BRINGING AN END TO
HEALTH ILLITERACY
Sharing ‘forbidden’ knowledge about vitamins and
natural therapies with the people of the world
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Latest attack on vitamins:
What is the TRUTH?
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Medical journal claims vitamins are waste of
money, harmful and have no health benefits
In mid-December, three highly
negative research articles and an
editorial on vitamin and mineral
supplements were published in the
Annals of Internal Medicine.
Summarizing the research articles,
the editorial – entitled “Enough Is
Enough: Stop Wasting Money on
Vitamin and Mineral Supplements”
– claimed that supplements are
harmful, ineffective, and may
increase mortality. It concluded
that “the case is closed...vitamins
should not be used for chronic
disease prevention. Enough is
enough.”
(Source: Annals of Internal Medicine, December 17, 2013).
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Global media propaganda started immediately:
“Multivitamins should not be used”
The global media was
quick to respond and
claimed, emphatically, that
multivitamins should not
be used. The article to the
left, published at
Forbes.com, typified the
media’s knee-jerk
reporting.
(Image: forbes.com)
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Recent research they don’t
want you to know about…
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Vitamin E may help slow down
onset of dementia
Daily doses of vitamin E may help slow
down the onset of dementia, a new study
has indicated. In a study of 613 people
with mild or moderate symptoms of
dementia, those who were given a large
dose of vitamin E supplements each day
experienced a slower decline in their
condition than those who were given a
placebo. The research was published in
the Journal of the American Medical
Association.
(Source: The Independent (UK), December 31, 2013).
(Image: wikimedia.org)
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High dose B vitamins help
prevent Alzheimer’s
A new study published in The
Proceedings of the National Academy of
Sciences suggests that a high dose of B
vitamins could stop the onset of
Alzheimer’s by preventing shrinkage of
the medial temporal lobe, the area of the
brain that defines the disease.
(Source: nutraingredients.com, May 21, 2013).
(Image: wikimedia.org)
See more studies on vitamins and Alzheimer’s disease at:
www.wha-www.org/en/library/index.html
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B vitamins may help reduce
risk of stroke
New evidence suggests that taking
vitamin B supplements may help reduce
the risk of stroke. The research appears in
the September 18, 2013, online issue of
Neurology, the medical journal of the
American Academy of Neurology.
(Source: medicalxpress.com, September 18, 2013).
(Image: morguefile.com)
See more studies on vitamins and stroke at:
www.wha-www.org/en/library/index.html
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Coenzyme Q10 slashes
deaths from heart failure
Coenzyme Q10 is being hailed as the
biggest thing to slash deaths from heart
failure in the past 10 years. Researchers
are so convinced by the results they say
the pills should be added to standard
treatment. In the study, presented at the
Heart Failure Congress in Lisbon,
Portugal, Coenzyme Q10 (CoQ10)
supplements were found to HALVE the
number of deaths in heart patients from
all causes.
(Source: Daily Express (UK), May 25, 2013).
See more studies on vitamins and heart failure at:
www4.dr-rath-foundation.org/NHC/researcharchive.html
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Multivitamins with minerals may protect older
women with invasive breast cancer
Findings from a study involving
thousands of postmenopausal women
suggest that women who develop
invasive breast cancer may benefit from
taking supplements containing
multivitamins and minerals. The research,
published in Breast Cancer Research and
Treatment, found that the risk of dying
from invasive breast cancer was 30
percent lower among multivitamin/mineral
users compared with nonusers.
(Source: sciencedaily.com, October 8, 2013).
(Image: wikimedia.org)
See more studies on vitamins and cancer at:
www.cancer-free-world.org
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Even drug company Pfizer now admits that
multivitamins may cut cancer risk
Daily supplements of multivitamins may
reduce the risk of cancer by 8%, says a
new study published in the Journal of the
American Medical Association.
(Source: nutraingredients-usa.com, October 17, 2012).
The multivitamin used in this study was
manufactured by Pfizer, the world’s largest
drug company, with funding provided by
BASF, one of the world’s largest chemical
companies. Through only giving a single low-
level dose of nutrients daily, the reduction of
cancer risk achieved in the study was
essentially guaranteed to be modest.
To access practical health information that
allows everybody to take action towards
cutting their risk of cancer and other
common diseases, visit www. bodyxq.com
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Multivitamins plus selenium reduce risk of
HIV disease progression and illness
Long-term (24-month) supplementation
with multivitamins plus selenium for
human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)-
infected patients in Botswana in the early
stages of disease who had not received
antiretroviral therapy delayed time to HIV
disease progression, was safe and
reduced the risk of immune decline and
illness, according to a study appearing in
the November 27 issue of the Journal of
the American Medical Association.
(Source: medicalxpress.com, November 26, 2013).
See more studies on vitamins and HIV/AIDS at:
www.wha-www.org/en/library/index.html
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What else don’t they
want us to know?
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Independent studies conducted in
the United States, Canada, the
United Kingdom, the Netherlands
and many other countries show
that the nutrient content of our
food has fallen dramatically over
the past decades.
Some evidence suggests that,
even as early as the mid-1930s,
this problem had already existed
for several generations.
The dramatic fall in the nutrient
content of our food
See www4.dr-rath-foundation.org
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The tables below show the fall in the nutrient content of broccoli and potatoes sold in
Canada between 1951 and 1999:
The dramatic fall in the nutrient
content of our food
Broccoli:
Raw, 3
spears, 93g.
Potatoes:
1 potato,
peeled before
boiling, 136g.
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One of the biggest secrets in the drug industry
is that pharmaceutical drugs deplete the body
of vitamins, minerals and other micronutrients.
A remarkable book published in 1999 and
authored by a pharmacist and clinical
nutritionist, Ross Pelton PhD, brought this
issue to wider attention. Citing 459 published
studies on the subject, Pelton and his team of
medical experts identified around 150 classes
of drugs that cause nutrient depletion.
Drug-induced nutrient depletion
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What are they so desperate
to protect?
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Study forecasts global spending on drugs to
reach $1.2 trillion by 2017
A study published by IMS Health in
November forecast that global spending
on drugs will exceed $1 trillion in 2014
and rise to $1.2 trillion by 2017.
Global spending on drugs was already
$965 billion in 2012 – just a fraction short
of $1 trillion.
(Source: imshealth.com, November 13, 2013).
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The total global economic impact of the
five leading chronic diseases—cancer,
diabetes, mental illness, heart disease,
and respiratory disease, could reach $47
trillion over the next 20 years, according to
a study by the World Economic Forum
The economic cost of cancer alone is
known to be nearly $1 trillion dollars a
year, with the cost of heart disease being
around $863 billion dollars in 2010.
The global economic impact of
chronic diseases
See UsaToday.com
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What REALLY scares them…
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Drugmakers suffer decline in trust,
report says
The overall corporate reputation of
pharmaceutical companies declined in
2012 compared to 2011, according to an
independent study by patients'
organisations. The study, funded by
PatientView, a European organization
representing 600 patient groups, focused
on patients' impressions on the corporate
reputation of 29 individual pharmaceutical
companies, and the industry as a whole.
(Source: euractiv.com, January 14, 2013).
(Image: biojobsblog.com)
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Survey finds most people feel pharma companies
see cancer as making-money opportunity
A survey released in February found that
most people feel pharma companies see
cancers as a making-money opportunity
rather than as a blight to eradicate.
Sponsored by Lilly Oncology, the survey
polled more than 4,000 people in the UK,
US, France, Germany, Italy and Japan.
60% of respondents said they believed
pharma manufacturers are more
interested in treating cancer than curing
it.
(Source: pharmafile.com, February 4, 2013).
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‘Game changing’ economic report: Supplements
could save billions of dollars in health care costs
Dietary supplement regimens may reduce
the number of disease-associated medical
events, representing the potential for
hundreds of millions of dollars – and in
some cases billions – in savings,
according to a new report by Frost &
Sullivan and commissioned by the
Council for Responsible Nutrition (CRN)
Foundation.
(Source: nutraingredients-usa.com, September 23, 2013).
(Image: wikimedia.org)
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More than two thirds of American
adults use supplements
More than two thirds of American adults
use nutritional or dietary supplements a
2012 survey from the Council for
Responsible Nutrition reported. This
proportion has remained more less
constant since 2009.
(Source: nutraingredients-usa.com, October 8, 2012)
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“Throughout history, illiteracy
has been the strongest force
obstructing the progress of
humanity. The next great
step forward for all mankind
is the liberation from
health illiteracy.”
Dr. Matthias Rath