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June, 2007 Newsletter
Dear Lovers of Herbs:
In New York we have gone from our cold spring (growing season is almost 3 weeks late) to summer in a couple of days! At the moment, as you read this Newsletter, I am in Peru participating in Whole World Botanicals' Pilot Solar Heating Project with the maca growing communities which supply WWB´s Certified Organic maca roots for our Royal Maca products.
(See Viana’s News below.)
JUNE 2007 – SPECIAL Offer!
Offer expires on June 30, 2007
Buy
Royal Break-Stone Liver-Gall Bladder Support&trade 120 Veg. Caps or Liq Ext (4 oz.)
or
Royal Break-Stone Kidney-Bladder Support&trade 120 Veg. Caps or Liq Ext (4 oz.)
&
Get a FREE BOTTLE of Royal Abuta Plus™ Capsules (120 caps)
for a friend or family member who has Type 2 Diabetes.
Click here to take advantage of this incredible offer
You just pay the shipping & handling charge of $5.95 and we will mail this product to the person receiving your gift and even enclose a gift card with your personal message, if you like!
Royal Abuta Plus™ is absolutely marvelous for people with blood sugar regulation issues – i.e. people who over the years of eating a less than medicinal diet plus through their genetic tendencies have developed Type 2 diabetes. Royal Abuta Plus&trade was especially developed by Whole World Botanicals to help people with this condition and who, despite taking glucophage pills to lower their blood sugar, continue to have high blood sugar levels.
Click here to read more about Abuta
Click here to read more about Break-Stone
Clinical trial
In 2002, Whole World Botanicals did a double blind, placebo controlled clinical trial in Peru, with 20 diabetics whose blood sugar, while taking the glucophage pills, ranged from 160 – 280. (In Peru, the doctors don’t believe in putting people with Type 2 diabetes on Insulin). The participants were specifically told to keep their diets the same and their exercise level the same. That they did so is shown by the fact that the blood sugar of the placebos did not improve, nor did they get worse. But those taking one capsule of Royal Abuta Plus&trade with breakfast and one with supper, while continuing their glucophage pills, were all in normal limits with their blood sugar within 6 weeks.
The lowest blood sugar among the 20 was 70 and the highest was 120. Of course, some of this was luck. (It is very unusual for an herbal supplement to be effective for everyone).
After the 8 week study was completed some participants chose to stop their medication, under the doctor’s supervision, and to double their serving size of the Royal Abuta Plus&trade (2 caps with breakfast and 2 with dinner).
Health care practitioner’s complaint about Royal Abuta Plus™
Whole World Botanicals also makes its products available to practitioners for their patients. One doctor from California ordered it for his 80 year old type 2 diabetic mother who persistently had high blood sugar levels despite taking the glucophage pills. I later checked with him on his mother’s condition. “Her blood sugar is normal now,” this doctor told me. “The only thing I don’t like about this product is that she can eat her cookies and still come out with a normal blood sugar level. And cookies aren’t good for her!”
Several customers have reported that their sugar cravings were greatly reduced by taking Royal Abuta Plus&trade. This was a gradual occurrence, happening over a period of 2 or 3 months. |
Dr. Viana Muller, Co-founder of Whole World Botanicals with herb collector in the Peruvian rainforest preparing to cut down abuta vine. Abuta is one of the principal ingredients of the Royal Abuta Plus&trade formula used to help normalize elevated blood sugar.
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Phyllanthus niruri and diabetes
Royal Break-Stone Kidney-Bladder Support&trade can also be helpful to your diabetic friend or family member. Clincal studies have shown that Phyllanthus niruri, the herbal basis for the Break-Stone products, lowers aldose reductase levels. Elevated aldose reductase levels are associated with high blood sugar levels and can cause peripheral nerve damage. Diabetics also suffer high rates of kidney failure and are filling up the dialysis clinics all over the United States. Several customers have reported to us what we believed to be impossible. But then the good news was confirmed by a gifted practitioner in Michigan, when a customer in Chicago sent in her lab report showing her creatinine and albumin levels. The report showed significantly lower levels of creatinine and albumin after taking the product as directed on the bottle for 3 months, compared to before.
Herbal News: After more than one year, we finally have the Royal Desmodium&trade Tea back in stock!
It was difficult to get the permit to take this herb out of the rainforest, even though it is not endangered. We have many customers who are Desmodium fanatics and have called at least once a month for the past year to find out if the product was available again!
Desmodium Tea has a delicate flavor all by itself or you can add a squirt of lemon. It opens up the sinuses, is an instant bronchial-dilator, has anti-histamine and has anti-anaphylactic shock properties, making the tea perfect for anyone with allergies, breathing issues, or head/chest colds. |
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It also relaxes muscle spasms and is great for backaches, sore knees, shoulders, and necks and is very popular with body builders, martial artists, as well as people doing manual labor or repetitive labor. It is called Strong Back Herb in Jamaica because it is famous for its ability to ‘cure’ a backache. There are also clinical studies showing a great improvement in liver function (lowers elevated liver enzyme levels) in people with cirrhosis of the liver or hepatitis (Royal Break-Stone&trade provides great nutritional support for hepatitis as well). Note: Our Royal Desmodium&trade extract capsules should be available sometime within the next two months.
HEALTH ACTION
DSHEA is in GRAVE DANGER, and we MUST amend it THIS SUMMER via concerted grass roots action!!
The bills S. 1082/HR 1561, and the FDA, threaten our right to use vitamin, herbs and other food and dietary supplements.
Following is information posted by Maureen Heffernan Rich, who is on the board of directors of the National Health Freedom Coalition (NHFC).
I was able to ask Diane Miller, our attorney for her help in understanding the meaning of the FDA document as well as the other related issues including the proposed S1082/H1561 Reagan-Udall Foundation legislation and Codex.
Diane confirmed that the professional practice of Reiki isn't affected by the above issues unless a Reiki practitioner uses foods, vitamins, herbs or other dietary supplements as part of their Reiki practice. (To clarify, this means that in addition to complying with the state occupational laws for health care practitioners, if you use dietary supplement products in your practice, such as herbs, vitamins, essential oils, or minerals, they would have to be used in compliance with all state and federal product laws and without the intent to prevent, mitigate or cure a disease)
This is a very serious situation and because of its nature and the way the information has been presented by the government and legislators, often in a confusing and/or hidden way, some readers have over reacted to the information while others have ignored it. Because of this, it's important that we have a clear understanding of what these issues mean and that we work together to prevent the proposed restrictions on our health freedom from taking place.
Major Concern
The legislative bills S1082/H1561 sets up a non-profit corporation called the Reagan-Udall Foundation that would give the FDA a new and expanded role. It would become part of a Foundation with the purpose of implementing goals of the FDA in the area of new drug development. This means that the same organization that will be developing drug evaluation technology is also enmeshed in the agency that regulates the drug approval process, thus creating a situation that could potentially reduce the safety of the drugs and products made available to the public.
In addition and of greater concern for health freedom, the Senate added language to the bill which included food safety. The addition of amendments that include food safety, and the language of the original bill that included food and dietary supplements in the purpose of the Reagan Udall Foundation, are completely unacceptable to freedom advocates because it could mean down the road that foods, dietary ingredients and dietary supplements would be at risk of being treated like drugs when evaluated by the FDA with their new drug tools.
Foods and dietary supplements in the U.S. are not currently regulated as drugs, but are regulated as foods under DSHEA.Click here to read more.
Notably because of this, they are evaluated differently. Foods and dietary supplements are considered food nutrients and are generally regarded as safe and the evaluation of their safety is based on whether they cause a significant risk of harm as opposed to being evaluated under the toxic drug risk/benefit assessment. Risk/benefit analysis is reserved for toxic substances and the FDA approves drugs for market if the benefit justifies the risk. These foundational differences of drug and food safety assessments have recently been challenged in the Ephedra cases and because the Supreme Court has denied hearing the Ephedra case May 2007, there is a real possibility that drug assessments might be applied to foods in the future.
With a drug, a consumer has to weigh the risk/benefit ratio in choose whether they are open to the possibility of being harmed by a toxic substance, in order to receive the benefits the drug may provide. And the drug companies have to disclose side effects. But that is not the nature of food. Food is not generally toxic. Whether a food has benefit or not should always be the consumer's decision and the government should only block a food from the market if it has shown harm. Because of the assumption that food is safe we have a wide variety of foods and supplements in the marketplace. If foods and dietary supplements were ever to be evaluated as drugs with technology developed for drugs and a risk/benefit analysis, it would no longer be up to the consumer to decide whether a food or dietary supplement were risky or beneficial to them. The FDA would be deciding that for us before the food or supplement would be allowed on the market. We then run the risk of natural products being incorrectly assessed as harmful because of a drug analysis being applied to them and losing access to many wonderful foods and nutrients that we currently use.
Foods and dietary supplements should continue to be treated as food (DSHEA) and evaluated under food standards and technology instead of with toxic drug risk/benefit assessment tools. To accomplish this, an amendment must be added to the current bill S1082/H.R.1561.
To contact your legislators and request they add this amendment. Click Here
About Codex
Codex is an organization that sets up food safety guidelines and is a joint project of the World Health Organization (WHO) and the Food and Agricultural Organization (FAO) and has 182 member countries. The guidelines they create concern the shipment of food products between countries. Their purpose is to improve business between countries and is not related to improving health. Sadly, after years of deliberation, they passed Vitamin and Mineral Guidelines in 2005 that say that for products being traded between countries, maximum upper limits shall be set for vitamin and mineral amounts per daily portion of consumption as recommended by the manufacturer. This means that a vitamin or mineral might be limited to a very small dose compared with what we currently enjoy in the US. As an example, vitamin C might be available only in a 30 milligram dose rather than the 500 or 1000 milligram doses we currently have available in the US.
There are no maximum upper limits in the United States for vitamins and minerals today because of our hard won victories in Congress years ago with the passage of the DSHEA legislation. The U.S. is a member of Codex and will need to abide by the Codex guidelines when trading with other international countries but since Codex maximum upper limit guidelines are not U.S. law, they do not apply to trading inside the U.S. And health freedom advocates work hard to protect DSHEA so that the maximum upper limits restrictions never become part of the public policy of the U.S. or become U.S. law.
Read more on Codex and write your legislator
Our ability to make our own choices about which foods or dietary supplements we take and in what doses is necessary if we are to take care or our health based on our own unique requirements. If we are to maintain our freedom of choice, we need to have a clear understanding of the issues and work together in harmony to take action. I hope this email has helped you do both and that you have taken the time to email your legislators about this issue by clicking on the link above.
Please forward this to all your friends so they can take action too!
* DSHEA stands for Dietary Supplements Health Education Act. It was passed in 1994 and permits manufacturers of supplements to make health claims for their products, with scientific evidence to back it up, in two categories: promoting the health of the structure of an organ (e.g. “helps maintain a healthy heart”) or the health of a body function (e.g.,” promotes healthy digestion”). These are called structure-function claims. The bill before Congress now (in the Senate it is S1082; in the House it is HR1561) would, according to FDA issues attorney, Jonathan Emord, destroy DSHEA.
Viana’s Green News
I am writing this newsletter to you from the Central Sierra of Peru. This trip is not only about maintaining our relationships with the communities which provide our herbs, but also about making history in the Andes. At the moment, , I am participating in Whole World Botanicals´Pilot Solar Heating Project with the maca growing communities which supply WWB´s certified organic maca roots for our Royal Maca products. This trip will not only be about sourcing our herbs and maintaining our relationships with the communities which supply us, but also about making history in the Andes. Remember when about a year and a half ago we introduced solar cooking to the maca-growing communities located at 14,000 feet above sea level? Everyone was amazed and fascinated with how well a solar cooker could cook food and in theory they were all ready to embrace this whole alternative way of cooking. But we began to realize that when you have to rely on dried animal dung to do your cooking, and when your cooking fire is your only source of heat in freezing temperatures at night, it’s hard to stay very excited about this nifty solar cooker that only works in the sun! So we had to back up and look at the solar project in a new way. We realize that first the maca growers had to have an adequate heat source for their small houses. Only then could they take seriously the idea of using the sun for cooking outdoors! So we started investigating what it would take to help the communities build their own passive solar energy collectors to heat their homes. And then a miracle happened! We found the right person to help us with this ground-breaking project.
Whole World Botanicals is thrilled to partner with a solar energy expert with lots of experience in Third World solar projects, ranging from inexpensive solar-powered photo voltaic cells to solar powered cookers to passive solar house heaters. Whole World Botanicals’ project is to help the communities of maca growers, with whom we have been partnering for more than a decade, learn how to make their own passive thermal solar energy collectors out of inexpensive local materials. Our summer (June – August) is the ideal time to get this pilot project underway, as the sun is very bright during these months and the nights are extremely cold. We will keep you posted as this pioneering effort gets under way.
Wishing us all greener lives.
Hasta pronto!
Viana |
