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The Barletta Declaration

Making Natural Preventive Healtha Human Rightby Dr. Matthias Rath, MDBarletta, italy, october 19, 2014

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Making Natural Preventive Health a Human Right

Barletta 2014On October 19, 2014, a memorable event took place inSouthern Italy in the historic town of Barletta.

Addressing the audience and the people of the world, Dr. Matthias Rath gave a keynote speech in which he outlined the cornerstones of a future preventive healthcare system. Demanding that powerful corporate inter-ests should be stopped from imposing the “business withdisease” on the people of the world, he described uniqueand impressive strategies that will allow mankind to freeitself from the current dictatorial system of health care.

In this brochure, you can read Dr. Rath's speech and learnmuch more about this important issue. Cover photo: The historic port of Barletta

ContentsIntroduction............................................4

Principles of New Preventive Health Care..................6

Nutritional and Cellular Health – the Scientific Basis of a Preventive Health Care ........................10

Education and Participation of thePeople are Key Building Blocks of Preventive Health Care ........................14

The Key Strategies of a Worldwide Preventive Health Education Campaign..............................................18

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Key Elements of a Preventive Health Care System ..............................20

Sustainability and Self-Reinforcement...............................24

The Need for a World Health Alphabetization .......................26

The Breathtaking Historical Parallel to Our Mission.........................28

The next steps.......................................30

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Key factsUN: Millennium Development Goals by 2015.............................................5Hypocrisy of the FAO.................................7The Declaration of Alma Ata....................9Why is Food Today so Poor in Nutrients..11Healthy diet – Key facts ..........................13Permaculture ...........................................15Nutrition – Key facts................................17School gardening ....................................19Right to Health – Key facts .....................21Cellular Medicine Health Centers...........23Community gardens ................................25Sustainable Agriculture...........................27

"Today, most areas of our planet have been liberatedfrom the inability to read and write – but essentiallythe entire world is still enslaved by illiteracy in relation to our health and our body.”

Dr. Matthias Rath


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introduction

Today, at the beginning of the3rd millennium, we, the peopleof the world, have the opportu-nity and responsibility to reduce

and largely eliminate diseases thathave haunted mankind from its verybeginning, including cardiovascular disease and cancer.

Over the past century, great progress hasbeen made in the field of human health.Despite this, today's most common dis-eases continue in epidemic proportions.Human health is being held hostage ona global scale by the status quo – at itscenter, the pharmaceutical investmentindustry that has defined wide-spreaddiseases as its target market and whichthrives on their continuation.

The World Health Organization andother United Nations bodies have de-fined optimum health as one of thegreatest social goals to be achieved bymankind. But despite many declara-tions, these international organizationshave failed to achieve this aim. This isdue to their dependency upon corpo-rate interests and the fact that therewas no scientific rationale that wouldhave allowed the people of the worldto support and help implement thegreat goal of ‘health for all’.

Emboldened by these facts, the statusquo has now declared an economic waron mankind to be led on the battlefieldof human health. We are being toldthat over the next decade and a half

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we will have to spend almost 50 trilliondollars for the management of cardio-vascular disease, cancer, diabetes, men-tal illness and respiratory diseasesalone. This amount essentially equalsthe sum of the gross domestic productsof almost the entire world, excludingonly the United States and China.

In this situation we, the people of theworld, have a choice: Either we allowthis and all future generations ofmankind to become economically dependent upon the investment busi-ness with disease and to be controlledby its political stakeholders – or we takeresponsibility now by creating a newprevention-oriented health care system,for the people and by the people.

un: Millennium Development Goals by 2015Goal 1: Eradicate extreme poverty and hunger

Goal 2: Achieve universal primary education

Goal 3: Promote gender equality and empower women

Goal 4: Reduce child mortality rates

Goal 5: Improve maternal health

Goal 6: Combat HIV/AIDS, malaria and other diseases

Goal 7: Ensure environmental sustainability

Goal 8: Develop a global partnership for development

United Nations (UN)Millennium Declaration, signed in Sept. 2000http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Millennium_Development_Goals

are any of these goals achieved yet?

It’s time to change this!



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First, we have to define the principles of this new, preven-tive health care. Health is one of the most important human

needs and social goals worldwide. A comprehensive state of health andwell-being for the people of the worldcannot be achieved by interventionalmedicine that is merely making sure diseases are being treated once they occur.

The goal of providing health to all thepeople of the world can only beachieved when the focus of healthcareis switched from intervention to pre-vention – that is, towards averting and

correcting the malfunctioning of ourbody before diseases develop.

Once the root cause of a disease is un-derstood, effective preventive strate-gies can be implemented. Moreover,the effective long-term prevention ofany disease on a global scale must leadto the eradication of this health condi-tion as a cause of human mortality.Achieving this goal will save millions oflives and billions in health care costs.

We must be aware that the preventionand elimination of diseases fundamen-tally threatens the giant investmentbusiness that is dependent on their con-tinuation. To secure continued revenuesfrom this business and to cement itspower, these special interests have beentrying to create a global monopoly onhealth, essentially penetrating all sec-tors of the current health care systemand influencing health policies in most

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countries of the world. Thus, in under-taking the historic transformation to-wards natural and preventive health wemust not live under the illusion that thestakeholders of the current business-oriented health care system will be-come allies in this transformationprocess.

We, the people of the world, must laydown the principle of disease preven-tion by natural means as the founda-tion of the new health care system.Moreover, since the people are the primary beneficiaries of this new health


“The foundation for good physicalhealth is good nutritional status. Nutritional status is directly affected by the foods we eat andtheir nutrient content.

Good nutritional status dependson eating the right amounts andthe right variety of safe, goodquality foods to meet our individ-ual nutritional needs.”

Food and Agriculture Organizationof the United Nations (FAO)

“Eating well for good health” learning module with basicconcepts of good nutrition, health and healthy diets

http://www.fao.org/docrep/017/i3261e/i3261e03.pdf

hypocrisy: at the same time that thesestatements are issued by the un’s Faothis very institution is a driving force of the ”Codex alimentarius” effort bythe pharmaceutical drug lobby to bannatural therapies worldwide.

“The doctor of the future willno longer treat the humanframe with drugs, but ratherwill cure and prevent diseasewith nutrition.” Thomas Alva Edison



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care, we must also be the architects of this breathtaking world in whichtoday's most common diseases becomelargely unknown.

This new health care system must bebuilt from the bottom up. Starting atthe level of communities and eventu-ally reaching the national and interna-tional level, new, effective health carestructures have to be created and controlled by the people. New health professions specialized in all aspects

of natural, nutritional and other formsof preventive medicine and primaryhealth care have to be created. This isthe only way in which the current monopoly on health care, controlledby business interests, can be overcome.

Eventually, a new international bodyhas to be created to replace the cur-rent structure of the World Health Organization that has failed in its mission to provide health for all peo-ple and has proven to be unreformabledue to its close ties with the businessinterests of the status quo.

Undertaking the historic task of build-ing a new, prevention-oriented healthcare system, we embrace anyone

“We cannot allow the largest generation of children ever to occupy the earth to grow up malnourished, unhealthy and uneducated in orderto become the parents of another generation ofmalnourished, unhealthy and uneducated andmore numerous children. Instead we must accordour children – and their future children – the priority that they deserve.”

Jim GrantUNICEF executive director, 1980-1995

Volunteers meeting at the firstHealth Center in Barletta

we are living now in the 21th

century and nothing has changed!


sharing these goals who commits toending the dependency of the peopleof the world upon the current health monopoly of the investment businesswith disease.

The driving forces of this historicaltransformation are millions of lay people worldwide who qualify them-selves in different sectors of naturalhealth and commit as active architectsof a prevention-oriented health caresystem. They are supported and compli-mented by health professionals fromthe field of science-based and evidence-based natural health.

Finally, we will be joined in this histori-cal transformation by a growing num-ber of conventional doctors whorecognize the deadlocks of conventionalmedicine in many areas of health andwho realize that they, too, have becomevictims of a medical training system thatdegrades the medical profession, essen-tially reducing it to a sales force for thepharmaceutical investment business.

Principles of new Preventive health Care

the Declaration of alma-atawas adopted at the International Conference on Primary Health Care in Almaty (formerly Alma-Ata),Kazakhstan, 6-12 September 1978. It expressed theneed for urgent action by all governments, all healthand development workers, and the world commu-nity to protect and promote the health of all people.The primary health care approach has since thenbeen accepted by member countries of the who asthe key to achieving the goal of "Health For All".

“The people have the right and duty to participate individually and collectively in the planning and implementation of their health care.”

“Primary health care includes at least: edu cation concerning prevailing healthproblems and the methods of preventingand controlling them; promotion of foodsupply and proper nutrition; an adequatesupply of safe water and basic sanitation.”

“Primary health care involves all related sectors, in particular agriculture, animal husbandry, food, industry, education, housing, public works, communications andother sectors; and demands the coordinated efforts of all those sectors.”

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alma_Ata_Declaration

this declaration correctly recognized the urgent need for action to protect and promotehealth. But in the quarter of a century sincehardly anything has been implemented!

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Many disciplines of science- andevidence-based health will joinin the build-up of a preven-tion-oriented health care sys-

tem. But the scientific core of aneffective preventative approach tohealth care is nutritional and CellularMedicine.

The rationale for this priority can be deducted with compelling logic. A new,globally sustainable health care systemcan only be achieved based on the following steps:

First, we need to identify and under-stand the biological processes at thesmallest unit within our body wherehealth and disease is determined – thelevel of the billions of cells that makeup our body.

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Aleksandra Niedzwiecki, Ph.D., head of the Dr. Rath Research Institute, and M. WaheedRoomi, Ph.D.; One of their research focuses isto substantiate the evidence of the effect ofmicronutrients for human health.

Second , we need to identify micronu-trient deficiency as the most commoncause of cellular malfunction. Vitamins,minerals and other plant-derived mi-cronutrients are bioactive compoundsthat provide essential bioenergy toeach cell of our body and function asthe catalysts of thousands of metabolicreactions. An optimum daily intake ofthese micronutrients is essential to pre-vent cellular malfunctioning and,thereby, to stop the development ofdisease. This is the foundation of Cellu-lar Medicine.

third , we need to identify where wecan find these essential micronutrientsin nature. The great majority of themare contained in fruits, vegetables andthe plants that grow in our gardens andfields.

This simple, logical rationale paves theway towards the natural control oftoday’s most common diseases.

Today, many chronic health conditionshave been identified as being directly

nutritional and Cellular health – the Scientific Basis of a Preventive health Care


why is Food today So Poor in nutrients?a. Industrialization of Production• Conventional mass-production with chemical agri-

culture methods incorporate pesticides, herbicides& other chemicals in the production of our food

• Consumption of conventional produce is associ-ated with a 30% higher risk for pesticide contam-ination than organic produce

• Conventionally produced meat & dairy containantibiotics and hormones

B. Long Storage & Transportation Periods• Fruit and Vegetables spend long periods being

transported • To prevent ripening while being transported fruit

& vegetable are first sprayed with sulfites and sul-fur dioxide, later with ethylene to speed upripening

• Food spends long time on shelves and supermar-kets fridges

• In the next 5-6 days after fruit and vegetables arecut and stored they lose between 10-25% of vita-min C and carotenoids

C. Long Cooking/Baking times• During cooking 15-55% of Vitamin C contained in

food can be destroyed• Canned peas and carrots lose 85-95 % of their

natural vitamin CSource: Regenerative Agriculture for Nutrition & Sustainability Part I.

the facts are well known to everybody: the vitamin values in fruits and vegetablesare not sufficient to serve the needs of humanbeings. Shouldn't we care?

Scientific alternatives are at hand!



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caused by, or at least associated with, a deficiency in the dietary intake ofmicro nutrients. They include such wide-spread diseases as arteriosclerosis, theunderlying cause of heart attacks andstrokes; heart failure; arrhythmia; dia-betic circulatory problems; osteoporosisand many others. Over the past century,half a dozen Nobel prizes have beenawarded for the role of vitamins andother micronutrients in strengtheningthe immune system and helping tofight a multitude of infectious diseases.

The powerful health benefits of micro - nutrients are explained by the fact thatthey are bioactive components of plants.Moreover, plants have been the primarysource of nutrition for our ancestorsover millennia. Thus, the metabolism ofour body today has become dependenton a balanced and optimum intake offruits and vegetables.

Therefore, knowledge about the micronutrient content of plants has tobecome a key element in any educationprogram towards a preventive healthcare system. Knowledge about the vita-min C content of citrus fruits, thepolyphenol content of green tea or themicronutrients contained in sweet pota-toes, cruciferous plants, grapes and many

Vitamin B2 (riboflavin)Main sources:Goat milk products, pumpkin seeds, wholegrains, cheese, eggs, sea fish, chard, Brusselssprouts, tomatoes, kale, peas, mushrooms,broccoli

Properties:Important for growth, utilization of fats, pro-teins and carbohydrates, good for skin, eyesand nails, important energy bringer, oxygentransport

Deficiency:Inflammation of the skin, brittle nails, anemia,corneal opacity, mouth lacerations, headaches,fatigue, eczema, immunodeficiency

Dr. Rath Research Institute in California: staffed with world-class scientists from the fields of medicine, biochemistry, cellular biology, toxicology and nutrition.

other plants, and their role in optimizingcellular metabolism, creates the decisivelinks between nutritional and CellularMedicine.

An effective, preventive health care sys-tem has to tear down any remaining artifi-cial barriers between nutrition and healthas well as between medicine and agricul-ture. The most effective medicines for thehealth care system of the future aregrown in our gardens, on cultivated landwithin our communities and on the fieldsof our farms.

The fruits and vegetables we plant and eatare organically grown and are free of pesticides and GMOs.

While nutritional and Cellular Medicineform the scientific basis of effective dis-ease prevention, they are complementedby other well-established preventivehealth measures. These include other nat-ural health approaches, the promotion ofa healthy lifestyle, the means to reducestress at the workplace, the commitmentto secure clean air and water, and othermeasures promoting disease prevention.


nutritional and Cellular health – the Scientific Basis of a Preventive health Care

healthy Diet - Key facts• A healthy diet helps protect against malnutrition

in all its forms, as well as noncommunicable dis-eases (NCDs), including obesity, diabetes, heartdisease, stroke and cancer.

• Unhealthy diet and lack of physical activity areleading global risks to health.

• Healthy dietary practices start early in life –breastfeeding may have longer-term benefits,like reducing the risk of overweight and obesityin childhood and adolescence.

• Energy intake (calories) should balance energyexpenditure. Evidence indicates that total fatshould not exceed 30% of total energy intake toavoid unhealthy weight gain, with a shift in fatconsumption away from saturated fats to unsat-urated fats, and towards the elimination of in-dustrial trans fats.

• Limiting intake of free sugars to less than 10%of total energy is part of a healthy diet. A fur-ther reduction to less than 5% of total energy issuggested for additional health benefits.

• Keeping salt intake to less than 5 g per day helpsprevent hypertension and reduces the risk ofheart disease and stroke in adult population.

World Health Organization (WHO)http://www.who.int/mediacentre/factsheets/fs394/en/

the actions of the who contradict theseproclamations: the who is the drivingforce behind “Codex alimentarius” andopens the gates widely for its stakeholdersto bring food containing hidden sugar, fatand calories onto the market.http://www4.dr-rath-foundation.org/THE_FOUNDATION/Events/codex-whatisit.html

We need a new international organizationpromoting world health!



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The essential building blocks of anew, prevention-oriented healthcare system are education andparticipation of the people. The

artificial division between our food andour health is an important reason forthe widespread health illiteracy amongthe people of the world today. Thishealth illiteracy is no coincidence but a

precondition for the continuation ofthe status quo’s ‘investment businesswith disease’.

The disregard for the essential role ofmicronutrients in human health wasalso the main reason why all declara-tions by the World Health Organizationand other United Nations organizationsproclaiming the global need for preven-tive and primary health care havefailed. Without a viable scientific con-cept these proclamations remainedempty and had to fail.

Now, the people of the world are rap-idly learning about the scientific factsand compelling logic of nutritional andCellular Medicine. Thus, they will beable to largely liberate themselves fromthe burden of today’s most commondiseases and actively participate in theconstruction of a prevention-orientedhealth care system.

education andParticipation ofthe People are KeyBuilding Blocks ofPreventive health Care

The hallmarks of this global health liberation movement are:

1. awareness. We need to createawareness among the people of theworld about the deadlocks of the


Vitamin C (ascorbic acid)Main sources:Rose hips, parsley, sea buckthorn,radishes, chard, leeks, Chinese cabbage,pineapple, citrus fruits, grapes, gooseber-ries, currants, peppers, strawberries, cab-bage, spinach, asparagus, pears, apples,artichokes, blackberries, spinach, vegeta-bles, radish, rhubarb (almost all fruits andvegetables contain vitamin C)

Properties:Antiinflammatory, blood-staunching, promotes body’s defense, protects cellsagainst chemical destruction, activates en-zymes, builds connective tissue, bone andtooth enamel, supports faster woundhealing, stabilizes psyche, plays an essential role in cell metabolism

Deficiency:Bleeding gums, fatigue, joint andheadache, poor wound healing, loss ofappetite, scurvy, performance weakness

education and Participation of the People are Key Building Blocks of Preventive health Care

PermacultureWouldn’t you want• diversity and resilience in your food supply?• unlimited access to superb food quality?• nutritious food discarding expensive chemi-cal fertilizers and patented seeds?

Then permaculture is an option – It is aboutdesigning resilient and regenerative humanenvironments by imitating ecosystems we ob-serve in nature.

Permaculture allows us to design our environ-ments in the healthiest most regenerativeway, by integrating all components of ourecosystem and respecting nature’s patternsand rhythms.

Wouldn’t YOU want all of this, by investing a little effort?http://www.movement-of-life-cyprus.org

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current health care system and the ur-gent need to develop alternatives. Thequest for ‘health’ in a person’s life mustno longer be limited to those momentswhen they are sick and in need of adoctor or hospital. Most importantly,we must realize and become aware thathealth is not given to us voluntarily; weneed to take action ourselves to makehealth a human right.

2. education. The second hallmark ofhealth liberation is ‘education’. We canno longer delegate our health to an-other profession or institution. Weneed to take responsibility for our ownhealth in a comprehensive way by edu-cating ourselves about the most com-mon causes of diseases and how toprevent them in a safe and effectiveway. This education is a continuousprocess throughout our life.

3. empowerment. Solid health educa-tion creates ‘empowerment’. With on-going education and increasedknowledge in natural, nutritional, cellu-lar and other forms of preventive medi-cine we will be able to make betterdecisions for our own health and that

“We seek a world in which each humanbeing is assured of his or her essential needsfor nutrition, health and shelter [includingwater and sanitation and hygiene], a worldin which the role of the state is to foster andprotect, and not abridge or neglect, therights and dignity of each person.”

Jim Grant, January 1991


of others. By passing life-saving healthinformation on to others we graduallybecome ‘health teachers’.

4. Participation. And finally, out of thepower of knowledge, the desire of ‘par-ticipation’ grows within ourselves – theurgency to take an active role in over-coming the deadlocks of current healthcare. Only if we, the people, take re-sponsibility within our communities andbeyond will we be able to create a newpreventive health care system at the na-tional level and achieve the ultimategoal of ‘health for all‘ on a worldwidescale. The participation of the people inbuilding a new preventive system ofhealth care is the right and duty ofevery responsible citizen.

education and Participation of the People are Key Building Blocks of Preventive health Care

nutrition - Key facts• 805 million people suffer from chronichunger.

• 161 million children under the age of fiveare stunted.

Food and Agriculture Organizationof the United Nations (FAO)

http://www.fao.org/nutrition/en/

Since the foundation of the Fao in 1945world hunger has increased. what are such organizations good for?



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Among all these hallmarks for a historical transformation, education about natural, nutri-tional and cellular health is the

key. This education will be conducted at several levels:

There is a global level of health educa-tion: The Internet and online social net-works will allow health education andcommunication on the subject of effec-tive natural health in unprecedented di-mensions, reaching every corner of theplanet. Students of these online pro-

grams can share their experiences acrossfive continents and become teachers ofnatural preventive health in their owncommunities – irrespective of whethertheir community is a large city or a vil-lage in a rain forest.

At the local level of this health educa-tion initiative, setting up communityhealth information centers are a key ele-ment. People, young and old, who rec-ognize the need for an immediatechange in global health care, will uniteto set up these centers in their communi-ties. In some countries these centers willresemble stores. Alternatively a centermay simply be a small hut in the middleof a school or community garden. Re-gardless, the key function of these cen-ters is to offer information, educationand consultation about natural, nutri-tional and cellular health and about thebreathtaking perspectives of preventivemedicine. These community health infor-mation centers are connected throughsocial networks and international part-

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People learning about cellular health at a course in Milano, Italy

nerships that allow an exchange of information across national, social andethnic barriers – especially among young people.

Education of the people in natural andpreventive health must take place at alllevels: Nutritional and Cellular Medicinecourses will be offered at every level ofeducation, from kindergarten to adulteducation programs. Every school willhave classes on the essentials of opti-mum nutrition and cellular health, thusenabling the youngest inhabitants ofour planet to take advantage of thesehealth breakthroughs. Every major col-lege and university will open faculties toeducate future experts in nutritionalhealth, Cellular Medicine and preventivehealth in general. In this context newprofessions will be promoted that offerdiplomas and degrees for ‘primaryhealth care teachers’, ‘cellular healthconsultants’ and other prevention ori-ented disciplines.

Moreover, to accelerate this historictransformation, new independent med-ical schools and universities will befounded around the world with thefocus on nutritional health and CellularMedicine.

School gardeningGardening projects for children in a school settingprovide an extraordinary learning opportunity: A school garden helps students gain an understand-ing of natural systems through firsthand experience.Through permaculture techniques, communities arerecognising the value of recycling waste, creatingtheir own organic compost and employing biologi-cal agents in place of harmful pesticides and fertilis-ers. School gardens foster community spirit bybringing students, school staff, families, local businesses and organizations together.

An example for successful school gardening projectsis the EduPlant programme. In the 20 years thatFTFA (Food & Trees for Africa) has been running thishighly effective programme thousands of schoolshave learned how to create food-rich environments.

http://www.trees.co.za/eduplant-boosts-success.html

Time for you to start a school garden!


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The key element in building a future, prevention-orientedhealth care system is the partici-pation of the people of the

world in the planning, implementationand control of their own health care.Millions of people, empowered by com-prehensive education in preventivehealth, now become architects of thisnew system. Building this new globalhealth care is a stepwise process. Themilestones are:

1. healthy Community: First, we mustcreate a healthy community. Coordi-nated through community health infor-mation centers, these health architects

make sure that the breakthroughs ofnutritional and cellular health and thepossibility to improve health and savelives reaches every member of the com-munity. They build a network of com-

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Vitamin D (calciferol)Main sources:Cod liver oil, goat's milk, egg, butter, sea fish,herring, mushrooms, avocado. Vitamin D canbe produced by the body with the help ofsunlight!

Properties: Regulates calcium and phosphate levels, pro-motes bone formation and calcium absorp-tion, strengthens the immune system,supports development of bones, teeth andmuscles, supports cell division and all meta-bolic processes, promotes absorption of cal-cium and phosphorus

Deficiency: Bone distortion and weakness, osteomalacia,increased susceptibility to infection, muscleweakness, insomnia, nervousness and irritability

mitted citizens who help to implementprimary health care programs towardsimproving health in the community. Pri-mary health care is defined as essentialhealth care made accessible to commu-nity members through the participationof the community at large.

2. healthy nation: The second mile-stone on the path towards a new globalhealth care system is a healthy nation.The sum of all local and regional activi-ties will ultimately contribute to a newapproach to health care at the nationallevel and will help to create a healthynation. Redirecting the national healthcare system towards the prevention ofdiseases is a major milestone in the his-tory of each nation.

Preventive health care will be promotedat every level of political decision tak-ing. Health insurance systems will pro-mote nutritional and cellular health, as


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right to health – Key Facts• The WHO Constitution enshrines the highest

attainable standard of health as a fundamen-tal right of every human being.

• The right to health includes access to timely,acceptable, and affordable health care of ap-propriate quality.

• Yet, about 150 million people globally sufferfinancial catastrophe annually, and 100 mil-lion are pushed below the poverty line as aresult of health care expenditure.

• The right to health means that States mustgenerate conditions in which everyone canbe as healthy as possible. It does not meanthe right to be healthy.

• Vulnerable and marginalized groups in soci-eties tend to bear an undue proportion ofhealth problems.

World Health Organization (WHO)http://www.who.int/mediacentre/factsheets/fs323/en/

the fact that the who has failed to live upto its own constitution calls for the peopleof the world to take action.



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well as other preventive health care ap-proaches. This will decrease health carecosts for individuals, the public sectorand corporations, thereby stimulatingemployment and economic growth.

Taxpayer money will be channeled topublic and private research that focuseson the prevention and elimination ofdiseases. New universities and researchinstitutes will be created in order to ac-celerate the transformation of nationalhealth care systems towards an effec-tive, affordable and sustainable preven-tive approach.

3. healthy planet: Our ultimate aim isto create a healthy planet for ourselvesand future generations. The transfor-mation of health care systems towardsprevention in more and more nationsof the world will inevitably changeglobal health care in the same direc-

tion. The concept of Cellular Medicine isthe only scientific rationale that allowsthe buildup of a health care system thatis sustainable on a global scale.

“As people build their ability totake care of their families, andbuild their confidence in their personal capacity to do so, theystrengthen their ability to buildtheir communities … and their nations and to truly take control of their own future.”

Jim GrantUNICEF executive director, 1980-1995

what happened to Jim Grant’s visionsand ideas that he postulated decadesago as his legacy to the uniCeF?


Key elements of a Preventive health Care System Cellular Medicine health Centers

Cellular Medicine Health Centres are communityinformation centers where people can learn abouttheir body and how to stay healthy. Well-trained volunteers give information and individual advice. If necessary they cooperate with health professionals (doctors, naturopaths,nutrition biologists, etc.).

Main goal:

• To educate and make people responsible for their own health.

Activities:

• Providing citizens with a wide range of informationregarding healthy lifestyles and Cellular Medicinethrough educational brochures and books.

• Organizing information sessions and courses.

• Giving individual health consultations and provid-ing advice about the importance of micronutrients.

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The fact that the key compoundsdelivering health to the humanbody are found in plants, thatcan essentially grow every-

where, allows a health care systembased on this knowledge to providehealth to people anywhere in theworld.

But nutritional and Cellular Medicinedo not only sustain global health care –it goes beyond that: they are self-reinforcing. The continuously expand-ing knowledge about the health bene-fits of plants and the micronutrientsthey contain will gradually reduce dis-

eases while, at the same time, loweringthe costs of health care. The growingacceptance of nutritional and CellularMedicine as the basis of a new healthcare system will enable us to provide effective health care around the worldat less and less cost. The synergistic sumof the health benefits of optimum plantselection, new agricultural procedures,and of new results in cellular health research via the internet and social networks will propel the liberation of mankind from diseases at a continu-ously accelerating rate. This principle of continuously ‘achieving more healthat lower cost’ is a unique feature of thepreventive health care system we arebuilding together.

Moreover, the global dissemination of this nutrition-based health care willgreatly reduce the economic depend-ency of the developing world upon the

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industrialized nations. The need for developing countries to import expen-sive pharmaceutical drugs – that todayare strangulating the already weakeconomies of these countries – will besignificantly reduced.


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Community gardensThe mission of community garden programs is tostrengthen the community and foster self-suffi-ciency by providing access for all to food productionand preservation resources and promoting sustain-able gardening practices. The wide variety of differ-ent vegetables, fruit and flowers can also reflect the diverse cultural backgrounds of members.

An example for successful community garden pro-grams is the RCMA (Riverside Community MarketAssociation) Community Allotment project, whichprovides a place where people can learn how togrow food in a sociable and supportive atmosphere.RCMA’s latest enterprise activity is the Market Gar-den project – a small-scale intensive horticulturaloperation that will supply both institutional cus-tomers and farmers’ markets in South East Wales.

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The greatest goal uniting allmankind at the beginning ofthe third millennium is the needfor a world health alphabetiza-

tion. Within the coming years, the in-formation regarding which plants arerich in essential micronutrients andwhich should be grown to fight hungerand disease – at the same time – willreach every community and every vil-lage in the world. In those developingnations where the majority of peopleare still unable to read and write, ourglobal health education campaign willbecome a health alphabetization cam-

paign. It will bring health, but it willalso serve the goal of bringing generaleducation to the people and increasingthe literacy rate in those countries.

Hunger, disease and illiteracy have beenkey tools that cemented the economicdependency of the developing worldupon the industrialized world andwidened the gap between rich andpoor nations. Our World Health Alpha-betization campaign will be the single

the need for a

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most important measure in the historyof mankind towards overcoming eco-nomic inequality and will finally help toestablish social justice on our planet.


the need for a world health alphabetization

“Growing our own food hasbecome more than just anenvironmental movement: It is a political, a spiritual anda social one altogether.”

Madrone Timothy FentonWhite Crow Farm

Sustainable agricultureThe main goal of sustainable farming systems isthat food and plants are grown in a way that ishealthy for consumers, communities, and the en-vironment as a whole. If you choose this path,you can cut costs, protect the environment, buildhealthy soil and add value to what you sell.

An example for successful sustainable farming isthe White Crow Farm. Over the years, WhiteCrow Farm has evolved to become a communityof people living and co-farming a diverse opera-tion on its 160 acres, bringing their different skillsand knowledge to the fields. They have a 2 acremarket garden that holds numerous types of fruitand vegetables for their market and customers.The farm also has free-range chickens and ducksfor eggs and pasture reared poultry.

http://www.thefieldgathering.org/the-farm/

there are Permaculture-inspired farmingprojects which support the evidence that theone-way road to the unhealthy products of themultinational food firms can be overcome!



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The breathtaking historical paral-lel to our mission is the transfor-mation from the Dark Ages toModern Times – half a millen-

nium ago. At that time the great major-ity of people were living a life deprivedof the ability to read and write andwere thus condemned to living in ut-most dependency.

The translation of books from Latin intospoken languages and their mass pro-duction via the newly invented printingpress led to an unprecedented explo-sion of knowledge. Many new schools

and universities were founded, pro-pelling knowledge in all areas of life –eventually terminating the medievalDark Ages and ushering in the ModernTimes. The intellectual and economicpotential released through these meas-ures provided unprecedented wealth tothe people, communities and states atthat time.

Today, most areas of our planet havebeen liberated from the inability toread and write – but essentially the en-tire world is still enslaved by illiteracy inrelation to our health and our body.The logic of nutritional and CellularMedicine – which can be understood byanyone, anywhere in the world – liber-ates the people of our planet fromhealth illiteracy.

Moreover, the parallel to the inventionof the printing press five centuries ago

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Parallel to

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is the advent of the Internet and thedevelopment of social networks in ourtime. The economic wealth that will becreated by a significant reduction ofdiseases – and by creating an effective,sustainable and prevention-orientedhealth care system on a global scale –will be unprecedented.

Huge amounts of money will now be-come available to address the burningissues of mankind, including mass un-employment, environmental protectionand support for economic and social ad-vances in the developing world.

But this quantum leap forward formankind will not come by itself – we need to organize it!


the Breathtaking historical Parallelto our Mission

“All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.”

Arthur SchopenhauerGerman philosopher (1788 – 1860)

From this conference in Barletta,Italy, we call to the people ofthe world, to the health profes-sionals and scientists, the corpo-

rate executives in our community, themedia in our countries, the churchesand congregations in our home towns,the political stakeholders at the local,regional and national levels – but aboveall, we call upon the youth of theworld:

“Come and join us in saving millionsof lives! Join us in building your futureworld – a world where the diseases oftoday are essentially unknown!”

We commit that we will make every effort to spread the life-saving benefitsof nutritional health and Cellular Medicine and to building a new, pre-vention-oriented system of health carefor our planet. We will not rest untilthis new health care system has reachedthe last corners of the world. From theAmazon Forest to the mountains of theHimalayas, from the favelas of LatinAmerica to the townships of Africa, our message to the world is clear:

“health is available to all! Come andjoin us now!”

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See these links for more information:

• Vitamin & Mineral Deficiency – A GlobalProgress Report:http://www.unicef.org/media/files/vmd.pdf

• White Crow Farm Project – a video web series and photo blog that tells the storiesof young, rural and urban farmers who are working from the ground up:http://www.whitecrowfarmproject.com

• Movement of Life: Health, Peace and Social Justice for All – A global campaign:http://www.movement-of-life.org/

• A Permaculture Design Course Handbook:https://treeyopermacultureedu.wordpress.com/

• Setting Up and Running a School Garden: A manual for teachers, parents and com-munitieshttp://www.fao.org/docrep/009/a0218e/a0218e00.HTM

• World Health Alphabetization – World Health Educator course:http://www.wha-www.org/en/educate/index.html

• BodyXQ – the world's first interactive education program that enables you to travel inside the organs of the body and explore their functions:http://eu.bodyxq.org/START

learn more!


“The presentation that really made my day was the one of Dr. Rath. By listening to his words, I felt as if I was living in amore ethical and healthier world. To me, his vision represents the collective vision: the creation of the Cellular Medicine centres; the concept of prevention that should betaught from infancy; the creation of educational courses thatare independent from the pharmaceutical companies. It hasbeen the first time in my life that I listened to such a uniqueman, focused on ideas like peace and social justice. Thanks Dr. Rath, I will join you.” Gerardo Zagaria

“The conference in Barletta completely changed my mind about things. Dr Rath’s scientific discoveries are as unique ashis speech. To me, the opening of the Cellular Medicine centresrepresents the solution towards spreading the word about thistype of medicine. The idea to create vegetable gardens atschool is really great and unique. I believe that this project willbecome real: We are with you, Dr. Rath!”

Vincenzo Quaratiello

“This conference has been really educational and instructive for all of us, but Dr. Rath’s talk left me completely speechless.The idea to change our healthcare system represents the col-lective target, since the current one is only based on illness.The proposal to create Cellular Medicine centres really struckme: in my opinion, one center per city or town would be thebeginning of our health achievement. I’m begging you to follow this way in order that our sons could enjoy good health in future without any illness. Thanks everybody, thanks Dr. Rath!”

Sebastiano Posilipo

Making Natural Preventive Healtha Human Right

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“While listening to Dr. Rath’s speech, I immediately thought about my sons and grand children. Yes, theyhave the right to a better future, focused on the truth and not on deceit. Thus, Dr. Rath’s call involves allof us: we are responsible for the future of our children and everyone should take this responsibility. Let’sjoin together to create a new healthcare system and a fair and equal world.” Posilipio Damiana

“Everything that was said during Matthias Rath’s long and emotional speech represents an all-aroundworking project involving each aspect of civil coexistence and every single person for his entire lifetime.This is the message for a better world that Dr. Rath left to the city of Barletta. The total praise of the audience was underlined by an enthusiastic standing ovation.” Marilena D'Alessandro

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