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For Facts about Vitamins, Why Can't Parents Trust Big Pharmaceuticals?
When it comes to children nutrition facts about vitamins,
it is difficult to know whom to trust because there is so
much disagreement over the effectiveness of vitamins and
supplements and because of corporate media censorship. Yes,
it's true, censorship prevents parents from getting the
whole truth regarding children nutrition facts about
vitamins.
(I didn't believe media censorship existed until someone
referred me to Sonoma State University web site called
Project Censored).
Focusing on the vitamin controversy, on one side there are
traditional medical doctors and pharmaceutical companies
defending patented medicines and attacking vitamins and
supplements as proving ineffective and even dangerous. On
the opposite side there are alternative physicians and
vitamin companies, not only defending vitamins, but claiming
vitamins are often superior than prescription medications for
treating many diseases.
What are the facts about vitamins?
From the stand point of children nutrition, since both
sides are influenced by their respective financial
interests involved, it is difficult to determine where the
truth lies by simply relying on their word, particularly
since there exist medical doctors in both camps. However
the truth and credibility of their claims can be evaluated
and this should help parents making decisions concerning
children nutrition and the facts about vitamins.
Mainstream medicine and the major pharmaceutical companies
have claimed vitamins are dangerous. While there appears
to be agreement in both camps that certain vitamins can be
dangerous, like iron, for example, it is with vitamin C
where there, particularly, exists major disagreements.
Hence, we will examine the safety of vitamins, in general,
compared to patented medications and, also, examine the
credibility of those involved in the vitamin C controversy
in order to help us decide whom to believe from a
children nutrition perspective on the facts about
vitamins.
Below, Dr. Philip Rudnick, Professor Emeritus, Chemistry,
(http://www.thenhf.com/articles_27.htm)cites a five year
study, excerpted from the "Journal of the American Medical
Association" performed between 1993-1998. The findings were
as follows:
Summary of Comparative Mortality of Drugs and
Supplements/Herbs:
- Iatrogenic deaths from non-error adverse effects of
medication: ~ 106,000/year
- Deaths from herbs (weight-loss): ~37/year
- Deaths from supplements: 0-1/year
- Ratio of iatrogenic deaths from “properly” prescribed
drugs to deaths from herbs: 2865 ~ 2900/1
- Ratio of iatrogenic deaths from “properly” prescribed
drugs to deaths from supplements: =/> 106,000/1.
From a children’s nutrition perspective, it appears one is
more than 106,000 times more likely to die from a correctly
prescribed doctor's prescription than from taking a vitamin
supplement, one of the very important facts about vitamins.
As a quick check on these findings, let's examine this
graph of the statistical comparison of frequent causes of
death in the USA
(www.laleva.cc/petizione/english/ronlaw_eng.html).
Examining the graph, note one has .0001% chance dying from
supplements and a 5.18% chance of dying from properly
prescribed drugs. In other words, correctly prescribed
doctor's prescriptions are 50,000 times more likely to kill
you than vitamin supplements. Children’s nutrition is a lot
safer sticking to vitamins than drugs, even when drugs are
correctly prescribed.
From this information, it appears obvious that vitamin
supplements are safe for children’s nutrition. This being
the case, why do many medical doctors and pharmaceutical
companies warn about their dangers, when the facts about
vitamins support the opposite conclusion that doctor's
correctly prescribed drugs are unsafe, in comparison to
vitamins, and are the fourth leading killer in the United
States after heart disease, cancer and smoking?
From a children’s nutrition perspective, the following
information may prove helpful in evaluating this question.
According to Karl Loren's very credible and extensively
documented web site:
- "Now I've got to the point where I think we can get
almost complete control of cardiovascular disease, heart
attacks and strokes. The proper use of vitamin C and lysine
can prevent cardiovascular disease and even CURE it."
[Linus Pauling, 1994 Interview]
- "If you are at risk of heart disease, or if there is a
history of heart disease in your family, if your father or
other members of the family died of a heart attack or
stroke or whatever, or if you have a mild heart attack
yourself then you had better be taking vitamin C and
Lysine." [Linus Pauling, 1994 interview]
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- "The heart surgery industry is booming. According to
American Heart Association statistics, in 1995 1,460,000
angiograms (the diagnostic procedure that starts the ball
rolling) were performed at an average cost of $10,880 per
procedure. This resulted in 573,000 bypass surgeries at
$44,820 a shot, and 419,000 angioplasties (the balloon
procedure for opening up arteries) at $20,370 each. The
total bill for these procedures is over $50 billion a year.
- The millions of people told that they needed immediate
surgery to save their lives actually had a 98.4% chance of
surviving without surgery! [According to the CASE study
published by the New England Journal of Med., 1983]
- Dr. Robert Cathcart, III, MD, reports that he hasn't
seen a single case of heart disease develop in patients who
didn't already have a bad heart to begin with. Dr. Cathcart
has treated over 20,000 patients with high doses of ascorbic
acid vitamin C!
- During the 1970s vitamin C consumption in the U.S. rose
by 300%. Mortality from heart disease decreased by 30% in
the U.S., the only country with a significant drop in heart
disease fatalities. Yet, the media and organized medicine
ignore these facts and disseminate misrepresentations of
scientific findings regarding the benefits of vitamin C.
- Furthermore, the early findings of Canadian doctors
Patterson and Willis should not be forgotten. Their research
indicated that arterial tissue levels of ascorbate (vitamin
C) are much lower in heart patients when compared with
controls, and that ascorbate supplementation could reduce
arterial deposits. This pioneering work should have been
immediately followed up.
- There is evidence that textbooks earlier this century
had much more information about the benefits of vitamin C.
Most certainly the information about vitamin C and
collagen production was there. Why the change? Shouldn't
we have learned even more by now? If Pauling was correct
about the benefits of vitamin C, then it is likely the mysterious
missing infoabout vitamin C is an intentional omission and
constitutesscientific fraud.
- "A study of 1,605 randomly selected men in Finland, aged
42 to 60 years, was conducted between 1984 and
1989. None of the men had evidence of preexisting heart
disease. After adjusting for other confounding factors, men
who were deficient in vitamin C had 3.5 times more heart
attacks than men who were not deficient in vitamin C. The
scientists' conclusion was, "Vitamin C deficiency, as
assessed by low plasma ascorbate concentration, is a risk
factor for coronary heart disease." British Medical Journal
(Vol 314, Iss 708, 1997)
A great deal of research bolsters Linus Pauling's belief
that vitamin C can prevent heart disease, and both vitamin C
and lysine can reverse heart disease. Why is vitamin C so
effective in reversing heart disease?
According to research by
Rath and Pauling
a local ascorbate
(vitamin C) deficiency causes a crack to form in an artery.
Then a form of low density lipoprotein, called apo(a) enters
that crack and proceeds to initiate a repair process;
however, this healing process is faulty and results in the
accumulation of a mass of tissue that grows and can
eventually clog the artery. How does vitamin C ameliorate
this heart disease process?
For childrens nutrition and facts about vitamins, let's
count some of the many benefits of vitamin C in preventing
and fighting heart disease:
- Extra vitamin C may prevent the local ascorbate
deficiency that caused the arterial crack to form in the
first place.
- Vitamin C prevents endothelial cells lining arteries
from dying.
- Vitamin C increases good HDL cholesterol, which moves
fat from the arterial wall to the liver.
- Vitamin C reduces the production of LDL apo(a).
- Vitamin C prevents the decrease in arterial blood flow
caused by a high cholesterol diet.
- Vitamin C decreases the liver's production of
cholesterol and triglycerides.
- Vitamin C prevents dangerous clot formations that might
cause a sudden stroke or heart attack.
This information about the benefits of vitamin C adds to the
pool of important facts about vitamins and their effectiveness.
From a children’s nutrition perspective, vitamin C appears
to do all the right things in reducing heart disease. Since
some studies indicate cardiovascular disease can begin in
childhood, extra vitamin C might be a perfect addition to a
children’s nutrition program to prevent heart disease in
children.
The primary cause of cardiovascular disease is local
ascorbate deficiency. The secondary causative factor is LDL
apo (a). Cholesterol lowering drugs don't appear to have
much effect on apo (a), except for niacin, a vitamin. Lysine
along with vitamin C facilitate proper healing and repair
the initial crack in the artery and causes the plaque
to shrink.
If a local vitamin C deficiency caused the arterial crack,
it appears obvious that increased vitamin C intake might
prevent the deficiency initiating the crack and, also,
decrease the apo (a) that creates the plaque. Hence,
Linus Pauling's approach to curing heart disease makes
sense-another one of the important facts about vitamins.
Bolstering Dr. Linus Pauling's position is a new book by Dr.
Thomas Levy.
"Dr. Levy is a medical doctor and a
cardiologist by training. Some time ago, Dr. Levy analyzed
all 27 known cardiovascular disease risk factors. Levy
discovered that they all can be reduced to a single
factor- low vitamin C."-another one of the critical facts
about vitamins.
It appears obvious that the pharmaceutical corporations chose
to purposely attack the credibility of those supporting the
benefits of vitamin C and the research upholding their support, and
hid the knowledge of vitamin C's effectiveness against heart
disease to prevent the tremendous financial loss they would
have experienced had it become widely known to the American public.
One wonders how many children have died because
pharmaceutical companies chose to hide the facts about
vitamins to protect their very profitable patented drugs
from competition?
From a children nutrition point of view, it is important to
validate these findings of apparent wrong doing by the
corporate pharmaceutical industry, in regard to vitamin C,
by checking for other supporting evidence outside of the
vitamin C realm. In other words, if there proves to be
evidence of widespread wrong doing by Big Pharma, in
general, this would support contentions that Big Pharma
acted inappropriately in regard to vitamin C and support
the allegation that they chose to hide the facts about
vitamins to protect their profits.
Marcia Angell, a faculty member of the Harvard Medical
School and a former editor of the New England Journal of
Medicine, in her book, The Truth About the Drug
Companies, discusses the following ways drug companies
deceive Americans:
- It plies attending physicians with expense-paid junkets
to St. Croix and Key West, Fla., where they are given
honoraria and consulting fees to listen to promotional
presentations.
- It promotes new or little-known diseases such
as "social anxiety disorder" and "premenstrual dysphoric
disorder" as a way of selling the drugs that treat them.
- It sets up phony front groups disguised as "patient
advocacy organizations."
- It hires ghostwriters to produce misleading scientific
articles and then pays academic physicians to sign on as
authors.
- It sends paid lackeys and shills out onto the academic
lecture circuit to ''educate" doctors about a drug's
unapproved uses.
- It hires multinational PR firms to trumpet dubious
studies as scientific breakthroughs while burying the
studies that are likely to harm sales.
- It buys up the results of publicly funded research.
- It maintains a political chokehold on the American
public by donating more money to political campaigns than
any other industry in the country.
Big Pharma has a well organized team of strategies to
prevent the facts about vitamins from reaching the American
public.
If Big Pharma's hiding the facts about vitamins isn't
enough, read this:
- For many years the drug industry has reaped the highest
profit margins of any industry in America.
- In 2002, the top 10 American drug companies had profit
margins of 17 percent; Pfizer, the largest, had profit
margins of 26 percent.
- In 2002 the combined profits for the top 10 drug
companies in the Fortune 500 were greater than those of all
the other 490 companies combined.
- In 2003, pharmaceutical corporation and their executives were
accused of genocide and war crimes before the International
Criminal Court in The Hague.
For children nutrition, who can parents trust for the
facts about vitamins? Not Big Pharma. The affect on
children's nutrition of such behavior is difficult to
determine, but one thing is for certain, it must have taken
a staggering toll over the decades, not just on children's
nutrition, but on the quality of life four children and
even in the death of many children. Other sources confirm
this influence on children's nutrition and hiding the facts
about vitamins.
From Fraud and the Pharmaceutical Industry, we find more
evidence of wrong doing by the industry in question:
- (Concerning vitamin price fixing) "On a daily basis for
the past 10 years, every American consumer paid to eat and
drink or use a product whose price was artificially
inflated," Reno said.
The vitamin cartel was the "most pervasive and harmful
criminal antitrust conspiracy ever uncovered," said
Assistant Attorney General Joel I. Klein, Reno's antitrust
chief. Drug Makers To Pay Top Fine in Price Fix
Chattanooga Times Free Press (Tennessee) May 21, 1999,
Friday
Criminal prosecutions $850 million (for Vitamin Price
Fixing)
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------Largest fines from Sherman Act violations
1999 F. Hoffmann-La Roche ----- Vitamins --- $500 million
1999 BASF ------------------- Vitamins -----$225 million
1999 Takeda Chemical Industries - Vitamins ----- $72 million
1999 Eisai ------------------- Vitamins ---- $40 million
1999 Daiichi Pharmaceutical ----- Vitamins ---- $25 million
1999 Pfizer ----- Maltol/sodium erythorbate --- $20 million
FROM Ongoing price-fixing investigations USA TODAY July 10, 2000
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(Then there was Pfizer).
- Pfizer is by far the largest and most powerful of the
multinational drug companies. Its wealth exceeds that of
many countries. It probably exerts the greatest political
influence. It was accused of influencing the Australian
Minister for Health's office and undermining the activities
of the PBAC, the body which controls the listing of drugs
for Medicare payments and their pricing in Australia.
Pfizer was in dispute over some of its drugs. Two government
officials from the minister's department later joined
Pfizer.
Pfizer paid out US $49 million to settle allegations of
defrauding Medicaid.
- Avotek is an example of the lengths to which some drug
companies have gone to tie researchers into confidentiality
agreements and so prevent publication of data which
challenges the effectiveness or safety of their products.
In the Olivieri case in Canada both the university and the
hospital which employed Olivieri were beneficiaries of
Avotek research money. When she refused to remain silent
about her adverse findings she was hounded by Avotek. The
university and hospital did not support her. There are
other examples where researchers have been harried by
corporations primarily concerned for their bottom line.
The number of illicit and immoral activities by the
pharmaceutical industry are far too numerous and egregious
to all name here. Yet it gives one a good idea of who not
to put our trust in, regarding children’s nutrition and
certainly their war, regarding the facts about vitamins is
not to be trusted.
For more Big Pharma fraud information that may prove useful
in your decisions, regarding children nutrition and facts
about vitamins, go to: http://www.uow.edu.au/arts/sts/
bmartin/ dissent/documents/health/pharmgen.html#RESEARCH.
The aforementioned page describes how pharmaceutical
research has been corrupted to suit the bottom line, how
doctors prescribing protocols are monitored via computers,
and those doctors not prescribing "properly," according to
corporate pharmaceutical standards, are pressured to
conform.
(I am not surprised at such behavior. Shortly after I
graduated from optometry school, I began working in
association with an optical corporation that attempted to
pressure me into prescribing tints for spectacles when they
were not needed. I reported them to my local optometric
association.)
You will find how Congress is controlled by pharmaceutical
lobbyists, 2 lobbyists per congressman, and the money
lavished upon them for their votes, not a pretty picture
for the future of children’s nutrition. Finally, you will
discover how the big pharmaceuticals have established front
companies posing as ordinary citizens groups, but in
reality acting for and paid for by Big Pharma.
In the interests of facts about vitamins, it is important
to note that people, like Dr. Stephen Barret, MD., have
attempted to debunk Dr. Linus Pauling here:
http://www.quackwatch.org/01QuackeryRelatedTopics/pauling.html
Who is Dr. Barret? He is supposedly a quackbuster that has
turned out to be a rather disreputable fellow himself,
according to, http://www.rense.com/general62/wbs.htm:
"The "quackbusters," we know, are a subversive operation
started in the United States shortly after the American
Medical Association (AMA) lost a Federal court case to the
Chiropractors (Wilk v. AMA). In that case the chiropractic
profession rightly, and successfully, accused the medical
profession of attempting, through covert operation, to shut
down, or damage the chiropractors as a competitive health
profession.. They won their case - and the AMA was ordered
to shut down their operation.
About six months later twenty six (26) drug companies
began, and originally funded, the current "quackbuster,"
operation. For several years the "quackbusters," were
successful.
Today, the "quackbusters," those you see, are a motley lot,
led, they would have you believe, by failed MD Stephen
Barrett through his boring, and repetitive,
"quackwatch.com" website. "Quackwatch. com" is
the quackbuster's "bible." On that site, and their
dubious "web-ring" you'll find a condemnation of anything,
and everything, that competes with the use of drugs, drugs,
and more drugs.
Barrett, quackwatch.com, the NCAHF, Robert Baratz, and
others, have all, recently, been named in a FEDERAL
Racketeering (RICO) lawsuit in Colorado (CAVITAT v. Aetna
Insurance). Aetna has filed four separate "Motions for
Dismissal" in this case, and has been rebuffed each time.
Depositions will soon begin of quackbuster leaders.
The Media - What the New York Times, and other major media
are NOT YET covering, is Big Pharma's marketing "black-
ops," the "quackbuster," operation. As everyone in
the "health" world knows, Big Pharma's "quackbuster,"
operation was designed to damage, and discredit, any, and
all, Natural health care methods, herbals, oxygen
therapies, energy medicine, etc... - anything, and
everything that competes with the use of drugs, drugs, and
more drugs."
Again don't expect to get the facts about vitamins from Big
Pharma, not when the facts about vitamins competes with
their drugs.
For the sake of children nutrition and the facts about
vitamins, it is important for parents to know about the
massive attempts by the pharmaceutical industry to use
doctors as fronts to ruin the reputation of vitamins and
those who prescribe them. Without this knowledge,
children nutrition and the facts about vitamins would be
left at the mercy of Big Pharma. Without this knowledge,
parents would be misled concerning children’s nutrition.
The massive attempts to damage the reputation of both Dr.
Linus Pauling and the benefits of vitamin C by the pharmaceutical
industry suggest they fear what might transpire if the truth
about vitamin C and the facts about vitamins were
publicized. For children's nutrition it suggests that vitamin C
may be the most important vitamin children can take. Why
otherwise would Big Pharma go to such great expense to discredit
it?
Despite all the trumped up research, negative publicity
about vitamin C, pressure on medical doctors to do as they
are told, that has, no doubt, led to vast suffering and
deaths, due to Big Pharma's misinformation campaign
concerning vitamin C and other facts about vitamins,
there exists on the horizon a greater danger for children's
nutrition and facts about vitamins, and that is Big
Pharma's control of vitamins by making all, but very low
dose one a day type vitamins, prescription only.
The evidence cited above proves that the pharmaceutical
industry cannot be counted upon to give parents credible
information on the facts about vitamins. Since most
traditional doctors are heavily influenced by the
pharmaceutical industry, and are virtually forced to stick
to common prescribing practices and treatments like others
in their field or be faced with, not only punishment by
their medical boards but increased vulnerability to
lawsuits, it must be assumed that they too are not to be
counted upon when it comes to the facts about vitamins.
What about the mainstream media, can parents count upon them
for reliable information, concerning children’s nutrition?
According to an article in Progressive Living, due to continuing
corporate buyouts, American corporations have become
interlocking centers of power, resulting in corporate
influence preventing stories from reaching the American
public that might adversely affect the bottom line. For
example, if within these interlocking corporation centers,
there exists both a media company and a pharmaceutical
company, the media company could be dissuaded from
announcing any stories inimical to the pharmaceutical
company.
Furthermore, another story, publicized by Project Censored,
cited the following quote:
"In February 2003, a Florida Court of Appeals unanimously
agreed with an assertion by FOX News that there is no rule
against distorting or falsifying the news in the United
States."
Hence, not only can the corporate media legally lie to the
American public, but according to former CIA Director
William Colby, "The Central Intelligence Agency owns
everyone of any significance in the major media."
Regarding the facts about vitamins, children nutrition
can count on neither the media nor the pharmaceutical
industry as a truthful source of information, what about
the government? To be specific, can children count on the
Food & Drug Administration, the FDA, to protect them and
their right to the facts about vitamins?
In 1999, the FDA lost a case where Durk Pearson, a famed
scientific researcher, made four health claims for his
products, regarding facts about vitamins. All claims were
backed by solid scientific evidence, but still the FDA had
refused to approve the claims until they lost their case in
court. Based on the evidence, these products could save
tens of thousands of lives. Why would the FDA not approve
such products, products that would probably prove a godsend
to children's nutrition?
In the article "Conflicts of interest: How Big Pharma
influences the FDA's drug approval process at the expense
of public safety," published on December 13, 2005 by Alexis
Black, she details how large pharmaceutical corporations
influence the FDA to the detriment and sometimes the death
of Americans.
Another article, entitled, "Donald Rumsfeld and Aspartame,"
details how a dangerous neurotoxin, aspartame, was approved
by the FDA, through Rumsfeld hiring the new head of the FDA,
even though the FDA's own records indicated how dangerous
Aspartame was. It's been responsible for over 10,000
complaints, 92 symptoms and death.
From a children’s nutrition perspective, unfortunately, it
appears parents cannot even rely on the FDA's advice,
regarding the facts about vitamins.
Summary of findings, regarding children’s nutrition and the
facts about vitamins:
- It's been proven beyond any reasonable doubt that
vitamins are thousands of times safer than properly
prescribed doctor's medications.
- It's seems clear that the pharmaceutical industry
attempted to discredit Dr. Linus Pauling because of his
belief and documented body of supporting research that
indicated vitamin C, could not only prevent or cure heart
disease, but be helpful in the treatment of many disorders-
one of the many important facts about vitamins.
- It's, not only clear that big pharmaceutical companies
have been frequently involved in immoral, illegal and
corrupt practices infecting medical doctors, researchers,
universities, and even the government itself, but that with
the upcoming Codex guidelines, they intend to continue with
these practices, which could lead to 3 billion human deaths
worldwide.
- Due to corporate influence parents cannot trust the
corporate media nor the FDA for reliable information on
children nutrition and facts about vitamins.
- To the detriment of children's nutrition and health,
corporations are too focused on the bottom line to be a
reliable source of information. It is likely that most
people on the corporate payroll cannot be trusted as well.
Who can parents trust, regarding facts about vitamins?
- Linus Pauling can be trusted and researchers of his ilk
that stood against corporate fraud and remained uninfluenced
by the corporate state.
- Medical doctors and other professionals, whom through
their own experience and research have become prescribers of
vitamins and supplements, are more likely to be trustworthy,
regarding facts about vitamins.
- Older research, unfortunately, not found in many
corporate controlled medical information banks is probably
more trustworthy as well since it appears that the older the
research, the more likely that it will not be fraudulent, regarding
facts about vitamins.
- Information on the internet that is not under corporate
influence is likely to be more truthful.
- Do your own research, or hire someone to do it for you.
Your own research should turn out to be the most credible of
all.
- The bad news is that, to a large extent, the media,
FDA, and the big pharmaceutical companies have been
deceiving parents on the facts about vitamins. Realize
that there is good news in the bad news. That is to say,
inexpensive vitamins and supplements can cure and
alleviate more diseases than we ever imagined.
- Linus Pauling says vitamins and supplements can defeat heart
disease, the number one killer in the US. Other credible
experts claim that B-17 can prevent cancer and defeat it if
taken soon enough. This is great news for children's
nutrition and facts about vitamins. Why
would big pharmaceuticals have tried their best to
discredit Linus Pauling and vitamin research in general, if
it wasn't effective?
- Bolstering the crucial important facts about vitamins in the
treatment of disease is the fact vitamins, not only have
genetic influences, but they can compensate for bad genes
(mutations). What's more, according to Dr. Bruce Ames,
famous microbiologist at U.C. Berkeley, vitamins have
already been used to treat more than 50 different
genetically determined diseases.
- Now that we know vitamins and supplements are effective
in treating disease and maintaining our health, it is important
to seek help in devising your children's nutrition program
from credible medical doctors and other health experts who know
the facts about vitamins.
- Potentially, if proper children’s nutrition changes were
made, along with sound medical advice on the facts about
vitamins and other safe and effective supplements, a new
era could be ushered in for mankind, an era where almost
all children would be born normally, calm, with high IQs,
standing and walking earlier, with superior motor
coordination, more disease resistant, happier and healthier
than ever before in human history, and, therefore, better
able to achieve humanity's true potential.
Did you know the most important function of vitamins is to
prevent genetic mutations and help genes function better?
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