NO FREEDOM NO DEMOCRACY WITHOUT HEALTH LITERACY!

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NO FREEDOM NO DEMOCRACY WITHOUT HEALTH LITERACY!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

No Freedom, No Democracy

Without Health Literacy!

Blueprint for Building a Healthy Nation

World Health Alphabetization (WHA):

Disease - the urgency. More than 90% of the people in the developing

and industrialized world die from lack of nutrition, namely

deficiencies in micronutrients and hunger. These conditions are

caused by poverty and health illiteracy and they are preventable. The

global dissemination of nutritional health information is a

precondition for the prevention and eradication of today's most

common diseases.

Illiteracy - the urgency. More than one billion people in the world

are illiterate and are therefore deprived of any dignified life.

Learning to read and write - while overcoming health illiteracy -

will empower them to improve their living conditions and ensure

literacy for their children and future generations.

Breaking the silence - the urgency. The fact that billions of people

live in illiteracy and die from preventable diseases is no

coincidence. These facts are the direct result of knowledge -

including essential health information - being deliberately withheld

from billions of people by those who build their economic power on

keeping the people of the earth illiterate with respect to their

minds and their bodies.

The mission of the World Health Alphabetization (WHA) is to terminate

health illiteracy as well as general illiteracy for this and for all

future generations of mankind. This is the precondition to eradicate

today's most common diseases, save the lives of billions of people

and enable them to lead a dignified life. This campaign will not rest

until these goals are achieved.

The 'teachers' of the WHA. The WHA campaign invites people of all

nations, races and religions, young and old, lay people and

professionals to inform themselves about the critical role of

nutrition and micronutrients in maintaining optimum health and to

become health teachers carrying the WHA campaign in their

communities. The WHA is a global effort carried by every single

individual and by governments anywhere in the world who recognize

their responsibility.

The 'schools' of the WHA. The teaching rooms of the WHA are not

confined to regular schools or doctor's offices. The basic scientific

health information is so clear and logical that it can and will be

spread in every living room, library, commuter bus, church hall,

union meeting, parliamentary session, corporate boardroom and just

about everywhere that people meet.

The 'school books' of the WHA. Any book describing the role of

vitamins and other micronutrients in the metabolism of the cells of

our bodies, any book or information medium describing the health

benefits of micronutrients in optimizing health and preventing

diseases can serve as an educational tool.The most important teaching

tool, however, is word of mouth carrying the health information to

everyone.

The key health message of the WHA. This global health education

campaign will focus on basic health information that directly affects

the life of every single person on earth: Health and disease are

determined at the level of millions of cells in our body and a lack

of vitamins and other essential micronutrients is the most frequent

form of cellular malfunction and - therefore - the cause of today's

most common diseases.

The scientific basis of the WHA. The scientific facts about the

critical role of vitamins, minerals and other micronutrients as life-

saving biological fuels (co-enzymes) have been established for almost

a century and can be studied in any textbook of biology, biochemistry

and cell physiology. While the textbooks of natural science take this

basic health information for granted, it is a sobering fact that this

critical information is almost completely absent from the textbooks

of medicine.

Two micronutrients - the scientific focus of the WHA campaign - will

change the course of history. Among all micronutrients the human body

requires for optimum health, two have such an outstanding role that

they supercede all others: Vitamin C and the natural amino acid

Lysine. These two micronutrients cannot be produced by the human

body, yet they determine the rate of production of collagen molecules

and thereby the stability of the entire connective tissue in our

bodies. The stability of the connective tissue, in turn, is the key

factor preventing the development and spread of any disease.

The WHA terminates a century of silencing the truth. The essential

cellular function of Vitamin C, Lysine and other micronutrients for

human health were discovered almost a century ago. The discovery of

these natural, non-patentable substances posed an immediate threat to

the pharmaceutical `investment business with disease,' based on

patented, synthetic drugs. The most hideous crime in human history

has been the withholding of the life-saving information from billions

of people about the essential need for optimum intake of Vitamin C

and Lysine. This deliberate obstruction of fundamental health

knowledge has weakened tissue stability in the bodies of billions of

people and rendered them prey to the development of any disease.

This century long obstruction of essential health information was

deliberately taken by the interest groups behind the

pharmaceutical 'business with diseases' in order to promote diseases

and turn the bodies of billions of people into a market place for

the 'investment in disease'. The WHA terminates this global health

illiteracy that has thus far cost the lives of tens of billions of

people.

The expected fierce opposition against the WHA by the pharmaceutical

cartel. The health illiteracy of the people of the world, organized

by the pharmaceutical cartel, is a deliberate means to continue and

expand its global business with disease. Withholding life-saving

information about natural health was the precondition for the

unparalleled growth of the pharmaceutical industry over the past

century, making it today's largest and most profitable investment

business. The WHA threatens the very existence of this investment

business, which is likely to fight back with all means it has

available.

The need for the WHA to expose the dimension of this tragedy. The

dictionary definition of the term 'terror' is the exertion of

violence by a small group trying to force its special interests upon

others without any consideration for the lives of its victims. The

special interests behind the pharmaceutical `investment business with

disease' precisely fit this description. The fact that billions of

people have died as a direct result of this 'pharmaceutical terror'

is evident to everyone. For the same reason the Vatican recently

accused the pharmaceutical cartel of 'genocide' - particularly in

connection with its business conduct in Africa.

The need for the WHA to promote the message " Make Health - Not War. "

The pharmaceutical investment business has been unmasked as an

organized fraud system that promises health, yet economically thrives

from the continuation of diseases. The unmasking of this fraud on a

global scale threatens the collapse of this multi-trillion dollar

investment business. In order to distract from their own actions the

pharmaceutical cartel and its political stakeholders have launched a

global `fight against terrorism.' The war against Iraq - a war

launched under false pretenses - was deliberately promoted by the

political stakeholders of the two leading pharmaceutical export

nations of the world - the USA and Great Britain. Exposing these

interests and showing the direct connection between health and peace

on one side and war and disease on the other is an essential part of

the WHA campaign.

The WHA corrects the tragic failure of the WHO. The World Health

Organization (WHO) - the United Nations body founded half a century

ago to promote world health - has thus far failed to meet its

objectives. Infiltrated by pharmaceutical interests its programs on

nutritional health education were largely abandoned and replaced by

pro - motional campaigns for profitable pharmaceutical drugs.

The charter of the WHO has been turned into its opposite by the so

called `Codex Alimentarius Commission', an effort driven by the

pharmaceutical cartel to ban natural health therapies worldwide in

order to secure its global monopoly on health. Thus, there exists the

objective need for a global effort - independent of the WHO - that

both the people of the world and their governments can unite behind

to improve everyones health worldwide.

The WHA represents the health and economic interests of the entire

developing world. From its home base of a handful of industrialized

countries the pharmaceutical cartel exerts its deadly grip on almost

all nations and their citizens. With the availability of effective

and affordable natural health approaches there no longer exists the

need for the nations of the world to succumb to the pharmaceutical

monopoly on world health. Developing nations can now focus their

scarce financial resources on implementing public health policies

based upon effective, natural approaches and save billions. This

money becomes immediately available to meet other urgent social

needs. The citizens and governments of almost 200 countries in the

world will directly benefit from the termination of the

pharmaceutical `investment business with disease.'

The historic responsibility of Africa. During the last half-century

the nations of Africa have liberated themselves from century long

colonialism and from apartheid. These recent triumphs in an unequal

battle between the oppressed and their oppressors now render a

particular responsibility to the nations of Africa to lead this

liberation of human health from the yoke of the pharmaceutical

cartel. By promoting the WHA the people of Africa and their

governments can take the lead in this global movement to terminate

health illiteracy.

The historic opportunity of Africa. 500 hundred years ago the people

of Europe took the lead and liberated themselves from the yoke of

illiteracy against the fierce opposition of their rulers. The

invention of the printing press and the dissemination of knowledge in

the form of books was their main weapon in this liberation battle

against illiteracy. This explosion of knowledge gave the European

nations the decisive advantage to mobilize intellectual and economic

resources to become the dominant continent for centuries.

There now exists the historic opportunity for a similar step forward

for all mankind: the termination of health illiteracy. By taking the

lead in promoting the WHA, the African nations can liberate huge

financial resources, prosper economically and close the gap to the

industrialized world.

With billions of people still condemned to illiteracy of mind and

body, I call upon everyone to join the World Health Alphabetization

campaign.

With billions of people continuing to die from preventable diseases -

because of health illiteracy - the time to act is now!

 

Matthias Rath, M.D.

 

The Dr. Rath Health Foundation Africa is a non-profit organization

dedicated to promoting research and education in natural health. For

more information visit our website, the world's leading online

library for science-based natural health information.

 

 

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