Hi Everybody, here is Dr. Group's Quote of the Month:

"We tend to forget that our body is between 60-75% water and how important it is to keep hydrated. Water is responsible for all chemical reactions in the body and is the cheapest and most effective medicine. Send Love into your water and drink ˝ your body weight daily in ounces of filtered water. Your body will thank you!" --Dr. Edward F. Group, III, DC, PhD, ND, DACBN

Table of Contents for June 2005

1. Editorial
2. June GHC Specials
3. Important CODEX Information
4. Weight Loss Pills
5. Living Without A Gallbladder
6. Red Meat 'Linked to Cancer Risk'
7. Ten Lies Your Doctor Taught You
8. NHI Plans Anthrax Vaccine Text on 100 Children

Hi Everybody!

While recently discussing health concerns with a friend, they brought up the subject concerning the terribly high cost of getting healthy and staying healthy using natural medicine and organic foods and how most people just cannot afford it. I quickly reminded this friend that I am no stranger to the cost of getting and staying healthy. After losing my health to colon cancer (stage 3) in 2000, I quickly realized that getting my health back would cost money, and a lot of it. Never mind the fact that our over-paid insurance company wasn't interested in the least about my health except to require that I do conventional treatment in order for them to pay up. Like with most people this was an illness that had not been planned for and getting my body back to health would be expensive, since we chose the natural route. This would also require something of me---to be determined and disciplined to the highest level and I would now have to be responsible for my own health---a concept that is foreign to most people. It definitely paid off with the dividends being nothing short of miraculous.

Unfortunately, my friend is correct. I hear this concern daily from clients who are desperately seeking answers, but do not feel like they have the money or can get the money to purchase needed supplementation, organic food, modalities, etc. in order to facilitate health. They are usually depressed and very angry at our health system which has predetermined the most "effective" treatment for them, even though most of the time it will not totally address their health concerns. Then there are the clients that communicate their desire to do whatever it takes to get healthy--even a second job or borrowing money. They get past the the anger of misplaced loyalty to the insurance company and decide to "do the next thing ." Guess what? These are the people that usually see results because they have true desire and determination. It is so easy to find excuses as to why something will not work or why you cannot afford this or that, but when it comes to your health, frankly, these excuses will actually undermine your health. We must realize that when health is lost, every aspect of life is affected. Instead of using the word "can't" let's use the words "How can I..." You will find that answers will appear and problems will be solved.

The good news is that good health and well-being can be restored. It may take time and it will take money. All of us have a choice. We can choose to work on ourselves and our health daily or we can ignore the little signs and symptoms from our body until something huge develops. The later is what we have been programmed to do because of a false safety net that the medical community has created. Instead of dealing in prevention and health, our medical system has chosen to deal in sickness.

More good news...You can do this!. Don't be afraid of information or research---education is always the first step toward health. We have a wealth of information at the Global Healing Center Website under the articles and health concerns sections. Just make sure that you explore both sides of the coin and realize that prescription meds, surgery and radiation are answers that, in the long run, may result in more health concerns. Don't be afraid to step out of the box...you will find that most of your answers will be waiting for you there---outside of the box.

We have another informative newsletter for you this month. Please take a few minutes right now to thoroughly read the first article concerning CODEX and take appropriate action immediately. We are now "down to the wire" and need everyone to do their part in making sure that we are assured the right to purchase supplements in amounts that will actually help to heal the body and to keep it healthy. It is important that we are fully educated about CODEX and willing to do whatever it takes to protect our freedom to buy supplements. Many important decisions in history have been determined by just one vote...please act today.

As always, we count it a privilege to partner with you in health.  Until next month...
Have A *Sparkling* July 4th!!
Have fun, relax and enjoy friends and family. Remember to be safe.

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June GHC Specials

Please go to http://capwiz.com/lef/mail/oneclick_compose/?alertid=7739691 and send the form letter from LEF's Capwiz site to your senators and congressmen. This site makes it very easy to do. All you do is enter your contact info and zipcode and it automatically routes the message to your senators and congressmen, and you can also add your OWN message in the box provided for that purpose.

Friends of Freedom International has recently joined the chorus of the misguided in directing vitamin consumers contact the White House and Congress in an effort to rein in US Codex Manager Dr.Ed Scarbrough who will be the US Codex Delegate to the 28th General Session of Codex in Rome in July.

While Friends of Freedom is at least not directing people to communicate DIRECTLY with Scarbrough (as so called "Citizens for Health" and so called "Natural Solutions Foundation" are) (they're asking people to approach him via Bush and via Congress), their strategy is STILL just as DANGEROUS and just as FLAWED as these other organizations, for the following reasons:

1. The USA has already committed to RATIFYING the Codex vitamin standard. They've declared their position here: http://www.friendsoffreedominternational.org/ActionLetter/US_Supports_Risk_Assessment_1.pdf

2. The likelihood of Bush reining in Scarbrough is extremely unlikely given the strong ties Bush has with the pharmaceutical industry:
http://www.thinkandask.com/news/fdadruglaw.html:

The Bush Administration has made it impossible for a person who has been harmed by an FDA approved drug to sue a pharmaceutical company.The White House says that consumers may not recover damages for injuries of products approved by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), which the Justice Department says is a position that reflects a change in government policy and persuades judges to accept the new strategy.

Between 2002-2004, pharmaceutical companies cushioned George W. Bush's campaign with $47,000,000. in soft money contributions. Of that Eli Lilly contributed $1,430,000., Astra Zeneca (UK) contributed $91,000., Glaxo Smith Kline (UK) contributed $310,000., Genentech (Switzerland) contributed $50,000., Hoffman La Roche (Switzerland) contributed $42,000., Solvay Pharmaceuticals (Belgium) contributed $3,000.

3. Aside from this, consider THIS about Scarbrough:

In 2000, I approached him ,requesting that he remove Dr.Beth Yetley as US Codex Delegate to the CCNFSDU (Codex Committee on Nutrition and Food for Special Dietary Uses) and cited abundant evidence that she had violated the law at 2 Codex meetings that I'd attended as an observer in '96 and in '98. This included evidence that she ignored these 2 letters from Congress http://iahf.com/codex/letter1.gif and http://www.iahf.com/codex/letter2.gif which ordered her to obey the law and to not put the fraudulent, pharma funded, unscientific paper on the table at Codex titled "A Risk Assessment Model for Establishing Upper Levels for Nutrients" she ignored Congress.

Then in 2001 the Congressional Oversight Hearing that I pushed for for 5 years to try to bring all this to light was WHITEWASHED, so none of this came out.

(Still think it makes any sense to try to rein in Scarbrough? He covered all of this up, and congress let him do it.)

Aside from this, however, even if Scarbrough DID do what we wanted, and opposed ratification of the Codex vitamin standard, the EU by ITSELF can force consensus at Codex. Our sad reality is that the USA doesn't wield any more clout within the corrupt Codex process than Denmark or Norway do.

WE MUST KILL CAFTA TO SAVE OUR COUNTRY AND TO BLOCK HARMONIZATION TO CODEX

The SPS language in CAFTA forces harmonization to Codex standards. Article 3 of SPS reads "To harmonize sanitary and phytosanitary measures on as wide a basis as possible, Members SHALL base their food safety measures on international standards, guidelines or recommendations."

I'm a realist. I've been to two Codex meetings in Germany and demonstrated against a third. For 5 years I pushed for Congressional oversight on Codex and got stonewalled. I had serious death threats for my trouble and the hearing was whitewashed on March 20, 2001. I can see the writing on the wall.

We have no power to influence the unelected bureaucrats who make the decisions at Codex, but we DO have power over our Congress, and we CAN kill CAFTA, we MUST kill CAFTA because it contains language that would harmonize us to Codex standards and a lot else besides.

We are losing our country. If we don't kill CAFTA, we won't kill FTAA which would follow. FTAA would create a version of the European Common Market in our hemisphere and that's what spawned creation of the EU. FTAA is intended to create an EU in our hemisphere.

Our trade deficit has ballooned to over $617 Billion due to the failed policies of NAFTA and other trade agreements. CAFTA and FTAA threaten to continue this downward spiral and totally destroy the value of the dollar.

Despite this, INCREDIBLY, CAFTA was just voted out of committee in both the Senate and House and before the August recess, it will have been voted on in both the House and Senate with only very limited debate allowed under Fast Track rules. It could be brought to the floor of the House THIS MONTH before the July 4th recess.

Right now, the White House is lobbying like crazy, backed by the Pharma Cartel and other multinational lobbyists who are trying to twist the arms of any member of congress who are holding out against them.

Summer is the hardest time of year to alert the public to take action on things like this. I need everyone who receives this to not only act on it by going to http://capwiz.com/lef/mail/oneclick_compose/?alertid=7739691 but I also need you to urge all your friends and family to join you in taking action.

I also need you to schedule appointments with your Senators and Congressmen via their state and district offices in your home state if you live too far from Washington DC to get there. I need you to call your Senators and Congressmen via the Capital Switchboard at 202-225-3121 to ask for the number of their state office(Senators) and for their District offices (Congressmen) so you can make personal visits to express your strong concern on this Codex vitamin, Anti CAFTA, anti Globalization issue.

Please forward this massively, and don't leave it up to your neighbor to do your work for you. If you value your access to dietary supplements, and if you want to keep living in America, you better ACT NOW!!

For Health Freedom,
John C. Hammell, President
International Advocates for Health Freedom
556 Boundary Bay Road
Point Roberts, WA 98281-8702 USA
http://www.iahf.com
jham@iahf.com
800-333-2553 N.America
360-945-0352 World

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Weight Loss Pills

By: Dr. Edward F. Group III, DC, PhD, ND, DACBN

Miracle Drugs or Money Wasters?

Losing weight is a lifelong commitment. It takes patience and self-discipline to stick with a weight loss program and wait for the end results. Many people want to find the magic shortcut that will make the process just a little shorter and less difficult. Many over-the-counter and prescription pills are purchased for just this purpose. They are available from pharmacies, natural health food stores, and even online. But are these weight loss pills the miracle drugs they claim to be? Or are they just a waste of money?

How Does A Weight Loss Pill Work?

Prescription weight loss pills work in one of three ways. Most of the pills on the market simply suppress the appetite and help you eat less. Others aim to increase your feeling of fullness after eating. Some of the newest weight loss pills on the market work by inhibiting the absorption of fat. Over the counter weight loss pills usually contain a stimulant that helps to decrease your appetite. The only complete weight management system which I approve of is the “Slimirex™” system.

Who Should Take Weight Loss Pills?

Weight loss pills are most often recommended for people who are medically obese…people whose weight is causing serious health concerns. Even with weight loss pills, the treatment of obesity involves exercise, counseling, dietary changes, and behavioral modifications. But weight loss pills are not only used by obese people. They are also sought after by people who want a quicker way to achieve the weight goals they have set for themselves. As long as men and women continue to compare themselves to the select few beautiful, skinny models on TV screens and magazine pages, there will be a strong market for weight loss pills.

Could Weight Loss Pills Be Dangerous?

Weight loss pills are a medication just like any other type of drug. You need to be very careful about the ingredients of any medication that you place in your body.

ALWAYS Consult Your Doctor: Work in consultation with your natural health care provider if you decide to try a over the counter weight loss pill to help you lose weight. Your doctor can assess your overall weight management goals and he or she can help you monitor the success or side effects of the medication. Be very cautious about the weight loss pill you decide to try. Try visiting www.weightlossobesity.com for general information and recommendations.

Know Your Source: Weight loss pills purchased over the internet may be coming from the garage of a t-shirt salesman (this actually happened!) If you decide to buy your weight loss pills online, make sure you research the company you are buying from so that you can be sure they send you the appropriate supplementation.

Read the Ingredients: Some weight loss pills contain the ingredient ephedra (also known as ephedrine and ma huang.) This stimulant has recently come under a lot of scrutiny from the Food and Drug Administration for its links to illness and side effects. Ephedra has been shown to cause heart attacks, seizures and strokes. It is a powerful and dangerous stimulant that can damage the central nervous system and the heart. The most complete system available is the Slimirex system scheduled for release in April 2005.

Watch Out For Dependency: Weight loss pills that contain amphetamine or other stimulants may cause withdrawal symptoms when you decide to discontinue the medication. You may become addicted to these types of pills and be unable to stop taking them. The long term use of weight loss pills may increase your chances of developing serious side effects. Stimulant based weight loss pills can cause Adrenal Burnout Syndrome, which can take years to fix.

The Bottom Line On Weight Loss Pills

· ALWAYS check with your health care provider. Make sure he or she knows which pill you are going to try and arrange for your progress to be monitored.

· If your doctor prescribes a weight loss pill for you, make sure you follow the instructions he or she gives you. If you decide to purchase an over the counter weight loss pill, be sure to use Slimirex. DO NOT OVERDOSE to try and gain faster results.

· Use weight loss pills (Slimirex) in combination with behavioral modifications, dietary changes, and an exercise program to ensure that if you do achieve weight loss results with the pill, you will be able to discontinue their use without hampering your progress.

· Monitor yourself carefully while you take the weight loss pill. Record your progress as well as any side effects you may be feeling. And be sure to report both to your health care provider.

· Unless your doctor advises you differently, plan to take the weight loss pill for a maximum of six to eight weeks. These products are not meant for long term usage and side effects can occur.

· If you are not losing weight, stop taking the weight loss pills. Consult with your health care provider on any lifestyle or medication changes you can incorporate to achieve results.

For more information on weight loss go to www.weightlossobesity.com

PROSTATE CONCERNS?

GHC CLINICAL TRIAL FOR MEN

Global Healing Center is currently offering men who suffer from frequent urination at night the opportunity to participate in a study using Endosterol (description below). Endosterol is taken for a period of five days. Participants will be required to fill out all paperwork included with product and mail or fax to Global Healing Center. Endosterol will be provided for free for all participants in the study. Men who are interested in participating should call, please call us at (713) 476-0016.

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 As a man ages, his testosterone production decreases, and what testosterone remains begins turning into estrogen and DHT.  This increases the incidence of prostate cancer, weight gain, balding, BPH heart disease and depression.

Beta-sitosterol has been clinically shown to increase testosterone while lowering estrogen and DHT. It has been used in clinics and hospitals around the world for conditions ranging from prostate enlargement and cancer to diabetes, atherosclerosis, arthritis and inflammation.

Now this vital ingredient is available as a suppository for immediate delivery to the prostate in clinically significant amounts.  In addition to the rapid benefits to the prostate itself, users report increased energy and muscle mass, greater sexual vigor and weight loss.

Sound bite: “By the time a man’s 34, he has more estrogen then testosterone and by the time he is middle aged, he has more estrogen than a similarly aged woman.”

A major study has found fresh evidence of a link between red and processed meat and bowel cancer, scientists say.

The European Prospective Investigation into Cancer and Nutrition (EPIC) looked at the dietary habits of over 500,000 people across Europe over 10 years.

Bowel cancer risk was a third higher for those who regularly ate over two 80g portions of red or processed meat a day, compared to less than one a week.

EPIC's study is reported in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute.

BOWEL CANCER RISK

There are 17 cases per 10,000 50-year-olds a year among the group eating more than two portions of red meat a day.

There are 12 cases per 10,000 50-year-olds a year among the group eating less than one portion of red meat a week.

On average, people eat 95g of red meat a day.

A sausage for breakfast, a ham sandwich for lunch and a steak in the evening would add up to 205g of meat.

Since it began, 1,330 people have developed bowel cancer.

The study also found a low fibre diet increased the risk of bowel cancer.

Eating poultry had no impact but the risk for people who ate one portion or more of fish every other day was nearly a third lower than those who ate fish less than once a week.

Strong evidence

Lead researcher Professor Sheila Bingham, of the MRC Dunn Human Nutrition Unit in Cambridge, said: "People have suspected for some time that high levels of red and processed meat increase risk of bowel cancer, but this is one of the largest studies worldwide and the first from Europe of this type to show a strong relationship."

Professor Bingham said there were several theories about why red meat should increase the risk of bowel cancer.

She believes the most likely explanation is that compounds called haemoglobin and myoglobin, which are found in red meat, trigger a process called nitrosation in the gut, which leads to the formation of carcinogenic compounds.

Alternatively, the problem might be caused by compounds called heterocyclic amines, carcinogenic compounds created in the cooking process.

However, these compounds are also found in poultry, which has not been linked to an increased cancer risk.

Professor Tim Key, of the charity Cancer Research UK, said: "This study strengthens evidence that bowel cancer risk can be cut by increasing fibre in the diet and reducing consumption of red and processed meat."

The researchers defined red meat as beef, lamb, pork and veal.

Processed meat was mostly pork and beef that were preserved by methods other than freezing. They include ham, bacon, sausages, liver pate, salami, tinned meat, luncheon meat and corned beef.

The Meat and Livestock Commission (MLC) said people in Britain ate well below the 160g per day consumption levels that were used to class high intake in the study.

Mike Attenborough, MLC technical director, said: "Once again this points towards the need for moderation and balance in what we eat."

The study was funded by the Medical Research Council, Cancer Research UK and the International Agency for Research on Cancer.

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NIH Plans Anthrax Vaccine Test on 100 Children

By THOMAS D. WILLIAMS

The National Institutes of Health is under fire from critics over a plan to test two anthrax vaccines on children.

The trial will test and compare the reactions in humans to the vaccine manufactured by BioPort Corp. of Lansing, Mich., and another being developed by NIH. Bob Bock, an NIH spokesman, said the trial planned for 100 children in first and second grade will not occur until the vaccines are fully tested on 350 adults and shown to be safe for them.

"The results in this study," says an NIH announcement, "will help in the development of improved vaccines for anthrax." The NIH and U.S. Health and Human Services Department are calling for development of the vaccine to protect civilians from terrorist or other attacks.

Critics, however, are appalled.

"This vaccine is totally inappropriate for children, because the [exposure] threat is so remote," said Barbara Loe Fisher, president of the National Vaccine Information Center. "They will likely never be exposed to anthrax either through contamination by animal products or inhalation of weaponized anthrax."

"Children are involved in trials of vaccines that benefit children," she said, "but this vaccine will not do so." Fisher said based on the NIH announcement of "rare severe reactions" to BioPort's vaccine, she fears the parents of children used in the experiments will not be given proper warnings of the vaccine's potential for adverse reactions.

However, Bock said adults and parents or guardians of the children will be given complete information on the two vaccines and their benefits and risks.

"I don't understand how they can do efficacy tests with children at the same time that we are discovering more and more U.S. soldiers who have been harmed by the vaccine," said Steve Robinson, executive director of the National Gulf War Resource Center for service members and veterans. "[NIH officials] want parents to want their children to be vaccinated against the anthrax terrorist attacks that have not happened."

But Bock said that if terrorist attacks occur, both children and adults would be at risk.

BioPort's vaccine, used almost exclusively on soldiers, has already demonstrated an adverse reaction rate 100 times the figure initially stated on the label. Adverse reactions include immune disorders, muscle and joint pain, headaches, rashes, fatigue, nausea, diarrhea, chills and fever. At least half a dozen deaths and a number of birth defects have been attributed to its use.

BioPort officials did not respond to repeated messages seeking comment Wednesday.

Retired Air Force Col. John Richardson, who has independently researched the vaccine extensively, said that in 2003, there were 16,869 federal adverse reaction reports for all vaccines and of those, 1,068 were for the anthrax vaccine. The anthrax vaccine drew more than 6 percent of all vaccine complaints, said Richardson, even though anthrax vaccinations represented less than 1 percent of an estimated 100 million immunizations of all types administered that year.

For last year, he said, there were 15,488 federal adverse reaction reports for all vaccines, and 806 for anthrax, or 5.2 percent of the total.

Complaints to the reporting system - which even federal officials acknowledge typically represent as few as 10 percent of all adverse reactions to vaccines - can be filed by vaccine users, doctors and medical personnel.

The vaccine, aimed at protecting soldiers against anthrax spores fired into the air in combat, has been under attack by service members and their advocates ever since the Pentagon mandated its use in 1998. Aside from the anthrax spore attacks aimed at government officials 3˝ years ago, no such attacks are known to have been used during modern warfare or by terrorists.

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