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This is really getting scary. Please read. Anita Ready to Rumble Ready to Rumble Health Sciences Institute e-Alert December 01, 2004**************************************************************We hope you enjoy this free e-letter from the Health Sciences Institute e-Alert. You have received this e-mail because you have either signed up for our e-letter through a promotion on an affiliate website, subscribed to one of Agora Health's print newsletters,or visited our website and signed up there. If you're an existing subscriber to the e-Alert, you should note it is now being sent from a different server. Please make sure to add this new address to your "friends" list or to "whitelist" it if necessary. If you wish to permanently remove yourself from this mailing list, follow the instructions at the bottom of this page.**************************************************************Dear Reader,In the days and weeks before a major earthquake, seismologists often record tremors –subterranean rumbles, signaling that something destructive is on the way. Consider today's e-Alert a tremor. Something very destructive is headed our way, and it will have a deeply negative impact on your right to make your own healthcare decisions. ------------------------------------------------------------Dreaming up dangers ------------------------------------------------------------In the e-Alert I sent you on Friday, 11/19/04, I shared this comment from an HSI member who goes by the initials PKL: "My friend, an ND, said 2 years ago that as the date for the USA to comply with codex alimentarius rules approached (Aug.2005) we would see scare stories coming out in the media about the 'dangers' of common vitamins and supplements."PKL's friend felt the tremors coming. And his prediction was right on the money. In recent e-Alerts I told you about two flawed studies that produced over-the-top scare headlines regarding the supposed risks of taking vitamins C and E in large doses. But these studies are not isolated cases For instance, a recent "long-term study" found that glucosamine was less effective than a placebo in relieving arthritis pain. But a closer look at the published research reveals that the actual study period was only six months long, and all of the subjects had previously found glucosamine to be effective over a two-year period. (The researchers were counting those two years as part of the "long-term") Nevertheless, this research was reported as a failure for glucosamine. Is the timing of these and other deliberately negative studies a coincidence? Or is it part of a concerted effort to plant the seeds of doubt in the mind of the public? ------------------------------------------------------------Harsh harmony ------------------------------------------------------------As PKL pointed out, the whole point of planting those seeds is to prepare for the approaching Codex deadline. The U.S. is one of the 165 member countries of the Codex Alimentarius Commission – an international food standards program created by the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) and the World Health Organization (WHO). One of the purposes of the Codex Commission is to "harmonize" international food trade And here are a few key elements of that harmonizing: * WHO classifies all dietary supplements as drugs * The Codex Commission intends to limit over-the-counter sales of dietary supplements while reclassifying others as pharmaceuticals, available only through a pharmacist * Under World Trade Organization (WTO) rules, Codex guidelines override the regulations of individual countries * Member countries (including the U.S.) that refuse to accept and enforce the WTO directives are subject to severe trade sanctions A strong tremor was felt just last month when the Codex Commission approved draft guidelines that will begin restricting the sale of dietary supplements as early as next summer. So in spite of our current laws that make a wide range of vitamins, minerals and herbal formulations readily available, the U.S. is poised to simply put those laws aside to conform to the unacceptably restrictive Codex guidelines. ------------------------------------------------------------Whose country is it anyway? ------------------------------------------------------------Incredible, isn't it? Our freedom to make our own healthcare choices may simply be taken away by an international commission. But at this point, the imposition of the Codex guidelines isn't necessarily a done deal. And although the situation is not promising, it's still not too late to help prevent it from happening. I strongly urge you to join me in taking a moment to send a brief letter or e-mail to your Senators and Representatives. (You can easily find Congressional street addresses and e-mail addresses at congress.org just by entering your zip code. We've heard that snail mail gets more attention from our public servants than e-mail.) Tell them that you strongly oppose the international "harmonization" of dietary supplement laws, drafted in another country, and designed to "protect" you from the choices you make about your personal healthcare. V. , M.D., has written a sobering description of what life would be like under the Codex regulations. You can find Dr. 's editorial on the web site for his Nutrition & Healing newsletter: wrightnewsletter.com. Look for the heading titled "Featured Article." Dr. offers links to other resources with detailed information about Codex and he also suggests further actions we all can take. Finally, tell your friends and let them know what's going on. We obviously can't depend on the mainstream media to adequately report this one, so it's time to get the message out by word of mouth. If we don't act now, these rumbling tremors may develop into something far worse. ************************************************************** TREAT HEART TROUBLE WITH SUGAR AND MUSTARDIf you told your doctor he could effectively treat heart trouble, chronic disease and this type of cancer with... Sugar & Mustard... He'd say, "Baloney!" But now we have proof, thanks to award-winning V. , M.D. He braved ridicule and hostility to pioneer a new kind of medicine. While drugs just suppress symptoms, these spectacular new food & vitamin cures can beat your symptoms and cure the causes of chronic diseases. http://www.youreletters.com/t/81752/2376519/493/0/(if you can't open here use the HTML links listed below)************************************************************** To start receiving your own copy of the HSI e-Alert, visit:http://www.agora-inc.com/reports/hsi/freecopyOr forward this e-mail to a friend so they can sign-up toreceive their own copy of the HSI e-Alert.**************************************************************...and another thing No therapy is one-size-fits-all. Commenting in the HSI Forum about the use of bioidentical hormone replacement therapy (see the e-Alert "Matchmaker" 11/17/04), an HSI member named Deloris has this to say about her experience: "My friend and I also went to an alternative doctor for bioidentical hormones. She went because of severe hot flashes and I went to help with my osteoporosis. Her formula had twice the estrogen as mine and she's taking 1/2 of a lozenge and feeling great. I stopped after one week because they were causing hot flashes. I think my progesterone /estrogens ratio was off. I may try one more formulation." Hopefully Deloris will find a formulation that will work for her. But her comment is a reminder that hormone replacement – even bioidentical HRT – may not work for every woman. Fortunately, there are other ways to go with natural treatments for menopause symptoms. Some time ago I told you about a special report titled "Look and Feel Your Best," written by HSI Panelist Page, N.D., Ph.D. - a noted author and a doctor of holistic medicine. In "Look and Feel Your Best" Dr. Page shows women how to make their way through menopause naturally, without using hormone replacement therapy. She emphasizes that menopause is actually nature's way of protecting women from breast and uterine cancer by rebalancing hormone production - a process that no one should try to defeat with pharmaceuticals. You can use the link below to find out more about Dr. Page's techniques and how they can make the difference between just surviving menopause, and emerging from it happier and healthier. http://www.youreletters.com/t/81752/2376519/645211/0/ To Your Good Health, Health Sciences Institute ************************************************************** Underground Cures Your Doctor Doesn't Even Know About!Starting today, YOU can decide how healthy you want to be. No matter what you're suffering from - arthritis, heart disease, cancer, chronic pain, impotence, depression - there is something that can be done NOW. These breakthrough discoveries are so new that your doctor probably doesn't even know about them yet. Find the answers you seek, in the ultimate guide to "underground" cures.Learn more about these miraculous treatments, visit: http://www.youreletters.com/t/81752/2376519/652402/0/(if you can't open here use the HTML links listed below) ************************************************************ To start receiving your own copy of the HSI e-Alert, visit:http://www.agora-inc.com/reports/hsi/freecopyaOr forward this e-mail to a friend so they can sign-up toreceive their own copy of the HSI e-Alert.**************************************************************Sources: "Draft Report of the 26th Session of the Codex Committee on Nutrition and Foods for Special Dietary Uses" Codex Alimentarius Commission, Bonn, Germany, November 1-5, 2004, ahha.org/codexguidelines Copyright ©1997-2004 by www.hsibaltimore.com, L.L.C.The e-Alert may not be posted on commercial sites withoutwritten permission.AOL HTML links**************************************************************<a href="http://www.youreletters.com/t/81752/2376519/493/0/">TREAT HEART TROUBLE WITH SUGAR AND MUSTARD</a><a href="http://www.youreletters.com/t/81752/2376519/652402/0/">Underground Cures Your Doctor Doesn't Even Know About!</a>************************************************************ Before you hit reply to send us a question or request, please visit here http://www.hsibaltimore.com/ealert/questions.html ************************************************************ If you'd like to participate in the HSI Forum, search past e-Alerts and products or you're an HSI member and would like to search past articles, visit http://www.hsibaltimore.com ************************************************************ To learn more about HSI, call (203) 699-4416 or visit, http://www.youreletters.com/t/81752/2376519/297/0/************************************************************ If you want to end your HSI e-Alert subscription or you need to change your e-mail address, please follow theinstructions below. 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