Banned Supplements - What's Really Happening

'Most of us rely on natural supplements and foods to rejuvenate our minds and bodies and strengthen our immune system. To imagine a life without these supplements seems rather drastic, but unless someone takes off the blinders that the FDA is wearing so stubbornly, this could well become a reality.

As shocking as it sounds, the FDA is on a banning spree, and they’re taking their cues from the EU. Number of natural supplements and traditional herbs such as St. John’s Wort and Valerian were recently banned in UK. The EU has also banned traditional Chinese and Indian medicines which are known to have some very good restorative properties and can cause no harm if taken in the right proportions.'


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Pharmaceutical Drugs are 62,000 Times More Likely to Kill You than Supplements

By Dr. Mercola

'According to the Council for Responsible Nutrition, 69 percent of American adults take supplements. But are supplements dangerous? The UK-based, international campaign group, the Alliance for Natural Health International (ANH-Intl) recently revealed data¹showing that compared to supplements, an individual is:

• Around 900 times more likely to die from food poisoning
• Nearly 300,000 times more likely to die from a preventable medical injury during a UK hospital stay, which is comparable to the individual risk of dying that active military face in Iraq or Afghanistan

Additionally, the data shows that adverse reactions to pharmaceutical drugs are:

• 62,000 times more likely to kill you than food supplements
• 7,750 times more likely to kill you than herbal remedies'

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All Things Are Not Created Equal: Huge Gaps In Quality In The Natural Health Industry

'Dr. Eldon Dahl explains how product quality is being sacrificed for convenience and price point ultimately creating an entire industry filled with supplements of non-therapeutic value.

Think of the natural health industry as a beautifully healthy, organic orange tree. Now, if you can imagine, cut a wedge in that tree’s trunk, and graft in a foreign branch that is not from the origin--for instance, a nonorganic lemon tree branch. Once the original tree accepts the new branch, both the orange and the lemon will feed from the same roots.

Using this illustration, imagine the lemon branch as a grafted in government-regulated health product, having non-therapeutic value, and a price-directed licensed formulation. Both are feeding from the original roots--that is, the natural health food industry--but one is efficacious, while the other is not. The two are not equal. What is the difference? The lemon was never intended to be part of the original tree, yet through regulations it remains protected while it feeds from the original host.'


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Supplements: The Real Story - Natural or Synthetic? Foods or Tablets?

'It's a nutritional "Catch 22": The public is told, confusingly: "Vitamins are good, but vitamin supplements are not. Only vitamins from food will help you. So just eat a good diet. Do not take supplements! 

But by the way, there is no difference between natural and synthetic vitamins." Wait a minute. What's the real story here? A recent health study reported that the risk of heart failure decreased with increasing blood levels of vitamin C [1]. The benefit of vitamin C (ascorbate) was highly significant. Persons with the lowest plasma levels of ascorbate had the highest risk of heart failure, and persons with the highest levels of vitamin C had the lowest risk of heart failure. 

This finding confirms the knowledge derived over the last 50 years that vitamin C is a major essential factor in cardiovascular health [2,3]. The study raises several important questions about diet and vitamin supplements.' 

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Take action NOW to stop FDA from turning your vitamins and supplements into unapproved 'food additives'

'Proposed guidelines put forth by the agency for "New Dietary
Ingredients" (NDIs) propose treating vitamins, herbs, and dietary
supplements as synthetic food preservatives, which means pulling many
of them off the market, and subjecting the rest to extreme regulatory
protocols that will drive up costs and severely limit availability.

The
Dietary Supplement Health and Information Act of 1994 (DSHEA), as many
NaturalNews readers likely already know, was a major victory achieved
for health freedom. It is also the foundation upon which the dietary
supplement market as well as the health of millions of Americans has
thrived.'



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FDA Targets Harvard Doctor

by Dr. Al Sears

'The assault by the FDA on your supplements has turned into an all out war.

In a letter from both the FDA and FTC, Dr. Andrew Weil was threatened with criminal prosecution.

I’m not making this stuff up. Look at what the letter actually said:

“If your firm fails to take corrective action immediately, FDA may take enforcement action, such as seizure or injunction for violations of the Federal Food, Drug and Cosmetic Act without further notice.”

What did Dr. Weil do to risk “possible criminal prosecution for violations of the FFDC Act”?

He made true statements about his immune-boosting formula containing Astragalus.'

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