We have Another Friend in Congress!
Powerful Congresswoman Rosa L. DeLauro (D-CT) has adopted a position in line with what the Natural Solutions Foundation has been calling for over the last months: the FDA cannot regulate drugs and their major economic competitor, foods. She also applauds our oft-repeated assessment of the FDA’s performance in food safety is beyond dismal and cites the recent – and damning – Government Accountability Office (GAO) study to document just how dismal it is.
Up to now, the solution of the Federal Government to repeated exposure of how dangerous, corrupt and damaged the FDA is has been two fold: either Congress took away powers and responsibilities to set up new agencies (e.g., EPA, Consumer Protection Agency, Bureau of Narcotics and Dangerous Drugs, etc.) or they passed new legislation which gave the failed, and deadly, agency more money and more power to do a worse job with (e.g., 2008 FDA Reorganization Act). The current food safety crisis, with melamine approved for infants, GMO foods and cloned meats and milk approved without scientific studies showing they are safe, fluoridation of water permitted and encouraged despite massive scientific evidence documenting its dangers, irradiation of everything it can find a way to irradiate, including raw nuts and salad greens approved regardless of rational thought, growth hormones, pesticides, veterinary antibiotics permitted in outrageous doses, a relentless assault on dietary supplements, herbs and other non-drug health strategies, multinational servitude in Codex with disastrous results to the world food supply, etc., etc., etc., must be laid solely at the doorstep of one of the most dangerous and corrupt agencies in the history of the United State.
It is time to stop the losses and get food out of the dirty hands of the FDA. The same, of course, is true of the USDA. How? By giving food regulations back to the States where the local interest influences of consumers and the impact of local certification programs can help us to reclaim the production of safe, wholesome food and make it accessible for all of us once again.
Industrial food is killing us.
Let’s kill the messenger and get government out of food and food out of government.
Visit www.HealthFreedomUSA.org to sign up for the Health Freedom Action eAlerts (http://drrimatruthreports.com/?page_id=187) so you can add your voice to the netroots telling Congress and President Obama that Health Freedom Is Our First Freedom and the FDA threatens our health and our freedom.
Click Health Freedom IS Our First Freedom; Divest the FDA of Food Regulation I‘ ><a href=\'http://vitaminlawyerhealthfreedom.blogspot.com/2009/02/health-freedom-is-our-first-freedom.html\' >Health Freedom IS Our First Freedom; Divest the FDA of Food Regulation I</a> (Health Freedom IS Our First Freedom; Divest the FDA of Food Regulation I) to watch Natural Solutions Foundation’s Trustee Ralph Fucetola’s stirring address on Divesting the FDA and click here (http://drrimatruthreports.com/?page_id=189) to make a tax deductible recurring donation to help Natural Solutions Foundation divest the FDA.
Now scroll down to read Congresswoman DeLauro’s stinging condemnation of the FDA.
Thanks for your support.
Yours in health and freedom,
Dr. Rima
Rima E. Laibow, MD
Medical Director
Natural Solutions Foundation
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Food Safety Mustn’t Be Left In FDA’s Hands
Congresswoman ROSA L. DELAURO
February 8, 2009
For years now, the American people have learned to live with the possibility that their food may not be safe. The list of incidents has grown month after month, from spinach to shellfish from ground beef to peppers.
Now, a devastating salmonella outbreak has been tied to the Peanut Corp. of America and its Blakely, Ga., plant. It has killed eight people and sickened more than 500 people across the country, and a criminal investigation is underway to determine whether the producer knowingly sold a dangerous, contaminated product.
But this is not just a case of one bad actor. This salmonella outbreak is just the latest — and it represents the full-scale breakdown of a patchwork food safety system. When we look at recent headlines, it is hard not to see a food safety system in crisis — a dysfunctional federal agency, the Food and Drug Administration. unable to perform its mission and protect the American public.
Last month, the Government Accountability Office deemed that the regulatory activities governing food safety continue to pose a “high risk” to the economy and public health — the consequence of a fragmented legal and organizational structure with insufficient authority and too few resources to protect the American people.
While innocent people continued to get sick from contaminated peanut butter, the case lingered in jurisdictional limbo between the FDA and the U.S. Department of Agriculture, causing critical delays. And when the salmonella’s source was finally identified, FDA officials had to wait for industry approval before they could go live with the recall. That is not how a fully functioning regulatory agency is supposed to operate.
To truly fix inherent problems in our food safety system, we must fundamentally restructure the food safety bureaucracy at the FDA. Today, food safety is divided among multiple, separately managed units at the FDA — the Office of the Commissioner, the Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition, the Center for Veterinary Medicine, the field force (Office of Regulatory Affairs) and the National Center for Toxicological Research. As a result, there is no one single individual to be held accountable for food safety at the FDA or anywhere else at the federal level.
Separating food safety regulation from drug and device approvals would go a long way toward restoring the balance that has long been missing at the federal Department of Health and Human Services, and give food safety the attention it deserves. By establishing a Food Safety Administration within Health and Human Services, headed by its own commissioner, we can give food safety experts and researchers the room and the resources to do their jobs.
Because we need an agency fully committed to actively preventing food-borne illness, not just reacting to it, I have introduced the Food Safety Modernization Act. In addition to establishing a new, separate Food Safety Administration, this legislation would provide the regulatory tools to access important records, recall products and penalize companies for knowingly selling tainted products. It also would require traceability, mandate regular inspections, demand that imported food meet our safety standards and require companies to take preventive measures.
While these are not new ideas, the push for change could not be more urgent. With every recall, the American people grow more concerned and the momentum for reform grows. I know this is an important issue for many of my colleagues in Congress and I look forward to working with them to ensure food safety is a priority.
Ultimately, though, it starts at the top. For eight years, our food safety system has been crippled by disinvestment, mismanagement and a failure to meet its most basic regulatory responsibilities. True reform is going to require strong leadership from our president.
I am confident, at last, that we have a government that understands its obligation to its citizens and is ready to modernize our food safety system to better protect public health.
• U.S. Rep. Rosa L. DeLauro, D-New Haven, represents Connecticut’s 3rd Congressional District and serves as the chairwoman of the Agriculture-FDA Appropriations Subcommittee.
http://www.courant.com/news/opinion/editorials/hc-delauro0208.artfeb08,0,41679.story
Health Freedom is Our First Freedom!
To see the Health Freedom posting, visit Change.orgwww.change.org/ideas/view/health_freedom 12,065 voted for Health Freedom!
And, as we approach Inauguration Day, please go to www.Change.gov, the official Obama transition site, and vote there as well! http://citizensbriefingbook.change.gov/ideas/
Voting Instructions for both sites: http://drrimatruthreports.com/index.php?p=1754
General Stubblebine’s Original Message: http://drrimatruthreports.com/index.php?p=1735
Defining Health Freedom on Change.org and Change.gov
http://drrimatruthreports.com/index.php?p=1762
Health Freedom is Our First Freedom
Health Freedom is the most basic freedom of all. It is the necessary condition upon which our ability to pursue Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness rests and is the precondition upon which all other rights rest. Yet Industry has forged a cozy relationship with US Policy and Regulatory Makers so that their rights, not ours, are being cared for while natural options are attacked.
Effective, inexpensive and safe natural cures exist in other countries for diseases that we suffer and die from needlessly because our Health Freedom is compromised. Emphasizing and supporting those natural strategies will reduce our health care costs significantly while increasing our health and wellness. Clean, unadulterated, clearly labeled food is attacked while dangerous, degraded food is permitted by food standards which make us the least healthy country in the developed world. Dangerous drugs and vaccines, sometimes on a mandatory basis, are supported while natural supplements, herbs and treatments are attacked.
Free men and women have control over what happens to their bodies and those of their children. Without that autonomy and control, our very bodies do not belong to us. Our Medical Records are no longer ours and if they are invaded, our doctors may not tell us that they have been searched or the information in them mined and sold unless they commit a felony offense.
Federal and State agencies knowingly allow our food, injections and drugs to be contaminated with dangerous or deadly substances/processed by techniques known to create disease, yet they permit that contamination at the request of the industries to which they are beholden. Personal and professional conflicts of interest are condoned and acknowledged inside government and academia. The consequences are unsafe food and drugs. Agency thugs, regulatory assault and cover-ups routinely attack safe and natural sources including health food stores, clinics and advanced practitioners.
Dangerous drugs and vaccines are routinely approved while manufacturers are protected from any type of liability no matter how many people they harm or kill, protected by both the Courts and Congress.
Because of commercial interests, FDA and other agencies intervene to curtail true and accurate information about natural health choices, increasingly forbid access to natural health options and brutally attack those who make such information, products and care available.
Clean, unadulterated food is the single most effective economic competitor to pharmaceutical medicine. US Policy permits adulteration and unhealthy food in every sector while it consistently degrades Organic standards to suit industry tastes.
Although more than 80% of us in the US distrust and want to avoid genetically modified foods (“GM”, “GMO” or “Franken Food”), US policy literally forbids labeling food for its GMO content. Silently, these unwholesome, bioengineered foods have entered more than 85% of the US food supply and are being permitted to genetically contaminate all other crops, including organic ones regardless of the dangers which are increasingly well documented.
International science shows that GMOs cause sterility and immune dysfunction: the US unscientifically prohibits any government review of testing, literally forcing Franken Foods down our throats while it declares that GMO foods are “substantially equivalent” to unmodified foods. Environmental degradation is permanent and cataclysmic.
US Policy permits up to 10% GMO contamination in so-called Organic food; international regulation permits no more than 1% GMO contamination.
Health Freedom means that all GMO food is labeled clearly and we can choose GMO-free food if we wish. It also means that scientific analysis of all GMO foods is rapidly undertaken during a 10-year period of total moratorium on all GMO crops or animals.
Health Freedom means that unhealthy and untested food processing procedures like spraying meats with viruses is forbidden or food so treated is clearly labeled.
Health Freedom means that consumers, scientists, nutritionists and environmental medicine specialists who have no conflicts of interest direct, oversee and assess food and health policy in the US.
Health Freedom means that all international health regulatory participation by the US is also under the control of consumers, scientists and physicians free of any conflicts of interest.
Health Freedom means that the corrupt and often deadly FDA is fully divested of its Food Regulatory Authority since its ability to regulate food is compromised by its financial conflicts of interest with the pharmaceutical, biotech and commercial agriculture industries.
Health Freedom means that neither you nor your children can be subjected to “Treatments”, drugs, chipping or injections to which you do not agree. Current US Federal and State laws permit forcible drugging, including injections, of both children and adults and must be changed to allow personal choice in keeping with well-established international principles such as the UN Declaration of Human Rights and the Helsinki Declaration.
Health Freedom means that your Constitutional First Amendment Rights to Free Speech are fully protected and that you are able to access science-based, true and accurate information about the health benefits of food, supplements, herbs, frequency/energy medicine and a host of other health strategies which compete with industry interests, but which might serve you very well.
Health Freedom means that you are free to seek out and receive services from health care practitioners of your own choice in the US who use treatments or strategies which you, and they, agree on in an open climate. It means that neither you nor they are subjected to government attack because the treatment they offer you is not pouring money into Big Pharma’s coffers.
Health Freedom means that you can purchase food, supplements, herbs, and health devices which are accurately labeled, free of dangers without government interference.
Health Freedom means that if drugs or devices harm you, you are free to seek appropriate redress since drug and vaccine companies are forced out from behind the protective screen which Congress, FDA/USDA/FTC/EPA, etc. and the Courts have set up to free them from all liability responsibility to you and your loved ones no matter what their products have done to you.
Health Freedom means that treatments and cures for diseases like cancer, arthritis, heart disease, and similar serious problems are easily and openly available so you do not need to travel to other countries for the treatments you want.
Health Freedom means that insurers recognize and pay for natural treatments and therapies of your choice, saving them, and you, enormous amounts of money if that is your choice.
Health Freedom means that the use of dangerous, ineffective, but profitable drugs and vaccines may be your choice, but cannot be forced upon you or your children under any circumstances.
Health Freedom means that you and your children cannot be denied access to education or other public resources if you do not agree to be medicated or vaccinated.
Health Freedom means that informed consent cannot be waived and that children in foster care and prisoners may not be used for drug and pesticide experimentation.
Health Freedom means that if you want to drink raw milk, or eat bitter almonds, use Black Salve, or other non-drug, leading edge, ancient or innovative health strategies you may do so openly and without fear of reprisal.
Health Freedom means that REAL organic farming, not fake organic farming with standards so degraded that the designation means nothing, is supported and family farms are encouraged to produce the highest quality food by states and the federal agencies which impact food production.
Health Freedom means that State and Federal Law is changed so that the makers of GMO crops which invade non-GMO farms are liable for criminal trespass and other serious crimes.
Health Freedom means that if food is irradiated or subjected to other “treatments†and contamination (including pesticides, antibiotics given to animals, herbicides, fungicides, fluoridation or other potentially or conclusively harmful treatment) that fact must be clearly indicated on the label.
Health Freedom means that we can expect that food animals to be raised and slaughtered humanely, fed wholesome diets in sanitary, suitable environments without the use of antibiotics and other dangerous drugs so that food in America is once again clean, wholesome and health-giving or clearly labeled to indicate that it does not meet these standards.
Health Freedom means that your medical records are totally private and the only people who can access them are those to whom you give specific, written permission.
Health Freedom means that the protection offered to supplements and herbs under the 1994 Dietary Supplements Health and Education Act (DSHEA) which treats these products as foods must be enforced and extended to other health products.
Health Freedom means that the regulatory agencies of the US, and their participation in international regulatory bodies like Codex Alimentarius, must be consumer and scientist led, with industry barred from US participation in their deliberations or decisions.
In short, health freedom means that US food and healthcare policy gives Americans the right, information and opportunity to learn, select, practice and offer natural health and healing strategies supported by their government, not opposed by it.
Health Freedom IS Our First Freedom: We must have the right to determine what happens to our own bodies and those of our children.
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Congratulations! “Health Freedom” Achieves Third Place in Health Care on Change.org – Round 1.
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Here Comes Freedom… Round Two
Health Freedom Action eAlert
Important update: Defining Health Freedom on Change.org and Change.gov
http://drrimatruthreports.com/index.php?p=1762
News, Alerts and Other information related to your health freedom.
~ Actions You Can Take Now ~ Products That Support Your Health and Your Freedom
January 3, 2009
Welcome! In This Issue:
* The General’s Communique – Strategy for Change in ’09
* Legal Eagle- Divesting the FDA draft bill
* Health Freedom Action eAlert – Change.org Round 2
* Dr. Rima Recommends
* Kathy’s Corner – Organizing to Divest the FDA
And don’t forget to check the health freedom blog frequently
You’ll find it on our website – www.HealthFreedomUSA.org
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Maj. Gen. Albert N. Stubblebine III (USA, Ret)
President, Natural Solutions Foundation
The General’s Communiqué
The new year starts with an important strategic development for Health Freedom. Your last minute efforts on New Years Eve pushed Health Freedom into the top three Health Care issues on Change.org, a web site which apparently may truly function as a direct channel to the President-elect. Responding to a request from Natural Solutions Foundation to make your voice heard, enough people went to the Health Freedom page from our site to vote our issue, Health Freedom, into third place and therefore into the second, and final, round of voting. Top ranked issues on Change.org will be presented to the new President on Inauguration Day. Health Freedom deserves to be Item Number 1 on the Issues List since Natural Solutions Foundation and you know that Health Freedom is Our First Freedom.
More information about this extraordinary development follows below in this Health Freedom Action eAlert. Please read it carefully and be prepared for action. We need you to be ready to act, since voting in Round Two of the Change.org’s pole is limited to January 5th through 15th. We’ll ask you to vote and ask you to share the opportunity with every single person on your list. We want Health Freedom to be the Number 1 Freedom issue presented to President Obama, and we want to be the presenters so that we know exactly what is being said… and YOU can make that happen.
One aspect of Health Freedom is controlling and reformatting the FDA. There is no Health Freedom with Industry at the helm of our Food and Health regulatory agencies. “Kathy’s Corner” focuses on how we need to organize to Divest the FDA of its food regulatory authority while Counsel Fucetola’s “Legal Eagle” section tells you about some of our preparatory work for that effort. “Dr. Rima’s Recommendations” are exactly the sort of important health options that the FDA and Big Pharma want to make illegal for each of us. Health Freedom IS the number one issue confronting us. We need to make sure that the new Administration hears that from our collective awareness of that truth. So your Change.org votes can, indeed, set the stage for a new day for Health Freedom.
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Ralph Fucetola, JD
Council and Trustee, Natural Solutions Foundation
Legal Eagle
I’m particularly excited about the potential for change we have in promoting health freedom with the New Administration and Congress this year. They have the opportunity to show that their rhetoric for change has substance: we will give them the format to work with.
It’s certainly going to be a year of legal changes, and we’re ready. I’m currently working on proposed legislation divesting the FDA of its food regulatory authority. This important bill, which we will present to our friends in Congress, will give them the language and information they need to bring our food out of the shadow of Big Pharma, Big Biotechna, Big Chema, Big Biotechna and Big Govt and into the light of healthy food production and regulation. Our goal is to have a bill introduced in the New Congress which will move us forward with the Natural Solutions Foundation’s 2009 Legislative Goal of Divesting the FDA of its Food Regulatory Authority.
Check the Health Freedom Blog at www.HealthFreedomUSA.org – I’ll be posting the draft legislation there shortly.
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Health Freedom Action eAlert
Here Comes Health Freedom: Change.org – Round 2
What a great way to start the New Year! Thanks to all you Mouse Warriors out there, we have wonderful news from Change.org —
“This idea [Health Freedom – Dr. Rima] finished in 3rd Place in the Health Care category and has therefore qualified for the final round. Final round voting will run from January 5th – 15th, and voting totals will be reset at zero for all qualifying ideas to ensure an equal playing field.”
The Top 3 Ideas in Health Care on Change.org Were:
Free Single Payer Health Care #2159
Fully Fund Medicaid Waivers for the Developmentally Disabled #1804
Health Freedom #1694
Here is the Change.org Health Freedom page: http://www.change.org/ideas/view/health_freedom
But something strange happened on the way to this initial victory. We were the only Health Freedom organization to take advantage of the opportunity. On December 30, we asked you, along with all of your friends, to vote for Health Freedom at Change.org so that Health Freedom could be one of the 10 ideas presented on inauguration day to the new President.
You voted and got us into third place in a little over 24 hours. We went from 98th place to 3rd place, enough to get us into the second round. But something strange happened on the way to this initial victory. In the final hours of voting, leading up to midnight, December 31st, suddenly competing “Health Freedom pages” suddenly began showing up in the Health Care category. This flurry of December 31 page entries is unprecedented elsewhere on the Change.org system. For example, in Domestic Poverty, 45 Votes were recorded on Dec 31 @ 06:35AM PST for a single item. Interestingly, that item was the only December 31 entry in its category. Keep reading to find out why that flurry of “Health Freedom” pages is so significant!
Real Health Freedom advocates are activated and motivated: 10,644 people visited the page for which I asked you to vote by using our links. I suspect many of you were confused by the voting procedure – I know that I was and it took me some time to figure it out. Imagine what would have happened if we had all voted for a single idea: Health Freedom is our First Freedom! It would be far and away the winner in all categories.
What’s Right with Health Freedom? You!
What’s Wrong with Health Freedom? Keep Reading
The people who think that the most important thing is to defeat or damage the rest of the health freedom team so they get to be more important [or even worse motivations] are a serious problem to your health freedom. What happened at Change.org during this vote is a perfect example and we need to change it.
You probably know that there are irrational and irrelevant attacks on people in the health freedom movement – including us – by people with a variety of motivations. You also know that Natural Solutions Foundation does not attack anyone, ever. If anyone thinks that these attacks help anyone except the egos of the attackers and the other side, think again.
Here is a perfect example:
Our December 30 call blast asking you to go to www.Change.org and vote for Health Freedom as a major issue for the Obama Administration to consider was done with great seriousness. To get from where Health Freedom was at that point (98th place) to ranking in the first 3, we needed about 1200+ votes.
The Health Freedom page which we asked you to go to so you could vote had our organization listed as well as three others: we did not put up a page with only our organization because the issue is not us, it is Health Freedom for all of us. In other words, it’s about scoring a Health Freedom victory, not taking possession of territory. None the less, other people supposedly in the health freedom movement seem to have tried (but failed!) to stop YOU from claiming YOUR victory.
We garnered a total of 1804 votes in less than 24 hours, putting us in third place and putting us in the second round of voting. As soon as we started gaining traction, an astonishing additional 34 pages were posted with the phrase “Health Freedom” within hours of our eblast asking people to make Health Freedom a national priority. Now, it is possible that some people misunderstood the way the system worked and thought that by posting a Health Freedom page they were adding a vote. I know one of the posts by a friend of mine was surely an accident of that sort. But the “leaders” who posted those pages surely understood the process.
Consider this: there were a total of 140 votes for those “extra” 34 pages. One “leader” of the Health Freedom Movement posted her comments in 4 separate sections, each one of which got 5 votes. Why? Well, the result was that instead of being in second place, we came in third. It is hard not to conclude that the intent of those 34 pages was to drain off votes so that the issue went nowhere in the process.
Happily, you were active and committed enough to vote us into the final round and for that we thank you. But what sort of “leadership” is it to mobilize people for NEGATIVE benefit to the cause in which they claim to believe by such transparent misdirection?
The truth of the matter is that the other side — Big Pharma and its fellow “Bigs”: – Big Finance, Big Agra, Big Govt, etc., are well organized, huge, enormously well funded and very, very cleaver. They can certainly manipulate online efforts to seek to thwart us. But when our ostensible allies do it… For shame!
Can we really afford to behave this way any longer? Is this juvenile competitiveness worthy of us, is it the best we can do and can it win the Health Freedom War? The answer is clear.
Most people do not know or care about the attacks, counter attacks and foolishness of this behavior. They want their health and their freedom. But the so-called “leaders” who lead this way are leading them over a cliff.
OK. That’s over and what’s done is done. What’s next? The second round.
In a couple days we will be mounting a page on www.HealthFreedomUSA.org at which we will coordinate an all out campaign of support to reach first place nationally on Change.org. We hereby invite ALL of the Health Freedom groups to join us. If they do, we know which side they are probably on. If they do not, we know which side they are certainly on.
In other words, this is a Rubicon for Health Freedom. Just as when Caesar pronounced that the Romans crossing the River Rubicon would change Rome’s course forever, so this event created by Change.org, is a Rubicon for us.
Those who are willing to work together, drop their absurd territoriality and bickering, are welcome to join forces with you and with me. We are, after all, the single most powerful voice for health freedom in the world and your response over the New Year’s holiday proved that conclusively.
If others mount a divisive campaign, shame on them. If they mount a cooperative campaign, sunshine on them. If they continue to seek to divert our (and your) attention with irrational and even violence-implying attacks, we will rise above such pettiness and Keep Our Eyes on the Prize: Health Freedom.
For America and for the world, Health Freedom IS a First Freedom!
Change.org is one way we can tell the new administration in no uncertain, and very positive, terms what is needed to insure that our sovereignty over our own bodies is assured and that we are not menaced with “treatments”, toxins or threats to that personal sovereignty which is essential to free men and women.
So join us, from January 5 to January 15, in urging everyone you know to vote for Health Freedom, our First Freedom. And be ready to help everyone you know understand how important the simple click of a mouse can be to their health and health freedom.
Mouse Warriors: are you ready? Starting on January 5, anyone can go to the page Natural Solutions Foundation is about to put up and make sure that the Obama Administration understands that Health Freedom is our First Freedom.
That, and divesting the FDA of its Food Regulatory Authority, should keep us busy – and free – in 2009. What a great opportunity for change!
Ready? Here Comes Health Freedom!
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Modern life is stressful and insurmountable stress is, quite literally, a killer. Our stress response mechanism is adapted for short bursts of stress followed by longer periods of tranquility. Show me someone whose life is like that and I’ll show you someone who lives in a lead mine or in seclusion in a Himalayan monastery!
We all suffer from the effects of chronic stress and our bodies do not thank us for it. Overwhelming stress may, after long enough, feel normal to us, but is because we have gotten use to having our bodies break down and are no longer paying attention.
Adrenal stress is associated with chronic degenerative diseases (including deadly ones like cancer and crippling ones like arthritis), undesired weight gain, mineral and blood chemistry disregulation, fatigue, immune suppression, premature aging and a host of other negative consequences.
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I have found that Adrenal Support – http://drrimatruthreports.com/store/cart.php?m=product_detail&p=230 – along with some others that we will be talking about, are extremely effective in returning your adrenals to a state of normal function. These statements, while not approved by the FDA, represent my experience on a personal basis, too.
You can imagine the kind of stress that General Stubblebine and I are exposed to through the work we do for health freedom. Constant travel, less than perfect food, long hours of burning the candle at both ends (like right now!) to bring you health freedom information, etc., have certainly taken a toll on our adrenal systems. We cannot afford to get sick so we pay close attention to our bodies. We, like others who think that we “can take it” found out the hard way how important it is to nourish and take care of the needs of your adrenals before you find out the hard way that they have collapsed!
A word of caution, though: for most people, adrenal support should be taken early in the day. For severely adrenal compromised persons, please consult your local advanced health care provider.
Pregnant women should not take this product without consulting a physician.
But pretty much everyone else should and I hope that you will give it a try! I know that I want my adrenals in tip top shape to protect me from the ravages of stress and I bet you do, too.
Oh, don’t forget that your purchase on www.organics4U.org gives you a 40% tax deduction as our “Thank You” gift while you support your health and Health Freedom.
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Kathy’s Corner
SUMMARY: Organizing to Divest the FDA
Let’s talk briefly about how you can help us organize to take away the FDA’s power to deny us access to wholesome foods and natural remedies.
We will need people who can contact their local Congresspeople. We need conscientious members of Congress to be willing to introduce our Divest the FDA bill. If you have a personal relationship with any member of Congress, especially any ranking Democratic member, please contact me at dr.laibow@gmail.com with “Congress” in the subject line. We need your help.
Please remember to ask everyone you know to join the Action eAlert system at: http://www.healthfreedomusa.or/index.php?page_id=187 .
We need to grow the list in order to be ready to generate the hundreds of thousands, even millions, of messages to Congress that will be needed to change the law.
And, of course, your generous donations are certainly appreciated; we need your support to educate Congress on this important issue: http://drrimatruthreports.com/index.php?page_id=189 .
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A Word From Dr. Rima
Some time ago the Elders of the Hopi Nation (Oraibi, Arizona) issued a warning message to the world. Their words resonate deeply with me today since this Health Freedom Action eAlert issues a call for all of us who love Health Freedom and understand that it is our First Freedom, to come together and bring our message to national and global prominence. Back biting and squabbling will get us nowhere, but the system has offered us an unexpected and important opportunity to amplify our voices while the world’s eyes are on the coming inauguration.
It is deeply meaningful to me, too, because I am now in Panama helping to create a unique, but easily replicated, Valley of the Moon (TM) Eco Demonstration Project – www.NaturalSolutionsFoundation.org – to help reclaim the production of food around the world so we are looking toward the soil, toward our community, toward ourselves for leadership.
I offer you the wisdom of the Hopi Elders as you embark upon a year of health, peace, prosperity, accomplishment, joy and love.
Hopi Message
“You have been telling the people that this is the Eleventh Hour.
Now you must go back and tell the people that this is the Hour.
And there are things to be considered:
Where are you living?
What are you doing?
What are your relationships? Are you in right relation?
Where is your water? Know your garden.
It is time to speak your Truth.
Create your community. Be good to each other.
And do not look outside yourself for the leader.
This could be a good time!
There is a river flowing now very fast.
It is so great and swift that there are those who will be afraid.
They will try to hold on to the shore.
They will feel they are being torn apart, and they will suffer greatly.
Know the river has its destination.
The elders say we must let go of the shore, push off into the middle of the river
Keep our eyes open and our heads above the water.
See who is in there with you
And celebrate.
At this time in history we are to take nothing personally.
Least of all, ourselves.
For the moment that we do, our spiritual growth and journey comes to a halt.
The time of the lone wolf is over. Gather yourselves!
Banish the word “struggle” from your attitude and your vocabulary.
All that we do now must be done in a sacred manner and in celebration.
We are the ones we’ve been waiting for.”
May your New Year be everything you wish for yourself and your loved ones,
Yours in health and freedom,
Dr. Rima
Rima E. Laibow, MD
Medical Director
Natural Solutions Foundation
www.HealthFreedomUSA.org
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The End the Fed Rallies took place on November 22, 2008 in front of every Federal Reserve Building in the United States.
Natural Solutions Foundation and Natural Solutions Peace Research Institute were there, represented by Foundation Trustee Ralph Fucetola. He presented the message General Stubblebine prepared for this important occassion. This message follows.
Click here (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R9PSETSdTgw) to watch the video of this important speech.
Natural Solutions Foundation
Peace Research Institute
Statement at End the Fed Rally, NYC – November 22, 2008
Ralph Fucetola JD, NSF Trustee
Good afternoon. I am speaking today on behalf of the Natural Solutions Foundation Peace Research Institute and have a message for you from our President, Maj. Gen. Bert Stubblebine, US Army, retired: “War is bad for your health. Unstable money systems are the tool of those who generate wars for their own financial health. Health freedom implies the freedom to live free from the threat of engineered wars to enrich the few and kill and subjugate the many. It also implies the right to earn enough real money to suport the health and well being of your body, your family, your community and your world.â€
Without a stable and sensible, non-fiat currency to direct and drive both our foreign and domestic policy, we have no hope of health, of peace or of freedom. I urge you to become active in the twin campiagns to secure your health freedom from the forces which are destroying it as we speak and your fiancial liberation from the same forces which are enslaving you through fiat currency and the diabolical Fed system, again, even as we speak and rally.
Natural Solutions Foundation and the Natural Solutions Foundation Peace Research Institute offer natural solutions to these complex, intertwined and devastatingly dangerous problems.
We urge you to link minds and efforts with us to lead the successful battle against these twin dangers.
Recall for a moment the chilling and famous statement of Meyer Rothschild who said, “Give me control of a nation’s money and I care not who makes the laws ….” and the history of the fiat money managers who have engineered and financed every war since the American Revolution by creating bellicose causes on both side, financing both sides and creating the fiat funds to purchase the resulting devastation… and doing it over and over again.
And make no mistake. This greed and inhumanity has no religion. It has no economic or political theory or creed, but its own well being… and it has neither mercy nor compassion.
The Federal Reserve, like Codex Alimentarius, is a complex, globalized and globalizing system of domination designed to enslave and/or kill you, either rapidly or slowly.
But we are not slaves. We are free men and women who must choose our own destiny and reject the nefarious plans of those who would control us through inauthentic means and through gile.
Now is the time. The system of central state control of the value of our money has been exposed as corrupted and as a failure. Through peaceful, intelligent and persuasive means, we must wage a war of peace and health for ourselves and our future. We call for a true return to a real commodity money standard set by markets, not politicians. As the Constitution teaches, no state shall make anything but gold and silver a legal tender for debt.
We reject the usurpation of Constitutional right which the Federal Reserve represents. That usurpation, over a century old, known as the “Legal Tender Cases†abrogated to the US Government the unconstitutional power to declare legal tender and led directly to the crisis of the moment. This usurpation must end: End the Fed! Return to Constitutional money!
During the hundred years before the Fed, twenty dollars was one ounce of fine gold. At the end of that hundred years, the gold dollar bought more than at the start. Today, after nearly a hundred years of the Federal Reserve fiat money fraud, the dollar has lost 99% of its value! Today, if you can find it, a one ounce gold coin will cost about one thousand Federal Reserve Fraud Notes.
The Natural Solutions Foundation welcomes you and your creativity and capacities. You can reach us at www.HealthFreedomUSA.org and join our community of strength by signing up for our eAlerts and letting everyone, and I do mean EVERYONE, you know understand that this is a major issue and you are an activated citizen urging them to become the same – an activated citizen.
Again, www.HealthFreedomUSA.org and the Health Freedom eAlerts.
This IS our country. It IS our monetary system. It IS our Health and, ultimately, it IS our freedom which is at stake. Thank you.
Maj. Gen Albert N. Stubblebine III (US Army, Ret.)
Natural Solutions Foundation
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Natural Solutions Foundation Peace Research Institute
There is a great deal of misinformation about silver solutions. While there are several kinds (ionic, colloidal, nano technology, protein silver), the safety of silver is extraordinary, despite the fear of turning blue (argyria) which has been promulgated over the years.
The truth is that virtually no one has ever turned blue because of a deposition of silver particles in the skin. In the documented case where this has happened, the person drank huge and irrational amounts of silver daily for decades. In the recent well-publicized case of a politician who was supposed to have turned blue from drinking silver, it turned out to be a hoax perpetrated by his political opponents in the campaign for office he was participating in.
The smaller the particle size, the more effective the silver is at disrupting the biological function of disease causing bacteria, mycoplasma and viruses. The smaller the particle size, the more efficiently the body can get rid of the silver.
The silver we recommend, ASAP silver sol solution is exceedingly small in size, has never been shown to provide any medical or health problems and has been used for people from infancy to people in their 90s.
Here are the facts as I see them, after extensive experience using silver for infections of all types:
1. Silver in nano sized particles does not cause argyria because the particles are small enough to pass easily out of the urine, rather than being deposited in tissues. No case of argyria has ever been reported with nano particle silver
2. As you said, the amounts you would have to consume border on the insane.
3. Nano silver is effective, without any known side effects, against every pathogen it has been tested against
4. Through its applications in Africa, we know that pregnant women, tiny babies, fragile elderly, people with diabetes, cancer, auto immune disease, etc., do not develop side effects when they take silver as directed.
5. No ulcers have ever been reported with nano silver
6. The silver we recommend has been shown NOT to kill beneficial bacteria, thus protecting the integrity of the gut and the immune system.
ASAP silver sol solution has been tested against more than 650 pathogenic organisms and has been effective in vitro (in the lab) against every one. It has also been tested against the normal bacteria (which we refer to collectively as “pro biotics”) and found, rather amazingly, to spare these beneficial bacteria.
I personally never travel without ASAP silver sol solution. I have used it for common ailments like a cold and uncommon ones like malaria. It can be taken via sub lingual administration directly under the tongue to speed absorption and prevent it from reaching the GI tract or it can be mixed in a small amount of water and taken by mouth. It has no flavor or taste so even babies can take it without distress.
We have concluded a special arrangement with Nutronix.com to allow us to offer you this silver sol solution. Please do yourself a favor and lay in a good supply of this outstanding health aid.
Click here, http://www.Nutronix.com/naturalsolutions, to get your supply. Click on the “Products” tab, then go to the left hand column and click on “Silver Solutions”.
It is not clear how long the FDA will allow this exceptional product to remain on the market. I suggest you stockpile it for pandemics, general disease use and immune system boosting.
Yours in health and freedom,
Dr. Rima
Medical Director
Natural Solutions Foundation
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Effect of Prophylactic Treatment with ASAP-AGX-32 and ASAP Solutions on an Avian Influenza A (H5N1) Virus Infection in Mice
Gordon Pedersen,American Biotech Labs
Sidwell, Robert W., The Institute for Antiviral Research of Utah State University Animal, Dairy and Veterinary Sciences Dept
Alan Moloff, D.O., M.P.H., Colonel, MC, U.S. Army (RET)
Robert W. Saum Ph.D., IDHA, Medical Science and Technology, American Biotech Labs
Introduction
Avian Influenza (H5N1, or Bird Flu) can be a fatal disease in humans and a serious threat to become a pandemic event. Since there is no pharmaceutical remedy for the Bird Flu it is essential that preventive treatments be tested and developed in order to enhance survivor rates in the human population.
Since 1973, Silver has been shown to have topical activity against 22 bacterial species (643 isolates) including gram positive and gram negative bacteria1. As an antimicrobial agent, Silver has been shown to be beneficial in the treatment and prevention of burn infections, post surgical wound infections, and gynecological infections2, 3. In addition, Silver has been shown to be active against black mold4, Anthrax5, Bubonic plague6, Malaria7, and numerous viruses such as Hepatitis 8.
Recently it was reported that the American Biotech Labs product, Silver Sol, demonstrated additive and synergistic effects when combined in individual trials with 19 different antibiotics9. The Silver
from ABL was shown to improve the effectiveness of the antibiotics even against
antibiotic resistant infections 9.
The Merck Index identifies the following medicinal uses of silver: Antiseptic particularly for mucous membranes and infectious sinusitis10. The Merck Manual and Centers for Disease Control, recommend that Silver nitrate drops should be placed in each infant eye as soon as possible or at least in the first half hour of life to prevent gonorrheal ophthalmia 11.
The safe use of Silver as an orally consumed preventive agent has been demonstrated and supported by reports from the EPA and the United States Department of Health and Human Services in a 76 week long study12,13. Dogs that inhaled Silver showed activity in the lung in one hour with 90% of the silver carried to the liver by the blood within 6 hours14.
Due to the increased risk from methicillin resistant bacteria, black mold, plasmodium and especially bird flu, the need for orally consumed, safe, daily prophylactic prevention exists. In this study, Silver Sol from American Biotech Labs demonstrates safe beneficial and preventive activity against H5N1 Bird Flu, when taken orally in mice.
The American Biotech Labs product, ASAP- AGX-32, as well as their product designated ASAP, to be virucidal against the avian influenza A/Vietnam/1203/2004 (H5N1) x A/Ann Arbor/6/60 hybrid virus, with an up to 2 log10 virus titer reduction occurring after a 6 h incubation of the product and the virus
(USU report dated March 28, 2006). In that same report, similar incubation with the avian influenza A/Duck/MN/1525/81 (H5N1) virus reduced the virus titer by approximately one-half log10 in the same
time period. This material is reportedly very well tolerated in human subjects when ingested orally, Dr Gordon Pedersen of American Biotech Labs designed a study with the Centers for Antiviral Research to
evaluate the potential for ASAP-AGX-32 and ASAP, to inhibit an avian influenza A (H5N1) virus infection of mice when administered orally to the animals beginning 1 week prior to virus exposure. This report describes the results of this experiment.
Materials and Methods
Animals: Female specific pathogen-free 18- 21 g BALB/c mice were obtained from Charles River Laboratories (Wilmington, MA). They were quarantined 5 days prior to use. They were housed in polycarbonate cages with stainless steel tops and provided tap water and mouse chow ad libitum.
Virus: Influenza A/Duck/MN/1525/81 (H5N1) virus was originally provided by Dr Robert Webster of the St. Jude Hospital (Memphis, TN). The virus was adapted to mice by passage twice through weanling animals and a large pool prepared in MDCK cells for use in this study. The virus was titrated in young
adult mice prior to use in the present experiment.
Compounds: ASAP and ASAP-AGX-32 were provided by Dr Pedersen. They were in blue bottles, so all studies run with each were performed using the materials in injection bottles covered with aluminum foil to avoid light exposure. All were stored at room temperature until used. It is understood that the ASAP solution contained a colloidal silver at a concentration of 10 ppm, and the ASAP-AGX-32 contained the same colloidal silver at a concentration of 32 ppm. Ribavirin, included as a known positive
control, was provided by ICN Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (Costa Mesa, CA); it was dissolved in sterile saline and stored at 4o C until used.
Arterial Oxygen Saturation (SaO2) Determinations: SaO2 was determined using the Ohmeda Biox 3800 pulse oximeter (Ohmeda, Louisville, OH). The ear probe attachment was used, the probe paced on the thigh of the animal. Readings were made after a 30 sec stabilization time on each animal. Use of an earlier Ohmeda Model (3740) for measuring effects of influenza virus on SaO2 in mice has been previously described by Dr.s Sidwell and Pedersen15.
Lung Score Determinations: Each mouse lung removed and placed in a petri dish which, using a permanent black marker, had been divided into sections which were pre- numbered from 1 through 3 or, for placebo controls, 1 through 5. Each lung was assigned a score ranging from 0 (normal appearing lung) to 4 (maximal plum coloration in 100% of lung). These scores were assigned blindly, with the individual doing the scoring not being aware of what group was being examined. An arithmetic mean was determined for each group.
Lung Virus Titer Determinations: Each mouse lung was homogenized and varying dilutions assayed in triplicate for infectious virus in MDCK cells as described previously16. Each lung homogenate was
centrifuged at 2000 g for 5 min and the supernatents used in these assays.
Experimental Design: Groups of 19 mice were treated by oral gavage (p.o.) with either ASAP-AGX-32 or ASAP twice daily (every 12 h) for 7 days, then infected intranasally (i.n.) with an LD70 dose of
influenza virus, then treated an additional 10 days. A similar group of mice were treated p.o. with ribavirin at a dosage of 75 mg/kg/day twice daily for 5 days beginning 4h pre-virus exposure. The infection was achieved by anesthetizing the mice with an intraperitoneal injection of Ketamine at a dosage of 100 mg/kg and instilling 90 µl of suspended virus in minimum essential medium on the nares of the animals. As controls, 35 mice were treated with water using the identical schedule as used for the
ASAP materials and infected as above. Ten infected, test substance-treated mice and 20 water-treated controls were observed daily for deaths for 21 days after virus exposure, and SaO2 levels ascertained on days 3-11, which were the times when this parameter usually declines. From the remaining infected, treated animals, 3 test substance-treated and 5 water-treated control mice were killed on days 1, 3 and 6, and their lungs removed, assigned a consolidation score, weighed, and assayed for virus titer.
As toxicity controls, 3 uninfected mice were treated in parallel with each test material and observed for signs of adverse effects for 21 days. The weights of these mice as well as 5 normal controls were determined prior to initial treatment and again 18 h after final treatment to determine if the treatments
affected host weight gain. Three normal controls were also sacrificed on days 3 and 6 to provide background lung data.
Statistical Analysis
Increases in total survivors were evaluated by chi square analysis with Yates’ correction. Increases in
mean day to death, differences in mean SaO2 values, mean lung weight, and mean virus titers were analyzed by t-test. Only animals dying up to day 21 were considered for mean day to death calculations. The Wilcoxon ranked sum analysis was used for mean lung score comparisons. Each
statistical test was run using Excel software on a MacIntosh computer.
Results and Discussion
The results of this experiment are summarized in Table 1 and in Figures 1-4. As seen in Table 1, the virus challenge in this experiment was lethal to 14 of the 20 placebo-treated mice, with the mean day to
death being 8.4 days. Such a pattern of death is considered ideal for evaluation of potential antiviral agents. This optimal condition was verified by the observation that Ribavirin was fully protective to the
mice, preventing any deaths from occurring (Table 1), significantly lessening SaO2 declines (Figure 1), inhibiting lung score development (Figure 2), lung weight increase (Figure 3), and lung virus titer
increases (Figure 4).
Treatment with ASAP-AGX-32 appeared to not affect the numbers of animals dying of influenza, although a half-day delay in mean day to death was seen (Table 1). SaO2 declines in this group of treated mice were almost at the same rate as those in the placebo controls, although it was interesting
that on the first day this parameter was assayed, a highly significant (P<0.001) difference was seen (Figure 1). SaO2 declines are a manifestation of declining lung function, suggesting that the lung consolidation in the lungs did not progress as rapidly as seen in the placebo controls. The treatment appeared to moderately lessen lung consolidation as seen by lower lung scores on each time evaluated, the day 6 mean lung score being significantly (P<0.05) less than the placebo treated controls (Figure 2). Lung weights, another indication of fluid developing in the lungs to cause pneumonia in the animal, were also less at each time point than seen in the placebos (Figure 3). The mean lung virus titers in the
mice treated with ASAP-AGX-32 were lower than the placebo controls on days 3 and 6 of the infection (Figure 4).
Treatment with ASAP, which we understand is a less-concentrated version of ASAP-AGV- 32, also provided some intriguing results. Especially of interest was the observation that 60% of the infected mice treated with this compound survived compared to the 30% in the placebo-treated controls. Although not statistically significant because of the number which survived in the latter controls, this effect is strongly suggestive a disease-inhibitory effect may have occurred. At two time points during the SaO2 assays, days 3 and 6, the declines normally seen were significantly lessened (P<0.01), and
there was a general lessening of decline throughout the times of assay (Figure 1). Modest inhibition in lung scores were seen in this treated group as well, especially on day 6 (Figure 2); the lung weight data did not correlate too well with the lung scores, however (Figure 3). Again, slight inhibition of lung virus titers were seen in the ASAP- treated, infected mice (Figure 4).
Both the ASAP formulations were well tolerated by the toxicity control mice as seen by no deaths occurring in them and host weight increases observed during time of therapy. Ribavirin, while not lethal to the mice, did result in a 0.4 g host weight loss (Table 1); this was an expected effect for the latter material, since the maximum tolerated dose is approximately 100 mg/kg/day.
It is difficult to attribute the effects seen in this experiment wholly to viral inactivation, since both test materials were administered orally to animals infected by direct nasal inhalation, although the treatments began one week before virus exposure, so it is possible that a portion of the Silver Sol may
have been able to be in the vicinity of the virus-exposed lung tissue. It is also possible that this material is exerting a mild immunomodulatory effect in the animals, which would provide modest protection
against the infection. If such a mechanism is indeed associated with the potential activity seen, then a different treatment schedule, perhaps limiting the number of treatments to one per day or once every other day, may enhance any immune modulatory effects, since it is recognized that too-frequent dosing may overtax the immune system. The greater protection seen by the lower- dosed ASAP material could be explained by immunomodulation, since the greatest immunologic effect is not necessarily at the
highest dose used.
Another mechanism whereby the ASAP materials may have inhibited the influenza virus infection in these studies may simply be one of coating the virion with Silver Sol to prevent attachment and penetration. Again, the material would need to be in the vicinity of the exposed lung tissues at the time
infection was initiated. The Silver material could also play a role in limiting apoptosis of the epithelial lining of the lung induced during acute lung inflammation. Apoptosis plays a causative role in acute lung injury in part due to epithelial cell loss.
Further studies would have to be conducted to more fully delineate the actions of this material.
It is acknowledged that the effects seen in the present study, while of considerable interest, would need to be repeated to confirm that the observations were not due to mere chance. Consideration of combined use of oral administration of the ASAP materials and intranasal instillation at near
the time of virus exposure would determine
whether the effects seen were indeed
associated with virucidal effects of these
materials.
Summary
Mice infected with avian influenza A/Duck/MN/1525/81 (H5N1) virus were treated with the Silver Sol-containing formulations ASAP-AGX-32 and ASAP provided by American Biotech Labs. Oral gavage treatment began 7 days prior to virus exposure and continued twice daily for a total of 17 days. Treatments with both formulations provided a suggested inhibitory and preventive effect on this virus infection as seen by either less animals dying in the treated groups than in the placebo-treated
controls, delay in mean day to death, lessened SaO2 decline, modest inhibition of lung consolidation, and/or lessened virus titers in the lungs. Ribavirin was included as a positive control drug, used orally at a dose of 75 mg/kg/day twice daily for 5 days beginning 4 h pre-virus exposure, and this treatment was markedly inhibitory to the infection as expected.
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Another theoretical “impossibility†becomes real by experiment. Water burning? Yes, it can!
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Table 1. Expt. ABLA-1. Effect of Oral Gavage Prophylactic Treatment with ASAP-AGX-32 and ASAP on an Influenza A (H5N1) Virus Infection in Mice.
Animals: Female 18-21 g BALB/c mice Virus: Influenza A/Duck/MN/1525/81 (H5N1) Drug diluent: Company diluent Treatment schedule: bid x 17 beg -7 days (Ribavirin: bid x 5 beg -4 h) Treatment route: p.o. Experiment. duration: 28 days Tax Controls Infected, Treated Mice Tax Controls Dosage
Surv/Total Mean Host Weight Change (g) Surv/Total Mean Day to Death ± SD Mean Day 11
SaO2 (% =± SD) ASAP- AGX- 32 32ppm 3/3 1.8 2/10 8.9 ± 1.4 75.4 ± 1.0
ASAP 10ppm 3/3 1.4 6/10 7.3 ± 1.0 76.7 ± 2.1 Ribavirin 75 mg/kg /day 3/3 -0.4 10/10*** >21.0 ± 0.0*** 86.6 ± 2.5** * H2O — — — 6/20 8.4 ± 1.8 76.0 ± 1.9 Norma l Contro ls — 5/5 2.3 — — 88.8 ± 3.0
Difference between initial weight and weight 18 h after final treatment.
Difference between initial weight and weight 18 h after final treatment.
*P<0.05; **P<0.01; ***P<0.001 compared to H2O -treated controls.