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Citizens Speaking Out for Health is a group of people committed to bringing the truth to Congress. They are dedicated to increasing awareness of current legislative issues that impact our access to safe and beneficial dietary supplements. More information about this group and important pieces of legislation is available on www.linkedin.com . You can join the group if you are signed up for Linked In access. If you prefer, you can have them send you a direct signup link by emailing CSOFH.email@gmail.com. Please join us - and invite others - so that together we can keep our right to make healthy choices!

A message from El Richard, Founder and former President NOW Foods

CURRENT LEGISLATION

We are concerned by critics of dietary supplements who do not recognize the stellar safety record of these products. Their apparent goal is to copy the Canadian system of increased restrictions and limited access – a flawed model that currently forces many Canadian citizens to travel to the U.S. in order to purchase banned dietary supplements (l-carnitine, kava, and others) for their health maintenance. If Congress is successful in moving the U.S. to the Canadian model and requires government preapproval of all new products, the US dietary supplement industry will be severely impacted, dramatically reducing the flow of new products. Since new dietary ingredients already require FDA approval, these new restrictions would simply be unnecessary government regulation hiding behind the innocent-sounding goal of consumer safety. Limiting access to dietary supplements will reinforce the shift in our healthcare system from maintaining good health to treating disease. When health maintenance is replaced by "sick care," the pharmaceutical industry wins and we all lose control of our health options.


Truth Advocate Neil E. Levin, CCN, DANLA As one of the most effective industry champions, NOW's Truth Advocate, Neil Levin, CCN, DANLA is an industry veteran since 1973, who responds to negative media stories in detail, using his scientific and nutritional knowledge and credentials to put clinical studies in perspective and correct inaccurate media representations. Neil is also active in advocacy work, leading some of our national and state lobbying efforts. Publications and Audio Presentations by Neil Levin THE REAL DEAL - archived monthly audio series presented by Neil Levin. These presentations offer valuable health information to help you understand the real deal about dietary supplements and the supplement industry. HONEST NUTRITION is a non-commercial website featuring articles written by or quoting Neil on nutritional topics: natural health, health freedom, dietary supplements (vitamins, herbs), organic and biotech food, poorly conducted studies, misleading press, etc. ARTICLE ARCHIVES will provide you with a researched data on a variety of health related topics.
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NEIL RESPONDS
My second letter to Reader's Digest about vitamins Subject: Re: Vitamin Hoax 11/29/2007 "As a watchdog for clinical studies that are misrepresented or poorly done, it is obvious to me that your writers cherry-picked negative studies that were heavily criticized, some contradicted by more robust data or not able to be replicated, and some done with very sick people where the results were admittedly not applicable to healthy populations." Read Article Letter sent to Reader's Digest in response to The Vitamin Myth Myths about Vitamin Dangers 11/07/2007 "While “The Vitamin Myth” did responsibly quote experts refuting some negative reports emphasized in the article, the overall tone was sensationalist and negative, greatly exaggerating supposed risks. Vitamins may be among the safest substances known, typically causing no deaths in any given year. The article emphasized heavily-criticized single reports in preference to more rigorous published research contradicting the alleged dangers (for example, of vitamin E), a common media error." Read More of Neil's responses at http://honestnutrition.blogspot.com/

Action Alert - USDA Rushing Through Dangerous New Rules on GMO and Pharmaceutical Crops

JOIN THE CENTER FOR FOOD SAFETY'S PETITION

The Comment Period Ends Monday, November 24th!

From The Center for Food Safety, Nov. 19th, 2008:

"In the waning months of the Bush administration, the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) has joined the ranks of federal agencies rushing through new regulations that weaken protections for human health and the environment. USDA has released a proposed rule that would significantly weaken oversight of all genetically engineered crops, and which continue to allow companies to grow food crops engineered to produce drugs and industrial chemicals.

The USDA began this process over four years ago by promising stricter oversight. Unfortunately, improvements considered early on have been dismissed, and the proposed rule now has the same gaping holes as the policy it is replacing, and creates a few new ones, as well. For instance . . ." Read more here and Join the Petition! <http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=I9oH06jc2hOzPC9mFdjsqNMpBmTvJJVb>

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