I am not an advocate for frequent changes in laws and constitutions, but laws and institutions must go hand in hand with the progress of the human mind. As that becomes more developed, more enlightened, as new discoveries are made, new truths discovered and manners and opinions change, with the change of circumstances, institutions must advance also to keep pace with the times. We might as well require a man to wear still the coat which fitted him when a boy as civilized society to remain ever under the regimen of their barbarous ancestors.

Who said that?

Thomas Jefferson.

The same guy who said:

If people let government decide what foods they eat and what medicines they take, their bodies will soon be in as sorry a state as are the souls of those who live under tyranny.

What is CODEX ALIMENTARIUS but an attempt of the state (government) to impose tyrannical measures upon the people, in the interest of corporations?

I hope we shall crush in its birth the aristocracy of our moneyed corporations, which dare already to challenge our government to a trial of strength and bid defiance to the laws of our country.

Again, that was Jefferson.

Wonder if he was a psychic.

What would Tom J. tell us to do in the face of this tyranny? Oppose it by using the means of democracy to defend our inalienable rights. How?

Visit your Senators and Representatives in their district offices while they are home this August and tell them that your health freedom is vitally important to you. Urge them to vote in your best interests since they work for you!

Take your friends and visit with your elected representative, not an aide. Print out our legislative guide so you will have the numbers of the bills handy in your discussion.

“Oh, they won’t listen to us!” you may say. WRONG! I just came back from a lengthy interview with a $20,000 per month lobbyist who said, “It’s not like it was 15 years ago when Congress only listened to lobbyists and corporations. Now the single most powerful force is constituents in the home offices telling Congressmen that they care and that they have friends who vote, too. In fact, there is nothing more powerful!”

Take this advice to heart and take Tom J. with you in your heart when you make that appointment and take your friends along to direct your Congressman or woman to protect you against all threats to your health and health freedom, domestic and foreign!

Simply put, visit them and tell them specifically how you want them to vote. Take the bill names and numbers with you and use the August recess that Congress is in right now to your advantage. Make a relationship with your Congressional delegation members and let them know just how much you care about this issue. Remember, when the people roared in 1994, DSHEA was passed with unanimous Congressional assent: 100% of Congress understood that if they got on the wrong side of this one, they would be out of a job, come the next election.

We did it then with Thomas Jefferson to guide us. We can do it again the same way.

Yours in health and freedom,

Rima E. Laibow, MD
Medical Director
Natural Solutions Foundation

Are you aware that Congress (and Congress’ staff) gets tired of the same-old, same-old just like you do? Your personalized but brief email really counts! When the same letter comes in to a Congressional office with no change at all, over and over, mind-fatigue sets in and the staffers who collate these letters pay less and less attention to them. A terrific study which tells us how to communicate with Congress most effectively gives us an inside track on even more effective communication with Congress. Here’s what works for Congress:

1. Indicate what you want your Congress person to do in a line at the top of your letter in large, bold type. It should say something like, “PROTECT MY HEALTH FREEDOM: OPPOSE HR 3156”.

2. Identify the Natural Solutions Foundation Congress appreciates knowing which grass roots organization you agree with enough to write your letter. Include a sentence at the beginning of the first paragraph like, “I am writing to you at the suggestion of the Natural Solutions Foundation to strongly encourage your opposition to [support of] (bill #)” which would [give a single phrase summary of the bill].

3. Personalize your letter Tell your story briefly, briefly, briefly. State who you are, how old you are and why this is important to you. Briefly. One page, no more!.

4. Do not send regular mail to Congress Use our email engine to send your personalized letter to Congress. Regular mail is decontaminated and therefore delayed and often damaged.

5. Identify yourself as a constituent. Include your name, address and email at the conclusion of your email. Congress does not pay any attention to, or answer, communications from people who are not constituents. If you do not identify yourself as a constituent your email is wasted. Don’t waste your effort and your opinion by omitting this crucial information.

OK! Now that we have the rules of the game set out, what do you do with them? I urgently hope that you will take the time to create an email on each of the following bad bills (and the one good one, too) which are listed here. I assure you that if you value your health or your freedom, or, better yet, both, your time will be well spent. And then, when you have finished, tell everyone you know in your personal and professional circles of influence to join you in keeping America CODEX-FREE and health freedom alive in the US, too. Remember, the email engine allows you to edit what Congress receives. Write your own letter following the above guidelines and the engine will deliver it for you. Thanks for making the effort and taking the time!

Click here to take action on all bills that are intended to take away your health freedom – as well as supporting the one that is intended to promote your health freedom.

Is this asking a lot of you? Five separate letters with thought and personal information attached to each one? Yes, it is. Are your health and health freedom worth a lot to you? If they are not, don’t do as I have asked.

America is being dumbed down and drugged up. If that is OK with you, take the easy way and do nothing. Back when Camel Cigarettes were chic and their deadly effect was still a well kept corporate secret, the slogan was “I’d walk a mile for a Camel!” Turn it on its head: would you walk a mile for your health and that of those you love? Would you type a mile for them? Before this is over you are going to have to do more than that, I am afraid! But if we do not become the Health Freedom Force, we will be the Drug Dealers Delight, a country of needlessly sick and dying people, young an old. Come on! Let’s exercise our democratic muscles and make Congress work for us, not the Bigs!

And don’t forget to listen to FREE U.S./FREE US! Wednesday 7-8 PM Eastern tomorrow, July 27 at www.FICAA.com when our guest will be Dr. Doris Rapp, Environmental Physician Extraordinaire! She tells it like it is and takes no prisoners! Join us tomorrow!

Yours in health and freedom,
Rima E. Laibow, MD
Medical Director
Natural Solutions Foundation

Congress is at it again: those who are paid by the people are doing the people’s work. Those who are paid by Big Pharma are doing the drug companies’ dirty work. There are bills that we need to kill and bills that we need to support. This blog is a guide to the current crop of health-related bills

“The price of liberty is eternal vigilance”. Jefferson said it so well! And we need to remind ourselves of it often. There are now bills that we have to support and bills that we must kill. Below you will find a list of the relevant bills which impact health freedom. You can read these bills for yourself by entering the bill number or a keyword or you can do the Cliff Notes version and read my summary below. In either case, it is important that you take the tools of democracy in your mouse and use our email engine to send your Congressional Delegation your strong instructions. You can write your own letter or use the one we provide.

The reason it is so important for you to take this action now (and take it again when more legislation is introduced, as it will be) is that if the pro-pharma, pro-illness industry can destroy our legal protections, DSHEA (Dietary Supplement Health and Education Act) and FDAMA (FDA Modernization Act), then there is NOTHING at all standing in the way of our harmonization with the deadly CODEX standards and guidelines. That is what they want. We are not about to let them have it. Here are the good, the bad and the ugly.

The Good:

HR 2352 Consumers’ Access to Health Information Act
Introduced by Ron Paul reverses the FDA’s gag action on nutrients and “permits the accurate label and labeling claims of the curative, mitigation, treatment and prevention effects of foods and dietary supplements on disease and health-related conditions”. This is a very important piece of legislation and should be supported vigorously.

The Bad:

SA 1379 attached to S 1042
Sponsored by Durbin and Feinstein would create an adverse event reporting requirement for supplements (remarkably safe, no deaths) while none exists for pharmaceuticals (remarkably dangerous, hundreds of thousands of deaths annually). It also bars the sale of stimulants on military bases except caffeine containing liquids! Oppose this bill.

S 3 Protecting America in the War on Terror Act of 2005
Introduced by Gregg, First, Sessions, Dewine, Allen, Santorrum, McConnell and Dement is filled with dangerous and harmful provisions including the removal of meaningful restitution for persons harmed by vaccines and shameless immense tax-payer funded corporate welfare for vaccine and drug manufacturers. There are a number of other serious defects in this legislation. Please oppose it.

HR 2485 DSHEA Full Implementation and Enforcement Act of 2005
Introduced by Burton and Pallone appropriates $175M between now and 2010 to give the FDA more money to enforce regulations which are highly detrimental to supplement manufacturers and would expose them to more stringent regulatory requirements than those faced by the pharmaceutical industry. This is not a pro-health bill and should be opposed.

HR 2510 Dietary Supplement Regulatory Implementation Act of 2005
Sponsored by Pallone is an even worse version of HR 2485. In addition to the above, it provides for the by-now-all-too-familiar adverse event reporting system for supplements, but not drugs, an additional $10M to “educate” physicians and consumers about dietary supplements and forbidding ephedrine alkaloids altogether. This is HR 2510 on steroids and must be defeated.

The Ugly:

HR 3156 Dietary Supplement Access and Awareness Act
Introduced by Susan Davis and co-sponsored by Waxman and Dingell is a strongly pro-pharma, anti-health bill that must be defeated. It not only provides for burdensome, expensive and unnecessary post market surveillance by supplement manufacturers, it creates the supplements-only-no-drugs-allowed adverse event reporting system common to so many of these bills, and, most dangerously, permits the FDA to ban any nutrient which has any degree of risk associated with it – no matter how small – even in the absence of any harm from that substance. In other words, it gives the FDA a green light to ban all nutrients. Fascinatingly, Ms. Davis’ bill was introduced on June 30, just days before the Vitamin and Mineral Guideline was ratified by CODEX. This bill excludes vitamins and minerals. Clearly, the assumption was that CODEX would take care of them so Davis would take care of the amino acids, essential fatty acids, etc. This bill must be soundly defeated.

Is this a lot of information? Yes. But it is the most important information of the day for a health-loving American. Folks, these bills are direct attacks against the American people. They have nothing to do with our “protection”, “well-being”, or any other lame excuse. We must take action against these bills. And we will be asking you to take action again because the pro-illness forces will come back with more bills when we defeat these. But that is the price Jefferson cautioned us about: eternal vigilance.

So please click here to tell Congress we are serious about our health freedom.

From where Congress sits, one constituent voice equals the 13,000 others who have not made their identical opinions clear. Speak out now for health freedom and tell everyone you know that they need to speak out now, too!

Yours in health and freedom,

Rima E. Laibow, MD
Medical Director
Natural Solutions Foundation