CAFTA Alert: Dr. Nick Gonzalez Says Patients Will Die In At Congressmen's Offices If CAFTA Passes

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IAHF List: Dr.Gonzalez has done a good job of dramatizing

this issue with this eye opening article and letter to his

congressman.

 

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CAFTA Alert: Dr. Nick Gonzalez Says Patients Will

" Die In " If CAFTA Passes

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July 18, 2005

 

 

An important alert from veteran investigative journalist

Peter Barry Chowka (p.b.chowka):

 

CAFTA, the Central American Free Trade Agreement, is

scheduled to be voted on by the U.S. House of Representatives

before the end of July. The vote is expected to be close. In

the balance may hang our freedom to access nutritional

supplements. It is becoming clearer now that CAFTA intersects

with other questionable international trade agreements and

the UN's CODEX to pose a potential threat to U.S. consumers'

continued freedom to access therapeutic dose nutritional

supplements.

 

In an exclusive new story, I am reporting today as the

countdown to the CAFTA vote moves into its final days that

pioneering innovative cancer physician Nicholas Gonzalez, M.D.

has issued a challenge to members of Congress: If CAFTA

passes the House and access to supplements is affected, he

writes (see below), many of his cancer patients have promised

that they will put a new twist on a traditional form of

American protest - they will sit in at their Congressmen's

offices and stay there until they die.

 

A copy of the article is included in this e-mail. Please

feel free to forward it on. The article, with updates, can be

read at these URLs:

 

 

http://members.aol.com/pbchowka/gonzalez-cafta.html

 

 

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Leading Innovative Cancer Doc

Nicholas Gonzalez, M.D. Warns Congress on CAFTA:

If the House Votes 'Yes' And Access to Nutritional

Supplements Is Limited,

Cancer Patients Will Sit In At Your Offices

Until They Die

© By Peter Barry Chowka

(July 17, 2005) Nicholas Gonzalez, M.D. , a pioneering

practitioner of leading edge nutritional medicine in the

United States, has taken a strong stand on the CAFTA bill

currently being considered in the House of Representatives. He

promises that if CAFTA passes, is signed into law, and winds

up limiting the ability of Americans to get high dose

nutritional supplements, many of his cancer patients will sit in

at their Congressmen's offices until they die.

 

In his private practice in New York City, Gonzalez treats

patients, most of them with cancer, exclusively with

nutrition, supplements, and detoxification, avoiding conventional

therapies and so-called integrative approaches that attempt

to combine orthodox treatments with complementary adjuncts.

In 1999, after publishing a pilot study in a medical

journal on the success of his treatment on advanced pancreatic

cancer patients, Gonzalez received an unprecedented $1.4

million grant from the National Institutes of Health to conduct

a prospective clinical trial of his therapy. That trial is

still ongoing.

 

On July 15, 2005, Gonzalez wrote letters to his member of

Congress, Rep. Carolyn Maloney (D-NY), and the Speaker of

the House of Representatives, Dennis Hastert (R-IL). The

subject was Gonzalez' vehement opposition to H.R. 3045 CAFTA,

the Central American Free Trade Agreement which is scheduled

to be voted on by the House before the end of the month.

CAFTA has already passed the U.S. Senate by a close vote.

 

Gonzalez provided me with copies of his letters and gave me

permission to publish and comment on them.

 

Gonzalez critiques CAFTA and its potential to limit

Americans' freedom to access nutritional supplements. In addition,

he informs the two members of Congress that if CAFTA passes

the House, is signed into law, and results in supplement

freedom being curtailed, his patients will sit in at their

Congressmen's offices " until they die. " In the letter to

Hastert, Gonzalez adds, " That will include your office,

incidentally, since they perceive you as being in charge of the

House. "

 

CAFTA, along with NAFTA, GATT, activities of the United

Nations' (UN) WHO (World Health Organization), FAO (Food and

Agriculture Organization), and CODEX, is one of an alphabet

soup of policies, programs, and highly bureaucratized and

unresponsive international agencies that, in the context of

an increasingly globalized one world economy, are coming

together to change the way of life and impact personal

freedom in individual nations, including the United States. As

has become clear only recently, CAFTA represents a

potentially serious threat to Americans' (that is, residents of the

United States') ability to purchase nutritional supplements,

especially at therapeutic (high) dose levels.

 

For almost a decade, a relatively small number of analysts,

medical professionals , journalists, consumer

organizations, and activists has been monitoring developments re: CODEX

and how CODEX might affect freedom to buy and use a range

of nutritional supplements in the U.S. and other countries.

The murky CODEX issue has been particularly difficult to

unravel and to educate and mobilize consumers around - very

much unlike earlier struggles regarding nutritional

supplements, which always involved a single piece of legislation in

the U.S. Congress that was identifiable as either bad or

good by proponents of nutritional medicine and freedom of

medical choice.

 

This summer, a number of developments, involving CODEX,

CAFTA, a decision by a court of the European Union (EU) on

regulating supplements in the EU member countries, etc., are

accelerating the recognition that limitations on nutritional

supplement freedom in the US are fast approaching.

Previously, that dire scenario may have seemed unlikely to come to

pass, but in fact, as Gonzalez contends, It can happen

here.

 

 

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A copy of the Gonzalez letter to Maloney:

 

 

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July 15, 2005

 

Congresswoman Carolyn Maloney

1651 Third Avenue #311

New York, New York 10128

 

Dear Congresswoman Maloney:

 

I am writing with some desperation to express my strong

opposition to CAFTA which is soon coming up for a vote in the

House of Representatives. I sincerely hope someone in your

staff reads this letter, as the lives of my patients could

be in jeopardy should CAFTA pass and become law.

 

I am a physician who lives in your district, and practices

in Manhattan. I have a very traditional medical education

background (AB Brown, postgraduate work at Columbia, MD at

Cornell, fellowship in cancer immunology). Since I was a

medical student, first under the direction of the then

President of the Sloan Kettering Institute, I began researching

intensive nutritional approaches to the treatment of advanced

cancer. Though in the past my work has been considered

controversial, in recent years I have received significant

academic support. In 1993, the National Cancer Institute

invited me to present my work to a senior level group in

Bethesda, and at their suggestion I pursued my first clinical

trial, an evaluation of my approach in the treatment of

inoperable pancreatic cancer, considered the most deadly of

cancers. The results of that effort, which went beyond anything

previously documented for the disease, were published in 1999

in the research journal Nutrition and Cancer. As a result

of that study, the National Cancer Institute awarded me a

large grant to support further clinical trials of my work,

currently being conducted at the Columbia University College

of Physicians and Surgeons. My current approach involves

the use of high dose pancreatic enzyme and nutritional

therapy in the treatment of advanced malignancies, and does not

involve the use of chemotherapy. All the supplements we

prescribed are considered nutritional supplements; though we

have full FDA approval for the study, none of these

supplements required a prescription. I want to mention that my

research has been strongly supported by both Republicans and

Democrats, particularly Senator Tom Harkin and Congressman Dan

Burton, both of whom have met with me to discuss my work.

 

What does this have to do with CAFTA? Everything, since

should CAFTA pass in the US, by the definitions of CAFTA, my

therapy, the clinical trial itself, could become illegal.

 

Few Congressmen and certainly few Senators realize that

CAFTA requires harmonization with existing European

legislation regarding food and dietary supplements under the CODEX

regulations. This is the genesis of the potential problem.

The pharmaceutical industry has in Europe mounted a

relentless campaign to use CODEX to virtually eliminate the over the

counter sales of most nutritional and herbal supplements,

and turn them into prescription items which could then be

sold at much higher prices, completely under the control of

drug companies.

 

Currently, as you probably know, nutritional supplements

are available over the counter in this country, and do not

require a prescription. I believe as a physician and

scientist that this easy availability of such products has been of

great benefit to millions of Americans, as a substantial

and ever increasing amount of scientific literature supports

the beneficial effects of many nutrients that are too often

inadequately provided in food.

 

CAFTA, if passed, would require the US harmonize its

dietary supplement legislation with that of CODEX, forbid the

over-the-counter sale of the great majority of useful

supplements, and destroy the valuable US supplement industry. Since

my therapy utilizes only nutritional supplements, should

CAFTA pass, and CODEX supercede American protection of their

availability, my treatment would come to an end, my

promising research would be dismantled, and many hundreds of my

patients whose lives depend on this treatment will die. I am

not exaggerating, and any of your staff are invited to come

to my office to discuss these critical issues with me.

 

Nutritional supplements have a long history of safety

except in very rare cases when misused; their safety profile is

far more impressive than that of many over the counter

drugs such as aspirin, which yearly is responsible for several

hundred deaths. Nutritional supplements as currently

available offer many benefits in terms of disease prevention and

good health, as documented clearly in the extensive

nutritional literature, and they are a subject about which

millions of Americans are passionate. You may not be aware, but

for 30 years the pharmaceutical industry in the US has sought

to gain complete control of what they perceive as a

lucrative industry, by turning nutritional supplements into

prescription items. Their attempts, often hidden beyond sacred

tenets of " consumer protection from dangerous supplements, "

have little to do with the consumer and everything to do

with industry control.

 

Many of my own patients are desperate, as they learn the

dangers of CAFTA and CODEX to their lives. But that's just

the beginning; within the past few weeks, millions of

Americans, including many who feel their health depends on the

availability of their supplements, have started to organize.

The political ramifications are enormous. I have scores of

my advanced cancer patients who have already said should

CAFTA pass and their supplement supply be compromised, they

will picket the offices of any Congressman and Senator who

voted for CAFTA, and they plan to stay and die right in front

of the offices. [emphasis added.]

 

I have been rather amazed that so many politicians seem

unaware of what CODEX is, how the drug companies have used it

to infiltrate CAFTA, and its true origins from the

pharmaceutical industry who have failed for thirty years to get

control of the supplement business.

 

I hope you believe that I am not exaggerating when I tell

you a vote for CAFTA is a vote for the death of my patients.

 

For your information, I do have a website with rather

extensive discussions about me and my work. The address is:

 

www.dr-gonzalez.com

 

I look forward to hearing from you.

 

Sincerely,

 

Nicholas Gonzalez, M.D.

 

 

For Health Freedom,

John C. Hammell, President

International Advocates for Health Freedom

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Point Roberts, WA 98281-8702 USA

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