The Health Plus Letter
November 16, 2004, Vol. 2, No. 37
By Larry Trivieri, Jr. – founder & publisher,
http://www.1healthyworld.com

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Table Of Contents
What’s New
Quote of the Day
Fast Fact
Medical F/r/e/edom Alert
An Update on CODEX by Bill Sardi
Self-Care Tips for Preventing and Recovering From Athlete’s Foot
Recommendations


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What’s New

I’d like to begin this issue by congratulating Ann Fonfa, aka Annie Appleseed, for being profiled in Alternative Medicine magazine. Ann is one of my readers and the founder and publisher of the excellent online cancer resource, The Annie Appleseed Project (http://annieappleseedproject.org). A survivor of cancer herself, Ann is devoted to helping others learn more about the full range of treatment options that are available for treating cancer, and her website is a treasure trove of information in that regard. You can read Ann’s profile at http://snipurl.com/ao8p. Congratulations, Ann, and keep up the great work!

Well, CODEX, the international legislation crafted by non-elected officials intended to regulate the global sale of nutritional supplements has been finalized. Although spokespeople for the nutritional supplements industry are hailing the legislation as a victory for their side, I have serious doubts. Especially as a number nutritional manufacturers today have been subsumed by Big Pharma and thus have a stake in seeing their own industry compromised.  To read why CODEX is flawed and poses a serious threat to your medical freedom, please read Bill Sardi’s article about it below.

No doubt many readers also saw the news a few days ago that vitamin E is no good for you. This widely touted report is said to be based on scientific research proving such a claim. In fact, it’s little more than another scare piece based on no science at all. In his article, Bill explains why. Be sure to read it.

Also in this issue, I’m providing self-care tips you can use to prevent and reverse athlete’s foot.

As always, please continue to send me your comments and suggestions. And please spread the word about The Health Plus Letter by passing it along to your friends and inviting them to subscribe.


Quote Of The Day

“The best way out is always through.”
-- Robert Frost


Fast Fact

23% of American soldiers who saw battle in Iraq have been diagnosed with post-traumatic stress disorder, and health experts expect this figure to rise in coming months.

Source: “These Unseen Wounds Cut Deep,” Los Angeles Times, Nov. 17, 2004


Medical F/r/e/edom Alert

Our health f/r/e/edom remains under siege. Please support the following organizations, which are at the forefront of those working to protect our rights:

Citizens for Health - http://www.citizens.org (Sign their online petition to safeguard health supplements.)

Institute for Health F/r/e/edom – http://www.ForHealthF/r/e/edom.org

International Advocates for Health F/r/e/edom (IAHF) – http://www.iahf.com

Health Lobby (Monica Miller) – http://www.healthlobby.com

To stay info/rmed of other developments related to medical f/r/e/edom, please visit http://www4.dr-rath-foundation.org the website of Dr. Mattias Rath, a leading crusader for medical f/r/e/edom.

To see to what depraved lengths people will go to persecute practitioners of alternative medicine in the U.S., please read the following report by noted medical f/r/e/edom advocate Tim Bolen at http://www.quackpotwatch.org/opinionpieces/Suster2.htm

And to learn how corrupt and extensive Big Pharma’s monopoly is, visit http://www.pnc.com.au/~cafmr/online/research/index.html the website for the Campaign Against Fraudulent Medical Research. In particular, read their in-depth report The Pharmaceutical Drug Racket that you will find th/e/re.


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July 1, 2005: The Day CODEX Will Protect You From High-Dose Dietary Supplements by Bill Sardi

Advances in dietary supplementation are about to take a giant step backwards. About 8 months from n/o/w the dreaded CODEX rules will go into force regarding dietary supplements. CODEX is a worldwide regulatory body. Out of ignorance, the vitamin supplement industry has completely caved in to the regulatory process, with one scientific officer for an organization that represents the vitamin supplement manufacturers saying the soon-to-be-implemented CODEX regul/ations are “broadly welcomed.” The industry has been badgered into accepting the false notion that the world must be protected from the imagined side effects of high-dose vitamins and minerals. We are sure Codex will go through in July, 2005 and will be similar to US law. The guidelines are not perfect, but this is an excellent document that has been a long-time in coming,” says John Hathcock, scientific officer for the Council for Responsible Nutrition.

Instead of deciding upon a percentage of the outdated Recommended Dietary Allowance for the upper limit of supplemental nutrients, which vitamin supplement advocates feared, n/o/w the maximum levels will be determined by “scientific risk assessment.” The problem is that the published science behind dietary supplements is often flawed, biased, outdated and in bad need of revision. For example, the upper limits previously proposed for vitamin C (2000 mg), vitamin D (2000 IU) and folic acid (1000 mcg), that CODEX will likely adopt, will set back recent advances in nutritional science that would otherwise significantly reduce morbidity and mortality among mil/lions of people worldwide.

Universal limit on vitamin D

As early as 1989 health authorities questioned whether it was even possible to establish an upper limit on vitamin D intake. [J Nutrition 119:1825-8, 1989] There is simply no adequate way to establish a universal upper limit for vitamin D since people living in countries in northern latitudes produce no vitamin D in winter from sunlight exposure, as well as blacks who have immigrated to northern lands, require far more vitamin D than native Caucasians. A one-size-fits-all upper limit doesn’t work.

Dr. Michael Holick, an expert on vitamin D, says blacks make five to 10 times less vitamin D in their skin per minute of sun exposure than white people due to higher melanin pigmentation. Ten times more blacks are vitamin D-deficient than whites. Blacks should be protesting CODEX, but their own health leaders are confused themselves. Yet many of the major health risks for blacks, hypertension, colon, prostate and breast cancer, and immune problems, are directly related to a lack of vitamin D. [U.S. Pharmacist 10:66-72, 2004] Blacks may need 10,000 units of vitamin D per day, especially in northern climates in the winter, just to remain healthy. The maximum safe intake level for blacks should go far beyond that mark.

Furthermore, there is no practical risk of toxicity from vitamin D supplementation among healthy individuals. Toxicity doesn’t begin till 40,000 units are consumed daily for many months. So many American consumers already shun high-dose vitamin D supplementation (2000 IU) because their doctor, pharmacist, or an outdated textbook, mistakenly advises against it. To reveal how misled health authorities are about vitamin D, a person can stand in their swim trunks in the Arizona sun at noontime in the summer for one hour and produce 10,000 units of natural vitamin D, five times the proposed upper limit, and ne/ver experience any side effects. But high-dose vitamin D in pill fo/rm must assuredly be toxic, say the misguided experts. [Am J Clinical Nutrition 69: 842-56,
1999; Am J Clinical Nutrition;73:288-94, 2001; Nutrition Journal. 3:8, 2004]

No more expensive urine: high-dose vitamin C

Drs. Steve Hickey and Hilary Roberts from Manchester, England, authors of Ascorbate: The Science of Vitamin C (http://www.lulu.com/ascorbate), have exposed the flaws in the government-sponsored science that fallaciously claims vitamin C supplementation beyond 200 milligrams per day is “worthless” and becomes nothing more than “expensive urine.” The studies performed to establish the Recommended Dietary Allowance for vitamin C did not calculate for the half life of vitamin C, which is about 30 minutes. So tests were performed 12 hours (or 24 half-lives) after consumption and the peak concentration in the blood circulation was measured. Of course, it was an experiment designed to mislead. Drs. Hickey and Roberts are n/o/w rushing to produce another book, the "Ridiculous Daily Allowance,” which will further expose the reigning counterfeit science behind vitamin C supplementation.

Virtually all healthy adults who supplement their diet with 500 milligrams of vitamin C taken 5 times a day (2500 mg total) will achieve blood levels that can significantly reduce the risk of mortality and morbidity compared to adults with low vitamin C intake. If some minimal amount of vitamin C prevents overt scurvy, then what will the maximal level of intake be for vitamin C? Will the new maximum be enough to prevent cataracts, aneurysms, blood vessel disease, gall stones? All these are maladies that can be prevented through high-dose vitamin C supplementation. Smokers, pregnant females, people taking aspirin, steroids or estrogen replacement, diabetics, growing children, the allergic, people with recurrent viral infections, nursing home patients and sun-exposed individuals need more vitamin C. Will the new CODEX maxims consider these mil/lions of people?

Mega-dose B vitamins

Just when researchers are finding high-dose folic acid, at least 1000-5000 micrograms, may prevent Alzheimer’s disease, birth defects, cancer, and replace prescription antidepressant drugs, CODEX may set a flawed upper limit that will inhibit consumers from purchasing high doses.

Is CODEX that bad?

Since CODEX doesn’t outlaw dietary supplements outright, it only establishes maxims on vitamins and minerals in one dose (a serving size), it doesn’t appear on the surface to be too onerous. “We’re not taking your vitamins away,” say authorities for CODEX. But n/o/w vitamin D pills may be limited to maximum 2000 IU per pill, so a black person needing to consume 10,000 IU per day would need to take 5 of these pills, at greater expense, when one 10,000 IU pill could be made available at far less cost. Under CODEX, vitamin B6 may be limited to 10 milligrams per pill (Britain adopted this maximum for vitamin B6 recently). A German study indicates 300-400 milligrams of vitamin B6 may effectively prevent high blood pressure among diabetics. CODEX might require a consumer to take 30-40 pills instead of one mega-dose pill to obtain 300-400 milligrams of vitamin B6 needed to control blood pressure. It’s easy to see he/re the vitamin manufacturers might actually benefit from CODEX by selling more pills.

CODEX will likely mandate the maxims be printed on labels, which will further frighten consumers away from high-dose supplements. Consumers will have to be educated to ignore the labels. CODEX maxims on vitamins and minerals are supposed to protect the public from side effects due to over-dosage. But without CODEX there have been no reported deaths and only a small number of adverse reactions reported to poison control centers in the USA in the past few years. [Am Journal Emergency Med 20: 391-452, 2002] Who is CODEX protecting?

CODEX has established a deadline of December 10, 2004 to provide scientific commentary and rebuttal to the proposed upper limits on vitamin supplements.
[http://www.who.int/ipcs/highlights/nutrientraproject/en/ ] Anticipate an all-out barrage of misinformation in the news media on the safety of high-dose dietary supplements between n/o/w and July 1, 2005 to soften up the public.

Just as this report was being written, news headlines carry another bogus report which falsely claims high-dose vitamin E (400 IU or more) may increase the risk of death by 5 percent. This false conclusion was made after analysis of 19 studies involving 136,000 people (to be published in the January 4, 2005 issue of the Annals of Internal Medicine). The 5 percent figure is a relative increase, not a hard number (not a 5 out of 100 increase). High-dose vitamin E does not significantly increase, nor does it decrease, mortality rates. Furthermore, people with cardiovascular disease are more likely to be taking vitamin E supplements, which skews the statistics. A Univ/ersity of North Carolina study of 45,748 participants, aged 50 to 75 years, found that supplement use is higher among people who are battling chronic health conditions and the strongest association was for cardiovascular disease with supplemental vitamin E. [Am Journal Preventive Medicine 24:43-51, 2003]

Copyright 2004 Bill Sardi. All rights reserved. [Bill Sardi is a consumer advocate and health journalist, writing from San Dimas, California. He has written numerous health books including The New Truth About Vitamins And Minerals (http://www.hereandnowbooks.com). His website is http://www.askbillsardi.com.]


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Self-Care Tips for Preventing and Recovering From Athlete’s Foot

Athlete’s foot is the most common fungal infection of the skin, characterized by fungal growth on the skin of the foot and occasionally on the toenails. The infectious fungal species thrives in warmth and dampness and is prevalent in gym locker rooms and around indoor swimming pools.

Symptoms: Itching, burning, and stinging sensations, as well as scaling, cracking, and inflammation of the skin between the toes and on the soles of the feet. In some cases, the infection may involve the toenails.

Self-Care

Diet: Whole foods diet with emphasis on raw food, less dairy products. Avoid foods high in yeast such as beer and breads with yeast. Avoid sugar of all sorts (including honey and fruit juices) for some weeks while antifungal methods are being used.

Nutritional Therapy: • Acidophilus • Bifidobacteria and L. bulgaricus • Garlic capsules • Vitamin B complex • Pantothenic acid • Vitamin C to bowel tolerance • Vitamin E • Vitamin A • Zinc

Aromatherapy: Tea tree oil, patchouli, geranium.

Flower Essences: Rescue Remedy Cream.

Herbs: Fungicidal herbs are an effective topical treatment for athlete’s foot. Examples are myrrh, tea tree, and garlic. Tea tree oil can be applied directly or diluted with calendula oil for application to sensitive skin.

Homeopathy: Calendula, Chamomilla, Belladonna, Merc sol., Sulfur.

Topical Treatment: To the affected area, apply some of the following: tea tree oil, citrus seed extract, honey and crushed garlic, Pau d’arco tea by wetting tea bag for ten minutes and then leave the bag itself on the area or use gauze or cotton soaked in tea if area is too large.

Professional Care

The following therapies should only be provided by a qualified health professional: Environmental Medicine, Magnetic Field Therapy, Naturopathic Medicine, and Traditional Chinese Medicine. Detoxification Therapy may also be indicated, depending on the condition of the person.


Recommendations

Website
http://glycemicindex.com- This site provides a quick and easy way to determine the glycemic index of the foods you eat. Foods that are high on the index cause blood sugar spikes and corresponding insulin imbalances, and have been linked to a variety of health disorders, including obesity and diabetes.

Books
Third Opinion, 4^th edition by John M. Fink. I receive a lot of requests for information regarding viable alternative cancer treatments and the doctors and centers that are providing them. This excellent reference guide provides detailed listings of the best such sources, both h/e/re in the U.S. and abroad. Though the entries Fink includes are not in-depth, he provides readers with the information they need to make informed choices. Very highly recommended.

Uncivil Season, Time’s Witness and First Lady by Michael Malone. These three novels feature two of the most fully realized fictional characters I’ve ever come across – homicide detectives Justin Saville the 5^th and Cuddy Magnum. If you like murder mysteries with a great cast of characters and great dialogue, written by a writer who loves language and brings a lot of intelligence to his art, you’ll enjoy these books immensely.


That’s all for this week.

Health and Blessings!

Larry Trivieri, Jr. (larry@1healthyworld.com)


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