Chuka Odittah
22 May 2006
Abuja — Experts have identified good nutrition and intake of vitamins-rich fruit and vegetables as the cheapest and most reliable means of combating HIV/AIDS, particularly the boosting of body immunity to stave off the virus that cause the disease.
This was disclosed in Abuja by a group of experts from an international research institute known as Dr. Rath Health Foundation Africa.
The foundation which condemned lack of commitment on the part of notable drug manufacturing companies to come up with a lasting cure to HIV/AIDS, said sufferers of the disease should instead concentrate on ways to improve their body immunity through intake of vitamin c and other life saving micro nutrients which can be sourced cheaply.
In his remark, Dr. Raxi Jariwalla, a virologist and member of Dr. Rath Health foundation told THISDAY that the institute has since established that there is a relationship between immunity and nutrition. He disclosed that intake of Vitamin C in high grams have capacity to prevent multiplication of viruses and any other kind of germs that attack the body in cases of chronic infection.
According to the virologist, suppression of HIV virus can be achieved through long term use of Vitamin C in addition to other combined micro nutrients. He said HIV/AIDS and other diseases are mere functions of protein calorie malnutrition, adding that ARVs themselves offer no cure. He said that anti retroviral drugs merely lower population of virus in the system while vitamins increase human capacity to fight them.
Raxi said recent discovery by the Dr Rath Foundation has indicated that certain combination of micro nutrients and Vitamain C enhance immunity Senator Ahmadu Ali came in as the National Chairman of the ruling PDP in a very controversial circumstance Oke Epia writes that the leadership of Senator Ahmadu Ali thus far, has left a sour taste in the mouth, endangering the chances of the party in the coming general electionswhile some other specific types out rightly suppress viral load.He said the use of vitamin C and other micro nutrients are effective in combating tuberculosis and Avian flu.
According to the foundation, it is not a co-incidence that decades after HIV/AIDS was discovered, no valid cure had been found, rather attention is focused on the manufacture of costly palliatives to enhance monopoly of profit..
On the issue of tolerance of Vitamin C, he said the bowel tolerance level of each individual differs.He added that persons with high viral load are usually able to tolerate Vitamin over longer period than those not infected. He called on the African heads of state to give research a chance as well as embrace value of micro nutrients and vitamin c in prevention of HIV/AIDS.
In his remark, Ralf Langer, a trained pharmacologist, said the foundation has volumes of scientific evidence to show
that big multinational pharmaceutical giants are deliberating subverting attempts by independent scientists to find a cure to HIV. He decried the position of such multinationals describing them as perpetuating poverty among the third world nation and the rest of the world. Langer traced the reluctance of these foreign multinationals to selfish tendency to continue to milk
vulnerable countries, insisting that billions of dollar profit recorded annually ought to suffice for serious research into a major cure.According to him the Dr Rath Foundation has since discovered through research that HIV/AIDS can be mitigated and human immune system boost significantly through in take of Vitamin C and other combination of micro nutrients and supplements from natural food. He however expressed regret that the findings of the institute are being tagged illegal through several litigation processes moved by giant pharmaceutical companies.
The Foundation's African Affairs co-ordinator,Ono Abada said the time has come for Africans to free themselves from mental slavery of any kind. He said though the research results of the foundation are accessible to all who need them free of charge, the volume of persons able to benefit from such micro nutient may be limited by the dogma that no solution exists for HIV or TB.He said the foundation remains committed to helping to educate people on the importance of micro nutrients and vitamin c for boosting of body immunity against all kinds of infection.
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