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The Nutrition Committee of Codex Alimentarius is holding its yearly meeting in Germany, this year in Bonn instead of the Capital, Berlin, where they were meeting in the past few years.

Codex Alimentarius is an international, intergovernmental organization which deliberates and issues international standards for foods. The Nutrition Committee, which is hosted by Germany, is in the process of making rules for food supplements that will be applicable internationally.

The National Health Federation (NHF) is attending Codex and is representing supplement consumers in this somewhat elusive forum, which brings together the health authorities of a variety of countries. Here is the latest NHF newsletter. Watch out for news of the how the meeting went...

THE NATIONAL HEALTH FEDERATION
A not-for-profit health-freedom organization

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www.thenhf.com      NEWSLETTER NOVEMBER 2003
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WHAT CAN YOU DO AS AN INDIVIDUAL TO HELP SAVE OUR HEALTH–FREEDOMS?

1. Journey through the website (www.thenhf.com) to see the issues that need your awareness and activism.
     
2. Inform others about the health-freedom battles at hand, and direct them to the NHF website.

3. Urge others to join the National Health Federation.

4. Speak up and be heard with protest letters, calls and e-mails.

The stronger our membership base, the louder our voice will be heard. We’ve proven our strength in the past for years, especially with our strong letter writing campaigns. Please help us continue this trend, get more involved. 

Recently, I was informed by our Washington monitor, Lee Bechtel, that the deluge of letters from NHF members protesting s.722 was making an impact on the hill. Thank you members, for all the support that you have given.

We know it is crucial, we know we’re effective and we’re counting on our members as we have in the past, and you always come through.

Please join the NHF at www.thenhf.com/join.

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The NHF welcomes our newest Advisory board member, Tamara Theresa Mosegaard (serving since September 2, 2003). We are proud and delighted to have Tamara join us along with her Denmark organization, MayDay (www.mayday-info.dk) as one of our listed Associates. MayDay, dedicated to public health and readable in four languages, focuses on the same issues as the NHF. The vision of this organization is to create a society where good health is a human right.

Currently, Denmark is having one of its most restrictive legislations in relation to dietary supplements and herbs in Europe.

We would also like to welcome as a new listed Associate, the well-known, European health-freedom organization, LaLeva di Archimede, Rome, Italy (www.laleva.cc). The purpose of LaLeva is to inform on health and legislation concerning an individual's freedom of choice and making active participants of their members towards this goal.




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NHF HEALTH-FREEDOM UPDATES



CODEX

TIME: November 3rd, 2003

PLACE: Bonn, Germany

THE ISSUE:

The National Health Federation, being a Codex recognized organization, will be represented in Bonn by Scott Tips as our voice for health-freedom, as he has for the last three meetings. 

This fight is basically between those (Third World countries) who want restrictions only on the RDI (referenced daily intake) versus those (such as the U.S.) who want it to be science-based risk assessment. In both cases, we lose, because each side is blinded by the false issue of safety for natural products that have an incredible safety record already.

To stay informed please click on the link www.thenhf.com/codex.html




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GREAT NEWS FROM OUR NORTHERN NEIGHBORS
BILL C240 & the CANADIAN PARLIAMENT
OCTOBER 22, 2003


Congratulations to Friends of Freedom, one of the original draftees of C240 and all other health-freedon fighters in Canada. With their bill passing its second reading, a major victory has ensued.

The Canadian regulatory agency concerning foods and drugs, Health Canada, had promised natural health consumers a third category of regulation. This delineation would place over 50,000 natural products as non-drugs in a non-drug style regulatory environment.

Our fellow freedom fighters banded together to produce the C240 act to amend the outdated Foods & Drugs Act. Basically, the bill states that healthy foods, herbs, dietary supplements and nutritional products be properly classified as foods and not arbitrarily regulated/restricted as drugs without clear legislated authority.




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WHO WAS RAGGEDY ANN ?             

Vaccine Damaged Children As American As Apple Pie
By Alan Yurko, CPCC, Sc.


Johnny Gruelle’s 13 year old daughter, Marcella, was killed by a fatal vaccine reaction. The public school she’d been attending had been routinely inoculating children without informing the parents. Seven doctors were called in to make pronouncements on her death. Six determined the cause of death to be vaccine-induced and the seventh declined to comment. Interestingly, the seventh doctor was also head of the school board and a staunch advocate for vaccination.

Marcella’s death was not an immediate reaction. She died a very slow and subtle death. In the months after her unconsented inoculation she became lethargic and lost her appetite. Marcella became feverish, fatigued and hypotonic (loss of muscle control) as her body and nervous system fought hard against the poisons forced into her bloodstream. At the end, she was as limp as a ragdoll.

A successful writer and illustrator, Johnny Gruelle also created dolls. Shortly after Marcella’s death, he created a doll somewhat different than the rigid, clay or composition ones of the time, such as the Kewpie doll and others which had erect postures and healthy demeanors. Instead, and in fitting tribute to his daughter’s untimely demise, he designed a doll which was limp and lifeless.

Raggedy Ann was marketed by Marshall Field in 1920 and is one of the richest pieces of Americana over 80 years later. Raggedy Ann’s limp and lifeless body was and is indeed a fitting tribute to Marcella, and to all vaccine damaged children. Though most people have no idea what sad inspiration gave birth to Raggedy Ann, she symbolizes the long history of senseless and tragic deaths and disabilities associated with vaccines.

Raggedy Ann, whose name is taken from the James Whitcombe Riley poems, Little Orphan Annie and The Raggedy Man, is as American as apple pie. Ironically, it is also a symbol for over 80 years of children’s deaths. Little did many of us know, that as we played with Raggedy Ann as children, that we were really just practicing for when we would get our own very real, limp and lifeless vaccine-injured and killed babies. Alan Yurko was sentenced to life in prison because it is apparently better for society that a loving father be wrongfully convicted of shaking his baby to death than hold doctors who routinely pump poison into babies accountable for what appears tantamount to conspiracy to commit mass murder.

References:
1. Flynn, Barbara, Letter to State Epidemiologist of New Jersey, Jan. 10, 2001: pg.2
2. Tuleja, Tad, The New York Library Book of Popular Americana, 1994; pg. 315 Stonesong Press Inc.
3. Hall, Patricia, Johnny Gruelle: Creator of Raggedy Ann and Andy,1993 pg. 87-92


Alan & Francine Yurko

The above story, written by Alan Yurko is one of many of his writings and articles. Most NHF members are familiar with Alan's incarceration and plight as he and his wife, Francine (both NHF members) have been featured in Health Freedom News. An excellent current interview with the Yurkos may be found to update readers at this link:

Another link that is of interest and suggested for use by Alan, is at www.redflagsweekly.com. For the next several months, at this link there will be online conferences. Anyone may participate, with the goal being to stimulate broad discussion of issues that are vital to public health. The vaccine conference and shaken baby syndrome conference are in progress now. I urge you to visit, peruse and get involved.

Not to be forgotten - www.thenhf.com/vaccinations.html for many informative articles covering the various issues concerning vaccination and our health.



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EU Food Supplements Directive

Alliance for Natural Health (UK) has now begun their legal battle in a London courtroom over the EU restrictions concerning food supplements. The European Union Food Supplements Directive is to be legislated in all member states by the year 2005. This legislation will be disastrous to small businesses who will not have the time nor the money to reformulate products to comply with the directive. Legislation does not target synthetic vitamins but only the natural food forms (nutrients from natural sources). Sadly, the natural food forms have proven extremely effective for consumers for centuries.

Within this same time frame, the European Court of Justice has been confronted by another force, a coalition from the health food industry. This group entails three organizations that have banded together for this legal battle. The coalition is comprised of "Save Our Supplements" campaign by Consumers for Health Choice (London & Brussels), Health Food Manufacturers' Asso. (UK) and the Institute for Optimum Nutrition (London).

The health products market and consumers worldwide do fear the disruptive effect upon the existing market and consumers if this legislation moves forward.

Their battle is our battle. Get informed by clicking www.thenhf.com/newsflash.html




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LEE BECHTEL REPORTS ON AMTA (THE LATEST)

There is new legislative action by Congressman Dan Burton (R-IN) and your help is needed. Congressman Burton (sponsor of H.R. 2085) has requested a mark-up hearing on the AMTA bill. We need to use our grassroots lobbying efforts to assist him in getting targeted representatives to support his request.

Please take action now. Click