Exhibit I, Race, Mg-deficiency and Voting
Rights
Paul W. Mason
vs.
Donna Shalala, Sec. of Health; and Dr. David
Friedman, Acting Commissioner of the FDA
Exhibit I
Federal Case C97-20686 RMW in San Jose, CA
Race, Mg Deficiency, and Voting Rights
by Paul Mason
The leading cause of death in the US is heart disease,
accounting for 48% of all deaths, at a mean age of 59 years
(1985).
In the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA),
Jan. 10, 1966, Dr. Henry A. Schroeder published his article,
"Municipal Drinking Water and Cardiovascular Death Rates," which
correlated such deaths with the mineral content of drinking water
in 97 American cities. He concluded that "the purer the water in
terms of dissolved minerals, the higher the death rate." Since
then, the cardio-protective effect has been found to come
primarily from the magnesium content of hard water, which may
potentially prevent 15-40 % of cardiovascular deaths.
Dr. Schroeder considered only the cardiovascular deaths of
Whites, not Blacks or Hispanics because "the mortality from
hypertensive heart disease of non-white persons is often several
times greater than that of whites."
The National Academy of Sciences in its study of Dietary
Reference Intake for magnesium released Aug. 1997, set an RDA for
men 51-70 years of 420 mg/day. The NAS found that the mean intake
of all males aged nine and older was 323 mg/day, for an average
magnesium shortfall of 97 mg/day. Blacks consumed less Mg than
Hispanics or Whites, and elderly Hispanic males consumed a mean
of only 237 mg/day -- a shortfall of 183 mg/day -- 89% higher
than the White shortfall of Mg.
The greater the shortfall, the higher the rate of hypertensive
heart disease. Researchers have been saying this for decades,
even as the AMA and FDA deprived Americans of magnesium by
approving the removal of magnesium from foodstuffs through
processing, and by deliberately destroying the American mineral
water industry by smearing, hounding, prosecuting, libeling, and
persecuting it in every way.
In the Archives of the Historical Health Fraud Collection,
maintained by the American Medical Association, there are 53
large boxes containing files on water and mineral water companies
investigated and prosecuted or persecuted by the FDA, AMA, DOJ,
etc.
The AMA archivist, Dr. John Zwicky, wrote to plaintiff that,
"chemical analyses of the products themselves (revealed) the
water was usually anything but pure, clean water (resulting in)
notices of federal judgments against the companies. The
Historical Health Fraud Collection also has some records of
federal agencies such as the Federal Trade Commission, which
prosecuted companies for misbranding or other offenses.
For other records of federal action against individual
companies, you may contact the FDA to see if they have an archive
or if their records are in the National Archives. Likewise with
the Federal Trade Commission. The Department of Justice is
another matter.... Speaking from experience, court records are
often voluminous, but very interesting and informative. You will
need to check the docket books first and then identify the case
that you want to look at. The National Archives has records
centers in major cities all over the country, including Chicago,
Kansas City, Atlanta, Philadelphia, New York, Boston, Los
Angeles, and a number of places in between.
Dr. Zwicky's comments indicate the vast extent of the
persecution of mineral waters in the United States by the
organized powers of government -- anything other than "pure,
clean water" was persecuted, until the American mineral water
industry ceased to exist, save for a few small mom-and-pop
companies, despite the now-overwhelming scientific evidence of
the benefits of Mg-rich water.
Jane Kenamore, AMA librarian in charge of the AMA Health Fraud
Collection, left a message on my answering machine concerning the
AMA's documentation of the investigation and prosecution of
mineral waters, stating, "It's a tremendous amount... and we
have a policy against photocopying everything in the collection.
I hate to be sounding very negative, but that's the
situation." Clearly, the AMA, FDA, and DHHS have a motive to
cover-up the evidence of the benefits of Mg-rich water.
48F2d.378 concerns a bottled "healing" mineral water from a
spring well regarded by the Catawba Indians, and named by them in
their language, "Healing Water", which was prosecuted by the FDA
without a hearing. The District Judge wrote, "We make the finding
that this water at the time of trial was free from the criticisms
made of it and will continue to be free. We make this finding
because the claimants have introduced evidence through the
testimony of experts to this effect, which is uncontradicted."
Clearly, the FDA was on an unjustified witch-hunt against this
"healing water," and attempted to use the Department of Justice
as a tool for this persecution.
In 1933, the FDA sent its "Chamber of Horrors" exhibit of
allegedly dangerous products to Chicago's "Century of Progress
Exposition," and included Crazy Water mineral crystals in the
exhibit. The crystals contained magnesium and other minerals, and
were derived from the evaporation of mineral water, for the
purpose of making "instant mineral water" by dissolving the
crystals in ordinary, low-TDS tap water. Ref: "Crazy Water --
The Story of Mineral Wells and Other Texas Health Resorts,"
Gene Fowler, Texas Christian University Press, 1991. Vice
President Garner ordered the FDA to remove the Crazy Water
crystals from its Chamber of Horrors.
The same source cites a booklet by the AMA's Bureau of
Investigation, detailing numerous prosecutions by the FDA of
mineral water companies. The AMA booklet stated, "No mineral
water will be accepted by the medical profession for alleged
medicinal properties supported only by testimonials from bucolic
statesmen or romantic old ladies." The AMA and FDA have never
recanted their disapproval of mineral water, despite overwhelming
and conclusive scientific evidence of the benefits of magnesium
in water.
The US Dept. of Agriculture has published Agriculture
Handbook #8, Composition of Foods -- Raw, Processed,
Prepared, which gives the magnesium content of all foods.
The most common food, bread, is made of wheat. This table gives
the magnesium content of a 100 gram portion of various wheat
products:
Wheat, whole grain 160 mg
Whole Wheat Flour 113 mg
Patent, all purpose (white) flour 25 mg
White flour has less than one sixth the magnesium of whole
grain wheat, and less than one fourth the magnesium of whole
wheat flour. The story is the same for nearly all processed foods
-- much or most of the magnesium is lost during processing, and
there is no effective way of putting it back.
The Health Fraud Archives of the AMA has identified numerous
dissenting physicians who have railed against white flour during
the last hundred years; despite current scientific evidence, the
AMA still gives its blessing to white flour and other
over-processed, Mg-deficient foods. So the AMA has a strong
interest in sweeping the whole magnesium catastrophe under the
carpet, ignoring it.
The net effect of this imposed deprivation of magnesium is to
increase the rate of heart disease and mortality, particularly
among Blacks and Hispanics. Thus an effect of imposed Mg
deficiency is to weaken the voting power of Blacks and Hispanics
relative to White voting power.
Did this enforced deficiency originate as a stupid blunder
during the era of Jim Crow? Or was it planned as a deliberate
genocide to prevent voting by and existence of Blacks and
Hispanics? Either way, the effect today is an interference with
voting rights and a significant reduction in the number of Black
and Hispanic votes.
Arch Environ Health/Vol 28, June 1974, Municipal
Water/Schroeder & Kraemer
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