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"Health is not everything, but without health everything is nothing."
This old saying is a very stable datum in our society, and since
we live in a democracy, or chose to live in one, we also ask for
the right to have choices. These choices have been eroded over time
in many areas, the most persistent being the choice with what and
how we treat our bodies.
In some European countries many restrictions as to products and
dosage has been instituted on the good advice and after much lobbying
by the huge pharmaceutical companies. They do not like to see other
entities competing besides them, especially the natural varieties,
because they are not allowed to monopolize a natural substance.
They cannot claim anything for inventing such a substance, since
it already exist, they cannot get research grants for finding it
and only if they alter it beyond recognition can they claim rights
to the substance they concocted, by which time it likely has no
resemblance to its natural state nor will it always have the same
properties for healing.
And while it has to be said that pharmaceutical drugs have their
place in medicinal treatments, it has also been said that the pharma
industry is only interested in selling drugs that camouflage the
symptoms they claim to treat, that they do not desire to succeed
in curing anyone, so that they may keep profiting from their products.
The industry is spending huge amounts of money to lobby governments
which are always in need of funds for projects the rest of us might
not need. They also shut down class action suits with huge amounts
of money so the public cannot learn about the charges that have
been levied against them.
If the pharma industry has their way you soon will not be able to
go into your favorite health food store and buy any of the natural
substances you know help you handle all sorts of everyday type symptoms
that indicate non optimum functioning of your body.
Your naturopath will not be able to prescribe any number of the
many alternative substances anymore that he knows will help you
overcome your bodies difficulty with something.
Already hundreds of items you have known from your childhood have
disappeared from the shelves, and if you ask in the drug mart why,
the answer is that there was not enough demand for it.
The truth is that pharma industries have managed to lobby regulating
bodies into legislating items out of the mix, simply on the pharma
industry’s say so. By the same token drugs are admitted at a much
too fast rate, also on the say so - often without proof - of same
vested interest.
Bill C-51 is a bill that will take all our rights to freedom of
choice in regards to our health away from us. We, as a people should
not allow that. The people interested in preserving it have done
already a lot of work to prepare the way to handle the situation
permanently. Because of the election last year the Bill could not
be passed, but if the current government stays in the driver’s seat
it will rear its ugly head again. Alternative Health industry experts
and human rights specialist have prepared a Charter of Health Freedom
that will separate alternative health products from the laws governing
the drug industry, where such crazy ideas as classifying vitamins
as drugs have already been perpetrated.
Please inform yourself of your rights and what it is all about at
www.charterofhealthfreedom.com.
You can download your own copy there. You also learn more at
www.nhppa.org, the Natural Health
Products Protection Association site.
I urge you to get involved by informing yourself and by signing
the petition you find also on the
www.nhppa.org site. It might
be one of the most important things you have ever done! After all,
it is your body and health does matter!
To your Health and prosperity in the New Year
Sybille Forster-Rentmeister
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