Fw: BAN ON SUPPLEMENTS --- Please don't let it happen

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Check out HB 1767 by going to the Texas Online site for the Texas

legislature. If passed, it will prevent all alternative therapies in this

state without a veterinarian's prescription. It states the board shall

adopt rules to protect the public....alternative therapy, including but

not limited to, acupressure, acupuncture, chiropractic, massage therapy,

laser therapy, physical therapy, homeopathy, holistic medicine. Contact

your representatives and the Agriculture and Livestock committee and let

them know your opinion of the economic impact it will have on the animal

owners.

Subject: [MoMAMissionPossible] Details on ban on supplements coming in June

2005!

Greetings Everyone! :-)

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. Please act

now!!!

Please read the very important health message below and contact everyone you

can think of.

Our 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 DMAE, DHEA, CoQ10, MSM, beta-carotene, etc. are not

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 REALLY, R E A L L Y 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