http://www4.dr-rath-foundation.org Dr. Rath Health Foundation en Thu, 15 May 08 13:53:00 GMT Copyright: (C) Dr. Rath Health Foundation 2008 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss During April 2008, much of the world’s media is awash with stories claiming that taking vitamin supplements could lead to a premature death. According to a review conducted on behalf of the Cochrane Collaboration by researchers at Copenhagen University in Denmark, studies using beta-carotene, vitamin A and vitamin E showed “significantly increased mortality”, whilst trials of vitamin C "found no significant effect." Read on to discover what the world’s media didn’t tell you about this Cochrane review, including its potential historical parallel with crimes committed by the managers of the I.G. Farben cartel. http://www4.dr-rath-foundation.org/PHARMACEUTICAL_BUSINESS/cochrane_20080514.html 20080515135300 Thu, 15 May 08 13:53:00 GMT Up to date news and comment about worldwide developments in natural health. http://www4.dr-rath-foundation.org/THE_FOUNDATION/News/2008/natural_health_alternatives/index.htm 20080508105800 Thu, 08 May 08 10:58:00 GMT Up to date news and comment about the "Business with Disease". http://www4.dr-rath-foundation.org/THE_FOUNDATION/News/2008/pharmaceutical_business/index.htm 20080508105700 Thu, 08 May 08 10:57:00 GMT Health news and comment from around the world. http://www4.dr-rath-foundation.org/THE_FOUNDATION/News/2008/other_news/index.htm 20080508105600 Thu, 08 May 08 10:56:00 GMT Up to date news and comment about GMO issues. http://www4.dr-rath-foundation.org/THE_FOUNDATION/News/2008/gmo_news/index.htm 20080508105500 Thu, 08 May 08 10:55:00 GMT Up to date news and comment about UN related public health issues. http://www4.dr-rath-foundation.org/THE_FOUNDATION/News/2007/un_related_issues/index.htm 20080508105400 Thu, 08 May 08 10:54:00 GMT Vitamins and Minerals - Miscellaneous Studies: The precautionary principle: a critique in the context of the EU Food Supplements Directive / The European regulation of food supplements and food fortification / Food supplements and European Regulation within a Precautionary Context: A Critique and Implications for Nutritional, Toxicological and Regulatory Consistency / Food supplements and fortified foods: the EC's patriarchal precautionary perspectives on public health / New recommended daily allowances: benchmarking healthy European micronutrient regulation http://www4.dr-rath-foundation.org/NHC/researcharchive.html#vitamins 20080505144300 Mon, 05 May 08 14:43:00 GMT Latest News Updates: Keep up-to-date on the latest health and politics news with our regular updates and analysis of the key stories from around the world. http://www4.dr-rath-foundation.org/Newsletter/archive/newsletter_2008_04_apr_29.html 20080429134100 Tue, 29 Apr 08 13:41:00 GMT Latest News Updates: Keep up-to-date on the latest health and politics news with our regular updates and analysis of the key stories from around the world. http://www4.dr-rath-foundation.org/Newsletter/archive/newsletter_2008_04_apr_18.html 20080418142600 Fri, 08 Apr 18 14:26:00 GMT Break the Chains of Pharmaceutical Colonialism http://www4.dr-rath-foundation.org/THE_FOUNDATION/About_Dr_Matthias_Rath/end_aids.html 20080319083100 Wed, 19 Mar 08 08:31:00 GMT Russia stands at a crossroads: one path leads to the subjection to the corporate pressure of multi-national interests from the West. The other path is to build on the economic growth of the past decade and develop a society focussing on the needs of the people. On this path, Russia could become a model for the entire world. http://www4.dr-rath-foundation.org/open_letters/open_letter_2008_02_28.html 20080228102700 Thu, 28 Feb 08 10:27:00 GMT Any lingering doubts as to which political direction the European Union is now heading in were cleared up once and for all recently when Justice Commissioner Franco Frattini announced plans to fingerprint and screen all visitors who cross its borders. From 2009 it will become mandatory for all EU passports to include a digital fingerprint and photograph and, from 2011 non-EU citizens who apply for a visa will have to give their biometric details. http://www4.dr-rath-foundation.org/THE_FOUNDATION/brussels_mafia.html 20080222133300 Fri, 22 Feb 08 13:33:00 GMT The North American Union (NAU) appears to be modeling itself on a European Union (EU) that has already been subverted by corporate interests. As such, the direction that it is apparently heading in is clearly contrary to the health interests of American, Canadian and Mexican citizens. http://www4.dr-rath-foundation.org/us/north_american_union.html 20080213091500 Wed, 13 Feb 08 09:15:00 GMT Public Health Message for Candidates and People Who Want Real Change - On January 15, 2008, the "New York Times" and others reported about a clinical study with a combination of two cholesterol lowering drugs (statins) that showed shocking results: Patients receiving these statin drugs developed coronary artery plaques - the cause of heart attacks - twice as fast as the control group. Worse, the drug makers had withheld this crucial data for almost 2 years - despite the fact that 5 million people are currently taking these drugs. Statin drugs are a $40 billion annual business built entirely on the perception that they prevent heart attacks. This study threatens the credibility of the entire drug industry. A Congressional investigation is pending. http://www4.dr-rath-foundation.org/open_letters/open_letter_2008_01_31.html 20080131140900 Thu, 31 Jan 08 14:09:00 GMT Hundreds of millions of people worldwide (100 million in the USA) again have their health and lives put at risk in order to increase profits for the drug companies! http://www4.dr-rath-foundation.org/THE_FOUNDATION/vitorin_study_2008jan.html 20080130150500 Wed, 30 Jan 08 15:05:00 GMT Paul Anthony Taylor's eye-witness report describes how Codex continues to deny the health benefits of vitamins, micronutrients and nutrition in the battle against today's most common diseases and explains how its key beneficiaries are the large multinational food, biotech and pharmaceutical corporations. http://www4.dr-rath-foundation.org/THE_FOUNDATION/Events/codex2007-badneuenahr.html 20080109105100 Wed, 09 Jan 08 10:51:00 GMT Agenda Behind WWIII Plans Exposed! - Auschwitz, Poland, November 13, 2007: More than 30 survivors of the extermination camp Auschwitz and other Nazi concentration camps met in Auschwitz for a one day conference. Based on their unique moral credo, this extraordinary group of people decided to throw their weight into the discussion about Europe's future. In a solemn ceremony, the survivors of this "hell on earth" shared their experiences from the past and also proposed a constitution for a "Europe for the People, By the People." http://www4.dr-rath-foundation.org/THE_FOUNDATION/relay_of_life/index.html 20071121145000 Wed, 21 Nov 07 14:50:00 GMT The European Commission is currently in the process of finalising methods for the setting of maximum levels of vitamins and minerals in food supplements. Although it claims that it will be taking a scientific approach to this procedure, the reality is that the maximum level for beta-carotene may be set at a level less than that contained in two carrots, whilst the maximum level for selenium may be set at a level less than that contained in a mere two brazil nuts. Pointing out these and other absurdities, an impressive position paper recently issued by the UK-based Alliance for Natural Health (ANH) calls for the Commission to review its methods, and proposes features that would be required for the development of a new, scientifically valid approach. http://www4.dr-rath-foundation.org/THE_FOUNDATION/a_question_for_the_ec.html 20071109092100 Fri, 09 Nov 07 09:21:00 GMT Le Président Français Nicolas Sarkozy est en visite aux Etats-Unis aujourd'hui et demain, il se présente lui-même comme «l'ami des américains». Mais la réalité est plus sombre: sa visite prépare le plan d'exécution de la première guerre nucléaire de l'histoire de l'humanité. Le peuple américain et le mode entier ont besoin de savoir, qui est Sarkozy? http://www4.dr-rath-foundation.org/french/open_letter_2007_11_06.html 20071107131200 Wed, 07 Nov 07 13:12:00 GMT Today and tomorrow, French President Nicolas Sarkozy is visiting the USA, presenting himself as a 'friend of America' but the reality is much more sobering. His visit serves to plan the first nuclear war in the history of mankind. The people of America and the world deserve to know, who is Mr. Sarkozy? http://www4.dr-rath-foundation.org/open_letters/open_letter_2007_11_06.html 20071106163600 Tue, 06 Nov 07 16:36:00 GMT The business plan of the pharmaceutical and chemical industries is almost entirely based around patented products. The existence and increasing popularity of non-patentable, naturally occurring, safe alternatives to these products represents a serious threat to the future profitability of these industries. Whilst the threat to synthetic, patented drugs is already fairly widely understood in the case of natural food supplements, there are also many other examples of patented products produced by these industries that are similarly threatened by natural alternatives. Awareness of this aspect of the bigger picture is fundamental to understanding the full extent of the threat that the pharmaceutical and chemical industries pose to our health. http://www4.dr-rath-foundation.org/THE_FOUNDATION/thebigpicture_news.htm 20071105153600 Mon, 05 Nov 07 15:36:00 GMT The North American Union (NAU) appears to be modeling itself on a European Union (EU) that has already been subverted by corporate interests. As such, the direction that it is apparently heading in is clearly contrary to the health interests of American, Canadian and Mexican citizens. http://www4.dr-rath-foundation.org/us/north_american_union.html 20071023113200 Tue, 23 Oct 07 11:32:00 GMT I never liked poodles! http://www4.dr-rath-foundation.org/THE_FOUNDATION/cartoons/index.html 20070925131800 Tue, 25 Sep 07 13:18:00 GMT Three weeks ago the Academy of Science of South Africa (ASSAf) went public with a position paper about the role of nutrition in the fight against AIDS and tuberculosis. However, this paper did not serve the health interests of the South African people and nor did it give scientific guidance to the South African government on coping with these epidemics. http://www4.dr-rath-foundation.org/Newsletter/archive/newsletter_2007_09_sep_13.html 20070914105400 Fri, 14 Sep 07 10:54:00 GMT The European Commission has recently issued an "Orientation Paper" that outlines possible options for the setting of maximum levels of vitamins and minerals in all food supplements sold in Europe. Sent to all European Union (EU) Member States on July 27, the issuing of this Paper signals that the Commission is now gearing up in preparation for its upcoming effort to unify these levels across the 27 EU countries. http://www4.dr-rath-foundation.org/Newsletter/archive/newsletter_2007_09_sep_04.html 20070904130300 Tue, 04 Sep 07 13:03:00 GMT January 2007 (Revised August 2007) - Pro-pharmaceutical and anti-health freedom forces have made significant strides in recent years towards their ultimate aim of removing all higher-dose, innovative and effective nutritional supplements from the global marketplace. With the passing of the European Union's Food Supplements Directive in 2002, for example, and the adoption by the Codex Alimentarius Commission of its global Guidelines for Vitamin and Mineral Food Supplements in 2005, the stage became potentially set for stringent restrictions on the levels of nutrients contained in supplements to become enforceable on a global scale over the next few years. http://www4.dr-rath-foundation.org/features/risk_assessment.html 20070822100600 Wed, 22 Aug 07 10:06:00 GMT So why is the European Commission planning to ban thousands of supplements when it has already admitted that most of them are safe? http://www4.dr-rath-foundation.org/THE_FOUNDATION/vitamin_and_mineral_deficiencies_are_widespread.html 20070806101200 Mon, 06 Aug 07 10:12:00 GMT After six decades of silence, the historic records of the key war crimes tribunal that determined the responsibility for WWII is finally being made available to a world audience. Currently, history books teach that WWII was launched by a lunatic dictator, Hitler, and his ruthless Nazi henchmen. http://www4.dr-rath-foundation.org/open_letters/open_letter_2007_07_20.html 20070720142300 Fri, 20 Jul 07 14:23:00 GMT