This is bullsh1t that people have to be protected from themselves and the vitamins they buy.
It is true that some vitamins, taken in extremely high doses, may cause diarrhea. You can take too much minerals and potentially cause problems. However, it is f@cking ridiculous to equate vitamins with prescription drugs that have tremendously long side effect lists, that don’t work for up to over half the people that take them, and kill hundreds of thousands of people a year because they only treat symptoms rather than effect a cure.
This is all about getting Codex passed. They want to control what vitamins you can take because people can make themselves healthier without having to be forced to use Big Brother health care and take expensive, more dangerous prescription drugs.
The bottom line is that you are in control of your own health. If you eat a lot of veggies and fruits and avoid bad foods and drinks, you’re probably pretty good. But most people eat a less than nutritious diet that supplements are useful for. This kind of move limits your ability to determine what your health needs are, based on your own research. After all, you may want to try something that your doctor may not sign off on. You ought to be able to have the ability to do so. If you want to buy a bottle of 1000mg vitamin C pills, you shouldn’t need a doctor to sign off on it.
This is utter and complete bullsh1t. Forcing people who take care of themselves to use the healthcare system and be denied supplements they want to use. Yes, they could deny you from getting certain dosages of something, or totally deny you the ability to get something. This is big brother healthcare.
They are trying to paint vitamins, which can actually reverse conditions, as deadly, as the excuse for the government to control them. Scurvy is cured by vitamin C. The disease pellagra is cured by Niacin. Night blindness is caused either by a vitamin a or zinc deficiency.
None of the major drug companies do anything with vitamins because they are not patentable like a new prescription drug is. Further vitamins and herbs are not covered under almost anyone’s insurance plans because they are not “drugs”, so there is no financial incentive for doctors to prescribe them.
Bumping your post.
I believe there was already a move to ban or limit vitamins & nutritional supplements that was defeated recently.