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Hi All,

Those of use who are involved in helping our patients to better health through nutrition will be alarmed by the proposed legislation in Ohio. It will virtually eliminate the Chiropractors' right of helping patients through diet, lifestyle and nutrition in Ohio. If it happens there, you can bet Oregon will be on the next hit list.

I urge everyone to read this, sign the pledge and fax in.

Christian Mathisen, D.C.

3654 S Pacific Hwy

Medford, OR

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SBN: Dietetics Board Rule Would End DC Nutrition Practice

Dr. Mathisen,The subject line of this email is the heading on the Jan 3, 2008 news release from the Ohio State Chiropractic Association (see copy of the message below). Read it (see below) and then I have a favor to ask you. Would you look at the attached forms and sign the intent to commit? Last September the ACA authorized individuals to take the steps necessary to form a new Chiropractic Board of Clinical Nutrition (CBCN) and will be voting in February on recognition of this Board. Currently, there is no Chiropractic specialty board in the discipline of nutrition to show everyone, from patients to politicians, DC’s are trained, specialized in and use nutrition in practice. Without a CHIROPRACTIC specialty board in nutrition none of us may be doing so in the years to come. As you can see by the Ohio legislation (and there have been and will be other states with the same fight) everyone now wants to control the right to practice nutrition. If it happens in Ohio, it can happen anywhere. Chiropractors really do need to have a ACA authorized official nutrition board. By the way, Jeff Ware DC, DABCI, a Dean now at Logan College, presented testimony in Ohio for us. He and a few other DABCI's and DACBN’s have signed the Commitment/Intent letter and I hope you will too. If you have a DACBN or DABCI or Master’s Degree, you will most likely have the one time opportunity to be grandfathered in without taking a test. I think this opportunity is available until November 2008. IF YOU DON’T HAVE A DACBN, DABCI or Master’s, it would help us all if you would sign the intent to commit and just check the box that says:

√ ** I believe it is in the best interest of the Chiropractic profession to have a CHIROPRACTIC specialty board in the discipline of nutrition. It doesn’t cost anything to sign the Intent to Commit form and there is no obligation to join but we do need some numbers to show interest so that ACA will move forward to help protect our rights to do nutrition.Download the Commitment FormDownload the Guidelines for Grandfathering Diplomates in the CBCNPlease copy, check appropriate lines and then fax to 940-565-6655 Sincerely, Dr. Van Merkle Unsubscribe me from this mailing list

January 3, 2008

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· Dietetics Board Rule Would End DC Nutrition Practice

A rule filed late in December by the Ohio Board of Dietetics would effectively end the nutrition practices of all Ohio chiropractic physicians if enacted.The rule, 4759-2-01 would prohibit DC's from identifying risks of nutritional problems, purposely planning actions with the intent of changing a nutrition- related behavior and monitoring outcome indicators which are relevant to a patients nutritional goals. Each of the activities are individually and collectively defined by the rule as the practice of dietetics."To say this proposal goes beyond over-reaching is an understatement," OSCA Executive Director Woody Woodward said. "Beyond ridiculous is a more accurate description.""The way this proposed rule is written, recommending a vitamin, a supplement, even suggesting that a patient cut out fatty foods could be considered 'an action to change a nutrition-related behavior.' It is really clear here that the dietetics board would like to stop DC's from doing all of those things," Woodward said.The dietetics board and association have said as much during the last year. In a letter last February, dietetic association legislative chair Pat McKnight said, "the chiropractor should provide basic nutrition information to the patient and refer the patient to the dietician for medical nutrition therapy. The chiropractor's education does NOT qualify him or her to provide medical nutrition therapy."This proposed rule goes even further, as it substantially broadens the definition of dietetics, including anything more than a basic discussion about nutrients. Recommending supplements, vitamins or changes to diet would clearly fall outside the practice of chiropractic according to this rule."This is an attack on chiropractic, an attack on our scope of practice which allows our members to provide nutritional procedures within the context of chiropractic care," Woodward said. "We will do everything in our power to stop this rule from ever taking effect."The OSCA has already had discussions with the Ohio State Chiropractic Examining Board, an academic dean at Logan Chiropractic College and officials with nutritional supplement company Standard Process. All are alarmed by the potential impact of the rule. The OSCA has also reached out to other members of the Ohio Healthcare Provider Coalition seeking support of its position from other primary health care providers.A hearing before the dietetics board is schedule for January 25. The OSCA is working to coordinate testimony opposing the rule. If approved by the dietetics board, the rule would be considered by the Joint Legislative Committee on Agency Rule Review at a date to be determined.

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