Re: Re: Fwd: Details on ban on supplements coming in june 2005!

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" L. " james@...> wrote:

Urban legand? See:

http://www.snopes.com/politics/medical/vitamins.asp

> Hi! Please forward this to everyone you know,

> including other yahoo

> groups. Also, call your local news stations. I

> called mine, and

> received a call back from channel 4 in Detroit.

> They will be

> investigating this story! Another idea is to

> print this out and

> post it on the bulletin boards at your local

> health food stores such

> as Whole Foods. Lastly, you should call or write

> to your state

> representatives, congressman, and the president

> and vice president.

> Sometimes it seems like things like this our out

> of our hands, but

> if everyone reading this truly takes action,

> something can be done.

> Let's try it this time and see if we truly can

> prevent this from

> happening.

>

> READ BELOW:

>

>

> Subject: Banning Sales of Food Supplements

> Worldwide

>

> If we don't act now, we have no right to complain

> afterwards. Act

> now!

>

> Read this very important health message below and

> contact everyone.

>

> Your right to choose your vitamin, mineral and

> other supplements may

> end in June of this year (2005). After that U.S.

> supplements will be

> defined and controlled by the World Trade

> Organization (WTO) and the

> World Health Organization (WHO). The CODEX

> ALIMENTARIUS

> (Food Code) is setting the supplement standards

> for all countries in

> the WTO. They will be enforced by the WTO and

> will override U.S.

> laws. The U.S. President and Congress agreed to

> this take-over when

> the WTO Treaty was signed. Violations are

> punished by WTO trade

> sanctions. CODEX drastically restricts vitamins,

> minerals, herbs and

> other food supplements. CODEX met secretly in

> November, 2004 and

> finalized " Step 8 (the final stage) " to begin

> implementation in

> June '05.

>

> The CODE includes:

>

> (1) No supplement can be sold for preventive or

> therapeutic use.

>

> (2) Any potency higher than RDA (minimal

> strength) is a " drug "

> requiring a prescription and must be produced by

> drug companies.

> Over 5000 safe items now in health stores will be

> banned,

> terminating health stores as we now know them.

>

> (3) CODEX regulations become binding

> internationally.

>

> (4) New supplements are banned unless given very

> expensive

> CODEX testing and approval.

>

> CODEX now applies to Norway and Germany, among

> others, where

> zinc tablets rose from $4 per bottle to $52.

> Echinacea (an ancient

> immune-enhancement herb) rose from $14 to $153

> (both examples

> are now allowed by prescription only). They are

> now " drugs! "

> Vitamin C above 200 mg, niacin above 32 mg,

> vitamin B6 above 4 mg

> -all are banned over-the-counter as drugs. No

> essential amino acids

> (arginine, lysine (used effectively for fever

> blisters), carnitine,

> L-Tryptophan (used effectively for eliminating

> depression), GABA

> (used effectively for eliminating anxiety), etc.,

> Essential Fatty

> Acids

> (omegas 3, 6, 9, etc.), or other essential

> supplements such as

> DMEA, DHEA, CoQ10, MSM, beta-carotene, etc. are

> allowed!

>

> The CODEX rules are not based on real science.

> They are made

> by a few people meeting in secret (see web sites

> below), not

> necessarily scientists. In 1993 the FDA and drug

> corporations tried

> to put all supplements under restriction and

> prescription. But over

> 4 million Americans told Congress and the

> President to protect

> their freedom of choice on health supplements.

> The DSHEA Law

> was passed in 1994, which does so. But this will

> be over ruled

> by CODEX and the World Trade Organization!

>

> Virtually nothing about it has been in the media.

> What the drug

> corporations have failed to do through Congress

> they have gotten

> by sneak attack through CODEX with the help of a

> silent media.

> What can be done at this late hour?

>

> (1) Spread the word as much as possible. Inform

> yourselves :

> http://www.ahha.org

> http://www.iahf.com

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

>

> (2) Oppose bills S.722 and H.R.3377. These

> support the

> CODEX restrictions with U.S. laws, changing the

> DSHEA law.

>

> (3) Support H. R.1146 which would restore the

> sovereignty of

> the U.S. Constitution over CODEX, etc.

>

>

> (4) Express your wishes to the President,

> Senators and

> Representatives (They got us into this!) ASAP.

>

> (5) Contact multi-level health marketing groups

> that can get

> their members to inform the government.

>

> (6) Contact the British Alliance for Natural

> Health (see web site

> above).

> It has succeeded in challenging the CODEX

> directives in World Court

> and will appear in court again later this month

> or next. They need

> help

> financially, having carried the fight effectively

> for everyone. CODEX

> and

> the FDA wish to " protect " us by controlling

> supplements in the same

> way they do prescription drugs. A study of the

> latter by three

> medical

> scientists was reported in the Journal of the

> American Medical

> Association, April 15, 1998 -Vol. 279, No. 15, p.

> 1200: " Incidence of

> Adverse Drug Reactions (ADR's) was found to be

> extremely high. "

> Covering 30 years (1966 to 1996) it was found

> that in the U.S. an

> average of 106,000 hospitalized patients per year

> (290 per day!!)

> DIE from ADR's and 2,200,000 need more

> hospitalization for recovery!

> These were FDA approved drugs, properly

> administered by competent

> professionals in hospitals--none were considered

> malpractice. This

> is the number four cause of death in the U.S.

> When combined,

> these account for 7% of all hospitalized

> patients. This is equivalent

> to a 9-11 attack every ten days. There are very

> few fatalities from

> supplements or the news would be on every front

> page. There is no

> need for more FDA control of supplements than is

> already in place,

> which is substantial. Instead of drastically

> restricting supplements,

> why doesn't the FDA better control, restrict the

> extremely

> dangerous pharmaceutical drugs and require

> double-blind studies

> of multiple Px interactions which are now killing

> us at the rate of

> a major airline crash per day?

>

> Wallace G. Heath, Ph.D.

> 1145 Marine Drive

> Bellingham, WA 98225

>

> Do a LYCOS search for " codex alimentarius " and

> read all you

> can...This thing is REAL BAD !

>

>

> " We are fast approaching the stage of the

> ultimate inversion: the

> stage where the government is free to do anything

> it pleases,

> while the citizens may act only by permission;

> which is the stage

> of the darkest periods of human history, the

> stage of rule by brute

> force. " [Ayn Rand, The Nature of Government]

>

> For Liberty in Our Lifetime,

> R.J. Tavel, J.D., Founder

>

>

> IS THIS COMMUNISOM OR WHAT?

>

>

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[Guest guest]

I don't understand this, as I have seen notices about this thing in the

health food store a year ago. Diona

> Urban legand? See:

>

> http://www.snopes.com/politics/medical/vitamins.asp

>