www.thenhf.com                    NEWSLETTER                 JANUARY 2005

• Our members donations enabling us to retain our Washington monitor, Lee Bechtel, as a
  full-time lobbyist for the NHF.
   

• The victory of the banning of mandatory anthrax shots of our military, which we feel the massive NHF letter-writing campaign had a great impact on this final ruling.
   

• There were changes in NHF procedures that have saved us thousands of dollars.
   

• The emergence of a new look, format, and slightly different content of our quarterly magazine, Health Freedom News.
   

• Our return to the political scene, sending out a pre-election voice broadcast to 100,000 homes informing voters of anti-DSHEA candidate, Henry Waxman, and the NHF backing of pro-health-freedom candidate, Victor Elizalde.
   

• Sending Scott Tips, Josef Hasslberger, and Paul Taylor as NHF representatives to the all-important Codex meeting in Bonn, Germany in November, as well as to other Codex meetings following Bonn to make the NHF voice heard to all nations on health-freedom.
   

• Making sure that we provide the most up to date information to our members and readers on our website so they are totally informed of crucial issues.
   

• Educating smaller groups of individuals on the threat and complexities of Codex regulation, to therefore strengthen the awareness of its ramifications.
   

• The addition of more international individuals to our NHF Board of Governors and Advisory Board to provide us with a well-rounded perspective of universal health-freedom issues.
   

• We would also like to think that our education on the topic, donations, and letters of support, assisted Alan Yurko in his release from 6-½ years of imprisonment in Florida.
   

• Our gratitude goes out to our staff, Board Members, our President, many authors of articles used to educate, and definitely to the most important group of all, our dedicated members; we sincerely thank you.
   

Other topics in this issue:

Defending Against Cancer

Vaccine Safety Testings
 

NHF Health-Freedom Hero
 

Mandatory Anthrax Shots Loom Again
 

And More..........
 

NHF HEALTH-FREEDOM UPDATES & ARTICLES

Defending Against Cancer

by Mauris L. Emeka

-- a self-help article about important dietary changes for preventing and overcoming cancer --

The Body’s Cure for Cancer --
It is often said that we all get cancer from time to time, but that the body cures it and allows us to go on living normal lives. What mechanism does the body use to cure cancer in the course of our daily lives? That question was asked roughly 100 years ago by a renowned Scottish embryologist named Dr. John Beard.

Dr. Beard’s work has long been ignored by conventional medicine, although in recent years his important findings are being re-discovered. His research is documented in “The Enzyme Treatment of Cancer and Its Scientific Basis”,copyrighted in 1911. It explains that the body cures cancer with protein digesting enzymes supplied by the pancreas. Research shows that protein digesting enzymes can dissolve the protein coating from around cancer cells, and this enables white blood cells (which are part of the immune system) to destroy the cancer cells. Cancer cells are actually trophoblasts cells that are misbehaving-- that is, they are trying to do the wrong thing at the wrong time and place. Trophoblasts cells are basic to the development of every newly conceived baby. But if out of control trophoblast activity begins to occur in later life then cancer is the result. Thanks to Dr. Beard's research he proved that if there are enough enzymes, especially enzymes designed to digest protein, then cancer cannot gain a foothold.

Food Enzymes, the First Line of Defense --
There is a problem: Dr. Edward Howell, M.D. notes in his seminal work Enzyme Nutrition, that the pancreas (which was just mentioned) has a limited capability to produce enzymes. Add to that the fact that the pancreas is almost always over-worked trying to produce enough digestive enzymes to digest the cooked food that we eat. Cooked, refined and processed foods have no enzymes. The body is at greatest risk of cancer when the pancreas can no longer produce an adequate supply of protein digesting enzymes.

But there is good news! Through diet, we can do something about a scarcity of protein digesting enzymes. It is possible to make it so the pancreas does not have to work so hard. That can be done by significantly decreasing the consumption of animal protein (because animal protein requires lots of protein digesting enzymes), and by eating more raw fruits, vegetables, and nuts, since they are rich in enzymes. And note this: the tropical fruits papaya (and their seeds) along with pineapple are especially important, because their enzymes closely mimic the protein digesting enzymes produced by the pancreas. (That’s why meat tenderizers contain papaya). Our first line of defense against cancer is therefore protein digesting enzymes (and other food enzymes) all of which can be gotten from raw whole foods.

Nitriloside, a Little Known Food Factor --
We are fortunate to have available to us a second line of defense against cancer. It involves eating foods that contain a little known food factor called nitriloside. Dr. Ernst Krebs, M.D. is a pioneer in cancer research who in the 1920s discovered that nitriloside suppresses cancer cells. He demonstrated that this food factor was essential for maintaining good health, and he called it vitamin B-17. It has shown to be a kind of natural ‘chemotherapy’ because it kills cancer cells while enhancing healthy cells, and produces no negative side effects. Unfortunately, conventional medicine ignores the importance of Dr. Krebs’ findings.

Where can the food factor, nitriloside, be found? It occurs naturally in foods, and is found in greatest abundance in apricot kernels. (Although apricot kernels are hard to find, one can go online and locate companies in California that sell them). Nitriloside also occurs in lesser concentrations in a host of other whole foods, including lima beans, lentil, millet, sprouts, ginger root, turmeric, black eye peas, walnuts, avocados, blackberries, cranberries, papaya, barley, cassava, to mention a few. Unfortunately, our Western diet no longer includes very many foods like the ones just mentioned. The typical American diet is high in processed food, simple carbohydrates, refined grains, and meat and pasteurized dairy from grain fed animals. These foods are essentially devoid of nitriloside.

In Summary

Cancer arises because the first or second line of defense in the body has been broken. To fix them, one must initiate an aggressive and fundamental change in diet to largely raw fruits and vegetables, especially including foods rich in nitriloside (or vitamin B-17). This is the natural route to true cancer recovery. On the other hand, the broken cancer defense problem is not addressed by orthodox cancer treatment because it focuses only on eliminating the cancerous tumor and not on what caused it.  

Finally, to make the body a place where cancer cannot survive, it is vital to eat foods each day that defend the body -- foods rich in enzymes and in nitriloside capable of disrupting the cancer PROCESS.

What a blessing to know that there is something we all can do (on our own) about preventing and overcoming what is arguably the most devastating illness of our time!

Mauris Emeka is the author of Cancer’s Best Medicine, copyright 2004, and also of the book Fear Cancer No More, copyright 2002. Apollo Publishing. P. O. Box 1937. Port Orchard, WA 98366. Refer to: emekam@silverlink.net and to www.cancernomore.com.

• One of our newsletter readers was kind enough to inform us of great tasting organic apricot pits that can be found at Roy's Natural Market in Dallas, TX. They ship, and the price is reasonable.

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NHF HEALTH FREEDOM HERO OF 2004

Recently, the National Health Federation Board of Governors unanimously voted Mrs. Antoinette Booyzen of South Africa as our "Health Freedom Hero of 2004." Mrs. Booyzen, who shall receive the award shortly, is the Assistant Director of Regulatory Nutrition in the Food Control Directorate of the South African Department of Health in Pretoria, South Africa.

You will remember Mrs. Booyzen as the head of the strongly pro-health freedom South African delegation to the Codex Alimentarius meetings on food and nutrition in Bonn, Germany. Year after year, she has staunchly and repeatedly stated her opposition to the harsh restrictions on food supplements being sought by the European Union and others at these meetings. Of all the delegations at the meeting, only the NHF has consistently supported the South African delegation.

In a very positive move, at the latest Codex meeting, Mrs. Booyzen was able to retain for South Africa the important chairmanship of the working group that will be setting the new international Nutrient Reference Values (NRVs). In doing so, the South African delegation will coordinate the establishment of the scientific basis upon which the NRVs will be set, which nutrients are to be included, and the criteria for their selection.

The NHF commends Mrs. Booyzen and her delegates for their fortitude and perseverance at Codex over the last several years in expressing their health-freedom views and for recently drawing support from other countries, thereby forming a more solid base of delegates at Codex to speak out for health freedom.

BioWar: Mandatory Anthrax Shots Loom Again

Preface

"For the second time, in defiance of a considered opinion by a Federal District Court, physicians officials employed by the Department of Defense are attempting to force an experimental vaccine capable of killing and injuring, on U.S. soldiers. Now these medical doctors employed by the DOD are seeking to join with other medical doctors employed by the Department of Health and Human Services to persuade military generals and politicians that they should have the power to, in effect, target the genetically vulnerable for sacrifice in order to implement a policy they refuse to admit is wrong.

Even if these federal employees could demonstrate need for the anthrax vaccine, which they cannot, it is a direct violation of the Nuremberg Code to force an experimental medical product on individuals without their voluntary, informed consent. Medical doctors employed by the German state during World War II were held accountable at the Doctor's Trial at Nuremberg for doing this. What DOD and DHHS are attempting to do is in direct violation of the Nuremberg Code, which was embraced by the world as the ethical standard for the practice of modern medicine. No individual should be forced to risk and sacrifice his or her life by any other individual or government entity under the guise of protecting "society," benefiting humanity or advancing the progress of science and medicine.

This kind of behavior by morally bankrupt physicians employed by the government should not be allowed in a civilized society. The mothers of America would do well to take note as they discuss with their children the benefits and risks of enlisting in the U.S. military." B.L. Fisher

BioWar: Mandatory Anthrax Shots Loom Again
By Dee Ann Divis
Senior Science & Technology Editor
Washington Times
December 23, 2004

The Department of Defense is discussing with other agencies how it might reopen and again make mandatory a controversial anthrax vaccination program despite a second federal court order enjoining DOD from forcing troops to take the shots. The program, which used a product called Anthrax Vaccine Absorbed, has been at the center of three lawsuits, a congressional investigation and some 100 court-martials of personnel refusing administration of the vaccine. Critics of the program say the medication caused serious illness in a number of people and is not approved for the prevention of inhalation anthrax, an infection feared by those trying to anticipate and forestall deaths from bioterror attacks.

The DOD and vaccine manufacturer Bioport, of Lansing, Mich., assert the vaccine is safe. They point to 18 studies, including one by the Institute of Medicine -- part of the National Academy of Sciences -- saying the vaccine is no more dangerous than any other vaccine.

Federal District Court Judge Emmet Sullivan agreed with critics and granted an injunction Oct. 27 against the mandatory program for a second time, pending proper approval of the vaccine for inhalational anthrax. Though it was still possible to give soldiers the vaccine with their informed consent, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld immediately halted the program and it has been suspended since that time.

Now, in a nine-page question-and-answer brief on the anthrax vaccine, DOD said it is in discussions with the Department of Health and Human Services over whether or not the program can be resumed on a mandatory basis.

In answer to a specific question regarding the possible mandatory or voluntary nature of the program, the brief said, "Specific details on program resumption, if granted under an EUA, are still being discussed between the Departments of Defense and Health and Human Services."

Lawyers for plaintiffs in the case that led to the injunction against the program have long asserted the only mechanism available to restart the vaccination effort on a mandatory basis was a waiver of informed consent issued by President George W. Bush.

"Once they have the authorization to use it, the secretary still has to ensure that those getting the vaccine have the option to accept or refuse," said John Michels, an attorney with the law firm McGuire Woods in Chicago. "Our position is that you can't administer the vaccine without the president."

"This is something we are working out ...with HHS and FDA," a DOD spokesman told United Press International when asked if a mandatory program was being sought. "It is a process that is ongoing. It will require additional discussion between us and HHS over the next few weeks."

Lawrence Halloran, staff director and counsel for the House Subcommittee on National Security, said he did not know how, "under the law as written, HHS could grant Emergency Use Authorization for an approved drug, for an unapproved use and not include as a condition of that authority the obligation to notify recipients of the right to refuse it."

Halloran also told UPI: "DOD somehow thinks that HHS can do that. Under what circumstances I don't know. They seem to have some legal theory they're not sharing with us yet."

DOD asserted in a Dec. 10 request to Thompson for the waiver that a potential emergency exists for the troops.

"I have determined there is a significant potential for a military emergency involving a heightened risk to the United States military forces of an attack with anthrax," wrote Deputy Secretary of Defense Paul Wolfowitz. "In making this determination, I have considered a classified November 2004 Intelligence Community assessment of the anthrax threat. This heightened risk has been and continues to be the basis for the DOD program of vaccinating personnel serving in the areas of Central Command and Korea."

The areas of Central Command include Iraq and Afghanistan.

Under the steps outlined in the brief, HHS first would approve the EUA, followed by the Food and Drug Administration evaluating evidence for its safety and effectiveness. The FDA then would grant or deny approval.

The evidence for the vaccine, the brief said, would be submitted by DOD's assistant secretary of defense for health affairs.

The EUA would be in effect for up to one year. The people most likely to be vaccinated would include those with duty assignments in Iraq, Afghanistan and Korea, as well as others with special assignments and laboratory personnel.

The Q and A said side effects would be monitored and military personnel would be informed of possible reactions and asked to report any problems. HHS and FDA also would "review" the program periodically.

The Q and A does not mention informed consent in its description of the brochures that would be given to medical personnel and those receiving the vaccine. Nor does it mention that DOD is required to notify recipients of their right to refuse, as required by the National Defense Authorization Act of 2004.

To catchup on these important topics, in case you missed the latest, click on the subject of interest below:

• CODEX -  "A Meeting of Two"
                   "Definition of Food" 
                   "Bridging the Great Divide"
  
  

• ANH HEARING - January 25, 2005
  
  

• FDA - Eli Lilly & Prozac
  
  

• FLUORIDE - Risks & the WHO
  
  

• ALAN YURKO - January 5, 2005 Hearing
  
  

• QUACKBUSTERS