The FDA wanting to forbid all alternative methods (supplements, vitamins, etc!) - ACT NOW!!

This is really bad news!! The FDA basically wants to put all the same restrictions on alternative methods, as there are on drugs. This would be really bad, since the alternative methods (vitamins, supplements, etc) would have to go through all the same testing and approval as drugs . . . and many may be denied or never given brought back to the consumers. This would be particularly bad for my brother with DS and those with DS who take TNI.

This is a link the the FDA document itself: http://www.fda.gov/OHRMS/DOCKETS/98fr/06d-0480-gld0001.pdf

Here's a link where you can send a letter to the FDA to oppose it here - http://tinyurl.com/2u7ghc - There is more information about this below.

Here's a link to sign a petition against it - http://www.thepetitionsite.com/takeaction/373269232?ltl=1176160859#body

ACT NOW: FDA Forbidding All Alternative Health Care

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:
1. 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'.
2. 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'.
3. 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.

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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 (or copy the information in this email) including this link ,http://tinyurl.com/2u7ghc , and mail it to every one you can. In your email please:

a. Include everyone you know and tell them that their freedom to choose their own health modalities and options is under serious attack.
b. 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.
c. 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.
d. Include a link to the Natural Solutions Foundation website (www.HealthFreedomUSA.org ). 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, MDMedical DirectorNatural Solutions Foundation