Dr Rath's Health Alliance Stops Pharma-Ban on Natural
Therapies
For the fifth time in a row the plans of the pharmaceutical multinationals
failed to bring about a global ban on natural, non-patentable medical
therapies.
Over the recent years research and clinical evidence has mounted that
cardiovascular diseases, cancer, osteoporosis and other common diseases
are primarily caused by long-term deficiencies in certain vitamins, minerals
and other nutrients - and therefore can be prevented and controlled by
them. These effective, therapies, treating the cellular root cause of
many diseases, continue to threaten a multibillion-dollar business of
merely symptom oriented pharmaceutical drugs.
From Nov. 4-8, 2002, an international commission by the name of “Codex
Alimentarius” (nutrition rules) met in Berlin, Germany. The international
pharmaceutical lobby tried to abuse this UN-commission essentially pushing
them to pass this protectionist legislation, a global “gag Order”
for natural health. If the pharmaceutical lobby would have gotten its
way, hundreds of millions of people would have been deprived of life-saving
information about health benefits of vitamins as other natural therapies,
and have us access to use them.
The single most important factor was the international pressure culminating
in an international e-mail campaign, with millions of protest E-mails
and a health convention with 3.000 participants in Berlin on the eve of
the Codex meeting. Renowned physician and scientist Dr. Matthias Rath,
whose scientific discoveries triggered the international codex efforts,
led the Anti-Codex protest. “Now, that cardiovascular disease and
cancer have been found to be the result of long-term vitamin deficiencies,
the card house of the pharmaceutical billion dollar ‘business with
disease’ will collapse,” says Dr. Rath. He was joined at the
convention by world-renowned biochemist and cellular researcher Dr. Alexandra
Niedzwiecki who presented results of the first double blind placebo controlled
multi-center study identifying irregular heart beat (arrhythmia) as yet
another disease preventable by optimum intake of essential nutrients.
Representatives of South Africa, USA, UK and other countries, supporting
the same goals, also attended the conference. The representative of South
Africa highlightened the fact that the fight of the developing countries
against overpriced, patented AIDS drugs is just another side of the same
coin: The fight against the pharmaceutical investment industry thriving
on the profit margins of patent fees.
Not surprisingly it was the delegate of the South African government
at the Codex meeting that exposed the hypocrisy of the pharmaceutical
lobbyist with Codex. The tenor of the South African representative mirrored
the massage of the conference of the “Dr. Rath Health Foundation”:
Patients and consumers around the world need protection from frequent
side effects of pharmaceutical drugs, but not from effective natural and
safe vitamins and essential nutrients.
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