Reflection sparks 580EXII straw/Snooted 3ft above onto mirror @ about 83 degrees 1/128 power Overview of Codex Alimentarius by Rima Laibow, M.D. At the request of the United Nations (UN) in 1962, the World Health Organization (WHO) and Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) took on the joint role of running and administering the Codex Alimentarius Commission (CAC) to establish standards and remove barriers to trade for all food and food products. Having declared that nutrients are toxins from which we must be protected, the CAC has been busy establishing enforceable international guidelines for upper limits of nutritional supplement dosing. Codex has goals that affect every person in the UN’s 170+ member nations, including the United States. As a tool for furthering these goals, member nations are urged to adopt Codex standards and guidelines as domestic policy. The United States has already committed itself to doing so despite U. S. law which prohibits this compliance. The World Trade Organization (WTO) has adopted Codex as a standard for the adjudication of foodrelated international trade disputes and has the authority to enforce Codex standards through implementation of harsh economic sanctions on non-Codexcompliant member nations. Pre-existing international treaty laws dictate that WTO rulings will override the domestic laws already in place in its member nations and, in fact, the WHO has successfully taken both states and the U. S. government to court in the U. S. to force changes in our domestic laws eleven times. This means our nation’s hard won laws that give you access to over-the-counter, natural health supplements will become meaningless. Codex’s original mandate to remove barriers to trade and assure a clean food supply has, under the influence of private, economically-driven multinational pharmaceutical, agricultural and chemical corporations, self-expanded far beyond its original mandate. The result is a body of highly dangerous and restrictive policies that threaten to become domestic law in the U. S. and, as such, are a threat to your health and freedom. The FDA has stated explicitly that its goal is complete "harmonization" with Codex and, in order to bring that about, international regulations i.e., Codex will be given preference over domestic ones! (Federal Register, 10/ 11 /95) If Codex gets its way, as it already has in the EU, we can expect that, ultimately, only 18 or so dietary supplements will be available over-the-counter in doses which are, by design, far too small to have any discernible impact on any human being since codex classifies nutrients as toxins. High potency nutrients will not be available either with or without physician’s prescription since these molecules and compounds will be forbidden under any circumstances. The big surprise? Once in the hands of pharmaceutical companies, consumer supplement costs are expected to more than quadruple. This has, in fact, been the experience in Europe where this process is already underway and micro-dose nutrient prices have increased 10 to 100 fold or more (e.g., in Norway a bottle of zinc lozenges which previously cost $2 now costs $54; in France 12 Vitamin C tabs of just10 mg cost $117; while 10 Vitamin E caps of only 10 IU each cost $110). Australia and the European Union (EU) are in the process of enacting harmonized Codex policies that restrict consumer access to nutritional supplements. America is next. Though Americans value personal freedom, the fact Codex meets infrequently (and almost always offshore) and is bogged down in highly technical language that is difficult to understand has resulted in many Americans being unaware of this threat. The nearly total media blackout on Codex and its activities helps to keep the U. S. uninformed and therefore, pliant. While there have been rare serious adverse reactions to nutritional supplements during the past decades, (usually when taken far in excess of the recommended dosing), numerous severe and even fatal reactions to drugs (usually when taken at the recommended dosing) occur every day and are the fourth leading cause of death in hospitalized clients in the United States when properly used. When improperly used, they are, in fact, far and away the leading cause of death in the United States. Even so, drug deaths are very likely underreported. Drugs are inherently dangerous; nutrients are not. This fact makes it clear why the drug culture 2 needs to eliminate all access to natural health options, including nutritional supplements, in order to expand and intensify its influence and thus its profitability. Healthy people take fewer drugs and thus are poor customers. The global pharmaceutical powers -that-be have already purchased a large piece of the lucrative global nutritional supplement pie but the considerable size of this pie keeps the hugely profitable pharmaceutical profit -share-pie from reaching its maximum size so the competing nutrient pie must be destroyed

Today I tried something really different. I went to see a natural doctor. I thought maybe he would have some different and interesting insights into my health. His analysis was based on a saliva and urine tests, galvanic skin responses and holisitic iridology. I'm still just not sure what to make of all of it. While his title is Dr., from what I can tell he doesn't have a doctorate... unless it is in divinity. He was a baptist pastor. His degree in iridology was framed on the wall, but clearly had been folded up and sent to him in an envelope because the creases were evident under the glass. He talked very quickly and while some of what he said made a lot of sense, other parts did not. A lot of my trouble with the whole things deals with the iridology... which from what I can tell is not too different from phrenology or even palm reading. I just don't see how the colors in my eyes (which change drasticly based on my mood) can tell him about my liver, kidneys, heart or even my self esteem. All of that being said... I did buy the suppliments he told me to get (they weren't very expensive) and I bought this blood type food chart which I'm not going to follow because it tells me not to eat cheese... and I'm not giving up cheese for a science I'm not sure I believe in! I'm going to get some second opinions before I start dosing up on all of these herbs... and we'll see what happens! 224/365