The Health Plus Letter
February 15, 2005, Vol. 3, No. 2
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
Banning Vitamin Sa/les Worldwide by Wallace G. Heath, MD
A Special Offer from Sharry Edwards
Self-Care Tips for Preventing and Reversing Carpal Tunnel Syndrome
A True and Wonderful Story
Recommendations


Unabashed Plug

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What’s New

Hello, again. For the time being, I’m continuing the bi-weekly schedule for The Health Plus Letter due to various other commitments. This week, I’m sharing with you a very important offer from Sharry Edwards, one of the leading pioneers in the field of sound medicine. I’m also once again alerting you to the threat to our ability to obtain the nutritional supplements of our choice, and balancing that with a true story that offer further proof that this ole planet of ours is still a wonderful place. You’ll also find self-care tips for dealing with carpal tunnel syndrome.

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

“Do I contradict myself? Very well, I contradict myself.”
-- Walt Whitman


Fast Fact

“U.S. health spending is projected to reach $1.9 trillion in 2005…Spending for healthcare is gobbling up about one-quarter of the growth in the economy, and health-related items amount to more than three times the defense budget and twice what the nation devotes to education. Health care will consume 15.5 percent of the U.S. economy this year, up from 13.2 percent in 2002.”

Source: Detroit News, Feb. 10, 2005

[Comment: $1.9 trillion. For a health care system that consistently ranks in the bottom tier of all industrialized nations. Moreover, according to a recently conducted study by researchers at Boston Univ/ersity, “About 50 percent of health care spending is eaten up by waste, excessive prices and fraud.” And our elected officials on both sides of the political aisle continue to support this rapacious beast to the detriment of all but those who pro/fit from such a corrupt, ineffective system.]


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.


Banning Vitamin Sa/les Worldwide by Wallace G. Heath, MD

[Note: The following article makes clear how seriously close we are to losing our freedom to choose and use nutritional supplements to ensure and improve our health. Please forward it to your own email lists and encourage those you send it to to take part in the steps Dr. Heath outlines below.]

Your right to choose your vitamin, mineral and other supplements may end in June of this year (2005). After that U.S. supplements will be defined and controlled by the World Trade Organization (WTO) and the World Health Organization (WHO). The Codex Alimentarius (Food Code) is setting the supplement standards for all countries in the WTO. They will be enforced by the WTO and will override U.S. laws. The U.S. President and Congress agreed to this take-over when the WTO Treaty was signed. Violations are punished by WTO trade sanctions. CODEX drastically restricts vitamins, minerals, herbs and other supplements. CODEX met sec/retly in November, 2004 and       finalized "Step 8 (the final stage)" to begin implementation in June, 2005.

The Food Code includes:

(1) No supplement can be sold for preventive or therapeutic use.

(2) Any potency higher than RDA (minimal strength) is a "drug" requiring a prescription and must be produced by drug companies. Over 5000 safe items n/o/w in health stores will be banned, terminating health stores as we n/o/w know them.

(3) CODEX regul/ations become binding internationally.

(4) New supplements are banned unless given very expensive CODEX testing and approval.

CODEX n/o/w applies to Norway and Germany, among other countries, where zinc  tablets rose from $4 per bottle to $52. Echinacea (an ancient immune-enhancement he/rb) rose from $14 to $153 (both examples are n/o/w allowed by prescription only). They are n/o/w "drugs". Vitamin C above 200 mg, niacin above 32 mg, vitamin B6 above 4 mg-all are banned over-the-counter as drugs. No amino acids (arginine, lysine, carnitine, etc. – essential amino acids!), essential fatty acids (omegas 3, 6, 9, etc.), or other essential supplements, such as DMEA, DHEA, CoQ10, MSM, beta-carotene, etc. are allowed.

The CODEX rules are not based on real science. They are made by a few people meeting in sec/ret (see web sites below), not necessarily scientists. In 1993, the FDA and drug corporations tried to put all supplements under restriction and prescription. But over 4 million Americans told Congress and the President to protect their freedom of choice on health supplements. The DSHEA Law was passed in 1994, which does so. But this will be over ruled by CODEX and the World Trade Organization.

Virtually nothing about it has been in the media. What the drug corporations have failed to do through Congress they have gotten by sneak attack through CODEX with the help of a silent media. What can be done at this late hour?

(1) Spread the word as much as possible. Inform yourselves by visiting the following websites: http://www.ahha.org, http://www.iahf.com, and http://www.alliance-natural-health.org.

(2) Oppose bills S.722 and H.R.3377. These support the CODEX restrictions with U.S. laws, changing the DSHEA law.

(3) Support H. R.1146 which would restore the sovereignty of the U.S. Constitution over CODEX, etc.

(4) Express your wishes to the President, Senators and Representatives (They got us into this!) ASAP.

(5) Contact multi-level health marketing groups that can get their members to inform the government.

(6) Send donations, however small, to the British Alliance for Natural Health (see web site above). This organization is challenging the CODEX directives in World Court and  needs help financially, having carried the fight effectively for everyone. CODEX and the FDA wish to protect us by controlling supplements in the same way they do prescription drugs. A study of the latter by three medical scientists was reported in the Journal of the American Medical Association, April15,1998; Vol. 279, No. 15, p. 1200 "Incidence of Adverse Drug Reactions (ADR's) was found to be extremely high." Covering 30 years (1966 to1996) it was found that in the U.S. an average of 106,000 hospitalized patients per year (290 per day!) die from ADR's and 2,200,000 need more hospitalization for recovery. These were FDA approved drugs, properly administered by competent professionals in hospitals--none were considered malpractice. This is the number four cause of death in the U.S. When combined, these account for 7% of all hospitalized patients. This is equivalent to a 9-11 attack every ten days. There are very few fatalities from supplements or the news would be on every front page. There is no need for more FDA control of supplements than is already in place, which is substantial. Instead of drastically restricting supplements, why doesn't the FDA better control and restrict the extremely dangerous pharmaceutical drugs which are n/o/w killing us at the rate of a major airline crash per day?

WallaceG. Heath, Ph.D.1145 Marine Drive, Bellingham, WA 98225


Unabashed Plug

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A Special Offer From Sharry Edwards

Readers of my book Health on the Edge: Visionary Views of Healing in the New Millennium (see Unabashed Plug above) know that Sharry Edwards is one of the world’s leading experts in the use of sound to heal. But she is much more than that. She is a tireless, selfless visionary whose inventions in the sound and energy fields of medicine are in the vanguard of where I believe the healing arts are increasingly headed. The results the technologies Sharry has developed have produced numerous turnarounds in patients that can only be labeled “medical marvels.”

A few days ago, Sharry emailed me to say: “I’ve received so many emails lately about our health rights and how they are being eroded, that I decided to do something about putting the power of Self Health back into the hands of the people.  I hope this starts a precedent that will allow everyone to have dominion over their own health.”

What Sharry has decided to do is to make available her computerized vocal profiling technology for f/r/e/e for 30 days. The technology is available via downloadable programs that you will find at Sharry’s website – http://www.vocalprofiling.com. Once there, cli/ck on the link in the upper left of the homepage, entitled Nutritional Consultant Fr/ee Trial Software Flyer. From there you will be guided through the registration and download process. By installing the Nutrition Consultant software onto your computer you will be able to accurately assess your health and learn which specific nutrients you require for that day. (You will need to purchase a computer microphone if your computer doesn’t already have one. Sharry recommends an inexpensive model from Radio Shack; the information about it can be found one her website.)

Here is some more information about this wonderful technology:

“Using a computerized vocal sample, the Nutrition Consultant has the ability to provide a printable report of your daily nutritional needs in terms of frequency relationships. An additional feature allows you to cross-reference nutrients with states of wellness.”

I recently had the oppor/tunity to try out Sharry’s technology myself, with excellent results. I encourage all of my readers to take advantage of this offer, and to forward it to your friends. By doing so, you will take another step in taking control over your health.

When you register to receive the software, please indicate that I sent you, so that she can track where her clients are coming from. [Note: I receive no remuneration from Sharry in any way. I’m simply making her offer available to you because I know it works and consider it a powerful tool for healing.] Once again, Sharry’s webiste is http://www.vocalprofiling.com. If you value your health, please visit it today. Next issue, I will interview Sharry so that you can learn more about her work and why I consider it to be so valuable.


Unabashed Plug

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Self-Care Tips for Preventing and Reversing Carpal Tunnel Syndrome

Carpal tunnel syndrome refers to compression of a nerve in the wrist (median) that produces numbness, tingling, and sometimes pain. Weakness and tingling of the first three fingers and thumb may also occur.

Symptoms: tingling of palm surface of hands, first three fingers, often worse at night or with driving. Can also be associated with tingling, burning, and pain of entire arm, neck and hip, and thigh. May be on one or both sides.

Occurrence: More common in women after the age of 35.

Consider: Conditions that can create swelling or fluid shifts (contribute to pressure on nerve) such as pregnancy, low thyroid, occupations that require forceful or repetitive wrist movements, vitamin B6 deficiencies, nerve disorders, or compression of the nerve root of the sixth cervical vertebra due to misalignment of the neck, muscular spasm, osteoarthritis, disk disease, or tumor. May be secondary to other wrist conditions.

Special Notes: Treatment varies, symptoms may improve in one week or take several months. Often carpal tunnel can be successfully treated without surgery, although sometimes surgery is necessary. According to Steven Bailey, N.D., of Portland, Oregon, carpal tunnel is often a misdiagnosis of thoracic outlet compression syndrome, in which pressure to lower cervical and upper thoracic nerves results in dysfunction of the tissues and nerves associated with the brachial nerves.

Self-Care

Diet: Whole foods diet. Limit protein intake. Eliminate foods high in yellow dyes. Good foods to focus on are whole grains, seeds, and nuts, soybeans, fresh salmon, brewer’s yeast, molasses, liver, wheat bran and germ, and cod. Avoid stressor foods that deplete the body’s level of B6 such as excessive consumption of sugars, caffeine, and processed grains and corn.

Nutritional Therapy: • Vitamin B6 • Vitamin B complex • Magnesium • Essential fatty acids • Folic acid • Bromelain • Coenzyme Q10 • Kelp • Manganese • Protease enzyme formula • Pycnogenol • Zinc • Thyroid hormone

People with carpal tunnel syndrome often have a large deficiency of vitamin B6, or have lifestyle factors that inhibit B6 metabolism such as stress, or ingesting Yellow Dye No. 5 and tartrazine derivatives. It may also be that a deficiency of vitamin B6 (pyridoxine) may cause a pyridoxine-responsive neuropathy (nerve disorder). Treatment with B6 may relieve the symptoms in many cases, eliminating the need for surgery. Daily dosage ranges from 25-300 mg, depending on the person’s biochemistry. Caution: Pyridoxine supplementation may create a nerve disorder (sensory neuropathy) in dosages as low as 300 mg, if taken daily for long periods. Most of the cases of vitamin B6 toxicity have been reported with dosages from 2-5 g per day.

Acupressure: To relieve carpal tunnel wrist pain, firmly press the fingertips between the bones of the forearm, two finger-widths below the wrist crease. Grasp these points firmly to strengthen the wrist joint and relieve the carpal tunnel pain. Repeat three times daily.

Aromatherapy: Marjoram, lavender, or eucalyptus oil, applied to the areas of pain.

Flower Essences: Rescue RemedyÒto help alleviate stress.

Herbs:Anti-inflammatory herbs effectively support the broader treatment. A simple approach involves combining equal parts of meadowsweet and willow bark tinctures and taking one teaspoonful of this mixture three times a day. Other useful herbs include aloe vera, butcher’s broom, corn silk, devil’s claw, cayenne (capsicum), ginkgo, gravel root, marshmallow, skullcap, turmeric (curcumin), wintergreen oil, yarrow, and yucca.

Homeopathy: Aconite, Arsen alb., Ignatia, Nat mur., Chamomilla, Colchicum. Homeopathic treatment tends to be constitutional in nature and is therefore normally long-term, but usually successful.

Lifestyle: Avoid repetitive wrist movement. Monoamine oxidase inhibitor anti-depressant drugs can create a deficiency in vitamin B6 and should be avoided if possible.

Professional Care—The following therapies should only be provided by a qualified health professional:   Acupuncture, Applied Kinesiology, Chiropractic, Craniosacral Therapy, Light Therapy, Naturopathic Medicine, Orthomolecular Medicine, Osteopathy, and Prolotherapy. Detoxification Therapymay also be indicated, depending on the condition of the person.


A True and Wonderful Story

A friend of mine sent me this story, which was reported by Reuters News Service. I enjoyed it and think you will too:

A baby hippopotamus, swept into the Indian Ocean by the tsunami, is finally recovering thanks to the love of a 120-year-old tortoise.

Owen, a 300kg, one-year-old hippo, was swept down the Sabaki River, into the ocean and then back to shore when the giant waves struck the Kenyan coast. The dehydrated hippo was found by wildlife rangers and taken to the Haller Park animal facility in the port city of Mombasa.

Pining for his lost mother, Owen quickly befriended a giant male Aldabran tortoise named Mzee - Swahili for "old man".

"When we released Owen into the enclosure, he lumbered to the tortoise which has a dark grey colour similar to grown up hippos," Sabine Baer, rehabilitation and ecosystems manager at the park, told Reuters on Thursday.

Haller Park ecologist Paula Kahumbu said the pair were n/o/w inseparable. "After it was swept and lost its mother, the hippo was traumatized. It had to look for something to be a surrogate mother. Fortunately, it landed on the tortoise and established a strong bond. They swim, eat and sleep together," the ecologist added. "The hippo follows the tortoise exactly the way it follows its mother. If somebody approaches the tortoise, the hippo becomes aggressive, as if protecting its biological mother. The hippo was left at a very tender age. Hippos are social animals that like to stay with their parents for four years."

She said the hippo's chances of survival in another herd were very slim, predicting that a dominant male would have killed him.

Officials are hopeful Owen will befriend a female hippo called Cleo, also a resident at the park.


Recommendations

Website
http://www.truthout.org - another good source for news that typically is not covered by the mainstream media.

Books
The Healing Power of Rainforest Herbs by Leslie Taylor, ND. Dr. Taylor survived a rare type of leukemia by following alternative and herb/al medicinal therapies. In this book, she shares the healing properties of over 70 herbs indigenous to the rainforest and makes a compelling argument as to why the rainforests around the world need to be protected.


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.
 

That’s all for this week.

Health and Blessings!

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


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