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Support HR 2117: End FDA Gag Rule on Dietary Supplement and Food Claims

Yes, I support scientifically based health claims and I am tired of the gag rule used by the FDA for decades. Americans can make up their own minds about the benefits of dietary supplements and manufacturers should be free to tell the public what their products do.

I want to write a letter to my Congressional delegation telling them that free commercial speech about dietary supplements is important to me.

Summarized Information About HR 2117 That You Can Use in Your Letter:

Introduced by Ron Paul, this bill prohibits the FDA from interfering with short, factual health claims for dietary supplements and puts the burden of proof that they are wrong on the Government, where it belogns. HR 2117 reverses the FDA’s gag action on nutrients and permits accurate 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.

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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:

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November 22, 2009

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I am writing to you at the suggestion of the Natural Solutions Foundation to support HR 2117. This bill reverses the decades long FDA suppression of accurate commercial and scientific speech in health claims for foods and dietary supplements. Allowing accurate claims is a part of health freedom blocked out for too long by the nutrient suppressive FDA.

Consumers have a right and a need to know what the purposes, effects, impact and benefits of food and food supplements may be.  For too long, the nutrient-hostile FDA has gagged free and accurate speech and suppressed commercial dissemination of information.  Looking at the shocking excesses of Direct to Consumer Advertising permitted by the FDA in which lethal and dangerous substances are glowingly sold to the American people and comparing it with modest and low-key proposal of this bill: health claims for inherently safe and non-toxic foods and food supplements up to, but not exceeding 3 sentences would be permitted.  It is hard to understand how anyone with real concern for the health of America could do anything other than support this important bill.

I urge you to take this opportunity to endorse, co-sponsor, support and vote for the Health Freedom Protection Act.  I will be observing closely to make sure that you are active in securing, and protective in defending, my health and health freedom, including the basic right to information about the health products of my choice.

Thanks you for your continued interest and championing of my health freedom.

Yours in health and freedom,

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