Health for All by the Year 2020
A Sustainable World Must be a Healthy World
The Dr. Rath Health Foundation helps to coordinate natural health programs
and clinical studies. As a non-profit-organization it is dedicated to
promoting natural health information and to protecting the right to natural
health against the global interests of the pharmaceutical industry.
| The late two-time Nobel Laureate Dr. Linus Pauling,
who considered Dr. Rath as his successor stated: “Dr.
Rath's discoveries rank among the most important discoveries
in medicine.” |
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Dr.
Matthias Rath, M.D., is the world-renowned scientist and physician
who led the scientific breakthrough toward the natural prevention and
treatment of cardiovascular disease and more recently, cancer. His discoveries
have already saved many lives around the world.
Dr. Rath leads an internationally recognized independent research institute
dedicated to eliminating today's most common diseases with effective,
natural and affordable therapies.
Dr. Rath is a member of the American Heart Association (AHA), the
New York Academy of Sciences and other international organizations. In 2001 he was awarded the "Bulwark
of Liberty Award" from the American Association of Preventive Medicine
for his courage in standing up against the plans of the pharmaceutical
industry to ban natural health information worldwide by abusing the United
Nation's "Codex Alimentarius Commission".
1. Health is a basic human
right
Every person is entitled
to make use of this right without any restriction. Public institutions
and private organizations are to be held accountable for providing life-saving
health information to the people of the world. The obstruction of the
right to essential health information for everyone constitutes a crime
against humanity. 2. Today, health is not available
to every human being -- for good reasons
These include social injustice, military conflicts
and others. Another significant reason is the fact that the most profitable
industry on earth, the pharmaceutical industry, is an investment industry
based upon the existence and continuation of diseases - despite declarations
to the contrary. Low-cost prevention, treatment and elimination of diseases
threaten this multi-trillion dollar "business with disease". 3. Most efforts to improve
health on a global scale have failed thus far
The World Health Organization's effort "Health
for All by the Year 2000" could not reach its goals because it did
not distinctly separate itself from the global "business with disease." It
focused instead on administrative healthcare changes, rather than taking
advantage of global advances in medicine. 4. Advances in the field of natural medicine have been made over
recent years
That will reduce the incidence
of common diseases in the industrialized countries as well as in the developing
world, to a fraction of their current frequency. The primary cause of
the world's most common health conditions is a chronic deficiency of micronutrients,
essential for optimum cellular energy metabolism as well as optimum connective
tissue stability.
5. In the industrialized
world
The leading causes of death
are heart attacks, cancer, strokes, diabetes and high blood pressure.
Using the available knowledge in nutritional research and cellular medicine,
these health conditions can be significantly reduced and hundreds of millions
of lives can be saved.
6. In the developing world
Two billion people suffer from
deficiencies in micronutrients, according to United Nations Organizations.
Avitaminosis is a leading cause of disease resulting in blindness in millions
and promoting infectious diseases in hundreds of millions by compromising
cellular defense mechanisms in their bodies. By taking advantage of the
knowledge of nutritional medicine already available today, billions of
lives can be saved in the developing world.
7. The eradication of today's
most common health problems is dependent on one factor only: how fast
the information about this breakthrough in natural health can be spread
While the scientific knowledge
to combat these diseases effectively is available and the essential nutrients
to prevent these health conditions can be produced at low costs, in any
quantity, anywhere in the world, the dissemination of this life-saving
information to the people of the world is being obstructed. 8. The Pharmaceutical
industry tries to protect its global drug markets by outlawing natural
remedies
Effective, non-patentable
and affordable natural health approaches threaten the very existence
of the pharmaceutical industry. The multi-trillion dollar global pharmaceutical
market is dependent on synthetic drugs that allow an excessively high
return on investment based on the patentability of those drugs. To secure
the continued existence of the pharmaceutical industry as the most profitable
industry on earth, large corporations embarked on a global battle to
outlaw
the dissemination of natural health information. To that effect the pharmaceutical
industry abuses the United Nations "Codex Alimentarius Commission" and
other national and international bodies. 9. The people of the world
face one of the largest challenges in human history
The right to health and life for billions of
people is being threatened by the profit interests of a few shareholders.
The goals of these two interest groups are incompatible by their very
nature. Similarly, in the battle to save human lives against the profits
from patented drugs, every government, every public and private institution
has to take a decision on which side they stand. And they will be held
accountable by history. 10.
The goal "Health for All by the Year 2020" is in sight
What is needed immediately is a worldwide effort to promote
the dissemination of natural health benefits in every country. I call upon
- The United Nations Organizations and other international organizations
to promote natural health policies by all means available;
- Politicians in every country to implement natural health
as an integral part of national health policies;
- Health professionals to utilize natural health approaches
to improve the health of your patients.
I call upon every man and woman to spread this life-saving information
in order to protect your life and that of millions of others. Johannesburg, August 2002 Matthias Rath, M.D
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