The Natural Solutions Foundation keeps a close eye on the continuing disinformation of Big Pharma to try to convince you that there is no reason to, or good reason not to, take dietary supplements. It is like Honda telling you that there is no reason to buy, or good reason not to buy, a Toyota.
You see, dietary supplements are the direct economic competitor of drugs. Dietary supplements, like clean, unadulterated food, keep you healthy and get you back to health if you have become ill.
Compared to drugs, they are cheap, safe, easy to use and controllable by you or a helpful nutritionally knowledgeable person. And, at least in the US, they are classified as foods so they cannot be regulated the way drugs would be.
Of course, the FDA is always on the look out to undermine that freedom, recognized by the 1994 Dietary Supplements Health and Education Act (DSHEA) — unanimously adopted by Congress — which this Agency publicly calls “the worst act ever passed by the US Congress”. Why? Because the FDA is run by and for industry and the drug industry is a leading source of FDA funds through User Fees. The big players in the food industry, who pay no user fees to the FDA are, none the less, very important buddies of the organization, so food is regulated for the interests of big industry and drugs are regulated to promote the drug industry, at the expense of anything that might get in the way, like, for example, dietary supplements, or the public good.
Recently pro-industry legislators created an Adverse Event Reporting system for dietary supplements that tries to ignore the role of the many drugs many people use in distorting their metabolism and leading to . Naturally, this created a great PR opportunity to bash and diminish the importance and safety of dietary supplements which do not kill people. Drugs kill people. Foods which are not contaminated do not and dietary supplements are foods!
Dr. Ron Paul, Congressman from Texas, last year called one FDA maneuver an “abuse of power…” and Congress passed dangerous bill under the guidance and force of Senator Ed. Kennedy that further enhanced the power of the FDA. In this case, though, the Health Freedom movement had a partial victory in that we insisted that Congress add a clause to the bill, protecting Dietary Supplements… and Congress, responding to the hundreds of thousands of messages that advocates of health freedom, generated, through our Action Items and otherwise, adopted the protective language.
Yet we recall that genetically modified yeast which produced contaminated Tyrptophane did kill people, giving the FDA the excuse it was seeing to remove this safe and effective sleep and calming amino acid from the market. It was, after all, cutting into the drug market heavily. The FDA did not take genetically modified products off the market. And the company which produced the contaminated shipment in Japan had a sudden and very mysterious fire which destroyed the factory – and any evidence of contamination – almost immediately after the incident was revealed.
Such is the corruption of an agency which regulates both food and drugs. Clearly, those functions must be separated and a new agency which is consumer controlled must be created. Click here () to make sure that happens!
In the meantime, read the important analysis of the latest “Dietary Supplements are Poisonous” disinformation and make a recurring 100% tax deductible donation (http://drrimatruthreports.com/index.php?page_id=189) to the Natural Solutions Foundation so that we can continue to provide information and strategic input to keep your health freedom free.
Yours in health and freedom,
Dr. Rima
Rima E. Laibow, MD
Medical Director
Natural Solutions Foundation
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Orthomolecular Medicine News Service, October 9, 2008
(OMNS, October 9, 2008) “Dietary supplements cause 600 ‘adverse events'”, reported USA Today on 22 Sept, 2008. In an article that looks much like an official US Food and Drug Administration press release, it said that “Serious side effects from the use of food supplements resulted in 604 “adverse-event” reports – a list that includes at least five deaths – through the first six months that such accounts have been required by law.” (1)
Good grief! Looks like all those supplement-popping health nuts really are nuts after all. Food supplements simply must be dangerous!
Or are they?
Later on in the article, far from the headline, USA Today conceded that “An adverse event can be anything from a concern that a supplement isn’t working to a serious illness that follows consumption.” And, FDA spokesman Michael Herndon admitted that of the five deaths and 85 hospitalizations reported, “Some of these deaths were likely due to underlying medical conditions.”
FDA’s method of gaining data is suspect at best and biased at worst. Their “Dietary Supplement Adverse Event Reporting” webpage,
http://www.cfsan.fda.gov/~DMS/ds-rept.html, states: “FDA would like to know when a product causes a problem even if you are unsure the product caused the problem or even if you do not visit a doctor or clinic.” The measure of uncertainty involved in publicly soliciting adverse reports “even if you are unsure that the product caused the problem” is noteworthy.
But most significant of all is that FDA refused to disclose exactly which supplements allegedly were causing problems. Doesn’t the public have a right to know? In the absence of FDA disclosure to the contrary, it is likely that the five or fewer deaths attributed to “food supplements” were in fact due to medicinal substances marketed as dietary supplements. FDA acknowledges this in a round-about way at their website
(http://vm.cfsan.fda.gov/~dms/mwgblghb.html).
There you will find an “Important Message” which asks health professionals to “Report Serious Adverse Events Associated with Dietary Supplements Containing GBL, GHB, or BD . . . a group of products sold as dietary supplements for bodybuilding, weight loss and sleep inducement which have been determined to pose a significant public health hazard. These products are chemically related ! to gamma butyrolactone (GBL), gamma hydroxybutyric acid (GHB), and 1,4 butanediol (BD), and can cause dangerously low respiratory rates (intubation may be required), unconciousness/coma, vomiting, seizures, bradycardia and death. GBL, GHB and BD have been linked to at least 122 serious illnesses reported to FDA, including three deaths.”
But these substances are not foods. They are not vitamins, and they are not minerals, and they are not amino acids. They should not be considered with or as food supplements. Over half of all Americans safely take nutritional supplements every day. If each of those persons took only one tablet per day, that would be some 145,000,000 individual doses daily, for a total of over 53 billion doses annually. Many healthy people take more. And yet, according to national statistics compiled by the authoritative American Association of Poison Control Centers, there is not even one death per year from vitamins. (2) Look at the reports, which detail each individual vitamin, mineral, amino acid and herb, and see for yourself at
http://www.aapcc.org/dnn/NPDS/AnnualReports/tabid/125/Default.aspx
By comparison, FDA acknowledges that prescription drugs resulted in 482,154 adverse-event reports in the year 2007. That is nearly 400 times as many adverse events from prescription drugs per six-month period. And this much higher number does not include over-the-counter drugs, a striking omission. Many non-prescription drugs, such as Tylenol (acetaminophen), are a long way from safe. Liver toxicity from acetaminophen poisoning is by far the most common cause of acute liver failure in the United States. Acetaminophen accounted for 51% of all acute liver failure cases in 2003. (3) Indeed, the Associated Press previously reported that common drug dangers are so bad that “Harmful reactions to some of the most widely used medicines – from insulin to a common antibiotic – sent more than 700,000 Americans to emergency rooms each year.” (4)
Vitamin supplements compete with FDA-sponsored drugs. FDA has been trying to eliminate availability of vitamin supplements for over 45 years. As early as 1962, writes constitutional attorney Jonathan W. Emord, “FDA perceived a competitive threat emerging to drug regulation from the sale of dietary ingredients at above RDA doses.” In 1966, “FDA published a rule that any dietary supplement exceeding 150% of the RDA for a vitamin or mineral would automatically be regulated as a drug.” In 1976, after a “public outcry,” the Proxmire Amendment prohibited FDA from deeming a vitamin or mineral a drug solely because of potency. “Undaunted,” continues Emord, “FDA tried yet again to rid the market of vitamins in the 1970s by claiming on a case by case basis that they were adulterated based on their potency.” FDA also tried to have supplements declared to be unapproved food additives. “FDA’s position was a logical absurdity: Single ingredient dietary supplements were food additives b! ecause the ingredients were added to a gelatin capsule which was, FDA said with a wink and a smirk, a food. . . The United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit described FDA’s position as an “Alice in Wonderland” approach.” In 1980, FDA tried to get vitamins classified as over-the-counter drugs. . . FDA has repeatedly exceeded the limits of its statutory authority to bring about changes designed to protect drug companies from competition.” (5)
Additional evidence comes directly from FDA, whose own Dietary Task Force Report, released June 15, 1993, said: “The task force considered many issues in its deliberations including to ensure that the existence of dietary supplements on the market does not act as a disincentive for drug development.” There is also this statement was made by FDA Deputy Commissioner for Policy David Adams, at the Drug Information Association Annual Meeting, July 12, 1993: “Pay careful attention to what is happening with dietary supplements in the legislative arena . . . If these efforts are successful, there could be created a class of products to compete with approved drugs. The establishment of a separate regulatory category for supplements could undercut exclusivity rights enjoyed by the holders of approved drug applications.”
FDA wants control of vitamins. Their latest ploy is to frighten the public into thinking vitamin supplements are dangerous, without proof, and without even naming the supplements they accuse. Don’t fall for what Abram Hoffer, M.D., calls “the FDA’s grand lie that, if told over and over again, is accepted as somehow true.”
Vitamin supplements are not the problem. Poor eating habits, and too many medicines, are the problem. Food supplements are a solution. They are effective, and vastly safer than drugs. The US Food and Drug Administration knows this full well.
References:
(1) Perez AJ. Dietary supplements cause 600 ‘adverse events’. USA Today, Sept 22, 2008:
http://www.usatoday.com/news/health/2008-09-22-supplements-adverse-events_N.htm
or http://www.usatoday.com/news/health/2008-09-22-supplements-adverse-events_N.htm?POE=click-refer
(2) Annual Reports of the American Association of Poison Control Centers’ National Poisoning and Exposure Database, 3201 New Mexico Avenue, Ste. 330, Washington, DC 20016. Download any report from 1983-2006 at
http://www.aapcc.org/dnn/NPDS/AnnualReports/tabid/125/Default.aspx
free of charge. The “Vitamin” category is usually near the end of the report. Summary and commentary at:
http://www.doctoryourself.com/vitsafety.html
(3) Larson AM et al Acetaminophen-induced acute liver failure: results from a United States multicenter, prospective study. Hepatology 2005;42:1364-1372. See also:
http://www.medpagetoday.com/Psychiatry/Depression/tb/2233
(4) Associated Press, Oct 17, 2006.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/15305033/
(5) Emord JW. FDA violation of the rule of law. Speech from the Health Freedom Exposition in Richmond, Virginia September 23, 2006.
http://www.emord.com/events/speeches/fda_violation.htm
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Here’s the wonderful letter Nick Molorisi wrote to us yesterday. Take a moment to read it, realize that YOU are Mighty Mouse and then take the actions listed at the end of this email!
Thanks!
Yours in health and freedom,
Dr. Rima
Rima E. Laibow, MD
Medical Director
Natural Solutions Foundation
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Hi Everybody Mighty Mouse Is Back!
How many of you remember the days when Mighty Mouse cartoons produced an unusual hero. If you do, you are admitting to getting old!
Mighty mouse is back to champion the quest for our freedoms! Dr. Laibow had brought attention back to this mighty warrior for American Freedom like no other, and brought Mighty Mouse back into play. The Mighty Mouse is in right in your hand when you are sitting at your computer!
The opposition starts their agenda of toxic cocktails in our food and medications in one state, mostly among the poor and out of work people.Then they go for the kill by making it the law of the land through our congressmen and senators, and our local law enforcement officials being brain washed
to think of the people they are supposed to, by their oath to protect and defend, are the enemy.
Yet there is a double standard here. These officials of the law don’t realize they are not above the law and that they are being duped, because eventually the fires of this hell on Earth will engulf their own children [and them – REL]. By then it will be too late for even them to say “no” to the demise of their own children.
If our ELECTED OFFICIALS are allowed to continue to force these vaccination agendas, (the attack of the week), on New Jersey, We the People, will all suffer greatly. Then to complete the job, they follow up with the forced psychiatric drugging of our children [and of us -REL] to produce a nation of prescription drug junkies.
It’s up to every one of us to keep at it [defending our freedoms -REL], just like the opposition does at bringing this country down.
We are Mighty Mouse
All of us must use our computer mouses and keep vigil every day by clicking away at all the petitions, faxes, phone calls and letters to these hypnotized and brain-washed so called representatives of the people. Our Foundation’s mission is to educate decision makers… with your help!
Help New Jersey right now…
[By going to the October 16 No Forced Vaccination Rally in Trenton, NJ (http://drrimatruthreports.com/index.php?p=1166) and letting everyone you know in the tri-state metro area know about this opportunity – REL] by clicking away on your mouse no matter what state you are from. Sign these very important petitions. The Internet is our greatest tool right now to bring about the freedoms so badly needed in our nation.
Everybody, please — hand on your mouse right now and sign all of the petitions in this forwarded message, and get them to all your contacts. [Free Speech is a good place to start. Click here, http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/o/568/t/1128/campaign.jsp?campaign_KEY=25929, to tell your State and Federal Legislators that allowing Registered Dietitians a monopoly over ALL speech relating to food, food components, including dietary supplements, and health is unconstitutional and must stop. Right now, 46 States have such laws with New Jersey hard on their heels. -REL]
Yesterday (Nov, 17, 2007) it was Maryland, where they forced the toxic vaccination program on poor
unsuspecting people [2300 children were vaccinated, 1100 of them RE-vaccinated with an extra dose of toxins because the school district admitted it had lost their vaccination records -REL] at the point of a gun with police dogs and judge in attendance, with police toting guns and attack dogs, to vaccinate their children under severe, cruel and unusual punishment if they did not. [And this in a State with statutory exemptions of medical conditions, conscience and religion, none of which were identified to parents who were threatened with jail time and fines if they did not allow their children to be vaccinated. -REL]
Make no mistake, this is an attack
The CDC’s own website on adverse vaccine incidents [Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System, VAERS, http://vaers.hhs.gov/ -REL] reported many adverse events related to these toxic medicines on [our -REL] children, but none of this toxic genocide of our children got reported through the media. They bury it with our children who don’t survive this attack, and we get the bill for the whole thing. Your children will be next if we do not act now and help our neighbors. Make no mistake about this. The people of New York State kicked them in the ass by screaming so loud they sent the reps running with their tails between their legs, and got the forced vaccine program squashed in that state.
The opposition is on the attack again.
Today it’s New Jersey. They are escalating the attack on our children of all citizens of this state.
Tomorrow it’s the rest of the country, then in a domino effect, the rest of the world.
Go to your mouse now, and make it Mighty Mouse.
We are talking about maiming and killing your children here. Let’s continue to flood the government offices with our demands that they begin to represent the people or we kick them out this November.
Is it already too late…
These very reps defied the 96% of the people who did not want it in the latest fiasco on the Bail Out, and voted it into law. Where is the serve and protect the people. When you are
broke, who will bail you out? Hmmmmmmm.
They just took your money and will continue to do it if we don’t stop them. It is only the beginning.
This is how we can stop this horror cold.
Remember the kick in the ass will be when, We the People, kick them out of their jobs this November.
Might Mouse is right here, It’s YOU, and we are all a part of this brave warrior for freedom.
Sign the petitions here Natural Solutions Foundation message. [links which follow this message. Then forward it to everyone you know with your own cover message asking people to do the same. Tell them it’s important to you and you believe it will be important to them, too- REL].
Join in and sign up for the free Health Freedom eAlert e-mail messages here: http://drrimatruthreports.com/index.php?page_id=187
It only takes a few minutes of your time. And above all, sign or not, get this to all your contacts.
Remember, third party all the way will save the day. No one is going to do this for you, you must get involved. You have to be in it to win it. Do your part and feel proud. Use your mouse to find who your state and national third party reps are, and make it a mighty mouse. Vote for them in November.
Don’t believe for a New York minute that we can’t win. We can!
The only thing you have to fear is what will happen to you and your family if you do nothing.
If you are not part of the solution, you are part of the problem.
Thanks,
Nick Merolesi
Now it’s up to you, Mighty Mouse! Here are the steps to take right now! There isn’t a New York Minute to waste!
* Urge your legislator to become a co-sponsor of Denis Kucinich’s 3 bill suite to demand safety evaluation and labeling of all GMO foods, including the newly approved Franken Meats.
o Click here: http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/o/568/t/1128/campaign.jsp?campaign_KEY=25920
* Sign the Tiburon Declaration to let the entire nation know that you are in the majority opposing forced drugging or vaccination. Click here: http://drrimatruthreports.com/index.php?p=460
* Keep Codex tyranny over truthful speech about the relationship about the relationship between food and health out of the US.
o Click here: http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/o/568/t/1128/campaign.jsp?campaign_KEY=25929
o and Here: http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/o/568/t/1128/campaign.jsp?campaign_KEY=26028
o and Here: http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/o/568/t/1134/campaign.jsp?campaign_KEY=1035
* Let your State and Federal Legislators know that you want mercury out of our mouths and out of all health care – NOW!
o Click here: http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/o/568/campaign.jsp?campaign_KEY=26052
UPDATE: Rally a Huge Success!
See: http://vitaminlawyerhealthfreedom.blogspot.com/2008/10/no-forced-vaccination-rally.html
Tell your State Representatives that you want strong exemptions from mandatory vaccination (Action Item works for you no matter which State you live in):
http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/o/568/t/1128/campaign.jsp?campaign_KEY=21833
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This is the latest announcement about this Thursday’s Pro Health Freedom Rally in Trenton. Please forward this information to anyone in the region who can get to this important show of solid support for health freedom.
One Thousand People Expected To Rally For Vaccination Choice
at the State House in Trenton, NJ on Thursday, October 16, 2008 at 12:00 p.m.
NJ Assemblywoman Charlotte Vandervalk, Board-certified Pediatrician Dr. Lawrence Palevsky and National Vaccine Information Center co-founder Barbara Loe Fisher, will join NJ parents and professionals at a rally in Trenton for vaccination choice. Nearly one thousand people are expected, requiring Trenton to close the streets to accommodate the crowds.
The speakers represent a cross-section of society including medical doctors, nurses, chiropractors, scientists, clergy, educators, soldiers, politicians, journalists, autism activists, homeschoolers and many parents. The NJ Coalition for Vaccination Choice (NJCVC) invites you to rally with them by the steps of the State House, outside Gov. Corzine’s office.
The group opposes the four new vaccine mandates including an annual flu shot for children ages 5 and under, required for daycare and pre-school. NJCVC supports the passage of bill A260/S1071, a conscientious exemption to mandatory immunization which will permit parents to select all, some or no vaccinations for their children. A form of this parental right already exists in 19 other US states. All legislators will be in Trenton for a Special Session. Fox News plans to cover the event. Fox aired a live segment on vaccination choice in NJ on October 9 (see http://tinyurl.com/3nmgqb and http://tinyurl.com/45ca5y).
Press urged to cover this high visual impact event: signs, banners, balloons, photos, children, music, personal stories, legislator appreciation ceremony. Rally Information: Rain or Shine, Thursday, October 16, 2008, Noon- 2 pm, 125 West State Street, Trenton, NJ, www.njvaccinationchoice.org for more rally details.
Contact Louise Habakus vaxRSVP@verizon.net 917-553-4634.
Max will be speaking at the Rally. Natural Solutions Foundation Trustee Ralph Fucetola, representing the largest health freedom organization in the world, The Natural Solutions Foundation, will be speaking at the rally.
Max’s Storyhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YswnGsfZsQI
Here is our anticipated
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Natural Solutions Foundation
www.HealthFreedomUSA.org
Media Release: End All Forced Vaccination
Trenton, October 16, 2008 – Natural Solutions Foundation participates in the Rally for Vaccination Choice at the Statehouse in Trenton, New Jersey today. Through its www.HealthFreedomUsa.org web site, the Foundation is the largest international ‘netroots’ Health Freedom alliance in the world.
Foundation trustee and life-long New Jersey resident Ralph Fucetola JD delivered a special message to the Rally from Foundation President Maj. Gen. Bert Stubblebine (USA, ret) and Medical Director Rima E. Laibow, MD. The message stated,
“Natural Solutions Foundation supports the efforts of people around the world who oppose forced vaccination for any purpose. As an educational, nongovernmental organization we seek to inform legislators and decision makers about the dangers of vaccine induced disease and the necessity of a Universal Right to Vaccine Exemptions, including strong religious, philosophical and medical exemptions for all vaccines. We congratulate New Jersians on their efforts to stop the uninsurable risks of mandated vaccines.â€
Counsel Fucetola continued, “The fact that the insurance industry, our society’s experts in risk, will not insure vaccines is a very telling fact. Without the special Federal Vaccine Injury Compensation Program (VICP) tax that every person who is mandated to buy vaccines is forced to pay, there could be no mandated vaccines at all. Public companies cannot invest in uninsurable risks, so Congress, ever supine to the interests of Big Pharma, mandated that the victims have to pay a tax to guarantee pharmaceutical industry vaccine profits. So far, over two billion tax dollars has been paid out to the families of children maimed and killed by vaccines. This must stop now!â€
The Natural Solutions Foundation, along with other health freedom advocates, declared, a year ago, that ending forced vaccinations must be a top priority of all freedom activists. The Tiburon Statement, named after the California town where it was written at an emergency meeting of nongovernmental organizations, can be found at: http://drrimatruthreports.com/index.php?p=460 – it states:
Convening for Health Freedom of Choice, Protecting our Children from Forced Vaccination
Health and Freedom leaders and advocates, meeting in an emergency strategic session at Tiburon, California and electronically, declare –
– We collectively call upon Congress and State Legislatures to take immediate steps to restore and guarantee freedom of choice in vaccination and health care and to protect our children and us against forced treatments.
– The moral imperative embodied in the World Medical Association Declaration of Helsinki forbids involuntary medical treatment or experimentation in the absence of fully informed, voluntary consent.
– We have a right to legal protection against mandatory inoculations of our children, such as those which occurred on November 17, 2007 in Prince George’s County Court House, enforced by police.
– Taxpayers have paid nearly $2 billion to compensate families for the death or disability of their children due to vaccination.
We, the undersigned, call upon the Congress of the United States and legislators of each State to adopt the strongest possible legal protections to ensure health care freedom of choice, including the universal right to vaccination exemptions.
Further information: Ralph Fucetola JD- ralph.fucetola@usa.net – http://vitaminlawyerhealthfreedom.blogspot.com/
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“Breakthrough casualty” (aka “collateral damage”) is what happens when a poorly tested, new drug or device (or novel GMO product) is publicized in the mass commercial media in ways that are not truthful and are misleading. Here are Action Steps To Help Prevent Yourself and Your Loved Ones From Becoming A “Breakthrough Casualty”
Today, the biggest causes of “breakthrough casualties” are the very issues that Natural Solutions Foundation has championed: GMOs, degraded organic standards, forced vaccinations and drugging, toxins (like pesticide residua, irradiation free-radicals, and the like) in the food chain, regulatory failures…
Tell Your Legislators Compulsory Drugging, Including Vaccination is NOT OK!
http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/o/568/t/1128/campaign.jsp?campaign_KEY=21833
Join the Natural Solutions Foundation’s No Forced Vaccination Yahoo! Forum
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/no-forced-vaccination/join
Support the Child Medication Safety Act So Schools Cannot Hold Parents Hostage For Refusing To Medicate Their Kids
http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/o/568/t/1128/campaign.jsp?campaign_KEY=18970
Sign the Historic Tiburon Declaration Protecting Against Forced Vaccination
http://drrimatruthreports.com/index.php?p=460
Join the free Health Freedom eAlerts Distribution List
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Make Your Tax Deductible Contribution to the Natural Solutions Foundation to further our work.
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Breakthrough Casualties…
You’ve heard of “Breakthrough Bleeding,” right? That’s when someone starts to bleed in spite of the fact that the body, or a drug, should be keeping them from doing that. Well, there’s another “Breakthrough” problem, and we are all vulnerable to it: “Breakthrough Death” which occurs when the latest medical “breakthrough” is so dangerous, so poorly tested, so poorly understood and so rapidly embraced by the ever-compliant media (“Ask your doctor is it’s right for YOU”) along with the ever time-pressured and sheepish medical practitioner that you, or someone you love, winds up dead or damaged because of a poorly understood, but hastily taken-up “Medical Breakthrough”.
The article posted below questions the wisdom of new medical “wisdom”. Indeed, the bone-fields of Medicine are littered with discarded ” breakthroughs”, too hastily approved, too gleefully adopted, too poorly tested. Of course, the graveyards of medicine are littered with the patients who blindly rushed to line up for the newest alleged “advances” and trusted the “wisdom” of the usually-well-meaning, carefully preselected and obedient sheep in MD’s clothing who blithely make their livings by being there with the new whatever-it-is-this-time. For example, in my educated opinion, the new chemotherapy which turns out to damage your heart and not work any better than any of the other ineffective conventional cancer approaches and, like every form of conventional chemotherapy, is a leading cause of NEW cancer in long term survivors; or the new antibiotic that turns out to cause your body to stop making any blood cells, red or white, or causes you to go deaf, or damages the dental integrity of your unborn child; or the new vaccine that turns out to cause healthy young girls and women to die or develop life threatening conditions; or the vaccine overload that turns so many happy young families into tragic families coping with the vaccine injury called autism, asthma, ADD/ADHD and a host of other names.
You get the idea.
What you may not know yet is that “fast track” approval for drugs and especially vaccines means that even the woefully inadequate safety assurances used by the FDA are shunted aside. And whether a drug, device or vaccine has been fast-tracked or not, that FDA approved-whatever is not deemed safe until after Phase IV Clinical Trials are completed and evaluated. And you may also not know that the FDA review committees and advisory committees, panels and boards are filled with people who have stocks, bonds, shares, patents and other direct financial conflicts of interest in the very products they are regulating, or seeking to evaluate and forbid if dangerous. Good system? For them, maybe. Just look at the state of American health and the trillions of dollars made by the illness care industry using things that make you sick and kill you although they have been through Phase I, II and II Clinical Trials. And although these devices, drugs and vaccines are now in their much-vaunted “Phase IV Clinical Trials”
What is a Phase IV Clinical Trial? It is the voluntary reporting, over time, of adverse reactions in the public. In other words, when doctors notice that patients are dying, or having strokes or heart attacks, or getting rather more cancer than “normal” or having more life-threatening asthma attacks or other reactions and the doctors involved bother to report (and often incriminate themselves if they were the ones who gave the drug or used the device in the first place), and these results pile up and the scientists reviewing these data do not have too many conflicts of interest, and their superiors in the system do not have too many conflicts of interest (which are now officially permitted by the agencies of the US Government charged with protecting our safety), then perhaps something will happen to remove this item from sale. But usually not. I need only say the word “Vioxx” and you get the idea. Or “Gardasil” or “Avienda”.
Or core systemic corruption and inability to protect the public… you get the idea. *
We like to think that clinical trials and other strategies protective of the public when using drugs, pesticides, vaccines and other toxins are iron clad and powerful. Nothing could be further from the truth. The FDA, EPA and USDA, the principle “guardians” of public health, do not allocate their funding efficiently to do their jobs. Congressional report after Congressional report, investigative piece after investigative piece makes that very clear. But the structure of these agencies themselves makes it even more clear.
For the FDA, a large proportion of whose operating budget comes from “user fees” which Pharmaceutical companies pay to have their products approved. Those user fees mean that the FDA is the client, not the regulator, of the drug industry.
Now it looks like the food industry will be asked to pay the same sort of user fees so the food side of the house will also become a client of the industry it allegedly regulates. Wonder what will happen to small local, organic producers in that regulatory world, where only the big and powerful are “too big to fail…”
Between the revolving door policy of the FDA, USDA, EPA and other federal agencies (through which high level employees are recruited from, revolve into, and continue to move back and forth between government, academia and industry as their careers develop) and the lack of oversight allowed or engaged in by these agencies, allowing “new breakthroughs” to create “new wealth” and “new disasters”.
Read the article below by a concerned and thoughtful Mom and take the Action Steps at the head of this article to make sure your State and National Legislators know that you do not want to be exposed to compulsory vaccination, a form of compulsory drugging.
Thanks.
Yours in health and freedom,
Dr. Rima
Rima E. Laibow, MD
Medical Director
Natural Solutions Foundation
www.HealthFreedomUSA.org
www.GlobalHealthFreedom.org
www.NaturalSolutionsFoundation.org
www.Organics4U.org
www.NaturalSolutionsMarketPlace.org
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Sometimes ‘new breakthroughs’ in medicine are too new
October 12, 2008
By Kimberly A. Brehm
Every time the medical community changes its mind and announces yet another way to care for your child, I’m amazed that my children made it out of their early years unscathed.
When my babies were young, they slept on their tummies, until the American Medical Association said the position could lead to sudden infant death syndrome. I bathed them in cool water when their fevers ran high, until I heard the tried-and-true practice could cause a seizure. And I gave them over-the-counter cold medicine when they had persistent, hacking coughs and sore throats.
Turns out that wasn’t a good idea, either.
On Tuesday, in response to concerns from medical experts that questioned whether cold and cough remedies do more harm than good to children, drug companies agreed to no longer make such medications for kids younger than 4.
Leading brands like Pediacare, Dimetapp, Robitussin, Triaminic and Little Colds no longer will continue to include dosage information for anyone younger than 4, and some pediatricians are asking the government to go further and ban such medicines for children younger than 6.
Each year, more than 7,000 children – mostly 2- and 3-year-olds – make a trip to the emergency room because of problems with over-the-counter cough and cold medicines. They usually have symptoms such as hives, drowsiness and unsteady walking. The Federal Drug Administration in 2007 pulled over-the-counter cough and cold medications for children younger than 6 to weigh their risks and effectiveness, but it could take another year or more before a final decision is reached.
Since it seems like every decade or so the medical community reverses previous decisions on particular medicines and medical treatments, it’s made me wonder when I can trust “new breakthroughs” and “innovative advances.”
A reversal about something like a cough suppressant – once seen as a benign drug – is the exact reason I have not yet allowed my teen daughters to be vaccinated with the HPV vaccine. It’s too new and hasn’t been researched enough for me to give my approval and feel comfortable.
In 2005, the Food and Drug Administration OK’d Gardasil as a vaccine against four strains of the human papillomavirus, or HPV, which can cause cervical cancer. Since then, more than 8 million girls ages 11 to 14 have been given the vaccine, and some states are considering making the shot mandatory for school enrollment, similar to other immunizations.
When Gardasil was approved a few years ago, my oldest daughter was 11, the ideal age to begin the shots. But I hesitated, thinking about other “new and improved” medicines that later proved to cause harm.
Remember when pregnant women were prescribed Thalidomide for nausea, then it was discovered to cause miscarriages and birth defects? Or when vaccines routinely included mercury, until that too proved to be dangerous? Or how about Fen-phen and Ephedra, which were supposed to be safe weight-loss drugs, and women began dying? In the 1990s, infants were given the rotavirus vaccine, until too many babies died after receiving it, and it was pulled from the market. I could go on and on listing dozens of examples like this, including strong, antidotal evidence of a link between immunizations and autism.
Thousands of parents of autistic children, including my brother and his wife, are firmly convinced their child’s autism was caused by vaccines and no amount of denial from drug companies would convince them otherwise.
And now, three years after young girls starting getting the Gardasil vaccine, it’s being investigated. There have been more than 9,000 complaints of serious ill effects filed with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, including blood clots, genital warts, paralysis and death.
The CDC said the deaths are not linked to Gardasil, but who knows what they’ll discover after further investigation? I personally am not willing to let my daughters be guinea pigs for the fairly new vaccine when even the CDC agrees the vaccine responds differently to each individual’s immune system and should not be mandatory for school participation.
“The overall effect of the vaccines on cervical cancer remains unknown. The real impact of HPV vaccination on cervical cancer will not be observed for decades,” the New England Journal reported in August. “With so many essential questions still unanswered, there is good reason to be cautious.”
When the wrong decision could cause your child harm – or maybe even result in death – it would be negligent not to be cautious. And when the medical experts change their minds every few years on what’s good and what’s harmful, it’s hard to make the right decision.
http://www.southtownstar.com/news/brehm/1213902,101208brehm.article
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Please remember the six Action Steps you can take at the beginning of this posting.
(c) 2008
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Footnote:
* Less than a year ago, a government study of the FDA concluded:
1) The FDA cannot fulfill its mission because its scientific base has eroded and its scientific organizational structure is weak.
2) The FDA cannot fulfill its mission because its scientific workforce does not have sufficient capacity and capability.
3) The FDA cannot fulfill its mission because its information technology (IT) infrastructure is inadequate.
4) FDA does not have the capacity to ensure the safety of food for the nation.
5) The development of medical products based on “new science†cannot be adequately regulated by the FDA.
6) There is insufficient capacity in modeling risk assessment and analysis.
7) The FDA science agenda lacks a coherent structure and vision, as well as effective coordination and prioritization.
8) The FDA has substantial recruitment and retention challenges.
9) The FDA has an inadequate and ineffective program for scientist performance.
10) The FDA has not taken sufficient advantage of external and internal collaborations.
11) The FDA lacks the information science capability and information infrastructure to fulfill is regulatory mandate.
12) The FDA cannot provide the information infrastructure support to regulate products based on new science.
[From: the November 2007 Report of the Subcommittee on Science and Technology, FDA Science and Mission at Risk]
Codex meetings are expensive to attend. They are expensive to reach and expensive to stay, eat and get to and from on the ground. The other countries we visit to further the Natural Solutions Foundation’s relationship building and assistance to the emerging Health Freedom Consortium Members are also expensive to get to and stay in. If you value the Natural Solutions Foundation’s efforts and successes at Codex, click here (http://drrimatruthreports.com/index.php?page_id=189) to make your donation to help defray the cost of this expensive, but utterly necessary, presence at Codex.
Thanks,
Yours in health and freedom,
Dr. Rima
Rima E. Laibow, MD
Medical Director
Natural Solutions Foundation
www.HealthFreedomUSA.org
www.GlobalHealthFreedom
www.NaturalSolutionsFoundation.org
www.Organics4U.org
www.NaturalSolutionsMarketPlace.org
www.NaturalSolutionsMedia.tv
The expenses shown here are for modest accommodations, meals without alcohol and public transportation and taxis.
Lodging
Cape Town, where the Codex Committee on Nutrition and Foods for Special Dietary Uses (CCNFSDU) will be held will be at the Southern Sun Cape Sun Hotel, Cape Town, South Africa. Average daily prices for a two person room (breakfast included) are about $95 per person. Total: $2010 plus taxes
Lodging in the other cities we will vist will cost $2191 per person plux taxes Total: $2191 plus
taxes
Lodging Total Before Tax: $4201 plus tax. Assuming tax @ 20%, Lodging total After Tax: $5041
Airfare
Airfare has been calculated on the basis of business class on long trips, economy on short ones. Since the transportation portion of the trip takes more than 120 hours in airplanes and airports if there are no delays, the type of travel accommodations is very important. General Bert is 78 years old and, while he is in outstanding health, 30 hours for a long legged person like the General is literally torture in economy class seats. General Bert broke his hip skiing in 2001 and cannot walk after being cramped for that many hours in a small space. Flying business class means that when we arrive, General Bert can walk during the next three days. Economy class means that he cannot. Therefore, long flights need to be business class while short ones of 4 hours or less can be economy class.
Airfare Per Person Including Taxes: $ 8816.88
Total Airfare Including Taxes: $17633.76
Foodd
Food cost estimates are based on research into the average cost of meals in each city on our itinerary. The cost per person is Food Costs Per Person $1185
Total Food Costs: $2370
Transportation and Miscellaneous
Transportation: $350
Miscellaneous: $150
Total Transportation and Miscellaneous: $500
Visa Expenses
Total Visa-Related Expenses per Person $225
Total Visa-Related Expenses: $550
Total
Total Per Person: $11337.38
Grand Total: $22,674.76
To repeat the obvious, if you value the Natural Solutions Foundation’s efforts and successes at Codex, click here (http://drrimatruthreports.com/index.php?page_id=189) to make your donation to help defray the cost of this expensive, but utterly necessary, presence at Codex.