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Todd Gastaldo
Guest
ADA = American Dietetic Association...
ADA (via [email protected]): Please see my complaint
comment below... Anyone who wishes to join me in making an
official WRITTEN complaint to ADA, see below for details and
please contact me ([email protected]).
Many ADA dietitians work in hospitals where...
Obstetricians are knowingly closing birth canals up to 30%.
See the PROOF below.
PREGNANT WOMEN: It's EASY to allow your birth canal to OPEN
the "extra" up to 30%. See the very end of this post.
Dr. Andrew Saul suggests:
"[C]ontact Todd Gastaldo, D.C. [email protected] for
postural information that can help to insure that MDs and CN
Midwives don't complicate delivery by closing the birth
canal by up to 30%."
http://www.doctoryourself.com/pregnancy_lactation.html
Thank you Dr. Saul...
Ds. ANDREW SAUL VS. AMERICAN DIETETIC ASSOCIATION
Just as the American College of Obstetricians and
Gynecologist/ACOG's pretends that it's OK for MDs to close
birth canals up to 30% and keep birth canals closed when
babies' shoulders get stuck...
The American Dietetic Association/ADA pretends that "Dietary
supplements...have not been proven to...prevent or cure
diseases." (Dietary Supplements: Do You Know All the Facts?
(March 24, 2004 http://www.eatright.org/Public/NutritionInf-
ormation/index_19201.cfm)
Or maybe this isn't a pretense - a LIE?
It seems to me to be so...
In his DOCTOR YOURSELF NEWSLETTER (Vol. 4, No. 11, May
5, 2004)...
Dt. Saul wrote:
HITTING A NERVE
The last Doctor Yourself Newsletter provoked something of an
outcry from a number of dietitians who were offended by my
comment that successful vitamin therapy "threatens
dietitians because the fallaciousness of their food-groups-
always, supplements-never dogma will be exposed."
In a way, I am slightly surprised that that was the ONLY
statement that caused offence. After all, the title and
thrust of that issue
(http://www.doctoryourself.com/news/v4n10.txt) was the
safety of vitamin megadoses. Up to 20,000 mg/day of vitamin
C for a man wanting have children? 3,000 to 10,000 mg of
vitamin C per day for a healthy woman during pregnancy?
14,000 mg/day of vitamin C for a 75-pound child? I would
have thought that these would be the lightning rods for any
controversy.
No, it was that "food-groups-always, supplements-never"
phrase that did it.
<SNIP correspondence from dieticians>
The DOCTOR YOURSELF NEWSLETTER's RESPONSE:
The core of my correspondents' complaints seems to center on
my being out of date or misinformed. To remedy that, and to
provide a current source of my information, I refer all
interested to the official website of the American Dietetic
Association, www.eatright.org , which I accessed in April,
2004. That's pretty much up-to-date, wouldn't you say? Here
is what the 70,000 members of the "world's largest
organization of food and nutrition professionals" (Press
Release January 03, 2000) collectively state about
supplements:
"Dietary supplements cannot make up for poor food choices.
They have not been proven to boost energy or prevent or cure
diseases." (Dietary Supplements: Do You Know All the Facts?
(March 24, 2004 http://www.eatright.org/Public/NutritionInf-
ormation/index_19201.cfm)
Right out the door, such a statement is both pontifical and
factually incorrect. And please note that the ADA authored
that statement on March 24, 2004, only weeks before my
Newsletter went out.
Recent though the ADA statement is, I ask my critics to
consider if, just possibly, it may be the American Dietetic
Association that remains out of date. Supplements not curing
disease, not even preventing disease? Oh, please! Prevention
and cure of disease by vitamins is thoroughly established
and repeatedly demonstrated by decades of well-controlled
studies, literally numbering in the thousands. I have taught
nutrition at the college level and clinical nutrition at the
graduate level. What I have learned in the process is
collected into the hundreds of articles and numerous major
bibliographies at my searchable website
(http://doctoryourself.com). But my work is hardly the
authoritative source. Look instead to the experience of
respected researchers and eminently qualified physicians
such as Abram Hoffer, M.D., Robert F. Cathcart, MD, Thomas
Levy, MD, Hugh D. Riordan, MD, and many others. I have about
4,000 references at my website to back me up. Links to the
doctors' work are provided further below, and also at
http://www.doctoryourself.com/links.html .
Judging from the more polite feedback I received, it would
appear that a goodly number of registered dietitians (RDs)
personally and professionally use supplements. I admire and
applaud their individual use of vitamins for themselves and
their clients. I have my doubts as to just how high a dose
they're using; I will be pleased to receive email from
dietitians on their usage of megadoses anytime
([email protected]).
However, I must first ask all supplement-friendly dietitians
a question:
Exactly how do you feel about your Association's making that
previous statement ("not been proven to prevent or cure
diseases")? Furthermore, how do feel about the following ADA
statement, accessed April 2004:
"Registered dietitians and other nutrition experts agree
that if you make healthful food choices, you will get all
the vitamins, minerals, and other nutrients you need for
good health."
(Vitamin & Mineral Supplements: Do I need to take a
supplement?
http://www.eatright.org/Public/NutritionInformation/92_-
11826.cfm)
Now I have a follow-up question: Are you personally one of
those dietitians who "agrees" with this foods-only, supplement-
negating statement, or aren't you? Do you agree word-for-
word, or would you like to modify it a bit? Exactly how
would you change it?
And, as of April 2004, why have you not yet done so?
The two statements at the ADA's website are particularly
broad ones, and all-inclusive in tone. If you are advocating
supplement use beyond a low-potency multivitamin, I believe
you have broken ranks with the American Dietetic
Association. If you personally use high-dose vitamin
therapy, or even recommend it, I believe you may be skating
on thin ice with the ADA leadership.
PRESSURE TO CONFORM
In 1994, the American Dietetic Association disciplined Shari
Lieberman, Ph.D., R.D., for "alleged nonadherence" to the
ethical standards ADA set out in 1985. The association
suspended Dr. Lieberman's R.D. credential for three years
because Lieberman was supposedly not in line with Principle
7 of the ADA Code of Ethics, the part that states, "The
dietetic practitioner practices dietetics based on
scientific principles and current information." After Dr.
Lieberman sued the ADA for $40 million for defamation, her
R.D. was reinstated.
Anyone looking even briefly at Dr. Lieberman's work can see
that she has long been a proponent of megavitamin therapy.
She is one of the authors of The Real Vitamin and Mineral
Book (NY: Avery, 2003) which, the publisher says, "explains
exactly why you need vitamin and mineral supplements not
only to protect yourself against disease, but to reach the
highest levels of mental and physical well-being. . .The
authors then provide a scientifically documented Optimum
Daily Intake (ODI) to follow, which is generally well above
the government's Recommended Daily Intake (RDI)."
I think Dr. Lieberman's book (which I recommend you read)
constitutes an unmistakable departure from the party-line of
the American Dietetic Association. And by that, I mean the
Association's published stance, as of today. The ADA states
repeatedly on their website and in their press releases
that, with precious few exceptions, 100% of the government
standard is all that people need to take in a supplement, if
they even need a supplement at all, which they probably
don't. While Dr. Lieberman's "Optimum Daily Intake"
recommendations certainly have my support, I am unaware that
ADA has either proposed or endorsed any such increases in
nutritional intake recommendations for the public.
Check their website. ADA's statements are what their
membership empowers them to make. If you agree with the
ADA's statements, as written, it would seem that I was
right, rhetorical hyperbole notwithstanding.
If you do not agree with the Association's statements, it is
your professional and ethical duty to have them rescinded.
Better yet, substitute in some new, positive, supplement-
assertive language. For it is supplement-unfriendly content
that the public and the media are currently seeing at the
American Dietetic Association's website. It is there right
now as you read this.
Progressive dietitians are to be commended at every turn.
But when their own Association openly negates them, we must
admit that the progressives speak with an unofficial, though
laudable, minority voice. I welcome all dissenters into the
Doctor Yourself family.
ON A POSITIVE NOTE, ONE LAST LETTER:
"I recently read your article on vitamin supplementation,
in which you indicated dietitians do not believe in
vitamins nor recommend them. Unfortunately, you are
correct, when looking at our profession as a whole. I
have been a dietitian for 27 years, and one of the first
things I learned in school was that I'd better keep my
mouth shut about vitamins if I wanted to get my degree.
Most of my colleagues continue to state we should just
eat right. I respond with all the studies that prove that
we are NOT eating right. I believe we should stop beating
this dead "just eat right" horse, and meet people where
they need help.
"I also do not believe we can get everything we need
from food even if we make wise food choices, but do not
use organic sources, are exposed to pollution,
chemicals, stress, etc. And who among us is not exposed
to all those things?
"So, I apologize on behalf of my profession that we are not
the nutrition experts we need to be. And I apologize for
dietitians who have probably criticized and ridiculed you
for your stance. However I would also like you to know that
there is an increasing number of us who are practicing the
type of nutrition intervention and support that I believe
you would be proud of. Keep up the good work. Hopefully, as
we all pull together, we can help turn the health status of
our citizenship around. It will happen . . . one by one."
LET'S CALL THE QUESTION
I propose a simple, if blunt, "litmus test" to indicate a
practitioner's fundamental attitude about HIGH-DOSE vitamin
therapy (which was what my last Newsletter was REALLY
about). I now ask any physician, nurse, PA, dietitian, or
dietetic association, to "answer me these questions three":
1) Do you agree that enormous (100,000 mg/day) intravenous
doses of vitamin C are preferentially toxic to cancer
cells in the human body, killing cancer cells as
chemotherapy does, only more safely? (References 1,2,3)
2) Do you agree that cardiovascular deaths can be reduced by
40% in people who take regular megadoses (400-800 IU/day)
of vitamin E? (4,5)
3) Do agree that thousands of milligrams of niacin a day
constitutes effective treatment for schizophrenia and
psychosis? (6,7,8,9)
Please send me the answers you get, and own thoughts, too.
This Newsletter will value, and perhaps publish, continued
input, pro or con, from all interested readers. (Comments
may be sent to [email protected])
But as for my opinions, bear in mind that is a subscription
Newsletter. If you do not like my periodical peaches, why
shake my editorial tree? Unsubscribe now (the link is right
the top) and thank you for your past readership.
References:
4.) Riordan, N.H., Riordan, H.D., Meng, X., Li, Y.,
Jackson, J.A. Intravenous ascorbate as a tumor cytotoxic
chemotherapeutic agent. Medical Hypotheses 44:3 (March,
1995): 207-13.
5.) Padayatty SJ, Sun H, **** Y, Riordan HD, Hewitt SM,
Katz A, Wesley RA, Levine M. Vitamin C pharmacokinetics:
implications for oral and intravenous use. Ann Intern
Med. 2004 Apr 6;140(7):533-7.
6.) Riordan HD, Hunninghake RB, Riordan NH, Jackson JJ,
Meng X, Taylor P, Casciari JJ, Gonzalez MJ, Miranda-
Massari JR, Mora EM, Rosario N, Rivera A. Intravenous
ascorbic acid: protocol for its application and use. P R
Health Sci J. 2003 Sep;22(3):287-90.
7.) Stampfer, M.J., Hennekens, C.H., Manson, J., Colditz,
G.A., Rosner, B. and Willett, W.C. (1993) Vitamin E
consumption and the risk of coronary disease in women.
New England Journal of Medicine. 328:1444-1449.
8.) Rimm, E.B., Stampfer, M.J., Ascherio, A., Giovannucci,
E., Colditz, G.A. and Willett W.C. (1993) Vitamin E
consumption and the risk of coronary heart disease in
men. New England Journal of Medicine 328:1450-1456.
9.) Hoffer A and Osmond H: How To Live With Schizophrenia.
University Books, New York, NY, 1966. Also published by
Johnson, London, 1966. With Fannie Kahan. New and Revised
Ed. Citadel Press, New York, NY, 1992. Revised Ed. Quarry
Press, Kingston, ON 1999.
10.) Hoffer A: Orthomolecular Medicine for Physicians. Keats
Pub., New Canaan, CT, 1989.
11.) Hoffer A: Vitamin B-3 and Schizophrenia: Discovery,
Recovery, Controversy. Quarry Press, Kingston, ON 1999.
12.) Hoffer, A. Orthomolecular Treatment For Schizophrenia.
Keats, 4255 West Touhy Avenue, Lincolnwood, Ill 60646-
1975, 1999.
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SOME ADDITIONAL "INFLAMMATORY" WORDS
It is highly unlikely that the ADA will be putting up a link
to http://www.doctoryourself.com or recommending this
Newsletter to its membership anytime soon. In addition to my
strong advocacy of high-dose vitamin therapy, there are just
a few other areas where we may disagree.
For example, the American Dietetic Association's website
endorses the use of saccharin and aspartame ("Nutrasweet")
http://www.eatright.org/Public/Other/index_adap0598.cfm and
promotes fluoridation of water
(http://www.eatright.org/Public/Other/index_adap1000.cfm).
The Doctor Yourself Newsletter is opposed to those
practices, and has been for some 85 issues now.
(More on fluoridation:
http://www.doctoryourself.com/fluoridation.html and
http://www.doctoryourself.com/fluoride_cancer.html
(More on artificial sweeteners:
http://www.doctoryourself.com/fakesweet.html (saccharin)
and especially http://dorway.com , Dave Reitz's non-
commercial aspartame ("Nutrasweet") information supersite.)
The American Dietetic Association also supports more
governmental restriction and FDA regulation of supplements
including vitamins. (American Dietetic Association statement
to FDA on Regulation of Dietary Supplements, June 8, 1999.
June 8, 1999
http://www.eatright.org/Public/GovernmentAffairs/98_lg06089-
9.cfm) This Newsletter thinks such restriction is
unwarranted and bordering on the tyrannical. Vitamins are
extraordinarily safe substances. There is not even one death
per year from vitamin supplements (American Association of
Poison Control Centers' Toxic Exposure Surveillance System).
(More on vitamin safety:
http://www.doctoryourself.com/safety.html)
(More on recent governmental efforts to restrict your access
to supplements, including vitamins:
http://www.doctoryourself.com/limitUSA.htm)
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>>>>(Vol. 4, No. 11,
May 5, 2004)...
GASTALDO'S COMPLAINT TO ADA...
AMERICAN DIETETIC ASSOCIATION CODE OF ETHICS
"The enforcement process for the Code of Ethics establishes
a fair system to deal with complaints about members and
credentialed practitioners from peers or the public."
http://www.eatright.org/Public/index_8915.cfm
COMPLAINT: ADA appears to be lying - in violation of its own
stated Principles (quoted below)...
Does anyone wish to join me in making a written
complaint to ADA?
Here are the ADA rules...
The complaint must be made within 1 year of the date that
the complainant (person making complaint) first became aware
of the alleged violation...
The complainant need not be a member of The American
Dietetic Association or a practitioner credentialed by the
Commission on Dietetic Registration. The complaint must
contain details on the activities complained of; the basis
for complainant's knowledge of these activities; names,
addresses, and telephone numbers of all persons involved or
who might have knowledge of the activities; and whether the
complaint has been submitted to a court, an administrative
body, or a state licensure board. The complaint must also
cite the section(s) of the Code of Ethics for the Profession
of Dietetics allegedly violated.
The complaint must be signed and sworn to by the
complainant(s).
http://www.eatright.org/Public/index_8915.cfm
ADA Code of Ethics Principles (excerpts)
The dietetics practitioner conducts himself/herself with
honesty, integrity, and fairness. The dietetics practitioner
practices dietetics based on scientific principles and
current information. The dietetics practitioner presents
substantiated information and interprets controversial
information without personal bias, recognizing that
legitimate differences of opinion exist... The dietetics
practitioner accepts the obligation to protect clients, the
public, and the profession by upholding the Code of Ethics
for the Profession of Dietetics and by reporting alleged
violations of the Code through the defined review process of
The American Dietetic Association and its credentialing
agency, the Commission on Dietetic Registration.
http://www.eatright.org/Public/index_8915.cfm
For questions, comments and requests for information
regarding ADA's Code of Ethics...Email: [email protected]
http://www.eatright.org/Public/index_13343.cfm
COMMENT: ADA should look into Dr. Saul's criticisms. If ADA
finds itself be in violation of its own Code of Ethics - ADA
should protect the public. Personally, I would like to see
ADA link to Dr. Saul's website: www.doctoryourself.com
Also, every dietitian in every hospital with a maternity
unit should work to stop OBs from closing birth canals...
PROOF that OBs are knowingly closing birth canals up to
30%...
According to the Merck Manual:
"When shoulder dystocia occurs...the mother's thighs are
hyperflexed to increase the diameter of the pelvic
outlet..." http://www.merck.com/mrkshared/mmanual/section18-
/chapter253/253g.jsp
WHY are OBs and CNMwives (nurse midwives) waiting until the
head is out and shoulders get stuck before giving the baby
maximum pelvic outlet diameter?
WHY are we letting OBs and CNMwives force babies' heads
through birth canals senselessly closed up to 30%?
OBs and CNMwives are SLICING vaginas (euphemism "routine
episiotomy") - surgically/FRAUDULENTLY inferring everything
possible is being done to OPEN birth canals - even as they
CLOSE birth canals - up to 30%!
See Criminal medical CAM at Hawai'i's John A Burns School of
Medicine http://health.groups.yahoo.com/group/chiro-
list/message/2256
PREGNANT WOMEN: It is EASY for you to allow your birth canal
to OPEN the "extra" up to 30%. Just roll onto your side as
you push your baby out - or deliver on hands-and-knees,
kneeling, standing, squatting, etc.
BEWARE though: Some MDs and MBs will let you "try"
"alternative" delivery positions but will move you back to
dorsal or semisitting (close your birth canal!) as you push
your baby out!
Talk to your MD or MB about this TODAY. (For further details
see the "Criminal medical CAM" URL above.)
MDs/MBs: If you must push or pull - and sometimes you must -
first get the woman off her sacrum - off her back/butt.
Thanks for reading everyone.
Sincerely,
Todd
Dr. Gastaldo [email protected]
This post will be archived for global access. Search
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(dietitians)"
ADA (via [email protected]): Please see my complaint
comment below... Anyone who wishes to join me in making an
official WRITTEN complaint to ADA, see below for details and
please contact me ([email protected]).
Many ADA dietitians work in hospitals where...
Obstetricians are knowingly closing birth canals up to 30%.
See the PROOF below.
PREGNANT WOMEN: It's EASY to allow your birth canal to OPEN
the "extra" up to 30%. See the very end of this post.
Dr. Andrew Saul suggests:
"[C]ontact Todd Gastaldo, D.C. [email protected] for
postural information that can help to insure that MDs and CN
Midwives don't complicate delivery by closing the birth
canal by up to 30%."
http://www.doctoryourself.com/pregnancy_lactation.html
Thank you Dr. Saul...
Ds. ANDREW SAUL VS. AMERICAN DIETETIC ASSOCIATION
Just as the American College of Obstetricians and
Gynecologist/ACOG's pretends that it's OK for MDs to close
birth canals up to 30% and keep birth canals closed when
babies' shoulders get stuck...
The American Dietetic Association/ADA pretends that "Dietary
supplements...have not been proven to...prevent or cure
diseases." (Dietary Supplements: Do You Know All the Facts?
(March 24, 2004 http://www.eatright.org/Public/NutritionInf-
ormation/index_19201.cfm)
Or maybe this isn't a pretense - a LIE?
It seems to me to be so...
In his DOCTOR YOURSELF NEWSLETTER (Vol. 4, No. 11, May
5, 2004)...
Dt. Saul wrote:
HITTING A NERVE
The last Doctor Yourself Newsletter provoked something of an
outcry from a number of dietitians who were offended by my
comment that successful vitamin therapy "threatens
dietitians because the fallaciousness of their food-groups-
always, supplements-never dogma will be exposed."
In a way, I am slightly surprised that that was the ONLY
statement that caused offence. After all, the title and
thrust of that issue
(http://www.doctoryourself.com/news/v4n10.txt) was the
safety of vitamin megadoses. Up to 20,000 mg/day of vitamin
C for a man wanting have children? 3,000 to 10,000 mg of
vitamin C per day for a healthy woman during pregnancy?
14,000 mg/day of vitamin C for a 75-pound child? I would
have thought that these would be the lightning rods for any
controversy.
No, it was that "food-groups-always, supplements-never"
phrase that did it.
<SNIP correspondence from dieticians>
The DOCTOR YOURSELF NEWSLETTER's RESPONSE:
The core of my correspondents' complaints seems to center on
my being out of date or misinformed. To remedy that, and to
provide a current source of my information, I refer all
interested to the official website of the American Dietetic
Association, www.eatright.org , which I accessed in April,
2004. That's pretty much up-to-date, wouldn't you say? Here
is what the 70,000 members of the "world's largest
organization of food and nutrition professionals" (Press
Release January 03, 2000) collectively state about
supplements:
"Dietary supplements cannot make up for poor food choices.
They have not been proven to boost energy or prevent or cure
diseases." (Dietary Supplements: Do You Know All the Facts?
(March 24, 2004 http://www.eatright.org/Public/NutritionInf-
ormation/index_19201.cfm)
Right out the door, such a statement is both pontifical and
factually incorrect. And please note that the ADA authored
that statement on March 24, 2004, only weeks before my
Newsletter went out.
Recent though the ADA statement is, I ask my critics to
consider if, just possibly, it may be the American Dietetic
Association that remains out of date. Supplements not curing
disease, not even preventing disease? Oh, please! Prevention
and cure of disease by vitamins is thoroughly established
and repeatedly demonstrated by decades of well-controlled
studies, literally numbering in the thousands. I have taught
nutrition at the college level and clinical nutrition at the
graduate level. What I have learned in the process is
collected into the hundreds of articles and numerous major
bibliographies at my searchable website
(http://doctoryourself.com). But my work is hardly the
authoritative source. Look instead to the experience of
respected researchers and eminently qualified physicians
such as Abram Hoffer, M.D., Robert F. Cathcart, MD, Thomas
Levy, MD, Hugh D. Riordan, MD, and many others. I have about
4,000 references at my website to back me up. Links to the
doctors' work are provided further below, and also at
http://www.doctoryourself.com/links.html .
Judging from the more polite feedback I received, it would
appear that a goodly number of registered dietitians (RDs)
personally and professionally use supplements. I admire and
applaud their individual use of vitamins for themselves and
their clients. I have my doubts as to just how high a dose
they're using; I will be pleased to receive email from
dietitians on their usage of megadoses anytime
([email protected]).
However, I must first ask all supplement-friendly dietitians
a question:
Exactly how do you feel about your Association's making that
previous statement ("not been proven to prevent or cure
diseases")? Furthermore, how do feel about the following ADA
statement, accessed April 2004:
"Registered dietitians and other nutrition experts agree
that if you make healthful food choices, you will get all
the vitamins, minerals, and other nutrients you need for
good health."
(Vitamin & Mineral Supplements: Do I need to take a
supplement?
http://www.eatright.org/Public/NutritionInformation/92_-
11826.cfm)
Now I have a follow-up question: Are you personally one of
those dietitians who "agrees" with this foods-only, supplement-
negating statement, or aren't you? Do you agree word-for-
word, or would you like to modify it a bit? Exactly how
would you change it?
And, as of April 2004, why have you not yet done so?
The two statements at the ADA's website are particularly
broad ones, and all-inclusive in tone. If you are advocating
supplement use beyond a low-potency multivitamin, I believe
you have broken ranks with the American Dietetic
Association. If you personally use high-dose vitamin
therapy, or even recommend it, I believe you may be skating
on thin ice with the ADA leadership.
PRESSURE TO CONFORM
In 1994, the American Dietetic Association disciplined Shari
Lieberman, Ph.D., R.D., for "alleged nonadherence" to the
ethical standards ADA set out in 1985. The association
suspended Dr. Lieberman's R.D. credential for three years
because Lieberman was supposedly not in line with Principle
7 of the ADA Code of Ethics, the part that states, "The
dietetic practitioner practices dietetics based on
scientific principles and current information." After Dr.
Lieberman sued the ADA for $40 million for defamation, her
R.D. was reinstated.
Anyone looking even briefly at Dr. Lieberman's work can see
that she has long been a proponent of megavitamin therapy.
She is one of the authors of The Real Vitamin and Mineral
Book (NY: Avery, 2003) which, the publisher says, "explains
exactly why you need vitamin and mineral supplements not
only to protect yourself against disease, but to reach the
highest levels of mental and physical well-being. . .The
authors then provide a scientifically documented Optimum
Daily Intake (ODI) to follow, which is generally well above
the government's Recommended Daily Intake (RDI)."
I think Dr. Lieberman's book (which I recommend you read)
constitutes an unmistakable departure from the party-line of
the American Dietetic Association. And by that, I mean the
Association's published stance, as of today. The ADA states
repeatedly on their website and in their press releases
that, with precious few exceptions, 100% of the government
standard is all that people need to take in a supplement, if
they even need a supplement at all, which they probably
don't. While Dr. Lieberman's "Optimum Daily Intake"
recommendations certainly have my support, I am unaware that
ADA has either proposed or endorsed any such increases in
nutritional intake recommendations for the public.
Check their website. ADA's statements are what their
membership empowers them to make. If you agree with the
ADA's statements, as written, it would seem that I was
right, rhetorical hyperbole notwithstanding.
If you do not agree with the Association's statements, it is
your professional and ethical duty to have them rescinded.
Better yet, substitute in some new, positive, supplement-
assertive language. For it is supplement-unfriendly content
that the public and the media are currently seeing at the
American Dietetic Association's website. It is there right
now as you read this.
Progressive dietitians are to be commended at every turn.
But when their own Association openly negates them, we must
admit that the progressives speak with an unofficial, though
laudable, minority voice. I welcome all dissenters into the
Doctor Yourself family.
ON A POSITIVE NOTE, ONE LAST LETTER:
"I recently read your article on vitamin supplementation,
in which you indicated dietitians do not believe in
vitamins nor recommend them. Unfortunately, you are
correct, when looking at our profession as a whole. I
have been a dietitian for 27 years, and one of the first
things I learned in school was that I'd better keep my
mouth shut about vitamins if I wanted to get my degree.
Most of my colleagues continue to state we should just
eat right. I respond with all the studies that prove that
we are NOT eating right. I believe we should stop beating
this dead "just eat right" horse, and meet people where
they need help.
"I also do not believe we can get everything we need
from food even if we make wise food choices, but do not
use organic sources, are exposed to pollution,
chemicals, stress, etc. And who among us is not exposed
to all those things?
"So, I apologize on behalf of my profession that we are not
the nutrition experts we need to be. And I apologize for
dietitians who have probably criticized and ridiculed you
for your stance. However I would also like you to know that
there is an increasing number of us who are practicing the
type of nutrition intervention and support that I believe
you would be proud of. Keep up the good work. Hopefully, as
we all pull together, we can help turn the health status of
our citizenship around. It will happen . . . one by one."
LET'S CALL THE QUESTION
I propose a simple, if blunt, "litmus test" to indicate a
practitioner's fundamental attitude about HIGH-DOSE vitamin
therapy (which was what my last Newsletter was REALLY
about). I now ask any physician, nurse, PA, dietitian, or
dietetic association, to "answer me these questions three":
1) Do you agree that enormous (100,000 mg/day) intravenous
doses of vitamin C are preferentially toxic to cancer
cells in the human body, killing cancer cells as
chemotherapy does, only more safely? (References 1,2,3)
2) Do you agree that cardiovascular deaths can be reduced by
40% in people who take regular megadoses (400-800 IU/day)
of vitamin E? (4,5)
3) Do agree that thousands of milligrams of niacin a day
constitutes effective treatment for schizophrenia and
psychosis? (6,7,8,9)
Please send me the answers you get, and own thoughts, too.
This Newsletter will value, and perhaps publish, continued
input, pro or con, from all interested readers. (Comments
may be sent to [email protected])
But as for my opinions, bear in mind that is a subscription
Newsletter. If you do not like my periodical peaches, why
shake my editorial tree? Unsubscribe now (the link is right
the top) and thank you for your past readership.
References:
4.) Riordan, N.H., Riordan, H.D., Meng, X., Li, Y.,
Jackson, J.A. Intravenous ascorbate as a tumor cytotoxic
chemotherapeutic agent. Medical Hypotheses 44:3 (March,
1995): 207-13.
5.) Padayatty SJ, Sun H, **** Y, Riordan HD, Hewitt SM,
Katz A, Wesley RA, Levine M. Vitamin C pharmacokinetics:
implications for oral and intravenous use. Ann Intern
Med. 2004 Apr 6;140(7):533-7.
6.) Riordan HD, Hunninghake RB, Riordan NH, Jackson JJ,
Meng X, Taylor P, Casciari JJ, Gonzalez MJ, Miranda-
Massari JR, Mora EM, Rosario N, Rivera A. Intravenous
ascorbic acid: protocol for its application and use. P R
Health Sci J. 2003 Sep;22(3):287-90.
7.) Stampfer, M.J., Hennekens, C.H., Manson, J., Colditz,
G.A., Rosner, B. and Willett, W.C. (1993) Vitamin E
consumption and the risk of coronary disease in women.
New England Journal of Medicine. 328:1444-1449.
8.) Rimm, E.B., Stampfer, M.J., Ascherio, A., Giovannucci,
E., Colditz, G.A. and Willett W.C. (1993) Vitamin E
consumption and the risk of coronary heart disease in
men. New England Journal of Medicine 328:1450-1456.
9.) Hoffer A and Osmond H: How To Live With Schizophrenia.
University Books, New York, NY, 1966. Also published by
Johnson, London, 1966. With Fannie Kahan. New and Revised
Ed. Citadel Press, New York, NY, 1992. Revised Ed. Quarry
Press, Kingston, ON 1999.
10.) Hoffer A: Orthomolecular Medicine for Physicians. Keats
Pub., New Canaan, CT, 1989.
11.) Hoffer A: Vitamin B-3 and Schizophrenia: Discovery,
Recovery, Controversy. Quarry Press, Kingston, ON 1999.
12.) Hoffer, A. Orthomolecular Treatment For Schizophrenia.
Keats, 4255 West Touhy Avenue, Lincolnwood, Ill 60646-
1975, 1999.
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SOME ADDITIONAL "INFLAMMATORY" WORDS
It is highly unlikely that the ADA will be putting up a link
to http://www.doctoryourself.com or recommending this
Newsletter to its membership anytime soon. In addition to my
strong advocacy of high-dose vitamin therapy, there are just
a few other areas where we may disagree.
For example, the American Dietetic Association's website
endorses the use of saccharin and aspartame ("Nutrasweet")
http://www.eatright.org/Public/Other/index_adap0598.cfm and
promotes fluoridation of water
(http://www.eatright.org/Public/Other/index_adap1000.cfm).
The Doctor Yourself Newsletter is opposed to those
practices, and has been for some 85 issues now.
(More on fluoridation:
http://www.doctoryourself.com/fluoridation.html and
http://www.doctoryourself.com/fluoride_cancer.html
(More on artificial sweeteners:
http://www.doctoryourself.com/fakesweet.html (saccharin)
and especially http://dorway.com , Dave Reitz's non-
commercial aspartame ("Nutrasweet") information supersite.)
The American Dietetic Association also supports more
governmental restriction and FDA regulation of supplements
including vitamins. (American Dietetic Association statement
to FDA on Regulation of Dietary Supplements, June 8, 1999.
June 8, 1999
http://www.eatright.org/Public/GovernmentAffairs/98_lg06089-
9.cfm) This Newsletter thinks such restriction is
unwarranted and bordering on the tyrannical. Vitamins are
extraordinarily safe substances. There is not even one death
per year from vitamin supplements (American Association of
Poison Control Centers' Toxic Exposure Surveillance System).
(More on vitamin safety:
http://www.doctoryourself.com/safety.html)
(More on recent governmental efforts to restrict your access
to supplements, including vitamins:
http://www.doctoryourself.com/limitUSA.htm)
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>>>>(Vol. 4, No. 11,
May 5, 2004)...
GASTALDO'S COMPLAINT TO ADA...
AMERICAN DIETETIC ASSOCIATION CODE OF ETHICS
"The enforcement process for the Code of Ethics establishes
a fair system to deal with complaints about members and
credentialed practitioners from peers or the public."
http://www.eatright.org/Public/index_8915.cfm
COMPLAINT: ADA appears to be lying - in violation of its own
stated Principles (quoted below)...
Does anyone wish to join me in making a written
complaint to ADA?
Here are the ADA rules...
The complaint must be made within 1 year of the date that
the complainant (person making complaint) first became aware
of the alleged violation...
The complainant need not be a member of The American
Dietetic Association or a practitioner credentialed by the
Commission on Dietetic Registration. The complaint must
contain details on the activities complained of; the basis
for complainant's knowledge of these activities; names,
addresses, and telephone numbers of all persons involved or
who might have knowledge of the activities; and whether the
complaint has been submitted to a court, an administrative
body, or a state licensure board. The complaint must also
cite the section(s) of the Code of Ethics for the Profession
of Dietetics allegedly violated.
The complaint must be signed and sworn to by the
complainant(s).
http://www.eatright.org/Public/index_8915.cfm
ADA Code of Ethics Principles (excerpts)
The dietetics practitioner conducts himself/herself with
honesty, integrity, and fairness. The dietetics practitioner
practices dietetics based on scientific principles and
current information. The dietetics practitioner presents
substantiated information and interprets controversial
information without personal bias, recognizing that
legitimate differences of opinion exist... The dietetics
practitioner accepts the obligation to protect clients, the
public, and the profession by upholding the Code of Ethics
for the Profession of Dietetics and by reporting alleged
violations of the Code through the defined review process of
The American Dietetic Association and its credentialing
agency, the Commission on Dietetic Registration.
http://www.eatright.org/Public/index_8915.cfm
For questions, comments and requests for information
regarding ADA's Code of Ethics...Email: [email protected]
http://www.eatright.org/Public/index_13343.cfm
COMMENT: ADA should look into Dr. Saul's criticisms. If ADA
finds itself be in violation of its own Code of Ethics - ADA
should protect the public. Personally, I would like to see
ADA link to Dr. Saul's website: www.doctoryourself.com
Also, every dietitian in every hospital with a maternity
unit should work to stop OBs from closing birth canals...
PROOF that OBs are knowingly closing birth canals up to
30%...
According to the Merck Manual:
"When shoulder dystocia occurs...the mother's thighs are
hyperflexed to increase the diameter of the pelvic
outlet..." http://www.merck.com/mrkshared/mmanual/section18-
/chapter253/253g.jsp
WHY are OBs and CNMwives (nurse midwives) waiting until the
head is out and shoulders get stuck before giving the baby
maximum pelvic outlet diameter?
WHY are we letting OBs and CNMwives force babies' heads
through birth canals senselessly closed up to 30%?
OBs and CNMwives are SLICING vaginas (euphemism "routine
episiotomy") - surgically/FRAUDULENTLY inferring everything
possible is being done to OPEN birth canals - even as they
CLOSE birth canals - up to 30%!
See Criminal medical CAM at Hawai'i's John A Burns School of
Medicine http://health.groups.yahoo.com/group/chiro-
list/message/2256
PREGNANT WOMEN: It is EASY for you to allow your birth canal
to OPEN the "extra" up to 30%. Just roll onto your side as
you push your baby out - or deliver on hands-and-knees,
kneeling, standing, squatting, etc.
BEWARE though: Some MDs and MBs will let you "try"
"alternative" delivery positions but will move you back to
dorsal or semisitting (close your birth canal!) as you push
your baby out!
Talk to your MD or MB about this TODAY. (For further details
see the "Criminal medical CAM" URL above.)
MDs/MBs: If you must push or pull - and sometimes you must -
first get the woman off her sacrum - off her back/butt.
Thanks for reading everyone.
Sincerely,
Todd
Dr. Gastaldo [email protected]
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