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We've got the equivalent of a 747 crashing and burning every calendar day for a year from iatrogenic side effects from properly prescribed pharmaceutical drugs. This is documented in the Journal of the American Medical Association, which has identified properly prescribed prescription drugs as the third leading cause of death. When Dr. Barbara Starfield wrote the article in JAMA July 26, 2000 she stated that the Iatrogenic causes of death in U.S. hospitals averaged 225,000 per year. This means mistakes by nurses, Doctors and hospital systems. Of that figure, 106,000 deaths per year were from non-error use of prescribed medications. This was a decade long study. The label "third largest cause of death" was for the entire system. The non-error use of prescription drugs was roughly half that amount. It still means that over 1 million people were poisoned to death in the decade of the 90s by the Pharma cartel. At the same time, there was not one death from Niacin, Chromium Picolinate, L-Arginine, L-Carnitine, Vitamin C or any other nutrient sold and taken by human beings. Not one nutrient had a prescribed limit. There were no warnings of severe side effects on any that I have purchased. The health benefits were noticeable instantly in the increased vibrancy of the human condition and vitality. So whom are they kidding? You have less of a chance dying from a dietary supplement than you do from a bee sting or being hit by lightning. The hypocrisy is mind blowing. The double standard is mind blowing. And the biggest problem we have is the Pharma tentacles that reach into our vitamin trade associations and the fact that the members of these trade associations allow that to happen.

Here is something to investigate further. We do not endorse this information or site, but provide the link for you to make your own decision. We feel this to be a relevant topic in that everyone should have the right to purchase dietary supplements and the FDA has enough to do without regulating this aspect of our lives also.

Over the past two weeks, renewed and vigorous efforts from Congress and the media are underway to undermine DSHEA - the law passed by over 2.5 million consumers to guarantee our right to purchase dietary supplements. This law works and has helped the health of millions of Americans - but now, the New York Times, Senator Kennedy, Congressman Waxman and many others are saying it is "clearly the time for Congress to revisit DSHEA and give the FDA the authority it needs to protect American consumers from dangerous supplements."

For more information contact: Ana Micka, Citizens for Health info@healthactioncenter.org Tell them where you saw this notice: http://www.lef.org/featured-articles/emergency_update_020705.htm

European Union WATCH on dietary supplements can become an issue for us in the U.S. Links at the end present a place for you to research the entire issue.

At issue is the draconian EU Food Supplement Directive's so called "positive list" of ingredients allowed to be used in the manufacture of dietary supplements. The ban posed by the "positive" list will eliminate 75% of the forms of vitamins and minerals currently used in the EU market, unless the court issues a favorable verdict in June.

Americans must be concerned about ANH's case due to the fact that the EU Food Supplement Directive is being overlaid as a template atop the development of a global trade standard for dietary supplements being "developed" by the UN's Codex Alimentarius Commission (with a little "help" from the US FDA.)

Dietician Christine Lewis-Taylor is "on loan" from the FDA to the World Health Organization where she is spearheading their "nutrient risk assessment project" which by May will have "filled in the blanks" on allowable vitamins and potency limits at Codex.

FDA is setting the USA up for "harm-onization" of its dietary supplement laws to a mindlessly restrictive international standard- aided and abetted directly by pharma dominated vitamin trade associations world wide which have been effectively pulling the wool over the eyes of American industry, health food stores and consumers.

Senator Hatch and Harken's offices, the US Trade Representatives Office, and especially the US Codex Office (led by Dr.Ed Scarbrough at the USDA) have been actively lying to the public on the Codex issue for years- while the Life Extension Foundation was the first to call it to global attention in 1996. International Advocates for Health Freedom was created specifically to catalyze awareness of the issue and in November we held an Emergency Meeting at ACAM- a DVD of which can be watched at http://www.glycommunity.com/iahf Jonathan Wright, MD MC'ed this emergency meeting which was well attended by alternative practitioners and innovative supplement manufacturers who are finally seeing through the spin.

WHAT YOU CAN DO TO DEFEND YOUR ACCESS TO DIETARY SUPPLEMENTS (note: if the links do not pull up automatically, cut and paste to your browser.)

http://www.iahf.com - InterAmerican Heart Foundation
http://www.lef.org - Life Extension Foundation
http://www.thelawloft.com/Freedom/THREE_INTERLOCKING_EVENTS.mht - Do Three Interlocking Events in November Signal the End of Health Freedom?
http://www.alliance-natural-health.org/index.cfm?action=news&ID=138 - See ANH's press release about what happened in court
http://www.alliance-natural-health.org/_docs/ANHWebsiteDoc_129.doc - Read ANH's Wake Up Call to AMERICA