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Letter to Readers on Dietary Supplement Safety Act |
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by Lyle Hurd, Editor
Dear Reader:
If you are
committed to
nutritional supplementation
as an imperative to establishing
and maintaining optimum
health, I entreat you to join the NNFA,
totalhealth magazine, your health food store
and a legion of other concerned consumers
in registering your opposition to the proposed
Dietary Supplement Safety Act of 2003
(S. 722)
It is incredible to comprehend with health
care costs predicted to double in 10 years to
$3.4 trillion a year, primarily due to the
increasing incidence of chronic disease in the
U.S., that there is an overwhelming reluctance
on the part of the media, numerous government
agencies, pharmaceutical drug companies
and conventional health care professionals
to embrace the enormous potential of natural
health and proactive/integrative medicine on
both the quality of health care and related
expenditures by our society.
According to totalhealth science advisor,
Parris Kidd, Ph.D.: “Unequivocally, every
person, whatever age, gender or state of health,
can benefit from taking a multivitaminmineral
product on a daily basis. An exponential
increase in positive research findings over
the past 20 years established that there is a
huge ‘window of opportunity’ between the
small amounts of vitamins we need in order
not to go blind, go crazy or die, and the larger
amounts that can give us better all-around
health and resistance to ALL disease. This is
important for the conscious reader to grasp, as
week by week science demonstrates that vitamins
and other nutrients are not just safer to
take but actually work better than do drug
treatments. For most of us, the vitamin supplementation
over and above what we get from
our diet is necessary, since the ‘Standard
American Diet’ (SAD) fails to provide amounts
sufficient for us to derive the maximum benefits
to our health that vitamins can provide.
“Further, the topic of therapeutic nutritional
supplementation is a huge one.
Hundreds of books have been written and tens
of thousands of scientific papers published on
the uses of vitamins and other nutrients to
treat clinical disease conditions and achieve
healing. Drugs don’t heal and government regulatory
agencies, goaded on by the pharmaceutical
drug interests, have done their best to
shut down this entire field of nutritional application.
They’ve failed spectacularly, though,
because the records show that vitamins and
minerals can be employed in combination
with other orthomolecules and with herbal
preparations to manage, heal or cure just about
any disease or dysfunction. Not only this, but
in so doing they outperform the drugs in all
areas. Here nutrients become nutraceuticals,
to be administered in doses sufficient to give
maximum benefit against a disease.”
We urge you to help preserve the present
Dietary Supplement Health and Education
Act by registering your concern regarding passage
of the Dietary Supplement Safety Act of
2003 (S. 722). Just visit the NNFA Web site
www.nnfa.org and click on the Advocacy
Action Center and register your concern.
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