The Truth About Vitamins & Supplements

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The Truth About Vitamins & Supplements

by Ronnie Cummins, National Director,

Organic Consumers Association

_http://www.organicconsumers.org/nutricon.cfm_

(http://www.organicconsumers.org/nutricon.cfm)

The Organic Consumers Association is proud to announce a new nationwide

campaign called Nutri-Con: The Down Side of the Vitamin & Supplement Industry.

Nutri-Con will expose the hazards and limited effectiveness of synthetic

vitamins and supplements, and strive to create mass consumer awareness and

marketplace demand for truly organic, " naturally occurring " vitamins,

botanicals, and

supplements.

Part of this campaign will be the implementation of a new set of Naturally

Occurring Standards (NOS), certification procedures, and labels which are

truly " organic and beyond, " and to expose the fact that 90% or more of the

vitamins and supplements now on the market labeled as " natural " or " food based "

actually are spiked with synthetic chemicals.

A major underlying theme of this campaign will be to steadily inform and

remind consumers that Big Pharma's prescription and over the counter drugs are

generally hazardous substances offering no real solution to our health

problems; while preventive health and wellness promotion, traditional holistic

remedies, and complementary medicine practices represent the " organic road " to

health.

In terms of wellness promotion, there is no doubt that an organic whole

foods-based diet and a healthy lifestyle are the " best medicine " for those of

us

trying to survive and keep our families healthy in the toxic soup of 100,000

synthetic chemicals that surround us everyday, polluting our food, water,

medicines, homes, and environment.

As we complement our organic whole foods-based diet with herbs and

supplements, we need to make sure that these vitamins and botanicals are

derived from

naturally occurring plant and mineral sources, and that they contain no

synthetic chemicals whatsoever.

As part of this campaign, OCA will be posting an eye-opening new book, The

Vitamin Myth Exposed, by Brian Clement of the Hippocrates Health Institute, in

several installments. ( _Read the Prologue & Chapter 1 here_

(http://www.organicconsumers.org/articles/article_3697.cfm)

_http://www.organicconsumers.org/articles/article_3697.cfm_

(http://www.organicconsumers.org/articles/article_3697.cfm) ) This book is

nothing less than the opening salvo in a

campaign that OCA believes will revolutionize the $20 billion vitamin and

supplements industry. OCA sees this effort as part of our ongoing efforts to

establish

and safeguard strict organic standards in food and farming, clothing, body

care, and other important consumer sectors.

We invite you to please circulate The Vitamin Myth Exposed widely to friends

and family, and to talk to your local natural foods store or coop about

joining forces with the OCA in this important new campaign.

For Health and an Organic Future,

Ronnie Cummins