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Monday, July 25, 2005


Take two M&M's and call me in the morning?
NEW YORK (CNN/Money) - Take two M&M's and call me in the morning?

The Financial Times reports that candy maker Mars Inc. is set to
release research Monday that it says shows that a basic component of
cocoa could help treat ailments including diabetes, stroke and vascular
disease.

The privately held maker of M&M's, Snickers and 3 Musketeers is also
expected to announce that it has discovered how to replicate these
beneficial compounds, known as "flavanols." And the company will tell
scientists meeting in Switzerland that it is in "serious discussions"
with drugmakers about licensing the development of "synthesized
flavanols."

"The mounting scientific evidence on coca flavanols is extraordinary,"
Harvard Medical School professor Norm Hollenberg told the paper. "This
is a scientific breakthrough that could well lead to a medical
breakthrough."

Hollenberg has shared research with Mars, according to the paper.

The paper reports that flavanols have been found in other foods other
than cocoa, including green tea, red wine and tomatoes, and previous
studies have shown the advantages of including flavanols in diet. Still
even a researcher at Mars admits this breakthrough was somewhat
unexpected.

"We are in a position that none of us could ever have imagined,"
Harold Schmitz, Mars' chief science officer, told the paper. "We have a
valuable asset that's not just about food, it's about the
pharmaceutical sector."

Sunday, July 24, 2005


CODEX ALIMENTARIUS
URGENT:
The proposed so-called "CODEX ALIMENTARIUS" (Latin for "Food Rules")
legislation now before Congress, if passed into law, will outlaw all
organic, free-range, and bio-dynamic farming and make illegal the
non-medical prescription, availability, and sale of meaningful dosages of
all vitamins, minerals, herbs, and nutritional supplements, and bring about
the extinction of most health-food stores and privately owned nutrient
manufacturers in America immediately following passage of such law. The
others will last a little longer, but will eventually go down.
If you have not yet attained certainty that the above statement is true and
would like to confirm it for yourself, please read the communiqué below from
Dr. Rima Laibow, MD, one of the few people in the world who has read all
15,000 pages of the proposed legislation. FYI: The fatter the proposed
legislative package, the more sinister the measures buried within, and the
greater the danger to any party under its jurisdiction (i.e. YOU).
If you already understand the extreme importance of thwarting the proposed
CODEX ALIMENTARIUS legislation you can get right into action by DOWNLOADING,
PRINTING, SIGNING, AND FAXING each of the ATTACHED THREE SAMPLE LETTERS (MS
Word file) to both of your Senators and your Representative in Washington,
DC, i.e. three (3) letters to three (3) parties, a total of nine (9) letters
faxed (content of letters can be varied; these are suggested samples).
The target is ONE MILLION FAXES to Congress between March 23, 2005, and
April 22, 2005. Please step up and do your part to ensure that the ONE
MILLION FAXES arrive and that our DC representatives get the message that we
do not want anything to do with CODEX ALIMENTARIUS.<>
FYI: FAX is better than email (more substance) and faster than snail mail.
Do your best to fax, but in the event you cannot, please get the message to
DC the best way you can before April 22, 2005.
For the FAX number for your state's Senators and Representatives, click on
the link below and then click on the icon of your state on the map that
appears. The list of fax numbers will appear.
http://www.visi.com/juan/congress/
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This is a very serious situation, but can be overcome with room to spare if
you and those you know will step up to the plate and make it happen. Please
take time out of your day to forward this
email, along with the example letters at the bottom, to everyone you know. Then:
customize each of the three sample letters at the bottom for both of your Senators and
your Representative, print them out, sign them, and fax them to their
respective destinations.
Everyone else is counting on you to come through (whether they know about
this proposed legislation or not).
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The communiqué from Dr. Laibow:
ATTENTION:
RE CODEX ALIMENTARIUS
Letter from Rima Laibow, MD
http://www.nmaseminars.com/
March 23, 2005
Dear friends and colleagues,
Each of us is deluged daily with so much information that we are forced to
choose quickly between what deserves our attention and what to throw in the
circular file. I implore you to read the following. Your professional and
personal lives as you know them depend on it.
No doubt you have received as many rambling, lengthy emails about Codex
Alimentarius as I have. I have deleted more of them than I can count that
were either too alarming or too complacent in nature and lacking in
credibility. Now, let me ask you if you know anyone who has actually read
all 15,000+ pages of the working documents of the Codex Alimentarius
Commission? Well, I have. As such, allow me to attempt to put an end to
any confusion you may have about Codex Alimentarius by sharing what I have
learned and what I believe to be a reasonable and appropriate level of
concern.
What's the bottom line for a healthcare professional practicing alternative,
nutritional, natural, or environmental healthcare? The World Trade
Organization (WTO) is poised to take away your right to practice the healing
arts guided by natural laws, scientific principles, and your clinical
expertise and judgment. Through the Orwellian process of harmonization
(forced alignment) with WTO standards that regulate trade, distribution, and
process ing of food, herbs, and nutrients, your professional rights and
options will be eliminated within the next few years. The proposed
standards are extremely detrimental to the environment, your medical
practice, and the food supply.
Okay. I saw that one eyebrow go up and heard that deep sigh. Let me tell
you that alarmism is not and never has been in my nature. I am a medical
doctor, have a wide variety of interests, am passionate about healthcare
freedom, and pride myself in my rational thinking and logic skills. I floss
my teeth regularly and eat a nutrient-dense whole foods diet and, yes,
occasionally sample the more decadent side of the culinary arts. Neither my
family nor I had a bomb shelter during the Cold War era and I did not
withdraw from society or stock up on gasoline, food, or batteries in
anticipation of Y2K. Read on.
The ability of physicians to legally practice environmental or natural
medicine, their access to the substances they rely on to do so, and the
rights of patients to chose these treatments are about to be criminalized in
the United States by a draconian set of international regulations which have
already become law in Australia, Canada and the European Union (EU). These
standards, collectively known as CODEX ALIMENTARIUS, (from the Latin for
"Food Rules") have been promulgated by the Codex Alimentarius Commission
[established for this purpose in 1963 by the United Nations (UN)] in every
area having to do with the production, processing, packaging and use of
food, herbs and food components.
Think that can't happen here? Think again. It can and it will, unless we
take appropriate action and activate each member of our personal and
professional networks. Skillful disinformation would have you believe that
CODEX ALIMENTARIUS (hereafter referred to as CODEX) is a hoax and that, at
the same time, it is beneficial for you and your patients. (The inherent
illogic of this position is obvious to the discerning reader.)
The Codex Alimentarius Commission was empowered to work with other UN-linked
organizations in order to develop and promulgate uniform world-wide
standards for food, nutrition and agriculture. The WTO, successor to the
General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT), is empowered to enforce
global compliance with all CODEX standards via trade sanctions across the
entire economic spectrum. Member nations (including the United States)
agreed, upon signing the WTO treaty, to always allow the standards and
regulations of the WTO to supersede and take complete precedence over
national standards, laws, and regulations.
Once accepted CODEX takes on the force of law and cannot be repealed or
changed by the WTO member nations.
Presenting itself as a c onsumer protection strategy, CODEX policies
masquerade as both benign and beneficial while, in reality, they are
neither. Given the medically and environmentally horrific stipulations and
requirements of (See, for example, the urban legend site, www.snopes.com
article "Vitamin See" which promulgates FACTUALLY INACCURATE DISINFORMATION
about the real nature and impact of CODEX and the FDA's Response to
Questions page, http://www.cfsan.fda.gov/~dms/dscodex.html, the
implementation of these "standards" will result in incalculable harm to the
healing arts and the patients who depend on them.
Once CODEX is adopted by a nation, there is a "phase-in period" during which
the administrative structure is established according to a strict timetable.
Bear in mind that in the United States, nutrients are currently classi fied
as foods [under the 1994 Dietary Supplements Health and Education Act
(DSHEA)] and that any substance not explicitly forbidden is permitted as a
nutrient in the United States. Under CODEX, any substance not explicitly
permitted by CODEX policy is banned as a nutrient.
The CODEX preamble specifies that supplements and nutrients 'may not be used
to prevent, treat or cure any disorder.' Yet, more than 80 percent of
Americans use supplements for exactly these purposes. Nutritional and
environmental physicians, naturopaths, nutritionists, chiropractors and
other licensed health professionals employ hundreds of natural minerals,
supplements, and herbs precisely because they are effective in preventing,
treating and curing many diseases.
These natural health options will become illegal if the United States is
"harmonized" with the WTO this spring while compliance with CODEX is still
"voluntary" or when t otal compliance becomes mandatory, as it will be the
case after the next CODEX Commission meeting in Rome. Health food stores
will no longer be able to market and distribute nutritional supplements.
Most health food stores and privately owned nutrient manufacturers will, I
believe, no longer be in business after CODEX takes effect.
I know. This is all difficult to believe upon first hearing it. You may
have heard that is easy to get people to believe a lie, particularly an
outrageous lie. In my experience, the opposite is also true: It is
difficult to get people to believe the outrageous truth. Keep on reading,
because this is a truth you definitely need to understand.
Once CODEX is implemented (either through 'harmonization' or mandatory
compliance), we will be forced to follow the European CODEX model in which
it will be illegal to manufacture, buy, sell, recommend, or use any b ut 28
ultra-low dose nutrients whether you are a licensed health professional or
not. "Only synthetic versions of that" short list will be allowed and
natural supplements, herbs, enzymes and other non-pharmaceutical treatments
will be banned. The only legal health option left will be the
pharmaceutical one.
CODEX regulations have been "harmonized" (i.e. approved) in the EU, Canada
and Australia. The United States is next unless we act decisively and act
now. Though CODEX regulations are passed quietly and without effective
public notice in infrequent meetings abroad that are invisible to most
Americans, they have grave and devastating impact on American's health
freedom.
Here in the United States, the 'harmonization' laws which will enact CODEX
policy have been defeated by Congress several times, each time by a smaller
margin. Given the composition of the current Congress, it is virtually
certain t hat it will be passed unless we take swift and immediate steps to
assure that does not happen.
This legislative stealth attack on health freedoms will probably play out in
May or early June of 2005 unless we take effective steps to help assure that
health freedom becomes the "Mother of all third rails" for every politician
in the country.
CODEX is the result of a complex relationship between the UN (which
established the Codex Alimentarius Commission in 1962); the WTO (which is
authorized to enforce CODEX through trade sanctions); the World Health
Organization (WHO), which subscribes to the CODEX regulations (despite the
fact that they directly and explicitly conflict with their own findings and
policies such as the FAO/WHO official publication, "Diet, Nutrition and the
Prevention of Chronic Diseases"); the Food and Agriculture Organization
(FAO), the United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA); and the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) working in concert with industry
representatives of (and others unofficially representing the interests of)
the pesticide, chemical, pharmaceutical, and dairy industries.
Consumers, health scientists, physicians and other practicing natural
medicine and other health-focused voices have been totally absent from
official CODEX deliberations. A few observers have been present at official
deliberations but they have not been permitted to speak in the sessions.
Full ratification is expected in Rome during the July 4-9, 2005 meeting of
the CODEX ALIMETNARIUS Committee.
Of course, the real work of such a complex regulatory structure takes place
outside of those official sessions. And none of the health advocates have
had access to those meetings, agreements and sessions. Yet CODEX will take
away our health freedoms if we allow ourselves to be "harmonized" or
mandate d to comply with CODEX.
Everyone knows if they have a jar of pickles and they remove the pickle
label and put a mayonnaise label on it, that they're going to find pickles
when they open the jar. The packaging of CODEX policy under the label of
protection of fair trade, public health, and safety does not make it so.
Underneath CODEX's altruistic labeling is a poisoned apple of extremely
adverse global policy that is, in fact, driven by economic concerns of large
corporate interests.
Once implemented, CODEX ALIMENTARIUS does the following:
.
1. VITAMINS, MINERAL, NUTRIENTS AND PHYSIOLOGICALLY ACTIVE SUBSTANCES
(a) The CODEX preamble forbids the use of nutrients to "prevent, treat or
cure any condition or disease".
(b) CODEX defines minimum allowable dosages of permitted nutrients as 15
percent of the amounts naturally occurring in foods, while maximum allowable
doses of any permitted nutrie nts may not exceed the dose of that nutrient
found in food. Supplement values subtract the amount assumed to be in the
daily diet from the maximum allowable dose and the result is the permitted
upper limit of a nutrient. This system is based neither in science nor
clinical requirements.
(c) Higher doses of permitted nutrients and nutrients not explicitly
permitted will be classified as illegal substances (in the same class as
heroin)
(i) Theoretical exceptions exist for natural substances which are
submitted and accepted for testing. A substance successfully tested in this
way may then be prescribed at the tested dosage only. The permission to use
a nutrient in this way, by prescription only, however, expires in 2009.
(ii) The cost of this procedure is staggering, most applications for
such testing have been turned down and, since natural molecules canno t be
patented, potential manufacturers are unable to recoup the costs of testing
through later sales.
(iii) The period for submission of applications for this process ends on
July 12, 2005 and cannot be extended
(d) The European Union (EU), whose European Supplements Directive is the
model administrative agency for CODEX implementation, permits a total of 28
ultra-low dose nutrients. All other nutrients (e.g. alpha lipoic acid,
1-gram doses of vitamin C, Co-Q 10, fish oil, and curcumin) are banned
substances and may not be manufactured, distributed, recommended, sold,
supplied or be in the possession of anyone, including licensed health
professionals. Vitamin C, for example, at any dosage higher than 200 mg per
day will be illegal. A gram of Vitamin C will be an illegal substance! The
dose of Co-Q 10 which has been shown to resolve breast cancer in some
patients (400 mg p er day) will be illegal because Co-Q 10 will be totally
forbidden at any dose (following the European Supplements Directive model).
(e) The allowable maximum upper limits for permitted nutrients have been set
so low that they have little or no clinical impact in keeping us healthy and
none at all in returning us to a state of health if we are ill. Those which
are available will be exorbitantly priced, as current experience in Norway
and Germany reveals, where profit margins of synthetic, permitted nutrients
are being harmonized to match drug profit margins.
(i) On August 1, 2005, 75 percent of the natural substances currently
available in health food stores and pharmacies in Europe will become illegal
as a direct result of CODEX.
(ii) Only synthetic forms of permitted nutrients will be available.
All natural versions will be illegal substances. Only syntheti c nutrients
(at ultra-low dosages) manufactured by pharmaceutical companies will meet
the molecular standards for use in humans or animals.
2. HERBS AND HERBAL TREATMENTS
(a) Herbs, originally part of the CODEX deliberations, were summarily
removed and placed under a closed committee of the WHO where they are held
to be untested drugs and therefore illegal.
(b) The European Supplements Directive, the model agency for CODEX
administration, has produced a very short list of herbs which may be used
and the conditions for which they may be used (another short and very
trivial list).
(c) All other applications of herbs and any other herbs besides those listed
are strictly forbidden.
(d) There is the possibility that a few formulas of well known Chinese
herbal medicines may be exempt (but that remains to be seen)
3. TRADITIONAL HEALING ARTS
(a) CODEX stipulates which conditions may be treated using herbs and allows
only minor, self-limited conditions. Treating any other conditions with
herbal remedies will constitute a crime.
(b) Some complex oriental herbal formulas may be permitted but most will be
lost.
(c) Ayurvedic, Tibetan, tribal and other traditional medicines which use
herbs and natural substances will be forbidden world-wide. Since most people
do not have access to pharmaceutical medicine, this effectively removes the
legal possibility of people legally accessing any form of tribal or
traditional medicine.
(d.) Herbal, shamanic, energy based (e.g. Reiki and acupuncture) medicine
are forbidden forms of treatment.
4) GENETICALLY MODIFIED ORGANISMS (GMOs)
(a) CODEX makes the un-labeled use of GMOs legal in all foods under all
circumstances, even though there is significant opposition to the widespread
use of GMOs at this time. Farmers in Iraq, for example, must purchase their
seeds from Monsanto and are forbidden from retaining seed crops under the
new Iraqi constitution. Similar laws exist in other less exotic places.
(b) Many GMOs have been genetically engineered so that seeds WILL NOT
GERMINATE without the use of specific pesticides (such as "Roundup" by
Monsanto). In fact, mounting scientific evidence makes it clear that the
incidence of birth defects, chemical sensitivity, chronic fatigue syndrome,
asthma, severe allergies, and a host of other conditions have a causative or
contributory relationship with increasing levels of pesticide exposure that
these crops will require.
(c) GMOs themselves are far from scientifically established as safe for
either the planet or its people by objective, non-industry scientists.
Genetic drift through the spread of GMO genetic material is recognized as a
major threat to the biological integrity of the entire plan et.
5. TOXIC RESIDUES
(a) CODEX sets permissible upper limits for pesticide residues, toxic
chemicals, hormones in food and other environmental contaminants that are
many times higher than levels advocated by chemical and pesticide industry
lobbying groups.
(b) The current acceptable levels of toxins are already responsible for most
of the incidence of cancers, heart disease, autism, chronic degenerative
conditions, and organ failures that associated with mortality and morbidity
globally. Increasing the permissible levels of toxins can only accelerate
personal and global suffering.
6. ANTIBIOTICS, GROWTH STIMULANTS AND OTHER HORMONES IN FOOD ANIMALS
(a) CODEX mandates that all animal feed must be treated with antibiotics,
hormones and growth stimulants world wide.
(b) Organic, free-range, and biodynamic farming will become illegal.
7. IRRADIATION OF FOOD
(a.) CODEX mandates irradiation of food under circumstances now hotly
contested by food safety advocates. Allegedly designed to 'protect us from
food borne illness', the irradiation of food is by no means agreed to be a
safe procedure (by non-industry scientists) since there is considerable
scientific evidence that protein structures are modified in unhealthy ways
by introducing ionizing radiation into food before it is consumed.
(b) The irradiation of food produces huge free radical populations. The
only protection against their pervasive damage is high doses of
anti-oxidants (which will be illegal under CODEX).
At this point it will likely come as no surprise to you that there has been
no effective representation from health advocates, nutritional supplement
manufacturers, natural healthcare professionals, or other
non-pharmaceutically oriented group at the Codex Alimentarius Commission
meeting. The Co dex Alimentarius Commission meets every two years, always
offshore (Rome, Bonn, Paris, etc.) and never in Smallville, USA, a fact that
helps perpetuate its opacity to the United States citizenry. The United
States' representatives to the Codex Alimentarius Commission have
well-documented, very unwholesome conflicts of interest with the very
industries that stand to profit and benefit from the wholesale
implementation of the CODEX standards.
CODEX sets international standards for everything from parmesan cheese to
sweet cassava, canned sardines to chicken meat, Echinacea to rice. The
standards which comprise CODEX are virtually complete: final ratification of
the entire package is expected at the Codex Alimentarius Committee meeting
in Rome from July 4-9, 2005.
Before ratification, "harmonization" is "voluntary" but can be enforced by
WTO trade sanctions. After ratification, compliance with CODEX is m andatory
and enforcement by the WTO is a powerful threat to make sure that it is
complied with properly.
It is imperative that concerned health professionals and their patients,
friends, relatives, suppliers, etc., become fully activated to stop CODEX
from being enacted in the United States.
Now that we know more about the boat in which we are adrift, let me hand you
a paddle. This threat to our profession and to our ability to choose the
type of healthcare for our selves demands one of the most powerful tools
available to us: grass roots political action. We can use the Democratic
Process to our advantage by:
1. Getting activated. If you do nothing now, when CODEX is ratified you
will have nothing left of your environmental or nutritional medicine
practice. It is imperative that you alert your colleagues, friends,
patients, relatives, suppliers and everyone else you know to this danger so
they can join you in taking effective action.
2. FAX, do not use regular mail or email, your Congressional Delegation re:
your strong outrage at the limitation of our health freedoms through CODEX
and a group of domestic efforts to reclassify nutrients as drugs and
eliminate them as foods.
3 Visit www.healthfreedomUSA.org to find your Congressional Delegation's FAX
number and three sample letters to Congress. Send each targeted Congressman
all three letters signed by you. We need to have a minimum of one
million faxes to Congress in the next 4 weeks.
3. Provide sample letters and a list of local Congressional District
members' FAX numbers for patients in your office. This information is
available on the Natural Solutions Foundation website,
www.healthfreedomUSA.org . Offer to FAX letters for t hose patients who do
not have fax machines available to them.
4. Become a supporter of the Natural Solutions Foundation, a not for profit
organization (of which I am the Medical Director) to preserve, protect and
defend health freedom in the United States.
In addition to our other activities, the Natural Solutions Foundation has
commissioned a major documentary to tell the story of CODEX to the American
public. Become a supporter of this effort. See www.healthfreedomUSA.org for
details.
We would all like to put our heads in the sand and try to believe that CODEX
would, could and should not happen here. But it can and, unless we take
action now, CODEX will become the law of our land.
5. For a discussion of the domestic legislative assault on health freedoms,
go to www.healthfreedomUSA.org.&nbs p; Whether your motivation is global or local,
professional or personal, I ask that you take action now. FAX letters
supporting health freedom, a safe food supply and a clean world: FAX letters
to Congress and alert your entire network to do that same.
Yours in Health and Freedom,
Rima E. Laibow, MD
Medical Director
Natural Solutions Foundation
Healthfreedom@optonline.net
www.healthfreedomUSA.org
SAMPLE LETTER 1
[Your address]
[Your City, State, ZIP]
[Date]
The Honorable [full name of your Senator/Representative]
PROTECT MY HEALTH FREEDOM!
VOTE AGAINST the Dietary Supplement Safety Act and all similar legislation
Dear [Senator/Representative] [Surname]:
As your constituent I want to inform you of my very strong opposition to any version of the CODEX ALIMENTARUS regulations (or any other legislation which restricts my health choices and freedoms) becoming law or governing regulation in our country. The draconian regulations of CODEX will do irreparable harm to the health and well being of the entire population of this country since it will make it illegal for anyone, including licensed physicians, to offer, choose, dispense, or use natural health promotion and treatment agents like Vitamin C, Co-Q 10, zinc, and calcium at clinically effective dosages. It will also make the use of ANY nutrient (other than 28 permitted low-dose, natural substances) illegal at clinically meaningful doses. This set of regulations has already become law in Australia, Canada and the EU.
I urge you to vote against measures which reclassify food supplements as drugs and increase adverse-results scrutiny in a biased manner while not applying the same standard to known toxic drugs (the fourth leading cause of death in the US when used according to labeling instructions) such as the soon-to-be reintroduced sequel to S722, “Dietary Supplement Safety Act.” Please be assured that I will use every means available to me to preserve and protect my freedom to choose natural treatments and substances when I feel that is in my best interest and look to you, as my elected representative, to protect me from this impending loss of health freedom.
I appeal to you to act as a staunch defender of my interests, and that of other Americans, not those of the special interests which understand that a healthy populace spends less on medication than one with no access to effective natural preventive and treatment strategies. I look to you to prevent our country from being “harmonized” with the destructive and restrictive regulations of CODEX ALIMENTARUS to force ill health on all Americans. Please be assured that I watch carefully and appreciate your staunch support of the health needs of your constituents and the nation at large.
Sincerely,
[Your signature]
[Your name, printed]
SAMPLE LETTER 2
[Your address]
[Your City, State, ZIP]
[Date]
The Honorable [full name of your Senator/Representative]
PROTECT MY HEALTH FREEDOM!
VOTE AGAINST HR 3377, The Dietary Supplement Access and Awareness Act
Dear [Senator/Representative] [Surname]:
As your constituent I wanted to make you aware of my very strong opposition to any version of the CODEX ALIMENTARUS regulations (or any other legislation which restricts my health choices and freedoms) becoming law or governing regulation in our country. The draconian regulations of CODEX will do irreparable harm to the health and well being of the entire population of this country since it will make it illegal for anyone, including licensed physicians, to offer, choose, dispense or use natural health promotion and treatment agents like Vitamin C, Co-Q 10, zinc, and calcium at clinically effective dosages. It will also make the use of ANY nutrient (other than 28 permitted low-dose, natural substances) illegal at clinically meaningful doses. This set of regulations has already become law in Aus tralia, Canada and the EU.
I urge you to vote against measures which restrict in any way my access to food supplements which have an enviable safety record, in sharp distinction to substances which have already passed FDA scrutiny and yet cause irreparable harm and death to many hundreds of thousands of Americans each year. Please vote against HR 3377, the Dietary Supplement Access and Awareness bill or any similar legislation which would roll back the small freedoms we have gained under the DSHEA law of 1994. Please be assured that I will use every means available to me to preserve and protect my freedom to choose natural treatments and substances when I feel that is in my best interest and look to you, as my elected representative, to protect me from this impending loss of health freedom.
I appeal to you to act as a staunch defender of my interests, and that of other Americans, not those of the special interests which understand that a healthy populace spends less on medication than one with no access to effective natural preventive and treatment strategies. I look to you to prevent the free United States from being “harmonized” with the destructive and restrictive regulations of CODEX ALIMENTARUS to force ill health on our citizens. Please be assured that I watch carefully and appreciate your staunch support of the health needs of your constituents and the nation at large,
Very truly yours,
[Your signature]
[Your name, printed]
SAMPLE LETTER 3
[Your address]
[Your City, State, ZIP]
[Date]
The Honorable [full name of your Senator/Representative]
PROTECT MY HEALTH FREEDOM!
PLEASE SUPPORT HR 1146, The American Sovereignty Restoration Act
Dear [Senator/Representative] [Surname]:
I urge you to support HR 1146, which will restore American sovereignty in matters of health and other areas. As your constituent I wanted to make you aware of my very strong opposition to any version of the CODEX ALIMENTARUS regulations (or any other legislation which restricts my health choices and freedoms) becoming law or governing regulation in our country. Based on regulations of the CODEX ALIMENTARIUS Commission of the UN, our health freedoms are in danger of being ripped away, as they have been in Australia, the EU and Canada. The draconian regulations of CODEX, based entirely on junk science, will do irreparable harm to the health and well being of the entire p opulation of this country since it will become illegal for anyone, including licensed physicians, to offer, choose, dispense, or use natural health promotion and treatment agents like Vitamin C, Co Q 10, zinc, and calcium at clinically effective dosages. It will also make the use of ANY nutrient (other than 28 permitted low-dose, natural substances) illegal at clinically meaningful doses.
I urge you to support HR 1146 in order to restore sovereignty to this country. FDA Policy on Standards* states “where a relevant international standard exists, or completion is imminent, it will generally be used in preference to a domestic standard….” Under that standard, the highly restrictive CODEX and European Supplements Directive regulations will be used to control access to essential amino acids, fish oil, and therapeutic doses of vitamins and minerals and great harm will come to the American people as confirmed in vast amounts of research. Please be assured that I will use every means available to me to preserve and protect my freedom to choose natural treatments and substances when I feel that is in my best interest and look to you, as my elected representative, to protect me from this im pending loss of health freedom.
I appeal to you to act as a staunch defender of my interests, and that of other Americans, not those of the special interests which understand that a healthy populace spends less on medication than one with no access to effective natural preventive and treatment strategies. I look to you to prevent our country from being “harmonized” with the destructive and restrictive regulations of CODEX ALIMENTARUS to force ill health on all Americans. Please be assured that I watch carefully and appreciate your staunch support of the health needs of your constituents and the nation at large.
Sincerely,
[Your signature]
[Your Printed Name]
*

Wednesday, July 13, 2005


Scientists Raise Alarm About Ocean Health
Wed Jul 13, 8:48 PM ET

SEATTLE -AP- With a record number of dead seabirds washing up on West Coast beaches from Central California to British Columbia, marine biologists are raising the alarm about rising ocean temperatures and dwindling plankton populations.

"Something big is going on out there," said Julia Parrish, an associate professor in the School of Aquatic Fisheries and Sciences at the University of Washington. "I'm left with no obvious smoking gun, but birds are a good signal because they feed high up on the food chain."

Coastal ocean temperatures are 2 to 5 degrees above normal, which may be related to a lack of updwelling, in which cold, nutrient-rich water is brought to the surface.

Updwelling is fueled by northerly winds that sweep out near-shore waters and bring cold water to the surface. The process starts the marine food chain, fueling algae and shrimplike krill populations that feed small fish, which then provide a source of food for a variety of sea life from salmon to sea birds and marine mammals.

On Washington beaches, bird surveyors in May typically find an average of one dead Brandt's cormorant every 34 miles of beach. This year, cormorant deaths averaged one every eight-tenths of a mile, according to data gathered by volunteers with the Coastal Observation and Seabird Survey Team, which Parrish has directed since 2000.

"This is somewhere between five and 10 times the highest number of bird deaths we've seen before," she said, adding that she expected June figures to show a similar trend.

This spring's cool, wet weather brought southwesterly wind to coastal areas and very little northerly wind, said Nathan Mantua, a research scientist with the Climate Impacts Group at the University of Washington. Without northerly winds, there is no updwelling and plankton stay at lower depths.

"In 50 years, this has never happened," said Bill Peterson, an oceanographer with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration in Newport, Ore. "If this continues, we will have a food chain that is basically impoverished from the very lowest levels."

Problems at the bottom of the food chain could also be related to decreases in juvenile salmon populations this summer.

NOAA's June and July surveys of juvenile salmon off the coasts of Oregon, Washington and British Columbia indicate a 20 percent to 30 percent drop in populations, compared with surveys from 1998-2004.

"We don't really know that this will cause bad returns. The runs this year haven't been horrible, but below average," said Ed Casillas, program manager of Estuarine and Ocean Ecology at NOAA's Northwest Fisheries Science Center in Seattle.

Scientists tracking anomolies along Washington's coast reported the appearance of warm-water plankton species and scores of jellyfish piling up on beaches. A Guadalupe fur seal, native to South America, was found dead in Ocean Shores.

Parrish and a scientist near San Francisco report changes in bird breeding. Both said starvation stress could be the cause for decreased breeding and increased bird deaths.

Peterson, the NOAA oceanographer, said many scientists suspect climate change may be involved.

"People have to realize that things are connected — the state of coastal temperatures and plankton populations are connected to larger issues like Pacific salmon populations," he said.

Parrish cautioned that human activity could jeopardize the survival of animals already stressed by environmental changes.

"This, for instance, would be a truly bad year for an oil spill," she said.

 

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