Nutritionists Vs Eliminate Concept Of Supplements: 'They're All Medicines'

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This is ridiculous. There should be litigation against

this ruling. This means all european nutritionists and

dieticians should commit suicide? And I as patient

have no right to protect my health? Only " Doctors " can

prescribe supplements?

Ratan.

--- Frank <califpacific wrote:

 

>

http://www.newmediaexplorer.org/sepp/2004/09/07/denmark_to_eliminate_concept_of_\

supplements_theyre_all_medicines.htm

>

> September 07, 2004

>

> Denmark To Eliminate Concept Of Supplements:

> 'They're All Medicines'

> Health

>

> Legislation

>

>

> August 2004 - Danish Health Authorities have

> issued a proposed national " Guidance on Supplements "

> for public discussion which, according to MayDay, an

> association campaigning for freedom of choice in

> health matters, " is worse than any legislation we

> have

> ever seen before, as it will erase the concept of

> supplements, this actually means that Denmark is

> about

> to be the most totalitarian state experiment in

> Europe

> concerning health. "

>

> The Danes refer to the new definition of a

> " medicinal product " recently passed in the EU

> legislature, which declares any substance presented

> for preventing disease as well as substances which

> may

> be administered to human beings with a view to

> restoring, correcting or modifying physiological

> functions to be a medicinal product.

> A substance could be anything from human blood

> to

> animals and their products, vegetables,

> micro-organisms, plants, parts of plants and even

> chemicals, whether natural or synthetic.

> Source: The Community code relating to medicinal

> products for human use

>

> Pretty comprehensive, you say? Well, it seems

> like

> we Europeans have just declared our food supply,

> practically anything we'd ever want to swallow to

> stay

> healthy, to be medicinal and therefore subject to

> pharmaceutical control.

>

> It's as simple as that. Anything we eat - if we

> eat well as the health authorities admonish us to -

> will serve to prevent one illness or the other,

> won't

> it? Why else would we be admonished to eat five

> servings of fruit and vegetables per day? But beyond

> that, any food and drink we consume will restore

> some

> type of physiological function in our bodies.

> Practically, everything we ever want to swallow to

> stay healthy, is potentially a pharmaceutical

> medicine

> if we are to give credence to that legal definition.

>

> But that's crazy, you might say, no one ever

> will

> seriously seriously assert that an apple is a

> medicine

> just because one a day keeps the doctor away.

> Agreed,

> but there are many products such as supplements and

> herbs that pharmaceutical manufacturers eye with

> great

> envy. They help people stay healthy without side

> effects. They actually prevent, like simple vitamin

> C

> in gram dosages, major killer diseases. More than we

> can say for the majority of drugs, which, on the

> contrary, have become a factor in increasing death

> rates as shown by statistical evidence.

>

> Nutrients and plants, extracts and concentrates

> from natural food sources, unlike the apple, will

> certainly be called a medicine and put under pharma

> monopolistic control, if shown to be " effective " ,

> that

> is, if they take business away from the sickness

> industry that the pharmaceutical manufacturers have

> built.

>

> The phenomenon is by no means isolated to tiny

> Denmark. Other European countries such as Germany

> and

> Finland are reasoning along similar lines - protect

> pharmaceutical production - it is an important

> " industry " . But what about our health? That industry

> thrives only when we are sick. Should we go so far

> as

> to lose our health in order to support an industry?

>

> You might say no, but what can you do about it?

>

> Alert your friends to this and other sites that

> write about health freedom. Make your view known to

> your favorite newspaper, magazine or your

> legislative

> representative. If you like to be healthy and are

> using nutrition and other natural means to stay so,

> it's time to defend your rights. One of these rights

> is certainly the ability to use food and nutrition

> to

> stay healthy, without pharmaceutical interference.

>

> If you are an " operator " , someone in industry or

> in natural health consulting, please support the

> Alliance for Natural Health, the only group that is

> taking effective steps to prevent a pharmaceutical

> takeover of the natural health field.

>

> If you are a legislator or a " regulator " , think

> about the concept of non-exclusivity of the

> definition

> of a medicine. Let me explain: We define medicine in

> a

> very wide way, so as to catch all products that

> should

> have registration. There is however considerable

> overlap into other - equally important - areas of

> products, such as foods and supplements, many of

> which

> do have the same properties as medicines. They

> prevent

> disease and they restore or correct physiological

> functions. (Hippocrates already said " let food be

> thy

> medicine... " ).

>

> When there is a conflict between the legal

> concept

> of food and that of a medicine requiring

> registration,

> the latter is destined to win out if we consider

> current EU legislation. This is not correct. Food

> should definitely have MORE importance than

> medicine,

> unless we want to drown in a sea of sickness.

> Addressing only sickness and " treating " only the

> symptoms, pharmaceutical medicine is taking us in

> that

> direction...

>

> See here below MayDay's alert from Denmark, and

> some relevant links:

>

> HEALTH FREEDOM UNDER SERIOUS THREAT IN THE

> TOTALITARIAN STATE OF DENMARK

>

> Another paternalistic assault on free choice and

> liberty using " consumer safety " as an excuse.

>

> The Danish Veterinary and food Administration

> has

> sent out a Guidance on dietary supplements (and

> herbs)

> as a public hearing notice, in short stating that

> any

> substance with a physiological effect is to be

> regarded as a medicine in the future.

>

> This means that the concept of " dietary

> supplements " will soon no longer exist and that a

> lot

> of widely used and harmless dietary supplements and

> herbs will be disappearing from Danish health shops

> shelves by November 2004. Gone is the freedom of

> choice for the many seeking to maintain and restore

> good health and life quality and prevent sickness.

>

> Such nannyism is totally unacceptable!

>

> MayDay has long been concerned that such

> legislative restrictions can be expected throughout

> EUrope in the time to come.

>

> MayDay invites all health freedom loving people

> to

> support our work to inform about unjust measures

> from

> government authorities and ensure free personal

> choice

> in health matters.

>

> Please go to MayDay's website:

> www.mayday-info.dk

> where it is possible to sign up to be a member

> and/or

> support the Alliance for Natural Health's legal

> challenge of the EU Food Supplements Directive.

>

> Danes are requested to protest against these

> serious restrictions writing to their favorite

> newspaper and/or politician and/or the Danish

> Ministry

>

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[Guest guest]

For now it's a public comment period, like an advanced rulemaking

notice of the FDA.

 

Let's hope the Danes do something about it, at least the ones that

like their supplements...

 

Sepp

 

 

At 10:31 -0700 7-09-2004, psych doc wrote:

 

>This is ridiculous. There should be litigation against

>this ruling. This means all european nutritionists and

>dieticians should commit suicide? And I as patient

>have no right to protect my health? Only " Doctors " can

>prescribe supplements?

>Ratan.

 

 

>--- Frank <califpacific wrote:

>http://www.newmediaexplorer.org/sepp/2004/09/07/denmark_to_eliminate_concept_of\

_supplements_theyre_all_medicines.htm

>>

>> September 07, 2004

>>

>> Denmark To Eliminate Concept Of Supplements:

>> 'They're All Medicines'

>> Health

>>

>> Legislation

>>

>>

>> August 2004 - Danish Health Authorities have

>> issued a proposed national " Guidance on Supplements "

>> for public discussion which, according to MayDay, an

>> association campaigning for freedom of choice in

>> health matters, " is worse than any legislation we

>> have

>> ever seen before, as it will erase the concept of

>> supplements, this actually means that Denmark is

>> about

>> to be the most totalitarian state experiment in

>> Europe

> > concerning health. "

 

 

 

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