Posted on 08/05/2005 2:11:57 PM PDT by dvan
Never has the onslaught against alternative therapies been so virulent. If we do not act now, together and consistently, we will lose access to the therapies we depend on to maintain and improve our health.
The goal of the Freedom of Health Foundation is to fight repression of medical freedom with legal, legislative, and educational tactics. When special interests, both here and abroad, try to limit access to nutritional supplements, we will be on the frontline. When practitioners of alternative medicine are persecuted, we will defend them. When the FDA denies access to an innovative therapy to a patient seeking treatment, we will intervene.
We have won and, with your help, will continue to win significant battles. I appreciate your support of the Freedom of Health Foundation.
We Are Protecting Your Access to Nutritional Supplements The Codex Alimentarius Commission is a group designated by the United Nations World Health Organization (WHO) and the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) to set international food standards.
In July 2005, this commission voted to adopt specific guidelines on vitamin and mineral supplements in international trade. Although these guidelines do not restrict sales of nutritional supplements, they are a step in the wrong direction for health freedom because they call for future regulation of dosages and forms of nutritional supplements.
There is a lot of misinformation about Codex. Contrary to what you might have heard, your nutritional supplements are not about to disappear. Codex in and of itself will not change the laws in this country.
However, we must remain vigilant because it could very easily affect us down the line. The Freedom of Health Foundation has and will continue to sponsor educational and legal efforts to increase awareness and take action on this very important issue.
Of equal importance are efforts underway in the US to pass legislation that would definitely restrict your access to supplements. We are working to assure that Senate bill S.1137, which would reclassify DHEA as an anabolic steroid and remove it from the market, is not passed.
Our members have bombarded Washington with emails, faxes, and phone calls urging them to vote against this and other ill-conceived bills. We are committed to striking down any and all legislation that threatens your health freedom and to supporting legislation that engenders it
The vitamins and herbs crowd is has long since ceased to be just a bunch of old hippies. I dearly wish there could be a set of enforceable quality standards in the supplement world but handing it over to the "medical-industrial complex" is definitely not the answer.
I detest New Agers and I think a great deal of "alternative" therapy is quack central but the libertarian in me will not allow Big Brother any more authority over how I take care of myself.
I'm certain the the quality of posts will improve once our Junior High Schools go back into session after the summer vacation.
Extreme ayurvedic medicine recommends drinking a glass of your morning wee to start the day off. I tried it and all I got was a irritating skin rash around my right eyelid. It stopped when I stopped.
The big issue here is not "alternative" vs conventional medicine, but the ability of patients to arrive at their own conclusions about how to treat theor own bodies. We have signed over control of medicine to a self-appointed crew of bureaucrats and corporate executives - precisely the last people who we should trust to make decisions in other than their own favor.
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