Article by Suzanne

Alternative health care products are more main stream than ever before in the history of medicine and threatened more than ever before. According to a news article published by Mike Adams on April 11, 2007 at Healthy.net, here’s the full link to the article, http://www.healthy.net/scr/news.asp?Id=9071, the “FDA has plans to reclassify virtually all vitamins, supplements, herbs and even vegetable juices as FDA-regulated drugs. Massage oils and massage rocks will be classified as “medical devices” and require FDA approval.”, I’m not surprised about this. Getting FDA approval on vitamins and supplements to ensure their safe for use by the consumer is one thing, but if the FDA decides to regulate and classify them as drugs to outlaw them then you and should be seriously concerned for the future health of this country, physically, mentally and economically. I use nothing but natural health supplements as a preventative measure against disease, but if those supplements become classified as drugs that I can’t get, how can I take preventative measures against disease causing pathogens? I exercise regularly, but diet is equally important to a person’s health and a diet may be lacking in the proper amount of vitamins and minerals necessary to keep a person healthy. I will not take antibiotics and I do not want to have to get a prescription for something that’s natural, that’s been around since the beginning of time like olive leaf extract. Companies like East Park Research and their distributors offer natural health products to consumers to help them prevent disease and companies that offer acupuncture and Chinese herbs are both healing and preventing and there is no reason why the FDA should put a stop to it or make it so difficult for them to practice that they have to go out of business. Instead we as alternative health consumers and practitioners in the “United States of America” should stand up for what is best for us and our children’s future… our health and our freedom.