Lectures - Dr. Rath Health Alliance

Dear Advisers,
Dear Readers,
This autumn has been full of
eventful dates: first, in the latest
series of lectures in six cities, I
spoke about my fully revised
book as a corner stone for a new
health system; then, our first
appearance at the Frankfurt
Book Fair followed and now the
next “Codex” meeting is fast
approaching.
Our movement to safeguard
vitamin therapy in Europe and
throughout the world and our
work to realise the programme
‘Health for all by the year 2020’,
is now entering a new historical
phase. For years, the pharmaceutical
industry has directed
attacks of a personal and defamatory
nature at our health movement
and me and excluded us
from discussion about a humane,
effective and economic health
system. Now, however, it has
become common knowledge
that the pharmaceutical industry
is promoting its “billion-dollar
business with disease”, ruining
patients’ health without a scruple
and plundering public and
private coffers.
It is now clear, however, that
more and more illnesses, including
heart attack and stroke, can
be almost wholly eradicated by
means of natural remedies.
Nothing can stop this breakthrough
to a new health system!
During the lecture tour
through Switzerland, Austria and
Germany, at the end of September
and the beginning of October,
I experienced an overwhelming
response from thousands
who came to hear me
speak. All of them enthusiastically
acknowledged my book
‘Why Animals Don’t Get Heart
Attacks…But People Do’. Very
many of them, young people
above all, understood our message
and took it to heart. During
my brief meetings with committed
advisers before each event, I
experienced at first hand the
many positive impulses for our
further work in the Health
Alliance. In future, we will continue
to reinforce the work of
advisers, offering a variety of
local further training courses and
help to develop widespread and
inclusive health centres locally.
Our first appearance at the
Frankfurt Book Fair drew much
attention; over the five days of
the fair our stand was densely
surrounded by people hungry to
know more. The new book is the
building plan – throughout the
world – for a new, efficient and
economical health care provision,
based on natural prevention
and cure of illnesses. Many
who visited the fair saw things in
the same way, and on Sunday
(12.10.03) I signed over 500
books. From 4 to 7 November
2003, the “Codex Alimentarius”
Commission is meeting again –
Editorial
for the first time in Bonn. This
time too, their aim is to make all
effective natural remedies, that
have no side effects, subject to
prescription regulations, and
thus, in fact, to prohibit them.
What is new and unheard of is
their intention to prohibit health
statements relating to natural
remedies. This is the desperate
attempt of the pharmaceutical
industry to muzzle freedom of
information and education.
We have been opposing this
so-called “commission of
experts”, each time with increasing
success, since 1996. More
and more governments in the
world, especially those of poorer
countries, have rejected regulations
being enforced on vitamins
and cellular nutrients. The pharmaceutical
cartel and the European
governments that support
it, are on the defensive – also and
especially because of our years
of protests.
What we now need to do is
put an end to the “Codex”.
At our public and international
event on 2 November 2003 in
Bonn – see the back page of this
issue – we want to work together
once again to safeguard our right
to natural remedies.
Come to Bonn with your family,
friends and acquaintances!
Actively support the European
initiative for the “referendum for
free access to natural health” too!
With warmest wishes
Dr. Matthias Rath
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