Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 REPPED: If you've been following the debate over the FDA's new CAM guidelines (click here for latest update) that threaten to destroy natural medicine by regulating herbs, supplements and even vegetable juices as "unapproved drugs," you've no doubt heard the opposing opinion by some natural health commentators who claim the guidelines say nothing new. Some are even saying the CAM guidelines are a "non issue" and represent "no big deal."
As much as I appreciate the efforts and comments of others in the natural health world, I strongly disagree with their assessment on the CAM guidelines. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 Consider this:
The first draft of the CAM guidelines was issued by the FDA on the day after Christmas, 2006, but the agency waited until February 26 to post them in the Federal Registry.
The guidelines state the public will have a "90 day comment period" in which to post comments on the proposal, but the initial closing date for public comments was posted as April 30 -- leaving just two months for comments, not three as explained in the guidelines themselves. |
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| Here's why: Their assessment of the threat of the CAM guidelines is based on a fatal flaw -- the assumption that the FDA will only look at these guidelines as a theoretical document and not take direct action on them. And as we've all seen, once guidelines are translated into action by any governmental organization, they immediately undergo an expansion that takes their application far beyond whatever original intent was written in the document. |
| He'll say the guidelines clearly spell out that the FDA should be regulating ALL naturopathic remedies in order to "protect consumers." And he could unleash a new wave of medical tyranny, reauthorizing the SWAT-style FDA raids we saw in the 1980's and 1990's, all while claiming the CAM guidelines document blazed the trail by spelling out specific examples of what needed to be done.
Just like the RICO Act and the Patriot Act, the FDA's CAM guidelines could one day exceed their intended purpose and be used against Americans in ways we never imagined possible.
How do you boil a frog? |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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| It now seems that the FDA attempted to sneak the new CAM guidelines under the radar, hoping the public would never notice the guidelines until they had already been adopted and approved. The original CAM guidelines document was quietly posted by the FDA on the day after Christmas, 2006, yet did not appear in the Federal Register until several months later. By the time the document was able to be found and commented on by the natural health community, only about thirty days remained in the public comment period. |
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| The guidelines state the public will have a "90 day comment period" in which to post comments on the proposal, but the initial closing date for public comments was posted as April 30 -- leaving just two months for comments, not three as explained in the guidelines themselves. |
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| Those comments from organizations and individuals in the natural health industry who are saying there's "nothing new" in these guidelines are ignoring the primary tactic being used by the FDA. The FDA is laying the groundwork to censor or regulate every substance used in natural medicine, and the CAM guidelines document is a "playbook" that reveals how this might unfold.
This is how it's done by arrogant government departments: Float an idea piece, write regulations, then start applying those regulations until they become accepted as "the way things are done. |
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| These guidelines have been widely described as a brazen FDA attempt to destroy naturopathy and alternative medicine.
The FDA was petitioned on April 22 by health freedom attorney Ralph Fucetola, a trustee of the non-profit Natural Solutions Foundation (www.HealthFreedomUSA.com), to extend its deadline for public comment. The petition also specifically requested that the FDA hold public hearings on the issue, but no decision has apparently been made on that issue. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 Items used in religious practices are NOT excluded from these guidelines.
Holy water, for example, could be regulated as a drug. Churches that continue to use Holy water in their services could be raided and accused of practicing medicine. Sound absurd? The FDA has already conducted an armed raid on one church (see "tyranny" article, above) and made no announcement that churches are exempt from FDA rule. |
| The new guidelines ALLOW the FDA to choose, at its own discretion, to enforce these rules at any time, with no prior notice. One day, prayer implements might be openly tolerated, and the very next day, your church could be raided at gunpoint and have its pastor or priest arrested by federal authorities, dragged away in handcuffs merely for blessing someone with Holy water or sacred oils. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 Earlier this year The White House Office of National Drug Control Policy (ONDCP), the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), and the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) jointly released new guidelines for disposing prescription drugs. The new guidelines urge consumers to discard prescription drugs in the trash by mixing the drugs with "an undesirable substance, such as used coffee grounds or kitty litter."
The federal guidelines stopped short of advising all drugs be disposed of in this manner. |
Gerald E. Markle and Frances B. McCrea
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 Such subtle grade inflation results, no doubt, from "controversies sparked by several guidelines," in the words of the Task Force. In other words, powerful vested interests cannot be ignored in the preparation of guidelines which have the imprimatur of the government.
That complaint notwithstanding, this chapter could not be written, or not written with as much authority, without these valuable reports. Even if we occasionally differ with the Task Forces, we applaud their efforts. |
Caldwell B. Esselstyn, Jr., M.D.
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 Present governmental and national heath organization guidelines do not provide a maximal opportunity to either arrest or prevent coronary artery disease. Studies demonstrate persons following present guidelines will have increased rates of disease progression when compared to persons achieving lower serum lipid levels through diet and/or lipid-lowering drugs.
"A diet which would achieve superior results in reducing atherosclerosis would be a 10-15 percent fat diet provided largely by grains, legumes, vegetables, and fruit. |
Gerald E. Markle and Frances B. McCrea
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| An editorial in the American Family Physician recommended "restraint" in prescribing antibiotics for a variety of conditions and began its official guidelines with this explicit admonition: "Do not prescribe antibiotics for colds. "8 The guidelines then urged physicians to "develop an awareness of resistance trends in their community."
"That seems clear enough to me," said Fran.
"So why," I asked, "do they continue to prescribe them?"
The editorial supplied the answer. Some physicians continue out of ignorance. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 So when people are going outside the guidelines of DSHEA and making invalidated claims and things like that, it can tend to give the industry a bad name. And the FDA, which has the authority, I mean the total authority currently, to go out and to stop that, in some cases has chosen not to and just allowed that to happen so they can pretend, "Hey, we should have tougher standards and tougher guidelines." That's the crux of the debate right now. The FDA has the complete authority under the existing guidelines and existing standards of DSHEA to regulate the industry as it should be. |
Paul D. Blanc, M.D.
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 National and international associations of building and safety engineers have long promoted clear-cut guidelines on the amount and type of ventilation needed in public buildings and private residences. There's a hitch, though. However fine these guidelines may be, building codes are largely local matters. Unless specific toxic gases build up indoors to the point of an immediate hazard, which is rarely the nature of sick building problems, corrective interventions are not mandated by federal or even state standards. |
Brigitte Mars, A.H.G.
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 If you're using a commercial product, of course you should follow the dosage guidelines on the product packaging. If you've made your own tea or tincture, in general, one cup of tea or one dropperful of tincture qualifies as a single dose. For an acute, serious, right-there-in-your-face type of illness, one dose every hour or two would be
Special Situations
The general dosage guidelines discussed above are generally true for adults. However, dosages may need to be adjusted for different people or different categories of people. For example:
• Large people need more than small people. |
Peter J. Whitehouse and Daniel George
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 Ten years ago I founded a group called the International Working Group for the Harmonization of Dementia Drug guidelines. We succeeded in bringing together academics, industry leaders, and government regulators to discuss Alzheimer's and related disorders and helped craft guidelines necessary to demonstrate that a drug should be approved for the treatment of Alzheimer's disease. |
Jonny Bowden, Ph.D., C.N.S.
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 The guidelines for the Specific Carbohydate Diet are, well, very specific. And they have to be followed for a year before adding in any other foods. But thousands of people swear by the diet's effectiveness. General guidelines are no grains (e.g., rice, wheat, corn, or oats); no processed foods; no starchy vegetables (e.g., potatoes and yams); no canned vegetables of any kind; no flour, sugar, or sweeteners other than honey and saccharin; and no milk products except for homemade yogurt fermented for 24 hours. |
Charles Barber
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 In the absence of data, the American Psychiatric Association simply has no treatment guidelines for the pharmacological treatment of subsyndromal depression. (There are extensive guidelines for major depressive disorder.) The U.S. government's Agency for Health Care Policy and Research, in preparing a report on recommended treatments for depression, reviewed 315 clinical studies evaluating medications and found a grand total of three trials on subsyndromal depression worthy of review. |
Ray D. Strand
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 Choosing a company that follows the USP guidelines is certainly a step in the right direction.
Sometimes it is quite difficult to find out information about the quality control that various companies use in their manufacturing process. The number of nutritional supplements that are available on the market today alone may overwhelm you. Every company is trying to find its niche in this very competitive market. Look through the marketing hype and try to get to the heart of the completeness and the quality of their nutritional products. Hopefully, these guidelines will help. |
Charles Barber
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| Almost two-thirds of the doctors who frame the formal guidelines of clinical best practice have received funds to conduct research, and more than a third have worked for pharmaceutical companies as employees or as consultants. Seven percent of authors admitted that their relationship with the pharmaceutical industry influenced their writing of guidelines, but 19 percent thought their co-authors were influenced.89
The blame here, in my view, ultimately lies with the doctors and the universities, not the big drug companies. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 So after the era of FDA raids ended with the passage of DSHEA in 1994, the agency went covert, so to speak, and they've waged their war against health freedom using laws, regulations and guidelines rather than guns and body armor. It's worked beautifully for them. Following the legalization of television drug ads in late 1997, the pharmaceutical business exploded and has only increased ever since.
So now the FDA primarily uses bureaucratic tactics instead of law enforcement tactics. Hence the new CAM guidelines. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 Today I'm announcing guidelines for submitting products for review and possible recommendation here on NewsTarget.com. Product manufacturers and P.R. consultants are welcome to follow these guidelines in submitting products to us.
1. Start with a quality product. No junk.
I only recommend products of superior quality. If your product contains yeast extract, hydrogenated oils, high-fructose corn syrup, mercury, artificial colors or aspartame, don't even bother submitting it. |
David Winston, RH(AHG), and Steven Maimes
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 Ashwagandha root: Dried herb, 25 mg/lb three times a day (general guidelines for any animal).
• Astragalus root: Dried herb, 30-60 mg/lb three times a day (general guidelines for any animal).
• Eleuthero: For medium-sized dogs, one 500 mg capsule twice a day.
CLINICAL USE OF ADAPTOGENS IN EQUINE VETERINARY PRACTICE
A selection of case histories from botanical veterinarians and animal herbalists treating horses are discussed in this section. |
Mark Sircus
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 These guidelines were issued in Feb. 2006 by the American Academy of Pediatrics.6
"The proportion of children, who receive the recommended amounts of calcium declines dramatically after the second year of life, reaching a nadir during adolescence," said Dr. Nancy F. Krebs, of the University of Colorado Health Sciences Center, Department of Pediatrics, located in Denver, who headed the academy committee that wrote the guidelines.
Adolescent girls are faring the worst, Dr. Krebs and colleagues reported. Only about 10% of girls ages 12 to 19 are getting the recommended amount of calcium. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 These guidelines could classify vegetable juice as a "drug" and require FDA approval before the juice could be sold. The purpose of the CAM guidelines is to oppress naturopathic practices and products, limiting consumers' health care choices to drugs and surgery.
9) The FDA, in cooperation with the FTC, has viciously attacked Lane Labs, a company that manufactured and marketed genuine anti-cancer supplements. Lane Labs has been "targeted for termination" by the authorities in order to prevent it from successfully marketing a product that really does cure cancer. |
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| The new guidelines urge consumers to discard prescription drugs in the trash by mixing the drugs with "an undesirable substance, such as used coffee grounds or kitty litter."
The federal guidelines stopped short of advising all drugs be disposed of in this manner. Consumers were advised to continue flushing drugs including oxycodone, morphine sulfate, and stavudine -- presumably to keep these controlled substances out of the hands of children and drug abusers. |
C. W. Randolph, M.D.
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 This means that for my own private-labeled line, as well as other natural health product lines that I carry, I require stringent guidelines for their manufacturing process. These guidelines include:
• Raw materials testing
• Potency testing
• Product traceability
• Purity testing
• Product freshness
• Microbiology testing
The bottom line is truth in packaging. People have the right to know what they are putting in their bodies and they deserve to get the amount of active ingredient they are paying for.
To order Dr. Randolph's products online, go to www. hormonewell.com/shop_online.htm. |
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