Canadian Health Authorities are ready to regulate supplements

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[sSRI-Research] Canadian Health Authorities are ready to

regulate supplements

 

 

 

Health Supreme - http://www.newmediaexplorer.org/sepp/

 

Canadian Health Authorities are ready to regulate supplements in a

similar way as pharmaceutical drugs, but resistance is rallying

around a law proposal - Bill C 420 - which would clearly define and

distinguish supplements from dangerous drugs, suggesting that

supplements are more close to foods than medicines and should

therefore be regulated in a similar way as food products. Medicines

regulation could crush the supplements industry and make many safe

food-based health products unavailable to those using them. Dr.

Andrew Saul of www.doctoryourself.com made a presentation to the

Canadian House of Commons Standing Committee on Health, which is

considering Bill C 420.

 

The presentation was excerpted in Dr. Saul's Doctor Yourself

Newsletter and the full text is available on doctoryourself.com. The

presentation makes interesting reading. It should be in every member

of Parliament's files to reference when asked to approve one of the

numerous pieces of legislation introduced to " ensure the safety of

supplements by new legislation " .

 

Clearly there is a distinct lack of information in the public media

about the overwhelmingly positive effects of the substances contained

in many supplements. Perhaps no wonder, because the Journal of

Orthomolecular Medicine, one of the key scientific publications in

this area of research, is not available on Medline, although that

service prides itself of being the most complete reference library of

medical research available. One can only wonder why.

 

Andrew Saul announces a recently established news service of the

orthomolecular medicine journal and asks readers to contribute e-mail

contacts mainstream media outlets to which this vital but suppressed

information can be addressed. Mainstream medicine is going a

different way.

 

It promotes nutrigenomics - a combination of nutritional intervention

and genetics - as the future wave of health care. Medicine, in other

words, is quite aware of the potential of nutrients for health

promotion and prevention, but prefers to bind it into the

mainstream " life sciences " approach to health, controlled by

pharmaceutical and food conglomerates which are calling nutrients

nutraceuticals. There is great international pressure to regulate

vitamins and other supplements, both in the European Union, in

Australia/New Zealand, in Canada, in the USA and by the UN's Codex

Alimentarius.

 

One might wonder - if even mainstream medicine is aware of the

excellent safety record and the overwhelming efficacy of nutritional

intervention and promotes this under their own brand, nutrigenomics -

why are there so many proposals to " protect consumers " from non-

pharmaceutically controlled supplements. Perhaps we are witnessing a

classical case of " getting rid of the competition " before announcing

with great fanfare that the solution to the world's health problems

comes from ... genetic research and nutrition?

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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