at

http://www.drrath.com/mr-publishing-

internet/network/health_system/uk/bustin

g_cartell.htm

 

See press release titled U.S. and European Leaders Agree on

Principles

to

Harmonize Dietary Supplement Regulations

http://www.crnusa.org/shellnr112000.html

 

An analysis of the " Study on Nutritional Health and Ethical Claims in

the

European Union " intended to serve as the " basis " for the EU Anti

Vitamin

Directive is posted at http://www.iahf.com/codex/20001022.html

 

Additionally, you can contact Free Choice in Supplements Alliance

(FCSA) in

the UK and them at rhjverkerk or at " Lisa Jennings "

<lisa.j They were set up specifically to counter the

pharmaceutically dominated vitamin trade association in an effort to

stop

the pharmaceutical campaign to ban high potency vitamins, as that

matter has

not yet been finalized even though the Vitamin Directive has gone

through.

 

We need to form a version of FCSA in the USA. All these regulatory

efforts

globally hinge together.

 

John C. Hammell, President

International Advocates for Health Freedom

PO Box 625 Floyd VA 24091 USA

http://www.iahf.com

800-333-2553

 

READERS SAY:

GALLSTONES

" My fiance tried the natural treatment of olive oil and lemon juice

to

get

rid of his gallstones. This easy treatment was found on Hulda Clark's

homepage. He was cured over the weekend months ago. Before the

treatment,

his doctor suggested surgery. You may want to add this natural and

simple

therapy to share with others. "

 

You bet. The oil and lemon protocol is a trusted old standby among

naturopaths. It has been successfully used worldwide for many years,

and is

posted part way down the page at

http://www.drclark.net/info/liver.htm

I make no recommendation or endorsement for any product for sale at

this or

any other website.

 

KEEP THIS VITAMIN **WITHIN** THE REACH OF CHILDREN?

Our neighbor's 3 year old little boy got into Mom's chewable vitamin

C

and

ate about 15 tablets. He had no diarrhea. He had no side effects at

all, in

fact. except that he'd had a cold and his runny nose stopped. There

is

a

lesson here somewhere.

 

 

VITAMIN C AND BREASTFEEDING

Varying amounts of vitamin C will be found in breast milk. If Mom

takes

a

lot of " C " there will be " C " in the breast milk too. If Mom is

healing

up

and stressed out, there will probably be less " C " available to the

baby. And

if Mom is sick or eating hospital food, there will almost certainly

be

a

diminished " C " supply in her breast milk. The solution is for BOTH

mother

and baby to supplement with vitamin C AT EVERY MEAL.

 

We did exactly this with our babies, and were impressed with the

results.

You can finely powder a tasty chewable " C " tablet and put it on your

finger

or the baby's tongue. This should be done at every feeding. Infants

do

not

need a lot of supplemental " C " ... but they DO need it frequently each

day

for maximum success. " Success " is easy to define: a healthy, happy

baby

that

eats and sleeps well. Remember that " Breast is best, and " C " is

next! "

 

THIS MONTH'S JUICING HINTS:

To get more juice out of the same quantity of vegetables, try putting

them

through your juicer more slowly. A gentle pressure works best; let

the

machine do the work. Taking your time juicing can yield as much as a

third

more juice And, it will also reduce the heat from pressing vegetables

too

hard against the juicer's blade assembly. Reduced friction means

cooler

juice, which most experienced juicers consider to be better for you.

Cooler

juice also tastes better.

 

To this end, I frost up a couple of large drinking glasses, and the

glass

pitcher I collect the juice in, by sticking them in the freezer each

night.

Next morning, I begin. Naturally, refrigerating (but NOT freezing!)

your

fresh produce also keeps everything cooler.

 

HINT: A good way to check your juicing technique is to feel the

discarded

pulp. If it is wet, you are losing juice. If it is dry and puffy,

you

are

extracting most of the liquid very well.

 

ANOTHER HINT: Clean the clogs as you go. Carrots and other veggies

can

be

very fibrous at certain times of the year. This is all the more

reason

to

slow the juicing process down a tad. But if you are really going at

it,

stop

juicing every five pounds or so, unplug the juicer, and (carefully)

rinse

off the blade assembly under running cold tap water.

 

For those who can afford it, there are some very fine, albeit very

expensive, juicers that press the vegetables rather than spin a blade

against them. While there is little question in my mind that

juicer-presses

are ideal, a lot of people simply cannot manage their high cost. I'd

rather

you juice cheap than not juice at all.

 

More juicing hints at

http://www.doctoryourself.com/juicefast.html and

http://www.doctoryourself.com/juicing_2.html

 

READERS SAY:

Another good argument for continuing your vitamins in the

hospital: " I

took

them before and I'll take them after I get out, so wouldn't any tests

be

inaccurate (or symptoms be confused) if I stopped them now? "

Tim Simmons, MD

 

Absolutely correct, and thank you for this addition to last month's

" Vitamins in Hospitals: The Final Frontier. "

http://www.doctoryourself.com/hospitals.html

 

Doctor Yourself WEBSITE OF THE MONTH: Dr. Leon Bylenok's Nutritional

Health

and Alternative Medicine website at

http://www.geocities.com/raddoll/Nutritional.htm

Dr. Bylenok received his B.S. degree in Pharmacy from the University

of

Buffalo in 1943 and his D.D.S. from the University of Pittsburgh

School

of

Dentistry in 1948. A former instructor at the University of Buffalo

School

of Dentistry, he retired from dental practice in 1986.

 

I am especially whooped up about Dr. Bylenok's recommended Nutritional

Reading list at

http://www.geocities.com/raddoll/dad/43.htm and an outstanding

vitamin

E

article, " Substantiated Clinical Uses of Vitamin E " posted at

http://www.geocities.com/raddoll/dad/12.htm

 

You will also find articles on carpal tunnel syndrome, Raynaud's

syndrome,

mineral orotates, cardiovascular disease, cancer, the work of Hans

Neiper,

MD, and many other health topics.

 

(A reminder: My readers already know that I do not recommend or

endorse

any

food supplement brands or companies. This includes, by extension, any

products mentioned at a website that I highlight.)

 

THIS MONTH'S REASON TO BECOME (MORE OF) A VEGETARIAN

It was over 40 years ago that I learned this unforgettable little

ditty

one

summer at Camp Hiawatha:

 

Dunderbeck, oh Dunderbeck

Oh how could ye be so mean

To ever have invented

The sausage-meat machine.

Now all the rats

And puddy-cats

Will never more be seen;

For they'll all be ground

To sausage meat

In Dunderbeck's machine.

(Author unknown, fortunately)

 

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