RE: TEXAS HEALTH FREEDOMS - PLEASE ACT NOW !!!!!!!!!

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Please read the following message. We need to act to stop this -

typically doctors have no training, or at most one class, in

nutrition, and Registered dieticians offer only a medical model view

of nutrition - the " five basic food groups " because that is what the

AMA and doctors authorize them to do.

 

For us to continue to provide nutritional supplements OR nutritional

counsel and advice at any level would become illegal. If you would

like to see us continue to work with you or your children concerning

ANY level of nutritional advice, we ask that you contact your Texas

legislators. Go to TexasOnline.com and you will be able to find your

legislators' names,addresses, fax and e-mail information. Phone and

fax contacts are typically more effective than e-mails, but if we do

any and all of the above, this may be defeated before it ever gets

off the ground - but they have big money backing. It will take a

sweep of calls, faxes, letters and e-mails to defeat them. Please

consider helping if you are a Texas citizen, or

forwarding it to anyone who uses any CCN, homeopath, chiropractor,

or anyoneelse who provides any form of nutritional supplement or

counselor. These folks have been defeated in the past in Texas, but

it will take an avalanche of support from our clients and other

practitioners' clients to be surehealth freedom remains.

 

Thank you,

Cindy Griffin

President, Homeopathy Center of Houston

 

URGENT Texas Health Freedom Alert - Say " No " to the

Dietitians!

 

PLEASE FORWARD THIS E-MAIL TO ALL TEXANS ON YOUR E-MAIL LIST. TIME

IS VERY

SHORT!

 

Colleagues and Friends of Texas Health Freedom,

Every Texas legislative session since 1999, the Texas dietitians have

introduced a bill to license the practice of nutritional counseling

to only

them and medical doctors. We now know that this will occur in 2007

as well.

Once again, the Texas dietitians are trying to monopolize and censor

the

information consumers receive about nutrition and dietary

supplements.

 

We have received reliable information, via a forwarded e-mail, that

the

dietitians will be introducing a licensing bill as early as this

week. On

Feb. 20th, they will hold a " legislative day, " and busloads of

dietitians

will descend on Austin and lobby the legislature to pass their bill.

 

If passed, the bill will legally prohibit nutritionists, naturopaths,

homeopaths, sports trainers, natural products retailers/distributors

and any

other unlicensed Texas practitioners from providing nutritional

information

to consumers. Experience in other states shows that, if their bill is

passed, the dietitians will ruthlessly enforce it. In Florida, a

naturopath/health food store owner was handcuffed and jailed

for " practicing

nutritional counseling without a license. " In Ohio, a Ph.D.

nutritionist

and a health food store owner were each subjected to intrusive,

lengthy,

hostile investigations and forced to spend tens of thousands of

dollars in

legal fees. At the very least, we can expect the Texas dietitians'

bill to

contain stiff fines (up to $1,000 per day) for " practicing

nutritional

counseling without a license. "

 

Each time the dietitians have previously attempted to pass their bill

in Texas, their efforts have been foiled by grass roots groups, the

many

health organizations that protect consumer freedom of choice, and

professional groups. During the 2005 legislative session, our

Coalition

mustered a powerful response of over 350,000 inputs to the

legislature to

thwart the dietitians. That time has come again.

 

Fortunately, you have at your disposal a powerful, easy-to-use means

to

make your voice heard and help us say 'NO' to the dietitians. We are

mounting a massive fax campaign to let the legislature know how the

citizens

of Texas feel about this bill. Why a fax? Experience has shown that

faxes

sent to a legislator's office make the most impact. However, if you

don't

have a fax capability, you will be able to easily send an e-mail and

still

let your voice be heard. Here's how to do it:

 

1. Log onto our web site, www.texashealthfreedom.com.

2. In the upper left corner of the Home page, click on the

link " Who's

My Rep? " You will be taken to a screen to enter your address

information.

The screen will then show you the contact information (not including

fax

numbers and e-mails) for ALL your state senators and representatives.

Please copy ALL their names (except members of the US Congress). You

will

need to contact all of them.

3. Return to www.texashealthfreedom.com. In the Recent Items List on

the left side of the Home page, you will find the Senate and House

Contact

Lists (two separate files) with the complete contact information for

all the

Texas legislators, including fax number and e-mail address. Please

copy the

fax number for each of your legislators. If none is listed for a

legislator, copy their e-mail address.

4. Now click on the section " Urgent: Health Freedom Alert. " Below the

article you will find two fax forms (click on the green arrows),

titled " No

Nutritional Monopoly, " to fill out and send to your legislators in

the House

and Senate, respectively. Please download them, and print out and

complete

as many copies of each as you need. If you are using e-mail, please

copy

and paste the fax text into the body of the e-mail, enter the

legislator's

e-mail address, contact information and your personal information,

and send

it that way. Please use the e-mail title " Say NO to the Dietitians. "

5. Send a fax or e-mail to EACH state senator and representative on

your list.

6. If you are a health professional or natural products

retailer/distributor, please make multiple copies of each fax form,

and ask

every one of your patients/clients/customers to fill out one each of

the

forms (Senate and House). Fax them at the end of each business day

to YOUR

senators and representatives.

 

That's all there is to it! PLEASE fax or email your representatives

and

senators ASAP. The more of these faxes and e-mails the legislature

receives

before Feb. 20th, the dietitians' legislative day, the better chance

we have

of " cutting them off at the pass " and preventing the bill from

coming to a

hearing. If you receive this message after Feb. 20th, send your

faxes or

e-mails anyway. Let your voice be heard!

 

PLEASE FORWARD THIS E-MAIL TO ALL TEXANS ON YOUR E-MAIL LIST. TIME

IS VERY

SHORT! (If you are the leader of an organization supporting our

effort,

please feel free to substitute your own salutation and signature at

the

beginning and end of this message when you forward it.)

 

Protect YOUR health freedom. Say NO to the Dietitians!!!

 

Thank you for your help and support,

 

Peter McCarthy, ND

Chair, TX Health Freedom Steering Committee

Member Organization, TX Health Freedom Coalition