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PRESERVE ACCESS TO SUPPLEMENTS: OPPOSE HR 2485 AND ALL SIMILAR LEGISLATION

Yes, I want to protect my health freedom by sending a letter urging by local Congressional office to oppose the anti-health freedom HR 2485.

Summarized Information About HR 2485 That You Can Use in Your Letter:

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.

Very Important Instructions to Make Your Letter as Effective as Possible:

Are you aware that Congressmen and Congresswomen get 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. 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. For example: “PROTECT MY HEALTH FREEDOM: OPPOSE HR XXXX″.

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 support/opposition to [insert 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. Remember to keep it brief.

4. Identify yourself as a constituent. Include your name, address and email at the conclusion of your email. Congressional offices do 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.

November 22, 2009

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Dear Congressman,

I am writing to you at the suggestion of the Natural Solutions Foundation to urge you to oppose HR 2485. 
 
HR 2485 and similar legislation puts the power into the hands of the FDA to destroy the wellness industry and, with it, my access to safe, effective and non-toxic nutrients and supplements. The focus of the bill's language and the authorizations of $175 Million between now and 2010 would give the FDA, already nutrient hostile, weapons to destroy the small to medium sized supplement manufacturers and 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.

Nutrients and supplements are protected under DSHEA and classified as foods which may, by definition, have no upper limits set upon their use.  Nutrients are without significant public health and toxicity risk and therefore pose no threat to the public interest.  There is no need to strengthen the hand of the FDA in its continuing attempt to serve the interests of the pharmaceutical industry (which produces shockingly toxic drugs) while destroying the ability of Americans to make natural medicine choices for themselves.  Hundreds of millions of Americans protect and/or regain their health each year by choosing nutrients and supplements.  They know that the use of natural supplements can reduce their medical costs and reduce or eliminate the preventable suffering and death which chronic, degenerative diseases (like cancer, diabetes, cardiovascular disease and stroke, our largest killers aside from pharmaceutical drugs) bring to those who do not understand how to use natural options for health and well-being.  Astoundingly, these natural measures are non-toxic, do not cause side effects and are very inexpensive.  As such, they are good for people and very bad for the bottom line of the pharmaceutical industry of which the FDA is so supportive, to the major detriment of the people of the United States.

I look to you to use every legal means at your disposal to protect and defend my right to learn about, obtain and use natural health means as I see fit.  This means that legislation like HR 2485 must not be passed.

Because this issue is very important to me, I will be watching your votes carefully on this and all related issues and, should you not defend my rights on this issue, will make sure that your bid for re-election in the next election cycle is strongly challenged.

Thank you for your vigorous defense of my health and health freedom.

Yours in health and freedom,

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