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Wake up call from Dr Jonathan Wright in the US

 

 

 

 

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Alliance for Natural Health

 

Tuesday, September 28, 2004 8:44 AM

Wake up call from Dr Jonathan Wright in the US

 

 

 

Dear K

 

Apart from the rash of European directives and regulations that are set to

impact massively on the future practice of natural healthcare, there are moves

afoot in the US and other countries that are likely to have similar impacts in

the future.

 

DSHEA

 

The liberal DSHEA (Dietary Supplements Health and Education Act) regime in

the US, now in its 10th year was won as a result of the actions of millions of

consumers in 1994. Part of the stimulus for these demonstrations was the clamp

down by the US FDA (Food and Drug Administration) on practitioners who were

using natural products rather than drugs as their mainline intervention in

delivering healthcare. As far as the FDA was concerned, these natural products

were drugs, because they were being used to treat diseases.

 

Foods or Medicines?

 

In Europe, just like in the USA, and virtually in all other countries, it

remains an offence to claim that a food can correct, modify or restore

physiological functions in the body. This is deeply irrational given that all

foods and even water very clearly do alter the body's physiology. This

legislative problem is right at the heart of ANH's concerns and continues to be

one of the most important aspects of our overall campaign.

 

Dr Wright's Newsletter

 

We are sending you this mailshot to let you know that one of the US's most

well known practitioners, himself raided by the FDA prior to the passage of

DSHEA, has decided to publicise the problems and highlight the need for consumer

action both in the US and in Europe. He highlights the importance of US citizens

getting in behind our European campaign which has global implications. Dr Wright

is ringing the alarm bell and it is time for all those US citizens with

interests in natural healthcare to heed his warning.

 

For those outside the US, the problem is just as serious, given the

importance of the US as the world's most important centre for Research &

Development for this budding and vital natural products industry.

 

We draw your attention to the September issue of Dr Jonathan Wright's

newsletter, which says it all. Dr Wright is a graduate of Harvard University and

the University of Michigan Medical School (1969), and has been practicing

natural and nutritional medicine at the Tahoma Clinic in Kent, Washington, since

1973.

 

Dr Wright's conclusion in his newsletter reads as follows:

 

" Please make a donation-of any size-to the Alliance for Natural Health as

soon as you can. Then, please write, call, fax, and e-mail your U.S. Senators

and Representative as often as you can, telling them to oppose S. 722 and H.R.

3377, and to support American freedom by voting for H.R. 1146.

 

For further information on the European Union Directive on Dietary

Supplements and on the Codex Alimentarius legislation, contact the American

Holistic Health Association (www.ahha.org), the Alliance for Natural Health

(www.alliance-natural-health.org), or the International Advocates for Health

Freedom (www.iahf.com).

 

Don't wake up next August to find your supplements gone for good. Join me

in taking action now, and recruit everyone you can to join the battle. While our

troops are fighting for your freedom and mine overseas, you and I can literally

fight for American freedom right here at home. "

 

For the full article (including a printer friendly version), please refer

to Dr Wright's Nutrition & Healing Newsletter (September 2004), downloadable

from the following site:

 

http://www.wrightnewsletter.com/nah/nahindexie.shtml

 

We are fundraising now not only for the final leg of our legal challenge,

but we are also about to commission a top flight PR firm to help us roll out a

high profile public awareness campaign on these issues. For this we again need

your support.

 

Please help us to wake people up around the world to what is really going

on. Please encourage as many people to join the ANH as possible so that we can

ask for your support and keep you informed. We quite possibly won't get the

chance again.

 

 

In health,

 

 

Dr Robert Verkerk

Alliance for Natural Health

 

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