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FDA Guidance about Natural Health Care

The FDA is issuing a "Guidance" that implies that natural health care products and alternative therapies can be "Medicine." This creates the risk that any non-physician who uses them could be held to be practicing medicine without a license. These practices could be considered "Medicine" and any products intended for such use could be considered untested drugs and therefore could be forbidden.

The FDA is accepting comments about this "Guidance" until May 29, 2007. You can make comments about "Docket: 2006D-0480 - Draft Guidance for Industry on Complementary and Alternative Medicine Products and Their Regulation by the Food and Drug Administration" by going to: http://www.accessdata.fda.gov/scripts/oc/dockets/comments/commentdocket.cfm

More information about this proposal is available at HealthFreedomUSA.org: http://tinyurl.com/2u7ghc

Vitamins regulated in Europe - In the European Union pharmaceutical companies have won in the battle to control the lucrative vitamin and herb market. A regulation imposed by the UN Codex Commission now requires doctors write perscriptions for vitamins, herbs and food supplements. Vitamins and herbs are being treated like potentially dangerous drugs. As a result dosages will be reduced down to ineffective levels. Any country failing to abide by the new regulations will be fined by the WTO. The UN Codex commission aims to impose similar regulation in Canada and the United States. Click here to read more.

Genetically Modified foods - A report by the British-based news source, The Independent, revealed secret research done by GM food giant Monsanto that compared the biological effects of eating GM corn versus naturally grown corn on rats. According to the 1,139-page report, rats fed GM corn had smaller kidneys and blood variations while no health problems were seen in rodents fed non-GM food. Blood variations could cause immune deficiencies. This raises concerns that human health could also be adversely affected by eating such foods. 75 percent of all processed products in the United States contain some GM ingredients. See more at www.mercola.com.

Polluted waters - The Center for Disease Control (CDC) reports that more than nine hundred thousand people become sick in the United States annually due to bacterial contamination of drinking water. Dr. Patrick Flanagan recently advised in his book, Elixir of the Ageless, that: "Drinking tap water is a slow form of suicide, today's tap water is yesterday's toilet water, too thin to plow and too thick to drink. Chemicals (chlorine and fluorides) used to treat water are positive charged cationic electrolytes that are potentially destructive to the colloidal balance when ingested into the human system. As one result, people die...inch by inch, not really knowing what is wrong!"

Hot dogs and nitrates - Three studies link eating hot dogs to childhood cancer. One study found that children that eat as many as 12 hot dogs per month have nine times greater chance of getting childhood leukemia. Another study found that children born to mothers who ate hot dogs one or more times a week had a greater chance of having brain tumors. The third study confirmed that mothers who ate hot dogs during pregnancy had children with a greater risk of brain tumors. Other studies suggest that vitamin C helps to negate the dangerous effect of the hot dogs. Hot dogs contain nitrates which are used as preservatives and to create the red color in the meat. These nitrates form compounds that are known carcinogens. The best alternative is to avoid hot dogs that contain nitrates. Nitrate-free hot dogs are usually a brown color, rather than red, and are safer to eat. Read more.

Last updated April 28, 2007
by John Fisher