Health Freedom Alert
Date: Fri, 6 Apr 2007 01:45:45-0400 April 6, 2007
Your Action is Urgently Needed Before I tell you why your health freedom is at serious risk right now and what you need to do to protect it, I want to thank each and every one of you who responded so generously to the First Quarter Fund Raising campaign we just concluded. We asked you to cover our operating budget of $85,000 for the first quarter of 2007 and you did. The amazing thing is that we raised EXACTLY $85,000 on the nose. We got donations in odd amounts like $7 and of $11 and round numbers, too. At the end, the total was precisely an exact match with the amount we needed. In all my time working with humanitarian organizations I have never seen anything like this. So a heart-felt thanks to all of you. If you missed our fund raiser and you want to donate now, that's fine, too. Just click here healthfreedomusa.org to make a tax deductible donation to natural health and health freedom! And thank you!
Houston, We Have a Problem! The US FDA is at it again. They have been notorious for decades for their biased attacks and uneven handling of natural, non-drug/surgery/radiation based health options. This time, though, they are playing for keeps. The goal is simple: through a "Guidance" about the regulation of "CAM" (which they conveniently define as "Complementary and Alternative MEDICINE" the FDA hopes to serve the interests of Big Pharma by eliminating all CAM practices and products. ALL of them.
Here's how this deadly game is played:
 By using the term "Medicine" rather than "Modality" for CAM practices, the FDA sets the stage so that anyone who is not a licensed physician is breaking the law by using these modalities since they are therefore 'practicing medicine without a license'.
By using the term "treatment" rather than "therapy", the FDA limits those who can perform these practices to licensed physicians and, again, anyone who is not a licensed physician is breaking the law by using these modalities since only licensed practitioners can treat. So people using these modalities are therefore 'practicing medicine without a license'.
By using the terms "Medicine" and "treatment" instead of "Modalities" and "therapy", all substances, including vitamins, minerals, herbs, co-factors, etc., automatically become untested drugs since they are being used to prevent, treat, mitigate or cure disease states. Such use can only legally take place with FDA approved drugs.
Here's How We Protect CAM Practices, Practitioners and Products Numbers. Sheer volume of response. Nothing more and nothing less. NOW is the time to act. Our window of opportunity slams shut on April 30, 2007. http://tinyurl.com/2u7ghc That is the link which allows you to send a comment directly to the FDA about their deadly "Guidance". Will it matter? Yes, if millions of people respond. So I am asking you to take this "viral".
Here is what you need to do NOW if you value your freedom:
1. Click on the link below and add your name to the letter. When you click "Send" it will be electronically delivered to the FDA docket site and posted.
2. Write a brief note including this link, http://tinyurl.com/2u7ghc, and mail it to every one you can.
In your email please:
Include everyone you know and tell them that their freedom to choose their own health modalities and options is under serious attack.
Send the same email to the the companies which make the vitamins, minerals and herbs you use and ask them to send it out to their entire mailing list.
Impress upon the people you contact that we are facing a virulent and highly organized assault on ALL natural products and procedures because they do not feed the pharmaceutical coffers and that their help is crucial.
Include a link to the Natural Solutions Foundation website HealthFreedomUSA. Ask them to become familiar with the site in order to lend their support to the health freedom battle which threatens their right to make their own health choices.
NOW! If you have ever thought about taking action to protect your health freedom, NOW is the time to do it. If you have never thought about taking action, now is the time to think about it and do it. In my opinion, this is a full blown assault on your rights and mine to opt for strategies which use natural options and procedures. 5,000,000 That's our goal. Two weeks, five million comments to the FDA, all asserting our fundamental right to control our own health. Can we do it? It's up to you.
Here's the link: http://tinyurl.com/2u7ghc
The future of natural health and health freedom is literally in our hands! Yours in health and freedom, Rima E. Laibow, MD Medical Director Natural Solutions Foundation -- http://www.healthfreedomusa.org/index.php
BILL C-420 ALERT for CANADIANS
For more information & what you can do:
www.kospublishing.com
www.friendsoffreedom.org
(click on send an action email action letter to all Federal M.P.'s and Senators)
www.freedomofchoiceinhealthcare.ca
www.vitalitymagazine.com
In Canada we have an utterly unique opportunity to save freedom of choice by supporting Bill C-420 which needs to go into third reading. Canadians protested a few years ago with more than a million letters, just as Health Canada was poised to place all 60,000 natural products from the food and into the drug category. This immense protest resulted in a promise to establish a “third category”. Without debate or public knowledge , all natural products were simply moved into the drug category January 1, 2004 . MP Dr.J. Lunney launched bill C-420 which would change the definition of food and drugs such as to achieve what that publicly supported “third category” would have done. Now we have a minority government and a chance to win. The simple fact is that if our supplements are defined, in law, as foods, Codex has no jurisdiction. modified from Helke Ferre, The Basics on Codex. www.kospublishing.com
CODEX : THREATENING YOUR FREEDOM OF CHOICE
To find out what you can do:
www.kospublishing.com
www.freedomofchoiceinhealthcare.ca
This July the Codex Committee (UN) will meet in Rome and will finalize standards for nutritional supplements (including your favourite vitamins, minerals, enzymes, and other natural preparations) which will either make them nearly useless with synthetic replacements created by pharmaceutical companies, or entirely unavailable by allowing us access only by doctor prescription .... and at ten times the current price.
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