Act Now to Protect Your Supplements and Avoid Health-Care Disaster!

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Act Now to Protect Your Supplements and Avoid Health-Care Disaster!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

PRESS RELEASE

 

 

 

 

IF SENATOR MCCAIN WERE RUNNING HOMELAND SECURITY . . .

 

 

 

February 19, 2010

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Because a few highly-paid professional athletes took dietary

supplements that were illegally spiked with steroids, Senator John McCain (R-AZ)

and his partner-in-crime Senator Byron Dorgan (D-ND) have introduced Senate Bill

3002 this month to require: (1) comprehensive registration of all manufacturers,

distributors, and holders of supplements; (2) prohibition of sale of any dietary

supplement not on an FDA-approved positive list; and (3) burdensome reporting of

each and every adverse event, whether serious or trivial, affecting dietary

supplements. The National Health Federation issued a press release and call for

action even before the Bill was introduced (see

http://www.thenhf.com/press_releases/pr_04_feb_2010.html). As we said then,

overreaction and overkill don’t even begin to describe McCain’s

“solution†to a minor problem.

 

Now, suppose, as scientist and author Durk Pearson has suggested,

that after the failed attempt of Richard Reid (the terrorist shoe bomber) to

blow up a transatlantic airplane, the government had reacted in the same way as

McCain is proposing to do now.

 

That is, did Reid’s attempt mean that the U.S. needed to register

shoe stores and shoe salesmen? Did it mean that the U.S. needed to create more

regulations on shoe manufacturers? Did it mean that all new shoe designs had to

be approved before sale by a shoe-design czar?

 

No, of course not! It simply meant that more testing needed to be

done at airports to make sure that people were not walking on board airplanes

with bombs on their feet disguised as shoes rather than legitimate shoes. Had

the government followed the McCain “solution,†the law would have done

nothing to prevent the next bombing attempt. Shoe bombers would have simply

violated the law and added already illegal explosives to their shoes.

 

If McCain’s intentions were truly honest, and if his bill were not

simply a pure power grab, then the government would test for anabolic properties

all products advertised to increase muscle mass or size. This kind of testing

would not interfere with legitimate dietary supplements.

 

How do you test for new synthetic anabolic steroids? Put out a bid

for a test that costs under $10 per test and that quantitatively measures

activation of the human testosterone and dihydrotestosterone receptors on

genetically-engineered bacteria. If the material has testosterone receptor

activation properties stronger than 0.1% of testosterone, it is banned as an

ingredient in dietary supplements. If it doesn't activate the human

testosterone or dihydrotestosterone receptors, then it is not an anabolic

substance. End of problem.

 

Above all, do not use a shotgun when a rifle is the proper tool. To

save a handful of well-paid athletes, McCain’s scattergun approach would

seriously harm the health of millions of supplement users and erase from the

health world most of those as-yet undiscovered supplements.

 

SIGN OUR PETITION TO THE U.S. SENATE!

 

Many thanks to all of you who have already signed our Petition

against S.3002. For those of you who have not yet done so, please go at once to

http://www.thenhf.com/press_releases/dietary2010_petition.htm and sign the

Petition. Lee Bechtel, our NHF Lobbyist in Washington, D.C., will be

hand-delivering the Petition soon to the U.S. Senate. This is important, as we

must overwhelm the Senate with our numbers!

 

 

 

 

AND MAKE THESE ARGUMENTS TO YOUR SENATORS!

 

When visiting or calling your Senators, or e-mailing or writing them,

use our prepared list of bullet point arguments in discussing S.3002. Go to

www.thenhf.com/press_releases/McCain%20Bill_Flyer.pdf and print out this handy

one-page sheet for your use. Feel free to distribute it far and wide to all of

your interested contacts as well for their use.

 

 

 

 

(Click Here For The Online Petition)

 

(Click Here For A Suggested Letter)

 

(Click Here For The Opposition Handout)

 

 

 

Senator McCain

Office phone number: (202) 224-2235

E-mail Senator McCain:

http://mccain.senate.gov/public/index.cfm?FuseAction=Contact.ContactForm

 

Senator Dorgan

Office phone: (202) 224-2551

E-mail address: http://dorgan.senate.gov/contact/contact_form.cfm

 

 

 

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ACT II

 

DISTRACT THE MASSES WITH MCCAIN WHILE PASSING “DISEASE CARE†REFORM

Despite what you may hear from the establishment media and its

talking heads, Barack Obama, Harry Reid, and Nancy Pelosi have not ended their

quest for a complete government takeover of health care. In fact, while the

health-freedom community is distracted with the McCain power grab, they all hope

to push this massive pork-fest through – soon!

 

And unlike with previous Congressional attempts, the current

political and legislative atmosphere plays right into the hands of the

Waxman/Pelosi and Durbin/Reid anti-supplement axis of evil. The Democratic

Party’s tight control of both House and Senate legislative procedures greatly

increases the prospects for Congressional passage unless health-freedom

advocates proactively and immediately make their opposition known.

 

As a matter of fact, the group “Organizing for America†is

claiming on its website that its volunteers have pledged over six million hours

to work for candidates who support this intrusive bureaucratic nightmare. But

as Dr. Jane Orient has already pointed out, this Disease-Care bill is not about

your health at all. If it were, then why would not the benefits kick in

immediately so as to benefit the people? No, the taxes and excruciatingly-heavy

payments will go on for three years before any health-care benefits start to

flow! No, the Federal government needs your money to save its financial

rear-end. That is what this is truly about – finance the Federal

government’s bailouts and bloated civil service and in three years’ time you

will start benefitting from genuine Third-World health care. What a deal!

 

Right now, re-contact your Senators and Representatives and let them

know that you are watching them and that you still oppose this nightmare

legislation! Go to www.thenhf.com/government_affairs_federal.html (Patient

Protection and Affordable Care Act) for contact information, sample letters, and

our on-line Petition.

 

Your urgent and persistent action is needed now to stop this

Disease-Care bill from being passed. Act now!

 

 

 

 

 

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Click on this address to find your U.S. Senators: http://www.senate.gov

 

Contact Information to E-mail Senators:

http://www.senate.gov/general/contact_information/senators_cfm.cfm

 

The Senate main number is (202) 224-3121

 

lick on the following link below for individual mailing addresses for

letter writing and other contact info for Congress Members:

 

Senate

 

 

House of Representatives

 

Fax List for House of Representatives

 

 

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As the oldest and best-respected health-freedom group on Capitol Hill, the NHF

continues to be the credible source of objective assessment of, and proactive

actions on, Congressional legislation and FDA matters that have material impact

upon our freedom-of-health choices and access to dietary supplements and

nutritional foods.

 

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Click here for the permanent link to this press release, use this link to

inform others.

 

 

 

National Health Federation: Established in 1955, the National Health

Federation is a consumer-education, health-freedom organization working to

protect individuals' rights to choose to consume healthy food, take supplements

and use alternative therapies without unnecessary government restrictions. The

NHF is the only such organization with recognized observer-delegate status at

Codex meetings. www.thenhf.com

 

 

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