We get to tell our story to Congress on September 20, 2005 and you are invited! The Natural Solutions Foundation will participate in a Congressional Briefing on Codex Alimentarius in room 2220 in the Rayburn Building. We would love to see you there. We would also love to see Congress there! They will come if you tell them that you, their constituent, urge them to go. That’s how it works. This is a critical opportunity to make the pro-health side of the Codex story clear to Congress since it is Congress that can protect or overturn DSHEA and it is Congress that can allow or prevent harmonization with other Codex standards here in the US.
Congress is our bulwark and Congress knows almost nothing about Codex. The Natural Solutions Foundation has called and written to every member of Congress and spoken to their health aides (or tried to). There are a few Congressmen who “get” Codex like Representatives Ron Paul, Peter DeFazio, Dan Burton, Dana Rohrabacher and others.
The vast majority of Congress, however, has either never heard of Codex or only has the “Consumer Protection” line to hold on to. We know, of course, that consumer protection has nothing to do with Codex. We know that you cannot trust Codex with either your health or your wallet. Congress, by and large, has no idea about the real nature of Codex. So we will tell them.
Here’s your part: there are lots of Congressional briefings. Congressmen and their staff members only go when they have a reason to go. The most compelling reason to go is because you tell them to!
Here’s what you need to send them (you can cut and paste this letter or write your own):
It is urgently important that you and your staff attend the Congressional Briefing on Codex Alimentarius on September 20, 2005 in room 2220 in the Rayburn Building. Codex Alimentarius has the potential to eliminate access to high potency vitamins currently protected by DSHEA, lower the quality of food due to significant adulteration and, as a consequence, increase preventable disease and deaths in this country.
Despite inaccurate information to the contrary, Codex Alimentarius is not protective of consumer needs, rights or interests. Instead, it is a form of global corporate welfare with dire consequences to the health and well being of America’s people and environment.
I do not trust Codex with my health or my wallet and I look to you to protect my them for me since you are in a position to do so.
Thank you in advance for your attendance at this vitally important briefing. I particularly want you to hear what Rima E. Laibow, MD, Medical Director of the Natural Solutions Foundation, has to share during this briefing.
Thank you,
your name
your address
Cut and paste that into the form that you will reach by following this link: Contact Congress , enter your zip code and click on “Elected Officials”. Your Congressional Delegation and the President of the US will get the email you send.
Please ask everyone on your email list join you in urging Congress to attend this briefing. Give them the link and the instructions above and suggest that they send a letter like the one above to Congress, too. Only grass roots will win this battle. But grass roots CAN win it!
Yours in health and freedom,
Rima E. Laibow, MD
Medical Director
Perhaps you have noticed that this blog has a new appearance and a new name: we’ve changed it from “Daily Codex Update Blog” to “Dr. Laibow’s Health Freedom Blog” for good reason. When the Natural Solutions Foundation began the HealthFreedomUSA Campaign, Codex Alimentarius was virtually unknown to Americans despite the fact that it was 43 years old. So we concentrated on bringing it to America’s conscious level of awareness. Last week, for example, I was on 6 different radio shows talking about Codex to who knows how many people? Codex awareness is jousting with Codex Coma. You know who is in favor of which one! But, as I have said from the first day that I began writing and talking about America’s health freedom, Codex is one big, bad dude but there is a whole posse of bad freedom foes out there. It would be nice if we could ignore all but one until we solve that problem, but that’s not how it works. So the blog, while bringing you all the Codex news that the major media apparently feels is not fit to print, will now be covering all the other important health freedom issues along with Codex.
Our web site, however, will continue to focus heavily on Codex because it is such a complex and confusing issue. (That’s why I had to read so many thousands of pages before I began to get it straight!) If you have not visited www.HealthFreedomUSA.org lately you will find a brand new, updated and reorganized website waiting for you when you do, which I hope will be very soon.
The site has been totally rewritten with pages that are easier to read, large link buttons and an easier to use navigation structure. We have new articles, like the one about the effort to discredit nutrients by a poison press of bogus “science”. We have new sections, too, that we are very proud of and hope you will find useful. We invite your suggestions and comments, of course! Please take a moment to check out our new
Reccomended Books List with convenient direct purchase links to Amazon.com
We have added some new buttons and sections to help make the Health Freedom and Codex issues clearer. You can easily see what the Natural Solutions Foundation stands for and take a quick, 5 minute Codex tour and, if you like, follow that up with a 7 point summary of Codex.
You won’t be surprised that our legislative action page, “Bills to Support and Oppose” is easier to use so you can send a personalized letter on each of the bills your Congressional Delegation with a few mouse clicks. Of course, we will keep this page updated so when new bills are added you can take action right away on them as so many thousands of you do regularly. Thank you, by the way!
And for those of you who need and want more detail, our In Depth Information section will provide an abundant amount of detailed documentation and background for you.
You will find both more and less action on the site. The previous 6 action steps have been reduced to 3 action steps and we have added an Easy Activism page with things to do alone and in your community. Please take time to read and act on all of these options if you can, or, if not, as many as you can. Your health and health freedom really do depend upon it!
And, of course, there’s the Donation page. I know, I know. Everybody asks you for money. We have added a page to let you know how we spend the money you donate and one to let you know what we have accomplished and what we are up to next.
This is an expensive campaign; there is just no way around it. Websites of this caliber cost money. Airfare, hotels, consultations, each has a real life price tag attached. I can promise you that every single penny sent as a donation (and you can use your credit card, Paypal, a check or a money order to support of health freedom by making a secure donation now and, if you can, on a monthly basis.
We are here for you. Won’t you be here for us?
Please show your support now!
Yours in health and freedom,
Rima E. Laibow, MD
Medical Director
In 2001, the International Community did something right. The came together and created the Stockholm Convention, devoted to removing the 12 deadliest compounds polluting our world. These horrors are all members of the same class of compounds, Persistent Organic Pollutants or POPs. Within a short time every member of the United Nations, including the US, had either signed or ratified (or both) this agreement. They had committed themselves to getting rid of these incredibly dangerous chemicals. These chemicals have names like aldrin, chlordane, dieldrin, DDT, endrin, heptachlor, hexachlorobenzene, mirex, toxaphene, polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs), dioxins, and furans. These chemical are extremely widely used and, among the hundreds of thousands of bad chemicals which disrupt endocrine function, lead to birth defects and cancers, cause serious harm to the environment in every corner of the globe, accumulate in food and degrade the ability of people to lead long, healthy lives, these are the worst of the worst.
The report on POPs in Chile starts with a quote: “The future will depend on our wisdom not to replace one poison with another.” Well, as lovely as that sentiment is, it never reached the people in Codex land. Of the 12 worst POPs in the world, 9 are pesticides. Of those widely used, and wildly toxic POPs, 7, yes, 7, have are permitted by Codex in our food. Sure, you can put these poisons on crops: no problem. Codex has set allowable pesticide residues for 7 of them.
Do any of those names sound familiar to you? How about Aldrin and Dieldrin? They are bio-concentrated by children eating the apple a day we used to eat to keep the Doctor away. Have you ever had your house treated for termites with a foundation treatment? Then you probably already know chlordane pretty well since you’ve been breathing it for a while. How about apples and Aldrin? Heptachlor? The official heptachlor fact sheet says that it should not be permitted to enter the environment and that it is really toxic to people, the aquatic environment and fish. But Codex says we can put it on our food. How about Mirex? It’s been described as “one of the most chronically toxic and slowly degrading compounds ever produced on an industrial scale” But it’s OK to use on food. Codex tells me so.
Can’t you see the hand of the Big Chema in this one? Industry-friendly Codex must have been all too happy to agree to the standards they were asked for by their Big Chema handlers. And the workers who use these pesticides which are so deadly that every member of the UN has agreed to end their use and ban them? And we, who will eat the food from all over the world contaminated with this deadly brew (and hundreds of other poisons? What happens to us and our children and our other loved ones when our food is contaminated with compounds so deadly that every single country in the UN has decided they are too dangerous to use?
But wait! The World Trade Organization uses Codex standards in trade dispute resolution. What happens if a country elects to follow the Stockholm Convention Guidelines and not the Codex ones? Trade sanctions for protecting your people from poisons? What kind of madness are we observing unfold when the interest of industry overwhelms the entire international community’s will?
Is this what we want for ourselves? If not, take action. Go to our legislative action page and let Congress know what is important to you. I’ll bet not one member of Congress has thought about the conflict between the Stockholm Convention and Codex. Tell them. Better yet, make an appointment and take a bunch of your friends to go see your Congressmen and women in their local offices (or in DC if you’d like) and let them know that people with faces and families, voices and votes are rallying around health and health freedom. “Work with us and maybe we’ll let you go back to Congress. Oppose us and your DC days are over. We are the people and we are that strong!”
Yours in health and freedom,
Rima E. Laibow, MD
Medical Director
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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.
Of course, I would love it if you feel inclined to make it easier for me to do that by supporting us here at the Natural Solutions Foundation but the information here is free for the taking. It’s kind of an honor system: pay what you think it’s worth!
We would love it if you will make a monthly pledge to us. If you can’t, we are here for you anyway.
Health is for us all, and so is freedom.
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