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David Healy is a Professor of Psychiatry at Bangor University. He is a former Secretary of the British Association for Psychopharmacology, and author of over 175 peer reviewed articles, 200 other pieces and 20 books, including The Antidepressant Era, and The Creation of Psychopharmacology from Harvard University Press,The Psychopharmacologists Volumes 1-3, Let Them Eat Prozac, Mania, & Pharmageddon.  He has been involved as an expert witness in homicide, suicide and birth defect legal actions involving psychotropic drugs, and in bringing problems with these drugs to the attention of American and British regulators, as well raising awareness of how pharmaceutical companies sell drugs by marketing diseases and co-opting academic opinion-leaders, ghostwriting their articles.


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FDA unleashes end game scheme to outlaw virtually all dietary supplements formulated after 1994! !

 Wednesday, July 06, 2011

by Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
Editor of NaturalNews.com (See all articles...)
 http://www.naturalnews.com/032912_FDA_dietary_supplements.html(NaturalNews ) In the wake of hundreds of dietary supplements recently being outlawed across the EU, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration has quietly unleashed a regulatory scheme that, if fully implemented, could ban virtually all dietary supplements in the USA that were formulated after 1994.

That means nearly all superfoods, multivitamins, detox supplements, and medicinal herbal products we have all come to depend on to prevent disease and boost our immune health could soon be stripped from store shelves and outlawed across the nation. I call it the "End Game" of the FDA's war against humanity: Phase one was the enforcement of nutritional ignorance by threatening and raiding companies that dared to make truthful health claims on their own websites (http://www.naturalnews.com/021791.html). Phase two involves "nuking" the entire dietary supplements industry by simply denying the use of nearly all the ingredients presently used in supplement products.

An effort to destroy nearly all modern supplements?

The discovery of this new End Game strategy by the FDA to outlaw virtually all dietary supplements comes to us from theAlliance for Natural Health, the leading health freedom non-profit group in America, and the group that consistently reports fact-based information on how the FDA and FTC are squashing health freedom in America. Their most recent announcement, entitled FDA's New Sneak Attack on Supplements (http://www.anh-usa.org/fda-new-snea...) explains how this new assault on your freedom is being engineered by the FDA.

Here's the brief story of where this comes from and how the FDA is now waging a new war on our vitamins, herbs and supplements:

In 1994, after years of armed raids, oppression and censorship by the FDA, Congress passed a law known as DSHEA. This is the law that essentially forced the FDA to stop regulating dietary supplements out of existence, and groups such as the Life Extension Foundation (www.LEF.org) were instrumental in helping get this law passed in 1994.

But one of the little-known sections of the law required dietary supplement manufacturers to "notify" the FDA any time they used a new ingredient in their formulations. However, the details on how supplement companies were supposed to abide by these notification guidelines (called "NDI" or New Dietary Ingredient rules) were never published by the FDA, and since 1994, this entire section of DSHEA has remained essentially unenforced (or selectively enforced).

Now, suddenly, the FDA has decided it wants to enforce NDI, and its enforcement of this technicality would essentially amount to the FDA denying permission to use nearly all dietary supplement ingredients introduced since 1994. So last Friday, the FDA proposed its new rules on NDI -- on the Friday before a long weekend, no less, which is a common tactic government uses when it wants to do something that nobody notices -- and these new rules run the risk of being adopted as active regulations, threatening virtually the entire dietary supplement industry with an eventual shutdown.

Why did the FDA wait 17 years to take action on NDI rules? Believe it or not, this was mandated under the new Food Safety Bill (S.510 remember?) that Congress passed into law late last year without even reading the bill (http://www.naturalnews.com/030789_F...). So now, the FDA has been forced into issuing these new guidelines, and it obviously is going to take every opportunity it can to destroy the nutritional supplements industry (and thereby protect the profits of Big Pharma).

....an email from Dr. Bate...important

Dr. Phil Bate is an orthomolecular pioneer, and NT inventor. He has a Ph.D in Psychology. His site is:
http://drbate.com/Ref/resume.html



I am indebted to Emily Patterson for the following.   I recently met this young lady on line, and was amazed at the staggering amount of research she had  done on Big Pharma and the chemicals they are poisoning us with.  Johnson and Johnson, a company that most of us associate with "healthy, happy babies" is actually giving them allergies and poisons in the very things  we have been made to think  are good for them - all for profit!.

Is Johnson and Johnson Poisoning Babies for Future Financial Gain?   (Should it be Johnson and Toxin?)

Mineral oil (skin cancer), methylisothiazolinone (neurotoxin), phthalate esters (asthma, allergies, eczema), 1,4-dioxane (carcinogen, neurotoxin) and more found in Johnson and Johnson baby 'care' products. In the actual article, at the bottom of the page are links to legal actions (including a class action lawsuit for Johnson and Johnson baby shampoo), recalls and the toxic nightmare that Johnson and Johnson has become.  

As a mother myself, I know that we all want what is best for our children - our babies. My babies are now 17 and 8, my little one turning 9 on May 10, 2011. When my oldest was born, it was the beginning of the current asthma epidemic. There were far fewer children with asthma, and almost no resources available for controlling the condition. That was the beginning of my journey into a world of learning about chemicals that cause asthma. At first, what I found was totally unbelievable. I literally could not believe that the products I was using to clean our home and bathe my baby could possibly contain ingredients that was causing asthma. Then, as I did more research, I panicked and threw away everything - and with that change, the asthma went out the door, too. After that, I experienced a sense of hopelessness, these chemicals are in so many different products. I went into a phase of control - where I learned more about the products I chose, moved into making my own solutions as often as possible and now, I just want to help educate others - the same way others educated me.
 
Disclaimer: Johnson and Johnson claims that all carcinogenic, and other contaminants, as well as recently reclassified ingredients, in their products are within safety standards set by the FDA - back in the stone age, um, I mean, around 1970 something.
 
We want what's best for our children, and after you read the following, you'll realize that Johnson and Johnson products certainly aren't good for our precious babies...
 
To read the rest of this article with lists of specific chemicals causing cancer, asthma, eczema, and much more, go tohttp://www.sunflowernaturals. com   You'll be amazed at the full story.  

This is a young woman who has done a lot of research  solving her children's allergies and other problems actually caused by Johnson and Johnson, or, as she put it in a recent article "Johnson and Toxin".  I applaud her.  

Are there no limits to what Big Pharma will do to make profits?   I haven't seen any?
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Big Pharma

A pertinent video from YouTube:

Scientists cure cancer, but no one takes notice

By cgull8m

Canadian researchers find a simple cure for cancer, but major pharmaceutical companies are not interested.
Researchers at the University of Alberta, in Edmonton, Canada have cured cancer last week, yet there is a little ripple in the news or in TV. It is a simple technique using very basic drug. The method employs dichloroacetate, which is currently used to treat metabolic disorders. So, there is no concern of side effects or about their long term effects.


This drug doesn’t require a patent, so anyone can employ it widely and cheaply compared to the costly cancer drugs produced by major pharmaceutical companies.


Canadian scientists tested this dichloroacetate (DCA) on human’s cells; it killed lung, breast and brain cancer cells and left the healthy cells alone. It was tested on Rats inflicted with severe tumors; their cells shrank when they were fed with water supplemented with DCA. The drug is widely available and the technique is easy to use, why the major drug companies are not involved? Or the Media interested in this find?


In human bodies there is a natural cancer fighting human cell, the mitochondria, but they need to be triggered to be effective. Scientists used to think that these mitochondria cells were damaged and thus ineffective against cancer. So they used to focus on glycolysis, which is less effective in curing cancer and more wasteful. The drug manufacturers focused on this glycolysis method to fight cancer. This DCA on the other hand doesn’t rely on glycolysis instead on mitochondria; it triggers the mitochondria which in turn fights the cancer cells.


The side effect of this is it also reactivates a process called apoptosis. You see, mitochondria contain an all-too-important self-destruct button that can't be pressed in cancer cells. Without it, tumors grow larger as cells refuse to be extinguished. Fully functioning mitochondria, thanks to DCA, can once again die.


With glycolysis turned off, the body produces less lactic acid, so the bad tissue around cancer cells doesn't break down and seed new tumors.


Pharmaceutical companies are not investing in this research because DCA method cannot be patented, without a patent they can’t make money, like they are doing now with their AIDS Patent. Since the pharmaceutical companies won’t develop this, the article says other independent laboratories should start producing this drug and do more research to confirm all the above findings and produce drugs. All the groundwork can be done in collaboration with the Universities, who will be glad to assist in such research and can develop an effective drug for curing cancer.


You can access the original research for this cancer here.


This article wants to raise awareness for this study, hope some independent companies and small startup will pick up this idea and produce these drugs, because the big companies won’t touch it for a long time.

"Will the American Public Win the Race Against Big Pharma?" (We'd better be informed!!!)

You may have noticed that whenever I can I draw a censorious, scathing and derisive line in the sand when it comes to Big Pharma.  A while back, a friend provided me with the % of the rolls of the DSM-IV (previous and present) boards and the fact that almost 60% were tightly allied with Big Pharma.  Big Pharma dominates the DSM!


http://www.fiercepharma.com/story/does-pharma-dominate-psych-manual/2008-01-03?utm_medium=nl&utm_source=link

If you did not know, The DSM is mental health's primary Bible for diagnosing patients.  You with me here?

If you are, you see that there is a terrible conflict of interest in pretty much ANYTHING the DSM selects, discusses, etc., because there is an overlying agenda to "bring it all back" to ..........drugs!

The newest research is too long to print here,  but the article is at:
http://nutrientscure.wordpress.com/2011/03/28/will-the-american-public-win-the-race-against-big-pharma-3-28-2011/