BAKING THE FROG SLOWLY: Threatened Worldwide health.

Do you have heard the urban legend of the dipper and the frog? This is the History : if you put a frog in cold water and elevate the temperature slowly, the frog will not feel the temperature exchange and it will be baked lives. If you put it in hot water, the frog will jump immediately outside the dipper. It is the best analogy than it is happened to us, to explain the threat that threats to the natural health care methods.

Watch the Codex, for example. Some spreading and disinformation campaigns, assume that catastrophic exchanges will take place immediately, with the risk that Codex implementation makes disappear all ecological and dietary supplements and foods in the near future. This point of view does not adjust to our analysis. The Codex directives about vitamins and minerals, for example, will not be ratified until around 2013, and can pass more time before the countries impose laws based on these directives. This gives the national governments, manufacturers and consumers at least other seven years to adjust to a regimen of low doses in which vitamin C will not be available to doses superior to 300 mg. and the B6 will be limited to the ridiculous 10 mg. This is the plan.

Of course, we can not to stay simply indifferent in front of this and accepting the situation. This year and probably the next one we will witness the critical development of the scientific and technical workings that are essential for the ban pretensions of the therapeutic doses of vital nutrients. In other words, we needed to act now and save the frog.

For that who thought that the war about limited doses on vitamins and minerals, please think about it again. Fish Oil and other fatty acids Omega-3 that many people considered a sacred land that never would be regulated by any restrictive way, due to its vital paper in the prevention and treatment of the cardiovascular diseases, the immune function and behavior disorders; are in a great peril now.

It exists an alert status and deep preoccupation on society, by the regulating actions that the governments are carrying out at world-wide level in the land of the natural medicine. It is a performance without precedents and, if we do not stop it, the great majority of the products that today can freely acquire in the herbal shops and natural health stores will prohibit, with the consequent damage to the health of million of people that use them and of that they can need them in the future and which, potentially, we are all.

Besides to damage seriously our health, this prohibition violates our rights to choose the form to take care ourself, because practically it will impedes the Naturopathy exercise; this means in addition, that thousands of professionals of this discipline will not be able to exert the profession that hey have been dedicated vocationally during years and they will lose his employment.

The effects go still more far: similar peril threats to Natural Shops and laboratories that makes natural products, are so many complements which they will be prohibited to produce and to sell, they activity will be reduced almost to feeding products, which will cause the closing of many of them and numerous dismissals.

The new European Directive on Pharmaceutical Products has extended “the drug” definition, so that any substance that “reestablishes, corrects or modifies” some function in the body happens to be considered pharmaceutical medicine and, like so, for exclusive sale in pharmacies.

The directive will indiscriminately be applied to all the present products in the European Union that fulfill the new definition, which is completely abusive because everything what we ingest, including foods and the water, modifies some function in our body, reason why this absurd new definition will turn drugs, even if other already existing European directors consider that they are not and this includes thousands of products that do not have anything to do with them, as it happens with the dietetic supplements.

The great majority of the drugs are composed of very occasional use that are provided only to ill people to try to alleviate their symptoms. They are artificial chemical substances (non present in the nature) and toxic that can produce great damages to those who consume them. In addition, its artificial and aggressive action mechanism on the body, don not power the health resources and also debilitate it. This high peril is the reason that its sale is limited to specialized establishments (Pharmacies).

On the contrary, the dietary supplements are prepared nutritional constituted by nutritious, protective substances of tissues and facilitators of the physiological processes that are in the nature (in foods, in beneficial plants,…) and they are harmoniously integrated way in the body, cooperating with him in his functions and powering his health.

They are extracted mainly from natural sources and they appear in organic forms, same in which they appear in the nature. They are much more innocuous, assimilable and effective that the synthetic ones. Therefore, the dietary supplements are not more dangerous than the foods and, of course, much less that most of preservatives, colorants,… that the law yes allows to add to foods; it is practically impossible to be done damage using them with a minimum of information and common sense. In addition, multitude of studies and many years of professional and traditional use guarantee their security.

Already the deceased Nobel prize of Chemistry and also for Peace, Linus Pauling, prestigious investigator and one of the pioneers of the orthomolecular medicine (diseases prevention and treatment with dietetic vitamins, minerals and other supplements in the suitable doses), stated the existence of a “overwhelming conjunct of evidences in the medical and scientific officials index who talk about to the effectiveness and security of vitamins, minerals, enzymes, amino acids, plants and other substances related to the nutrition as well as of “respectable volumes of historical data” and made conclusive investigations about these substances and their value in the health care”.

The pretension of regulating the dietary supplements like pharmaceutical medicines alleging that they are dangerous is, therefore, completely unwarranted. In fact, according to the American Centers Association of Poisons Control, the dietary supplements are 2550 times less dangerous than the medicines that are sold without prescription, that means, the less dangerous of medicines.

It is macabre that they are wanted to put under so strict regulations substances of this nature, mainly when refined junk food, colorants, alcohol, preservatives, tobacco, foods (white sugar, white bread, industrial baker's shop,…), treats that are offered to the children, etc., circulate freely, are publicised , even, are recommended; anyone of these products involves a danger more potential than the dietary supplements (many complements are completely inoffensive even in enormous doses, much greater of those than nobody would never recommend).

Before a conduct so extremely incomprehensible by the part of the authorities, it is impossible to think that the true reasons of these measures are those that have been declared nor, of course, that they have by objective to benefit the population.

This is evident before the scandalous fact that, actually, the effect of this regulation will be to prohibit natural products, because almost no manufacturing laboratory has the facilities that the law demands to make medicines (since they are totally unnecessary to produce dietetic complements) and the few that have them cannot be allowed, nor remotely, the millionaire payment for pharmaceutical licenses requires and the pharmaceutical registry for all dietary supplements would be an expensive processing that is requested to the medicines but that they do not have any sense in the case of nutritional supplements.

Only a greatly reduced number of substances, the collected in the “positive list” of the European Nutritional Complements Directive, will be available and, according to the “criteria of security” that is suggested to apply, only in ridiculous amounts, totally insufficient to obtain the profits that the dietetic complements can offer us. In addition, the immense majority of the forms of the allowed substances has been excluded from the list and, “by some reason”, they have been left most toxic, synthetic and worse assimilable, than they are exactly those that are sold in the pharmacies, eliminating most innovating, natural, innocuous and effective, commercialized by natural product laboratories.

Only in first stage of this directive, who regulates vitamins and minerals, 300 vitamins and minerals, forms and related substances will be prohibited, which will imply the massive retirement of about 5000 present natural products in the European market (directive is of unavoidable application from the 1 of August of the 2005 but the laboratories will have to begin to retire their products from long before being able to be completely adapted to the new legislation in this date).

The work of ANH (Alliance for Natural Health) on the directive and regulations that affect to the health in the European Union is crucial, to protect the access to the natural options to all the world citizens.

John Hammell, exceptional analyst of the international scene and president of “International for Advocates Health Freedom”, repeats untiringly, in all his official notices, the message: “as the European Union goes now, thus the rest of the world will go”. “We cannot stop the Codex in the Codex, all the process is fixed and it is only a show for the public where the decisions already are taken long time before the meetings. The only possibility that we have to stop the Codex is to support the legal action of ANH to challenge the European Union Directive of Nutritional Complements”.

What we can make the world citizens, to fight by our rights?

If you are socially worried by this terrible problematic and your access to the natural options, your health and your life and those of the future generations, PLEASE:

- Make continued donations to the ANH campaign, be subscribed in the base support and spread the message, and animate so many people as you can anywhere in the world to that they also do it.

Remember that they are one of the best world lawyers team but the necessity our donations to continue developing their work during these crucial years.

- Continue writing and calling to deputies and senators in relation to all these subjects and also animate to so many people as you prune anywhere in the world to that they do the same with their political representatives.

SOURCES: Espacio “Carlos Viñas” – Alliance for Natural Health