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Don’t Donate If You Want Big Pharma To Succeed at Killing Natural Health Options

Tuesday, November 11th, 2008

Recently a reader wrote to me the following,

“Is it true that you charge $19.95 for your Codex eBook (http://www.healthfreedomusa.org/index.php? page_id=205)? I am on a limited income and want information that I do not have to pay for.” MK

Here is my response:

“Yes, there is a charge for our eBooks. But we make huge amounts of information available for free including our Health Freedom Blog (second button on the left on our home page, www.HealthFreedomUSA.org, and our Health Freedom eAlerts.
Every page on the website, and there are thousands of them, is free and if you go to www.NaturalSolutionsMedia.tv or www.Youtube.com/naturalsolutions.com you will find many, many resources.

We want all of our supporters, rich or poor, young or old, to be able to have information, share it with others and take action.

Real Advocates Have Real Expenses

We have real expenses, though, regardless how charitable our intentions are so donations (http://www.healthfreedomusa.org/index.php?page_id=189) are urgently needed.

Let’s fact it: we SHOULD have been at the vitally important meeting in South Africa this month when the Codex Committee on Nutrition and Foods for Special Dietary Uses (CCNFSDU) met earlier this month. We have worked for years to build a coalition of the unwilling, those countries which do not want GMOs in their food supply, especially unlabeled.

We could not attend because we did not have the money to buy the tickets, pay for the hotel rooms, for meals, etc.

So the world of people who want health (and food) freedom lost a great deal.

Small contributions mount up if there are a lot of them. Big contributions help, of course. But if you are able to give even a dollar a month, you should. Go to our home page and click on the “donate” tab and then either use credit cards, pay pal or send a check. But do it.

Most people (that’s 96% of 186,000+) people do not take this responsibility seriously. They they wonder why we cannot do everything they -and we – think needs to be done. Hmmm. Maybe it is because we are understaffed and severely underfunded while the other side has more money than God to accomplish its tasks.

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There is a reason that we ask people to do these things – it is so we can fight the health freedom battle effectively.

Don’t give anything and there won’t be anything to protect your health and your health freedom.

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Silver – Safe, Effective, Dangerous to Big Pharma. Where To Get Silver That Kills H5N1

Tuesday, November 11th, 2008

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.

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 Âµl 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.

References

1. Carr, H., Wlodowski, T., 1973. Department of Microbiology, College of Physicians and Surgeons, Columbia University, New York. Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy. 10:585-587.

2. Fox, C. J. Jr., 1968. Silver sulfadiazine, a new topical therapy for Pseudomonas burns. Arch. Surg. 96:184-188.

3. Fox, C. J., 1969. Control of Pseudomonas infection in burns by Silver Sulfadiazine. Surg.Gynecol. Obstet. 128:1021-1026.

4. U.S. House International Relations Committee, 2005. Written testimony on Black Mold.

5. Illinois Institute of Technology. 2001. Anthrax.

6. Robinson, R., 2003. Bactericidal activity of ASAP Silver Solution on Yersinia Pestis, the etiological agent of plague. Department of Microbiology, Brigham Young University.

7. U.S. House Relations Committee. 2005. Written testimony on Malaria.

8. Hafkine, A., 2003. ASAP antiviral activity in Hepatitis B; DNA Polymerase Inhibition, Reverse Transcriptase Inhibition. Hafkine Institute for Training, Research and Testing.

9. DeSousa, A., Mehta, D., Leavitt, R. W., 2006. Bactericidal activity of combinations of silver-water dispersion with 19 antibiotics against seven microbial strains. Current Science. 91:7- 11.

10. Merck Index, 2006. Silver 1:645.

11. Merck Index, 2006. Silver 1:2082.

12. EPA Research and Development, 1988. Drinking water criteria document for Silver. Office of Health and Environmental Assessment.

13. U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Public Health Service and Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry, 1990. Toxicological profile on Silver.

14. Phalen, R.F. and Morrow P.E., 1973. Experimental Inhalation of Metallic Silver, Health Physics 24: 509-518.

15. Sidwell, R.W., Huffman, J. H., Gilbert, J., Moscon, B. Pederson, G., Burger, R. and Warren, R.W. 1992. Utilization of pulse oximetry for the study of the inhibitory effects of antiviral agents on influenza
virus in mice. Antimicro Agents Chemother 36:473-6.

16. Sidwell, R.W., Huffman, J. H., Call, E.W., Alaghamandan, H., Cook, P.D, and Robins, R.K. 1985. Effect of Selenazofurin on influenza A and B virus infections in mice. Antiviral Res. 6:343-353.

Another theoretical â€œimpossibilityâ€ becomes real by experiment. Water burning? Yes, it can!

Materials Research Innovations, March 2008, Vol 12, 3-5.

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 Â± SD Mean Day 11
SaO2 (% =Â± SD) ASAP- AGX- 32 32ppm 3/3 1.8 2/10 8.9 Â± 1.4 75.4 Â± 1.0
ASAP 10ppm 3/3 1.4 6/10 7.3 Â± 1.0 76.7 Â± 2.1 Ribavirin 75 mg/kg /day 3/3 -0.4 10/10*** >21.0 Â± 0.0*** 86.6 Â± 2.5** * H2O â€” â€” â€” 6/20 8.4 Â± 1.8 76.0 Â± 1.9 Norma l Contro ls â€” 5/5 2.3 â€” â€” 88.8 Â± 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.

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Flu Vaccine Mandate Examined – and Found Wanting

Saturday, November 8th, 2008

Please pass this article along to anyone who thinks that vaccinations, especially mandated vaccinations, are good sense, good health and good public policy.

To learn more, click here (http://www.healthfreedomusa.org/index.php?page_id=699) to order your highly informative Vaccine Exemption eBook.

Vaccines are profitable only when used in large populations. But are they safe? And are they justified either by disease reduction or by in-use cost? The sober answers may surprise you if you are an advocate of vaccines.

Please share this careful analysis of the current vaccination mandates and practices in use nationally (and here examined through the lens of New Jersey vaccine policy, including opposition to conscientious exemption by parents) with everyone who is a vaccine adherent or supporter. Whether you share this important document with your child’s pediatrician, other parents, your local civil rights lawyer or others currently supportive of the unfounded myths that vaccines are safe and effective, please urge them to read this document carefully. Unlike the unthinking parroting or slick “junk science” praise of the supposed merits of vaccines and vaccinations, this article takes the allegations of safety and social use for vaccines on point by point and examines each of them using science and logic, not emotion, to look at each of the points raised by the Department of Health and Senior Services in New Jersey to justify their staunch opposition to allowing exemptions to vaccination on the basis of conscience.

The result is a very important article Dr Dr. King, a consultant who examines pharmaceutical options and evaluates them. Please reproduce it and send it electronically or in hard copy to everyone concerned, either pro, con or undecided, with the vaccination debate, including State legislators and Federal ones as well. And remember, these issues are NOT just about children. They are about vaccines and freedom concerning each and every one of us. Remember that on July 23 and 24, 2008, respectively, the Department of Health and Human Services and the Department of Homeland Security announced that their intention was to vaccinate every man, woman and child in America against Avian Flu, “…starting with those who want it.”

Vaccines and freedom can only co-exist if their use is totally voluntary. Anyone determining what you -or your children MUST – allow to be introduced into your body is abridging your freedom so deeply that you literally have none since if your autonomy does not include what happens to your body, your autonomy no longer exists.

The article is a detailed review of the response of the NJ Department of Health and Senior Services (DHSS) to the possibility of a law offering conscientious exemption opportunities to parents and others who do not wish to participate in vaccine programs.

The Natural Solutions Foundation takes the issue of vaccine safety very seriously. And it takes the issue of health freedom and vaccine autonomy equally seriously. We know you do, too. If you find the following article useful, please donate (http://www.healthfreedomusa.org/index.php?page_id=189) generously to help us keep on keeping health freedom free.

Yours in health and freedom,
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‘The Position of the New Jersey Department of Health and Senior Services (NJ DHSS) on: The Pending New Jersey Conscientious Exemption Legislation’ (NOTE: ALL RESPONSES OF THE DHSS ARE IN BOLD FACE IN THE FOLLOWING REVIEW OF THEIR POSITION ON THIS LEGISLATION – REL)

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Should anyone reading this draft find any significant factual error for which you have published substantiating documents, please submit that information to this reviewer so that he can improve his understanding of factual reality and appropriately revise his views and the final review.

A Draft Response To: “The Position of the New Jersey Department of Health and Senior Services (NJ DHHS) on: The Pending New Jersey Conscientious Exemption Legislation”, as transcribed by the reviewer, Paul G. King, PhD, on 5 November 2008 â€¦.

This response to the NJ DHSS’ position on NJ S1071 addresses the “genuine concern” side for the safety and effectiveness of NJ’s mandated vaccination program as well as the observed impacts of the conscientious and/or philosophical exemptions on the observed background rates for some vaccine-covered diseases in the 18 states with such exemptions as compared to the USA as a whole.

Thus, this response presents factual information that exposes the weaknesses in, and/or the apparent problems with, the broad generalizations made in the NJ DHSS’ position statement.

Lest any take this reviewer’s remarks as those of someone who is anti-vaccine, this reviewer again reiterates that, given the scientific information available to him, he currently supports national vaccination programs for those vaccines that have truly been proven to be both generally safe and at least societaly cost-effective, provided the individual parent’s constitutional right to “due process of law” is not abridged or ignored.

Having made his position as an advocate for:
a. Banning the use of mercury compounds in medicine to safen vaccines,
b. Vaccine safety, and
c. Societaly cost-effective vaccines
clear, this reviewer will now assess the statements made in: “The Position of the New Jersey Department of Health and Senior Services (NJ DHHS) on: The Pending New Jersey Conscientious Exemption Legislation”.

S1071 – Conscientious Exemption to Mandatory Immunizations

The New Jersey Department of Health and Senior Services is opposed to S1071, which provides for a conscientious exemption to mandatory immunizations.

Obviously, the NJ DHHS has made it clear that it “is opposed to S1071” and A260, legislation to provide New Jersey citizens with a limited conscientious exemption to New Jersey’s mandated vaccination programs.

Public health care and medical communities consider vaccinations one of the most important measures in improving the public’s health over the past 100 years.

While there is no dispute that “(p)ublic health care and medical communities consider vaccinations one of the most important measures in improving the public’s health over the past 100 years”, the facts are that, in the industrialized world, vaccines have been a <10% factor in the reduction of the common contagious diseases (where sanitation, hygiene, clean water, safe food, adequate housing account for 90-plus % of the decrease in childhood diseases before vaccines were mandated). Moreover, in less developed countries (e.g., India), repeated vaccination campaigns for diseases such as polio have failed to provide the reductions in polio cases and/or the "elimination" of polio seen in the USA and other industrialized nations). Currently, the evidence in today's USA is: our current vaccination programs have succeeded in reducing several acute childhood diseases and, increasingly, some other diseases - at the cost of creating epidemics of chronic disorders, syndromes and diseases that have a strong autoimmune/immune-system-disruption component (e.g., asthma, type 2 diabetes, childhood MS, neurodevelopmental disorders, and food allergies). Yet most of those "(p)ublic health care and medical communities" continue to: Â· Deny the preceding realities, Â· Actively suppress the scientific research establishing these realities, Â· Attack the character and credibility of those independent scientists who dare to publish the truth about these health realities, and Â· Publish articles: a) which are based on "junk" science, b) which use knowingly "perverted" study de- signs, or c) which rely upon easily manipulated epidemiological reviews where independent access to the data sets used is blocked or the data sets are "lost" - preventing independent researchers from verifying the soundness of the: Â· Data sets evaluated, Â· Study designs used, Â· Results reported, and/or Â· Conclusions drawn from those findings. New Jersey has historically only permitted religious and medical exemptions to school entry vaccine requirements.

Here, the NJ DHSS states what has been the New Jersey history without addressing the reality that an exemption for a “sincerely held religious belief” is: a) in essence, a “conscientious” exemption for those who adhere to any religion and b), therefore, an exemption that discriminates against those who are religiously agnostic or atheists – a probable violation of the equal protection guarantees for all Americans.

Were the State of New Jersey to enact this statute, which provides a general conscientious (philosophical) exemption, this statute would end this seemingly illegal form of discrimination.

Broad exemptions to mandatory vaccination weaken the entire compliance and enforcement structure mandating vaccines for school entry and continued attendance.

First, taking this statement at face value, the NJ DHSS is advocating for a position that borders on a
health dictatorship where the “health police” and not the constitutions of the United States of America (USA) and the State of New Jersey control the lives of New Jersey citizens.

Thus, the NJ DHSS appears to be advocating for a society in which the rights to bodily integrity and
informed consent are either non-existent or trampled under by the health care establishment for a “greater good” that essentially benefits the healthcare establishment and ignores the physical, financial, mental and spiritual health of the public that it claims to protect.

Given the wording used, “weaken the entire compliance and enforcement structure”, the NJ DHSS is apparently more concerned about strengthening their control over our children than it is about the overall and individual health of our children.

Second, in other “democratic” nations (e.g., Canada, UK, and Japan), high rates of vaccination compliance have been attained and, provided less-safe vaccines have not been knowingly supplied (e.g., the less expensive MMR vaccine the UK used even though it contained the dangerous Urabe strain of the mumps), these rates have been maintained without any need for general mandatory vaccination programs for their citizens.

Moreover, the flexible Japanese approach to vaccines and vaccination programs has been so successful that the first-year infant mortality rate (IMR) in Japan (2.80 deaths per 1,000 “live births” [all values are CIA 2008 estimates]) is less than half the IMR in the USA (6.30 deaths per 1,000 live births [IMR-UK = 4.93; IMR-Canada = 6.08]), and significantly, chronic childhood disorders and diseases (e.g., childhood asthma, childhood type 2 diabetes, childhood obesity) are not at the epidemic levels seen in the USA.

In fact, on average, the Japanese life expectancy is 4 years longer than the average life expectancy in the USA and, unlike the USA, the life expectancy in Japan is not beginning to decline.

Finally, in the 18 states with a general conscientious/philosophical exemption to vaccination, there is no substantiation of the claim that having “(b)road exemptions to mandatory vaccination” has greatly reduced vaccine uptake rates or led to higher average background disease rates for those vaccines that are apparently safe and at least societally cost-effective in actuality.

If vaccination requirements can be waived by a parent, one may argue that this dissolution sets precedent for other mandatory health screenings (e.g., hearing, lead, tuberculosis) or services to become optional.

In a democratic society that recognizes bodily integrity as a fundamental right, there should be no mandatory health screenings or services unless these is a compelling actual “communicable disease outbreak” reason for such and, even in such instances (e.g., a TB outbreak in a school), the parents should be given the choice of a non-invasive alternative (e.g., a chest x-ray for the TB example) or a definitive blood test (and, in this example, the cheap but problematic and, for some, medically dangerous TINE test should be banned).

Currently, the religious exemption already provides a means by which “vaccination requirements can be waived by a parent”.

Finally, since when is a person’s exercise of any granted legal option a “dissolution” of anything?

No highly or densely populated states in the Eastern United States permit a philosophical exemption to school vaccination requirements.

First, the states with an children-of-all-ages conscientious (philosophical) exemption are (in alphabetical order): 1) Arizona, 2) Arkansas, 3) California, 4) Colorado, 5) Idaho, 6) Louisiana, 7) Maine, 8) Michigan, 9) Minnesota, 10) New Mexico, 11) North Dakota, 12) Ohio, 13) Oklahoma, 14) Texas, 15) Utah, 16) Vermont, 17) Washington State, and 18) Wisconsin.

In addition, Missouri and Nebraska have a conscientious/philosophical exemption for child care entry only.

Though only 5 states [Maine, Michigan, Ohio, Vermont and Wisconsin] of the 18 provide a full “philosophical exemption” in the Eastern United States, one could argue that one of them, Ohio [11.5 million], which has a population one-third larger than New Jersey [8.7 million], is a “highly or densely populated state”.

However, California, the most populous state [36.5 million], and Texas, the second most populous state [23.9 million], both have philosophical exemptions with no evidence of a significant excess of disease cases in children for those vaccines that are vaccines against the disease (e.g., measles, mumps, rubella, polio, hepatitis B) or for vaccines against bacterial toxoids and/or toxins (the diphtheria and tetanus toxoid components and the toxic substances in the acellular pertussis preparations) in the diphtheria, pertussis and tetanus combination vaccines (see Table “1” in the published article or the abbreviated version that follows).

[Note: The cases data was taken from the Florida Department of Health’s April 2008 “Task Force Requests to the Florida Department of Health” report to the Florida Governor’s Task Force on
Autism Spectrum Disorders. The population numbers used are based on the published population data at: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_U.S._states_by_population.]

Abbreviated Table “1”: 2006 Comparison of Vaccine-Preventable Disease Cases, Among States with Philosophical Exemptions for Immunizations, Florida andU.S.

State Measles* Mumps** Rubella*
or USA (incidence/ 100,000) (incidence/ 100,000) (incidence/ 100,000)

——— ———————– ———————- ———————-
Arizona 0 40 (0.63) 0

Arkansas 0 8 (0.28) 0

California 6 (0.016) 31 (0.085) 1 (0.003)
[12% of US]
%of US Total 10.9 0.471 9.09
[% of 12%] [90.9] [3.93] [75.8]

Colorado 1 (0.021) 51 (1.04) 0

Idaho 0 7 (0.47) 0

Louisiana 0 3 (0.07) 0

Maine 0 0 0

Michigan 1 (0.001) 84 (0.079) 1 (0.001)

Minnesota 1 (0.019) 180 (3.46) 0

New Mexico 0 3 (0.152) 0

North Dakota 0 14 (2.19) 0

Ohio 0 45 (0.392) 0

Oklahoma 0 10 (0.276) 0

Texas 0 58 (0.243) 0
[7.8% of US]
% of US total 0.88%
[% of 7.8%] [11.4%]

Utah 0 5 (0.189) 0

Vermont 0 0 0

Washington 2 (0.031) 42 (0.649) 0
State

Wisconsin 0 842 (15.0) 0

Total of 18
states 11 (0.008) 1,423 (1.09) 2 (0.0015)
% of US Total 20.0 21.6 18.2
[% of 36%] [55.6] [60.0] [50.5]
{% of 42.5% {47.1} {50.8} {42.8}
est. pop % of the 18 states}

Florida 4 (0.022) 15 (0.082) 1 (0.005)
[6% of US]
% of US Total 7.3 0.23 9.1
[% of 6%] [122] [3.8] [152]

U.S. Total 55 (0.180) 6,584 (2.15) 11 (0.004)

* Confirmed Cases **Confirmed and Probable Cases

In contrast, Florida, the fourth most populous state and one that has no philosophical exemption, shows some evidence that not having a philosophical exemption has led to more than expected cases of measles and rubella cases but a less than expected mumps and pertussis cases (two diseases not well-controlled by the vaccines [the MMR and DTaP/Tdap vaccines] containing components for these two diseases).

Thus, for those diseases well-controlled by their vaccines and for which low levels of cases are still
being reported, it would seem that the states with “philosophical exemptions” have, on average, a lower disease incidence rate than: a) the overall average for the USA and b) the rate for Florida, the fourth most populous state.

Thus, the two most populous states as well as 16 other states have a conscientious/philosophical exemption and less than expected disease levels for those diseases that are well-controlled by vaccines.

Therefore, based on the preceding realities, every state should have a conscientious/philosophical
exemption.

Moreover, like New Jersey, the citizens of New York, the third most populous state [19.3 million], are
also seeking legislation providing this exemption to its citizens.

Based on all of the preceding realities, the evidence favors having a “philosophical exemption” in New Jersey, the eleventh most populous state [8.7 million].

New Jersey has numerous characteristics that make it particularly vulnerable to vaccine-preventable disease, which include a high population density, past history of multiple vaccine-preventable disease outbreaks affecting children, a highly mobile population, high numbers of recently arrived immigrants, and its “corridor state” nature.

As long as there is good sanitation, hygiene (including personal hygiene and hot-water washing for soiled undergarments and bedding), clean air, clean water, and adequate nutrition and housing, none of the cited factors make New Jersey “particularly vulnerable to vaccine-preventable disease”.

When it comes to high population density, the much higher population density in Japan, a nation with less than half the infant mortality as the USA, clearly shows that this factor is not significant unless the aforementioned basics are compromised.

Since there is no post-vaccine-adoption history of any vaccine-preventable epidemic in New Jersey for any disease for which the current mandated vaccine is truly long-term protective, localized sporadic disease outbreaks are:
Â· A red herring or
Â· A clear indication that the available vaccines are
not in-use effective in some instances.

Since:
Â· There are other states, including California and Texas (the two most populous states) that have a
“philosophical exemption” and “a highly mobile population” and a “high numbers of recently arrived immigrants” (including much larger numbers of illegal immigrants),
Â· Three of these 18 states, Arizona, California, and Texas, are also conscientious/ philosophical exemption states that are also corridor states for the majority of illegal immigrants entering the USA,
and
Â· None of these states have overall disease rate averages (for those diseases that are truly vaccine-preventable diseases) that are significantly higher than the overall rates for the USA, all of these factors are “red herrings” in today’s USA.

Particularly in light of New Jersey’s special traits, the highest number of children possible must receive vaccines to protect them and others.

Given the data for the states that have conscientious/philosophical exemption and special factors similar to those raised in this NJ DHSS statement, the data do not:
Â· Support the NJ DHSS’ assertion that “the highest number of children possible must receive vaccines”,
or
Â· Provide evidence that the mandated vaccines “protect” the implicit children who receive these vaccines or the unidentified “others”.

Vaccines not only protect the child being vaccinated but also the general community and the most vulnerable individuals within the community, including those too young to be vaccinated, the elderly, the immunocompromised, and those who have medical contraindications to vaccination – this fact is well-documented in scientific literature.

The NJ DHSS’ unsupported assertion that “Vaccines not only protect the child being vaccinated but also the general community and the most vulnerable individuals within the community”, is at odds with the reality that inoculation of children with the currently recommended live-virus vaccine components (measles, mumps, rubella, herpes varicella zoster, 3 bioengineered strains of human influenza, and 5 strains of human-cow hybridized rotavirus or a human rotavirus) puts all of the uninoculated and unprotected individuals with whom these recent inoculees have contact at risk of contacting these viral diseases that those inoculated shed after they are inoculated.

For example, although the CDC asserts that all children become “immune” to the human rota virus by the time they are five years of age, the studies on the human-hybrid rota virus reported that up to one-third of “supposedly rota virus-immune” adults who come into contact with a child recently inoculated with this rota virus vaccine (Merck’s RotaTeqÂ®) may contract a case of rota virus – a possibility that some parents have reported experiencing as an all-too-real reality.

Moreover, the use of vaccines that clearly do not protect the children inoculated (the influenza vaccines that offer no real protection to children under 2 years of age and marginal protection to children under 5 years of age) based on a claim that this practice will protect the elderly is not only not supported by the published science on the epidemiology of human influenza but also, if it were true, would amount to an abnormal society where, to “protect” the health of the elderly:
Â· Children are knowingly put at risk (see the influenza-vaccine-related adverse events, including death, seen for all influenza vaccine formulations, that are reported in the Vaccine Adverse Events Reporting System (VAERS) database) and
Â· The healthcare establishment supports the knowing mercury poisoning of children, which clearly occurs when Thimerosal-preserved influenza vaccines are given to children, pregnant women and nursing mothers and probably occurs when any Thimerosal-containing influenza vaccine is given to pregnant women and/or children because, though the safe dose for Thimerosal in any vaccine has never been established:
Â· Mercury poisoning has been established in young children who have been given toxic doses of
Thimerosal-preserved serums and/or vaccines, indirectly (in the womb) and directly (in early
childhood), and have subsequently been diagnosed with a neurodevelopmental disorder in the autism spectrum [1] where the mercury bolus doses from the serums and vaccines represent not less than
50% of the mercury dose received by an effected child from conception to age 3, and
Â· Persistent Thimerosal-derived mercury toxicity has been seen in monkeys [2] (and other mercury-sensitive animals [3]) given just the doses of Thimerosal or one of its ethyl mercury metabolites that, in some instances, mimicked the Thimerosal doses that children given Thimerosal-preserved vaccines at 2, 4 and 6 months would receive under the vaccination schedules recommended in the USA from 1999 through 2001.

Finally, for influenza, the epidemiological evidence is that human influenza viruses are neither highly contagious [4] nor, as discussed in the same reference, easily transmitted from those infected to those who are well – even in close communal groups, including families.

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b. Geier DA, Mumper E, Gladfelter B, Coleman L, Geier MR. Neurodevelopmental disorders, maternal
Rh-negativity, and Rho(D) immune globulins: a multi-center assessment. Neuro Endocrinol Lett.
2008 Apr; 29(2): 272-280.
c. Nataf R, et al. Poryphyrinuria in childhood autistic disorder: implications for environmental
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e. Young HA, Geier DA, Geier MR. Thimerosal exposure in infants and neurodevelopmental disorders: an assessment of computerized medical records in the Vaccine Safety Datalink. J Neurol Sci. 2008 Aug 15; 271(1-2): 110-118. Epub 2008 May 15.
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[4] Cannell JJ, Zasloff M, Garland CF, Scragg R, Giovannucci E. On the epidemiology of influenza.
Virol J. 2008 Feb 25; 5: 29. [Among the issues this paper addresses, this recent electronically published review article reports the lack of high sick-to-well infectivity for human influenza.]

As an example, in a Journal of the American Medical Association study published in 2000, investigators found that children who did not receive measles and pertussis vaccines for philosophical or religious reasons were 22 times more likely to contract measles and 6 times more likely to get pertussis; also, schools with higher numbers of exempted children were associated with more outbreaks that had community wide-implications.

First, the referenced, but not cited, article’s text appears to be more self-serving propaganda than it is important information because the locations, time periods, and diseases chosen seem to have been knowingly chosen to result in the preordained outcomes that the study was “designed” to find.

Second, the locations in which the researchers at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) chose to do this study (in some counties in Colorado) were areas with relatively small populations as compared to the population of the USA (some percentage of Colorado’s population that overall is only about 1% of the population of the USA) that were/are not representative of the population of the USA or the U.S. population’s overall risks of contracting “vaccine-preventable” diseases.

Though the NJ DHSS fails to cite the study reference, based on a search of “PubMeD”
(http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sites/entrez), the abstract of the study apparently referenced states (with CAPITALIZATION added for emphasis):

“1: JAMA. 2000 Dec 27;284(24):3145-50. Links Comment in:
JAMA. 2000 Dec 27;284(24):3171-3.
JAMA. 2001 Mar 28;285(12):1573-4.
JAMA. 2001 Mar 28;285(12):1573; author reply 1574.

Individual and community risks of measles and pertussis associated with personal exemptions to immunization. Feikin DR, Lezotte DC, Hamman RF, Salmon DA, Chen RT, Hoffman RE. Respiratory Diseases Branch, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 1600 Clifton Rd, MS-C23,
Atlanta, GA 30333, USA. drf0@cdc.gov

CONTEXT: The risk of vaccine-preventable diseases among children who have philosophical and religious exemptions from immunization has been understudied. OBJECTIVES: To evaluate whether personal exemption from immunization is associated with risk of measles and pertussis at individual and community levels. DESIGN, SETTING, AND PARTICIPANTS: Population-based, RETROSPECTIVE COHORT STUDY USING DATA COLLECTED on standardized forms REGARDING ALL REPORTED MEASLES AND PERTUSSIS CASES AMONG CHILDREN AGED 3 TO 18 YEARS IN COLORADO DURING 1987-1998.

MAIN OUTCOME MEASURES: Relative risk of measles and pertussis among exemptors and vaccinated children; association between incidence rates among vaccinated children and frequency of exemptors in Colorado counties; association between school outbreaks and frequency of exemptors in schools; and risk associated with exposure to an exemptor in measles outbreaks. RESULTS: Exemptors were 22.2 times (95% confidence interval [CI], 15.9-31.1) more likely to acquire measles and 5.9 times (95% CI, 4.2-8.2) more likely to acquire pertussis than vaccinated children. AFTER ADJUSTING FOR CONFOUNDERS, THE FREQUENCY OF EXEMPTORS IN A COUNTY WAS ASSOCIATED WITH THE INCIDENCE RATE OF MEASLES (RELATIVE RISK [RR], 1.6; 95% CI, 1.0-2.4) AND PERTUSSIS (RR, 1.9; 95% CI, 1.7-2.1) IN VACCINATED CHILDREN. Schools with pertussis outbreaks had more exemptors (mean, 4.3% of students) than schools without outbreaks (1.5% of students; P =.001). AT LEAST 11% OF VACCINATED CHILDREN IN MEASLES OUTBREAKS ACQUIRED INFECTION THROUGH CONTACT WITH AN EXEMPTOR. CONCLUSIONS: The risk of measles and pertussis is elevated in personal exemptors. Public health personnel should recognize the potential effect of exemptors in outbreaks in their communities, and parents should be made aware of the risks involved in not vaccinating their children.”

Apparently, since none were reported, there were no severe adverse outcomes in any group of children based on the reported 2006 data.

In addition, though this study did report these relative risks for disease as: “Exemptors were 22.2 times (95% confidence interval [CI], 15.9-31.1) more likely to acquire measles and 5.9 times (95% CI, 4.2-8.2) more likely to acquire pertussis than vaccinated children.” it also reported: “After adjusting for confounders, the frequency of exemptors in a county was associated with the incidence rate of measles (relative risk [RR], 1.6; 95% CI, 1.0-2.4) and pertussis (RR, 1.9; 95% CI, 1.7-2.1) in vaccinated children”, indicating that, after the confounding factors were removed, neither of these relative risks was statistically significant (requiring a RR of 2.0 or larger) and, because no other diseases were mentioned, there was no “exemption” effect for the other diseases covered by the MMR vaccine (mumps and rubella) or the DTaP vaccine (diphtheria and tetanus).

Though not mentioned by the NJ DHSS here, the most important fact in this article was: “At least 11% of vaccinated children in measles outbreaks acquired infection through contact with an exemptor” – indicating that, unlike having the measles once, the MMR vaccine is not effective in protecting all those given the MMR vaccine from subsequently contracting measles when exposed to the measles virus.

In the final analysis, there was/is really no statistically significant risk associated with exemptors (religious and medical) and, apparently, the CDC had/has no interest in conducting such studies in the more populous, densely populated, highly mobile, “corridor” states like New Jersey.

All vaccines currently licensed in the United States are safe and effective.

First, the NJ DHSS neither provides nor cites any studies that establish the validity of the preceding
statement.

Second, as cited in previous reviews [5], there is a large and growing body of evidence that some of the current FDA-licensed vaccines are neither truly population safe nor, in some cases, in-use effective even when the effectiveness criterion is loosened to only require that the vaccine be societally cost-effective including:

[5] These reviews are freely available for download from the “Documents” web page of the CoMeD Internet website: http://www.mercury-freedrugs.org/. For example, the most recent 2-part review, “A Draft Review of: ‘Florida Governor’ Task Force on Autism Spectrum Disorders- Task Force Requests to the Florida DoH’, Part 1 (17 October 2008; 68 pages)” and “A Draft Review of: ‘Florida Governor’ Task Force on Autism Spectrum Disorders- Task Force Requests to the Florida DoH’, Part 2 (17 October 2008; 77 pages)” [along with the report that was reviewed, “Florida’s Governor’s Task Force on Autism Spectrum Disorders – Task Force Requests to the Florida DoH (16 Sept. 2008; 49 pages)”], contains a detailed analysis of the current childhood vaccination programs that dispassionately assesses the in-use medical cost-effectiveness of the current vaccines and their associated vaccination programs.

The Current Recommended National Human Influenza Vaccination Program

Published studies have clearly established that the influenza vaccination program is not in-use effective in children, adults and the elderly for a variety of reasons.

Moreover, the majority (greater than 75 %) of the available doses contain a level of Thimerosal that has not been proven safe to administer to either children or adults.

Therefore:
Â· New Jersey’s mandate for vaccination of young children should be rescinded,
Â· The current recommended national program for influenza should be abandoned,
Â· The human influenza vaccines should be removed from the list of vaccines covered by the National Vaccine Injury Compensation Program (NVICP), and
Â· All petitions filed with the NVICP from the time the influenza vaccines were added to the list of compensable vaccines until 3 years after the vaccine was recognized to be not effective and removed from the national vaccination program should be automatically paid, with the government assessing the manufacturer of the putative causal human influenza vaccine for the costs of that compensation because the human influenza vaccines are not effective drugs.

The Current Recommended National Herpes Varicella Zoster Vaccination Program

Since:
Â· The recommendations for a national varicella vaccination program were based on an unfulfilled promise of marginal societal cost-effectiveness PROVIDED: a) one dose would produce lifetime protection, b) the vaccine was assumed to cause no serious side effects, and c) the vaccination program would not increase shingles cases,
Â· The CDC is now recommending 2 doses because one dose has failed to control “wild” chickenpox cases,
Â· Shingles cases in both children and adults have increased and
Â· The vaccine has not only the highest level of VAERS- reported adverse side effects of any single-component vaccine but has also been shown to cause serious conditions in some who are vaccinated, it is obvious that the chickenpox vaccination program is not societally cost effective.

Thus,
Â· The recommendation for inclusion of “varicella” (chickenpox) in the national vaccination program should be rescinded,
Â· New Jersey should remove it from its list of mandated vaccines for children,
Â· Varicella should be removed from the list of NVICP-covered vaccines, and
Â· All petitions filed with the NVICP from the time the varicella vaccine was added to the list of compensable vaccines until 3 years after the vaccine was recognized to be not societally cost-effective and removed from the national vaccination program should be automatically paid, with the government assessing the manufacturer of the varicella vaccines for the costs of that
compensation because, though all drugs, including vaccines, are required to be by U.S. law to be both safe and effective, the varicella vaccines are not effective.

The Current Recommended National Rotavirus Vaccination Program

Because:
Â· The current rota virus vaccination programs have not significantly reduced the risk of severe adverse
effects (intussusception, Kawasaki’s, and pneumonia) in the inoculees as compared to the unvaccinated,
Â· The vaccines are live virus vaccines that not only infect those inoculated but also, at a high rate,
those who come into contact with recent inoculees or their fecal waste and
Â· The costs of the vaccine and its administration greatly exceed the societal cost-effectiveness
level established in the 1990s even after correcting for inflation, it is obvious that the rota virus vaccination programs are not societally cost-effective in the USA.

Thus,
Â· The recommendation for inclusion of rotavirus in the national vaccination program should be rescinded and rota virus removed from the list of NVICP-covered vaccines,
Â· New Jersey should not add rotavirus to its list of mandated vaccines, and
Â· All petitions filed with the NVICP from the time the rota virus vaccine was added to the list of
compensable vaccines until 3 years after the vaccine was recognized to be not societally cost-effective and removed from the national vaccination program should be automatically paid, with
the government assessing the manufacturer of the offending rota virus for the costs of that compensation because, though required by law to be both safe and effective, the rota virus vaccines are clearly not in-use effective.

At best, all that the rota virus vaccines do is give clinical cases of the rota virus strains in the vaccines to those inoculated with no significant reduction in either the number or severity of cases of
rota virus compared to the unvaccinated population, even in the carefully contrived clinical trials where the lack of reduction in life-threatening outcomes in the vaccine arm over the unvaccinated arm was perversely turned into positive because, although some of those inoculated had these life-threatening side effects, the elevation in their level was not statistically significant.

Thus, the licensing and approval of the human-bovine rota virus vaccine rests on a knowing perversion of the reality that, to be effective, the vaccine should have produced a statistically significant reduction in the level of cases for these life-threatening adverse effects.

However, like the previous vaccine, Wyeth’s RotaShieldÂ®, the current live-virus rotavirus vaccines, Merck’s RotaTeqÂ® and GlaxoSmithKline’s RotarixÂ® did not significantly reduce the incidence of the following life-threatening adverse outcomes:
Â· Intussusception (for either of these vaccines).
Â· Kawasiki’s [6] (for the RotaTeq vaccine), or
Â· Pneumonia (for the Rotarix vaccine,
even though the test populations for the Phase 3 clinical trials were selected to be in areas where the back-ground rate of disease was significant to mask the level of harm caused by vaccination so that it would not produce a statistically significant increase in life-threatening outcomes.

[6] Geier DA, King PG, Sykes LK, Geier MR. RotaTeq vaccine adverse events and policy considerations.
Med Sci Monit. 2008 Mar; 14(3): PH9-PH16.

The Current Recommended National Vaccination Programs For Other Vaccines

For discussions of other vaccines, the reader should study the prior applicable posts on the
CoMeD website: http://www.mercury-freedrugs.org/.

The Department only mandates vaccines licensed by the FDA and recommended for universal use by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC) Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices, American Academy of Pediatrics, and other government and professional organizations.

While the preceding states what the NJ DHSS is doing vis-Ã -vis setting vaccination mandates, one should note that these actions are seemingly at odds with the NJ DHSS’ constitutional duty to only support the use of preventive medicines, including vaccines, that are proven to be effective in protecting the health of New Jersey citizens – a duty that the NJ DHSS and elected state officials, including the governor, have obviously failed to discharge in those instances where vaccines, which have been proven to be in-use ineffective, are being mandated for New Jersey’s children.

The Department, medical experts and practitioners believe that using available vaccines is highly preferable to control individual cases and outbreaks of vaccine-preventable diseases.

Here, it is unambiguous that the “Department, medical experts and practitioners believe” in what they are doing.

Unfortunately, public health policy should not be based on what the NJ DHSS, “medical experts and
practitioners believe”.

Public health policy should only be based on proof that the mandated vaccines are safe and in-use cost-effective when all the costs (including the costs of the adverse events associated with the vaccination program for them) are accurately assessed and included.

Thus, the NJ DHSS should:
Â· Abandon its unsupported belief-based policies, which have elevated vaccination to quasi-religious prominence, and
Â· Return to mandating only those vaccines that, based on in-use outcomes that include the costs
of the adverse reactions to a given vaccine or vaccine component and the need for “boosters” and their risks, are proven safe and at least in-use societally cost-effective for New Jersey’s children.

For many of these diseases, effective therapies are not available to treat sick individuals or are ineffective when given at the time of diagnosis.

Since the mandated childhood vaccines are supposedly intended to “protect against” “native” diseases by giving the children:
Â· “Weakened” strains of the disease (e.g., the live-virus measles, mumps, rubella, varicella,
rotavirus and influenza vaccines),
Â· Inactivated strains of the disease (e.g., the inactivated-virus polio and influenza vaccines),
Â· Manufactured components derived from superficial components of the disease organisms (e.g., the hepatitis B, hepatitis A, meningococcal, pneumo-coccal, and HPV vaccines), or
Â· The modified toxins (“toxoids”) or toxic components produced by the disease (e.g., the diphtheria, tetanus, and pertussis vaccines), the NJ DHSS’ broad “(f)or many diseases” generalization here is, at best, problematic.

Moreover, for those diseases for which the available preventive vaccines have not been shown to be
truly in-use cost-effective, it is wrong to waste public health dollars vaccinating our children because, at best, the vaccine only postpones the age at which our children contract the disease – a move that, for some of the contagious viral childhood diseases, only increases the probable severity of the disease as well as the costs to treat that disease in those instances where our children finally contract that disease.

In addition, the NJ DHSS’ statement ignores:
Â· The potential long-harm to our children’s developing immune system that injecting them with
vaccines containing not only the disease-related components but also other immune-system-reactive components may cause in some of those injected,and
Â· The long-term immune-system imbalance that occurs when our developing children are abnormally exposed to disease components by injection rather than by the “natural” exposure routes.

Furthermore, though it is clear that aluminum-based adjuvants may over-stimulate the macrophagic portion of the immune system and, for some, lead to autoimmune disorders and increased susceptibility to some chronic medical conditions, vaccine formulations containing such aluminum-based adjuvants (or other adjuvants that are known to be capable of causing immune-system dysfunction) continue to be approved when, by increasing the level of the disease-related antigens or making other formulation changes, it is, or should be, possible to make an effective vaccine without adding any adjuvant.

Finally, even though the vaccine makers have, as the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and the vaccine makers have repeatedly admitted [7], failed to prove that the Thimerosal in Thimerosal-preserved vaccines is safe to the explicit “sufficiently nontoxic â€¦” standard required by law in 21 C.F.R. Â§610.15(a) and such Thimerosal-preserved drugs are “deemed adulterated” drugs under 21 U.S.C. Â§351(a)(2)(B), the FDA and the vaccine makers have colluded to continue to approve and market these adulterated vaccines to the American public.

[7] Subcommittee on Human Rights and Wellness, Committee on Government Reform of the House of Representatives, “Mercury in Medicine Report – Taking Unnecessary Risks,” Washington, DC, as published in the Congressional Record, pgs. E1011- E1030, May 21, 2003.

Thus, the NJ DHSS’ decision to be an active party to the preceding collusive actions that expose our children to adulterated vaccines is particularly egregious in the case of the inactivated influenza
vaccines given to our children, where:
Â· Several publications, including: Geier DA, King PG, Geier MR. Influenza Vaccine: Review of
Effectiveness of the U.S. Immunization Program, and Policy Considerations, Journal of American
Physicians and Surgeons, 2006 Fall; 11: 69-74, have established that the influenza vaccines are
not in-use effective,
Â· Several studies have clearly established that Thimerosal is not an effective preservative in
any vaccine formulations that contains proteins or other sulfur-containing compounds,
Â· More than a dozen recent studies have established that injection of Thimerosal-preserved vaccines mercury poisons all of those injected to varying degrees,
Â· Most of the available doses of these inactivated influenza vaccines are still unnecessarily pre-
served with Thimerosal or contain a lower level of Thimerosal that has been proven to be toxic to
our children, and, worse,
Â· Studies have shown that daily supplementation with vitamin D-3 [8] apparently protects almost all
adults who take daily 2000-IU vitamin D-3 supplements during the influenza season against most all
strains of influenza while, at best, the current influenza vaccines only provide limited protection:
Â· For a few of the probable circulating influenza virus strains,
Â· To only some of those inoculated with them.

[8] Preventive dietary supplementation with vitamin D-3 (1,000 to 5,000 IU per day depending on the child’s or adult’s size, skin color, age, sun exposure, and overall health) has been proven to protect against contracting all strains of human influenza (while the vaccines, at best, only protect against a few strains of influenza) as well as to have other health benefits. [Note: The short-duration administration of high-doses of vitamin D-3 (ca. 50,000 IU per day) has also been shown to be effective in treating influenza cases. References: a. Cannell JJ, Hollis BW. Use of vitamin D in clinical practice. Altern Med Rev. 2008 Mar; 13(1): 6-20. b. Cannell JJ, Vieth R, Umhau JC, Holick MF, Grant WB, Madronich S, Garland CF, Giovannucci E. Epidemic influenza and vitamin D. Epidemiol Infect. 2006 Dec; 134(6): 1129-1140.]

Thus:
q IF the NJ DHSS were truly interested in preventing cases of influenza, as this statement asserts,
q THEN the NJ DHSS would be mandating that all children and the elderly be: a) appropriately tested for their level of vitamin D-3 and b), based on the test results, given an appropriate added daily dose of vitamin D-3 during the “flu” season, which the NJ DHSS would then supply for each child whose family could not afford the cost.

Though diseases still occur among the vaccinated, many more vaccine-preventable illnesses would occur if fewer persons were vaccinated.

Here, the NJ DHSS’ statement is a classic example of Orwellian doublespeak – a statement that begins with a muted truth, “diseases still occur among the vaccinated” – which embodies the reality that even multiple doses of the current vaccines do not provide either short-term or long-protection to all those who have been vaccinated against contracting these diseases when those fully (multiply) vaccinated with them are exposed to the actual disease – and connects that truth to an unclear statement, “many more vaccine-preventable illnesses would occur if fewer persons were vaccinated”, that falsely speaks of “more vaccine-preventable illnesses”.

However, for “vaccine-preventable illnesses”, the truth is:
Â· There could only be more cases of the illnesses that are claimed to be “vaccine-preventable” – not more “illnesses” (diseases) and
Â· The evidence is clear that the current USA recommended vaccination programs are, for whatever reasons, major causal factors for the current epidemics of chronic childhood medical conditions (e.g., asthma, severe food allergies and intolerances, type 2 diabetes, MS, certain leukemias, idiopathic dilated cardiomyopathy (IDCM), obesity, and neurodevelopmental and behavioral disorders) that were either rare or non-existent in our children before 1980.

The return and resurgence of vaccine-preventable diseases translates to significant economic and human costs related to time lost from work, medical care, and public health interventions.

Since, except for smallpox, the diseases of which the NJ DHSS speaks have not been reduced to laboratory specimens in every nation on the Earth, it is false to speak of the “return and resurgence of vaccine-preventable diseases” when all that is happening in the USA today, for those diseases where the vaccines seemingly provide effective “long-term” protection, are sporadic isolated outbreaks.

Moreover, except for the disease cases caused by herpes varicella zoster, most of these outbreaks in the USA are being triggered by exposure to recentlyinfected carriers coming from countries where, for whatever reason,
Â· The native disease is still endemic, or
Â· A recent live-virus-vaccine inoculee was sheddingthe vaccine’s live viral components and infected
the carrier just before their return to the USA, and
Â· Those exposed to these returning outbreak initiators:
Â· Were not vaccinated or,
Â· If vaccinated, were not adequately protected from contracting the disease by the vaccinations they received.

Second, the actual data for those diseases that the federal government and the NJ DHSS have labeled
“vaccine-preventable diseases” fails to show any nationwide disease resurgence for those few diseases for which the vaccines apparently are at least in-use societally cost-effective.

Third, the “economic and human costs” from the chronnic illnesses that the USA’s current vaccination programs have engendered are orders of magnitude greater than the short-term “economic and human costs” for the current levels of these acute childhood diseases (e.g., measles, mumps, rubella, diphtheria, tetanus, pertussis [whooping cough], rota virus and pneumonia).

The more exemptions we allow, the more difficult it will be to prevent vaccine-preventable diseases from affecting our communities.

The data presented by the Florida Department of Health along with the added information provided to address incidence levels and relative disease levels to address the “philosophical exemptions” issue (see Abbreviated Table “1”) does not support the NJ DHSS’ assertion that the “more exemptions we allow, the more difficult it will be to prevent vaccine-preventable diseases â€¦” in today’s America in the 18 states, including the two most populous states, California and Texas, that have a “conscientious/philosophical exemption” option.

Hopefully, after reviewing this response and the referenced and cited publications, the NJ DHSS will not only drop its opposition to S1071 (and A260) and support the passage of this legislation, but also immediately revoke its mandates for influenza vaccination and, after reviewing the in-use effectiveness data for each of the currently mandated vaccine components, adjust the vaccination mandates to eliminate those other vaccines that are not in-use cost effective, starting with the current vaccines for herpes varicella zoster and rota virus.

Finally, after reviewing this response and all of the cited publications, if the NJ DHSS ignores any of the factual realities set forth in this review, then the people of the state of New Jersey should, in mass, rise up and demand that the New Jersey State Legislature pass and the Governor of the State of New Jersey sign into law a statute that:
q Repeals all vaccination mandates, and
q Simply states that:
All vaccination programs shall be voluntary, and
For those vaccines that are truly provably cost-effective:
Â· The state will provide the vaccine doses for all of it residents, vaccination programs where vaccination is provably societally cost-effective by truly independent investigators, and
Â· The NJ DHSS will initiate and support programs for all of the alternative disease-preventive measures, including:
Â· Better hygiene and sanitation,
Â· Dietary supplementation and healthy diets, which have been proven to reduce the risk of the initiation and spread of communicable-disease outbreaks,
Â· Setting the state’s recommendation for daily intake of vitamin D-3 to no less than 1,000 IU (25 micrograms), and
Â· Requiring:
o All school-related health-screening blood tests include an assessment of serum 25-hydroxy-vitamin D levels, and
o The healthcare provider to furnish or prescribe appropriate vitamin D-3 supplement levels when the measured level is below 45 ng per milliliter (mL) of serum with appropriate follow- ups to ensure that the child’s serum 25-hydroxy-vitamin D levels exceed 45 ng per mL.

Concluding Remarks

As a supporter of vaccines and vaccination programs that are reasonably safe and at least societally cost-effective, the author understands that the current New Jersey mandated vaccination programs have severe problems, which the NJ DHHS should immediately address.

Moreover, the NJ DHSS should address the problems with its vaccination program mandates in a manner that is:
Â· Truly public-health cost-effective and
Â· Free of the pernicious influence of those who directly and/or indirectly profit from:
Â· More vaccines and/or
Â· Expanding mandated vaccination programs that are intentionally blind to the rise in, and the costs of, the chronic childhood diseases, which the affected children and their families must bear for the rest of their lives.

If the NJ DHSS fails to act in the responsible manner being recommended, then the NJ DHSS should be prepared to be the proverbial “last straw” that will trigger a movement to repudiate all vaccination mandates because it will be knowingly ignoring the actual fiscal and physical harm that its scientifically indefensible vaccination mandates have caused, are causing and will cause.

Finally, in conjunction with this response, the NJ DHSS should carefully study the in-depth two-part review of the September 2008 report issued by the Florida Department of Health, and the report itself, as posted in the “Documents” section on the CoMeD Internet website: http://www.mercury-freedrugs.org (see footnote 5).

About the Reviewer:

Information about this reviewer, Paul G. King, PhD, can be found on the Internet at:
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Supplements Help Children Focus! Why Is That News?

Thursday, November 6th, 2008

As a physician I was trained to understand that there is a physicial underpinning to the function – or dis function- of any biological creature. It’s name? Biochemistry. Molecules support, or prevent, poison or allow all chemical reactions in the body. And there are lots of them. Every one of our trillions upon trillions of cells is carrying out about 35,000 enzymatic reactions at any moment and each of them is part of a chain of reactions that allow – or prevent – events “downstream” from that particular enzyme and its tasks.

Enzymes are robots. They are complexes of proteins (made up of chains of amino acids) and “nutritional metals” like magnesium, zinc, manganese, copper, and others). They have sulfur and other non metals and they are very, very precise.

After an enzyme does what it is there to day (for example, transferring a molecule from one side of a membrane to another) its shape has changed so it can no longer function, like a fork lift truck with its blades on backwards. Then another enzyme comes along and returns it to its origianl shape so that it can do the same job over again. The helper enzyme is now literally “bent out of shape” and ANOTHER enzymes comes along and fixes the fixer enzyme and then, you guessed it! Yet another enzyme fixes the fixer of the fixer. On and on it goes, one enzyme performing its job, then unable to perform again until another enzyme resets it, then needing to be reset itself.

If one step in this astonishing molecular dance is missed, there are consequences. If the cause of the mis-step is a drug, the consequences have a special name, “Side effects”. If the cause is the chronic lack of nutrients, only a few doctors understand that the disease which is identified is, in fact, chronic under nourishment. The treatment for most doctors trained in allopathic medicine is exactly wrong almost all of the time: they give drugs to poison more enzyme systems.

WHAT? That is, in a nut shell, the entire basis of pharmaceutical medicine. The only time I can see that it is justified, the ONLY time, is in the Emergency Room. Other than that, it has no place.

But for a few doctors, and many non-doctors, the treatment is obvious: if there is a deficiency not of a drug, but of a nutrient, or many, give the nutrient and its companion nutrients. Give it in a high enough dose that even starving cells and membranes can find the energy to absorb and begin to use the nutrients. And, Voila! people get better. Pretty much, in my experience, every single time.

This simple, intuitive and obvious fact is not at all obvious to those whose minds have been altered by drugs, either by the “education” shaped by the interests of the drugs (often referred to by its short hand name, “Medical School”) or drug regulators and others whose ability to think have been poisoned by the money involved in the drug system – more than all other industries when taken in the aggregate!

Science is often the last to know, like the girl whose boy friend is dating her best friend. Science has taken this long to notice that if you give children nutrients their brains function better. The article below, from the British Journal of Nutrition says that the paper published below is breaking new ground since this is the first time that the positive impact of nutrients on children’s capacity to carry out tasks has been shown to be impacted by supplements.

Or is it just that selective science is the last to know?
Consider:
Benton D; ILSI Europe a.i.s.b.l., The influence of children’s diet on their cognition and behavior., “… there is a growing body of evidence that diet can influence the development and functioning of the brain. Several lines of evidence support the view that the diet of the mother during pregnancy, and the diet of the infant in the perinatal period, have long-term consequences…”, Eur J Nutr. 2008 Aug;47 Suppl 3:25-37.
or
Gajre NS, Fernandez S, Balakrishna N, Vazir S., Breakfast Eating Habit and its Influence on Attention-concentration, Immediate Memory and School Achievement., “RESULTS: Comparison between groups indicated significant differences in the letter cancellation (LC) total scores with the regular breakfast group achieving the highest mean scores compared to the no breakfast group (P< 0.05). Marks scored by the regular breakfast group in subjects - Science, English and total Percentage were significantly higher compared to those scored by the children in the no breakfast group. Regular breakfast eating habit and weight for age percent were significantly (P< 0.001) associated with immediate recall memory score explaining 4.3 percent variation. CONCLUSIONS: Regular habit of eating breakfast as opposed to irregular consumption or skipping breakfast altogether had beneficial influence on attention-concentration, memory and school achievement.", Indian Pediatr. 2008 Oct;45(10):824-8. or about a zillion other articles, books and studies showing the same thing. So why is this "news" rediscovered with wonder and astonishment over and over and over and over and over and....? Because supplements are cheap and safe. And because doctors - and patients and parents - have been trained to discount this reality, provide garbage to their children and themselves which they mistakenly designate as "food" and then scurry to the nearest prescription pad when the "side effects" of malnourishment come piling up. So while I am pleased to see this article, I am not pleased that the same findings continue to be "news" when the news is that real, appropriate, healthful, non GMO, chemical free food cures and lack of that kind of food creates illness, both behavioral and organ based illness. Are there other causes of illness? Sure. But the major killers (and economic producers for the illness care industry, cancer, cardiovascular disease and stroke, diabetes, obesity and obesity, are specifically identified as the "non communicable epidemic diseases of under nutrition by the World Health organization, WHO. Ah, yes! Killer disease of under nutrition creating a vast and wildly profitable market for dangerous drugs which kill people in greater numbers than the drugs themselves do! Can't make safe, cheap, effective nutrients available, now can we? Be serious. Instead, let's get Codex Alimentarius up and going and make sure that the food produced under its "Voluntary" Standards and Guidelines are as health hostile, chemical and industry friendly (including its beloved Biotech Industry) get as much support as possible. Codex, you will recall, is the product of the mad -but very clever - mind of Fritz ter Meer, a Bayer Drug Company Executive who become the head of IG Farben, the civilian organization that made the German's participation in the Second World War a near-success. He was also a convicted criminal following his trial at the Nuremberg War Tribunals for his success and enthusiastic participation in creating the German Death Machine. After he, and the 26 other IG Farben executives (many of them drug company executives) got out of jail a scant less-than-4-years after they entered, ter Meer was hard at work as the head of Bayer Pharmaceutical once again. His creativity was focused this time not on the slogan above the front gate of the Auswitz death camp ("Arbeit Macht Frei", or, in English, "work brings freedom") but to the creation of the concept of Codex Alimentarius. Subsequent events show that the idea of creating contaminated, poisoned food, full of chemicals, GMO adulteration, irradiation by products (like free radicals and dead bacteria and their spilled-out insides in "cold sterilization" processes), hormones, antibiotics, etc., etc. was a wonderful business decision for the pharmaceutical industry. Health people, after all, are generally eating healthy food. Take the healthy food, and the supplements that enhance nutrition, away and you have sick people who got that way from eating sick food. In short, you have the US "Food" Supply (more than 80% GMO, by the way) as the primary feeder (!) sending people into the illness care system - where they stay, literally until they die. If that is NOT what you want for your food, then get even more active than you are in letting everyone on your list know that you are a Natural Solutions Foundation Health Freedom Advocate and that you need them to be a Health Freedom Advocate, too. Here's how" 1. Join the free Natural Solutions Health Freedom eAlert (http://www.healthfreedomusa.org/index.php?page_id=187) distribution list and take every action step in the Newsletter, each time it comes to your email box. Then send it along to your email list and other contacts asking them to do the same. If you voice is not raised loud and clear, speaking truth to power, how will we protect your health and health freedom?

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Rima E. Laibow, MD
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Nutritional and dietary influences on attention deficit hyperactivity disorder.

Sinn N.

Nutritional Physiology Research Centre, School of Health Sciences, University of South Australia, Adelaide, South Australia 5001, Australia. natalie.sinn@unisa.edu.au
The influence of children’s diet on their cognition and behavior.

Multivitamins and minerals help children’s brain function: study
By Stephen Daniells, 05-Nov-2008

Daily supplements of multivitamins and minerals may improve the brain function of children, says a new study from British and Australian researchers.

Twelve weeks of supplementation with vitamins and minerals was found to boost the attention scores of children, according to results published in the British Journal of Nutrition.

â€œThis represents the first observation of acute behavioural effects of vitamins/minerals in human subjects,â€ wrote the researchers, led by Professor David Kennedy from Northumbria University in Newcastle.

â€œNaturally, these observations require replication in larger cohorts, but they do suggest that this matter should be given some priority,â€ cautioned the researchers.

Study details

The Newcastle-based researchers, in collaboration with scientists from Swinburne University in Australia, and the University of Westminster in London, recruited 81 children (average age 11) to participate in the randomised, double-blind, placebo-controlled, parallel groups investigation.

The children were reportedly all healthy and free from food allergy. In addition, none of the children used other dietary supplements during the three months prior to the study. Participants were randomly assigned to daily multivitamin and mineral supplements or placebo for 12 weeks. The study used Pharmaton SAâ€™s Pharmaton Kiddi blend of multivitamins and minerals. The Swiss company also provided funding for the study.

Cognitive performance was measured using a battery of laboratory assessments. Measures were taken before the study, after one and three hours after the first dose, and after 12 weeks.

Kennedy and his co-workers report that the children in the vitamin/mineral group performed more accurately on two tests of attention. Indeed, the researchers noted the first signs of improvement only three hours after the first dose on the first day.

â€œThe most surprising facet of the improvement in attention task performance seen here is that it became evident by three hours post-dose on the first day,â€ they wrote.

â€œTo the best of our knowledge, the possibility that vitamins or minerals could exert behavioural effects after a single dose has not been explored,â€ they added.

However, no effects were observed on measures of the childrenâ€™s mood, they added.

Science behind the claims?

The researchers noted that the study was aimed at testing the claims of the manufacturer that the multivitamin and mineral could improve the physical development and neural performance of the children.

â€œThe combination of vitamins, minerals and amino acids presentâ€¦ in the present study does not allow the results presented to be attributed to any one component,â€ wrote the researchers.

â€œFurther work in this area could examine the constituent parts of this treatment in more detail, perhaps focusing on attentional measures and including acute, as well as chronic, assessment,â€ they added.

Source: British Journal of Nutrition
November 2008, Volume 100, Pages 1086-1096, doi:10.1017/S0007114508959213
â€œCognitive and mood effects in healthy children during 12 weeks’ supplementation with multi-vitamin/mineralsâ€
Authors: C.F. Haskell, A.B. Scholey, P.A. Jackson, J.M. Elliott, M.A. Defeyter, J. Greer, B.C. Robertson, T. Buchanan, B. Tiplady, D.O. Kennedy
http://www.nutraingredients-usa.com/Publications/Food-Beverage-Nutrition/NutraIngredients/Research/Multivitamins-and-minerals-help-children-s-brain-function-study

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President Obama and Health Freedom: Change?

Thursday, November 6th, 2008

Below we re-post Natural Solutions Foundation Trustee Ralph Fucetola JD’s post election commentary, from his Vitamin Lawyer Health Freedom Blog:

Wednesday, November 5, 2008

President Obama and Health Freedom: Change?
http://vitaminlawyerhealthfreedom.blogspot.com/2008/11/president-obama-and-health-freedom.html

It is truly an historic moment, with the election of a candidate for president of the United States who identifies himself as a member of a minority ethnic group. One therefore hopes that president-elect Obama will be open to hearing dissenting and alternative opinions about issues such as healthcare freedom of choice. Surely, an administration built on the idea of “change” should be willing to listen to advocates of change.

We are, however, concerned that candidate Obama offered very little about issues that are of concern to health freedom advocates. The campaign chose not to respond to the Health Freedom Presidential Candidate Questionnaire — although several of the Principled Third Party candidates did so; you can see their generally pro-health freedom responses at: http://www.healthfreedomusa.org/index.php?p=1303

We could not find any major media mention of vaccine mandates directly by the winning candidate, but in September, when Sen. Obama and the New Jersey governor passed a demonstration of pro-health freedom parents, some of whom were attending a fund raiser in an upscale community with the politicians, there was a report from the fundraiser,

“I’m afraid Barack Obama was asked by someone at the fundraiser if he supported the parent’s right to choose to vaccinate, and he said he did not!”

The governor, however acknowledged,

“We get more e-mails and letters on this than any other issue other than tolls.”

http://www.ageofautism.com/2008/09/obama-and-corzi.html

On another touchstone issue for health freedom advocates, Genetically Modified products foisted on the public without truthful labeling, the new President may not take an entirely pro-industry position. In a pre-election report we learn,

“[Obama b]elieves GM plants are beneficial with tests for environmental and health effects and regulatory oversight.”

The requirement for testing, while falling short of truthful labeling, would be a change from current policy which “deems” GM products safe without third party testing.

On issues such as international harmonization, the “new world order” advisers surrounding the president-elect suggest that it may be difficult to focus any attention by the new administration on this important issue. We can expect the US Codex delegation to continue to have a free hand in supporting the international agenda of the “bigs” – Big Finance, Big Agra, Big Pharma, et al. Codex Alimentarius (the world food code) must continue to be a focus of the movement.

And finally, last year, when we were in Washington several times to help educate Congress about health freedom, we were not able to discuss with Sen. Obama’s staff the important issue of divesting the FDA of its food authority, so that food (including dietary supplement) regulation would not remain the neglected step-child of the FDA’s focus on supporting Big Pharma. However, discussions with other left/liberal legislative aids at that time, including people who will be allies of the president-elect in Congress, suggests a basis for pursuing the divestment issue.

Divesting the FDA may therefore be one health freedom issue that will have some “play” in the new Congress. What will be necessary, of course, will be for several Democratic members of Congress to be willing to co-sponsor a divestment bill. And for hundreds of thousands of Health Freedom Mouse Warriors to demand an end to FDA abuse of power.

The prospects for healthcare freedom of choice are mixed in the coming period.

Advocates of health freedom will need to redouble their efforts, especially to protect our children from vaccine mandates and to prevent ever more HARMonization of our health freedoms with international restrictions.

Divesting the FDA of its misused food authority appears to be a policy for which we may have some hope for real change…

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