General Stubblebine and I landed today in Africa. Because I do not want to stimulate counter pressure, I will call this African country merely “Country #1”. We have been traveling for about 30 hours and finally got here. We are in a major regional trading center but it is not the capital of the country. In order to meet with the Minister of Health we will get in a car tomorrow and drive about 500 km (415 miles, to be exact) to meet with him . Then we turn around and drive back to the first city to meet with the First Lady and the Heads of the Codex Committee process and other decision makers. This is a country firmly committed to health and development and we hope for real committment to a pro-health alliance at Codex.
This is a great place to start: we already have some friends in this country who are part of the system. This is very hopeful. We will be discussing the “Codex Two Step”, the procedure by which any country in the world has the ability to protect themselves from the damage done by Codex in any area but, of course, they have to know what their options are.
We have brought with us many copies of the Codex eBook, (http://drrimatruthreports.com/resources/books.shtml) to give to these decision makers. We have made this important book available for you to download. If you want to understand Codex, this is a great resourced. We also have copies of “Nutricide” the DVD” to educate the communities of the history and reality of Codex. (You can watch it by going to http://drrimatruthreports.com/aboutcodex/dvd.shtml to purchase it!).
I do not expect to have internet every day and know that this trip will be grueling. However, if you can stick with me, I’ll keep you directly posted on what’s happening for Health and Freedom in Africa, the Codex ALIMENTARIUS Commission, India and [we expect], China. Bookmark this page and check back regularly!
Yours in health and freedom,
Rima E. Laibow, MD
Medical Director
It’s Pink Ribbon time when we are all urged do our best to walk and talk for a “Cure”. That’s right; it’s Breast Cancer Awareness Month again. Never mind that the last thing the “cancer cure industry” wants is a cure for cancer. After all, cancer is the single most economically productive disease in the history of mankind. Never mind that valid, successful and inexpensive cures for cancer are ruthlessly suppressed by the cancer industry, including the shameful performance of my profession, organized medicine. Pink Ribbon Season means well crafted messages to maneuver women all over America to have mammograms and undergo dangerous and often unnecessary treatment for it in the common event that the diagnosis of breast cancer is wrong.
Breast Cancer is a largely preventable disease on an epidemic rise and is now the leading killer of woman between 45 and 55, according to Preventing Breast Cancer. The Story of a Major, Proven, Preventable Cause of This Disease. by Dr. John Gofinan. There is no doubt that finding and treating a malignant breast tumor early increases survival by at least 17 % according to the [highly suspect, Big Pharma dominated] American Cancer Society.
Breast Cancer Awareness Month is, simply put, a corporate strategy , sponsored by, among others, Astra Zeneca, which makes Tamoxifen. Every word, walk and wink associated with the ubiquitous pink ribbon must pass their approval process. Perhaps you have noticed that, under their guidance, “prevention” has become “early detection” and early detection means, pure and simple, mammograms.
But do mammograms detect cancer? Well, no, not particularly well. In fact, 70 to 80 percent of all positive mammograms do not, upon pathology examination, show any presence of cancer.. How’s that? After an invasive technique like mastectomy (removal of a breast), lumpectomy (removal of a lump) or biopsy (sample material removed from the area for study), the false positive rate is between 70 and 80%? Right. But the cost is anywhere between $250-$500 per woman per year. You do the math. Industry can well afford to support those “Walk for the Cure” Events. Except they should be renamed “Walk for the Profit”.
Well, when a mammogram says there is no cancer, that’s correct, isn’t it? Actually mammograms are shockingly bad at finding cancers that really are there. Dr. Samuel Epstein in his book, The Politics of Cancer, notes that the false negative rate is, according to the National Cancer Institute, about 40 percent among women ages 40-49. The National Institutes of Health says that mammograms also miss 20 percent of malignant tumors in women.
But at least they can’t do any harm, right? Wrong. Mammograms currently deliver about 1 rad per breast per screening for a glandular dose of 0.1 rad per breast or a total glandular dose of 0.2 rad.. The National Cancer Institute estimates that each rad in a woman between the ages of 35 and 50 increases the risk of breast cancer by 1% so a bilateral mammogram each year increases a woman’s rate of breast cancer by 20% over each decade of screening! This is not a negligible risk.
But wait! There’s more.
Since mammography was introduced, Ductal Carcinoma In Situ (DCIS), the most common form of breast cancer has increased by 328% and 200% of this increase may be largely caused by mammography! Radiation, like that delivered by mammography equipment, is associated with sharp increases in breast cancer. In fact, Dr. John W. Gofman, an expert on the health impact of ionizing radiation, believes that 75% of breast cancer can be prevented by avoiding ionizing radiation altogether! Now, that’s good for us, but it’s not good for the people who make mammography equipment. Prevention is, unfortunately, very bad business if you make detection equipment or treatment options for a preventable condition like breast cancer. And there are a host of studies showing that mammography is, at best, a major question and, at worst, a serious problem.
Mammography also may spread existing cancer because, during the procedure, massive, and painful, pressure is applied to the breast. This may cause existing cancer cells to spread before immune processes can kill them (which a healthy immune system does routinely).
And, if you are unlucky enough to carry predisposing genes (Oncolgene A-T, BRCA1 and BRCA2), you are particularly susceptible to even small amounts of radiation and will perhaps be among the estimated 10,000 women who will succumb this year to breast cancer directly caused by mammography.
These are not unknown, controversial facts touted by obscure researcher. Dr. Gofman analyses NCI data showing that among women under 35, mammography can induce 75 cases of breast cancer for every 15 it identifies. Canadian National Breast Cancer Study Canadian study tracking outcome showed that woman40-50 who had mammograms had a 52 percent increase in breast cancer mortality (that is, death) compared to similar woman who did not and that they were more likely to die of breast cancer if they were screened regularly than if they were not!
So what do I, as a woman, as a physician and as a health advocate suggest? First of all, I recommend finding, and using regularly, another screening technology called “thermography” which detects cancer sooner, far more accurately and with no harm at all to the body since it relies on heat emitted by your body and takes a sensitive heat picture of your body. Because malignancies grow extra blood vessels, they emit more heat so they are detectible early and without danger. So, from where I sit,
1. Women under 35 are not well served by mammograms as a screening tool and should not allow mammograms to be performed
2. Although the American Cancer Society advocates mammogram screening for woman 40-49 every two years, I suggest thermography, not mammography, for all women of all ages along with any one of several high sensitivity biochemical tests for cancer. Please note that many experts, especially those whose incomes depend, directly or indirectly, on mammography and treatment for cancers –even false positive cancers — do not agree with my conclusions. Although many experts feel that the risk of breast cancer for women under 35 is not high enough to warrant the risk of radiation exposure, many feel that for women over 55 the risk is high enough to warrant the significant risk of mammograms.
In 1997, NIH appointed a consensus panel to evaluate the risk of mammography. They found no evidence that mammograms for this age group save lives and may do more harm than good. Rather than coming to a conclusion, the panel advised women to weigh the risks with their doctors and decide for themselves.
I do not have mammograms. I also do not have the approval of the Pink Ribbon people to tell you this. (Tamoxifen is another, sad, deadly story. We’ll talk about it another time.) In the mean time, walk for a cure because exercise reduces the risk of breast cancer. Eat for a cure because sensible, natural diets reduce the risk of breast cancer. Laugh for a cure because stress and loneliness reduce immune competence. Pray for a cure because people with sincere religious convictions live longer and healthier than those without them.
Yours in radiation-free health and freedom,
Rima E. Laibow, MD
Medical Director
WOW! You have touched my heart!
I bring you the problems and challenges in the Health Freedom struggle via radio shows, emails and blogs and you create the solution! Fifteen Thousand, Seven Hundred and Ninety Seven people have taken the time and the effort to tell Congress what is important to you, that you want a Congressional Hearing and you are very, very, VERY serious about protecting your health freedoms.
Now, multiply that number by the “correction factor” Congress applies to grass roots activities: every letter or fax = the voice of 13,000 people! You shared the opinions of 20, 233, 500 people with Congress. You told them that all of us want our health freedoms intact and that it is important to us to make sure that Congress knows enough about Codex to work hard to protect us from it. That’s what your voice can do when it is part of a full throated chorus of political opinion from us, not from the professional speech makers.
I told you that Health Freedom is expensive and asked you to help float the Natural Solutions Foundation financial boat since we have no other means of support. We said that we needed to raise $10,000 in thirty days. Today, on Day 18, your help and support has brought us $6385! Many of you understand how important this battle is to our very liberty itself. So you have joined the Health Freedom 400, by giving $25 or more to sustain the Natural Solutions Foundation. I offer each of you who has taken a stand for Health Freedom and health liberty a heartfelt and personal “Thank you!” To those of you still waiting to become part of this funding drive, right now would be a really, really good time to join the ranks of the Health Freedom 400. Please do not to wait for anymore time to pass before you click here to become a member of the Health Freedom 400, http://drrimatruthreports.com/donate.
Thank you for your enduring support!
I told you that we needed grassroots action to get Congress to the [then scheduled] Congressional Briefing next week. Just counting those of you who used this site to , email Congress, http://tinyurl.com/c5jmw, alone, by midday Saturday (9/10/05) you had contacted nearly every Congressional Office to urge your Congressmen and women to attend our Codex Briefing. That’s not counting people who used other sites, phones, etc!
When I told you two days ago that the Congressional Briefing had been pulled out from under our firmly planted shoes, and asked you to email Congress to urge them to hold a Congressional Codex Briefing, you did that, too! In fact, since 10 AM Saturday morning (9/10/05) when I announced the “change in plans” with an email telling you what had happened, you have gone back to the computer and made those (virtual) wires hum! I am thrilled to tell you that 15,795 of you have written to Congress that health freedom is extremely mportant to you!
That’s a lot of grass roots and every one makes the basis of our Health Freedom movement stronger.
And remember when I brought you the problem that health freedom supporters are everywhere but we needed to find one another so we could get together? I suggested we use meetup.com, http://healthfreedom.meetup.com, to help us do that? Well, we now have a Health Freedom meetups in Los Angeles, one in Croton on Hudson NY, one in Seattle WA, one in North Carolina and people waiting to join meetups near their homes in Pennsylvania, Long Island, etc. So if you are interested in meeting with others who care about health freedom, go to http://healthfreedom.meetup.com and organize a meetup or join one.
Set the time and the location to be convenient to you and then meetup. Email me at info.healthfreedomusa.org and let me know you are having a meetup and I will email you materials to help organize and streamline the meeting. Keep me posted! Let’s use meetup as our electronic appointment book to find and share this immense task with others who understand what is at stake!
I am deeply honored to be in this struggle with you all because you are so responsive and persistent that we CAN win our health freedom!
Yours in health and determined freedom,
Rima E. Laibow, MD
Medical Director
I just received a really nice email from a lady in Asheville, NC who said that when she contacted one of her Congressmen, Senator Burr, she was told that there was no Codex problem since “ThenNational Institute of Medicine will take care of us”! Holy Jumpin’ Gehosephat! Senator Burr apparently swims around in a cognitive stew with pieces of information brushing his nose and getting swatted away without ever being processed or digested.
Senator Burr and his prickly ilk are exactly the people who need to be at the Congressional Codex Briefing on September 20 at noon in Room 2220 Rayburn. How do we get them there? You tell them you want them to attend the Codex Briefing! If enough of you say it, they will get the idea and they will show up. We’ll tell them what Codex really is and what it means.
I was told today by a Washington insider that if just 100 people in each state email Congress , http://tinyurl.com/c5jmw, or call the Congressional Switchboard at 202-224-3121 Congress would see the groundswell and get themselves and their senior aides (very important) to the Codex Briefing. Just 100 in each state! We have supporters in every single state. This is an achievable goal!
I ask you to please take the responsibility seriously to let your Congressional Delegation know that you want them to attend this briefing. And share the task with your circle of influence by email so that they can go to http://tinyurl.com/c5jmw and do the same.
And, at the health freedom meetup, http://healthfreedom.meetup.com, you start (hint, hin!) you can help everyone else to do the same. If you are ready to start a meetup, go to http:/healthfreedom.meetup.com, sign up and we’re off! Contact me at info@healthfreeomusa.org for organizing materials, etc.
Thanks for your help!
Yours in activated health and freedom,
Rima E. Laibow, MD
Medical Director
Have you set up your local meetup yet for September 13, 2005 at 7:30? Yes? Congratulations! No? Well, now would be a really good time to do that. It’s really easy and will put you in touch with others who feel the same way you do about health freedom. Here’s how: Go to our meetup page, and start a meetup. Why? Because protection our health freedom is going to take a lot of us and meetup.com is a perfect way for us to find each other.
What to do at the meetup? The purpose of our first Health Freedom Meetup is to
1. Get to know each other around health freedom
2. Help everyone there to notify Congress to attend the Congressional Briefing on Codex on September 20, 2005 at noon, Room 2220 Rayburn
3. Enlist everyone to notify their circles of influence about the Congressional Briefing so that Congress gets a lot of input on this Briefing
4. Have a discussion about local action that you can take to raise awareness about health freedom in your community
5. Make realistic plans to carry out one project in your community which can inform other people about the issue.
The perfect meetup would have a computer (Starbucks are often configured for wireless) to allow people to send their request to their Congressmen to attend the Congressional Codex Briefing,
No computer? No worry. The meetup (computer or no) is a wonderfully effective means to getting your personal convictions up and running as a general item of social awareness to protect our rights to natural health and clean, unadulterated food.
Contact me at info@healthfreedomusa.org and I will email you materials to make your meetup easier to organize including Action Steps, Talking Points, Members List, membership forms, etc. I have postponed my local HealthFreedomMeetup so that I can be available to you by phone or speaker phone to say “Hi” and offer support. If you are running a meetup we can schedule a call. That would be terrific!.
Being a Meetup organizer costs $20 bucks a month, but I suggest you share the cost with the folks who come. If that’s not comfortable for you, the Natural Solutions Foundation will help you work it out. Just email me at info@healthfreedomusa.org and we’ll make it work. There is no way we are going to let $20 stand in the way of your community meetup! No way, no how! This is too important!
Awake, aware people standing up and making themselves heard: that’s how we will keep, and expand, our health freedom. Don’t believe it? Look at DSHEA, the Dietary Supplement Health and Education Act of 1994 which was passed by unanimous Congressional consent in 1994 when no Congressman in the country dared to oppose what was clearly the will of the people. We did it then, we can do it now. Before the population of this country rose up in clear political action saying, “Don’t you dare touch my health freedoms!” Congress was getting set to ban them all together. Congress was told in no uncertain terms that they could do that but it would end their political careers. They backed off.
Sounds good to me re: Codex and any restriction on natural health options. How about you? If you like the idea of a bunch of foreign bureaucrats telling you that you can’t have nutrients at clinically effective doses because they have declared nutrients to be toxins (!) but you have no choice but to eat contaminated foods ( e.g. , deadly banned pesticides, hormones, veterinary drugs and antibiotics, irradiation, etc), then, by all means, do not organize a meetup. If, on the other hand, that does not appeal to you, here’s your opportunity to make yourself heard!
See you at the First Health Freedom Meetup, September 13, 7:30 PM!
Yours in health and popular support of freedom,
Rima E. Laibow, MD
Medical Director
PS: “Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could only do a little. — Edmund Burke