Presseerklärung vom 7. September 2004

Pharma-Industrie vertreibt unnütze Nahrungsergänzungsmittel

"BAYER profitiert von gefährlicher Mode-Diät"

Rund 40 Millionen Amerikaner befolgen die sogenannte "Atkins-Diät", die den Verzehr von Fleisch, Käse, Eiern und fetthaltigen Nahrungsmitteln uneingeschränkt erlaubt, die Aufnahme von Kohlenhydraten aus Brot, Reis, Kartoffeln und Nudeln hingegen stark einschränkt. Selbst Obst und Gemüse sollen laut Atkins nur in geringen Mengen gegessen werden. Weil wegen der einseitigen Ernährung Vitamin- und Mineralstoffdefizite drohen, muss die Diät mit der Einnahme von Nährstoffpräparaten begleitet werden.

Ernährungswissenschaftler warnen vor der Atkins-Diät. Professor Klaus Eder aus Halle befürchtet, dass die einseitige Aufnahme von Fett bei längerer Anwendung erhebliche Gefahren birgt - vor allem für Herzkreislauf-Patienten, Schwangere und ältere Menschen. Die eiweißreiche Nahrung belastet die Nieren, und trotz Nahrungsergänzungsmitteln drohen Mangelerscheinungen. Die Aufnahme von Ballaststoffen ist zu niedrig, was zu Verdauungsproblemen führt.

Trotz der einhelligen Kritik von Ernährungswissenschaftlern versucht die Pharma-Industrie, von der "Mode-Diät" zu profitieren. Der Leverkusener BAYER-Konzern brachte im Frühjahr den Vitamin-Cocktail One-A-Day CarbSmart auf den Markt und machte hiermit in den USA bereits 3 Millionen Dollar Umsatz. BAYERs One-A-Day WeightSmart erzielte sogar 32 Mio Dollar in einem Jahr.

Philipp Mimkes von der Coordination gegen BAYER-Gefahren kritisiert die Unternehmenspolitik: "Natürlich wissen die Verantwortlichen bei BAYER, dass die Atkins-Diät gesundheitsschädlich ist und dass Vitaminpräparate niemals eine ausgewogene Ernährung ersetzen können. Doch der Pharma-Industrie ist die Gesundheit der Betroffenen herzlich egal - solange die Umsätze stimmen." Die Coordination gegen BAYER-Gefahren fordert eine Verschreibungspflicht sowie strenge Kontrollen aller Nahrungs-Ergänzungsmittel. BAYER hat kürzlich von ROCHE mehrere nicht-verschreibungspflichtige Medikamente übernommen, hierzu gehören auch Vitaminpräparate.

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Beirat
Dr. Sigrid Müller, Pharmakologin, Bremen
Dr. Erika Abczynski, Kinderärztin, Dormagen
Eva Bulling-Schröter, ehem. MdB, Berlin
Prof. Dr. Jürgen Rochlitz, Chemiker, ehem. MdB, Burgwald
Dr. Janis Schmelzer, Historiker, Berlin
Wolfram Esche, Rechtsanwalt, Köln
Dorothee Sölle,Theologin, Hamburg (U 2003)
Prof. Dr. Anton Schneider, Baubiologe, Neubeuern
Prof. Jürgen Junginger, Designer, Krefeld

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A vaccine containing mercury given to babies when they are eight weeks old is to be scrapped amid fears of a link with autism.

The move follows recent research in America that suggests a connection between the mercury used to preserve the whooping cough vaccine, and autism.

The jab, without mercury, will be given as part of a new five-in-one vaccine.

The Department of Health has always maintained there is no evidence of such a link.

Doctors are also being told to switch from the live polio vaccine, currently given by mouth, to a "killed" vaccine injection to avoid rare cases of polio contamination, according to a report in The Daily Telegraph newspaper.

GP Richard Halverson welcomed the "long overdue" changes.

He told BBC News: "I welcome the fact that mercury is being withdrawn because it is toxic and should not be injected into babies full stop.

"Mercury is one of the most toxic elements on this planet. It has no business being ingested in any form by anyone, it serves no useful purpose, it is dangerous."

He also welcomed changes to the polio vaccine, saying it was "disgraceful" that the only cases of paralysis from polio in the UK in the last 15 years had been as a result of the vaccine.

Committee advice

Health Minister John Hutton has confirmed the changes to childhood vaccines.

"Childhood immunisation has been extremely effective in protecting children from serious life-threatening diseases", he said in a statement.

"We are continually looking at ways to improve this programme as new, more effective products become available."

He said the new five-in-one injection, containing vaccinations for diphtheria, tetanus, whooping cough, hib and polio, would be introduced later in the year.

The UK's leading autism charity, the National Autistic Society, welcomed the removal of mercury from vaccines.

A spokeswoman said the society had always "supported moves to ensure that mercury is not used within the immunisation programme as a precautionary measure".

What we want to see is more choice, where the vaccines are designed around what is right for the individual child.

Jackie Fletcher
Jabs

But Jackie Fletcher, founder of the parent support group Justice, Awareness and Basic Support, said that, while supporting the removal of mercury, she was "extremely worried" about plans for the replacement five-in-one jab.

She said: "With five-in-one vaccines we would want to know what safety trials have taken place. How did they find out it was safe to do it in this combination?

"We know that for other vaccines the safety trials have been extremely limited."

Increasing the combinations increased the potential for an adverse reaction, she said.

"What we want to see is more choice, where the vaccines are designed around what is right for the individual child."

In June, it was announced that US researchers at Columbia University found autism-like damage in the brains of mice exposed to thiomersal, the preservative used in the whooping cough vaccine.

Despite other US and European studies finding no link between mercury and autism, the Columbia team said they found that mice exposed to thiomersal showed signs of changed behaviour, and brain abnormalities.

The animals had been bred to be vulnerable to developing disorders of the immune system.

The study team argued it was possible that children with similarly-compromised immunity may also be at risk.

[Furthermore, a CDC group found a strong association between thimerosal and adhd, tics, language problems, and autism (Verstraeten et al 2000).

That same group then proceeded to deliberately dilute the data and published the fraudulent version in the journal Pediatrics (Verstraeten et al 2003). The CDC then hired the Institute of Medicine to issue a report that, not coincidentally, endorsed the studies with diluted data.

-Teresa Binstock, Researcher in Developmental & Behavioral Neuroanatomy,
PO Box 1788; 80517]

WATCH AND LISTEN
The BBC's Daniel Boettcher
"The change is part of a move towards a combined five-in-one jab"
http://news.bbc.co.uk/media/video/39929000/rm/_39929536_vaccine12_boettcher_vi.ram

SEE ALSO:
Mercury 'linked to autism' http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/3000884.stm
18 Jun 03 | Health
Project to search for autism gene
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/3901717.stm
19 Jul 04 | Health
Study to probe causes of autism
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/3873261.stm
07 Jul 04 | Health

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Medical notes - Autism
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Story from BBC NEWS:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/pr/fr/-/2/hi/health/3543900.stm

Published: 2004/08/07 09:59:58 GMT

© BBC MMIV

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