[alternacare] NUTRIENTS FOR THE KING BUT NONE FOR THE SERFS... CODEX: EVERYONE NEEDS TO PUSH AGAINST THIS INSIDIOUS INSANITY PLEASE RE-POST & SHARE THIS KNOWLEDGE....OR TALES FROM THE DARKSIDE!

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Fwd: Nutrients for the King But None for the

Serfs!

 

 

Posted by: " Rich Putman "

rich.putman

richputman

 

 

 

Tue Nov 13, 2007 8:29 pm (PST)

Some people may have issues with the credibility of the Natural

Solutions

Foundation. But when it comes to their fight against Codex, at least

on that

issue for sure, they're " good guys " . Codex is an evil

attempt to force

people to only have prescription drug choices rather than

appropriate

amounts of nutritional supplements. I.e., if you can't beat 'em fair

and

square in the market place, then outlaw the natural choice.

Codex is a LONG term effort. The people behind it are incredibly

patient. If

it takes them decades to get their way, so be it ... is their

attitude. That

makes for a formidable foe.

SO many people in North America take nutritional supplements, it's

hard for

me to comprehend that people would let the government take away that

right

without a serious fight. But the Codex strategy is to just keep at

it, keep

at it, keep at it. As I understand it, they're using the means of the

World

Trade Organization - which the USA belongs to. The idea is that if

the WTO

has certain [bogus] " safety " regulations in place, then all

member nations

have to follow those regulations. Thus, if too much vitamin C is

considered

unsafe, then vendors in the US can no longer sell

" excessive " dose levels of

vitamin C.

The bottom line to the story is " Follow the money " .

Prescription drugs are

incredibly profitable, because patents are involved. Vitamins,

minerals,

etc. were provided by God to us and so are not patentable and nowhere

near

as profitable. So the mantra of the pharma industry is " go for

the big

bucks " and outlaw that small potatoes stuff - the natural

stuff.

That's my short take on a pretty complex story. But if you research

Codex

yourself, I believe you'll come to the same conclusion.

Below is a recent issue of the newsletter from the Natural Solutions

Foundation.

Rich Putman

November 13, 2007

*TALES FROM THE CODEX CRYPT*

* PLEASE FORWARD WIDELY*

**

*CODEX NUTRITION CHIEF: *

**

*MINERALS MAY BE GOOD FOR THE *

*MASTERS BUT *

*THEY'RE TOO GOOD FOR YOU*

* Rolf Grossklaus has a bad foot. He has admitted to taking illegal

substances to help it heal: Boron, Vanadium (along with possibly

legal

doses of Calcium - legal, that is, IF the dose he is taking is low

enough

to satisfy the European Food Supplements Directive, a

Codex-Compliant

limitation of types and doses of nutrients used in Europe). You see,

when I

asked him what the problem was he said that he had apparently injured

his

ankle while playing with his 5 year old grandson. It is nice to know

that

such a warm, cuddly side exists, of course. When he cruelly and

callously

dismisses and humiliates people in public that's sort of hard to

see.*

*Anyway, he told me that an MRI showed some damage and now he was in

a

walking cast to immobilize the foot. Nutritional physician to

nutritional

physician, I said to him, " I assume you are taking boron,

vanadium and

calcium to speed bone healing. " and he answered,

" Yes " . *

*Nothing very unusual there in the US, of course, where nutrients are

foods

and no upper limits can be set. *

*But we are in Europe, land of the Codex-compliant European Food

Supplements

Directive where boron and venadium are not permitted and high dose

nutrients

are, likewise, forbidden.*

*So consider that for a moment! *

*Rolf Grossklaus, MD, *

- *The man with specialty training in nutritional medicine*

- *The man who has driven home the false and dangerous **(but pharma

phriendly) **idea that nutrients are toxins and should be treated

that way via the toxicology tool called " Risk Assessment "

*

- *The man who runs a company which performs Risk Assessment for

profit, mandating doses so low that they have no discernible impact

on

anyone*

- *The man who pushed through Codex the Vitamin and Mineral

Guideline

(ratified in Rome, July 4, 2005) which states that their maximum

permitted

doses are " Upper safe limits of vitamins and minerals ...

established by

scientific risk assessment " , *

*Rolf Grossklaus, MD, says that he is taking nutrients banned by the

European Food Supplements Directive, lifted from the shelves of

Europe. And

they are not very important here in the EU anyway because, as the

European

Food Supplements Directive says, " Only vitamins and minerals

found in, and

consumed as part of, the diet should be allowed to be present as

food

supplements although this does not mean that their presence therein

is

necessary " .*

**

**

**

http://eur-lex.europa.eu/LexUriServ/site/en/oj/2002/l_183/l_18320020712en00510057.pdf

**

**

**

*Yes, the very same man admitted to me that now that he has a bone

injury,

he takes nutrients for health and healing! Since he actually does

have a

scientific and medical education in nutrition, we can safely assume

that the

doses he is taking of these prohibited nutrients are high enough to

do him

some good - IF they were legal under the European Food Supplements

Directive, that is.*

**

**

**

**

*Here is the list of the only minerals which Dr. Grossklaus can

legally

take because they are permitted under the European Food Supplements

Directive (all others are prohibited):*

**

**

**

- *Calcium*

- *Magnesium*

- *Iron*

- *Copper*

- *Iodine*

- *Zinc*

- *Manganese*

- *Sodium*

- *Potassium*

- *Selenium*

- *Chromium*

- *Molybdenum*

- *Fluoride*

- ***Chloride*

- *Phosphorus.*

**

**

*Oh, my goodness! Boron and Vanadium are not among them! I conclude

from

this interesting information and conversation with Dr. Grossklaus,

the

tireless champion of nutrients-as-toxins,

nutrients-subjected-to-risk-assessment,

nutrients-which-must-have-upper-limits that what is very good for

the

Masters who want to control our health (and lack thereof) is most

assuredly

NOT deemed to be good for us, the Serfs who are also known, as a term

of art

by the people who created Codex, as " Useless Eaters " .*

**

**

* *

**

*Click here

<http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=2 & c=Pdxf8w4gMiVwGDHH7F8c4pGlwaspNnle>

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*) *

*to read about the goings-on at Codex during CCNFSDU (the Codex

Committee on

Nutrition and Foods for Special Dietary Uses) yesterday.*

* *

**

*Frankly, if your health and mine - perhaps our very survival - were

not

at stake what takes place here would be a farcical dark comedy,

nothing

more. Unfortunately, it is a great deal more.*

**

**

**

*The Natural Solutions Foundation is working for your health and

health

freedom. In fact, if you read my blog on the events of yesterday, you

can

see why we say that we are the only organization protecting your

interests

here at Codex.*

**

**

*YOUR SUPPORT IS ABSOLUTELY CRITICAL*

**

*1. Take the Action Steps on the right side of this page*

**

*2. Share these emails widely with your contacts*

**

*3. Ask all of your contacts to get involved and sign up for our

Health

Freedom Alerts (on our home page,

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when you forward our emails to them*

**

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) of at least $1 per week - more if you can afford it - to keep your

health

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**

*5. Give generously (it's all tax deductible, of course) to fund

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(

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) our ground-breaking special reports, the " Health Freedom

Library " and full

length DVD on Codex. The Health Freedom Library Special Report #1 on

Compulsory Drugging in America is in product right now. So is the

Codex

movie. Donations of $100 or more will be acknowledged in the final

version

of the film.*

**

**

**

*It really is up to us, you see.*

**

****

* *

*Yours in health and freedom, *

*Dr. Rima

*

** Rima E. Laibow, MD

Medical Director

Natural Solutions Foundation

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Ask the U.S. government to change its policy on Codex

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- *CONTRIBUTE!*

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*To from this Health Freedom Action Alert, click on the

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your email address: *

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*

*

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* ACTION STEPS*

* Fax tough Health Freedom questions to Candidates*

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* Watch Updated ** " Nutricide: the DVD " *

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* Read Codex eBook*

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****************************************At 05:52 AM 11/14/07, you

wrote:

Fwd: Nutrients for the King But

None for the Serfs!

Posted by: " Rich Putman " rich.putman

richputman

Tue Nov 13, 2007 8:29 pm (PST)

Some people may have issues with the credibility of the Natural

Solutions

Foundation. But when it comes to their fight against Codex, at least on

that

issue for sure, they're " good guys " . Codex is an evil attempt

to force

people to only have prescription drug choices rather than

appropriate

amounts of nutritional supplements. I.e., if you can't beat 'em fair

and

square in the market place, then outlaw the natural choice.

Codex is a LONG term effort. The people behind it are incredibly patient.

If

it takes them decades to get their way, so be it ... is their attitude.

That

makes for a formidable foe.

SO many people in North America take nutritional supplements, it's hard

for

me to comprehend that people would let the government take away that

right

without a serious fight. But the Codex strategy is to just keep at it,

keep

at it, keep at it. As I understand it, they're using the means of the

World

Trade Organization - which the USA belongs to. The idea is that if the

WTO

has certain [bogus] " safety " regulations in place, then all

member nations

have to follow those regulations. Thus, if too much vitamin C is

considered

unsafe, then vendors in the US can no longer sell " excessive "

dose levels of

vitamin C.

The bottom line to the story is " Follow the money " .

Prescription drugs are

incredibly profitable, because patents are involved. Vitamins,

minerals,

etc. were provided by God to us and so are not patentable and nowhere

near

as profitable. So the mantra of the pharma industry is " go for the

big

bucks " and outlaw that small potatoes stuff - the natural

stuff.

That's my short take on a pretty complex story. But if you research

Codex

yourself, I believe you'll come to the same conclusion.

Below is a recent issue of the newsletter from the Natural Solutions

Foundation.

Rich Putman

November 13, 2007

*TALES FROM THE CODEX CRYPT*

* PLEASE FORWARD WIDELY*

**

*CODEX NUTRITION CHIEF: *

**

*MINERALS MAY BE GOOD FOR THE *

*MASTERS BUT *

*THEY'RE TOO GOOD FOR YOU*

* Rolf Grossklaus has a bad foot. He has admitted to taking illegal

substances to help it heal: Boron, Vanadium (along with possibly

legal

doses of Calcium - legal, that is, IF the dose he is taking is low

enough

to satisfy the European Food Supplements Directive, a

Codex-Compliant

limitation of types and doses of nutrients used in Europe). You see, when

I

asked him what the problem was he said that he had apparently injured

his

ankle while playing with his 5 year old grandson. It is nice to know

that

such a warm, cuddly side exists, of course. When he cruelly and

callously

dismisses and humiliates people in public that's sort of hard to

see.*

*Anyway, he told me that an MRI showed some damage and now he was in

a

walking cast to immobilize the foot. Nutritional physician to

nutritional

physician, I said to him, " I assume you are taking boron, vanadium

and

calcium to speed bone healing. " and he answered, " Yes " .

*

*Nothing very unusual there in the US, of course, where nutrients are

foods

and no upper limits can be set. *

*But we are in Europe, land of the Codex-compliant European Food

Supplements

Directive where boron and venadium are not permitted and high dose

nutrients

are, likewise, forbidden.*

*So consider that for a moment! *

*Rolf Grossklaus, MD, *

- *The man with specialty training in nutritional medicine*

- *The man who has driven home the false and dangerous **(but pharma

phriendly) **idea that nutrients are toxins and should be treated

that way via the toxicology tool called " Risk Assessment "

*

- *The man who runs a company which performs Risk Assessment for

profit, mandating doses so low that they have no discernible impact

on

anyone*

- *The man who pushed through Codex the Vitamin and Mineral

Guideline

(ratified in Rome, July 4, 2005) which states that their maximum

permitted

doses are " Upper safe limits of vitamins and minerals ...

established by

scientific risk assessment " , *

*Rolf Grossklaus, MD, says that he is taking nutrients banned by the

European Food Supplements Directive, lifted from the shelves of Europe.

And

they are not very important here in the EU anyway because, as the

European

Food Supplements Directive says, " Only vitamins and minerals found

in, and

consumed as part of, the diet should be allowed to be present as

food

supplements although this does not mean that their presence therein

is

necessary " .*

**

**

**

http://eur-lex.europa.eu/LexUriServ/site/en/oj/2002/l_183/l_18320020712en00510057.pdf

**

**

**

*Yes, the very same man admitted to me that now that he has a bone

injury,

he takes nutrients for health and healing! Since he actually does have

a

scientific and medical education in nutrition, we can safely assume that

the

doses he is taking of these prohibited nutrients are high enough to do

him

some good - IF they were legal under the European Food Supplements

Directive, that is.*

**

**

**

**

*Here is the list of the only minerals which Dr. Grossklaus can

legally

take because they are permitted under the European Food Supplements

Directive (all others are prohibited):*

**

**

**

- *Calcium*

- *Magnesium*

- *Iron*

- *Copper*

- *Iodine*

- *Zinc*

- *Manganese*

- *Sodium*

- *Potassium*

- *Selenium*

- *Chromium*

- *Molybdenum*

- *Fluoride*

- ***Chloride*

- *Phosphorus.*

**

**

*Oh, my goodness! Boron and Vanadium are not among them! I conclude

from

this interesting information and conversation with Dr. Grossklaus,

the

tireless champion of nutrients-as-toxins,

nutrients-subjected-to-risk-assessment,

nutrients-which-must-have-upper-limits that what is very good for

the

Masters who want to control our health (and lack thereof) is most

assuredly

NOT deemed to be good for us, the Serfs who are also known, as a term of

art

by the people who created Codex, as " Useless Eaters " .*

**

**

* *

**

*Click here

<http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=2 & c=Pdxf8w4gMiVwGDHH7F8c4pGlwaspNnle>

(**http://www.healthfreedomusa.org/index.php/?p=443*<http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=2 & c=qUWgwZomZATn5kHjPta6%2BZGlwaspNnle>

*) *

*to read about the goings-on at Codex during CCNFSDU (the Codex Committee

on

Nutrition and Foods for Special Dietary Uses) yesterday.*

* *

**

*Frankly, if your health and mine - perhaps our very survival - were

not

at stake what takes place here would be a farcical dark comedy,

nothing

more. Unfortunately, it is a great deal more.*

**

**

**

*The Natural Solutions Foundation is working for your health and

health

freedom. In fact, if you read my blog on the events of yesterday, you

can

see why we say that we are the only organization protecting your

interests

here at Codex.*

**

**

*YOUR SUPPORT IS ABSOLUTELY CRITICAL*

**

*1. Take the Action Steps on the right side of this page*

**

*2. Share these emails widely with your contacts*

**

*3. Ask all of your contacts to get involved and sign up for our

Health

Freedom Alerts (on our home page,

www.HealthFreedomUSA.org<http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=2 & c=PEyXHhsFwQ8ZpAZTGn1dQJGlwaspNnle>)

when you forward our emails to them*

**

*4. Make a recurring tax deductible donation

<http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=2 & c=E9mHL3jklhJSrUT1TMQE%2BpGlwaspNnle>

(http://www.healthfreedomusa.org/index.php?page_id=189<http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=2 & c=4QAyQaAVPd3aS1p%2FU6Vyg5GlwaspNnle>)

of at least $1 per week - more if you can afford it - to keep your

health

freedom team on the playing field!*

**

*5. Give generously (it's all tax deductible, of course) to fund

<http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=2 & c=Dj3cL0nYoEvcy2ZE9xzeSpGlwaspNnle>

(

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) our ground-breaking special reports, the " Health Freedom

Library " and full

length DVD on Codex. The Health Freedom Library Special Report #1 on

Compulsory Drugging in America is in product right now. So is the

Codex

movie. Donations of $100 or more will be acknowledged in the final

version

of the film.*

**

**

**

*It really is up to us, you see.*

**

****

* *

*Yours in health and freedom, *

*Dr. Rima

*

** Rima E. Laibow, MD

Medical Director

Natural Solutions Foundation

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-

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- *SIGN CITIZEN'S PETITION*

Ask the U.S. government to change its policy on Codex

Alimentarius<http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=2 & c=93XIRPyDTsLPO4W%2BAfjl9pGlwaspNnle>

- *CONTRIBUTE!*

Make a contribution and help raise funds for the health freedom

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- *VOTE!*

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*To from this Health Freedom Action Alert, click on the

link

below and enter

your email address: *

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*

*

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* ACTION STEPS*

* Fax tough Health Freedom questions to Candidates*

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* Support truthful Health Claims, HR 2117*

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regarding NATURAL SOLUTIONS FOUNDATION you said..

 

............Some people may have issues with the credibility of the Natural Solutions Foundation. But when it comes to their fight against Codex, at least on that issue for sure, they're "good guys".

 

I have been following the devastating situation in the natural food and vitamin industry very closely sine the disgusting Pan Pharmaceutical Debacle........

 

Pan Pharmaceuticals - if it ducks like a quack

 

 

 

It really was a good news week when someone in the shape of the Therapeutic Goods Administration (TGA) dropped a bomb on Pan Pharmaceuticals, ...www.ratbags.com/rsoles/comment/pan.htm - 16k

 

One of the organisations I trust has this to say regarding NSF.............

 

 

IMPORTANT HEALTH FREEDOM INFORMATION. PLEASE FORWARD VERY WIDELY

It is unusual for the Alliance for Natural Health (ANH) to get involved in disputes between the many factions in health freedom. We are, above all, an alliance and are working hard at forging bonds and affiliations with other health freedom organisations in different parts of the world so that we, together, can be more effective in our work. In the USA we are formally affiliated with the American Association for Health Freedom and the Health Freedom Foundation (www.healthfreedom.net). Additionally, we work closely on Codex issues with the National Health Federation, which is the only health freedom organisation to have official observer status— and thus enabling it to speak—at Codex meetings.

However, a situation has arisen that forces us to clarify a deeply misleading commentary by one particular organisation, the Natural Solutions Foundation. Should such a clarification not be of interest to you, you of course need read no further.

Subscribers to the Natural Solutions Foundation e-list will have received an email from Dr Rima Laibow, the organisation’s founder, today about which we wish to provide important clarification. We feel compelled to make this clarification as Dr Laibow has, unfortunately not for the first time, seriously confused her facts.

What Dr Laibow of Natural Solutions Foundation Said

Dr Laibow opens her email with the title “Reading the Fine Print to Get It Right!”. Regrettably, however, there appear to be such fundamental misunderstandings in Dr Laibow’s email that we can only presume she has not taken her own advice. On a more serious note, Dr Laibow’s communication also serves to provide much greater confusion – the very thing she professes to help eliminate – and it begs the question of why she did not instruct her legal counsel to communicate with us before issuing such a distorted view of the actual circumstances in Europe with regard to our recent actions on food supplements.

In her mailing, Dr Laibow, described the recent clarification by the European Commission brought about by the ANH’s legal challenge and subsequent filing of dossiers on natural sources of vitamins and minerals, as a “nano victory”. To us that means she thinks it’s a small victory, but we suggest you make your own mind up, when you read the section beneath the next sub-heading. It is interesting that Dr Laibow does not refer to us directly, presumably because she is fearful that it might drive further interest towards our many and diverse health freedom activities in different parts of the world. Dr Laibow’s interpretation of the recent progress is that “natural source[s of] supplements are no longer in danger, now they are considered as foods” and she goes on to say “We agree with the basic [sic] principle: supplements are foods and therefore considered safe.” But is she confusing ‘safe to health’ from ‘safe from regulators’? Dr. Laibow also doesn’t appear to appreciate that food supplements in Europe are already regarded as a category of food, but the recent European Commission decision makes natural sources of vitamins and minerals food ingredients, which require no proof of safety before going to market, rather than food supplement ingredients (vitamins and minerals), which require evidence of proof of safety. Creating this evidence can be prohibitively expensive for many supplement companies.

Dr Laibow continues by outlining in a grossly inaccurately manner, the background to our case in the European Union (EU) - again making no mention of the name of our organisation - and even cites her endorsement of our December 2004 critique to the Food and Agriculture Organization/World Health Organization on planned Codex approaches to nutrient risk assessment. It seems that she might be looking for praise or credit, but she doesn’t seem to have realised that the document she endorsed has absolutely no link with our actions on natural sources. Dr Laibow’s signature on our 2004 document also represented the first time she became known to us, and we should point out that our Board subsequently requested that we remove her from the list of endorsees on the grounds of her lack of credibility and accuracy on Codex issues.

Dr Laibow’s fundamental misunderstanding of events in Europe appears be based on her apparent gross confusion over the differences between work we are doing, 1) help prevent a ban on ingredients such as natural sources of nutrients, and, 2) maintaining dosages of nutrients, which are at serious risk of being limited to non-therapeutic levels by flawed, scientifically irrational approaches to risk assessment and management.

What has ANH actually achieved in relation to natural sources of nutrients

The victory to which the ANH lays claim is that our strategy has caused the European Commission to agree that natural sources of vitamins and minerals will no longer need to go through a complex, often prohibitively expensive safety evaluation process conducted by the European Food Safety Authority. This was going to be required to get the ingredients on to an allowed (positive) list. However, the European Commission has accepted now that natural sources of nutrients don’t need to be processed in this way and can simply be used in the same way any food ingredient can be used. There remains a compulsion on the manufacturer that the product is safe, just in the same way that a baker needs to be sure his loaf of bread is safe. This position is actually quite different from many EU Member States’ interpretations of the requirements and is the exact opposite of a position made by the legal unit of the European Commission over a year ago (the legal unit now being a signatory of the reconsidered position).

Our press release on the European Commission’s altered position on natural sources of vitamins and minerals can be found at: http://www.alliance-natural-health.org/index.cfm?action=news & ID=288

Curdled milk or synthetic vitamins?

Dr Laibow refers to a quote from Gilbert & Sullivan’s HMS Pinafore: “Things are seldom what they seem, Skim milk masquerades as cream”. Having read her email, we would suggest that the milk has definitely curdled. Her confusion over natural and synthetic vitamins would be a clear example of ‘curdled milk.’

Dr Laibow says: “Natural source nutrients are safe, beneficial and extremely important to the health of people eating modern industrialized foods and living in a toxic world. Synthetic ingredients are not the same as natural ones, although our FDA has taken the unscientific position that they are the same.” ANH says: we agree, generally, with Dr Laibow on this one point – although one might assume that her previous psychiatry practice would have been rather dependent on synthetic vitamins, which have been a staple in the field of orthomolecular medicine. However, in the context of what’s going in Europe, the key point is that the European Commission was, until our recent action, treating natural sources of vitamins and minerals in the same way as synthetic ones. This meant you needed to prove that the ingredient was safe—often a prohibitively expensive process—before it could be used in a supplement. Now natural sources of vitamins and minerals will be treated as foods, rather than as food supplement ingredients, where it is assumed they are safe as these natural sources of nutrients have been part of our food supply for many thousands of years. In our book, this is a real win for nature, for natural health and, of course, for health freedom. We can only think that Dr Laibow perceives it as a “nano victory” because she does not fully understand the facts of the case, as suggested by her own description of products on her e-commerce site (see below).

Dr Laibow says: “As an aside, the Natural Solutions Foundation feels so strongly about this that we provide an online store, www.Organics4U.org , where you can access totally organic, all natural nutrients for yourself and those you care about.” ANH says: we have reviewed Dr Laibow’s e-commerce site and immediately viewed a host of ingredients in products which appear to be synthetic in origin, rather than natural sources. We suggest that unless Dr Laibow can substantiate that all ingredients selling on her site, such as ascorbic acid, pyridoxine hydrochloride, sodium selenite, L-arginine, thiamine hydrochloride, hydroxycobalamin, folic acid and vanadyl sulphate (to name but a few) are “all natural” and not synthetic, Dr Laibow might have to accept that she has ‘curdled the milk’ and is confused over the differences between natural sources of nutrients and synthetic nutrients.

Onwards and Upwards

We hope that this mailing helps to clarify a situation that Dr Laibow and her organisation has muddied. Dr Laibow has previously asked ANH as well as other organisations and Codex experts to make her aware of inaccuracies in what she has said or published. Despite several attempts at drawing her attention to specific examples of misinformation in her materials, she appears to have done little or nothing to rectify them. We therefore draw attention to this new incidence of inaccuracy publicly, in the hope that, in future, the Natural Solutions Foundation will begin to research its articles and speeches more carefully.

We are deeply committed to our work in helping to carve out a scientific and regulatory system that will allow for the expansion of natural health, so that it can ultimately become the rightful heir to mainstream healthcare. To this end, integrity and accuracy are two of our most important tools. On this occasion, we have felt compelled by the actions of the Natural Solutions Foundation to protect our integrity and the accuracy of information surrounding our recent legal activities on European food supplements. We also call on the health freedom community to be responsible in its outputs so that we can work together more effectively in our common goals.

In health, naturally

The ANH Core Team