Fwd: MSM ban in Canada

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FWD: MSM ban in Canada

 

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Charles W. Moore supplied the following letter:

 

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Monday June 30, 2003 12:47:09 PM EST

 

Letter Body:

 

A Gratuitous Health Canada MSM Ban Will Cause

Needless Suffering

by Charles W. Moore

 

How would you feel if you were seriously ill and

the government suddenly

decreed that you couldn't buy medication you need to

control the ravages

your disease?

 

That's what Health Canada is fixing to do to many

Canadians.

 

According to Canadian Health Food Association,

Health Canada is proposing

to issue a stop sale of products containing the food

supplement Methyl

Sulphonyl Methane, or MSM.

 

Initially three manufacturers were requested to

recall their MSM products

from the marketplace based upon dosages exceeding

3000mg/day and/or

durations of use greater than 30 days. Suppliers

complied with this request,

which was draconian enough.

 

However, the CHFA now reports that Health Canada's

The Food Directorate

has ruled that MSM is not acceptable as a food, but

rather is a drug with or

without health claims, and based upon inadequate and

out of date information

has arbitrarily classified MSM as a 'Class II Health

Hazard.'

 

That is bizarre. Current safety data was not

requested from stakeholders.

Up until now the Food Directorate has accepted MSM

as a food in the absence

of claims. Adverse events have not been identified

with consumption of MSM.

Taking action on an inherently safe product, in the

absence of adverse

events and/or a confirmed health hazard, is health

fascism. Despite its

formidable chemical name, MSM is a naturally

occurring sulphur compound in

many foods, including eggs, fish, poultry, garlic,

onions, legumes, red

peppers, broccoli, brussels sprouts, kale, soybeans,

turnips, horsetail

herb, and asparagus.

 

However, most people are sulfur deficient unless

they eat their fish and

meat raw and their vegetables uncooked. MSM present

in foods is destroyed

with minimal processing, dehydration, and heat.

 

MSM is anything but a 'health hazard. The

commercial product is derived

from seawater. MSM makes body tissue cell walls more

pliable and permeable,

allowing the normal flow of fluids to move through

tissue more freely.

Without adequate levels of MSM, this cellular

building process breaks down

and increases the risk of forming weak cells that

are rigid and possibly

deformed.

 

MSM supports the synthesis and activation of B

vitamins (thiamin, biotin

and pantothenic acid) and lipoic acid which are all

essential nutrients for

building and maintaining a healthy nervous system.

Healthy insulin

production and proper carbohydrate metabolism is

also dependent upon

adequate amounts of sulfur.

 

Studies conducted by the Oregon Health Sciences

University and Ohio State

University College of Medicine have demonstrated the

therapeutic efficacy

and safety of MSM. Research has linked MSM to the

possible prevention and

treatment of a broad range of health conditions

including allergic responses

to food and pollen; gastric hyperacidity; acne;

arthritis; muscle pain and

cramps; weak hair and nails; skin aging and damage;

parasite infestations,

toxicity; diabetes; constipation; interstitial

cystitis; scleroderma; lung

dysfunction. Other preliminary research indicates a

positive influence in

the prevention of breast and colon cancer.

 

Full disclosure here: I have been taking MSM for

years, and it is one of

the few nostrums I've found that helps my severe

allergies and fibromyalgia.

I take more -- sometimes a lot more -- than 3,000 Mg

per day. Based on

several years of this I have noticed no negative

side-effects of MSM

supplementation. Karl Loren, who distributes MSM in

bulk in the U.S., has

been personally supplementing in doses up to 19,000

Mg per day for many

years and swears by it.

 

Oscar-winning actor James Coburn, who died last

year at 74, credited MSM

with the quality of life he was able to lead after

being stricken with

arthritis in his 50s. By 1990, he could barely walk.

'Moving was always

painful. Standing was really troublesome,' Coburn

told USA Today. After

years of doctor-shopping and conventional treatments

that didn't work,

Coburn discovered MSM. 'It really, really does the

job,' he commented. 'It's

non-toxic, totally, and it stops the pain.'

 

The memorium on his Website says that at the time

of his death from heart

failure, 'Mr Coburn was at the height of happiness,

having overcome the pain

of crippling arthritis and earning his Academy

Award.'

 

Like James Coburn, many people with arthritis and

other painful

inflammatory afflictions find that taking MSM is the

difference between

being crippled and leading an active life. And

Health Canada wants to pull

the plug on them!

 

Are these bureaucrats crazy, sadistic, or just in

the pockets of the

multinational pharmaceutical interests and the

allopathinc medical

establishment? I strongly suspect the latter two.

 

The real 'problem' with MSM is that it's cheap, it

works, and it can't be

patented and sold at astronomically inflated prices

as a proprietary

product. Then there's the preponderant opinion in

conventional medical

circles that naturopathic treatments are at best

nonsense and possibly

quackery that needs to be stamped out with extreme

prejudice.

 

In other words, Health Canada is following its

customary policy of giving

these vested interests a veto. This is wrong. I am

among a growing number of

Canadians who do not accept that the allopathic

'Medical Model' should be

the last word and final authority on health care

matters, and an even larger

constituency who emphatically reject that the

multinational chemical and

pharmaceutical cartels and their tame minions in the

UN's Codex Alimentarius

Commission should dictate what sort of nutritional

supplements we are

permitted to buy and at what dosages.

 

We are taxpayers and voters too, and will not

stand for our health

interests to be trampled underfoot by

philosophically blinkered medical

societies and greedy corporate lobbies.

 

(30)

 

 

 

 

Charles W. Moore

RR#2 249 West Side Indn. Hbr.Lake Sherbrooke NS

B0J 3C0

cwmoore

 

Pictou--Antigonish--Guysborough Riding

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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