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Educating readers and patients via my twice-weekly newsletter -- so you can take
control of your own health by providing comprehensive, clear and researched
guidance on the best nutrition, medical, emotional therapy and lifestyle choices
to improve and maintain your total health -- is my primary mission and life goal.
Even though I generally believe people take too many supplements in place of
eating the healthiest foods, some are necessary. That said, for one to take
responsibility for his or her own health, I believe Americans must never lose the
right to choose and buy supplements. Although I hope Americans will make the
right decisions, they should never lose the right to choose what's best for them,
and that includes supplements.
Many thanks to Nancy Lee Bentley for her help in crafting the next in a series of
informative pieces I'm featuring on my Web site leading up to the Codex meeting
in July that may decide the supplement issue for many more people besides
Europeans.
Please Note: An incorrect version of this article was released. This is the revised
article with critical corrections and clarifications. We apologize for any
inconvenience or confusion this may have caused.
There's a plain and simple fact about your health and health care choices you won't
find covered in any of the mainstream media today: Your health freedom is under
attack!
If you are an E-Healthy News You Can Use subscriber and you are at all concerned
about your and your family's health, you do most, if not all of these things:
If you follow any or all of these habits, I urge you to keep reading about Codex, a
threat to your healthy lifestyle and your ability to access what you need to
maintain it.
Your rights have not been taken away… yet. But, if we don’t all wake up and act now,
our access to nutritional supplements to prevent, treat or cure health problems and
diseases, as well as our access to clean, uncontaminated food, which hasn’t been
genetically modified, treated with hormones, antibiotics, growth stimulants or
irradiation, including organically grown food, -- all the things that Mercola.com has been
telling you to choose -- can ultimately become unavailable to us.
You may be asking yourself, "What is this threat? Where is it coming from? I've never
heard of it!" Keep reading...
What is Codex?
3. A hidden danger to your health and freedom, masquerading as food safety and
protection, the US Congress is about pass into law, one way or another, unless
we act now!
4. Cancer, Obesity, Diabetes, End of Your Health Choices, Xtra pain, suffering and
even premature death.
CODEX is part of the World Trade Organization -- what Lori Wallach, author of “Whose
Trade Organization?” calls the multinational corporate country club -- and its insidious,
long-term effort to “harmonize” the world’s food, agriculture and edible health product
standards by 2010. Attempts at “HARMonization” have already made inroads through
back door politics in the European Union, Norway, Canada and Australia. Already, zinc
in Germany costs $54 a bottle and 3-4 days worth of synthetic Vitamin E costs close to
$200!
Vitamins and minerals are the first target, although only the tip of the iceberg. Final
ratification of these restrictive vitamin and mineral standards’ framework, a prelude to
all of the food and health-unfriendly provisions of this multi-headed Hydra, is practically
assured at the CODEX ALIMENTARIUS Commission meeting this July 4-9 in Rome.
Unless we make a very big noise!
A consensus of international watchdog groups tracking this issue agree that these
stringent international food rules will most likely be mandated into law here in the US
through regional “HARMonization,” once we ratify CAFTA, the Central American Free
Trade Agreement and the more expanded hemispheric Free Trade Area of the
Americas (FTAA).
At the same time, there is a concerted, although veiled, effort here in the U.S.
Congress to gut the Dietary Supplement Health Education Act of 1994 (DSHEA), our
remaining legal assurance that food supplements are classified as foods, not drugs.
Despite this seeming safeguard and natural trade industry assurances, DSHEA is still
vulnerable. Canada and other countries already have provisions that make
supplements drugs.
So, obviously threats to your health choices are multiple and insidious, like the
tentacles of a giant, health and freedom-snatching octopus. How can this possibly be
happening? Although difficult to believe, to paraphrase Marshall McLuhan, The truth is
so outrageous, it is almost impossible to believe.
Keep on reading. This truth is one you definitely need to understand and act upon.
New England Journal of Medicine studies showed that 40 percent of Americans value
disease prevention and alternative health care so they spend over $13 billion annually
with out-of-pocket (non-insurance) money.
Up until this point, compliance with Codex standards has been voluntary. Yet, that is
only the start of the “Boiling Frog” strategy. First, as you may have heard, allowable
supplements will be reduced to a handful of ultra low-dose, synthetic vitamins and
minerals. Then, incredibly -- without public intervention and outcry -- starting this year in
phases, CODEX will go on to do these things:
Prohibit the use of any natural substance to prevent, treat or cure disease.
Hoist allowable pesticides, toxin and drug levels in foods, making organics
inaccessible.
Even eventually prohibit the traditional herbs and medicines indigenous cultures
have used for thousands of years.
CODEX is not just about vitamins and minerals, although this is the most acute issue
today. It will negatively impact agriculture and economies too. It’s predicted that if
CAFTA passes, for example, U.S. corn exports to Central America would increase by
10,000 percent in the first year. In the first 10 years after NAFTA went into effect, 1.7
million farmers, who make up the majority of the population there, lost their land.
So, if you have heard of CODEX at all, it may have been from industry or government
or even trade group assurances that it is a hoax, beneficial to you, or even both. Don’t
be misled by the massive disinformation campaign. It’s easy to just go along and rely
on the opinions of so-called “experts”, the government and others, but as a veteran
health advocate who has worked for years, like Dr. Mercola, to champion Natural
Health, I can assure you that this is no time to take anything for granted or allow
yourself to be lulled into complacency.
There is enough smoke about this issue – you will be hearing more about it here and
elsewhere in the coming weeks – to warrant making this a priority to understand, act on
and spread the word.
CODEX is nothing more than “removing of all competition.” The issue is neither
“safety” nor “protection.” Beware, for “He who protects you completely also OWNS
you completely. i.h.”
If we wait until there are no legal options besides drugs and contaminated foods, and
no nutrients or ways to protect ourselves from pesticides, hormones and foreign genes
in our food, how will we be able to keep our families and ourselves healthy?
DON’T WAIT. Start becoming educated and take action against CODEX et.al. NOW.
You can:
CODEX is not without its vulnerability, and WE CAN STOP IT, BUT NOT WITHOUT
YOUR HELP! Take a proactive stance and let your Congressmen and women know
that permitting any attack on your health freedom will mean that they will NOT be
re-elected to Congress again! Get the word out to ALL of your networks.
Related Articles:
The Codex Conundrum and How it Affects Supplements in America
Three Steps and 11 Months to Diffuse the Ticking Time Bomb Threatening
Your Access to Vitamins and Minerals