Yesterday we defined “Nutraceuticide”. Today we’ll look at how the Bigs, Big Pharma, Big Agribiz, Big Chema, Big Biotechna and Big Medica use the medical research system as a propaganda tool to run the poison press against nutrients.
Is scientific research objective? Absolutely not. What gets published depends of what the pharma-bloated medical journals want published, nothing more, nothing less. News Target says it clearly: ” Medical journals are highly corrupt: they only print “science” that agrees with the belief systems of the top editors. The vast majority of articles published in most journals have conflicts of interest where, for example, researchers are funded by the very same drug companies that stand to financial benefit from the conclusions of the published studies.
In reality, today’s medical journals are collections of scientific fiction, wishful thinking, and outright scientific fraud posing as hard science.
Oh yes, and to top it all off, many journals are primarily funded by advertising revenues from the very companies whose products are being studied. Objectivity is simply impossible in such an environment.
The examples are so numerous it is hard to know where to start! Take, for example, the current practice of providing research subjects with the ultra low dose nutrients favored by Codex and its EU clone, the European Food Supplements Directive. Remember, these dosages were chosen to be so low that they have no effect on any human being. And, surprise: they have no effect on any human being! But the research, as I indicated in my blog, “Lies, Damn Lies, Statistics and Medical Journals”, that shows this disingenuous “lack of effect” is without scientific merit. It has, however, a huge propaganda merit.
Never, never, never believe the summaries of articles in major media, on the internet or even in alternative media. They probably picked the story up from somewhere else. And unless you read the article yourself you WILL miss the meat if it’s hidden intentionally.
Don’t believe a word that comes from these shiny, fat and Pharma-Fed journals without asking
1. Who paid for the research?
2. What financial interests do the researchers have in the outcome of the studies?
3. Did the study use the right dose, substance, placebo, test subjects, test conditions to give the nutrients in question a fair chance of a realistic outcome?
4. Did the researchers write the article or was it ghost-written by industrial employees with the famous name attached when it comes to publication time?
5. Do the results inside the article match with the abstract and conclusions or are they just the opposite?
6. Do the journal’s advertisers market patent medicines with which the substance studied in the article could be in competition?
Most of us don’t have time to read the studies our selves. The number of medical journals is staggering and they produce an astounding amount of material each month. Frankly, internet publication just makes it worse! What to do?
Find a knowledgeable skeptic you trust who spends time looking at these things with a fair but suitably skeptical eye. And don’t believe a word you read about how bad nutrients are for you unless you run it through the mind filter of that person. I don’t read everything in the literature (no one can) but I try to keep up and I will write blogs and other articles with my views on these items so you will have an informed, intelligent and fair-minded medical scientist sharing her views with you.
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Yours in both health and freedom,
Rima E. Laibow, MD
Medical Director
“Nutraceuticide”: The Death of Nutritional Medicine
To understand why Codex equals the death of nutritional medicine, let me introduce you to a new word: Nutraceutraceuticid, (new truh sue tih side):
1. The death of individuals and populations through intentional restriction of vital nutrients to sub-clinical doses in the presence of a massively adulterated food supply
2. The death of the nutritional health profession through limitation of supplemental nutrients to a small number of ultra low dose materials with no biological effect in the presence of a massively adulterated food supply
3. The termination of natural health options and strategies by criminalizing the means and materials necessary for those strategies
Nutriceuticide is rapidly being put in place by Codex Alimentarius (Latin for “Food Rules”) which classifies nutrients as toxins from which we need protection (!) inappropriately using Risk Assessment (a branch of toxicology) to determine permitted nutrient doses so low that, by design, they have no impact on any human being.
Codex ratified the restrictive Vitamin and Mineral Guideline July 4, 2005 (Rome) which, when globally enacted, is expected to result in the death of at least 3 billion people according to the World Health Organization and Food and Agriculture Organization (WHO/FAO) estimates. At the same time, clean, unadulterated food (free of pesticides, exogenous growth hormones, veterinary drugs, irradiation and genetic modification) will be unavailable and actually illegal! Information which includes health benefits associated with nutrients would be forbidden.
Although the US is currently protected by laws which prevent us from “HARMonizing” with standards like these, these protective laws are under significant legislative attack. Equally chilling, clinically effective doses of nutritional supplements will no longer be legal once the United States is “HARMonized” with Codex Alimentarius.
Created in 1962 as a UN trade commission, Codex Alimentarius sets World Trade Organization (WTO) trade sanction-enforced global standards for everything ingested: crops, animal food, animal feed, processed food, nutrients, water, etc. These regulations clearly serve the interests of multinational Bigs: Big Pharma, Big Agribiz, Big Chema, Big Biotechna and Big Medica.
Codex permits pesticide and toxin residues which are incompatible with human health and longevity, mandates food irradiation, antibiotic and hormone treatment of food animals (and Monsanto rBGH in all dairy cattle world wide), while declaring that nutrients are toxins. As toxins, they are restricted to daily dosages determined by Risk Assessment (toxicology) to have no impact on any human, no matter how sensitive. These nutrient restrictions (in conjunction with an adulterated food supply) serve to guarantee a steady market for pharmaceuticals. Nutritional strategies for health will be both unavailable and illegal.
If Codex implementation is permitted to take place, it spells the death of nutritional health strategies.
What can we do?
1. Write Congress with a personalized letter telling them why you treasure your health freedom and how they need to support it.
2. Organize your friends and visit your Congressional delegates. Tell them to oppose the pro-illness legislation before them (and the many more to follow). Write them a follow up letter after you see them.
3. Help everyone you know to take steps 1 and 2 above. Use the internet! It works.
4. Listen to FREE US/FREE US!, the Voice of Health Freedom ™ live every Wednesday 7 -8 PM (Eastern) on Internet radio If the time isn’t good, for you, listen on the archives when the time is ripe. But please do listen.
And don’t forget to support the Natural Solutions Foundation. We depend on your donations to protect your health freedoms.
We need you and your enthusiasm: your health depends upon it.
Yours in health and freedom,
Rima E. Laibow, MD
Medical Director
This week the British Medical Journal published a study which reported that older people don’t benefit from taking a nutritional supplement. A few months ago, the same journal published another study that reported Multivitamins Won’t Ward Off Infection in Elderly – Senior Health, Aging and Elder Care Health Conditions Show No Decrease in Infection among the elderly who took supplements. Another articles in The Lancet and the British Medical Journal trumpets supplements don’t reduce the risk of fracture in the elderly. And David Bender graced the pages of the British Medical Journal with an editorial incorrectly asserting that we have no biomarkers for optimal health and that there is no point to a daily multivitamin for the elderly.
Years ago someone who knew a lot about a lot said, “The answer has to make sense”. So does this make sense? Nope! No sense at all. Well, then, what’s wrong with this picture? These are reputable journals, right? Peer reviewed, right? So the articles must be real science, right? Wrong, wrong, wrong.
Here’s what’s wrong. The study on infection used a vitamin pill with values so low that they match what we can expect in Codex’s standards. And they had, as they are designed to have, no effect on keeping people healthy as they were intended not to have. Here are the nutrient contents of the supplement in the infection study with the amount that I take of each substance on a health-promotion basis in bold for comparison:
800 µg vitamin A (acetate) REL: 50,000 µg , 60 mg vitamin C REL:6,000 mg, 5 µg vitamin D3 REL:6,000 µg, 10 mg vitamin E (D, L-{alpha} tocopheryl acetate) REL:1,200 IU mixed tocopherols, 1.4 mg thiamin (mononitrate)REL:100 mg, 1.6 mg riboflavinREL:100 mg, 18 mg niacin (nicotinamide)REL:1000 mg, 6 mg pantothenic acid (calcium D-pantothenate)REL:400 mg, 2 mg pyridoxine (hydrochloride)REL:50 mg, 1 µg vitamin B12, REL:1000 µg , 200 µg folic acidREL:25,000 µg, 14 mg iron (fumurate) REL:0 mg, 150 µg iodine (potassium iodide)REL:150 µg, 0.75 mg copper (gluconate)REL:1 mg, 15 mg zinc (oxide)REL:25 mg, and 1 mg manganese (sulphate)REL:10 mg. The doses I take are those that I typically recommend for a health adult who wants to stay that way. I take 100 times as much Vitamin C, 1200 times the Vitamin D, 55.5 times as much niacin, and 25,000 times as much folic acid as test subjects recieved. So what the authors are actually testing is pretty close to the the Risk Assessment values which Coydex wants make the universal standard. Risk Assessment, you will remember, is a branch of toxicology and the Risk Assessment values of Vitamins and Minerals are those which are chosen because they have no effect on any human being! So of course they did not show an impact. DUH!
So guess what, here it is, hot off the press: Ultra low dose nutrients actually don’t work! But wait: what’s this? Buried deep in the study is the following fascinating set of statements: “Our participants were similar in age and place of residence to those studied in a previous, disputed trial that reported beneficial effects from supplementation…. Unlike our trial, the supplement used in the previous trial had four times the levels of vitamin E and vitamin B12 and also contained selenium, magnesium, calcium, and {beta} carotene. (emphasis added) ….Supplementation, especially of trace elements, has been shown to reduce infections in older people in nursing care with higher levels of nutritional deficiency….We cannot exclude the possibility that the intakes provided in the supplement were inadequate to affect the immune system.
These nutrient levels were either carefully chosen to show no impact (which is highly unethical considering the impact on human health and well-being if therapeutic dosages of these nutrients had been given) or the authors are astonishingly incompetence scientists who committed a large number of subjects, scientist hours, journal pages, etc., to experiments designed by nincompoops. If the latter is the case, then the peer reviewers and all the department chairmen involved were nincompoops, too. And while I have seen my share of academic nincompoops, I don’t think that is the explanation here. Remember, the answer has to make sense.
No, I believe these articles are part of the poison press against safe, simple, effective and non toxic health choices.
So I have a couple of questions about these studies (which are questions I always ask): Who funded these studies? Who wrote the articles? The principle author or a ghost writer? What are the financial interests of the authors in the outcomes of the studies? Who chose the level of nutrients to be tested and upon what basis?
And, most important, why did these well educated people want to perform studies that “show” nutrients have no value so badly that they shamed themselves in front of anyone who understands biochemistry, scientific methodology or medical ethics?
I guess I would feel better if they were nincompoops.
Yours in health and freedom,
Rima E. Laibow, MD
Medical Director
We all know that the FDA is not a level playing field since everything tips toward pharma medicine and away from Natural Nutritional Medicine (NNM). No news there, unfortunately. However, NewsTarget.com sent this out and asked people to share it. Please read and enjoy! (And then consider what we need to do so that it no longer would be true!) It’s a bit long but worth the effort.
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Need a job? NewsTarget.com has just received word on several openings for cushy jobs with the FDA. Why keep working in powerless civilian positions when you can get paid by the government and wield power over others! Here’s what the agency is looking for:
PROPAGANDA OFFICER
No scientific background necessary. As a Propaganda Officer, you will help the FDA invent and dispense information that discredits products, companies and ideas that threaten FDA control over the monopolistic drug industry. Previous experience in a pharmaceutical company preferred. A background in public relations, communications or used car sales is a plus.
Career opportunities abound at the FDA, and it’s easy to succeed with this job since the mainstream press will print practically anything you say, regardless of whether it makes any scientific sense, as long as it’s on official FDA letterhead. Starting salary: $75,000 plus a license to kill any idea (or health business) you don’t like.
SCIENCE CENSOR
Have a scientific background? Put it to good use at the FDA as a respected Science Censor. Your job will be to bury all the scientific findings that harm the prestige and credibility of the FDA. Your main job is making sure all the drugs we’ve approved continue to be seen as safe, even when clinical studies reveal otherwise.
A variety of high-tech tools will be at your disposal. You’ll have direct phone lines to all the medical journals, a team of paralegals to generate legal threats, and you’ll even have your own personal shredder right beside the incoming fax machines where doctors fax voluntary drug side effects reports. Help us keep dangerous drugs on the market for as long as possible, and you’ll earn big performance bonuses!
Starting salary is $35,000 from the FDA, plus a $250,000 annual bonus paid by various drug companies, based on merit.
CHIEF OPPRESSION OFFICER
Ever wanted to carry a gun? Now you can wield power as an FDA employee, conducting armed raids on clinics where dangerous criminals are conducting illicit operations like healing people with prayer or teaching patients about nutrition. You can even raid buses full of senior citizens returning from medication-buying trips in Canada or Mexico! Previous military experience is a plus, ex-Gitmo interrogators preferred. (Duct tape and broomsticks provided upon request.)
No scientific or medical knowledge required, since you don’t really need to understand the reasons why you’re conducting armed raids. Just follow management’s orders, and we’ll hand you a gun and a badge, all in the name of protecting the public from the criminals of alternative medicine.
Starting salary is $65,000 plus all the free Prozac you can swallow.
(Antidepressant side effects are a plus in your line of work.)
KICKBACK COORDINATOR
As the Kickback Coordinator, your job is to keep tabs on FDA managers’ investments in pharmaceutical companies. You will maximize investment portfolios, produce reports that identify which drugs the FDA should approve next in order to boost shareholder profits, and serve as a courier for illicit cash exchanges.
There is no starting salary, but you do get a percentage of the kickbacks you manage. Criminal background preferred, mob ties are a plus.
MORALE OFFICER
The FDA’s morale has been harmed lately by utterly false accusations from certain FDA whistleblowers. As a Morale Officer, your job will be to keep all FDA employees in line as a way of boosting overall morale and work efficiency. It’s good for the economy!
To enforce proper morale among FDA employees, especially those involved in drug safety operations, you will be granted insider access to top-secret FDA technologies currently under development, including our “Graham buster” verbal silencer (patents pending) and a building-wide subliminal program broadcast system. “All profitable drugs are safe… All profitable drugs are safe…”
Salary: $85,000 plus free unlimited cable television.
CANADA BASHER
Do you share our hatred for those snooty Socialist Canadians? Join the FDA as a full-time Canada basher, and get paid to do what you love
best: insult Canada!
As you may know, the free market sales of prescription drugs from Canada threatens the FDA-controlled monopoly market for drugs in the U.
S. We need help to discredit Canada so that gullible U.S. consumers will distrust Canadian pharmacies and keeping shelling out their hard-earned cash at overpriced U.S. pharmacies (which we regulate and control, of course).
We already have a few old tricks to assist you in this job, like claiming that terrorists will poison all the drugs in Canada. You will have to come up with other strategies like claiming that Canadian pharmacies have no quality control, unlike U.S. pharmacies where pharmacists never, ever make mistakes.
Salary: $45,000 plus unlimited free drugs from Canada.
PUBLIC SAFETY PROGRAM DIRECTOR
In this role, you will actually work to protect the public from unsafe ingredients in foods, drugs and cosmetics. This is not really a full-time job. In fact, you do not even need to show up.
No experience necessary, in anything. No education required. Starting salary is minimum wage. You must bring your own desk to work, if you want one. That is, if you actually want to work at all.
HOW TO APPLY
Are you qualified for one or more of these prestigious positions at the FDA? Apply online at the FDA website, and if hired, you could soon wield government-sanctioned power over your fellow citizens. It’s a dream job, with outstanding job security. As long as you can help us make sure people never have access to genuine healing therapies, you’ll always have a job with us!
Sometimes the best way to make a serious point is with humor and wit. Richard Brodie has made that clear. After I wrote a blog (Help Shape the Grassroots Campaign) asking for suggestions for slogans to capture the imagination of America, many of you wrote in with wonderful suggestions. Richard went one further: first, he wrote a limerick for us:
There were “Food Rules” once, very nefarious,
With which Bayer intended to bury us.
But we said “Go to hell!”
To Big Pharma’s cartel,
And “Screw you, Codex ALIMENTARIUS!”
But wait! There’s More! Then he wrote a side splittingly funny annotated version of Susan Davis’ devastatingly bad bill, HR 3156 Davis bill is funny? No, but the annotation is wonderful and it is funny. Best of all, it makes the point beautifully.
Once you read it, share it widely via a link in your emails to the Natural Solutions Foundation guide to important Congressional bills, www.HealthFreedomUSA.org/bills
And share Richard’s limerick, too. CODEX is a bloated, pompous beast! Laugh at it and watch it deflate to a manageable size!
Yours in health and freedom (and laughter, too),
Rima E. Laibow, MD
Medical Director