Posted on 12/27/2004 8:47:03 AM PST by Arizona Carolyn
Now when I feel a cold coming on I reach for lozenges that are made of elderberry, zinc, echinechia, goldenseal and C -- it can keep you from getting one, but it you don't start in time and do get a cold will cut it to a couple of days vs a week or more...
In otherwords, in a Capitalistic Society where days of work lost to illness costs this country a lot of money -- that money could be saved if people understood and took supplements when required. Many are specific to certain situations and there isn't enough time or space here to spell them all out -- just suffice it to say the daily required minimums are enough to sustain life -- not good health.
and don't forget MOST doctors know how to prescribe drugs and know little or nothing about vitamins, herbs and homeopathy and what helps what in the face of illness. Doctors receive a rediculously small amount of training in nutrition when they are in school.... vitamins "can" cure, prescriptions begat prescriptions -- if you were a doctor which would you recommend? the drug that will bring the patient back time and time again or the vitamin that will make them well and no longer in need of a doctor?
oh, goodie -- for people who can hardly swallow pills if you can only purchase vitamin c at 50 mg and need 1000mg an hour that is comforting (not).
Now that's funny! And yet, I would not put it past her!
I wonder what they'll think learning that Hellary co-sponsored a Bill to take the vitamins away from them ??
Exactly -- everyone you know needs to write to their representatives telling them this amounts to prohibition. To take something that can aid our health away while leaving the FDA to okay drugs that can kill or people allowed to use alcohol and cigarettes which definitely do harm to the body is not something we elected them for.
this isnt all that surprising.....look how long ago france banned deodorant.
Also check out the ISO 9000 style mandates on "social issues" coming out of Europe with UN assistance.......even more acary.
I think that the Codex predated the WTO.
Gonna look around and see.
Doesn't improve my opinion of it one bit, though.
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Freedom is messy and the number of people harmed is statiscally nil.
Now, I don't support banning any sort of drug or supplement, but in this country where people obviously can't be trusted to make their own decision concerning alcohol, drugs, and now apparently supplements, these sort of controls are best.
What's the difference between "controls" which you support and "banning" which you don't support.
oh, and before i get flamed... look at statistics on drug usage, teen pregnancy, alcoholism, and even average age of 1st intercourse in, say, the Netherlands. Does anyone really think that liberal drug, alchol, & social policy in the US help?
Nothing liberal about trusting the free market and allowing people to live with the consequences of their choices, unless by liberal you mean classic liberalism.
Bottom line is the supplement industry was freed in 1994 back when we elected people who cared about freedom. And I for one do not need big brother to tell me what to injest and not injest. I chose to injest several supplements including a multi-vitamin with very large doses, which I credit with keeping me free from my yearly colds and such for over 4 years.
I've been a follower of Doctor Mercola for a long time. He is a very sensible physician.
Thanks for correcting that... 1963 -- hmmm a lot of stuff went on in '63 didn't it?
I know a lot of Canadians are getting very concerned that they will be implemented this summer... At this rate we're going to be the last people standing who have any rights remaining and we have to fight like heck to keep them!!!!
More like 7th century scimitars.
Good point.
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