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Vitamin Supplements and " Healthy Diets "

Date: Fri, 31 Dec 2004 09:37:56 -0800 (PST)

Copyright 2004 by Sparrowdancer

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" Many doctors are sceptical about megadose vitamins, arguing that a healthy

diet meets most people's needs. "

(From " EU Rules Threatening to Sweep Away Vitamin Pills " The Observer

12/27/04)

As the EU moves to regulate or limit public access to vitamins and mineral

supplements, once again the same tired and worn phrase is heard: " a healthy

diet meets most people's needs. "

Once again, vitamins and mineral supplements are reduced to the status of

unnecessary nonsense sought only by the common, the uneducated and the very

silly public.

And, once again, the stodgy inference is made that a " healthy diet " is

always (in these modern times of ours) within our fork's range.

The truth however, is that the majority of the world (including the United

States) does not have easy access to a " healthy diet, " due in part to the

fact that very few people know what a healthy diet actually is.

Public officials have been misleading the public as well as the medical

community for a number of years regarding what constitutes " a healthy diet. "

We are now reaping the consequences of what amounts to a near-global false

advertising campaign.

In the United States, where the entire country is currently struggling with

an epidemic of epidemics, the epidemics of obesity and diabetes have been

blamed on laziness, poor habits, computers, etc.

The blame has been assigned to everything except one of the real culprits -

the fraudulent Food Pyramid.

Switched before birth, the original Food Pyramid was one designed for

optimal health.

The real Pyramid was designed to promote the consumption of a diet based

primarily upon vegetables and fruits - not starch.

e Light, Ed.D, a nutrition expert, was teaching at New York University

and broadcasting a popular weekly nutritional radio program in New York when

she was recruited (repeatedly) by the USDA to lead the team of experts that

would create a new Food Guide to replace the Basic Four.

Helping people by teaching them proper nutrition was a lifelong dream, and

Dr. Light eventually accepted the USDA's invitation.

After working long and diligently, Light and her team created the Guide that

was to become the Food Pyramid. It was submitted to high-ranking authorities

within the USDA for approval.

When the approved Pyramid finally made its way back to e and her team,

it had been remade by officials whose main concern was not public health,

but industry profit.

e described to me her team's reaction upon seeing the " new " Pyramid: " We

couldn't believe it! "

It bore little resemblance to the Pyramid they had created.

Various studies conducted throughout the world would eventually show that

neural tube defects were not the only problems associated with low folic

acid levels, which in turn lead to elevated homocysteine levels.

Elevated homocysteine levels, the studies found, appeared to be associated

with heart attacks, stroke, Alzheimer's dementia, Parkinson's disease,

memory impairment, venous thrombosis, miscarriage, osteoporosis, colitis,

thyroid malfunction, irritability, sleep disturbances, periodontal disease,

diabetic retinopathy, etc.

The list of problems is similar to those associated with fluoride ingestion.

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References:

The Observer, " EU Rules Threatening to Sweep Away Vitamin Pills. "

12/27/2004.

http://www.rense.com/general61/EWUi.htm

Core Report.folate deficiency in Europe. Copyright 2000. (12/2004)

http://eurodiet.med.uoc.gr/EurodietCoreReport.pdf

Folate - " leaf. " 8/3/2004. (12/2004)

http://ods.od.nih.gov/factsheets/folate.asp

" Hyperhmocysteinemia in acute Plasmodium falciparum malaria: an effect of

host-parasite interaction. " October, 2004. Department of Chemical Sciences,

University of Catania, Italy. (12/2004)