Day 20 and 21: July 1 and 2, 2006
I have combined both days because they are pretty much the same: inside the hotel room on the internet planning our strategy for the upcoming meetings. We have produced a Codex White Paper which we will be making available after the Codex meeting concludes next week because it is a supporting strategic document for our work here during the meeting and it would be premature to release it now. One of our lawyers was willing to take the time to write a mini-brief on international requirements for national choice in electing to adopt modified Guidelines which are different from Codex’s Guidelines by a country which does not wish to see the health and nutritional security of its people degraded for someone else’s benefit.
You can see how this process works when applied to the restrictive and destructive Codex Vitamin and Mineral Guideline by downloading the highly informative Codex eBook which not only contains a pro health Revised Vitamin and Mineral Guideline side by side with the Codex one (pro health on the left hand side, pro death on the right hand side) but a legal summary of the reasons that our “Codex two step” as I call it, is protective against WTO sanctions and a model legislation which is based on the US law that treats nutrients as foods which do not require upper limits, the 1994 Dietary Supplements Health and Education Act, better known as DSHEA.
DSHEA is a unique piece of legislation since it makes the US the only country in the world which allows consumers — you and me — to access nutrients exactly as we want to and as the market allows. We can take as much of whatever nutrient or herb we want as long as we can find it.
What this grand experiment of billions and billions of doses of all kinds of nutrients and herbs means is that we now have documentation of the absence of nutrient dangers. America looses 1,500 or more people EVERY YEAR to aspirin, a supposedly “safe” over the counter (OTC) drug. We loose more than 100,000 people EVERY YEAR to properly prescribed drugs used under doctor’s supervision in hospitals (according to the Journal of the American Medical Association) and who-knows-how-many hundreds of thousands more on an outpatient basis. The estimates range up to 400,000+ or more — and those are the estimates by mainstream doctors, not people like me who do not use drugs in practice because of their dangers and the fact that there are better ways for treating just about anything that is not acute and immediately life-threatening than with drugs.
But the numbers of deaths from these multibillion doses of nutrients? Find me 100 over the past decade. Find me 10. Find me 1. In fact, even the much vaunted “ephedra deaths”, when examined by the United Stated General Accounting Office (GAO) in a 2 volume document looking at more than 160 deaths supposedly caused by that substance found that not one death could be conclusively linked to the maligned herb. Not one.
And if you want to talk about the 8 supposed kava kava liver failure deaths, I believe firmly that you will find the same pattern: any time, ANY TIME, there is a death which could be linked to a nutrient or an herb, despite the fact that other much more deadly factors are involved (like dangerous legal and illegal drugs, extreme illness, dehydration and extreme activity, etc.) the death is linked not to the reasonable risk factors but to the unreasonable one: the nutrient or herb. And the press, of course, has a field day. The same field day they routinely take whenever anyone suggests that there are dangers in nutrients and herbs. The dangers, are, of course, ill considered and unscientific, but that’s not what you hear from the pharma-fed press, of course.
In the Codex eBook you will also find a detailed and highly referenced essay on the safety and importance of nutrients in public policy and health as well as specific well-researched sections showing the excellent scientific basis of nutrition for treating (not just preventing) 3 of the major public health problems of both the developed and the developing world:
1. Wound healing and trauma (including surgical wounds)
2. Cardiovascular disease and lipid control
3. Diabetes and glucose control.
If you are looking for health information for yourself or others, or perhaps looking for scientific documentation with which to educate your allopathic doctor, this essay is a great science-based resource.
It will also give you a look at what the US will loose if the attack on DSHEA is successful and we “HARMonzie” with the disastrous Codex Vitamin and Mineral Guideline.
The Codex eBook is a template for how any Codex Guideline can be changed. The White Paper (soon to be exclusively available on the Natural Solutions Foundation website, www.HealthFreedomUSA.org) lays these principles out in detail and I know that many of you will want to read it for yourselves. Once the Codex Alimentarius Commission meeting has concluded we will mount it and let you know how to access it.
But wait: there’s more! You probably remember that the Chairman of the Codex Commission has directly attacked a part of our Codex strategy of bringing an articulate and experienced Codex Delegate to the CAC meeting under our sponsorship. Well, we got word today that another country we visited and worked with has intensively decided at their Codex Committee meeting (after we left) that they WILL support us and our strategy in the meeting.
It’s sort of like a fencing match: thrust, parry, counterthrust, parry and thrust again. The fencing ground is the planet’s food supply and nutritional security.
For those of you who have responded to our requests for financial support, thank you. For those of you who are thinking about it, right now is a great time to click and give. All support is now tax deductible so you can do well by doing good, as they say!
To those of you who enjoyed our description of our activities here in Geneva (including the menus), glad you liked hearing a bit of the human side of the battle. For those of you who did not want to hear about it, sorry about that. We try to include a bit of everything along with the war reports.
Yours in health and freedom,
Rima E. Laibow, MD
Medical Director
Natural Solutions Foundation
