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Time to Meet and Greet with Congress!

Saturday, August 6th, 2005

This may be one of the most important blogs you ever read. The secret to global success in turning the health freedom battle into a resounding success is in this little essay. That’s the good news, of course. The bad news is that it is going to take work and you are the person who is going to have to do it.

The Founding Fathers gave us the tools of democracy. Well, when we use them we move forward and when we don’t other forces move forward into the democratic vacuum left by our inaction, cynicism, apathy, diversion or whatever. This is a very simple action program. Please use it, print it and forward it to your circle of influence, urging them to do the same.

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Deceptive Regulatory Code Set to Take Away US Vitamin and Mineral Freedom of Choice!

ACT NOW TO PROTECT YOUR HEALTH FREEDOM!

CODEX ALIMENTARIUS is a World Trade Organization-sponsored global food standard deceptively promoted as “consumer protection”. It is based on junk science (“Risk Assessment”), classifying nutrients as toxins and is a serious threat to your health freedom. CODEX ALIMENTARIUS serves the financial interests of massive multi-national corporations illegally pushing to implement CODEX ALIMENTARIUS in the United States of America via new laws that would remove the unique safeguards we have in the US.

Big Pharma knows that healthy people do not need drugs so they have enlisted CODEX ALIMENTARIUS, an international regulatory body backed by the trade sanctions of the World Trade Organization (WTO) to eliminate the Wellness Industry, leaving a clear field for the Sickness Industry in its place. Your action to protect our laws and alert the American people to this threat is essential.

In 1994 Congress passed by unanimous consent the Dietary Supplement Health and Education Act (DSHEA) which classifies supplements and herbs as foods which can therefore have no upper limit imposed on them. In July, 2005, CODEX ratified the Vitamin and Mineral Guideline (VMG) which will set ultra low limits on nutrients. The US Government position is that, because of international trade convenience, it will “harmonize” the US with the pro-illness standards of CODEX despite US laws, including DSHEA. How? By gutting DSHEA.

Several pieces of legislation now before Congress have been introduced to do exactly that. What can you do?

Take the following steps to safeguard your health and your health freedom:

Go to the Natural Solutions Legislative Action Page to tell Congress that your health freedom is precious to you! Your voice counts as equal to the opinion of 13,000 voters’ opinion when you express your views to Congress.

Congress is on recess until after Labor Day. That means that you can visit every member of your Congressional Delegation in their home offices. Make an appointment to see each Congressman or woman and be clear that you value your health freedom and expect him/her to protect those freedoms. The sad truth is that they probably have never heard of CODEX and you may well be the first person to tell them about it. Print out our One Page Flyer” and give it to your Congressman/woman. And, while you are at it, print off the Natural Solutions Legislative Action Page so you will have your facts on the legislation we support and oppose right at hand. It is essential that your message be brief, honed and clear. I will be providing you with “talking points” in a blog later this weekend for these meetings.

And, oh, by the way, take a group of friends and supporters. Take Health Food and Vitamin Store owners with you. Take everyone whom you can organize to convince your Congressperson that you are informed, serious and that you ALL vote!. And, oh, by the way, you’ve all got LOTS of voting friends at home!

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I assure you that every one of those visits will create a relationship which will serve us well in the course of this battle and that every visit will convince your employee, your Member of Congress, that you mean [electoral] business! I cannot stress how very crucial this is to our battle. Please take it seriously and make these appointments. You will be helping to change the course of this struggle in our direction!

After you have seen each of your Congressional Delegates, please drop me an email letting me know whom you saw, how many people went with you and what the reaction of the Member was. We will use this information in developing our relationships with each and every Member of Congress for this battle.

Have you become a regular listener to FREE U.S./FREE US! at 7-8 PM (Eastern) every Wednesday on internet radio (you can also listen to the archives). This lively, informative show is an up-the-minute source of health freedom news.

Tell your customers, friends, neighbors and relatives. Every American is threatened by CODEX and the change in our laws that will permit it to become the law of our land.

Consider making a regular monthly donation to the HealthFreedomUSA.org Campaign to make sure that you have the right to stay in business or purchase the nutrients you want (and clean, unadulterated food, too).

REMEMBER: Your health freedom and your health are under attack. If we do not act now, there will be no tomorrow for wellness products.

Also, read continuing educational and action articles from our friends at BioRenew and in Drs. Choice for Healthy Living magazine monthly at most health food stores. Get updates at www.freedomclubusa.com.

Now is the time. If we do not act to preserve our health and freedom, who will act for us?

Yours in health and freedom,

Rima E. Laibow, MD
Medical Director

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You and Thomas Jefferson

Thursday, August 4th, 2005

I am not an advocate for frequent changes in laws and constitutions, but laws and institutions must go hand in hand with the progress of the human mind. As that becomes more developed, more enlightened, as new discoveries are made, new truths discovered and manners and opinions change, with the change of circumstances, institutions must advance also to keep pace with the times. We might as well require a man to wear still the coat which fitted him when a boy as civilized society to remain ever under the regimen of their barbarous ancestors.

Who said that?

Thomas Jefferson.

The same guy who said:

If people let government decide what foods they eat and what medicines they take, their bodies will soon be in as sorry a state as are the souls of those who live under tyranny.

What is CODEX ALIMENTARIUS but an attempt of the state (government) to impose tyrannical measures upon the people, in the interest of corporations?

I hope we shall crush in its birth the aristocracy of our moneyed corporations, which dare already to challenge our government to a trial of strength and bid defiance to the laws of our country.

Again, that was Jefferson.

Wonder if he was a psychic.

What would Tom J. tell us to do in the face of this tyranny? Oppose it by using the means of democracy to defend our inalienable rights. How?

Visit your Senators and Representatives in their district offices while they are home this August and tell them that your health freedom is vitally important to you. Urge them to vote in your best interests since they work for you!

Take your friends and visit with your elected representative, not an aide. Print out our legislative guide so you will have the numbers of the bills handy in your discussion.

“Oh, they won’t listen to us!” you may say. WRONG! I just came back from a lengthy interview with a $20,000 per month lobbyist who said, “It’s not like it was 15 years ago when Congress only listened to lobbyists and corporations. Now the single most powerful force is constituents in the home offices telling Congressmen that they care and that they have friends who vote, too. In fact, there is nothing more powerful!”

Take this advice to heart and take Tom J. with you in your heart when you make that appointment and take your friends along to direct your Congressman or woman to protect you against all threats to your health and health freedom, domestic and foreign!

Simply put, visit them and tell them specifically how you want them to vote. Take the bill names and numbers with you and use the August recess that Congress is in right now to your advantage. Make a relationship with your Congressional delegation members and let them know just how much you care about this issue. Remember, when the people roared in 1994, DSHEA was passed with unanimous Congressional assent: 100% of Congress understood that if they got on the wrong side of this one, they would be out of a job, come the next election.

We did it then with Thomas Jefferson to guide us. We can do it again the same way.

Yours in health and freedom,

Rima E. Laibow, MD
Medical Director
Natural Solutions Foundation

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What Will Happen to Stevie?

Tuesday, August 2nd, 2005

Stephen, my grandson, has just come into the house elated and flushed with success: he reports proudly that he “came in second in a contest to see which of the kids could keep their hands in ice water longest”. It’s a dumb kid thing done by a normal, eager and healthy kid. I look at Stephen and I see the hope and life in his shining eyes. And then I see in my mind’s eye what CODEX at its worst will mean to my grandson and to his future. I look past his smile and I remember that a friend has just told me that he received a letter from a supplement company here in the United States stating that they have reformulated their supplement line to meet the ultra-low, clinically ineffective standards of the European Union’s Food Supplement’s Directive and they will not continue to manufacture the high potency nutrients that can only be sold in the US..

Do you think that this company will be the only one? Companies are in business to sell. How many supplement companies will continue to sell to a small market when they can sell to a large one? How many will continue to make supplements for the US alone, especially when the US market is bombarded with junk science to convince it that vitamins and minerals, fish oil and herbs are at best ineffective (think echinacea) and at worst deadly (think Vitamin C, E, Beta Carotene, etc., etc., etc.)? Each of these articles and studies (and literally hundreds more) is trumpeted in large print “showing” or “proving” that the substance is bad for you. In the fine print, however, is the distortion, the scientific error, the substitution of synthetic material (harmful) for the natural stuff (safe) or the use of a dose so low that it could not have had an effect? The tricks are abundant: the science is flawed and the result is predictable: drugs are good for you (think Vioxx and its dozens of thousands of associated deaths, think 783,936 deaths per year caused by conventional drugs in the US)but nutrients are bad, bad, bad for you leading to absurdities like a baseball team telling its players that supplements were forbidden substances!

Let’s look at the realities: Nutrients are not toxins despite the fact that it would be convenient for the drug industry if they were (since optimally nourished people, those who get enough nutrients, are far less likely to need drugs). Optimally nourished people have optimally functioning immune systems so they don’t get sick very often. Optimally nourished people, however, are bad for sales of things like antibiotics since they fight off infections on their own. Vitamin C, for example, has no toxicity when properly administered since the body gets rid of what it does not need and needs more under stress than it does at other times. You will find plenty of poison press about Vitamin C . You will read that Vitamin C can switch from being an anti-oxidant (good) to a pro-oxidant (bad) unless vitamin E is present. Ah! That’s the point: when the junk science is carried out, do you think that the researchers add Vitamin E to the regimen? Nope! They make sure that the results will be what they want: they will trumpet their findings and tell you that Vitamin C causes “hardening of the arteries” at doses greater than 500 mg*. Not with Vitamin E present, it doesn’t! The researchers had every reason to know that if they knew anything at all about Biochemistry. They also had every reason to know that synthetic vitamins are not the same as natural ones and that isolated nutrients skew the biochemical balance upon which health and resilience depend.

But this calculated onslaught is preparing the people of America to give up, without a protest, the high potency nutrients which offer them optimal nutrition in the face of toxins which increase the need for nutrients sharply and stress which does the same.

What happens if your innate right to make your own health choices is taken away by a multinational organization which does not value the inalienable rights which the American Constitution recognizes that you have to make your own health choices based on your best judgment. You need to be free to take niacin for hypertension, Co Q 10 for cardiovascular disease, malic acid for Fibromyalgia, licorice for adrenal fatigue or any of the thousands of safe, effective and natural ways to create optimal health for yourself.

If our food provided enough nutrients in our toxic, stressful world (which means that our food would be pure, hormone-free, chemical free, not genetically modified, grown locally without pesticides or herbicides, rushed to our tables without irradiation or treatment) nutritional medicine would not work. Giving someone with congestive heart failure beta-carotene (vitamin A), vitamin C, vitamin E and selenium, three of the B-vitamins: vitamin B-6, vitamin B-12 and folic acid calcium, magnesium and coenzyme Q10 and L-Carnitine can often mean the difference between life and death for them. Such a regimen can allow them to move freely and breathe easily. If food were a sufficient source of these nutrients, why would they get better when they took them as supplements? They would not. And yet people DO get better when nutrients of high quality, and balanced properly, are added to their regimens.

And people stay healthy when they take the supplements they need, too. They are not as likely to develop Alzheimer’s Disease, for example.

I could go on but you know the drill: nutrients are not toxins despite the assertion by the CODEX Committee on Nutrition and Food for Special Dietary Uses. Pharmaceuticals are toxins, despite the assertion by docs and ads that they are really good for you. CODEX is guilty of New Speak: say an untruth long enough and it becomes a truth!

Think about my grandson’s future health (and your own, for that matter) if there are no effective legal doses legal for, say, CO Q 10 and L-Carnitine Vitamins A, C, D, E, fish oil, B vitamins, etc. etc. etc. to protect against stress, environmental toxicity and a nutritionally deficient food supply.

It’s the old two step sucker punch: Take down nutrients internationally with CODEX and take them down domestically with legislation to take away our protection. What to do? Get active. Tell Congress not only no, but no way whatsoever! and take our action steps to keep America free from CODEX.

My grandson, your wife, my husband, your nephew, my son, your father, me, and you: we all have good reasons to make sure our health freedoms are not abridged by multinational organizations serving their masters, the multinational corporations.

Stay alert, take action, take your supplements and stay well! Oh, and say, “Hi” to my grandson if you see him on the soccer field!

Yours in health and freedom,

Rima E. Laibow, MD
Medical Director

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Pharmaceutical Industry vs. American People?

Thursday, July 28th, 2005

Matthias Rath, MD, is a highly successful physician from Germany. He has produced breakthrough medical research (such as actual cures for heart disease), published respected books on preventive medicine, and is actively campaigning to bring better health to the world through his research findings in nutritional medicine.

Dr. Rath is also a fierce opponent of CODEX ALIMENTARIUS. He has openly declared that CODEX ALIMENTARIUS is the “brainchild of the pharmaceutical cartel”.

According to Dr. Rath, America stands as one of the greatest barriers to the greed of the pharmaceutical industry. He commends the resolve of millions of Americans, who lobbied hard to get DSHEA passed by unanimous Congressional assent in 1994.

Here’s an excerpt from Dr. Rath’s web site:

1993 was the year that my book, Eradicating Heart Disease was published in the U.S.A. It summarized the medical breakthrough in vitamin research and heart disease in popular language. Tens of thousands of Americans used this book and other studies on the health benefits of vitamins to convince their political representatives not to give in to the unethical plans of the pharmaceutical industry and the FDA. Newsweek described this fight for free access to vitamins as “the largest movement since the Vietnam war”. Again, the interests of the people prevailed over apparently overwhelming economic interests.

In August, 1994, the US Senate and House of Representatives unanimously passed the Nutritional [Dietary Supplement] Health and Education Act, a monumental law preserving and guaranteeing free access to vitamins and other natural health products. This law did not simply maintain the status quo, it also allows truthful health information in relation to vitamins to be distributed. From a historical point of view, a popular movement of millions of Americans had just inflicted the worst defeat in their history upon the pharmaceutical companies and their interest groups. More importantly, millions of Americans had won a historic victory from which all of mankind will benefit.

Dr. Rath continues:

Unfortunately, the pharmaceutical companies did not give in, even though America, the most powerful country in the world, had started to liberate itself from the yoke of the pharmaceutical interests. Led by the German pharmaceutical companies and under the political auspices of the German government, the international pharmaceutical consortium started its latest offensive. They activated a so-called expert commission of the United Nations with the mysterious name, “Codex Alimentarius.”

The German government had taken precautions in case the activities of this clandestine “Codex” Cartel were revealed prematurely: the presidency of this Codex Commission was assigned to Dr. Somogyi: the head of the German federal agency for consumer protection. The politicians in Bonn were well aware of the explosive power of this commission, and therefore decided to cover up this enterprise as “ consumer protection” in order to deceive the public about the true nature of the “Codex” Cartel.

So there you have it. A German Medical Doctor exposing the true intentions behind CODEX ALIMENTARIUS: to further the economic interests of pharmaceutical companies by way of deception. That should shake awake the nay-sayers among us (or those who are bamboozled by CODEX propaganda here in the U.S.A.).

Folks, what’s happening is that the corrupt players in a corrupt industry are trying to take away our hard-won pro-health law of 1994 (namely DSHEA), and silently replace it with anti-health laws of 2005. It’s been more than 11 years since the victory of DSHEA. They probably assume we are now all too docile to do anything (how else can you explain the sheer audacity of these bills?).

Will we sit back and do nothing?

Or will we, this time armed with the grass-roots organizing power of the Internet, take massive action and protect our laws from becoming cannon fodder in the unwholesome quest for conquest by the profiteers of disease?

The choice belongs to We, the People! You and me.

Yours in Health and Freedom,

Rima E. Laibow, MD
Medical Director
Natural Solutions Foundation

P.S. Feel free to discuss anything I publish on this blog whether you agree or disagree. You can discuss via the commenting system built into the blog page. You are welcome to speak your mind so we can make this a conversational blog and share information between us.

Don’t forget to listen to FREE U.S./FREE US! on Internet Radio at www.FICAA.com every Wednesday, 7 – 8 PM for the latest in health freedom news. Check out the archives, too!

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Treating Our Congressional Offices With Effective Communication

Tuesday, July 26th, 2005

Are you aware that Congress (and Congress’ staff) gets tired of the same-old, same-old just like you do? Your personalized but brief email really counts! When the same letter comes in to a Congressional office with no change at all, over and over, mind-fatigue sets in and the staffers who collate these letters pay less and less attention to them. A terrific study which tells us how to communicate with Congress most effectively gives us an inside track on even more effective communication with Congress. Here’s what works for Congress:

1. Indicate what you want your Congress person to do in a line at the top of your letter in large, bold type. It should say something like, “PROTECT MY HEALTH FREEDOM: OPPOSE HR 3156”.

2. Identify the Natural Solutions Foundation Congress appreciates knowing which grass roots organization you agree with enough to write your letter. Include a sentence at the beginning of the first paragraph like, “I am writing to you at the suggestion of the Natural Solutions Foundation to strongly encourage your opposition to [support of] (bill #)” which would [give a single phrase summary of the bill].

3. Personalize your letter Tell your story briefly, briefly, briefly. State who you are, how old you are and why this is important to you. Briefly. One page, no more!.

4. Do not send regular mail to Congress Use our email engine to send your personalized letter to Congress. Regular mail is decontaminated and therefore delayed and often damaged.

5. Identify yourself as a constituent. Include your name, address and email at the conclusion of your email. Congress does not pay any attention to, or answer, communications from people who are not constituents. If you do not identify yourself as a constituent your email is wasted. Don’t waste your effort and your opinion by omitting this crucial information.

OK! Now that we have the rules of the game set out, what do you do with them? I urgently hope that you will take the time to create an email on each of the following bad bills (and the one good one, too) which are listed here. I assure you that if you value your health or your freedom, or, better yet, both, your time will be well spent. And then, when you have finished, tell everyone you know in your personal and professional circles of influence to join you in keeping America CODEX-FREE and health freedom alive in the US, too. Remember, the email engine allows you to edit what Congress receives. Write your own letter following the above guidelines and the engine will deliver it for you. Thanks for making the effort and taking the time!

Click here to take action on all bills that are intended to take away your health freedom – as well as supporting the one that is intended to promote your health freedom.

Is this asking a lot of you? Five separate letters with thought and personal information attached to each one? Yes, it is. Are your health and health freedom worth a lot to you? If they are not, don’t do as I have asked.

America is being dumbed down and drugged up. If that is OK with you, take the easy way and do nothing. Back when Camel Cigarettes were chic and their deadly effect was still a well kept corporate secret, the slogan was “I’d walk a mile for a Camel!” Turn it on its head: would you walk a mile for your health and that of those you love? Would you type a mile for them? Before this is over you are going to have to do more than that, I am afraid! But if we do not become the Health Freedom Force, we will be the Drug Dealers Delight, a country of needlessly sick and dying people, young an old. Come on! Let’s exercise our democratic muscles and make Congress work for us, not the Bigs!

And don’t forget to listen to FREE U.S./FREE US! Wednesday 7-8 PM Eastern tomorrow, July 27 at www.FICAA.com when our guest will be Dr. Doris Rapp, Environmental Physician Extraordinaire! She tells it like it is and takes no prisoners! Join us tomorrow!

Yours in health and freedom,
Rima E. Laibow, MD
Medical Director
Natural Solutions Foundation

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