Life Under CODEX: DOCTOR YOURSELF Newsletter **EXTRA**

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Life Under CODEX: DOCTOR YOURSELF Newsletter **EXTRA**

Thu, 20 Jan 2005 15:04:16 -0500

 

 

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DOCTOR YOURSELF **EXTRA** (Vol. 5, No. 5, January 20, 2005)

 

LIFE UNDER CODEX

 

Excerpted from a Feb 2005 Vitality Magazine article

 

by Helke Ferrie

 

 

If the following were a horror movie, we could all sit back with our

popcorn

and enjoy it. Unfortunately, this is not fiction, and if we don't do

something about it, this nightmare will soon become waking reality in

the

USA and Canada.

 

In the mid-1990's my mother, then in her 80's, had a stroke. She lived

in

Germany. When she left hospital, I was ready with a nutritional plan

that

included high-dose vitamins: C, E, and B-complex, especially inositol,

as

well as Co-enzyme Q 10. I went to the pharmacy, whose owner was a

family

friend for some 25 years, and handed him my list.

 

The pharmacist handed me a small packet with a price sticker of DM 200

(then

about $200) containing vitamin E capsules manufactured by one of

Germany's

largest pharmaceutical companies. The source was synthetic, not the

" mixed "

version from living plant sources I wanted which contains the whole E

spectrum. The package contained a total of 10,000 international units

of E,

the equivalent of a mere 25 capsules of 400 IU each that we are used to

buying (I take that many in 3 days). In Canada, our bottles contain 90

capsules and cost about $20.

 

 

He then handed me a tube-shaped metal container with vitamin C

effervescent

tablets. Each tablet, when dissolved in water would release 10 mg of

vitamin

C in a refined sugar solution. The cost: about $10 for 12 tablets.

Twelve.

 

Then he asked me, " What's Co-enzyme Q-10? Are you allowed to buy all

this in

Canada in such dangerous dosages? "

 

When I told him what I take daily, his eyes popped. Then I asked, " Why

can't

I buy these supplements here? "

 

He replied, " Well, Germany is a CODEX country. " Oddly, Germany has

several

government-run hospitals where environmental illness is treated with

nutrients only, such as intravenous vitamin C.

 

Effective August 1, 2005, all vitamin and mineral supplements on a

so-called

" positive list, " including everything from beta carotene to zinc, will

only

be available in the 25 European Union countries if they comply with

specific

rules set out in the June 10, 2002, European Union Directive Relating

to

Food Supplements, or CODEX. What does it specifically mean?

 

1) All products must show " maximum safe levels, as established by

science. "

 

2) Those nutrients found in the mythic " balanced diet " are to be

subtracted

from the final values.

 

3) Article 6 decrees that labels shall " not attribute to food

supplements

the property of preventing, treating or curing a human disease, or

refer to

such properties. "

 

So, the Directive's " science " knows nothing of vitamin C preventing and

curing scurvy, vitamin D preventing and curing rickets and

osteoporosis, or

vitamin B complex curing and preventing pellagra and anemia. It also

ignores

the mountain of evidence showing our diets are chronically deficient in

essential nutrients because of factory-style farming practices. To

" ensure a

high level of protection for consumers and facilitate their choice " ,

they

even included baking soda and table salt. Must assume they, too, will

be

unavailable as of August 1 anywhere in Europe? What interesting

consequences

for the tourist industry in the baked goods paradises Austria,

Switzerland

and France.

 

Now, there is also a " negative list " covering essential fatty acids,

phytonutrients, all the enzymes and more. Those cannot be marketed AT

ALL,

until the EU scientific committee in charge has made a final decision.

So,

forget omega-3, cod liver oil, and much more. The effect of this

directive

will be that thousands of products and businesses will be gone this

year. In

the UK alone some 21 million people will suddenly have no access to any

supplement vitamins, minerals, enzymes, fatty acids and more. Since the

onus

is on businesses to produce the scientific information on safety, they

can't

produce or sell anything, not even to physicians who have the power to

prescribe any toxic drug as well as any safe and essential nutrient.

Obviously, there will be ludicrous enforcement issues: can you picture

basement-concocted vitamins sold in dark alleys?

 

Hundreds of thousands of people die every year in North America from

properly prescribed and ingested drugs. CODEX's effort to save us all

from

supposedly " dangerous " food supplements, by requiring their

(non-existent)

toxicity levels, is a determined backlash against the turn medical

science

took starting with Linus Pauling, Abram Hoffer, Carl Pfeiffer and Roger

Williams in the 1950's. They established the concepts of

bio-individuality

in absorption and detoxification, high-dose essential nutrients as

disease-curing, and environmental toxins acting as nutrient-depleting.

Today, we have a flood of evidence showing that drugs have a very

limited

usefulness and that high-dose nutrients work better than drugs.

 

The pharmaceutical industry is anything but slow-witted, and good

business

practice dictates outfoxing the competition - one way or another - to

secure

the market. If the CODEX Directive is not stopped, there will be only

one

medical world: the pharmaceutical world. When this whole CODEX project

began

in 2001, some 180 million protest letters reached their office, but

CODEX

didn't give up on " protecting " us. Now the fight is on in each country,

because the European Union's problem is now everyone's problem.

 

(Reprinted with the kind permission of the author.)

 

EDITOR'S NOTE: Unless you like that " back alley " vitamin-buying

scenario

that Ms. Ferrie refers to, get out your pen and write to your

newspapers.

For more action information:

 

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

 

http://www4.dr-rath-foundation.org/THE_FOUNDATION/Events/codex2004pat.htm

 

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

 

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

 

http://www.iahf.com

 

http://www.glycommunity.com/iahf to watch a free on-line video

 

For my previous discussions about CODEX:

 

http://www.doctoryourself.com/news/v2n12.txt

 

http://www.doctoryourself.com/news/v3n21.txt

 

http://www.doctoryourself.com/news/v4n21.txt

 

http://www.doctoryourself.com/news/v4n22.txt

 

Best wishes,

A. Saul

 

Andrew W. Saul

http://www.doctoryourself.com

Contributing Editor,

Journal of Orthomolecular Medicine (http://www.orthomed.org)

 

For information about my book, " DOCTOR YOURSELF: Natural Healing that

Works "

please go to http://www.doctoryourself.com/saulbooks.html .

 

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