Natural Solutions Foundation Urges US to Oppose Fluoride in Infant Formula

October 25th, 2006

Fluoride is not OK. When we attended the meeting the US Codex office held prior to the Codex Committee on Nutrition and Foods for Special Dietary Uses 2006 meeting (October 30-November 3, 2006, Chiang Mai, Thailand) we were deeply upset, but not shocked, to learn that the US supported the Codex proposal to put fluoride in infant formula as if it were wholesome and healthy. It is neither. Here are our comments urging the US to change that policy and oppose the addtion of fluoride. You can also read the Press Release on the topic that the Natural Solutions Foundation issued.

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CODEX COMMITTEE ON NUTRITION AND FOODS FOR SPECIAL DIETARY USES, 28th SESSION, U.S. DRAFT POSITIONS As of September 8, 2006

The Natural Solutions Foundation strongly urges the United States to oppose the addition of any level of fluoride to infant formula.

Exposure to dangerous levels of fluoride compounds is already endemic and should not be increased by infant exposure to additional fluoride. Serious negative dental, neurological, orthopedic and biochemical changes occur in infants and young children exposed to fluoride with loss of bone, tooth and intellectual functions.

  1. The National Research Council (National Academy of Sciences) recently concluded that the EPA’s Maximum contaminant level for fluoride should be lowered from the current standard of 4mg per day in order to prevent severe enamel fluorosis, reduce risk of bone fracture and skeletal fluorosis. The NRC also concluded that the EPA should update risk assessment of fluoride to include new data on health risks and better estimates of total exposure for individuals.

National Research Council. (2006). Fluoride in Drinking Water: A Scientific Review of EPA’s Standards. National Academies Press.

  1. Excessive amounts of fluoride can be ingested from a variety of sources including toothpaste, vegetables and fruits, processed foods and drinks, foods and drinks prepared with fluoridated water, fluoridated water, etc.
  2. The U.S. Dept of Health and Human Services estimates that children are exposed to between .9 and 3.6 mg of fluoride compound per day from environmental sources. This figure does not include exposure that occurs from air emissions and dermal uptake in bathing or exposure that may occur from pharmaceuticals. This is already dangerously close to upper safety limit of 4mg per day.
    (Review of Fluorides Benefits and Risks)
  3. Xiong X, Liu J, He W, Xia T, He P, Chen X, Yang K, Wang A. (2006). Dose-effect relationship between drinking water fluoride levels and damage to liver and kidney functions in children. Environmental Research Jul 8.

Fluoride exposure at levels currently deemed safe by the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) can damage both kidney and liver function in children.

  1. Additional exposures may occur from other ready to consume food products such as juice being marketed for infants. Analysis of fluoride content in commercially available juices found that 42% of samples contained fluoride at more than 1ppm.

Stannards, JG Journal of Clinical Pediatric Dentristry .16:38-40, 1991 et al, Fluoride concentrations in infant food range from .01 to 8.38 parts per million.

Heilman, JR et al Journal of the American Dental Association found 128:857-63, 1997.

  1. Acute fluoride poisonings have occurred at doses as low as 0.1 to 0.8 mgF/kg of body weight.

Akiniwa, K. (1997). Re-examination of acute toxicity of fluoride. Fluoride 30: 89-104.

7. Dental fluorosis, a form of chronic fluoride toxicity, is increasing among American children. The survey found an overall dental fluorosis rate of 32% among U.S. school children aged 6 to 19 years old. This compares to an incidence of 22.8% reported in the last national survey of fluorosis, conducted by the National Institute of Dental Research (NIDR) in 1986-87.

Center for Disease Control, the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey’ (NHANES). 1999-2002

Cognitive Defects Related to Fluoride Exposure

  1. “…it is apparent that fluorides have the ability to interfere with the functions of the brain.”

National Research Council, (2006), Fluoride in Drinking Water: A Scientific Review of EPA’s Standards, National Academies Press.

9. Population exposed to 4.12 ppm fluoride in drinking water has drastically higher levels of dental and skeletal fluorosis than population exposed .91 ppm in fluoride drinking water.

Pre-natal and early postnatal exposure to fluoride sufficient to cause mild dental fluorosis in the mother may result in significant reductions in mean IQ and IQ range of children.

Zhao, LB, GH Liang, DN Zhang, and XR Wu, Effect of a high fluoride water supple on Children’s Intelligence, Fluoride 29(4):190-192 (1996)

  1. Persons chronically exposed to environmental or industrial fluoride reported symptoms related to impaired central nervous system functioning including impaired cognition and memory, difficulties with concentration, general malaise and fatigue.

Possible mechanisms whereby fluoride could affect brain function include influencing calcium currents, altering enzyme configuration by forming strong hydrogen bonds with amide groups, inhibiting cortical adenylyl cyclase activity and increasing phosphoinositide hydrolysis.

Spittle, B., Psychopharmacolgy of Fluoride: a review, Inter Nat Clin. Pychopharmacol, 9:79-82, (1994)

  1. Fluoride accumulates in the hippocampus of animals exposed to fluoride. The pattern of elevation of fluoride concentrations in the brain is the same as the pattern of changes in behavioral repertoire, responses to novelty, and the temporal or sequential organization of spontaneous behavior.

This methodology has been used to study alterations in Central Nervous System function, behavioral alterations and cognitive deficits due to chemotherapy, amphetamine induced hyperactivity, and triethyltin induced hypoactivity.

Mullenix, P.J., PK Denbesten, A Schunior and WJ Kern an, Neurotoxicity of Sodium Fluoride in Rats. Neurotoxicol and Teratol, 117(2):169?177. 1995.

Mullenix, PJ, WJ Kernan, MS Tassinari, A. Schunior, DP Waber, A Howes and NJ Tar bell. An Animal Model to study toxicity of central nervous system therapy for childhood acute Iymphoblastic leukemia: Effects on Behavior. Cancer Res. 50:6461?6465. 1990.

12. Adult volunteers exposed to one drop of sodium fluoride in water (0.1,1,10, or 100 ppm) exhibit increased in error rate (missed responses) and latency (response time) on secondary tasks.

Rotton, J. RS Tikofsky, HT Feldman, Behavioral Effects of Chemicals in Drinking Water, J. Appl. Psycho. 67(2):230?238. 1982

Effects on Bone Fracture Rates

13. Bone formed in response to high and/or prolonged doses of fluoride exhibits reduced strength and increased fragility.

Riggs, BL, et al., Effect of fluoride treatment on the fracture rate in post-menopausal women with osteoporosis., N. Engl. J. Med., 322:802-809 (1990)

Kleerekoper, M and Balena R, Fluorides and osteoporosis, Ann. Rev. Nutr. 11:309-324, (1991)

Riggs, BL, et al., Drug therapy: the prevention and treatment of osteoporosis, N. Engl. J. Med., 327:620-627, (1992)

14. Sodium fluoride therapy fails to decrease the propensity toward hip fractures, increases the incidence of stress fractures in the extremities, and is accompanied by so many medical complications and side effects that it is hardly worth exploring in depth as a therapeutic mode for postmenopausal osteoporosis.

Alvioli, L, quoted in Hileman, B, Fluoridation of Water, Chem. & Eng. News, 66:34, (1988)

Dental and Skeletal Fluorosis

15. Fluoride ingestion has a definite relationship with the prevalence and severity of dental fluorosis, decrease of stature, and decrease of thyroid hormone secretion.

Ayoob S, Gupta AK. (2006). Fluoride in Drinking Water: A Review on the Status and Stress Effects, Critical Reviews in Environmental Science and Technology 36:433–487

16. Populations exposed to 2-4 times the “optimal” fluoridation level [1ppm] have exhibited dental fluoridosis in nearly 70% of the teeth studied.

Ad Hoc Committee on Fluoride of the Committee to coordinate Environmental Health and Related Programs, Review of Fluoride Benefits and Risks. U.S. Dept. of Health and Human Services, Public Health Service, Feb 1990, p. 20.

17. “Optimally” fluorinated populations exhibit dental fluorosis at a much higher level than low fluoride communities.

Colquhoun, J., Disfiguring, White and Strong, Fluoride, 23 (3):104-111, (1990)

Effects on Pineal Function

18. “…any agent that affects pineal function could affect human health in a variety of ways, including effects on sexual maturation, calcium metabolism, parathyroid function, postmenopausal osteoporosis, cancer, and psychiatric disease.”

National Research Council, (2006), Fluoride in Drinking Water: A Scientific Review of EPA’s Standards, National Academies Press, Washington D.C. p221-22.

19. The pineal gland is a major target for fluoride accumulation in humans. Animals treated with fluoride had lower levels of circulating melatonin, accompanied by an earlier onset of puberty in the fluoride-treated female animals.

Luke J. (1997), The Effect of Fluoride on the Physiology of the Pineal Gland. Ph.D. Thesis. University of Surrey, Guildford.

Effects on Fertility

20. Laboratory studies of rodents exposed to fluoride in food or drinking water show reduced fertility. Heifers exposed to 5 ppm fluoride in water during four breeding seasons calve at 30% of the normal rate. At higher fluoride doses, the effect was earlier and more severe.

Freni, S.C., 1994. Exposure to high fluoride concentrations in drinking water is associated with decreased birth rates. J. Toxicol. and Environ. Health 42:109-121.

  1. Laboratory studies of rats exposed to sodium fluoride in food show adverse reproductive effects including reduced sperm motility and lower sperm count. Withdrawal of sodium fluoride reversed most, but not all of the observed alterations.

Narayana, M.V., and Chinoy, N.J., 1994, Reversible effects of sodium fluoride ingestion on spermatozoa of the rat. Int. J. Fertile. Menopausal Stud. 39(6):337-346.

Carcinogenicity

  1. “Taken together as a whole, the evidence – laboratory, animal, and human – suggests that fluoride could either directly initiate, or contribute to, the development of osteosarcoma in boys under the age of 20.

As acknowledged by the U.S. National Toxicology Program there is a “biological plausibility” of a link between fluoride exposure and osteosarcoma. The biological plausibility centers around three facts: 1) Bone is the principal site of fluoride accumulation, particularly during the growth spurts of childhood; 2) Fluoride is a mutagen when present at sufficient concentrations, and 3) Fluoride can artificially stimulate the proliferation of bone cells (osteoblasts).

In addition to its biological plausibility, there is now a substantive body of evidence indicating that fluoride can in fact induce osteosarcomas in both animals and humans.

Most notably, a recent national case control study conducted by scientists at Harvard University found a significant relationship between fluoride exposure and osteosarcoma among boys, particularly if exposed to fluoridated water between the ages of 6 and 8 (the mid-childhood growth spurt).

The Harvard study’s findings are consistent with the U.S. National Toxicology Program’s congressionally-mandated fluoride/cancer study in rats; the National Cancer Institute’s 1990 analysis of osteosarcoma rates among young males in fluoridated versus unfluoridated areas in the U.S., and the New Jersey Department of Health’s 1992 analysis of osteosarcoma rates among young males in fluoridated versus unfluoridated areas of Central New Jersey.

In addition, two later independent analyses of NCI’s national cancer data also found a relationship between fluoridation and osteosarcoma among young males (Yiamouyiannis 1993; Takahashi 2001).”

http://www.fluoridealert.org/health/cancer/osteosarcoma.html#bassin

23. Rats with fluoride in their bones equivalent to the fluoride content of the bones of humans drinking water with fluoride concentrations above 2 ppm show marginal differences between control animals and dosed animals with respect osteosarcoma, cancer of the oral mucosa, thyroid gland and uterus of rats and the hematopoietic system and liver in mice. Two tumor types, hepatoblastoma and hepatocholan-giocarcinoma, were highly unusual.

Bucher, JR., MR Hejtmancik, JD Toft II, Persing, RL, Eustis, SL and Haseman, JK, Results and conclusions of the NTP’s rodent carcinogenicity studies with sodium fluoride. Int. J. Cancer 48:733-737, (1991).

Wm. Marcus, US EPA, Memo to Alan Hais, Acting Director, Criteria and Standards Division, Office of Drinking Water, US EPA on Fluoride Conference to Review the NTP Draft Fluoride Report. May 1, 1990. [Reference provided by Shirley Brown].

  1. Fluoride is shown to be genotoxic in numerous test systems, a property associated with carcinogens.

Stamm, JW, on behalf of the ADA, NTP Public Hearing on the NTP Technical Report on the toxicology and carcinogenesis studies of sodium fluoride. April 26, 1990.

  1. Fluoride is a plausible carcinogen:

“The “biological plausibility” of a fluoride-osteosarcoma link is acknowledged in the scientific literature. The 3 key, acknowledged mechanisms supporting the plausibility of a fluoride/osteosarcoma connection are:

1) The preponderance of laboratory evidence indicates that fluoride can be mutagenic when present at sufficient concentrations. Most mutagens are also carcinogens.

2) The bone is the principal site for fluoride accumulation within the body, and the rate of accumulation is increased during periods of bone development. Thus, the cells in the bone, particularly during the growth spurts, may be exposed to some of the highest fluoride concentrations in the body.

3) Fluoride is a ‘mitogen’ – meaning it can stimulate the proliferation of bone-forming cells (osteoblasts). Osteosarcoma is a cancer caused by an abnormal proliferation of the osteoblasts.

Hence, fluoride’s ability to induce mutagenic damage in fluoride-rich environments coupled with its ability to stimulate proliferation of osteoblasts provides a compelling biological basis by which fluoride could cause, or contribute to, osteosarcoma.

http://www.fluoridealert.org/health/cancer/osteosarcoma.html#bassin

  1. “We observed that for males diagnosed before the age of 20 years, fluoride level in drinking water during growth was associated with an increased risk of osteosarcoma, demonstrating a peak in the odds ratios from 6 to 8 years of age. All of our models were remarkably robust in showing this effect, which coincides with the mid-childhood growth spurt. For females, no clear association between fluoride in drinking water during growth and osteosarcoma emerged.”

Bassin EB, Wypij D, Davis RB, Mittleman MA. (2006), Age-specific Fluoride Exposure in Drinking Water and Osteosarcoma (United States), Cancer Causes and Control 17: 421-8.

  1. “Significant increases in the frequencies of chromosome aberrations were induced in a dose- and treatment time-dependent fashion when NaF was administered to [rat vertebral bone] cells at 0.5 and 1.0 mM for 24 and 48 h. The results indicate that NaF is genotoxic to rat vertebrae, providing a possible mechanism for the vertebrae, as a target organ of NaF carcinogenesis.”

Mihashi M, Tsutsui T. (1996), Clastogenic activity of sodium fluoride to rat vertebral body-derived cells in culture, Mutation Research 368:7-13.

  1. “Age-specific and age-standardized rates (ASR) of registered cancers for nine communities in the U.S.A. (21.8 million inhabitants, mainly white) were obtained from IARC data (1978-82, 1983-87, 1988-92)… The incidence rate of bone cancer as the mean of three five-years ASRs was significantly correlated with FD (fluoridated water) only in males, with CIR-100 of 1.22, whereas in 1978-82 it showed a high CIR-100 of 2.53

Takahashi K., Akiniwa K., Narita K. (2001), Regression analysis of cancer incidence rates and water fluoride in the U.S.A. based on IACR/IARC (WHO) data (1978-1992), International Agency for Research on Cancer. Journal of Epidemiology 11:170-9.

  1. “Osteosarcoma presents the greatest a priori plausibility as a potential cancer target site because of fluoride’s deposition in bone, the NTP animal study findings of borderline increased osteosarcomas in male rats, and the known mitogenic effect of fluoride on bone cells in culture. Principles of cell biology indicate that stimuli for rapid cell division increase the risks for some of the dividing cells to become malignant, either by inducing random transforming events or by unmasking malignant cells that previously were in nondividing states.”

National Research Council, (2006), Fluoride in Drinking Water: A Scientific Review of EPA’s Standards, National Academies Press, Washington D.C. p 275.

  1. “It is biologically plausible that fluoride affects the incidence rate of osteosarcoma, and that this effect would be strongest during periods of growth, particularly in males. First, approximately 99% of fluoride in the human body is contained in the skeleton with about 50% of the daily ingested fluoride being deposited directly into calcified tissue (bone or dentition). Second, fluoride acts as a mitogen, increasing the proliferation of osteoblasts and its uptake in bone increases during periods of rapid skeletal growth. In the young, the hydroxyapatite structure of bone mineral exists as many extremely small crystals each surrounded by an ion-rich hydration shell, providing a greater surface area for fluoride exchange to occur.”

Bassin EB, Wypij D, Davis RB, Mittleman MA. (2006), Age-specific Fluoride Exposure in Drinking Water and Osteosarcoma (United States). Cancer Causes and Control 17: 421-8.

  1. “…if fluoride were to exert a neoplastic effect, it is reasonable to expect that this might be expressed in a tissue that accumulates fluoride. This would include bone, and, therefore, there is biological plausibility for an association between sodium fluoride administration and the development of bone osteosarcomas.”

National Toxicology Program [NTP] (1990). Toxicology and Carcinogenesis Studies of Sodium Fluoride in F344/N Rats and B6C3f1 Mice. Technical report Series No. 393. NIH Publ. No 91-2848. National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, Research Triangle Park, N.C.

  1. “…it would appear that sodium fluoride is genotoxic in a number of genetic toxicity assays, through as yet undetermined mechanisms. So, a neoplastic effect in a tissue that accumulates fluoride would appear possible.”

Bucher J. (1990). Peer Review of Draft Technical Report of Long-Term Toxicology and Carcinogenesis Studies and Toxicity Study, Sodium Fluoride; Research Triangle Park, North Carolina, Thursday, April 26, 1990. p. 30-31.

  1. “[T]he carcinogenicity of fluoride is consistent with growth stimulation of osteoblasts, unscheduled DNA synthesis by human fibroblasts, and transformation of embryonal hamster fibroblasts into transplantable sarcoma cells. Osteoblasts are differentiated fibroblasts, and fluoride is accumulated in the skeleton. Therefore, osteosarcoma would be the natural target effect to look for in a cancer bioassay of fluoride, and an excess of osteosarcoma in rats exposed to fluoride in drinking water clearly confirms an a priori hypothesis.”

Freni S.C., Gaylor, D.W. (1992), International trends in the incidence of bone cancer are not related to drinking water fluoridation, Cancer 70: 611-8.

  1. “When fluoride exposure increases, the following bone responses generally occur:

1) An increase in the number of osteoblasts

2) An increase in the rate of bone formation

3) An increase in the serum activity of alkaline phosphatase

4) An inhibition of osteoblastic acid phosphatase… The increase in osteoblast proliferation and activity may increase the probability that these cells will undergo malignant transformation.”

Gelberg KH. (1994), Case-control study of osteosarcoma, Doctoral Thesis, Yale University. p.13.

  1. “Because the origin of osteosarcoma is considered to be osteoblastic/osteogenic cells, the ability of sodium fluoride to induce chromosome aberrations in these cells provides a mechanistic basis for the occurrence of osteosarcomas observed in sodium fluoride treated animals in the NTP study. Ingested fluoride is accumulated in bone, suggesting that osteoblastic/osteogenic cells in the bone microenvironment can be exposed to high levels of fluoride during bone formation. Our data and the NTP findings provide evidence that bone can be an organ for NaF carcinogenesis.”

Mihashi M, Tsutsui T. (1996), Clastogenic activity of sodium fluoride to rat vertebral body-derived cells in culture, Mutation Research 368:7-13.

  1. “Recent studies showing substantial increases in the incidence of bone cancer and osteosarcoma in males (but not females) exposed to fluoride gave us the unique opportunity of using females as a control group to determine whether there is a link between fluoridation and bone cancer in males. Using three different data bases, we found that 1) the bone cancer incidence rate was as much as 0.95 cases a year per 100,000 population higher in males under age 20 living in fluoridated areas; 2) the osteosarcoma incidence rate was 0.85 new cases a year per 100,000 population higher in males under age 20 living in fluoridated areas; and 3) for males of all ages, the bone cancer death rate and bone cancer incidence rate was as much as 0.23 and 0.44 cases higher per 100,000 population, respectively, in fluoridated areas. These findings indicate that fluoridation is linked to an increase in bone cancer and deaths from bone cancer in human populations among males under age 20 and that this increase in bone cancer is probably all due to an increase in osteosarcoma caused by fluoride.”

Yiamouyiannis JA. (1993), Fluoridation and cancer: The biology and epidemiology of bone and oral cancer related to fluoridation. Fluoride 26:83-96

  1. “Recently, a national study of drinking water fluoridation at the country level found a significant association with osteosarcoma incidence among males under 20 years of age (Hoover et al., 1991). However, the meaning of the association was questioned by the authors because of the absence of a linear trend of association with the duration of time for which the water supplies were fluoridated… As a follow-up to the study by Hoover et al., a small study of similar design was initiated by the New Jersey Department of Health to compare drinking water fluoridation at the municipal level with the municipal residence of osteosarcoma cases at the time of diagnosis… The study observed an association between fluoridation of water and osteosarcomas among males under 20 years of age in seven Central New Jersey counties.”

Cohn PD. (1992), A Brief Report on the Association of Drinking Water Fluoridation and the Incidence of Osteosarcoma among Young Males. New Jersey Department of Health: Environmental Health Service: 1- 17.

Elevated Blood Lead Levels, Reduced Bio-availability, Enzymatic and Other Disruption

38. There is a consistent and significant correlation between exposures to water treated with Sodium fluorosilicate or fluorosilic acid and elevated blood lead levels.

R.D. Masters, M.J. Copla, B.T. Hone, J.E. Dykes. Neurotoxicology 21(6) 1091-1100, 2000

  1. Fluoride ingestion is related to the prevalence and severity of dental fluorosis, decrease of stature, and decrease of thyroid and hormone secretion.

Ruiz-Payan A, Duarte-Gardea M, Ortiz M, Hurtado R (2005), Chronic effects of fluoride on growth, blood chemistry, and thyroid hormones in adolescents residing in northern Mexico. Paper presented at the XXVIth Conference of the International Society for Fluoride Research. September 26-29. Fluoride 38: 46.

40. Fluoride can affect the bioavailability magnesium, manganese, and calcium or otherwise interact with any enzyme system that requires one of these metals as a co-factor.

Villee, C, Birth Defects & Glycolysis, N. E. J. Med., 310: 254 (1981)

Chlubek, D, Some aspects of prenatal fluoride metabolism in human studies performed during the perinatal period, Ann. Acad. Med. Stein., 31: 1-99, (1996)

  1. Fluoride interferes with metabolic processes involving calcium. When calcium is supplemented in osteoporotic patients, a large number of those who have also been treated with fluoride still show evidence of calcium deficiency.

Dure-Smith, BA, et al., Calcium deficiency in fluoride-treated osteoporotic patients despite calcium supplementation, J. Clin. Endocrinol. Metab., 81:269-275, (1996)

  1. Fluoride ion may completely disrupt the Thymine-Adenine linkage in DNA.

Emsley, J, et al., The Uracil-Fluoride interaction, J.A.C.S., 104:476 (1982)

43. Fluoride inhibits metalloproteins, necessary for metabolizing and excreting heavy metals.

Bunick, FJ, and Kashket, S, Enolases from Fluoride Sensitive…Streptococci., Infect. Immun. 34:856 (1981), cited in “Should Natick Fluoridate?, Natick Fluoridation Study Committee, 1997

44. Fluoride inhibits DNA polymerase.

Lehman, IR, DNA Synthesis, in Methods in Enzym., VI, Academic Press (1963).

45. Fluoride induces chromosome aberrations.

Tsutsui, T, et al., Cytotoxicity, Chromosome aberrations…Fluoride, Mutation Res., 139:193 (1984) cited in “Should Natick Fluoridate?, Natick Fluoridation Study Committee, 1997

46. Fluoride effects the aylase cyclase system

Sternweis, PC and Gilman, AG, Aluminum: A Requirement….by Fluoride, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. (USA), 79:4888 (1982) cited in “Should Natick Fluoridate?, Natick Fluoridation Study Committee, 1997

47. Fluoride inhibits yeast enolase.

Fluoride Inhibition of Yeast Enolase, Biochemistry, 20:6894 (1981)

48. Fluoride inhibits protein synthesis enzymes.

Song, XD, et al., The Effect of Sodium Fluoride…..Study, Fluoride, 21:149 (1988)

49. Fluoride inhibits gycolytic enzymes. cited in “Should Natick Fluoridate?, Natick Fluoridation Study Committee, 1997

Bartholmes, P, et al., Inhibition of Gylcolytic Enzymes by Fluoride Ions, Dtsc. Zahnarztl. Z., 42:916 (1987)

50. Fluoride inhibits cell growth enzymes.

Holland, RI, Fluoride Inhibition of Protein Synthesis, Cell. Biol. Int. Rep. 3:701 (1979)

51. Fluoride inhibits testosterone synthesis.

Kanwar, KC, et al., In Vitro inhibition of testosterone synthesis in the presence of fluoride ions, I. R. C. S. Med. Sci., 11:813-814, (1983).

Kidneys and Thyroid Toxicity

52. “Human kidneys… concentrate fluoride as much as 50-fold from plasma to urine. Portions of the renal system may therefore be at higher risk of fluoride toxicity than most soft tissues.”

National Research Council, (2006), Fluoride in Drinking Water: A Scientific Review of EPA’s Standards, National Academies Press.

53. “Persons with renal failure can have a four fold increase in skeletal fluoride content, are at more risk of spontaneous bone fractures, and akin to skeletal fluorosis even at 1.0 ppm fluoride in drinking water.”

Ayoob S, Gupta AK, (2006), Fluoride in Drinking Water, A Review on the Status and Stress Effects. Critical Reviews in Environmental Science and Technology, 36:433-487.

Manocha SL, et al. (1975), Cytochemical response of kidney, liver and nervous system to fluoride ions in drinking water, Histochemical Journal 7: 343-355.

  1. Fluoride-related kidney damage is exhibited is animals at exposure levels as low as 1 ppm in rats, and 5 ppm in monkeys.

Varner JA, et al., (1998), Chronic administration of aluminum-fluoride and sodium-fluoride to rats in drinking water: Alterations in neuronal and cerebrovascular integrity, Brain Research 784: 284-298.

Sullivan WD, (1969), The in vitro and in vivo effects of fluoride on succinic dehydrogenase activity, Fluoride 2:168-175.

Ramseyer WF, et al., (1957), Effect of sodium fluoride administration on body changes in old rats, Journal of Gerontology 12: 14-19.

  1. Fluoride inhibits the secretion of insulin in rats.

Menoyo I et al, (2005), Effect of fluoride on the secretion of insulin in the rat. Arzneimittelforschung 55:455-60.

The Natural Solutions Foundation strongly recommends that because of the infant-specific, organ-specific and function-specific dangers, alerts and cautions raised by fluoride levels even will within the so-called “safe” exposure levels, and because infant metabolism of fluoride is not well understood, that the United States oppose the inclusion of fluoride at any level in infant formula or any other food for special dietary uses. Infant nervous systems are especially vulnerable to the impact of heavy metals and fluoride accelerates the accumulation of lead and compromises the availability of magnesium and other vital metabolites.

The impact of fluoride on the developing nervous system, apart from any impact due to the potentiation of lead’s impact, is negative, lowering IQ and other essential higher functions. Fluoride is a suspected or likely carcinogen and interferes with crucial enzyme functions and DNA base coupling. Young males appear to be particularly susceptible to osteogenic sarcoma, a deadly disease, when exposed to fluoride. Since it is not clear what the impact of adding fluoride to infant formulas and weaning foods, it would be highly prudent to avoid any levels of this dangerous metal to infant and childhood foods.

Fluoride concentrates in and impairs pineal function with unknown, but possible, long-term increases in pediatric cancers. Fluoride has a strongly negative impact on renal and endocrine function and should be avoided for that reason as well.

Despite the wide-spread belief that fluoride supports and maintains healthy ossification and bone mineralization, the data do not support that conclusion. In fact, mineralization is impaired and fractures are increased with fluoride exposure at levels well within the supposed “safe” levels.

Because of the wide spread negative effects of fluoride on vulnerable, rapidly growing infants and children, and because so many infant-specific questions remain, the Natural Solutions Foundation urges the United States to strongly oppose any level of fluoride in these foods.

Thank you for considering the comments of the Natural Solutions Foundation on fluoridation of infant formula.

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Mental Health Freedom: What Are You Taking and Why?

October 5th, 2006

I’ll admit it. I got scooped! I was planning to blog, e-blast, write press releases, do a series of interviews and generally focus attention on a burning question that could save your life or your child’s (or someone else’s): “Drugs: What are You Taking and Why?”. But a wonderful campaign got there first and is doing a spectacular job of providing information about the serious, and potentially lethal, disconnect between psychiatric drugs, psychiatric diagnoses and biochemical reality.

I want to tell you about this campaign and urge you to consult the first class information provided on their site, their radio shows, articles and tools for empowerment and choice-making. Psychiatric drugs can be dangerous, they are largely untested, their efficacy is unproven, and they are powerful toxins which can have lasting, and often highly damaging, impact on the brain and behavior. Their long term effects are little known in adults and virtually unknown in children. None the less, they are quick and easy to use: they provide an initial damping of disturbing or irksome behaviors in many patients. True, the distressing and dangerous downward spiral of more symptoms, more drugs, more symptoms, more drugs, more symptoms, more drugs is a well established cycle rooted in biochemical reality. Unfortunatley, the use of these drugs is not rooted in any such biochemical solidity. The much-vaunted “Chemical Imbalance” has never been shown to exist. Treating it with expensive, life-threatening drugs whose efficacy is more a matter of glossy, but brilliant, media than of of non-commerically-tainted science is highly questionable at best and may be a lot worse. The system is broken (see below), drugs are highly questionable and should only be taken with full knowledge of the risks and benefits, and of all other options available (including questioning any diagnosis made so that you understand completely why you [or your child]) should, or should not, take the drugs offered by a harried, time-compressed, well-meaning, but well-indoctrinated physician or other prescriber.

What to do? Go to “The Truth About Psychiatry” and spend some time there. The information is sound, good science and, where there are only questions instead of answers, clearly and simply stated. While the site is not yet complete (the bookstore, for example, is yet to come), the information is top notch as are the experts who have banded together to get the word out: if YOU do not know what, and why, you are taking medication, it is your right and your responsibility to find out. Their radio archives, currently contain 11 easily downloadable archived interviews which are uniformly high quality, non technical and riveting. Each one is more potent, and more empowering, than the last. And each one prepares you to ask the right questions and evaluate the answers you get from your doctor or any where else.

The “Just Say Know” site is not about drug bashing. It is about ignorance busting.

To help you be in the know so you can make truly informed decisions, there is a very elegant, simple, clear (and clearly useful) form which you can download at www.psychtruth.org/justsayknow.htm. Working through it with your doctor you can see what you are taking and why. And, whatever your decision about the drugs themselves, as an informed consumer you are “doing a body good!” — Yours!

October is “Just Say Know” Month. I salute this initiative and will support it. And oh, by the way, the alternatives to drugs are all natural items (including a clean diet and high potency nutrients) which would become a thing of the past – world wide – if we do not preserve our right to health and health freedom. Donate now to the Natural Solutions Foundation to keep health freedom alive and well — so you CAN “Just Say ‘Know'” this month and every month using your choice of nutrients, supplements, clean food, detox, etc. Don’t let Codex take that away from you and those you love!

If you choose drugs, then let it be a knowing, understanding and well-informed choice. Just Say KNOW!”

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

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Letter From Ralph Fucetola

October 4th, 2006

October 4, 2006
A Letter From Our Attorney

Natural Solutions Foundation’s lawyer, Ralph Fucetola, has provided us with a copy of the letter with which he responded when some people asked similar questions about the Natural Solutions Foundation activities.

He has authorized us to share it with the folks on our list. Please feel free to copy, share or distribute this letter as you see fit. We do ask that you do not edit or change it in the event you forward it on.

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

Ralph Fucetola JD
www.VitaminLawyer.com
58 Plotts Road – Newton, NJ 07860
973.300.1519 – Fax: 300.5486
October 6, 2006
Dear Rima,

Several people have raised questions which I have answered in the attached
letter. Please feel free to share it with your elist and on your web site.

Ralph Fucetola, JD
http://www.vitaminlawyer.com
All Rights Reserved

Attached:

Ralph Fucetola JD
www.VitaminLawyer.com
58 Plotts Road – Newton, NJ 07860
973.300.1519 – Fax: 300.5486

September 26, 2006

Dear Allan:

I urge all Natural Solutions Foundation supporters to respond to this call for emergency help and support. The Foundation’s growing international alliances are proving to be the most effective opposition to the Codex Alimentarius anti-nutrition, anti-health agenda. The international situation is critical and Natural Solutions Foundation needs immediate financial support so that we can attend the upcoming Codex Committee on Nutrition and Foods for Special Dietary Uses where the Global Strategy is on the agenda. The Foundation needs Health Freedom Angels this week.

Donation Link : www.healthfreedomusa.org/action/donate.shtml

Natural Solutions Foundation is a nonprofit research and public policy, nongovernmental organization active in the international health care community. The Foundation and its leadership are very well respected in the healing community. Later this month, the Foundation’s President and its Medical Director will jointly receive the prestigious Dr. Carlton Lee Award from the American Academy of Environmental Medicine. The AAEM gives this award to those who have done the most for natural medicine in the past year.

Natural Solutions Foundation is not tied to any company, industry or special interest. All funding comes from your private donations. Our ability to attend international meetings and pursue the International Strategy depends entirely on Foundation supporters to provide the necessary funding.

Donation Link : www.healthfreedomusa.org/action/donate.shtml

As general counsel, I am responding to questions that have been raised regarding the work of the Natural Solutions Foundation. The recent attacks are akin to the Pharma-Cartel funded “Quack-Buster” attacks on pharmaceutical medicine’s most effective, natural (alternative) competitor therapies, and the unfounded criticisms voiced by the Chairman of the Codex Alimentarius Commission, Dr. Claude Mosha, at recent Codex meetings (see: http://www.prweb.com/releases/2006/7/prweb406560.htm).This orchestrated campaign appears designed to undermine and marginalize Natural Solutions Foundation.

Smear, ridicule, slander and liable are used against all effective opponents of the pharma-driven world order. These attacks are a validation of how effective The Foundation’s International Strategy has been in creating a pro-health consortium at the international level. These baseless smear tactics are intended to divide the health freedom community and isolate one of the most effective and sophisticated international forces for consumer health and natural health options – the Natural Solutions Foundation. We reject these attacks as unworthy of further response. I think we can all agree that our focus must be on actions that engage Codex Alimentarius, the World Food Code, in supporting good nutrition and natural health solutions.

It has been falsely asserted that I disagree with the leadership of the Foundation about impact of steps taken at the Codex CCFL and the implementation of the WHO Global Strategy on Diet, Physical Activity and Health.

My article about the events at the Codex CCFL meeting in Canada earlier this year reported that the committee took significant steps toward a more nutritionally sound international food trade. Specifically the committee included the South African principles for implementation of the WHO Global Strategy on Diet, Physical Activity and Health in the committee’s official meeting report. I also reported the ongoing jockeying between major forces in Codex, especially, the US and EU.

The report of the meeting posted by the leaders of the Natural Solutions Foundation, who were also present, made the same points as my article. The Final Committee Report states …

“24) The Delegation of South Africa, supported by the observer from NHF, put forward several proposals for consideration: recognizing that nutrients are not toxins and that their assessment should reflect acknowledged benefits and desired impacts from their use in order to achieve positive outcomes and that they should generally be recognized as safe; banning the addition of partially and fully hydrogenated trans fatty acids in foods; allowing the enrichment of dietary supplements in foods in order to optimize nutrient density to compensate for a decline in micronutrients in various foods; ensuring that global legislation prevent the use of industrial toxins and additives that are not supported by biochemistry and clinical experience; supporting nutrition and health claims and advertising for those foods that contribute to a healthy life style, while banning such claims for those foods which do not contribute to a healthy life style, especially as regards avertising as directed to children, all in the context of optimal health.”

[3]

This is unique and important step in insuring the inclusion of nutrition standards in international food trade rules. The South African representatives at the meeting concurred with us in our interpretation of these events.

We at the Natural Solutions Foundation believe that the inclusion of the essence of the “South African principles” in the CCFL Committee Final Report advances our two-pronged strategy for the implementation of an international food trade standard that focuses on organic food and natural health options which tracks the Health Freedom principles of the US Dietary Supplement Health and Education Act (DSHEA) of 1994, that Supplements are Foods, not Toxins.[4],[5] The strategy consists of persuading countries to adopt a health promoting revised guideline or standard based on better science than the corresponding Codex guideline or standard and then enact legislation which makes this revised guideline or standard national law. With respect to the Codex Guidelines for Vitamin and Mineral Food Supplements, this template would be manifested in the following manner:

1. Establish the international guidelines for food supplement trade developed by Natural Solutions Foundation in conjunction with the Citizens for Health Codex Working Group as their domestic nutritional guidelines, rather than the scientifically flawed Codex Guidelines for Vitamin and Mineral Food Supplements (ratified July 4, 2005, Rome, Italy).

2. Adopt domestic national food supplement laws that apply the principles of the US Dietary Supplement Health and Education Act of 1994 (DSHEA).

Natural Solutions Foundation and the Citizens for Health Codex Working Group have developed a Model International Food Supplements law to assist countries interested in adopting DSHEA-type legislation based on the principle that nutrients are foods to serve as the precedent for other corrective guidelines and standards to replace those which support an industrialized food supply over a natural, organic one. You can find our proposed guidelines and Model law on our web site at: Codex e-Book ,

http://www.healthfreedomusa.org/resources/books.shtml.

Natural Solutions Foundation representatives have had great success in pursuing this agenda in meetings with senior national officials, including cabinet members and heads of state, in several African and Asian countries and at Codex meetings. The actions of the Codex CCFL in Canada have been helpful in these efforts. But the favorable discussions held so far are only the first steps in creating sound nutritional standards for international food trade. The next step is to persuade countries to act on the information that they are treating positively in these early conversations.

For your records, to allow comparison with what the CCFL included in its Report, here are the South African Principles as proposed to the CCFL:

South Africa presented eleven points for the implementation of the Global Strategy on Diet, Physical Exercise and Health:

1. Formally recognize and accept that nutrients are not toxins. They should be subjected to sound assessment procedures which take into account empirical, clinical, statistical and peer review processes and which take acknowledged benefits and desirable impact from the use of them in order to achieve positive outcomes, into consideration;

2. Formally accept nutrients as generally safe and encourage the unrestricted sale of that category of food called “dietary supplements” at all levels, including optimum potency levels, throughout the world;

3. Ban all added trans fats derived from industrial hydrogenation in the production of food;

4. Ensure that countries are encouraged to add, and do not place restrictions on the addition of nutrients which are supported by biochemistry, clinical nutrition, clinical experience, empirical observation and customary usage to food;

5. Ensure that countries enact strong legislative restrictions on the addition of industrial toxins to food, which are not supported by biochemistry, clinical nutrition, clinical experience and customary usage;

6. Allow and encourage enrichment of foods through the addition of that class of food called dietary supplements in order to optimize nutrient density of foods. Require that countries compensate for the decline in micronutrients in agricultural produce (e.g., fruits and vegetables) as a result of the depletion of trace nutrients in soil by commercial agriculture practices through the incorporation of that class of food called dietary supplements in order to optimize nutrient density of these foods;

7. Encourage and support the development of national and international policies which, enhance local, national, regional and global optimal nutrition through life-style modification (including diet), fortification and supplementation with that category of food called dietary supplements at all levels, including optimum potency levels;

8. Identify foods that do not contribute to, conflict with or are not essential for a healthy lifestyle (”junk food”). Similarly, identify foods that can support a healthy life-style. Support nutrition and health claims in labeling and advertising for those foods that do contribute to a healthy life-style and ban nutrition and health claims on the labeling and advertising of those foods which do not contribute to a healthy life style in order to encourage health-supporting foods and discourage ones that do not support health;

9. Ensure that countries encourage truthful, full and accurate labeling and advertising on all foods, which contribute to health and ban advertising and health claims on those that do not;

10. Ensure that countries develop a ban on junk food advertising to children (birth to 18 years);

11. Require that the Chairpersons of CCFL and CCNFSDU report to the Codex Alimentarius Commission every other year on the status of the implementation of the WHO/FAO GLOBAL STRATEGY ON DIET, PHYSICAL ACTIVITY AND HEALTH and items 1-10 listed above.[6]

I trust that this letter clarifies the role of the Natural Solutions Foundation and myself in the campaign to include sound nutrition principles in the regulation of international food trade. I encourage all individuals who support or are interested in the activities of the Natural Solutions Foundation to contact us directly on any matters of interest or concern about the Natural Solutions Foundation.

I am proud to be a Natural Solutions Foundation supporter. On behalf the leadership and the other good people at NSF, I invite your continued support. We need your donations to succeed.

Donation Link: http://www.healthfreedomusa.org/action/donate.shtml .

I thank you for your inquiry about the role of the Natural Solutions Foundation and for your continuing support of the Natural Solutions Foundation.

Sincerely,

Ralph Fucetola, JD

www.HealthFreedomUSA.org

info@healthfreedomusa.org

[1] http://www.who.int/hpr/gs.strategy.document.shtml

[2] Report of the Thirty Fourth Session of the Codex Committee on Food Labeling, Ottawa, Canada May 1-5, 2006, Alinorm 06/29/22, p 9

[3] Ibid

[4] Codex eBook, http://www.healthfreedomusa.org/resources/books.shtml

[5] International Decade of Nutrition, http://www.prweb.com/releases/2006/9/prweb432432.htm

[6] http://www.who.int/nutrition/comment_southafrica.pdf

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Out of India! Days 44-50: July 25-31, 2006

July 30th, 2006

Day 44: July 25, 2006

Today the Director Medical of Sir Ganga Ram Hosptial, Dr. Nalini Kaul, Bert and I made the journey to the foothills of the Himalayas to a town called Misoori (pronouneced “miz ZOO ri” which looks like the pictures I have seen of Tibet: steep, craggy mountains with exquisit and improbably buildings perched on their absolute edges, mists in the peaks, astonishingly dangerous roads on the edge of eternity. But we went there to meet a healer of extraordinary power who is also a scientist of exceptional talents. He has created frequency devices which do the things that we all hope they will do, starting with cancer. Bert and I wanted to meet him!

About 8 harrowing hours after starting out, we reached his astonishing house where we had lunch (very good food) and conversation (outstanding!) and then watched him treat patients with asthma, diabetes and other serious diseases and conditions with a simple touch of his fingers. The energy in the room, by the way, was palpable. The patients were significantly better after treatment by this brilliant, simple and saintly man.

I asked him if he would treat an olechronon busal cyst (fluid filled bump) on Bert’s left elbow and he agreed. As soon as the 2 minute treatment was over, the cyst was about 1/3 its previous size and hardness. He said it would take one or two more treatments to resolve the issue.

We drove down into town and in the pouring monsoon rains, found a restaruant where we had excellent vegetarian food and we agreed that this scientist would work with us to develop frequency devices to treat a variety of things. To do that, of course, we will have to find a way to set up a frequency laboratory. I don’t know quite how, but we will. His techniques, and others we know about, belong to the world. They are another type of natural health option which we should all have the possibility to use for health and healing if we wish.

Day 45: July 26, 2006

Breakfast with our new friend, two quick treatments for Bert and back to Delhi in the rains, down roads that scared us all witless, into towns and back into the country, past temples and mosques everywhere. When we got back, of course, my task was email since there was no connectivity in the hotel and we were far to busy to spend time that way in the house of the remarkable man we were visiting.

By the time we reached Delhi, however, Bert’s previously asymptomatic cyst was now hot, hard, painful and much, much larger than it had every been before. Clearly the treatment did something, but we did not have any idea what at that point.

Day 46: July 27, 2006

Our IT guy, Venkat, flew in from Channai (in the state of Tamil Nadu) so we could talk about the issues involved in servicing the complex Natural Solutions Foundation organization which is rapidly growing here in India and its IT needs.

For dinner, we met again with pulmonologist D. G. Jain, MD and asked him if he would honor us by serving as the Chairman of the Natural Solutions Foundation for Delhi. To our immense pleasure and gratitude he agreed and we discussed just what that means.

India is a ripe ground for productive public and professional support for health and health freedom. She has a large footprint on the world’s stage and is a ripening economy which is now in the process of making decisions which will change her future and the world scene. Our allies here are well organized, motivated and highly educated. We are very, very glad we came!

Day 47: July 28, 2007

While waiting to see one of our people in the morning we were asked if we would meet with the Sir Ganga Ram Hosptial Dietician staff. We did, of course, and met 3 well-informed, motivated and passionate ladies who understand the relationship between food and health. Their hosptial uses only fresh foods and cooks every meal at the time it will be served. We made a variety of suggestions (like, “Get rid of the styrofoam cups and bowls, use brown rice, use organic foods, incorporate more unrefined, organic coconut oil, use more selenium-rich vegetables”, etc.) and we discussed how to implement them. Clearly, that connection will expand and we were simply delighted.

When we were meeting with Dr. Kaul about how we will proceed with research in several areas. I asked her to take a look at Bert’s cyst (which was worse than it was on Wednesday by a good deal). She and I knew that it could not wait until we got home in a few days and while she was pondering whom to refer us to (in one of India’s finest hospitals, by the way) the door opened and in walked the head of the Plastic Surgery Department. “That’s your man!” said Dr. Kaul and Bert very shortly was having blood drawn, urine specimen received an MRI of his elbow and a CT scan, too.

We met with the radiologist and reviewed the scans with him: there was not only a huge and not very postive something or other, it was impinging on the bone and had to come out — tomorrow.

Day 49: July 29, 2006

Bert and I went to the hospital early and sat around for a long time (that is trans cultural!) and then he was taken into the Operating Theater for the procuedure (under local anaesthetic, I am happy to say!). Due to their hospital policy, I could not come so I did what loved ones do: I sat and sat and sat and sat. Finally, he came out of the OT he went to Out Patient Recovery and I joined him. He was well, alert and really pretty cut up on the left arm. Apparently, what came out was partly necrotic (dead) and alll nasty. It was huge (8 centimeters by 4 cm of nastiness). But the really interesting thing is that there was nothing much there when the energy healer finished his treatments. So our hypothesis of the moment is that the energy stimulated the tissue and damaged it, too, but not enough to get rid of the problem. Bert’s body quite reasonably produced an inflammation to try to deal with the sudden change in the area and the net result was a problem which needed urgent care!

I am really sorry that Bert had to go through this, but it is really interesting and instructive about how energy can work when interacting with the physical body. There is a hint in there for further understanding.

At about 3:00PM I had to make a choice: Bert was well but still in the recovery room and I could stay with him or I could leave him (since he was fine) and let the hospital finish its routine with him while I went to the first of two important obligations that evening. We decided that I would leave him to get a cab 5 minutes to the Hotel Swadi Deluxe where we are staying.

My first meeting was at the India Habitat Center’ American Diner (serving American fast food!) with a former journalist who, for the past 15 years has been fighting hunger in India by opposing GM foods and other devastating policies. He was knowlegeable, passionate and purposeful. His organization has produced outstanding results here in India in public and politician awareness on the issues and we agreed that our mutual issues ( because they are identical) are completely winnable. The materials his organization has produced are outstanding and in the coming weeks and months, our organizations will be supporting and strengthening each other.

I explained the “Codex 2 Step” to him and he, an expert in the WTO and trade sanctions, was absolutly delighted since it makes perfect sense to take this tack. He received a copy of the Codex eBook which applies this template to the devastatingly restrictive and pro-illness “Vitamin and Mineral Guideline” ratified by Codex on July 4, 2005.

Next we headed off to a meeting hall in the Habitat Center to speak at the invitation of D. G. Kaarthikayen, former head of India’s Central Bureau of Intellegence (their equivalent of our FBI) about whom I have previously written and with the help of his son, Kailas. The crowd was a gathering of the intellegencia and power elite of Delhi, I had been told but I was not prepared for the astonishing array of people I met who occupy high and influential positions. All of them had come to hear a Pranic (energy) healer from the Philipines who had arrive just that day. They got me, too, rather unexpectedly!

The response was very heartening: although they did not come to hear about health and health freedom, they responded very vigorously and positively, coming to the front of the room in a throng to get our card, brochure, give us their cards, etc. and make contact for further development. It was a great finale for this trip and opened up more opportunities for positive movement.

Health and health freedom are global. Their support around the world globalizes their access and strength for us all. This trip, like our previous ones, have made it clear that allies gain form one another and give to one another.

Whether it’s South Africa, Tanzania, Mali, Afghanistan, India, Peru or the US, we feed each other and we need each other. And we all understand that clean, unadulterated food is the foundation of health! Natural health options are our birthright and our personal right. No one will take them from us. And nutrients will help to end world hunger and increase world health. The Natural Solutions Foundation is making that options clear to health allies around the world.

Thanks for being part of that mission.

Day 50: July 30, 2006.

Packing to go home and tending Bert’s wound occupied nearly the whole day.

He had his drain removed in the hospital today and we bought a new suitcase to hold all the books, pamphets, papers, etc. which we acquired along the way on this remarkable trip.

But there was time for a wonderful phone call in between these tasks. Dr. C. V. Krishnaswami, widely regarded as one of India’s leading lights in diabetology, has agreed to head the Natural Solutions Foundation — India in the state of Tamil Nadu. Dr. CVK, as he is widely known, is a natural health advocate with a huge reputation and an even larger heart. He has published widely on the fact that women with gestational diabetis, for example, do not need to be placed on insulin but instead, given 250 mg of Vitamin B6 per day. Their babies and they do beautifully and both are spared the dangers of exogenous (outside) insulin administration.

Dr. Preema Krishnaswami, the equally celebrated obstetrician (and Dr. CVK’s wife) has delivered hundreds of healthy babies to celebreties and poor people alike. She has tended equally healthy babies and moms on this regimen for gestational diabetes and together Dr. CVK and Dr. Preema have published their results. But that is not all: in addition to very busy practices they run a free diabetes service for 500 Type 1 diabetic children: not only do they pay for their insulin (which their families could not afford), but they provide their school uniforms, pay for their school fees (not free in India), provide them with counseling, make sure that they find employement when they leave school, provide food for them and, in fact, make it possible for these children to have happy, productive childhoods and go on to happy, productive adult lives.

Dr. CVK and Dr. Preema are, I can tell you from personal experience, two of the most incredible people I have ever met. And now they have graced us by joining the battle with the Natural Solutions Foundation.

In fact, the exceptionally powerful meeting of people in their city of Chennai which we spoke at was arranged by them. So was our meeting with the wife of one of India’s leading film stars who is now interested in bringing her circle of influence to bear for our cause. These are people of heart, skill and influence and we are deeply honored by their participation in the health and health freedom cause.

Day 51: July 31, 2006

Our flight leaves Delhi at 4:15 AM. No news now, just transit.

Yours in health and freedom,

Rima E. Laibow, MD
Medical Director

Then we headed off to

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Day 43: July 24, 2006

July 24th, 2006

What a day! You already know that the Natural Solutions Foundation is purusing an international strategy since Codex is an international problem and a legal strategy since Codex uses law-like proceedures to force its pro-illness views on the nations of the world. Well, there are nations still able to refuse to be controlled by external forces like Codex. India may well be one of them.g

I promised you that today’s events would knock your socks off so get ready: today Bert and I met with the President of India, Mr. A. P. J. Abdul Kalam and briefed him on Codex! In a

    private

meeting with Bert and me Mr. Kalam, who is known and revered by everyone we spoke with as “The People’s President”, listened carefully and took in everything we said. He promised to study our information carefully (contained in the Codex eBook) and it is clear that we have a listening ear and a potential ally in Mr. Kalam. This leader is known far and wide as a strong advocate of natural health methods and, indeed, it was by congratulating us on our focus on natural health and urging us to include the mind, not just the body, in our healing (which we do), that Mr. Kalam began our supposedly 20 minute meeting. After the 30 minute mark had passed, we were still in the room talking although the staff was in a furor. Mr. Kalam was unperturbed by their sense of urgency and we were able to continue talking.

It was, in short, an amazing opeing which we are profoundly grateful to Prof. Dr. B. M. Hegde, Director, Natural Solutions Foundation — India, that this highly significant meeting came about.

Thank you, Prof. Dr. Hegde, for your support and help. And thank you, Mr. Kalam, for your listening, learning mind.

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

I am much to tired to write more but I promise that you will have the details tomorrow along with the story of an outing to see the maker of astonishing new technology about which I will tell you.

The President of India, a country with more than 1.2 Billion people was listening very, very carefully. He is known as an incorruptable man of the highest integrety who speaks for what he believes, not for what is convenient.

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