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A call to action: how we can beat the European Food Supplements Directive Mike Adams, the Health Ranger See article keywords and concepts

Actions you can take right now With the passage of this European food supplements directive, it is time for the defenders of health freedom in this world to confront this monster of organized medicine and reveal its true nature to the world. There are a couple of things you can do right now. First off, if you haven't already donated to the Alliance for Natural Health (ANH), please do so now. Click here to donate now. This is the group that's fighting the legal battle over the food supplements directive.

The European food supplements directive goes live August 1, and it will instantly criminalize retailers who dare to sell products like vitamin C in "illegal" doses. The reversal of sanity is now complete. Prescription drugs that kill people remain not only legal, but highly promoted, while vitamins that heal people and prevent disease are being criminalized. Little old ladies who own natural health food stores, who dare to sell you vitamin C, or manganese, or various trace minerals, are now apparently a threat to society. They will be arrested on the spot and incarcerated as criminals.

This is the group that's fighting the legal battle over the food supplements directive. They are the last great defenders of your health freedoms, and they genuinely need your financial support. If you want to keep vitamins legal -- even in the United States -- I urge you to get out your credit card and make a sizable donation to the ANH. Secondly, we need more than just legal tactics. We need guerilla publicity tactics. The way this works is simple: get an audio or video recording of something that shows the utter stupidity of the ban on vitamins, and get it into my hands.

Even the Death Star has a weakness You see, the food supplements directive has a great weakness: this law is so utterly ridiculous that the very act of enforcing it will be its downfall. They simply cannot enforce this law without embarrassing themselves by doing stupid things, like raiding a vitamin company like it was a cocaine bust. The only way they can get away with this is if all the vitamin companies in Europe roll over and comply. If you voluntarily comply with the ruling, you are giving it power and legitimacy.

But if you peacefully resist -- and document your resistance -- this food supplements directive will never stand. It is time to resist. It is time to stop rolling over and accepting this health oppression. It is time to defend the laws of nature and preserve your health freedoms from this day forward. Grab your light saber, your spy cams, and your stealth audio recorders. Get yourself arrested, raided or shut down by the European Vitamin Police. You'll make a difference, and you'll make history.

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This state of affairs, which has always been a source of deep frustration to those on the fringes of medicine, reached fever pitch when the EU food supplements directive was threatening to sweep supplements off the shelves. The idea was to bring safe maximum limits into line across nation states but, as Rose Shepherd suggested in a passionate piece she wrote for the Observer Magazine, the move hijacked food supplements, forcing them to be seen as medicines.

Why organized medicine wants to outlaw nutrition and turn healers into criminals Mike Adams, the Health Ranger See article keywords and concepts

REPPED: How about some truth for a change about the food supplements directive in the European Union? The proponents of this directive say that it's about protecting patients from all these dangerous vitamins, minerals, supplements, plant extracts and antioxidants that are so dangerous for people. They say, "We're going to keep you safe!" Let me tell you what I think. It's an attempt to outlaw nutrition. It is an attempt to criminalize those who would offer nutritional products that can actually prevent and even treat chronic diseases. Why would anyone want to do this?

Plan B is to outlaw nutrition, which is what the European Union food supplements directive is all about. Let's take this one step further here. Let’s assume they succeed in outlawing this nutrition. It's suddenly illegal to buy any amount of vitamin C over 50 mg, for example. It's illegal to buy various minerals, such as vanadium or boron. It becomes illegal to buy tocotrienols, or other antioxidants derived from plants. Well, what's the next step? It is, of course, to outlaw medicinal foods entirely! Can you imagine a world in which it would be illegal to purchase and consume garlic?

Nutrition is bad for you, didn't you know? The food supplements directive (in Europe) and this whole effort by the FDA (in the U.S.) to outlaw certain medicinal herbs and eventually nutritional supplements is based on the outlandish premise that prescription drugs are good for you and nutrition is bad for you. This is such a reversal of reality that it's absolutely astounding they can get away with even talking about it without being laughed off of the television show or radio interview. If you think about it, prescription drugs are what's killing people.

This whole food supplements directive in Europe is really nothing more than an attempt to protect profits. By doing that, they're committing a crime against humanity, in my belief. They're trying to say that it should be illegal for people to choose foods, medicines, and healing compounds provided by nature. A crazy idea: let's outlaw dangerous pharmaceuticals I have an idea, which may be crazy, but which I'll throw out there just in case. What if we outlawed all the drugs that killed people?

Conveniently forgetting the true history of medicine One more point relevant to the history of medicine and the European Union Food Supplements Directive: The word "pharmaceutical" has as its root "pharm," which of course means "plant." Pharmaceuticals have their origins in plant-based medicine. That's where all pharmaceuticals originally came from. If you think about it now, things have gone 180 degrees! The pharmaceutical industry itself is trying to outlaw plants. How bizarre is that? It is a total disconnect from nature and from the history of medicine.

The very idea that this food supplements directive was even under consideration is quite maddening. Hopefully, sanity will prevail and the European Union will not outlaw nutrition. Here in the United States, we can also hopefully move in the same positive direction by keeping nutrition freely available, and by making sure that DSHEA remains in place so that nutritional supplements remain legal and prescriptions are not required.

Junk science: negative study on calcium and vitamin D supplements was poorly constructed, yet widely reported Mike Adams, the Health Ranger See article keywords and concepts

And if that doesn't work, they'll just try to get the FDA to ban all the supplements as was recently tried in Europe via the CODEX food supplements directive, which sought to outlaw thousands of nutritional products. For anyone really interested in how to have healthy bones, here's how to do it. My own Bone Mineral Density score (BMD) is 2.51, which you can see on my health statistics page. This score is very high when it comes to Bone Mineral Density. I did it by avoiding all prescription drugs and over-the-counter drugs and working only with naturopathic physicians, not MDs.

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Everything in Europe is about to change due to the EU food supplements directive (FSD), which will soon go into full effect. As a result, around 5,000 safe formulas and nutrients that have been on the market for decades will be banned in fifteen European countries. This directive regulates that if a plant or herb is medicinal or effects physiological function in any way, it is a medicine and it is to be sold as a drug. This new regulation adversely effects all nutritional supplements, not just herbs.

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