Health Freedom Action

Oppose 3156 and protect access to nutrients

Yes, I want to protect my health and health freedom by urging Congress to uphold DSHEA and defeat HR 3156

Summarized Information About HR 3156 You Can Use in Your Letter:

HR 3156 was introduced by Susan Davis and co-sponsored by Waxman and Dingell. It gives the already nutrient-hostile FDA the authority to remove any product from the market for which there is even a theoretical possibility that a risk might be associated with the substance.

While vitamins and minerals are exempted, all other nutritional supplememts would be vulnerable to removal by the FDA in the event that anyone can come up with any possibility, no matter how remote. Public review and oversight is not premitted by the bill.

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

Subject:

I am writing at the urging of the Natural Solutions Foundation to urge you to defeat HR 3156 and all similar legislation. My health and my health freedom are seriously threatened by this bill since it gives the power to the FDA to remove any nutrient (except for vitamins and minerals) based on a hypothetical possibility of adverse events which MIGHT occur under circumstances which have never yet occurred.

Although there is no mandatory Adverse Event Reporting System associated with drugs (which account for over 100,000 deaths per year in the US), one is proposed for safe nutrients, with which there are zero deaths associated per year. Even the much vilified ephedra was found innocent of any complicity in every death attributed to it by the GAO in a two part report.  If the FDA were to remove drugs with which adverse events were either actual or possible, there would be no drugs left on the market!

I strongly urge you to oppose this measure and any like it and, instead, champion my health and health rights.  I understand that members of Congress deserve the support in both the primary and the general portions of the election cycle if they support the priorities and needs of their constituents.

I am a constituent and I will be watching your health freedom support closely.

Yours in health and freedom,

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