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Lies, Lies, and More Lies

The Journal of the American Medical Society, aka the literary muscle of Big Pharma propaganda, published this week a preposterous study about supplements. Our sycophantic media, tiring of the Iraq war, bombings, typhoons and pederasts, and ever on the alert for something gratuitous, was on the story like flies on you know what. In their reportage, they parroted to the unsuspecting American public, who, for the most part, tends to BELIEVE what they read in the papers and hear on TV - really, really bad things about vitamins.

Remember this: Codex Alimentaris is a bad word. It is a law that has actually been passed in England as part of the World Health Organization of which the United States is a member. It hasn't yet been put into effect here but the Codex is ready and waiting at any moment to blow up the natural food industry, sort of like the 4 nuclear bombs left on "24" threatening to blow up LA.

Translated, the Codex means taking your choice out of buying the supplements you want- restricting vitamin sales - and putting it directly into the hands of the FDA and Big Pharma. We are just this far from being in that awful place, where instead of paying $11 for a good B vitamin from me or Vitamin Cottage, you will need a prescription which will necessitate a visit to your MD ($50-$100) then you will pay probably $50 for a container of 60. It's not a good thing, folks.

Many think that this continuing discreditation of supplements is just a harbinger of the Codex becoming activated. In fact this study from JAMA is actually pseudo-science with a political agenda. So, if you hear or see or smell this happening or hear the word Codex, please be aware of what's happening and become proactive.

Now back to this god awful JAMA article: The researchers from hell took 181,000 SICK people, gave them SYNTHETIC vitamins (high temperatures, high pressure processing) then concluded that the vitamins killed them. The horrible diseases they were suffering from didn't kill them. The vitamins did. Of course - duh - how stupid can I be? One of their 68 lame studies lasted ONE DAY. In this study, they gave very sick, very old people living in a nursing home, 200,000 iu's of vitamin A. Now, that's a huge dose. I think one died. Then the researchers concluded that the vitamin A killed her/him. If that is Aristotelian logic, I don't want any part of it. (Actually, this is called "compartmentalization" or tweaking facts and omitting positive studies in order to achieve a predetermined result - in this case, to discredit or harm the vitamin industry.)

The United States Poison Control reports deaths every year from vitamins. Here is the report of the last few years for you: 2005: Zero, 2004: Two, 2003: Two, 2002: One, 2001 through 1994: Zero. And most of those poisonings were either from overdosing on iron or from anencephalic persons taking too much ephedra.

Compare, please, to this: "'To Err is Human' estimated that such mistakes [having to do with prescription drugs, mostly antibiotics and painkillers] led to as many as 98,000 deaths a year - more than highway accidents and breast cancer combined." The Institute of Medicine Report, 1999 as reported by The New York Times, March 7, 2007, pA15. That was in 1999. But this is now and the reports are indicating that the deaths from pharmaceutical or hospital error are thought to be anywhere from 150,000 to 500,000 per year. And these are "properly administered pharmaceutical drugs under a doctor's supervision."

Pretty soon we will be seeing the pharmaceutical industry advertising their new, patented "Super Antioxidant" called Astaxin. Is it "safe" because it is manufactured under strict codes and OK'd by their lacky the FDA? I don't think so. Astaxanthin is actually a carcinogenic compound fed to farmed salmon to make them pink. While it is really a natural compound found in marine phytoplankton, the reason Big Pharma will be permitted to patent their new frankensupplement, is because they claim to have improved a naturally occurring substance. Big Pharma has done this with many naturally occurring substances, patenting Gaia's gifts and charging a lot of money for them. One that comes to mind is vincristine, a chemotherapy drug, a derivative of periwinkle.

We take our freedom of choice for granted: The freedom to choose how we will treat ourselves if we get ill, how we can treat our children, what kind of doctor we can go to, what vitamins and supplements we can buy. I get very concerned when I see news articles like this one from JAMA, or the one last month where the governor of Texas made HPV vaccinations mandatory for teenage girls. (It was overturned, but the mere idea of the government even thinking it can do this is chilling to me.)

Supplements are always meant to be taken with food. Their purpose is to enhance or "supplement" an already great diet. They are never an "in lieu of" food or meals. My advice? Keep taking your supplements, protein powders, healthy green stuff, antioxidants as along as you feel better. Keep your diet healthy and rely on the person you see in the mirror to control your own health and well being.

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