Natural Vitamins, Maginot and Good News about Anti-oxidants - NewsGrabs 19 August 2007

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Health Supreme's NewsGrabs are a weekly selection of alternative health and other underprivileged news. Find out what you may have missed in your everyday reading - watch out for NewsGrabs ... on Sundays.

In this issue:

Natural Sources of Vitamins and Minerals - DSHEA: Legislative Maginot Line - Lies about antioxidants - Good News About Vitamins E and C - Beyond Medication - Codex Alimentarius: Toxic Power Play - Video: Dangers of MSG - Avandia Big Pharma Mole - How To Kill The Elderly - Painkiller banned in Australia - Children ‘should get statins’ - Lipitor Patent Rejected - Drug advertising - Aspartame - Betty Martini's challenge - Mercury Links to Autism - END WATER FLUORIDATION - New facts on Honey bees dying - Orange to remove mobile mast - Vdeo: The Energy Non Crisis

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ANH: Natural Sources of Vitamins and Minerals protected from potential bans
The letter from Mr Demetris Vryonides, Head of Unit “Legal Affairs” and Mr Basil Mathioudakis, Head of Unit “Food, law, nutrition and labelling”, states:
“We consider that wheat germ oil can be used in food supplements without having to be authorised and included on Annex II of the Directive. For similar reasons the dossiers on mixed carotenoids, food derived folates, [and two proprietary palm blends containing carotenoids and tocotrienols respectively] will not be processed further.”

DSHEA a legislative Maginot Line?
DSHEA - the Dietary Supplement Health and Education Act was passed in the early 90's to protect supplements from excessive FDA interference and regulation. Is that defensive bullwark about to be breached? Scott Tips of the National Health Federation likens DSHEA to the French Maginot Line, which was supposed to protect France from a hostile German onslaught. Maginot was simply outflanked by the Germans, and there might be something in that bit of history that's applicable today, something food supplement producers and consumers alike should keep in mind...

Unraveling the lies about the antioxidant study on vitamins E and C
A new study published in the August 13, 2007 issue of the Archives of Internal Medicine found that vitamins E and C, when taken together, result in a significant reduction in the risk of strokes (31 percent) and heart attacks (22 percent). The study followed 8,171 women who were instructed to take relatively small amounts of these vitamins for more than nine years (600 IU of vitamin E, 500mg of vitamin C and 50mg of beta carotene were taken every other day -- a very small dose according to most modern nutritionists). Despite these encouraging findings about the positive impact of antioxidants on health, nearly all the headlines in the mainstream media today are proclaiming vitamins E and C to be useless. In classic doublespeak, one press release blares, "Vitamin C and Other Antioxidant Vitamins Provide No Protection from Cardiovascular Events."

Major Study Finds Good News About Vitamins E and C
A new study has found that natural vitamin E and vitamin C can significantly reduce the risk of several cardiovascular diseases. The study was published in the August 13, 2007, issue of Archives of Internal Medicine, a journal published by the American Medical Association.

Beyond Medication: What Your Doctor Isn’t Telling You about Depression and Anxiety
Fortunately, expensive prescription medications with harmful side-effects are not the only way to combat feelings of depression or anxiety. Though it’s unlikely you will ever hear that from your doctor.

Codex Alimentarius: Monstrously Toxic Power Play for Control of the Global Food Supply & Natural Health Industry
The Codex Alimentarius agenda, long fermenting in the recesses of closed board rooms and governmental chambers, is now coming to light. It is the paramount issue of our times. If Codex standards ever replace U.S. food and food-supplement laws, it will affect everything—not just Americans' right to choose supplements, but our right to grow crops with untampered seeds, to obtain pure organic food from stores and to live free of the tyranny of Big Agro-Chem-Pharma-Med and health-destructive FDA rules enacted and enforced by a pro-corporate, anti-health freedom government.

Video: Dangers of MSG - Part one
A video on YouTube provided by Dr. Mercola

Avandia Debacle Exposes Big Pharma's FDA Mole
FDA spokesperson Douglas Arbesfeld used his official FDA email account to send messages to reporters with derogatory comments about Dr Nissen and his employer, the Cleveland Clinic, with quotes from an anonymous blogger who basically said they were out to get Glaxo because Glaxo does not fund research at the Clinic and that the conduct of Dr Nissen and the Clinic was similar to that seen on the Sopranos, a TV series about a Mafia crime family. Mr Arbesfeld's stunt caught the attention of the US House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, which was already investigating the FDA's role in failing to inform the public about the increased cardiac risks of Avandia. FDA Commissioner von Eschenbach acknowledged that the emails had been sent but said Mr Arbesfeld had not acted on behalf of FDA.

Death By Medicine: How To Kill The Elderly
Ireland was on 17 drugs, and another eight, as needed. The regimen was cut to three. Now, he’s as vibrant as ever. Tens of thousands of elderly Australians are at risk of the same fate. They are being poisoned by prescription meds that are supposed to help them. Between 85,000 and 110,000 people over 65 are admitted to hospitals each year because of adverse effects - and that is just the tip of the iceberg. Too many doctors working in isolation from one another are prescribing too many drugs to old people, or the wrong med, say experts...

Novartis painkiller banned in Australia after deaths
Australia's Therapeutic Goods Administration (TGA) said it had received eight reports of serious liver side effects – including two deaths and two liver transplants – linked with the use of the drug, also known as Lumiracoxib. The Adverse Drug Reactions Advisory Committee (ADRAC), has urgently investigated these reports. ADRAC has recommended the cancellation of the registration of Lumiracoxib due to the severity of the reported side effects associated with this drug. The TGA has taken this advice to cancel the registration of Lumiracoxi