The Health Plus Letter – Special Medical Freedom Issue
October 19 2004, Vol. 2, No. 35
By Larry Trivieri, Jr. – founder & publisher,
http://www.1healthyworld.com
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Table Of Contents
What’s New
Quote of the Day
Fast Fact
Medical F/r/e/edom Alert
Our Right To Medical Freedom of Choice Is Under Siege by Jonathan V. Wright, M.D.
Recommendations
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What’s New
I’m devoting this issue to medical freedom issues, because of how important our right to make our own medical choices is to me. To that end, I am reprinting an article on the subject by noted alternative health expert Dr. Jonathan Wright.
I also recommend that my readers take time to visit Jon Rappoport’s website, http://www.nomorefakenews.com. Jon covers a wide variety of topics, but for years has been examining the big picture behind the assault on our medical freedoms. Of late, he’s been doing an excellent job uncovering the scam behind the annual scare tactics employed by the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) and other government agencies regarding the flu, as well as the many health risks associated with the flu vaccine. Please take time to read what he has written on the subject, including within his searchable archives.
Finally, my apologies for again being late this issue. Due to the fact that I’ve accepted contracts to write five new books, for the rest of the year, will be publishing The Health Plus Letter bi-weekly instead of weekly. This is not an easy decision for me, as I love creating each issue. I hope you understand.
As always, please continue to send me your comments and suggestions. And please spread the word about The Health Plus Letter by passing it along to your friends and inviting them to subscribe.
Quote Of The Day
“Beware of reading health books. You could die of a misprint.”
-- Mark Twain
Fast Fact
Lester Crawford, Acting Commissioner of the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is a veterinarian with no experience in the practice of medicine on human beings.
Source: The FDA’s website, http://www.fda.gov
[Commentary: Investigative reporter Jon Rappoport perfectly sums up my thoughts about this. H/e/re’s what he wrote on this subject earlier this week:
“The FDA website gives us a brief bio of its current acting commissioner, Lester Crawford.
In the realm of political power, it’s fairly easy to spot someone who has been brought along through the ranks by his betters, who has been granted all sorts of jobs on the ladder rungs without seeming to have the credentials or experience.
In short, we’re talking about the rise of a puppet.
Che/ck out the bio for yourself, make the connections, and think about the meaning of it all. H/e/re’s the bio excerpt: Previously, Dr. Crawford was Chair of the Department of Physiology-Pharmacology at the Univer/sity of Georgia, Administrator of the Food Safety and Inspection Service (USDA) and Deputy Commissioner of FDA. From 1997-2002, he was Director of the Center for Food and Nutrition Policy at Georgetown Univer/sity and at Virginia Tech, where it moved in 2001.
Dr. Crawford has played major roles in mandatory nutrition labeling, the formation of the World Trade Organization and the control of chemical and microbiological contaminants of food. He has been an advisor to the World Health Organization of the United Nations for much of his career.
Dr. Crawford is a Member of the National Academy of Sciences Institute of Medicine. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Medicine (UK) and a Fellow of the International Society of Food Science and Technology. In 1984, he was inducted into the French Academy of Veterinary Medicine. In 1991, he received the Wooldridge Award, the British Veterinary Association’s highest award.
Dr. Crawford received his Doctor of Veterinary Medicine (DVM) from Auburn Univer/sity, his PhD in pharmacology from the Univer/sity of Georgia, and his Honorary Doctorate (MDV) from Budapest Univer/sity.
End of bio excerpt.
Yeah, the dude ain’t an MD. He’s a vet. They had to go to Budapest to get him an honorary doctorate.
Copyright © 2004 by Jon Rappoport and www.nomorefakenews.com. All rights reserved.]
Medical F/r/e/edom Alert
Our health f/r/e/edom remains under siege. Please support the following organizations, which are at the forefront of those working to protect our rights:
Citizens for Health - http://www.citizens.org (Sing their online petition to safeguard health supplements.)
Institute for Health F/r/e/edom – http://www.ForHealthF/r/e/edom.org
International Advocates for Health F/r/e/edom (IAHF) – http://www.iahf.com
Health Lobby (Monica Miller) – http://www.healthlobby.com
To stay info/rmed of other developments related to medical f/r/e/edom, please visit http://www4.dr-rath-foundation.org the website of Dr. Mattias Rath, a leading crusader for medical f/r/e/edom.
To see to what depraved lengths people will go to persecute practitioners of alternative medicine in the U.S., please read the following report by noted medical f/r/e/edom advocate Tim Bolen at http://www.quackpotwatch.org/opinionpieces/Suster2.htm
And to learn how corrupt and extensive Big Pharma’s monopoly is, visit http://www.pnc.com.au/~cafmr/online/research/index.html the website for the Campaign Against Fraudulent Medical Research. In particular, read their in-depth report The Pharmaceutical Drug Racket that you will find th/e/re.
New! Do your part to help preserve the Dietary Supplement Health and Education Act of 1994 (DSHEA), which safeguards your right to readily access nutritional supplements without interference from government bureaucracies.
Take action! Ask the U.S. Codex Delegation to protect your right to readily purchase nutritional supplements and to protect DSHEA. Visit http://www.healthactioncenter.org/action/index.asp?step=2&item=21232
Then write to Dr. Barbara Schneeman and other key official U.S. Codex delegates to let them kn/o/w that we are confident that the U.S. Delegation won't let us down at the Codex conference tables in Bonn, Rome, Geneva and h/e/r/e in the U.S.
This message reflects a collaborative effort between Citizens for Health, http://www.citizens.org and The Alliance for Natural Health, http://www.alliance-natural-health.org.
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Our Right To Medical Freedom of Choice Is Under Siege by Jonathan V. Wright, M.D.
What follows is an article written by Dr. Jonathan Wright, one of the world’s foremost experts in the scientific use of nutritional supplements and other health products, the vast majority of which are currently available on the shelves of health food stores across the United States. Dr. Wright has long been an advocate of medical freedom, and in the past has successfully withstood an all-out assault on him by the FDA, which ordered a raid of his offices in the early 1990’s. Based on the information the FDA provided them, local law enforcement officials sent armed officers barging through his doors, guns drawn, because they were under the impression that he was an international drug dealer. That’s what they’d been told by the FDA. Dr. Wright’s crime? Importing a high-quality type of vitamin B12 from Europe due to its superior purity value compared to brands of vitamin B12 manufactured in the U.S. As his all-female staff were forced to lay down on the floor, their arms behind their backs, Dr. Wright’s medical records and computers were seized, effectively crippling his ability to carry on his medical practice. But when the local law official who ordered the raid found out the truth about Dr. Wright’s many years of dedicated medical service to his community, he publicly stated that he would ne/ver cooperate with the FDA again, because they had lied to him.
No charges were ever brought against Dr. Wright, but he was forced to go to court to secure the return of his property the FDA confiscated. Thanks to ongoing donations to the le/gal defense fund set up in his name, he eventually prevailed, but only after great financial cost. Despite the attack against him, Dr.Wright has ne/ver wavered in his dedication to helping others get well using proven, natural healing methods. N/o/w he is warning us about how our medical freedoms are once again under assault. Please read what he has to say and take the actions steps he suggests. Your health could literally depend on you doing so. H/e/re is his message:
You've taken supplements for years. You're out of vitamins C and E. You go to your natural food store, but you can't find the kind you want on the shelf. You ask a clerk to find them for you. She says you can't get your vitamin E as mixed tocopherols (the best natural form) anymore, and asks if you like your vitamin C in the 100- or 200-milligram size. The 1,000-milligram size, you say.
"Where have you been?" she asks. "Asleep since 2004? Its 2007 n/o/w! The types and sizes of vitamins you just asked for have been declared ille/gal by the Dispute Settlement Body of the World Trade Organization!"
"Wait!" you reply. "This is America! Our president says we're fighting for American freedom -- and you're telling me that the World Trade Organization can dictate what size vitamin C I can take, and forbid me from taking mixed tocopherols?" The sales clerk sighs, and reaches for a piece of paper. "It's a little complicated," she says. "A few years back, the European Commission passed the European Food Supplements Directive ... "
You feel your blood pressure rising. "What do the European Commission and its directive have to do with me? If Europeans want bureaucrats to tell them what to do, that's their business. I'm a f/r/e/e citizen of these United States!"
"N/o/w, n/o/w, de/ar, your blood pressure will go up, and you can't get calcium citrate, magnesium aspartame, CoQ10 or L-arginine or anything else natural to help regulate it anymore."
"What? This goes beyond the FDA's wildest dreams!"
"That's not a 10th of it, de/ar. While you were distracted by the war overseas for American freedom, h/e/re at home we lost our right to buy any amino acids at all. No arginine, no carnitine, no tryptophan, nothing. I can't sell you any essential fatty acids either. No DHA or EPA. And no beta-carotene, no mixed carotenoids, no MSM, no boron ... The list goes on and on."
"So what can I buy?" you ask. "Let's see ... those 100- and 200-milligram vitamin Cs. Vitamin B6 maximum 4.2 milligrams, vitamin B1, 2.4 milligrams. Oh, h/e/re's a better one: You can get niacin at 32 milligrams."
"Enough! I'm getting sick! How did this ever happen in these United States?"
"As I was saying, the European Directive ...."
"I heard you. But what about America's Congress, America's President?"
"Oh, they signed us up for this in the 1990s, when they made us members of the World Trade Organization. According to the Congressional Research Service: 'As a member of the World Trade Organization, the United States does commit to act in accord/ance with the rules of the multilateral body. The United States is le/gally obligated to ensure national laws do not conflict with World Trade Organization rules.'"
"Our President and Congress send troops overseas to fight for freedom, but let the WTO tell us what to do with our vitamins? There must be something we can do."
"Actually, we did have a chance or two to reverse this in 2004, but it's going to be incredibly difficult n/o/w."
"But I really need my mixed tocopherols vitamin E. And my mother with congestive heart failure depends on CoQ10."
"I'm not unsympathetic, especially to your poor mother, dear." She looks all around, then lowers her voice. "I can give you some sources downtown." She whispers a few names.
"But those people deal dangerous drugs! N/o/w they're selling vitamins, too?"
"That's freedom in America in 2007, dear."
Think it can't happen? Think again.
A Nightmare Come True
The FDA's wildest dream -- and our worst nightmare -- is about to come true. Two years ago, I told you about the passage of the European Union (EU) Directive on Dietary Supplements. This directive, which is part of a lar/ger f/o/r/m of legislation called Codex Alimentarius, severely restricts access to natural health products in Europe. At the time, it probably seemed a long way off. After all, the law wasn't to go into effect for several years following the initial passage.
Unfortunately, that several years is up, and the EU Directive is on track to take full effect in August 2005 -- less than a year from n/o/w -- and by 2007, the scene described above will certainly be a reality for many, many people.
Obviously, this is devastating news for Europe. But thanks to some pre-existing international agreements made by the United States, the EU Directive will be just as devastating for the natural health community h/e/re. The main difference is that while the directive has been big news in Europe for some time, it's been virtually ignored by U.S. media, which means that the severe restrictions it calls for will sneak up on most people and rob us all of our freedom to choose natural alternatives before we even kno/w what's happening.
That's why I and many of my colleagues in the health publishing world have done our best to keep you informed of the directive's developments -- and their consequences for the United States -- over the years.
Simply put, we're down to the wire, and if we don't act immediately, we will be facing the same fate as Europeans. There are steps you can take to get the word out and, hopefully, to diffuse this ticking time bomb. But first, let's take a few minutes and recount some of the specifics included in the directive so that you know exactly what it is we're fighting against.
5,000 Products Set to Disappear
The EU Directive classifies vitamins and minerals in Europe as "medical drugs" rather than dietary supplements, which means that they're subject to government regul/ation in terms of dosage and availability.
It gets worse: There are many nutrients known to be vital to optimal health that are not on the government's RDA nutrient list including chromium picolinate, lysine, and selenium. Under the directive, these types of supplements are banned from over-the-counter sale. Put simply, it will be ille/gal to buy them without a prescription.
The supplements that will be available will be restricted to multi-vitamins containing no more than 100 percent of the established RDA amounts, which are usually useless, trivial quantities -- and they'll be far more expensive than what we have n/o/w.
This directive, for all intents and purposes, makes it ille/gal for people to keep themselves healthy by supplementing with essential nutrients.
Plus, the directive only allows supplements to be made from a list of 15 minerals and 13 vitamins. That leaves out at least 40 minerals important to the human metabolism and forbids the use of the most bio-available forms of vitamin complexes. In essence, it means that all nutritional supplements will be virtually the same. The specific combinations might vary, but the types and amounts of nutrients will be identical, no matter what product they're formulated into.
So, for instance, a middle-aged woman in Liverpool, England, who has a dangerously elevated homocysteine level will no longer have the option of reducing her risk of heart disease with a vitamin B dosage of her own choosing. If she's currently taking 5 mg of folic acid daily, under the new directive, she will be le/gally restricted to a prescription of 1 mg per day.
If she's taking a 100-mg dose of B6, she'll be restricted to 10 mg. And her pantothenic acid (B5) intake of 500 mg will drop to 200 mg. These maximum dosage levels have been chosen to "protect" her (so we're told), when, in fact, the protection she needs the most will be unavailable.
In addition to these essential B vitamins, low maximum dosage levels have also been set for vitamin C, niacin and vitamin E. But at least they made it on the list of allowed nutrients.
Approximately 350 supplement ingredients are missing from the list. If they are not added to the list by June 2005, they will be deemed ille/gal throughout the European Union. Supplement manufacturers may submit "technical dossiers" to support applications for the inclusion of individual elements or formulations on the so-called "positive list." But the EU has made this process so expensive and time consuming that many manufacturers simply can't afford the costs involved.
As a result, around 5,000 safe formulas and nutrients that have been on the market for decades will soon be banned.
Of course, these regul/ations were all passed under the guise of "protecting the public." According to the World Health Organization, popular alternative medicines are often "misused" and may "harm patients." They point out that the "incorrect use" of alternative therapies has caused deaths in wealthy countries where more and more patients rely on them.
You could also argue that the incorrect use of kitchen knives, water skis, and even plastic bags have all caused deaths. Not to mention the use of AMA-sanctioned medical procedures and FDA-approved drugs. The key phrase h/e/re is "incorrect use."
The WHO could do everyone a service by first addressing the incorrect use of accepted mainstream therapies that have caused far more widespread death and adverse reactions than natural medicine therapies ever have or ever will.
Although they are few and far between, there are mistakes and fatalities associated with alternate therapies, supplements and her/bal remedies. It's always important to keep in mind that many of the compounds and herbs used in natural medicine treatments are very powerful. They have risks and potential side-effects, which is why I always recommend that you work closely with skilled natural medicine practitioners whenever you use these therapies.
But even with their cautions, natural remedies are far, far safer than prescription drugs, and one reason might be the users themselves. An article published in the journal Psychologist noted that people who seek out natural and alternative treatments are generally more health conscious than non-users, and believe that by making sound lifestyle choices they can influence their own health.
But not if the EU has anything to say about it.
Where's the "Fight for Freedom" When You Need It?
You'd think that such blatant abuse of power to restrict people's personal liberty would have our own self-proclaimed freedom-loving government up in arms (literally). But there's an even darker side to all this, and it has little -- if anything -- to do with health or looking out for people's best interests.
Even if the American government didn't want to go along with the regul/ations imposed by the EU Directive, we really wouldn't have a choice. In fact, the United States ne/ver has acknowledged or stated any form of acceptance for the EU Directive. But hard as it is to believe, this "directive" can actually override U.S. law if it isn't stopped in Europe.
As a member of the World Trade Organization (WTO), the U.S. will be bound by any finalized standards put forth in the directive.
If we choose to ignore the regul/ations our WTO-affiliation binds us to, we would face severe trade sanctions with other WTO countries, which could potentially cripple part of our economy. And there's no way that our already anti-natural medicine government is going to let that happen over access to vitamins and minerals. So the best way to ensure it doesn't get to that point is to do everything we can to stop it n/o/w -- before it happens.
Protect Your Rights with These Three Steps
There are three actions to take. The most ur/gent is to support a case brought by the British Alliance for Natural Health to overturn the European Food Supplements Directive. In January 2004, the alliance's attorneys (a firm which has successfully had another European Directive overturned) won the first round in the High Court of Justice in London. The appeal was referred to the European Court of Justice.
(Please visit the Alliance’s Web site, http://www.alliance-natural-health.org to read about their case and, most importantly, make a donation to support their efforts to protect everyone's supplements, including yours. Even a few dollars will help. A few dollars from each of us will add up. If we can help them overturn this food supplement dictatorship in Europe, it won't ever come h/e/re.)
The second action I urge you to take is to write, call and e-mail your state's senators and congressmen. Tell your senators to oppose S.722, the Dietary Supplement Safety Act, and tell your congressmen to oppose H.R. 3377, the Dietary Supplement Access and Awareness Act. These two bills put the wheels in motion for restrictions similar to those outlined in the EU Directive to become U.S. law, which would be even more threatening to us than just an international code of standards.
These extremely dangerous and misnamed proposals would allow the FDA to "roll back" most of the small amount of health care freedom you and I regained with the 1994 "DSHEA" law we all fought so hard for. Even if we're successful in helping the Alliance for Natural Health defeat the European Food Supplements Directive, if these bills are passed into law, our supplement choices will shrink dramatically anyway.
The final step to take is to tell your U.S. senators and congressmen to support U.S. Rep. Ron Paul's H.R. 1146, the American Sovereignty Restoration Act. This accurately named (for once) legislation would make the Constitution of the United States the supreme law of the land again, and restore law-making and judging power to our elected representatives and American courts, respectively. Please don't leave this off your list. In the long run, it's the most important action of the three.
Please make a donation of any size to the Alliance for Natural Health as soon as you can. Then, please write, call, fax, and e-mail your U.S. Senators and Representatives as often as you can, telling them to oppose S. 722 and H.R. 3377, and to support American freedom by voting for H.R. 1146.
For further information on the European Union Directive on Dietary Supplements and on the Codex Alimentarius legislation, contact the American Holistic Health Association (http://www.ahha.org), the Alliance for Natural Health (http://www.alliance-natural-health.org), or the International Advocates for Health Freedom (http://www.iahf.com).
Don't wake up next August to find your supplements gone for good. Join me in taking action n/o/w, and recruit everyone you can to join the battle. While our troops are fighting for your freedom and mine overseas, you and I can literally fight for American freedom right h/e/re at home.
Copyright © 2004 by Jonathan Wright. All rights reserved.
Dr. Jonathan Wright is the Medical Director and founder of the Tahoma Clinic in Renton, Wash., where he also practices medicine. A Harvard Univer/sity (A.B. 1965) and Univer/sity of Michigan graduate (M.D. 1969), Dr. Wright has taught natural biochemical medical treatments since 1983 to thousands of physicians in the U.S., Europe, and Japan. In 1973, Dr. Wright founded the Tahoma Clinic (See http://www.tahoma-clinic.com) which focuses on disease prevention and treatment by natural biochemical and bioenergetic means.
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Recommendations
Books
Third Opinion, 4th edition by John M. Fink. I receive a lot of requests for information regarding viable alternative cancer treatments and the doctors and centers that are providing them. This excellent reference guide provides detailed listings of the best such sources, both h/e/re in the U.S. and abroad. Though the entries Fink includes are not in-depth, he provides readers with the information they need to make informed choices. Very highly recommended.
Stopping Inflammation: Relieving the Cause of Degenerative Diseases by Nancy Appleton, PhD. Inflammation is one of the leading (and often undiagnosed) causes of most chronic diseases, including heart disease and cancer. This book explains why this is so and then provides a detailed action plan based around food choices and eating plans that anyone can use to prevent and reverse the inflammation process. Having served as the book’s editor, I give it two thumbs up.
Health and Blessings!
Larry Trivieri, Jr. (larry@1healthyworld.com)
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