KISS YOUR HEALTH GOODBYE!

August 16, 2005

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Carolyn Dean, MD, ND

NewsWithViews.com

Thanks to The American Policy Center and NewsWithViews.com our article

with the provocative title, " Kiss Your Vitamins Goodbye " , flooded the

internet in the last two weeks of June leading up to the Codex

Alimentarius meeting in Rome July 4-9, 2005. Millions of readers were

on the edge of their seats waiting to learn what was about to happen.

This article is a report on that meeting.

Just before several members of Friends of Freedom International (FOFI)

left for Rome we were aware that neither the U.S. nor the Canadian

delegations to Codex were going to intercede to stop a restrictive and

compulsory guideline on vitamins and minerals to be adopted that could

overrule U.S. law and Canadian regulations with regard to dietary

supplements.

And then the moment we were all waiting for - at 3:45 pm on July 4th

in Rome - we received a slap on the face and a swipe against our

independence. In a stuffy, sweltering room holding about 500 delegates

from 85 countries and many trade groups only one lone consumer

Non-Government Organization (NGO) spoke out -National Health

Federation. In that instant history was made and health was unmade

-Codex adopted restrictive vitamin and mineral guidelines.

At a time in history, with the developed world suffering from bad

nutrition, malnutrition and obesity; with our nutrient-deficient,

factory-farmed food, contaminated by pesticides and herbicides; with

existing regulations favoring packaged, processed, homogenized food;

and a developing world not always knowing where their next meal

(nutritious or not) is coming from, Codex, under the guidance of

Germany and the European Union, adopted a draconian guideline for

dietary supplements that puts severe restrictions on the trade of

nutrients above a certain low level.

It's even worse than that. Delegates from 85 countries adopted a blank

piece of paper (risk assessment and safe upper limits for nutrients)

to be filled in later when a committee -behind closed doors, decides

on what actual amounts of supplements will be allowed according to

so-called " risk assessment " .

In my book, Death by Modern Medicine, I make the point that peanuts

are way more dangerous than dietary supplements and include a full

paper in the Appendix by Dr. Abram Hoffer attesting to the safety of

supplements and exposing the reason why modern medicine and Big Pharma

continually attacks them. It boils down to " follow the money " . The

enormous popularity of dietary supplements is hurting the drug

industry -an industry that wants to keep its dangerous drug monopoly

over all aspects of our health and disease.

Something else you need to know is that Dr. Rolf Grossklaus is the

German chairman of the Food and Dietary Supplement Committee of Codex

and he just happens to be a risk assessment expert in the German

government (which only allows high-potency vitamins and herbs by

prescription). His idea of vitamin and mineral risk is whether or not

they interfere with drugs!

As we said in " Kiss Your Vitamins Goodbye " , the REAL reason for

promotion of " risk assessment " is based on two agendas. First, to be

able to strip the over-the-counter marketplace of everything but low

quality, low dose-level products that won't do much to support or

improve health. Second, to set up the framework to allow Big Pharma to

take over the supplement market as a new form of drugs where prices

can be jacked up outrageously and doled out by doctors for a fee.

Codex also adopted the dietary supplement guidelines at the same time

officials were crying for more money from the WHO and FAO. Incredibly

the analogy was made of a child (Codex) asking for more from its

parents (WHO and FAO)! I heard it with my own ears!

Also at that meeting the WHO agenda was rolled out. A WHO

representative, Dr. Kerstin Leitner, from Germany, Assistant-General for Sustainable Development and Healthy Environments,

promoted the revised International Health Regulations that provided a

global regulatory framework for international health in her opening

remarks on July 4th. Later in the week she admonished the Codex

assembly that it was doing very little to support health in its work.

You can be sure that she will " follow the money " . If WHO is going to

give more money to Codex, it will likely do so under the banner of

Sustainable Development and Healthy Environments as indicated by Dr.

Leitner's title.

This, I know, will strike a cord with the people FOFI members met at

the Freedom 21 convention held in Reno, Nevada July 14-16, 2005, who

are aware that the sustainable development movement is a front for

taking away private property and educating children to be obedient

workers in the developing global economy. It's just another nail in

freedom's coffin and another piece of the interlocking trade agreement

puzzle that we are trying to solve.

These restrictive vitamin and mineral levels are already accepted

standards in Germany and being imposed on the European Union as of

August 2005. For example, anything above the low amount of 225 mg per

tablet of Vitamin C, or 15 mg of Vitamin E, or an incredibly low 5.4

mg of Vitamin B6 will have to be obtained with a doctor's prescription

-after you pay the doctor a fee, the dispensing fee, and the inflated

price -of course.

If you pursue the " follow the money " theory of global government you

realize that the two interests served with this restrictive vitamin

list are the doctors and the drug and vitamin companies that make

cheap synthetic vitamins. Banned are high quality, high potency,

natural source, innovative nutrients; bankrupted are the dietary

supplement companies that make them and the retailers and their staff

who sell them; and destined to suffer further nutritional deficiency

are you and me and the rest of the world population.

Our nutrients will not disappear tomorrow but take some pictures now

of the supplements on the shelf of your health food store. Better

still, take pictures of your health food store, because things are

going to change.

Codex is a joint venture between the United Nation's World Health

Organization and Food and Agriculture Organization (WHO/FAO) but

receives considerable input from The World Trade Organization (WTO),

which will now have powers to enforce Codex " guidelines " as the world

standard for trade in dietary supplements. Gradually, under

HARMonization, pill-by-pill, our access to the dietary supplements we

depend upon will disappear. This will happen because a focus on the

business of vitamins and not on the healthful benefits of vitamins

turns them into just another commodity. Like soap flakes, to be made

as cheaply as possible and sold to the highest bidder.

HARMonization also means that small and medium sized businesses and

multilevel marketing companies will eventually be forced out of

business if they try to sell high quality supplements across borders.

This will happen when some other country (European perhaps?) decides

that North American products constitute a " barrier " to selling their

lower quality products on our soil under the " Technical Barriers to

Trade " clauses in WTO, NAFTA, and CAFTA treaties.

When our Friends of Freedom International members spoke with the heads

of the U.S. and Canadian Codex delegations, they maintained that

vitamins and minerals would not be affected within our countries. But

they were both surprised to learn that since Canada forced supplements

into a drug category in January 2004 many U.S. companies are having

border issues and cannot trade with Canada until they comply with

Canada's new regulations. The same will happen all over the world when

the Codex standards for vitamins are implemented and enforced. Unless

countries comply with the new guidelines they won't be able to sell

their goods outside their own borders.

The U.S. and Canadian delegation also seems to be under the proverbial

gun because they have been constantly out-maneuvered by the European

Union, which seems to rule the roost at Codex. It appears, from what

we witnessed at Codex, that dietary supplements are the least of their

concerns -which is why we must make sure they realize that they are a

major concern for us, our health and the health of our loved ones. If

we don't do that, with might as well just Kiss Our Health Goodbye!

ACT NOW:

Go to www.friendsoffreedominternational.org and click on your elected

representatives and tell them to Say NO to CAFTA and Don't Touch DSHEA

in Any Way! Purchase " Death by Modern Medicine " and view and purchase

the new movie on Codex and Free Trade called " We Become Silent " by

Kevin Miller. Proceeds from the sale of these products are crucial to

help fund our health freedom action.

Carolyn Dean, MD, ND

July 23, 2005