Re: Dietary Supplement Health and Education Act...

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She is a very knowledgeable person as well I have known her for over 15

years, even before her TX. She really digs into info .I think maybe she was

a researcher in another life :) really very interesting site

.............for all .TX folks especially too.

Love & Hugs,

GrandmomBEV

Dietary Supplement Health and Education Act...

Hi everybody!!

I just read this a few minutes ago and I thought it was very

important. Risa is a patient w/cf that uses GSH and has done this

website to help, inform and let other people that are using GSH tell

their story.

Below is what she posted.

Nutrition & Living with CF

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Please Read this Email and see if you can help us

Posted by Risa on 8/16/2003, 12:08 pm

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>

> > : Under Attack again (ICAK)

> > >

> > >

> > > Your hard-won natural health freedoms as guaranteed by the

Dietary

> > > Supplement Health and Education Act (DSHEA) of 1994 have come

under

> > > attack by the political allies of pharmaceutical interest

groups.

> > >

> > > As a result of the negative media attention surrounding the

herbal

> > > supplement ephedra, a new Senate bill, the " Dietary Supplement

Safety

> > > Act, " has been introduced. If passed, this bill would amend

DSHEA so

> > > that the FDA could arbitrarily ban your access to dietary

supplements!

> > > In addition, the bill would subject safe and effective natural

therapies

> > > to approval standards more stringent than those for

pharmaceutical

> > > drugs.

> > >

> > > The Dr. Rath Health Foundation is alerting you about the

existence of

> > > this unconstitutional bill so you can take immediate action by

voicing

> > > your protest to the government leaders voting on it, your local

> > > political representatives, the FDA and the Department of Health

and

> > > Human Services, which has gone on record with its support of the

> > > so-called Dietary Supplement Safety Act.

> > >

> > > The time to act is now! This new bill may be voted on as early

as

next

> > > week!

> > >

> > > WHAT YOU CAN DO TO DEFEND DSHEA:

> > > 1. Forward this e-mail to at least 10 people who live in your

state or

> > > the states of members of this committee.

> > >

> > > 2. Call the Capitol switchboard at or committee

members

> > > directly at the numbers listed below.

> > >

> > > 3. Ask for your Senator by name and the switchboard operator

will

patch

> > > you through to his/her office. When you reach your Senator's

office,

> > > ask to leave a message for the Senator.

> > >

> > > 4. Use the talking points below or deliver a personal message.

Be

sure

> > > to insist on leaving your name and address, and ask for a

letter back.

> > > As a constituent, you deserve to know how your Senator will act

on

your

> > > request.

> > >

> > > HERE'S WHAT YOU CAN SAY:

> > > I'm calling to ask the Senator to vote against any amendment to

the

> > > appropriations bill that will limit my right to use safe,

affordable,

> > > health-promoting dietary supplements.

> > >

> > > I believe more needs to be done to ensure that:

> > >

> > > The Food and Drug Administration enforces the current law.

> > >

> > > The Government doesn't limit the freedom of choice of American

consumers

> > > when it comes to their health. Safe, effective and affordable

dietary

> > > supplements should not be unfairly singled out.

> > >

> > > I would like the Senator to write me back to tell me how he/she

voted

on

> > > any dietary supplement amendment to the appropriations bill.

Thank

you.

> > >

> > >

> > > U.S. SENATE COMMITTEE ON APPROPRIATIONS

> > >

> > > C. Shelby ®, Alabama

> > >

> > >

> > > Ted s, Chairman ®, Alaska

> > >

> > >

> > > Dianne Feinstein (D), California

> > >

> > >

> > > Ben Nighthorse ®, Colorado

> > >

> > >

> > > K. Inouye (D), Hawaii

> > >

> > >

> > > Larry Craig ®, Idaho

> > >

> > >

> > > Tom Harkin (D), Iowa

> > >

> > >

> > > Sam Brownback ®, Kansas

> > >

> > >

> > > Mitch McConnell ®, Kentucky

> > >

> > >

> > > L. Landrieu (D), Louisiana

> > >

> > >

> > > Barbara A. Mikulski (D), land

> > >

> > >

> > > Thad Cochran ®, Mississippi

> > >

> > >

> > > S. Bond ®, Missouri

> > >

> > >

> > > Conrad Burns ®, Montana

> > >

> > >

> > > Harry Reid (D), Nevada

> > >

> > >

> > > Judd Gregg ®, New Hampshire

> > >

> > >

> > > Pete V. Domenici ®, New Mexico

> > >

> > >

> > > Byron L. Dorgan (D), North Dakota

> > >

> > >

> > > Mike Dewine ®, Ohio

> > >

> > >

> > > Arlen Specter ®, Pennsylvania

> > >

> > >

> > > Ernest F. Hollings (D), South Carolina

> > >

> > >

> > > Tim (D), South Dakota

> > >

> > >

> > > Kay Hutchison ®, Texas

> > >

> > >

> > > F. ®, Utah

> > >

> > >

> > > J. Leahy (D), Vermont

> > >

> > >

> > > Patty Murray (D), Washington

> > >

> > >

> > > C. Byrd (D), Ranking Minority Member, West Virginia

> > >

> > >

> > > Herb Kohl (D), Wisconsin

> > >

> > >

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[Guest guest]

I wrote my congressman and senator about both of these a while back. I just got

a standard reply form from the congressman, but the senator wrote a rather nice

letter. She said that this legislation was not targeting vitamin and mineral

suppliments and most herbals. The wording and aim of the document was to

control diet suppliments. Their aim was to better regulate those products that

increase matabolism like the ephedra and the ma juang (I know that's not spelled

right). I can kind of understand this as when I was a teenager my mom took me

to a doctor who vastly proclaimed the wonder of these " new all natural vitamins

to help you lose weight. " Here I am 15 years later with an abnormally high

heart rate. It would have been nice to know the side effects before I decided

to take them. It is probably only God's grace that kept me alive at the time as

I did a lot of track and field. There have been many reports over the past

several years of teens who have died while taking these suppliments and

exercising heavily.

Dawn mom of 4, 7 and under, the youngest wcf