“The
International Decade of Nutrition” was initiated today by the Natural
Solutions Foundation, a global health and health freedom advocacy
organization. Nutritional deficiencies, or "under nutrition", accounts
for nearly 2/3 of the global burden of disease according to the WHO
which characterizes the diseases of under nutrition as a preventable
epidemic of non-communicable killer diseases including cancers,
cardiovascular disease/stroke, diabetes and obesity. The Natural
Solutions Foundation provides information to developing nations about
nutritional strategies to prevent and cure these killer diseases and
legal strategies to fend off WTO sanctions which violate the
pro-illness threat presented by Codex Alimentarius. Since Codex treats
nutrients as toxins while permitting dangerous levels of real toxins in
foods, pro-health nutritional strategies are at odds with Codex
standards and guidelines.
Croton on Hudson
(PRWEB) September 5, 2006 -- “The International Decade of Nutrition”
was inaugurated today by the Natural Solutions Foundation (http://www.healthfreedomusa.org)
, a global not-for-profit health and health freedom advocacy
organization as a world-wide effort end world hunger and promote world
health. When the International Decade of Nutrition ends in 2016, the
Natural Solutions Foundation goal is the global end of the diseases of
under nutrition.
To make high potency nutrients available globally, the Foundation
advocates making the 1994 US Dietary Supplements Health and Education
Act (DSHEA) the global standard for nutrients. The social and human
costs of these diseases currently account for nearly 90% of all deaths
world wide. The non communicable diseases of under nutrition (NCDs)
include cancers, cardiovascular disease, stroke, diabetes, obesity,
plus infectious diseases like tuberculosis, hepatitis and HIV/AIDS.
A 2002 World Health Organization (WHO) report (http://whqlibdoc.who.int/trs/WHO_TRS_916.pdf#search=%22The%20Role%20of%20Diet%20and%20Nutrition%20in%20Chronic%20Disease%22),
said “Nutrition is coming to the fore as a major modifiable determinant
of chronic disease.” WHO found, 79% of deaths in the developing world
were caused by preventable NCDs preferentially impacting the young and
the poor. NCDs accounted for approximately 59% of the global burden of
disease and will rise sharply by 2020.
The Natural Solutions Foundation announced today it will use legal
and nutritional strategies achieve its goal of ending world hunger and
promoting world health. Pro-health nations can be hit with World Trade
Organization (WTO) trade sanctions for creating a “barrier to trade” so
the Natural Solutions Foundation has created a strategy to help
pro-health countries.
The Natural Solutions Foundation guidance document, the “Codex eBook” © , (http://www.healthfreedomusa.org/resources/books.shtml),
outlines the nutritional and legal strategy involved in adopting DSHEA
and is available for download on the Natural Solutions Foundation
site,( http://www.healthfreedomusa.org) or in a hard copy by contacting the Natural Solutions Foundation at e-mail protected from spam bots .
The WTO institutionalizes under nutrition when it enforces compliance
with pro-illness standards and guidelines promulgated Codex
Alimentarius. Codex treats nutrients as if they were dangerous
industrial toxins while permitting pesticides, veterinary drugs, growth
hormones, heavy metals and other significant commercial toxins in food
at high levels. Toxins increase the need for nutrients so Codex favors
the development widespread chronic diseases of under nutrition.
Nutritional/herbal supplements plus clean, unadulterated food can
eliminate these diseases.
DSHEA, a unique pro-health US law, treats nutrients (e.g., dietary
supplements, herbs and homeopathic formulations) as foods. As foods, no
upper limits can be imposed on their use. Nutrients are safe and
effective and have important clinical impact in preventing, mitigating,
treating and curing the diseases of under nutrition.
More than190 million Americans use nutrients regularly: nutrients are
the safest health-related substances on the planet. Most countries
either restrict dietary supplements or do not have a tradition of
wide-ranging access to high quality supplements which could eliminate
the chronic degenerative and infectious diseases which kill hundreds of
millions each year. The International Decade of Nutrition will bring
DSHEA and its health benefits to the developing countries of the world
to counter the pro-illness impact of standards and guidelines of Codex.
DSHEA was passed because consumer outrage exploded when the US Congress
was planning to remove consumer access to nutritional supplements.
Bowing to public furor and demand, Congress passed DSHEA by unanimous
Congressional consent. DSHEA allows US consumers to take a wide variety
of supplements in a vast array of forms. Americans use dietary
supplements, herbs and homeopathic preparations for health promotion,
disease prevention and the treatment of nutrition-related diseases
including NCDs. By making DSHEA the global standard, these deadly
diseases can be eliminated from the lives – and deaths – of most of the
world’s population.
The single greatest impediment to this advance the Codex Alimentarius
Commission”(CAC). The restrictive pro-illness Codex Vitamin and Mineral
Guideline (VMG, ratified July 4, 2005, Rome) treats vitamins and
minerals as toxins whose upper limits must be determined by “risk
assessment” (RA), a technique used in toxicology to determine the
highest dose of a poison which can be given to a human being without
any discernible impact. That limit is then divided by 100 to allow a
“margin of safety”. The VMG limits upper doses of nutrients to levels
which do not exceed those found in unprocessed food. Since ubiquitous
and specific toxins increase the need for nutrients, this short-sighted
and dangerous Codex text both mandates and institutionalizes deadly
levels of under nutrition.
A WHO Workshop on the Application of Risk Assessment to Nutrients (May,
2005, published January, 2006), convened at the request of Codex
(2004), recommends that the VMG be expanded to include all nutrients
(which includes the active ingredients in natural products like herbs),
and improbably defines a nutrient-related adverse event as “any change
in a bio-marker.”
Many of Codex’s more than 5,000 standards and guidelines degrade the
integrity of the food supply and health. The Natural Solutions
Foundation and Citizen’s Codex Working Group has crafted a
comprehensive strategy which allows nations to protect their people
from toxins and under nutrition while avoiding WTO trade sanctions.
This procedure, the “Codex 2 Step”©, can be applied by pro-health
countries to any of the damaging or dangerous standards and guidelines
promulgated by Codex. Once a country has adopted a revised and more
scientifically valid standard or guideline than a Codex text (Step 1),
it must then enact national legislation to makerevised standard or
guideline becomes national law (Step 2). Having carried out the
required two step process, the country is then free to engage in
manufacture and trade (including export) of items which would otherwise
be prohibited by the Codex standards and guidelines. For example, high
potency nutritional supplements permitted under a DSHEA-type law
violate the restrictive and deadly Codex VMG.
Although CAC standards and guidelines are accepted by the WTO as a
standard by which international trade disputes involving food can be
settled, other standards may be used to determine the trade standards
countries may use despite. Many countries are not unaware that Codex
texts are merely advisory, not compulsory. This confusion was clarified
by the Codex Secretariat on July 3, 2006 at the CAC meeting in Geneva.
If a nation adopts legislation modeled on DSHEA, for example, the model
legislation presented in the Codex eBook ©), for example, it could
expect to be immune from economically disastrous WTO trade sanctions
which otherwise would punish it for not complying with those texts.
Without following the appropriate Codex 2 Step © legal procedure,
adopting DSHEA-like law might be viewed by the WTO as creating a
barrier to trade. To prevent that outcome, the Natural Solutions
Foundation advises decision-makers in developing countries on the
political and legal course of action necessary to adopt pro health
strategies.
Codex' VMG is a re-run of the anti-nutrient strategy which failed in
the US but led to the passage of DSHEA: restrict nutrients and leave no
natural options available to deal with the prevention and treatment of
the nutritionally-based chronic degenerative diseases. The Natural
Solutions Foundation help countries establish access to unlimited
amounts of dietary supplements at their discretion by establishing the
principles of DSHEA globally.
Codex governs all aspects of food “from farm to fork”. It was created
in 1963 by the United Nations and is run jointly by the World Health
Organization (WHO) and Food and Agricultural Organization (FAO). The
Natural Solutions Foundation, was recently directly attacked twice by
the Chairman of CAC, Dr. Claude Mosha, (http://www.prweb.com//releases/2006/7/prweb406560.htm) (http://blog.healthfreedomusa.org/index.php?year=2006&monthnum=07&day=06&name=day-25-july-6&page=&year=2006&monthnum=07&day=06&name=day-25-july-6&page=)
for its pro health advocacy of national choice-making. It attends CAC
and Codex Committee meetings and visits pro-health countries. The
Natural Solutions Foundation meets with high level decision makers,
consumer advocates/activists, journalists and pro-health special
interest groups. It provides its information without charge including
1.
Science-based information and practical guidance to developing nations
about nutritional strategies to prevent and cure nutrient-related
killer diseases,
2.
Legal strategies to protect their economies from WTO sanctions.
Unknown to most people, Codex treats nutrients as toxins, limiting
their dosage to amounts so low that they have little or no biological
activity. At the same time, Codex employs a double standard which
favors corporate interests by permitting extraordinarily high
health-adverse levels of dangerous toxins like pesticides, veterinary
drugs, synthetic growth hormones, heavy metals, preservatives and
additives in foods.
The same two step process can be applied to all pro-illness texts
ratified by. Selecting a Codex-generated pro-illness problem and then
correcting it with the Foundation's two step process can protect
pro-health countries against any of Codex's dangerous decisions and
Codex's WTO "teeth": trade sanctions. For example, Codex permits
devastatingly high levels of dangerous pesticides and veterinary drugs
in foods. It supports illness-producing food processing practices like
irradiation, mandates the use of health-averse growth hormones and
antibiotics in food animals, prohibits advertising, labeling or speech
which associates any food component with a health benefit, permits
Genetically Modified foods (although whether they must be labeled is
not yet clear) and has reintroduced seven globally-banned pesticides
back into the food chain. Each of these dangerous practices can be
countered by countries committed to protecting the health of their
people. By following similar Codex 2 Step © processes (adopt a better
standard or guideline based in science and then enable it with national
legislation) countries can deal with Codex without being devastated by
either ill-health effects or economic assaults.
Embarking on a pro-active campaign to spread the word to countries
facing the most serious nutritional deficiencies, Natural Solutions
Foundation President, Major General Albert N. Stubblebine III (US Army,
Ret.) and Medical Director, Rima E. Laibow, MD, have taken the Codex 2
Step © solution to the countries whose health is most threatened by
Codex. They are helping to birth a new coalition of pro-health nations
and health advocates. With units in Africa and India, the Natural
Solutions Foundation is actively forging a global pro-health community
transcending political, religious or economic delineations. Bringing
their template to governments and activists, their mission is to
promote health and health freedom globally. Funded entirely by
donations, their non-commercial stand allows them to gain access to
high level leaders around the world. The Natural Solutions Foundation
is raising the bar for international health activism. Providing
life-saving information to some of the world's neediest countries and
encouraging them to set their own standards is a unique contribution to
global health freedom. Other groups in the United States and abroad are
beginning to follow their lead and advocate solving health and health
freedom problems globally through similar hybrids of political, medical
and scientific advocacy.
In addition to protecting their people and their economies, those
countries which adopt a revised Vitamin and Mineral Guideline and pass
DSHEA-based legislation have another advantage. They automatically form
a global pro-health trading bloc since they can now engage in
international trade of nutrient-dense products without fear of WTO
sanctions. Although these countries would not otherwise be
Codex-compliant, WTO regulations allow them to engage in such trade
since treating nutrients as foods (DSHEA) is based on much stronger
science than restricting them as if they were toxins (Codex). The WTO
has shown time and again that the stronger science prevails in trade
disputes.
The Natural Solutions Foundation is a not for profit tax exempt organization located in New York State.
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