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Dangers of common vitamins and supplements

Ready to Rumble

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.

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Dreaming up dangers
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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?

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Harsh harmony
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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.

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Whose country is it anyway?
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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.

Jonathan V. Wright, M.D., has written a sobering description of
what life would be like under the Codex regulations. You can find
Dr. Wright’s editorial on the web site for his Nutrition & Healing
newsletter: wrightnewsletter.com. Look for the heading titled
“Featured Article.” Dr. Wright 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.

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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 Linda 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
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To Your Good Health,

Jenny Thompson
Health Sciences Institute

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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

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