FW:O/T - Wake up call from Dr Jonathan Wright in the US

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To all interested, I enclose the following newsletter from ANH (Alliance for

Natural Health)

 

Dear Liz,

 

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

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

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

<http://www.wrightnewsletter.com/nah/article.html> 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 ( <http://www.ahha.org/> www.ahha.org), the

Alliance for Natural Health ( <http://www.alliance-natural-health.org/>

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

Freedom ( <http://www.iahf.com/> www.iahf.com).

 

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

taking action now, and recruit everyo ne 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>

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

 

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

<http://www.alliance-natural-health.org/index.cfm?action=news & ID=90> 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

<http://www.alliance-natural-health.org/index.cfm?action=register.default>

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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