"Codex Alimentarius". This is a World Health Organisation/UN-sponsored international agreement which is (depending on your point of view):
(a). A genuine and honest attempt to set reliable, universal food and medication standards across the globe. Or:
(b). A cynical, calculated attempt by the international pharmaceutical industry (aided and abetted by idealistic and/or acquisitive politicians) to have vitamins, minerals, and all other forms of supplements declared (by law) "medications" in all countries - thereby:
(1). Increasing the price.
(2). Ensuring that these things would be "prescription only" medications, to be manufactured only by "licensed producers" ie themselves.
So the days ...when you can take vitamin C pills for a cold, cod liver oil capsules to ease your arthritis, calcium tablets to prevent osteoporosis, or any vitamin/mineral food supplement.... are numbered.
Your doctor will decide whether you should have them. They will only be available on prescription.
Since disease prevention (which is what supplements are) has second place to disease diagnosis & cure it is not likely that your doctor will be cooperative.
Their control by the pharmacutical companies is ominous.
Perhaps too many of us have been avoiding illness by using herbs/vitamins/minerals and so their sale of drugs has reduced, so they want in on the money from it.
This Codex Alimentarius has already been adopted in Australia and some Scandinavian countries - the date for our government to decide is December 2009.
In Australia it is not even possible to import supplements - they are impounded as illegal at customs
Why do we need nutritional supplements or food supplements?
Since the 1920s, Western Governments have known that the majority of our food crops have been grown on mineral-depleted soils, which makes them not only more susceptible to plant diseases and insect attack, but also nutritionally worth less.
Animal feeds have changed from the natural foods they eat in the wild to highly processed, chemical laden concoctions that are designed to maximise growth rate, muscle mass and therefore value whilst minimising cost and the time it takes to turn them into a healthy profit. The result is meat that is high in chemicals and lacking in the natural nutritional elements that have kept us healthy for so long (until the 20th century!).
If this weren't bad enough, the modern reliance on pharmaceutical medicine to remove all symptoms of disease instantly has led us away from the traditional cures that sought to replace what was missing in the body. Indeed, many modern drugs, such as diuretics actually make us lose the very minerals we require for health at an increased rate.
The vitamin content of your daily 5-a-day reduces for every day it takes to ship it around the world and every day it sits on a supermarket shelf.
As a consequence, virtually everyone in the Western World (many "primitive cultures" are much better nourished than we are) needs to supplement their diet to a greater or lesser extent.
Be aware - if you value the preservation of health you have, fight for your right continue to have access to food supplements.
(a). A genuine and honest attempt to set reliable, universal food and medication standards across the globe. Or:
(b). A cynical, calculated attempt by the international pharmaceutical industry (aided and abetted by idealistic and/or acquisitive politicians) to have vitamins, minerals, and all other forms of supplements declared (by law) "medications" in all countries - thereby:
(1). Increasing the price.
(2). Ensuring that these things would be "prescription only" medications, to be manufactured only by "licensed producers" ie themselves.
So the days ...when you can take vitamin C pills for a cold, cod liver oil capsules to ease your arthritis, calcium tablets to prevent osteoporosis, or any vitamin/mineral food supplement.... are numbered.
Your doctor will decide whether you should have them. They will only be available on prescription.
Since disease prevention (which is what supplements are) has second place to disease diagnosis & cure it is not likely that your doctor will be cooperative.
Their control by the pharmacutical companies is ominous.
Perhaps too many of us have been avoiding illness by using herbs/vitamins/minerals and so their sale of drugs has reduced, so they want in on the money from it.
This Codex Alimentarius has already been adopted in Australia and some Scandinavian countries - the date for our government to decide is December 2009.
In Australia it is not even possible to import supplements - they are impounded as illegal at customs
Why do we need nutritional supplements or food supplements?
Since the 1920s, Western Governments have known that the majority of our food crops have been grown on mineral-depleted soils, which makes them not only more susceptible to plant diseases and insect attack, but also nutritionally worth less.
Animal feeds have changed from the natural foods they eat in the wild to highly processed, chemical laden concoctions that are designed to maximise growth rate, muscle mass and therefore value whilst minimising cost and the time it takes to turn them into a healthy profit. The result is meat that is high in chemicals and lacking in the natural nutritional elements that have kept us healthy for so long (until the 20th century!).
If this weren't bad enough, the modern reliance on pharmaceutical medicine to remove all symptoms of disease instantly has led us away from the traditional cures that sought to replace what was missing in the body. Indeed, many modern drugs, such as diuretics actually make us lose the very minerals we require for health at an increased rate.
The vitamin content of your daily 5-a-day reduces for every day it takes to ship it around the world and every day it sits on a supermarket shelf.
As a consequence, virtually everyone in the Western World (many "primitive cultures" are much better nourished than we are) needs to supplement their diet to a greater or lesser extent.
Be aware - if you value the preservation of health you have, fight for your right continue to have access to food supplements.
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