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Sunday, September 19, 2004 4:25 PM

An article from The News & Observer (Raleigh, NC)

 

 

 

 

Medford Mail Tribune Photo by Roy Musitelli Dietary dangers

U.S. regulators presume products are safe unless the government uncovers a

problem.

By WILLIAM TRIPLETT, CQ Researcher

 

 

About a year before Baltimore Orioles pitcher Steve Bechler's sudden

death in 2003, U.S. airman Todd Lee, 21, was riding in the back seat of his

mother's car in Oklahoma City. After a prolonged silence, she turned around to

see whether her son was OK. His hands were clenched, and a tear seemed frozen on

his face. He was dead.

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What people and especially the press seem not to get is that there is

ANOTHER obvious connection between sudden deaths, apart from ephedra

- it is the toxic sweetener ASPARTAME.

 

There is an article on my site:

 

<http://www.newmediaexplorer.org/sepp/2003/12/30/fda_bans_ephedra_deaths_may_be_\

aspartame_related.htm>FDA

bans Ephedra: deaths may be Aspartame related

 

Also, see this article on Rense.com

http://www.rense.com/general47/story.htm

 

The Ephedra Story & Aspartame

By Dr. Betty Martini

Bettym19

1-12-4

 

 

 

 

Our FDA opened the 2004 New Year by banning a beneficial and

harmless herbal supplement. If I had to explain the Ephedra case in

a paragraph, in a nutshell it has nothing to do with safety since its

been around for about 4000 years with no problems, and everything to

do with the FDA snatching another supplement for the pharmaceutical

industry.

 

You can still walk into any store and buy cigarettes. According to

the CDC approximately 442,398 deaths per year are attributed to

cigarette smoking. And the FDA insisted tobacco should come under

their jurisdiction because its addictive and a drug. Dr. David

Kessler was the one responsible for this. Was it to protect the

tobacco industry since its still on the market, even after class

action? A couple of years ago I saw a report on the Internet that

actually said since the FDA didn't ban tobacco it has to now be

considered safe! It took the lives of both of my parents.

 

According to Dave Fairbank in a January 6, 2004 article in the

Daily Press, ephedra has been linked to more than 100 deaths. A

comprehensive, FDA-commissioned review by the RAND Corporation that

considered every adverse reaction recorded in the agency's files and

the medical literature through 2002 identified only 20 cases of

serious symptoms among ephedra uses where there was an attempt to

rule out alternative explanations.

 

However, I would be willing to bet even in the 20 cases where there

was an attempt to rule out other sources no one asked these users if

they were also using aspartame. It has been said ephedra could be

linked to strokes or seizures or cardiovascular problems. Aspartame

is a seizure triggering drug and 4 different types of seizures are

listed on the FDA's report of 92 documented symptoms triggered by

this toxin including death. (www.dorway.com ). It triggers strokes,

and big time damages the cardiac conduction system and causes sudden

death. It triggers an irregular heart rhythm and interacts with all

cardiac medication. (Aspartame Disease: An Ignored Epidemic,

www.sunsentpress.com or 1 800 827 7991 H. J. Roberts, M.D.)

 

Most people who are trying to lose weight and use Ephedra are the

same people who are using aspartame (NutraSweet/Equal/Spoonful,

E951, Canderel, etc.). And unless you asked the person using ephedra

if he also uses aspartame, now being used by 2/3rds of the

population, and 40% of our kids, there would be no way of knowing.

And it can also be hidden in natural and artificial flavors.

 

Tim Sullivan said in the San Diego Union Tribune in Feb, 2003, that

whether Steve Bechler's passing (23 year old Baltimore Oriole

pitcher) should prompt baseball to ban ephedra-based products is a

more complicated matter, one that raises questions of civil rights

and individual responsibilities, and about the gap between medical

opinion and governmental regulations. But Steve Bechler's death

blamed on ephedra is a good example of exactly what I'm saying. At

the time of his death, H. J. Roberts, M.D. immediately called the

Broward County medical examiner, Dr. Joshua Perper and asked him how

many diet drinks was Bechler drinking. Dr. Perper didn't even know

why he asked. The Idaho Observer wrote the story, Aspartame

Poisoning Cover for Ephedra. It was finally disclosed Steve Belcher

had a weight problem, he would go without eating for a couple of

days and then drink diet pop with aspartame all day. He had a family

history of heart problems and aspartame destroys the heart. After

researching the issue its obvious that Steve Bechler did not die

because he was using ephedra, it was just another aspartame death!

Even Dr. Perper could only conclude that ephedrine " probably

contributed " to his death but this doctor was not knowledgeable of

aspartame's effect on the heart nor did he know that Steve Belcher

was using it.

 

Consider silicone breast implants. These women who were concerned

about beauty are the very same class of women concerned about

weight. And even though aspartame is not even a diet product, but

rather a neurotoxic drug that makes you crave carbohydrates, these

women didn't know that. Studies were done on silicone and found not

to cause systemic disease. Yet women were coming down with such

things as multiple sclerosis and lupus. Aspartame has triggered a

tremendous epidemic of MS and lupus. Basically it destroys the

central nervous system and mimics MS. (See position paper by Dr. H.

J. Roberts, MS or Aspartame Disease? on www.dorway.com ) And we've

gotten many off this toxin and had them walk out of wheelchairs, and

some even reported their lesions disappeared. As to lupus, Dr. James

Bowen pointed out that aspartame is an adjuvant, forms antigenic

tissue, triggering immunologic attack. " The ability of methyl

alcohol/formaldehyde to create antigenicity, especially as combined

in aspartame molecules is so great as to cause severe autoimmune

reactions to the tissues deformed by formaldehyde polemerization,

adduct formation. The immune system turns against the victim's

tissues: lupus. " Did anyone ask the silicone breast implant victims

if they were using aspartame? This is not to say that there aren't

problems with silicone breast implants, especially if they rupture.

An informant who called said he had worked with aspartame,

formaldehyde, silicone and Kodak, and the problem is that when these

silicone breast implants rupture and come in contact with the

formaldehyde from aspartame, you will get all kinds of deformities.

The President of DOW was concerned enough to contact Dr. Roberts but

what happened after getting the facts we will probably never know.

Did he contact Monsanto? Who knows. But they paid off in class

action. Dr. Roberts wrote a small book on silicone breast implants

and aspartame. www.sunsentpress.com

 

Dr. Bowen says because of aspartame's extreme toxicity even minute

doses are destructive, damaging fetal nervous systems and related

structures. Eyes and hearing come to mind. All tissues are similarly

damaged as beyond its functional neurological intoxicating effects,

methyl alcohol/formaldehyde is the strongest organic base in the

living organism and is a polymerizing agent, turning tissue into

plastic. From such poisoning there is no escape, it is obligatory

metabolism by alcoholdehydrogenase of methyl alcohol into nascent

formaldehyde, occurring 75% in the cytosol (cytoplasm) and 25% in

the mitochondria. Ask the FDA why they allow aspartame on the market

with free methyl alcohol. I guarantee they will not answer you. Dr.

Roberts has asked them for years.

 

So again, we're back to the same point. It's like when Tryptophan

was banned by the FDA after some deaths. No health food store would

have sold it had they known it came from a manufacturer using genetic

engineering. It was an isolated case. It had nothing to do with

whether tryptophan was safe. It just wasn't safe to be sold in a

health food store at $5.99. The last time I checked it was safe for

a pharmaceutical company to sell a smaller amount of tryptophan for

over $100.00 a bottle, and that was years ago.

 

The situation was stated correctly during congressional hearings.

Cynthia Culmo, R.Ph., a former official with the Texas Department of

Health said: " The situation isn't a scientific issue any longer.

It's a political issue, won by a political agenda. "

 

John W. Olney, M.D., was asked by the Ephedra Education Council to

review some of the FDA cases. Go to (http://www.ephedrafacts.com)

for the full report. Dr. Olney, one of the most renowned

neuroscientists in the world founded the field of neuroscience

called excitotoxicity. Read his CV on www.dorway.com In l969 he

published in Science, evidence that monosodium glutamate (MSG),

destroys nerve cells in the brain when fed to infant animals. He

also published evidence demonstrating that aspartame (NutraSweet)

destroys nerve cells when fed to infant animals, and published

evidence linking aspartame ingestion to an increased incidence of

malignant brain tumors.

 

Dr. Olney along with Attorney James Turner, Washington, D.C. did

everything possible to try and prevent the approval of aspartame.

His excellent report to the Board of Inquiry of the FDA even

explaining what would happen to the brains of our kids (prophecy

fulfilled) is on CD and available from www.greatfallspro.com along

with the Congressional Record on aspartame and the Board of Inquiry

report of the FDA saying aspartame is not safe and should not be

approved.

 

The adverse event reports Dr. Olney examined include those reviewed

for FDA by Doctors Ricaute and Stoll. Dr. Olney says out of 28

cases, there is not a single case that the expert reviewers rated as

having a highly probable causal association with ingestion of Ephedra.

 

In Case #12837, a self acknowledged cocaine addict inquires whether

there are any class action lawsuits pending against ephedrine he can

get in on.

 

In Case #13380 this 18 year old college student worked out with

weights. Brought unconscious to the hospital but expired in a " brain

dead " condition the following day, it was the opinion of the

neurologist who examined him and analyzed his CT scan this was a

typical case of a ruptured berry aneurysm. Dr. Olney stated these

aneurysms typically rupture at some point in early to mid-adulthood

when an individual is physically straining, as in lifting weights.

The blood screen for drugs revealed no detectable level of ephedrine

but the urine analysis revealed trace amounts of ephedrine and

norephedrine, suggesting he may have taken some preparation

containing a small amount of ephedrine.

 

Dr. Olney points out the letter from Dr. Ricaute while concluding

Ephedra represents a significant public risk, not to the general

population but to specific individuals who have increased

vulnerability to certain illness perhaps in combination with other

stimulants. So that Olney says what Dr. Ricaurte has expressed is

the type of concern that might be expressed for sodium chloride

(common table salt) or caffeine.

 

In putting the situation in context, Dr. Olney says: " In that Dr.

Ricaurte has not identified any EA related risk of central nervous

system effects in the general population, his expert opinion does

not strengthen, but rather weakens, the FDA position. In fact, Dr.

Ricaurte's statement serves to highlight a basic insistency in the

FDA position, which is that the regulatory agency is apparently

attempting to apply a DOUBLE STANDARD, one standard for common

constituents and/or additive to foods (e.g. sodium chloride,

caffeine) which FDA does not attempt to police in the marketplace,

and another standard for a dietary supplement Ephedra which FDA

appears to be attempting to police. The FDA position is rendered

even more untenable by the fact that the agency appears to be trying

to police ephedrine in the dietary supplement marketplace but not in

the over-the-counter marketplace. Thus, there appear to be glaring

inconsistencies in the FDA position, regarding Ephedra, and Dr.

Ricaurte's expert statement helps to make these inconsistencies

apparent.

 

In Case 12464 a father believes his 22 year old son is addicted to

" Ripped Fuel " . There is no evidence of addiction provided and Dr.

Olney says this twitching about the mouth reported known in medicine

as a " perioral dyskinesia " or " perioral tic " is a common affliction

frequently seen in ones who have never ingested Ephedra.

 

Talking about addiction, consider aspartame. The chronic methanol

poisoning affects the dopamine system of the brain and causes the

addiction. Methanol is classified as a narcotic. Four support groups

on line expose the suffering of those trying to break this addiction

and get over the afflictions this chemical poison causes that fill a

1000 page medical text, Aspartame Disease: An Ignored Epidemic, by

H. J. Roberts, M.D. www.sunsentpress.com or 1 800 827 7991

 

Charles Fleming was so addicted to aspartame he demanded his son

keep the fridge filled with diet pop. It cost him his life. Fleming

was a basketball player and death came soon after this and other

exercise. Athletes everywhere appear to be dropping like flies

because aspartame damages the cardiac conduction system and causes

sudden death. According to neurosurgeon Russell Blaylock, M.D., in

Excitotoxins: The Taste That Kills (www.russellblaylockmd.com) the

heart's electrical system contains numerous glutamate receptors,

making the heart very susceptible to injury by food based

excitotoxins such as the aspartate in aspartame and MSG. He says

this may explain the rising incidence of congestive heart failure

and sudden cardiac death, following ingestion of meals containing

high concentrations of excitotoxins.

 

In the case of Fleming the chronic methanol poisoning on autopsy

from aspartame was thought to be murder, and his wife Diane, a sweet

Sunday School teacher was sentenced to 50 years in a hardened

Virginia prison. The FDA knows about this case but has no concern.

Nor do they show any concern sudden cardiac death is the nation's #1

killer ending the lives of about a half a million people a year

without warning, and that 2/3rds of the population is on this

neurotoxic drug masquerading as an additive, as well as 40% of our

children. The FDA is concerned about an herb, chinese mahaung that

has been used for thousands of years.

 

Continuing with Dr. Olney report, case 12860. Here a mother

believes her son's behavior has changed since he started taking an

unidentified Ephedra product being distributed at a local gym. It

seems her son has left his wife who is eight months pregnant, is

drinking excessively and has stopped going to church. The son denies

he has a problem.

 

Dr. Ricaurte suggested humans consuming Ephedra might place them at

a high risk to develop parkinsonism. Dr. Olney pointed out this

would seem highly speculative in that Parkinsonism involves a

massive loss of dopamine nerve cells, causing the symptoms of tremor,

disturbance in gait, etc. Yet animals exposed to Ephedra have not

been shown to have a loss of dopamine nerve cells. Dr. Olney in

discussing Dr. Ricaurte comments about Parkinsonism having to do

with ephedra said: " ... but if the animal data predict a type of

risk ( early onset of Parkinsonism) that has never materialized in

two thousands years of human Ephedra consumption, these animal

findings would appear to have no human relevance. "

 

In the case of aspartame, it is so responsible for Parkinson's that

it's already documented in three medical texts, Aspartame Disease:

An Ignored Epidemic, and Defense Against Alzheimers Disease by H. J.

Roberts, M.D., and Excitotoxins: The Taste That Kills by neurosurgeon

Russell Blaylock, M.D. As Dr. James Bowen brought out in a paper

relating to the Gulf War Syndrome, (www.wnho.net), aspartic acid,

the excitotoxic component of aspartame does not cross the blood

brain barrier but is secreted into the cerebral spinal fluid by the

choroid plexus located in the ventricles of the brain. There, in the

brain's lower area and upper terminus of the spinal cord is where

Parkinson's Disease is most prominent, as well as Lou Gehrigs and

Multiple Sclerosis. These critical locations are bathed in the toxin

as it removes from the blood. From the third to fourth ventricle

there is a narrow canal called sylvian aqueduct which fills with

this secretion and washes the roof of the hypothalamus. But the FDA

with full knowledge pays no attention even though they know it even

interacts with L-dopa and other Parkinson drugs. So Parkinson

patients like Michael Fox, for instance, has no way of being warned.

A former Diet Pepsi spokesman once made the comment that he didn't

understand how he could get an old man's disease at the age of 30.

Just get those supplements away from the public so the

pharmaceutical companies can increase their greed every year. There

is even a book about it by Mike Fillon, The Truth About Ephedra. He

uncovers a scandalous connection between the pharmaceutical industry

and government regulators to attack dietary supplements.

 

If the FDA were concerned about Parkinson's Disease and consumer

safety there would be a lot of things banned. In Health & Nutrition

Secrets To Save Your Life by neurosurgeon Russell Blaylock, M.D.,

there is discussion about aspartame and even mercury in triggering

Parkinson's. And he says in l976 Dr. Wolfgang Klein and co-workers

demonstrated that cells exposed to 1 ppm fluoride exhibit a 50

percent reduction in DNA repair enzyme activity. Not only does this

increase cancer risk it also encourages aggravation of degenerative

diseases of the nervous system such as Alzheimer's disease,

Parkinson's disease and Lou Gehrigs disease (ALS), as well as other

degenerative diseases of aging. When unrepaired DNA damage occurs in

reproductive cells, the damage is passed on to children as well. It

has been proven beyond any shadow of a doubt how deadly are vaccines

with mercury, and amalgams. And fluoride is a deadly, deadly

neurotoxin. If the FDA was concerned about Parkinson's disease, the

first to go would be aspartame, msg, and mercury long, long ago.

 

Dr. Blaylock brings out a profound point in this book, and that is

in the case of diet drinks in aluminum cans, the very toxic brain

aluminum fluoride compound co-exists with multiple toxins found in

aspartame, thus creating the most powerful government approved toxic

soup imaginable! And the FDA is concerned about ephedra, the

healthful herbal plant, ma haung???? To ban ephedra with aspartame

on the market is like choosing to ban brussel sprouts instead of

cyanide!

 

Ephedra is a wonderful herb and it would be disastrous if

herbalists lose the ability to use it. It's one of the best

bronchodilators from the plant kingdom that is extremely valuable

when used for asthma and allergies. Without it, one would have to

turn to drugs which is what the pharmaceutical industry wants. After

all, the proof of drug company influence is that far higher doses of

the concentrated synthetic analog of ephedra are still available,

and in far higher doses per pill than the herbal form, as brought

out by Allan Spreen, M.D. Sudafed stands for pseudo-ephedrine. He

says there is no limit on the dose you might want to take. Dr. Spreen

made the point hundreds of people die every year due to complications

associated with aspirin and acetaminophen. But they are not going to

take aspirin off the market.

 

Aspartame interacts with all cardiac medication, all

anti-depressants, L-dopa, Coumadin, hormones and even insulin. The

FDA knows it and shows no concern whatsoever. To make matters worse

they lie to the public and tell them its safe when their own Board

of Inquiry Report said its not and asked that aspartame not be

approved. It was Dr. Arthur Hull Hayes who over-ruled that report.

At the time Don Rumsfeld was CEO and said he would call in his

markers and get it approved, which is in the Congressional Record

and an eight month investigation of aspartame by United Press

International (www.dorway.com).

 

Aspartame simulates and aggravates diabetic retinopathy and

neuropathy, and even can precipitate diabetes. Aspartame is

responsible for macular degeneration, diabetic blindness and

glaucoma, known to result from excitotoxin accumulation in the

retina. Aspartame not only can precipitate neurodegenerative disease

but naturally they are worsened by aspartame and other excitotoxins.

In addition, we now have good evidence that excitotoxins play a

major role in exacerbation of MS and other demyelinating disorders

including trigeminal neuralia. New studies have shown that

excitotoxins trigger significant elevation of free radicals in the

lining (endothelial cells) of arteries which means that products

with aspartame can increase the incidence of heart attacks and

strokes. And there is a tumor connection not only brain tumors, but

mammary, testicular, thyroid, uterine, ovarian and pancreatic for

starters. It is a Class A carcinogen and the FDA's own toxicologist,

the late Dr. Adrian Gross, told Congress aspartame violated the

Delaney Amendment which forbid putting something in food you know

will cause cancer because without a shadow of a doubt it can trigger

brain tumors and brain cancer. (Congressional Record SID835:131,

August 1, l985).

 

Dr. Olney concluded in his report the FDA position is

self-contradictory. " The reality is that ephedrine and its analogs

have been in widespread use of OTC drugs for many years, during which

neither their abuse potential nor their adverse side effect

potential has been sufficiently impressive to cause FDA to even

impose stringent labeling requirements on the OTC use of these

agents. For many years, consumers have been ingesting large amounts

of caffeine in coffee, tea, caffeinated soft drinks, etc. together

with OTC ephedrine, and FDA has shown no concern that ingesting

these sources of caffeine together with OTC ephedrine poses a

problem from the standpoint of either abuse potential or side effect

potential. To the best of my knowledge, FDA has not established that

ephedra contained in dietary supplement preparations is less safe

than ephedrine contained in OTC preparations. Given FDA's precedent

of inaction and lack of concern regarding the use of OTC ephedrine,

either alone or in combination with multiple sources of caffeine, it

seems inconsistent and self contradictory for FDA to now claim that

dietary supplement sources of ephedrine (but not OTC sources of

ephedrine) pose a serious publish health problem. "

 

Personal note to FDA:

 

I would like to know how you would ever know if there is an ephedra

reaction. It has been used for thousands of years without problems.

Inasmuch, as aspartame is a seizure triggering drug that destroys

the immune system, the central nervous system, the brain and the

optic nerve, and ravages every organ in the system, unless you asked

specifically if the consumer was using aspartame, there would be no

way of knowing if these reactions were simply not the result of the

Aspartame Disease Epidemic FDA approved in l981.

 

For years I've received comments from people who happened to run

into one of the three scientists who worked on the aspartame project

who left Searle in disgust. One lady said years ago " he said one day

they will be dropping in the streets " , and that is what is happening.

I've already sent you the report on sudden death and aspartame. The

autopsies of athletes that have been reported are classic of what

you would find with aspartame even including cardiomyopathy. As Dr.

James Bowen said in a paper cardiomyopathy from toxic and auto

immune causes has long been appreciated. Since aspartame is indeed a

toxic, mitochondrial and auto immune killer who could expect less!

The heart is especially targeted in alcohol poisonings of all kinds.

Since the intact aspartame molecule is an alcohol poison about

twenty thousand times as toxic as most beverage alcohols, and since

most of the damage from the beverage alcohol comes from its methanol

content, aspartame, which has the methanol-formaldehyde-formic acid

toxic axis as one of its highly aggravated toxic components, could

very predictably cause extreme damage of all organs in the body.

 

H. J. Roberts, M.D., in his recent article, Aspartame Disease: An

FDA-Approved Epidemic wrote that products containing the chemical

sweetener aspartame can have multiple neurotoxic, metabolic,

allergenic, fetal and carcinogen effects. Further he said " The

existence of aspartame disease continues to be denied by the FDA and

powerful corporate entities. Its magnitude, however, warrants

removal of this chemical as an " imminent public health threat " . The

use of aspartame products by over two-thirds of the population, and

inadequate evaluation by corporate-partial investigators underscore

this opinion. "

 

How do you allow a chemical poison on the market that interacts

with just about very drug used to treat the problems it causes? John

Hammell, President of the International Advocates for Health Freedom

wrote: " The FDA ban on ephedra is illegal under the Administrative

Procedures Act. Under the law, the FDA must act in a consistent way

in their regulations. It is not legal for the FDA to ban the herb ma

huang (ephedra) while leaving pseudoephedrine, which is far more

dangerous, on the market in a slew of OTC cold formulas marketed by

multinational drugs companies. " He refers people to

http://www.ephedrafacts.com/ to keep things in perspective and says:

" If this ban is not challenged in court and overturned, it will set

a horrible legal precent that would enable the FDA to ban literally

ANY dietary supplement under equally false pretenses. All the FDA is

actually doing with this ban is protecting the prescription market

of pharmaceutical weight loss medication which is far more dangerous

than ephedra. My concern is the ban on ephedra may not serve as the

wake up call to the supplement industry that it should. This is an

industry which has been set up for global destruction, but most

vitamin companies, health food stores and consumers don't realize

what's going on or what to do about it. That is because vitamin

trade associations world wide are being denominated the top down by

pharmaceutical interests which are actively keeping them in the dark

regarding Codex, the EU Food Supplement Directive, and related

globalization issues. " A new article discusses this:

http://www.thehealthcrusader.com/pgs/CrusadorNewsletterJan04.pdf -

" Europe Declares War Against Supplements!! Directive to Ban Many

Producers! " Had I known about the article and had the opportunity to

speak to the writer, I would have told him the matter is far worse

than thought. I have received several calls from the UK complaining

of severe medical problems because they received pharmaceutical

supplements that contained aspartame. One lady had almost lost her

vision because of aspartame in her calcium. As you well know since

the Community Nutrition Institute in Washington, D.C. petitioned the

FDA in l986 to ban aspartame because of seizures and blindness, the

methanol converts to formaldehyde and formic acid in the retina of

the eye and destroys the optic nerve.

 

And this reminds me - my citizens petition for banning aspartame on

the basis that FDA records show aspartame to be a chemical poison,

and yet FDA lies to the public, has yet to be answered. The law

allows 180 days and its been over a year and a half. Your excuse of

" competing priorities " is an example of how you refuse to answer

when you know it will prove your guilt, and how the FDA is legend at

serving above the law. Even Jerome Bressler said his FDA audit

(www.dorway.com) was so damning of aspartame that FDA had the worst

20% removed when it was retyped. Dr. Roberts who he also spoke with

had his congressman tell FDA to send the omitted part. The FDA letter

mentioned that sometimes things are confidential. I would imagine

they are always confidential when they indict the FDA of wrong-doing.

 

I write this report in the hope every member of Congress will

receive the real facts, and a court action will finally provide

justice for the consumer.

 

Dr. Betty Martini, Founder, Mission Possible Intl, 9270 River Club

Parkway, Duluth, Georgia 30097 770 242-2599 www.dorway.com and

www.wnho.net

 

 

 

At 16:39 -0400 19-09-2004, Nora Gottlieb wrote:

> To All,

>My husband read this article and missed the importance, many more

>will read this and be* snowed*. Just as I was about to send this on

>to all, I got an EMERGENCY notification from www.iahf.com

>International Health Freedom an organization that is fighting the

>Codex Alimentas , (part of the World Trade ORDER) to keep them from

>wrecking the vitamin/supplement industry and our ability to take/buy

>what we individually want to take. Please take time to read these

>two articles and understand...our personal rights are once more

>being eroded. We can let our elected officials and news sources

>understand what our needs are. Nora G-- Original Message -----

>Nora Gottlieb

>nwgott

>Sunday, September 19, 2004 4:25 PM

>An article from The News & Observer (Raleigh, NC)

>

>

>

>

> Medford Mail Tribune Photo by Roy Musitelli Dietary dangers

> U.S. regulators presume products are safe unless the

>government uncovers a problem.

> By WILLIAM TRIPLETT, CQ Researcher

>

>

> About a year before Baltimore Orioles pitcher Steve

>Bechler's sudden death in 2003, U.S. airman Todd Lee, 21, was riding

>in the back seat of his mother's car in Oklahoma City. After a

>prolonged silence, she turned around to see whether her son was OK.

>His hands were clenched, and a tear seemed frozen on his face. He

>was dead.

> For the complete story ...

>http://newsobserver.com/news/q/story/1652261p-7880466c.html

>

>

 

 

 

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