The reason why people had an ''outcry'' is because THEY WERE trying to take supplements away from people. They were, always have been, still are and will continue to try and take supplements away from the people because they are the biggest threat to the pharmaceutical industry. The more people find out about credible health information and the true positive studies that occur frequently that Big Pharma and FDA try to stifle with despicable tactics, the less business they will have. No matter how dangerous the drugs are, people will stay on them till they're shown a better alternative. The thing is, they more often than not already HAVE that alternative, so the job is to make that alternative sound like it's not a good one. People suffer and get better on supplements[like CS]>Big Pharma makes less money on their pills which treat symptoms, ignore causes and add new symptoms>less bloody money finds it's way to corrupt officials =more incentive by the officials and the drug companies to destroy supplements as an industry or assimilate them into the pharmaceutical system. Right now it's a small chunk of money that pharmaceuticals lose to supplements considering what they make, but it's more than they were losing ten years ago and not as much as they'll be losing ten years from now. You say you couldn't believe it and that's good because you shouldn't. It's a twisted perversion of the truth that shouldn't be believed. I hope everyone supports the latest ''outcry'' from Congressman/MD/Presidential hopeful Ron Paul who is actually fighting the nonsense which they are trying to impose on supplements. The kind of ''regulation'' they want is the kind that declares nature's vitamins, minerals, amino acids and essential fatty acids as well as other naturally occurring chemicals and the herbs they come in as patentable drugs which they can dispense to you at outrageous markups with neat little ''adjustments'' that will MAKE them patentable whereas they aren't now as they naturally occur and will probably also make them next to worthless in the process. Then they can either shut down health by perverting the natural raw materials of life-vitamins,etc.- and make them into manmade gook or we can just let them dispense the materials in ridiculously miniscule doses like they've done to potassium. They made lithium a drug by altering it so it doesn't quite do what it's supposed to although it's a naturally occurring mineral that humans often have deficient amounts in. It might help your symptoms, but it won't clear up the deficiency the way it's supposed to. Neat way to alter and patent. They take niacin and give you megadoses of it for ''high'' cholesterol and DRUGIZE it with Niaspan. One of the few vitamins that people tend not to tolerate well in extremely high doses and they of course choose that as one of the few vitamins that they'll give you in megadoses ''medicinally''. They've already started to ruin supplements and they've found ways to ''regulate'' them into oblivion already but the outcries are to keep them from driving more nails in the coffin. We should keep outcrying because we're actually starting to fight off the dirty <insert offensive name here FDA: Oh, don't mind us, we're not trying to take your supplements away, we're just trying to ''regulate'' them for your safety <Sly grin with fingers crossed Wake up folks. If the FDA's safety regulations meant something anymore then FDA approved drugs wouldn't be getting ripped off of the shelves on a regular basis because they were causing birth defects, heart attacks, blindness, strokes, aliens, runny noses, droopy eye-lids, foreign accents, cowardice under-fire, poor reading comprehension, glow-in-the-dark hair, varicose veins, mold, mildew, lice, overdue bills, sinusitis, turkeyneck, horseshoe, beernuts, cottonballs, pickled pig-knuckles, death, loss of limbs, stray cats, arthritis, inflammation of your tongue, swollen jaws, hepatitis, pancreatitis, hyperkalemia, insomnia, itchy feet, kidney failure, conjunction of the junction [which inhibits your function] and other such maladies. Did I miss anything? So, after the Avandia and the Vioxx and the Ortho Evra and God only knows what else to come [I'm thinking Guardasil is the next big ''sorry about your death in the family'' product] , they're suggesting that FDA approved and evaluated drugs are clearly just like natural chemicals like vitamin E and Catechins only SAFER! WOW! No more green tea pills for me, I'm gonna get me on some Brainbegonatol today! Don't worry, my insurance will cover it... JD- author of the 90+ Newsletter and Blog _http://journals.aol.com/ninetyplus4life/Capacity/_ (http://journals.aol.com/ninetyplus4life/Capacity/) In a message dated 9/24/2007 2:29:05 A.M. Mountain Daylight Time, [email protected] writes:
There was an article in this mornings paper advising people not to take supplements. It stated that it was more safe to take prescription drugs because they were at least regulated by the FDA and it also stated that supplements and drugs were both chemicals so at least it was preferable to take something that was regulated by the govt. It made the inference that the reason supplements could not be regulated was because so many people had made a big outcry regarding supplement regulation because they thought the govt was trying to take away supplements when all it was trying to do was regulate its safety. I couldn't believe it. ************************************** See what's new at http://www.aol.com
