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Monday, May 16, 2005
Why Is WHO Opposed To Vitamin Therapy? We need to know why the World Health Organization is taking a stance against vitamin supplement therapy in the battle against HIV/AIDS in South Africa. Health World reports today that WHO, UNICEF, and an AIDS activist group joined forces in opposing vitamin therapy that exceeds the Recommended Daily Allowance (RDA), and in particular vitamin C in doses they describe as being “far beyond safe levels.” These health agencies warn that “supplemental doses of vitamin C that exceed a 2000 milligram per day upper limit could cause side effects such as diarrhea.” As Health World points out in their report, this matter has been a behind-the-scenes battle between Dr. Matthias Rath, a former Linus Pauling researcher, and The Treatment Action Campaign in South Africa. The public battle ensued after Dr. Rath published a full-page ad in the New York Times and the International Herald Tribune advocating vitamin therapy over anti-AIDS drug therapy. Coinciding with these full-page newspaper ads is a legal battle underway in South Africa where The Treatment Action Campaign seeks to censor statements made by Dr. Rath. Dr. Rath, a renowned vitamin researcher who described a vitamin C cure for heart disease and cancer in 1990 in collaboration with Nobel prize winner Linus Pauling [Proc Natl Academy Sciences 87:9388-90, 1990], is characterized as a “wealthy vitamin salesman” by the Treatment Action Campaign in South Africa. Rath’s vitamin company is providing free vitamin therapy for AIDS victims in South Africa. Clearly the use of drug therapy alone against AIDS is an uphill battle. Drug resistance grows day-by-day. Alertnative therapies must be tried. WHO’s anti-vitamin position is a dangerous stance. John Hart blogs at Pathogen Alert. Blogger News Network is advertiser-supported, and your visits to our advertisers help BNN to meet its expenses. Help keep us afloat! posted by BNN Archive at 3:41 PM |
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