Irish Supplement Users Petition EU - NewsGrabs 25 January 2009
Supplements in Europe: Irish petition gives ray of hope
The petition, submitted originally in December 2007 with the support of 60,000 Irish citizens, claims that measures to harmonise maximum levels of vitamin and mineral food supplements under the Food Supplements Directive—soon to be implemented by the European Commission—will unduly impact consumers, health stores and practitioners in Ireland.The European Parliament’s Petitions Committee chairman insisted that the petition be kept open and requested that the issues be referred to the European Parliament’s Committee on Environment, Public Health and Food Safety (ENVI) for further consideration.
EU reviews vitamin limits after Irish petition
The standards, introduced by EU directive, would restrict doses of vitamin D to the equivalent of that produced by 25 seconds of sunlight and prevent the sale of high-dose vitamin C products without prescription.The EU food supplements directive was given the go-ahead in 2005. However, the maximum permitted levels of ingredients to be contained in supplements has not yet been set.
The standards currently being considered would restrict the sale of vitamins and minerals to very low doses. It would become illegal to sell vitamin A in a dose that can be found in more than half a carrot or to sell selenium, an important mineral, in doses larger than in a quarter of a Brazil nut.
Vitamin D 'is mental health aid'
The study found that as levels of vitamin D went down, levels of cognitive impairment went up.Dr Iain Lang from the Peninsula Medical School, who worked on the study, said: "For those of us who live in countries where there are dark winters without much sunlight, like the UK, getting enough vitamin D can be a real problem - particularly for older people, who absorb less vitamin D from sunlight.
"One way to address this might be to provide older adults with vitamin D supplements.
FTC Threatens Christian Church for Selling Dietary Supplements
Throughout 2008, the U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has been on a free speech rampage, sending threatening demands to 130 companies selling dietary supplements. It has specifically targeted organizations selling anti-cancer dietary supplements. The typical FTC legal assault involves the sending of a threatening letter to the company or church being targeted, where FTC demands to:• Confiscate customer records.
• Confiscate all banking and financial records.
• Drag the church or business into court for refusing to comply.Organizations that refuse to meet the FTC's demands are threatened with the following:
• Arrest and imprisonment.
• Complete confiscation of their inventory.
• Being charged with crimes by the FTC. Such crimes are heard in the FTC's own kangaroo court, which is subject to no law.It's not for nothing that the FTC is known in dietary supplement circles as 'the Gestapo'. Demands are enforced by disproportionate threat and coercion. The victims are made to "settle" the matter by promising to never do again what the FTC contested. The "consent" extracted in this way precludes recourse to the normal courts.
From Genomics to Epigenomics
Decades of sequencing and dissecting the human genome have confirmed that the real causes of ill health are environmental and social. It is not the genetic messages encoded in genomic DNA but environmentally-induced epigenetic modifications that overwhelmingly determine people’s health and well-being
Dr. Mae-Wan HoBy September 2008, David B. Goldstein at Duke University, a leading young population geneticist known partly for his research into the genetic origins of the Jews, said the effort to pin down disease susceptibility genes is not working.
There is absolutely no question that for the whole hope of personalized medicine, the news has been just about as bleak as it could be,” he told the New York Times.
The reason for this disappointing outcome, in his view, is that natural selection has been far more efficient at eliminating disease-causing variants than people thought, so these variants are rare. It takes large, expensive studies with hundreds of patients in different countries to find even common disease variants, so rare variants are simply beyond reach.
It’s an astounding thing,” said Goldstein, “that we have cracked open the human genome and can look at the entire complement of common genetic variants, and what do we find? Almost nothing. That is absolutely beyond belief.”
What a pity ... pharmaceutical companies are betting the farm on gene-based medicine, even to the tune of admitting that most of their medicines on the market today only work in a rather small percentage of patients. Yet, it seems that those who say health depends primarily on environmental and nutritional factors have been right all along.
Epigenetic Toxicology
Environmental toxins modify our genes and affect our children and grandchildren; enormous implications for risk assessment of synthetic chemical and other xenobiotics
- Dr. Mae-Wan Ho
It is estimated that more than 100 000 xenobiotics are on the market in the European Union, some 70 000 are potentially hazardous for human health and/or the ecosystem. The vast majority of these chemicals have not been adequately tested for safety before they were released. Many of them are endocrine disruptors similar to those whose epigenetic effects have been reviewed in this article. Common household products – detergents, disinfectants, plastics and pesticides – contain endocrine disruptors.
Measles virus may be effective prostate cancer treatment
A new study appearing in The Prostate has found that certain measles virus vaccine strain derivatives, including a strain known as MV-CEA, may prove to be an effective treatment for patients with advanced prostate cancer. The findings show that this type of treatment, called virotherapy, can effectively infect, replicate in and kill prostate cancer cells.And here we are trying our best to eradicate measles, a relatively harmless childhood illness. Then later on, we're offered a 'special strain' of the measles virus to eliminate a tumor but only AFTER we're just about ready to die of cancer. Go figure.
ATP Test shows: Chronic Fatigue Syndrome not psychosomatic
The “ATP profile” test is a powerful diagnostic tool and can differentiate patients who have fatigue and other symptoms as a result of energy wastage by stress and psychological factors from those who have insufficient energy due to cellular respiration dysfunction. The individual factors indicate which remedial actions, in the form of dietary supplements, drugs and detoxification, are most likely to be of benefit, and what further tests should be carried out.
Video: Generation Rx
This is a video about psychiatric medications that every one interested in health freedom should see. Get a copy of it - it's worth the effort. And once you got the DVD and have watched it, for sure there is someone in your circle of family or friends who really NEEDS to watch that film. Pass it on to them.
A Call for a Re-evaluation of the AIDS Dogma
(first of three articles in the Rock Creek Free Press)
John Scythes, one of the researchers on the paper, reports that he has not found a single case of an immune suppressed patient (regardless of HIV status) who has died of complications of syphilis since the discovery of AIDS in the early 80s. The implications of this are staggering. It is simply not possible that syphilis stopped being fatal just as the new disease of AIDS came on the scene.
HIV, AIDS, and age: HIV/AIDS theory is wrong
The age distribution of deaths has remained, throughout, virtually superposable on the age distributions of first positive tests, and of diagnoses of illness, — which thereby demonstrates both lack of any significant “latent period” and lack of any significant life-extension from antiretroviral drugs.Beyond all that: the age distribution of deaths is, in and of itself, independently of the argument above, a strike against HIV/AIDS theory. In all illnesses and diseases, among those who are stricken it is young-to-middle-aged adults who survive better than do older adults or very young children. With “HIV/AIDS”, however, that is not at all the case: the probability of dying from “HIV disease” among those who are “infected” does not increase rapidly with increasing age.
Nothing about age and HIV/AIDS makes any sense. The numbers simply don’t add up — or, rather, they add up to a resounding disproof, a series of disproofs, of the misguided hypothesis that “HIV” caused “AIDS”.
Israel used depleted uranium in offensive on Gaza -- NGOs
It is not the first time Israel has been accused of using ordnance containing depleted uranium, which makes shells and bombs harder and increases their penetrating power. The Israeli army declined comment. But the U.S. and NATO have used uranium-depleted rounds in Bosnia and Iraq.According to the World Health Organization, the weapons are lightly radioactive, though "under most circumstances, use of DU will make a negligible contribution to the overall natural background levels of uranium in the environment."
Hear hear, the WHO making light of deaths of soldiers and malformed babies that come in the wake of the use of depleted uranium. Use of depleted uranium, say experts, is a WAR CRIME
If the state can't save us, we need a licence to print our own money
It bypasses greedy banks. It recharges local economies. It's time to think seriously about an alternative currency
(George Monbiot summarizes some of the monetary alternatives)- - -
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posted by Sepp Hasslberger on Sunday January 25 2009
updated on Wednesday August 15 2012URL of this article:
http://www.newmediaexplorer.org/sepp/2009/01/25/irish_supplement_users_petition_eu_newsgrabs_25_january_2009.htm