PAUL ANTHONY TAYLOR Executive Director

BRINGING AN END TO

HEALTH ILLITERACY

Sharing ‘forbidden’ knowledge about vitamins and

natural therapies with the people of the world

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Latest attack on vitamins:

What is the TRUTH?

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Medical journal claims vitamins are waste of

money, harmful and have no health benefits

In mid-December, three highly

negative research articles and an

editorial on vitamin and mineral

supplements were published in the

Annals of Internal Medicine.

Summarizing the research articles,

the editorial – entitled “Enough Is

Enough: Stop Wasting Money on

Vitamin and Mineral Supplements”

– claimed that supplements are

harmful, ineffective, and may

increase mortality. It concluded

that “the case is closed...vitamins

should not be used for chronic

disease prevention. Enough is

enough.”

(Source: Annals of Internal Medicine, December 17, 2013).

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Global media propaganda started immediately:

“Multivitamins should not be used”

The global media was

quick to respond and

claimed, emphatically, that

multivitamins should not

be used. The article to the

left, published at

Forbes.com, typified the

media’s knee-jerk

reporting.

(Image: forbes.com)

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Recent research they don’t

want you to know about…

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Vitamin E may help slow down

onset of dementia

Daily doses of vitamin E may help slow

down the onset of dementia, a new study

has indicated. In a study of 613 people

with mild or moderate symptoms of

dementia, those who were given a large

dose of vitamin E supplements each day

experienced a slower decline in their

condition than those who were given a

placebo. The research was published in

the Journal of the American Medical

Association.

(Source: The Independent (UK), December 31, 2013).

(Image: wikimedia.org)

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High dose B vitamins help

prevent Alzheimer’s

A new study published in The

Proceedings of the National Academy of

Sciences suggests that a high dose of B

vitamins could stop the onset of

Alzheimer’s by preventing shrinkage of

the medial temporal lobe, the area of the

brain that defines the disease.

(Source: nutraingredients.com, May 21, 2013).

(Image: wikimedia.org)

See more studies on vitamins and Alzheimer’s disease at:

www.wha-www.org/en/library/index.html

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B vitamins may help reduce

risk of stroke

New evidence suggests that taking

vitamin B supplements may help reduce

the risk of stroke. The research appears in

the September 18, 2013, online issue of

Neurology, the medical journal of the

American Academy of Neurology.

(Source: medicalxpress.com, September 18, 2013).

(Image: morguefile.com)

See more studies on vitamins and stroke at:

www.wha-www.org/en/library/index.html

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Coenzyme Q10 slashes

deaths from heart failure

Coenzyme Q10 is being hailed as the

biggest thing to slash deaths from heart

failure in the past 10 years. Researchers

are so convinced by the results they say

the pills should be added to standard

treatment. In the study, presented at the

Heart Failure Congress in Lisbon,

Portugal, Coenzyme Q10 (CoQ10)

supplements were found to HALVE the

number of deaths in heart patients from

all causes.

(Source: Daily Express (UK), May 25, 2013).

See more studies on vitamins and heart failure at:

www4.dr-rath-foundation.org/NHC/researcharchive.html

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Multivitamins with minerals may protect older

women with invasive breast cancer

Findings from a study involving

thousands of postmenopausal women

suggest that women who develop

invasive breast cancer may benefit from

taking supplements containing

multivitamins and minerals. The research,

published in Breast Cancer Research and

Treatment, found that the risk of dying

from invasive breast cancer was 30

percent lower among multivitamin/mineral

users compared with nonusers.

(Source: sciencedaily.com, October 8, 2013).

(Image: wikimedia.org)

See more studies on vitamins and cancer at:

www.cancer-free-world.org

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Even drug company Pfizer now admits that

multivitamins may cut cancer risk

Daily supplements of multivitamins may

reduce the risk of cancer by 8%, says a

new study published in the Journal of the

American Medical Association.

(Source: nutraingredients-usa.com, October 17, 2012).

The multivitamin used in this study was

manufactured by Pfizer, the world’s largest

drug company, with funding provided by

BASF, one of the world’s largest chemical

companies. Through only giving a single low-

level dose of nutrients daily, the reduction of

cancer risk achieved in the study was

essentially guaranteed to be modest.

To access practical health information that

allows everybody to take action towards

cutting their risk of cancer and other

common diseases, visit www. bodyxq.com

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Multivitamins plus selenium reduce risk of

HIV disease progression and illness

Long-term (24-month) supplementation

with multivitamins plus selenium for

human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)-

infected patients in Botswana in the early

stages of disease who had not received

antiretroviral therapy delayed time to HIV

disease progression, was safe and

reduced the risk of immune decline and

illness, according to a study appearing in

the November 27 issue of the Journal of

the American Medical Association.

(Source: medicalxpress.com, November 26, 2013).

See more studies on vitamins and HIV/AIDS at:

www.wha-www.org/en/library/index.html

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What else don’t they

want us to know?

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Independent studies conducted in

the United States, Canada, the

United Kingdom, the Netherlands

and many other countries show

that the nutrient content of our

food has fallen dramatically over

the past decades.

Some evidence suggests that,

even as early as the mid-1930s,

this problem had already existed

for several generations.

The dramatic fall in the nutrient

content of our food

See www4.dr-rath-foundation.org

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The tables below show the fall in the nutrient content of broccoli and potatoes sold in

Canada between 1951 and 1999:

The dramatic fall in the nutrient

content of our food

Broccoli:

Raw, 3

spears, 93g.

Potatoes:

1 potato,

peeled before

boiling, 136g.

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One of the biggest secrets in the drug industry

is that pharmaceutical drugs deplete the body

of vitamins, minerals and other micronutrients.

A remarkable book published in 1999 and

authored by a pharmacist and clinical

nutritionist, Ross Pelton PhD, brought this

issue to wider attention. Citing 459 published

studies on the subject, Pelton and his team of

medical experts identified around 150 classes

of drugs that cause nutrient depletion.

Drug-induced nutrient depletion

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What are they so desperate

to protect?

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Study forecasts global spending on drugs to

reach $1.2 trillion by 2017

A study published by IMS Health in

November forecast that global spending

on drugs will exceed $1 trillion in 2014

and rise to $1.2 trillion by 2017.

Global spending on drugs was already

$965 billion in 2012 – just a fraction short

of $1 trillion.

(Source: imshealth.com, November 13, 2013).

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The total global economic impact of the

five leading chronic diseases—cancer,

diabetes, mental illness, heart disease,

and respiratory disease, could reach $47

trillion over the next 20 years, according to

a study by the World Economic Forum

The economic cost of cancer alone is

known to be nearly $1 trillion dollars a

year, with the cost of heart disease being

around $863 billion dollars in 2010.

The global economic impact of

chronic diseases

See UsaToday.com

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What REALLY scares them…

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Drugmakers suffer decline in trust,

report says

The overall corporate reputation of

pharmaceutical companies declined in

2012 compared to 2011, according to an

independent study by patients'

organisations. The study, funded by

PatientView, a European organization

representing 600 patient groups, focused

on patients' impressions on the corporate

reputation of 29 individual pharmaceutical

companies, and the industry as a whole.

(Source: euractiv.com, January 14, 2013).

(Image: biojobsblog.com)

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Survey finds most people feel pharma companies

see cancer as making-money opportunity

A survey released in February found that

most people feel pharma companies see

cancers as a making-money opportunity

rather than as a blight to eradicate.

Sponsored by Lilly Oncology, the survey

polled more than 4,000 people in the UK,

US, France, Germany, Italy and Japan.

60% of respondents said they believed

pharma manufacturers are more

interested in treating cancer than curing

it.

(Source: pharmafile.com, February 4, 2013).

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‘Game changing’ economic report: Supplements

could save billions of dollars in health care costs

Dietary supplement regimens may reduce

the number of disease-associated medical

events, representing the potential for

hundreds of millions of dollars – and in

some cases billions – in savings,

according to a new report by Frost &

Sullivan and commissioned by the

Council for Responsible Nutrition (CRN)

Foundation.

(Source: nutraingredients-usa.com, September 23, 2013).

(Image: wikimedia.org)

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More than two thirds of American

adults use supplements

More than two thirds of American adults

use nutritional or dietary supplements a

2012 survey from the Council for

Responsible Nutrition reported. This

proportion has remained more less

constant since 2009.

(Source: nutraingredients-usa.com, October 8, 2012)

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If we all work together, our

lifesaving natural health

research and information

WILL change the world…

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Our researchers are pioneers in the field of

natural health research

Dr. Rath, Dr. Niedzwiecki

and the researchers at

the Dr. Rath Research

Institute have now had

over 100 studies

published in peer-

reviewed journals.

www.dr-rath-research.org

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Our books have been read by millions of

people all over the world

www.why-animals-dont-get-heart-attacks.org

www.victory-over-cancer.org

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Our Foundation YouTube channel has had

over 1.5 million views in its first 21 months

youtube.com/user/RathFoundation

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Our Foundation website is an authoritative

source of natural health information

www4.dr-rath-foundation.org

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“Throughout history, illiteracy

has been the strongest force

obstructing the progress of

humanity. The next great

step forward for all mankind

is the liberation from

health illiteracy.”

Dr. Matthias Rath