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I am eating the most delicious salad. I had the foresight to make some shredded chicken last night, and hardboiled eggs. Mix that with lettuce, homegrown tomatoes, onions, and some broccoli an you’ve got quite a feast.

Since we’ve gone to over 60 hours a week, all I really eat for dinner is salad. If it weren’t for all the wonderful things you can do with salad, I don’t know how I would survive.

Then I top it off with some juice and my vitamins – the other key to my survival. OK, that and coffee and chocolate

But the fish oil that I found that doesn’t upset my stomach and actually makes me feel good will probably be illegal if the FDA has their way. and the CoQ10, and the Calcium, magnesium and Vitamin D.

The FDA will not stop in their fight to get rid of supplements.

Their latest action is to require an approval process for any new formulations made since the law protecting our supplements was passed.

Here’s the latest from Life Extension -

Greatest Threat Since FDA Tried to Turn
Nutrients into Prescription Drugs!

Let Your Voice be Heard on September 8th

The FDA has proposed new guidelines that will enable the government to ban the most effective dietary supplements you are now taking.

If these guidelines are enacted, many of the most valuable supplements you take today will be removed from the market.

What is Being Done to Stop this Travesty?

To give you an idea about how dangerous these draconian proposals are, Life Extension® helped organize a protest. And dozens of other health freedom organizations agreed to synchronize a consumer revolt.

The date of this citizens uprising is Thursday, September 8, 2011.

We need to convince Congress to review the FDA’s absurd claims and stand against the draft New Dietary Ingredient (NDI) guidelines. Please join us in this nationwide campaign!

We’re asking each of you to phone your Senators and Representative on September 8 and voice your opposition to the NDI (dietary supplement) guidance.

Tell them why you’re upset over the NDI guidance, and ask them to hold hearings on the FDA’s position. The FDA is clearly overreaching its authority, and the logic of its arguments is beyond absurd. Congress has FDA oversight and needs to review the agency’s actions in creating this new guidance.

Please call the congressional switchboard toll-free at 1-877-762-8762. They will connect you with your Representative’s office. You can use the same phone number to be connected to the office of each of your two Senators. Here is a Citizen’s Petition you can read to the health staff member you speak with:

“The FDA has proposed guidelines that place burdensome new restrictions on dietary supplements introduced after October 15, 1994. That means that nutrients that I have been safely using over the course of three decades will be subject to the FDA’s oppressive policies that mandate costly animal testing. This translates into forced withdrawal from the market of many of my dietary supplements and higher prices for me if the supplement is allowed to be sold again. I ask that you call the FDA Office of Nutrition, Labeling and Dietary Supplements at 1-888-723-3366 and demand that they withdraw the proposed guidelines they issued in July 2011 and work with the Alliance for Natural Health to formulate safety guidelines that make sense for the consumer and the economy.”

Click here to email this same petition to your Congressional members (but please also phone it in … it’s that important!).

After speaking with the office of your Representative and two Senators, call the FDA Office of Nutrition, Labeling and Dietary Supplements at 1-888-723-3366 to read the following citizen’s petition to them:

“I am petitioning the FDA regarding your draft guidance on New Dietary Ingredient notifications for dietary supplements known as Draft Guidance for Industry: Dietary Supplements: New Dietary Ingredient Notifications and Related Issues.

I demand that you immediately disregard all the proposals you outlined and instead consider a rational and scientific approach to regulating new dietary ingredients that will be submitted to you by the Alliance for Natural Health within the next 90 days.

Your proposed guidelines on New Dietary Ingredients will cause the price of my supplements to skyrocket, and some of these life-sustaining supplements are likely to disappear altogether.

This is not acceptable especially when there are no significant reports of adverse reactions to the supplements the FDA may ban.

In as much as your threat to ban my access to new dietary ingredients is causing me great anxiety which is injurious to my health, I insist that you immediately put your proposed new guidance on hold for a 90-day period so that the Alliance for Natural Health can submit comments to ensure a system that protects me against unsafe ingredients without destroying my access to low-cost effective nutrients.”

Click here to print out this petition and add any words you choose and fax this to the FDA at the following number: (301) 436-2639 (but please also phone it in … it’s that important!).

You will be hearing more about this urgent matter from Life Extension and other health freedom organizations very soon.

Mark your calendar to participate in the citizens uprising on Thursday, September 8. On that date of September 8th, make these four toll-free phone calls (three to your members of Congress and one to the FDA).

Please don’t let apathy stand in the way of the government’s latest attempt to take away your most important dietary supplements.

For longer life,

William Faloon

Why We Can Prevail … For those who don’t recall, the federal government came very close to transforming high-potency supplements into prescription drugs in the 1970s. The medical establishment lobbied so hard that it was a foregone conclusion that Congress would change the law and force Americans to obtain prescriptions for many of their supplements. No one expected the consumer backlash that overwhelmed Congress into submission. Vitamin users inundated Congress with so many protests that the Proxmire Vitamin Bill was enacted in 1976. This bill prohibited the FDA from turning dietary supplements into “drugs” as the American Medical Association was urging. Annual vitamin sales were less than $2 billion in the 1970s, yet Congress received more mail from angry vitamin supplement users than any other issue except the Vietnam War. Today, Americans use over $26 billion of dietary supplements each year, so you can imagine how many angry protests Congress will hear when the public learns the FDA is trying to ban every supplement introduced after October 15, 1994. The FDA‘s proposed guidelines represent the greatest threat to health freedom since the medical establishment tried to seize control over your right to ingest food supplements. Please act up on September 8th by contacting the FDA and Congress at the phone numbers provided in this e-mail.

Mark Your Calendar To Call In On September 8th!

Article to Read

Phone Numbers to Call

Talking Points to Use

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While drugs that cause harm are freely available, our government seems all to happy to hand over our health to the Big Industries that line their pockets. Supplements, organics, natural foods have been under constant attack – while drugs, GMOs, and sythentic foods are allowed to flourish.

They’re betting that you’d rather eat the fake crap and take drugs to deal with the consequences.  What say you?

Fight back with your dollars – don’t buy their crap. Fight back with your votes – fire the jerks. Fight back with your phone calls and letters. Don’t let them rest until they’ve finally done what’s right, or they’re out of a job.

GOOD PEOPLE HAVE TO TAKE A STAND OR WE’LL BE SQUASHED.  

Quit taking all this stuff lying down.

And if you need more energy, login and get some great salad recipes, or check out all the apple recipes.

Anyone goin’ apple picking?

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Cargill recalled 36 MILLION pounds of ground turkey because of salmonella.

Why so much?

Because they have kept producing and selling the tainted product since at least March when people first started getting sick.

Did they think it would just go away? Did the USDA & FDA think it would just go away? Don’t you just love how they gamble with our lives to protect profits?

Every day we hear about foods making people sick. We hear about side effects and deaths caused by pharmaceautical drugs.

But, the FDA would rather spend their time trying to limit our exposure to supplements, and keep cherry and walnut growers from talking about the real, scientifically proven benefits of their natural products.

The USDA would rather pave the way for their buddies to ruin the world’s crops with their GMOs.

I think we should make them ingest everything they approve.

Many of us are fighting to keep healthy natural foods and supplements available to those who want to partake in them. But we sure could use a little help. Below is a message from Dr. Hotze regarding the most recent move against supplements.

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URGENT PETITION:  Protect Your Supplements!

Help Us Get 1 Million Signatures to Congress and the FDA 

On July 1, 2011, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) issued draft guidance for complying with the New Dietary Ingredient (NDI) notification protocols contained in the Dietary Supplement Health and Education Act (DSHEA).  If fully implemented, this could ban all dietary supplements in the United States that were formulated after 1994.

This would mean that nearly all vitamin and supplement ingredients, superfoods, multivitamins, detox supplements and medicinal herbal products could be banned from sale in the United States, because very few supplement ingredients can be conclusively shown to have been widely used before 1994.  

Don’t lose your access to natural supplements.  Let your voice be heard!

Sign the petition today!

 

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Congress Seeks to put Dietary Supplement Makers in Jail for Ten Years!

by William Faloon, LEF.org

Pharmaceutical companies are once again interfering with your ability to access information about dietary supplements.

The Senate is debating a bill that will enable the FDA to put vitamin supplement makers in jail for ten years if they cite findings from peer-reviewed published scientific studies on the label of their dietary supplements or their web site.

The pretext for these draconian proposals is a bill titled the Food Safety Accountability Act (S. 3767). The ostensible purpose of the bill is to punish anyone who knowingly contaminates food for sale. Since there are already strong laws to punish anyone who commits this crime, this bill serves little purpose other than enriching pharmaceutical interests.

The sinister scheme behind this bill is to exploit the public’s concern about food safety. Drug companies want to convince your Senators that an overreaching law needs to be enacted to grant the FDA powers to define “food contamination” any way it chooses.

Even today, the FDA can proclaim a dietary supplement as “misbranded” even if the best science in the world is used to describe its biological effects in the body. The concern is that the FDA will use the term “misbranded” in the same way it defines “adulterated” in order to jail dietary supplement makers as if they were selling contaminated food.

The new bill being debated in the Senate increases the penalties the FDA can use to threaten supplement makers to ten years in prison. The big issue here is that the FDA will use this as a hammer to threaten and coerce small companies into signing crippling consent decrees that will deny consumers access to truthful non-misleading information about natural approaches to protect against age-related disease.

Please tell your two Senators to OPPOSE the Food Safety Accountability Act (S. 3767). You can do this in a few minutes on our convenient Legislative Action Center on our Web site. Click here to take action now.

If you’d like to read the legal details about this bill, log on to the Alliance for Natural Health Web site: http://www.anh-usa.org/breaking-new…

Health-conscious consumers have succeeded in preventing Congress from capitulating to the pharmaceutical industry this year. Please continue this string of victories by telling your Senators to OPPOSE this underhanded attempt (S. 3767) to grant the FDA dictatorial new powers.

Due to the short session before Congress adjourns for the election, please alert your two Senators today!

For longer life,
William Faloon

By fitness and nutrition author Jon Benson

I took a big, huge, massive sigh of relief today.

Finally… the FDA did something right when it comes to bogus “magic” diet-fatburn pills.

A panel of experts reviewed Vivus Inc.’s new wonder-pill “Qnexa” today.

They gave it the thumbs-down.

Why?

Oh… pesky little reported side-effects like… (are you ready for this?)…

Heart Attacks
Stroke
Increased Risk of Suicide (yikes!)
Memory/Concentration Loss

You know… “minor” stuff like that.

GEEZ. What the hell are these drug companies thinking?

Oh, right…

Quick-Fix =
Big-Bucks

Got it.

So, I am going to believe that YOU are much smarter than the morons who tried to get this drug past the FDA.

I’m going to assume you want a solution to this obesity pandemic and your own fatloss issues (if you have them) that do NOT involve risking your life for a thinner you.

“Oh, Marge… she looks so thin in her casket…”

THIS IS NOT A GOOD EULOGY! : )

Listen: I get it. I really do.

I’m an athlete and we are always looking for tricks to help increase our performance. But your body is simply too smart for these fatloss-pills people are trying to pass off as “a break-through medical discovery.”

Nonsense… more like heart-breaking medical waste of time.

One day… perhaps even in my lifetime… someone will invent a chemical that actually works to shed bodyfat without harming the body. That will be a great day for all of us.

Even so, I can all but promise you that this chemical will have its nasty side-effects and/or be limited in duration or power.

Nothing, repeat NOTHING you can pop in your mouth will give you the JOY that managing your dietplan and bodyweight can give you.

NOTHING!

It’s one of the greatest feelings in the world.

And here’s a fantastic clue for you: The reason we want to be thin is because of the FEELING it gives us. Most everything we do is based on feelings.

Quick-fixes negate the most powerful thing about feelings: Earning the right to have them!

Think of it this way: Would you feel more alive and powerful if you climbed a mountain or if you took a helicopter ride to the summit?

Sure, the helicopter is easy… but which is more personally rewarding?

Think of your own body transformation goals as your personal mountain to climb.

No helicopters… just really good guides (I volunteer) and solid climbing tools (like a great real-world dietplan, solid workouts that work WITH your schedule, and realistic but exciting goals.)

Your goals will become your base camps along your summit of your personal journey to the best you possible.

Color me silly, but I think that sounds FAR more empowering and rewarding that popping pills.

As you probably know I wrote one of the top books in the world on “real-world” weighttloss (spelled that way so the spambox won’t eat your email… : ) I made this dietary System as easy as possible… but NO plan is “easy” and there is NO quick-fixes out there without serious pricetags.

That said, I have some “rebel tricks” to share with you today… and they won’t put you six feet under before your time.

Just click on the page below and then click on “Articles”… then you’ll see it. It’s the first article, “3 Diet Secrets Revealed”.

Go here:

Video Plus Articles Homepage

You can’t sell this stuff in a bottle… but it works to get the bodyfat off and keep it off.

Remember:

Don’t Quit… Get Fit.

Sincerely,

J O N  B E N S O N

P.S. If you pick up my dietplan (on the article page above) you’ll find in the Member’s Area three supplements that actually DO work to help you burn-off-fat… but they do not work like magic. They work like they’re supposed to: Realistically, and without harming your body. I take them. So should you.

I was looking through the Healthier Talk feed (inside the members area for your convenience), and they are attacking a Harvard Professor for saying that a nutrient helps reduce colds and flu. They are threatening him with criminal prosecution. A commenter on another post called the the Federal Death Administration. I got a chuckle out of that, but its a sad statement, don’t you think?

His real crime is that he is selling a supplement. You can talk about the health benefits all you want, as long as you don’t sell it. So I can talk about the health benefits of cranberries because I don’t sell cranberries, but the Cranberry Growers Association can’t.

Here’s an exerpt from the article -

“So, just how dangerous are supplements and natural remedies that has the FDA declaring war on your right to purchase natural alternatives?

You’re not going to believe this one.

There was not one death caused by dietary supplements in 2008. Not one.

A recent report in the journal Clinical Toxicology shows that there was not one death caused by any vitamin including A, B, C, D, and E.(2)

What’s more, there wasn’t one death caused by amino acids, herbals, homeopathics, or mineral supplements.

Not a single man, woman, or child died from nutritional supplements.

Yet nearly 125,000 people die each year from FDA-approved prescription drugs. That’s twice the number of casualties we suffered during the Vietnam War.

That’s a tragedy. And it’s a war that is happening every year.

In addition, prescription drugs cause 2.2 million adverse reactions each year.(3)

That’s not all.

Nearly five percent of all hospital admissions – more than 1 million per year – are due to drug side effects.”

The bad news is – the FDA is not protecting you. You have to protect yourself by being informed, and eating right. The good news is, its easy to do when you login

Make sure to check out the Healthier Talk news feed from time to time. Oh, don’t forget to scan the FDA recalls every time you login. Its important information.

Click here to view the article at the Healthier Talk Site >>>

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United States District Court for the District of Columbia ruled that the FDA cannot keep people from talking about scientific research that shows that selenium helps reduce the risk of cancer.

The Court ruled that the FDA is violating First Amendment Rights.

It’s just selenium so far. We still have cherries, walnuts, and a host of other scientifically proven healthy foods and nutrients that will help prevent the majority of so called ‘lifestyle’ diseases  - but we’re moving in the right direction.

Wow. Imagine if everyone knew that they could be thin & healthy just by changing the way they eat

That’s right.

If you have ever used cranberry juice to cure a bladder infection, or bananas to stop the runs, or cloves to stop a toothache – You are breaking the law.

Do you use vitamin C to cure a cold? That’s illegal too.

None of the research or nutritional science is credible as far as the FDA is concerned – UNLESS their blessing has been bought and paid for to the tune of millions of dollars.

What will that do to the price of your Vitamin C and cranberry juice?

At this rate, we won’t be able to pay enough to stay alive.

There’s this rumor going around that they actually do want to kill off half the world population because we can’t sustain everyone. Makes you wonder, doesn’t it?

There’s a special hearing taking place tomorrow – May 26, 2010. The Senate Special Committee on Aging. It is speculated that they will be discussing supplements – again.

In the never ending attempt to squash supplements, the  Government Accountability Office (GAO) sent undercover shoppers into health food stores with tape recorders to see whether they could get store employees to give them information on the treatment of their ailments, and they caught many.

But its OK to pump everyone full of drugs with 2 pages of side effects. That’s legal.

Fake foods and prescription drugs that are increasing disease at an alarming rate – those are legal.

Those have gone through an extensive testing process and are endorsed by the FDA.

HELLO?

Please note that anything said on this website is my opinion and has not been reviewed or approved by the FDA.

I’m going to go take my vitamins now.

for more information – read http://www.anh-usa.org/u-s-institute-of-medicine-study-urges-new-approach-to-regulating-supplements-%e2%80%93-big-pharma-influenced-doctors-get-it-wrong-again/