Fw: Double Danger

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May 14, 2008

URGENT

DIETARY SUPPLEMENT THREAT

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DRUG COMPANY SEES COMPETITION,

TRIES TO KILL IT

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Maybe you take weight loss supplements and maybe you don't. But protecting

them, and the claims that the FDA recognizes are appropriate for them, has

become a matter of urgency since GlaxoKlein (GSK)has attacked the

entire supplement industry through direct threat to our supplements and the

entire supplement industry. GSK is using two arrows aimed at the heart of

the supplement industry.

Two Pronged Assault

1. Restrict the information that helps people understand what a product does

for them (and cripple the First Amendment while you are at it) and

2. Medicalize a category of concern for people taking the supplement and

then make sure that the health indications and claims, as well as the

supplement are " oozed over " into the drug category, raising their prices and

driving their manufacturers out of business while more expensive drugs take

their places in the customer's shopping cart.

In my lecture " Nutricide " (http://tinyurl.com/2kvnvt), I defined Nutricide

as

1. The death of the body of knowledge of the relationship between health and

food and

2. The death of large populations through the manipulation of the food

supply.

GSK vs. The People

GlaxoKlein, a large drug company, has decided to use the powerful tool

called a " Citizens Petition " to attack both free speech and the supplement

industry. The Citizens Petition is the same type of document that the

Natural Solutions Foundation has filed twice with the US Government). Sign

the first Citizens Petition here (http://WWW.healthfreedomusa.org/index

php?page_id=184) to demand the FDA stop illegal " HARMonization " . Our second

Citizens Petition, like the current GSK one, has not been assigned a Docket

Number (and, for that matter, has ours?) so you cannot comment on it yet. We

will tell you how to do that shortly.

(By the way, if you are a supplement manufacturer and you are not very happy

with the lobbying representation you are getting on Capital Hill, send us an

email (ralph.fucetola@...) with " PROTECTION " as the subject line to join

the Health Freedom Alliance, a Wellness Industry 501 © 4 organization we

have created just for you!)

By asking the FDA to define weight loss products as disease claims, they are

protecting their failed over-the-counter weight loss product, alli, while

striking a blow at the continued existence of the entire supplements

industry. Once weight loss is a disease, not a condition, it will be

treatable only through the use of tested drugs. Will insurance companies

increase your rates if you need weight loss products? Possibly. After all,

we understand that many insurance companies are co-owned by Big Pharma. More

diseases, more drugs. More drugs, more profits.

Click here (http://tinyurl.com/4txv62) to let Congress know your right to

free speech and information about the relationship between health and

supplements are important to you! (If you want a copy of " Nutricide: the DVD

, click here (http://WWW.healthfreedomusa.org/index.php?page_id=156).

Supplements Under Attack - Again!

GlaxoKlein (GSK) makes drugs like Paxil and Avandia, the highly

questionable diabetes drug which the FDA knew nearly 5 years ago increases

heart attacks by nearly 43%. Covering itself, the FDA recently issued a

warning to GSK about supressing data about the dangers of this supposed

block-buster " drug. Not long before that, the Senate Finance Committee found

that GSK intimidated and coerced a well-known critic of Avandia to silence

him from speaking out against it. And not long before that, there were

serious allegations that GSK had supressed data on Paxil-related adult

suicides.

GSK is also the maker of alli, the first over the counter weight loss drug.

Alli has been associated with the development of aberrant crypt foci, widely

believed to be associated with the development of colon cancer. It is also

associated with fecal leaking, " wet gas " , diarrhea, and a sudden event where

you could at any moment have an uncontrolled accidental bowel movement.

Natural products are not associated with these hazards. So it would seem

that anything GSK could do to silence the natural competition and grab a new

market share would be welcome to its management and its shareholders.

In fact, here is what www.FDAlawblog.net has to say about the GSK Citizens

Petition:

" the Citizens Petition asks the Agency (I.e., FDA, Ed.) to prohibit

structure/function claims for dietary supplements that expressly or

impliedly reference weight loss. In addition to claims that expressly

reference weight loss, the petition contends that the following categories

of claims should be prohibited: energy expenditure, modulation of

carbohydrate metabolism, increased satiety or suppression of appetite,

increased fat oxidation or reduced fat synthesis, and blockage of fat

absorption. The petition acknowledges FDA's longstanding position that

weight loss claims are permissible structure/function claims. However, the

petition urges FDA to change its position on the ground that: (1) recent

evidence establishes that overweight is a risk factor for disease; (2)

consumers believe that there is a relationship between weight loss and a

reduction of risk of disease; (3) claims that a product will reduce a risk

factor for disease are disease claims; (4) the use of ineffective therapies

can divert consumers from safe and effective therapies such as GSK's weight

loss drug Alli; and (5) manufacturers of weight loss supplements should be

forced to substantiate their claims through health claim petitions before

going to market. Although the petition targets dietary supplements, the

action it requests also would affect conventional foods.

The potential marketing value of the weight loss market and the food and

dietary supplement industries' major investment in weight loss products

ensures that the petition will receive strong drug industry supported and

vigorous food and dietary supplement industry opposition. Although the

petition contends that the requested action will not require rulemaking,

there are arguments that would support the need for rule making given FDA's

longstanding position that weight loss claims, as opposed to claims to treat

obesity, do not imply disease treatment or prevention. "

Taking advantage of the tremendous power of the Citizens Petition, GSK is

asking the FDA to classify weight loss claims made for dietary supplements

as disease claims. While the distinction may seem small, what it means to

your supplement access could be very bad, indeed. If the FDA finds for GSK,

it will make it much easier to classify nutrients as drugs and much harder

to make truthful and honest statements about the health benefits of

supplements.

This is just another thrust to find yet another way to destroy the

supplement industry NOT because it is bad or dangerous, but because just the

opposite is true: drugs are dangerous and kill people. They are also very

expensive.

Supplements are relatively cheap, very safe and do not kill people. They are

however, the greatest economic competitior to drugs and therefore the drug

companies want them to disappear. They are, of course, very willing to help

them do just that!

The rapidly growing weight loss sector of the supplement market in the US is

about $1.3 Billion, or about $1 of every $25 spent on supplements and herbs

annually. Many supplement companies depend upon these products for

significant sales and staying afloat in a challenging market place.

I find it hard to see it as a coincidence that the alarming " Trilateral

ation Charter " (http://www.fda.gov/oia/charter.html), signed February

27, 2004 fusing

Health Products and Food Branch,Health Canada

US Food and Drug Administration, Department of Health and Human Services

Federal Commission for the Protection from Sanitary Risks, Secretaria de

Salud, Mexico

has decided that one of its very first priorities is eliminating so called

health fraud by " enforcement action on Fraudulent weight loss products "

(http://www.fda.gov/oia/charter.html#appendixc). The Trilateral ation

Charter defines fraud as " the false, deceptive, or misleading promotion,

advertisement, distribution, sale, possession for sale, or offering for sale

of products or provisions of services, intended for human use, that are

being represented as being made safe and/or effective to diagnose, prevent,

cure, treat, or mitigate disease (or other conditions), to rehabilitate

patients or to provide a beneficial effect on health. " If you are hearing

that as an invitation to destroy the supplement industry in the US, Mexico

and Canada (also known as the North American Union/Security and Prosperity

Partnership), you are hearing right.

Given the battle raging around the right to make true and honest statements

about the healing benefits of foods or food components, it would appear GSK

s attempt to silence its competitor is simply more of same. Codex wants to

classify sharing any information about the health benefits of food and food

components as " advertising " . The FDA wants to stifle the same information by

calling it " health claims " or, in this case " disease claims " . The net result

if we allow them to have their way? Regulatory duct tape over our

collective mouths if we dare to share information about how to get well and

stay that way with natural products. Not today, not tomorrow and not any

time after that!

Opportunity

Did I mention that the Natural Solutions Foundation is gearing up to go to

the Codex Commission Meeting in Geneva in late June? Not only will we be

there, but we expect to serve as advisers to a coalition of health friendly

nations who have been preparing for the " push back " against the US on the

issue of mandatory, species specific GMOs labeling.

As you know, the US forbids - FORBIDS - labeling any GM Foods. Most of the

rest of the word is fiercely determined to have such labeling. The health

friendlies are on the march!

We need your help to get there, though. Take a few minutes to send us

forward to Geneva for the Annual Codex Commission meeting. Click here to

make your tax deductible donations (http://www.healthfreedomusa.org/index

php?page_id=189).

Thanks for your continuing support! We are the largest and most effective

health freedom force in the English speaking world! We make a great team!

Yours in health and freedom,

Dr. Rima

Rima E. Laibow, MD

Medical Director

Natural Solutions Foundation

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