We forget that we can vote for our governments. We have no such control over monopolistic industries except to sit down and scream! Once more the monopolies are at the gate.
Article taken from My Healing Kitchen - http://myhealingkitchen.com URL to article: http://myhealingkitchen.com/featured-articles/supplements-under-attack/ COMMENT: The problem is that every human being is biochemically individual. That is why double blind tests on food supplements have been so hard use to test for efficacy. As I get older, it gets easier for me to sense the value of these things in my quality of life but it was always important to me as a performing artist because of the quality required in live performance. A couple of really lousy reviews made when a singer has a cold and didn't alert the public to that fact before they sang or canceled can stop a career for years due to bad "buzz." (Of course if a singer gets a reputation for canceling they won't be hired or come to their concerts!) On the internet bad reviews last forever next to the hundreds of good reviews. Now I teach my students to guard their health, work out their own biochemical individuality and to be honest with the public lest they ruin their brand in a brand driven marketplace. The pharmaceutical industry spends millions in lobbying to present their anti-supplement agenda in Congress every few months. The only thing that keeps it at bay are citizens united to protect their own right to be responsible for the prevention of disease rather than waiting for it to happen and then medicate for it. The same private industries tamper with regular food with toxic pesticides and then support the medical establishment with monopolistic practices such as this ban on health supplement. One hand feeds the other in their immorality for the sake of profit at any cost to the consumer. That makes it possible for us to have the most expensive health care on the planet. Sports medicine exposed the myth of mass produced medicine when the medical practices failed to protect million dollar investments in team sports by the private sector. As a result, practices developed by artists and dancers were transformed into up to date forms of "physical therapy" by doctors who, until they lost the lucrative sports business, had made fun of the dancers as superstitious. Is it any wonder that they don't want serious performing arts as a viable profession? Dancers and singers are health nuts because a simple cold can ruin a live performance. We are very careful about our food and supplements. The pharmaceutical's supplements provided to the medical profession, and found on the shelf next to your druggist, are generally mass produced synthetic junk that isn't absorbed and is often just chemistry. Natural is better and the lack of pesticides is crucial for people who use the instrument of the human body for elite work. Is it any wonder that science is taking such a hit in this "economie of scale" climate where agenda driven company scientists just muddy the water. An old European fishing technique set to words by Schubart and music by Schubert. Die Forelle Just as we can't buy pharmaceuticals from Canada under medicare, because of the Republican drug bill, this bill will make it impossible to deal with the scientific problem of biochemical individuality for the future of elite psycho-physical work in America. It is just as controlling as the most tyrannical socialism but without the right to vote. Nouveau Feudalism with corporations being the Dukes and Duchesses. REH New Law Will Ban Supplements What I'm about to tell you sounds like a scene out of George Orwell's novel, 1984. New Law Will Ban Supplements <http://myhealingkitchen.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/iStock_000012642476X Small-300x199.jpg> You hear a knock on the door, and open it. Before you can protest, government officials burst into your house, rifle through your cabinets, grab your vitamins and supplements, throw them into biohazard bags, and rush out again. "What just happened?" Believe it or not, this is about to happen - and it will be completely legal. The FDA, which regulates foods and drugs in the US, has turned its focus on nutritional supplements - and it's planning to ban them. They've been threatening to do this for decades - now it's about to happen. And they're dead serious. Here's what this terrible new law will do: 1. Under these new guidelines, Vitamin A, B complex, C, and D, as well as CoQ 10, would be outlawed. 2. The FDA will require that supplement manufacturers fund prohibitively expensive studies using doses multiplied by a "safety factor" of as high as 2,000 times the recommended dose. For instance, the FDA is proposing that two species of animals, rodents and young dogs, will be forced to ingest 2.4 million milligrams of fish oil per day, for 90 days. Humans take 2,400 milligrams daily - and we weigh 10 times as much as small dogs. In addition to these inhumane practices, this requirement will destroy most supplement companies (except those secretly owned by pharmaceutical manufacturers). 3. Supplements can only include ingredients found in the "typical food supply." And what exactly does that mean to the FDA? Does echinacea qualify as being in the typical food supply? (I doubt it, since deep fried echinacea blossoms are not on your local Applebee's menu.) 4. The FDA will only approve supplement ingredients that are at the same levels that it uses for synthetic food additives and preservatives, which is in violation of the 1994 law, the Dietary Supplement Health and Education Act (DSHEA), which categorizes supplements as foods, not additives. 5. The FDA is treating supplement ingredients under the same exacting scrutiny as it does with known cancer-causing chemicals like aspartame, MSG, and sodium nitrate - demanding that the supplements be reduced to "inert" levels of concentration that will render them ineffective to consumers. 6. Each ingredient, as well as the supplement itself, will be required to undergo a New Dietary Ingredient Notification (NDIN) process - even if the same ingredient is used by other companies. This process takes 75 days at a bare minimum. And as of yet, 83% of NDINs have been rejected by the FDA. And by the way, "new" refers to products that have been in use for up to 17 years. Are you flabbergasted yet? After this law passes - and it will if we don't act soon top stop it - your only options will be pharmaceutical drugs (and we know how well they work, don't we?). In case you don't: Every year, <http://www.alternet.org/health/147318/100%2c000_americans_die_each_year_fro m_prescription_drugs%2c_while_pharma_companies_get_rich/> 100,000 people per year die from prescription drugs - and this number only includes people who die from known side effects, not from prescription errors made by doctors and pharmacists. Guess how many people died in 2006, 2007 and 2008, combined, from supplements? <http://www.alternet.org/health/147318/100%2c000_americans_die_each_year_fro m_prescription_drugs%2c_while_pharma_companies_get_rich/> Six. And yet who is the FDA going after? Not the pharmaceutical industry. They're going after our supplements. Here's how to stop them: Time for action is short. The FDA has extended the period for you to protest this Draconian law until September 30. So it's time to raise your voice while there's still a chance. Once the law passes, it will be too late. Then, you'll wish you had, I promise. The Alliance for Natural Health (ANH) has set up an easy, quick way to protest the FDA's action. <https://secure3.convio.net/aahf/site/Advocacy?cmd=display&page=UserAction&i d=833> Click here to tell Congress and the FDA to keep their hands OFF our supplements. It will only take a few short minutes. We know who's behind this ban, don't we? Big Pharma "owns" the FDA - and this new law will wipe up their remaining competition. Don't let them get away with this! Everyone deserves to know what we're about to be robbed of.
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