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Natural Products Association Issues Disinfo Announcement over Dietary Supplements and Swine Flu (opinion)

Wednesday, May 06, 2009
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(NaturalNews) The natural products industry leaders are engaged in a clever "disinfo" campaign to brainwash people into thinking that herbs and nutritional products are useless for defending against swine flu. Today, the Natural Products Association (NPA), Council for Responsible Nutrition (CRN) and the American Herbal Products Association (AHPA) took part in issuing a joint warning against any "natural" remedies that are being promoted as ways to prevent or treat H1N1 influenza.

Their joint statement is classic disinformation, stating, "We are unaware of any scientific data supporting the use of dietary supplements to treat swine flu."

That's because according to health authorities in the U.S., there is no such thing as any dietary supplement that treats any disease whatsoever. If any dietary supplement were found to treat a disease, it would shift categories to become a "drug," not a "dietary supplement."

Thus, it is technically impossible for any dietary supplement to treat anything, according to the way the terms are used in America today.

Furthermore, since swine flu is only a few weeks old, it is impossible for any substance to yet have "scientific evidence" of efficacy, including government-recommended anti-virals like Tamiflu. Technically speaking, there is zero credible scientific evidence that Tamiflu works to treat swine flu infections, either. Where are the studies? The scientific papers? There are none, precisely because swine flu is too new to have been carefully studied by anyone.

The subjugation of the natural products industry

This statement from these industry leaders is nearly equivalent to stating that "no plants have anti-viral action." And that statement is, of course, laughable. Not only do plants contain natural anti-viral medicine, but it is difficult to find ANY plant that does not exhibit some degree of anti-viral action!

Why is that the case? Because plants must defend themselves against viruses, too. And since they cannot run down to the local pharmacy to spend their life savings on Big Pharma's drugs, they have to manufacture their own medicine. Plants are nature's pharmaceutical factories, generating the most amazing medicines in the world like resveratrol, vitamin C, and even the key ingredient in Tamiflu, shikimic acid. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shikim...)

And yet it remains the official position of the so-called "leaders" of the natural products industry that there is no such thing as a plant that can treat swine flu.

That's a fascinating position, especially given that Tamiflu is derived from a Traditional Chinese Medicine herb called star anise.

The position of the natural products industry leaders seems to be that when a medicine is found naturally in a plant, it is inert. But when it is removed from the plant and branded a drug, it suddenly becomes "active!" Ridiculous.

What you've probably already noticed over the last few years is that the pharmaceutical industry has subjugated the natural products industry, and many of the companies that now "lead" the industry are in fact owned in part by Big Pharma, which pushes its pro-drug agenda through the sponsorship and financial support of various natural products industry organizations.

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