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American Dietetic Association Speeds up its Race for Monopoly – Updated
The ADA is starting 2012 on the attack by introducing bills in four states and preparing for more—trying to sew up a legally enforced national monopoly before opposition can mount. Action Alerts!
(2/2/12)Why is “Hot Chemo” an Acceptable Cancer Treatment—But IV Vitamin C is “Too Far Out There”?
Patients liken hot chemotherapy to “being filleted, disemboweled, and then bathed in hot poison.” Best patient care, or merely the biggest moneymaker?
(1/31/12)All We Need Is One Minute of Their Time
Our Action Alert is simple: Ask your senator or representative to make a one-minute floor speech opposing the FDA’s plan to sweep many supplements off the she
(1/31/12)FDA’s New Claim: “Your Body Is a Drug—and We Have the Authority to Regulate It!”
In another outrageous power-grab, FDA says your own stem cells are drugs—and stem cell therapy is interstate commerce because it affects the bottom line of FDA-approved drugs in other states!
(1/31/12)No Science for You!
Congress wants to limit your access to research—even though your tax dollars paid for it. If this bill passes, you’ll learn only what mainstream medicine wishes you to know. Action Alert!
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Tell Congress the Draft Guidance on NDIs is Bad for Consumers
The FDA issued draft guidance for complying with the New Dietary Ingredient (NDI) notification protocols. This guidance will create such huge barriers for supplement manufacturers that it will be much more difficult and expensive to produce them. But of course, that means consumers would either have to pay much more for nutritional supplements, or else risk not being able to buy them at all if the manufacturer deems them too expensive to produce.
Tell Congress to Oppose the Dietary Supplement Labeling Act
The Dietary Supplement Labeling Act has been introduced in the Senate. The bill instead targets supplements and supplement manufacturers, exploiting a hot-button food issue to try to pass more regulation for dietary supplements. Moreover, almost all of its provisions are already covered by existing law. There is no need for any new legislation; the only need is for existing laws to be fully enforced.
Defeat the HPV Bill in New York!
In New York, AB 699 requires that all children born after January 1, 1996, be inoculated with the human papillomavirus vaccine (HPV) despite the fact that its actual effectiveness is unknown—at best it may protect against only two of the fifteen cancer-causing strains of the virus—and the side effects and reactions from the vaccine are sometimes severe. Ask your legislators to defeat this new bill.
Tell Them: No Protecting Monsanto!
USDA secretary is working on a plan to compensate organic and conventional farmers whose crops become contaminated because of genetically engineered food. While it might seem that Monsanto would have to treat organic farmers fairly and pay them for the damage caused by the contamination, it is more likely that what is intended is really a new protection scheme for Monsanto—a legal shelter that will limit Monsanto’s future monetary damages.
Oppose CA AB-575 - Stop the Dietitian Monopoly in California
AB 575 would create a new Dietitians Bureau Bureau under the Department of Consumer Affairs. Under this bill, nutritionists are forced to take the ADA exam and become licensed as dietitians in order to practice, even if they already have a Master’s degree or a PhD. This is a perfect opportunity for California nutritionists to meet with legislators and educate them on the disastrous effects of the bill if it were to be passed.
Stop the Dietitian Monopoly in Colorado!
HB 1060, with cosponsors in both the Colorado House and Senate, would ensure that only Dietitians can practice (Colorado currently has no statute for nutrition professionals). This is a scope-of-practice bill that controls the practice of dietetics and medical nutrition therapy—which are defined very broadly to include nutrition assessment, nutrition care process, diagnosis, nutrition monitoring, and evaluation (things that nutritionists do as well). It would also create a Board, which would be controlled by Dietitians, thus ensuring a bias against nutritionists. The bill includes a penalty for practicing without a license: a fine of not more than $500 or imprisonment for not more than six months, with each day of violation constituting a separate offense!
Stop the Dietitian Monopoly in Indiana!
HB 1187 controls the “practice of dietetics” but also covers nutrition therapy (including medical nutrition therapy), nutrition assessments, nutrition care processes, nutrition care services, nutrition counseling, nutrition diagnoses, nutrition intervention, and nutrition monitoring and evaluation. All of the licensure requirements are the same as for ADA dietitian registration; the educational requirements include some ADA-type courses not relevant to nutritionists such as taking a course in food management systems.
Oppose ADA Monopoly in New Jersey!
The New Jersey Legislature is currently considering a bill that would lump together “licensed dietitian/nutritionist”—the terms are used interchangeably throughout the bill. Instead of noting and providing for the differences between the two, the bill creates a State Board of Dietitians/Nutritionists instead of a separate board for each.
New York Action Alert on Licensed Dietician/Nutritionists Bill
The New York Legislature is currently considering a seriously restrictive bill that would create a new title for dietitians and nutritionists—“Licensed Dietitian/Nutritionist” or “LDN”. Moreover, a majority of the new board would be ADA members, and they would have the power to decide which exams are allowed—and which are not. This change would criminalize non-licensed practitioners creating significant economic loss due to the severe and unnecessary scope of practice restrictions of the proposed bill. Highly trained professionals including but not limited to chiropractors, naturopathic doctors, nurse practitioners, physicians assistants, certified nutrition specialists, certified clinical nutritionists, and health coaches would effectively be prohibited from providing nutrition-related counseling.
Stop the Dietitian Monopoly in West Virginia!
HB 4045 would allow only licensed dietitians can practice dietetics or medical nutrition therapy. “Dietetics” is here defined to include the sciences of nutrition, biochemistry, food, physiology, health management; “medical nutrition therapy” is defined as the nutritional diagnostic assessment and nutrition therapy services for the purpose of disease management. Four of the five board members will be registered or licensed dietitians, and since the exam to qualify for licensure will be board-determined, it will almost certainly be the ADA exam. All other requirements are the same as the ADA’s. Practicing without a license would fetch a fine of between $100 and $1000, or a jail sentence of up to six months.
Tell Congress to Reject the Research Works Act!
Two members of Congress have introduced HR 3699, the Research Works Act. This bill would prevent the National Institutes of Health or any other agency from causing or even allowing private-sector research work to be disseminated online without prior consent of both the publisher and the study authors—even if the funding came from our tax dollars. Please ask Congress to fight this bill and uphold our free access to scientific data.
Maryland Residents: Tell Then to Make Smart Meters Optional!
Prince George’s County, the city of Takoma Park, and the entire region serviced by Baltimore Gas and Electric are moving forward with the installation of smart meters—radio frequency controlled meters that, according to many reports, damage people’s health, and which leave residents vulnerable to malicious attacks from hackers. We are asking Maryland residents to write to the Maryland Public Service Commission and to their state senators and delegate, and ask them to mandate an opt-out provision so that citizens will not have to bear the possibly carcinogenic effects of smart meters without their knowledge and consent.
Tell FDA to Stop Listening to Big Food Interests on the “Gluten-Free” Definition
In 2004, Congress directed the US Food and Drug Administration to establish a uniform definition for “gluten free” for food companies that want to claim that designation for their products. Congress set a deadline of 2008, but now, three years later, nothing has been finalized. Instead, the FDA has been asking experts and analyzing “various technical issues,” when they should simply adopt the international standard of 20 parts per million.
Tell Congress to Permit Interstate Commerce of Unpasteurized Dairy Products
Representative Ron Paul introduced legislation that allows the shipment and distribution of unpasteurized milk and milk products for human consumption across state lines. This legislation removes an unconstitutional restraint on farmers who wish to sell or otherwise distribute—and people who wish to consume—raw milk and milk products.
Tell the FDA to Warn Consumers about Antidepressants and Violence!
The FDA has approved a reformulated version of Prozac, but this one is just for dogs. Reconcile, a once-daily, chewable, dog-treat-flavored drug, was created to treat canine separation anxiety. The product label does not contain the black box warning that is mandatory on the version given to humans. ANH-USA is asking the FDA to expand the black box warning on SSRIs for humans to include a warning about increased risk of violence toward others, and to put a similar black box warning on the version marketed for pets.
FEATURED VIDEOS
Dr. Rob Verkerk: How Do We Move Natural Medicine Into the Mainstream? (Part 5 of 5)
Part 5 of 5 - Dr. Verkerk talks about moving natural medicine into the mainstream at CAMExpo, October 2009
Part 5 of 5 - Dr. Verkerk talks about moving natural medicine into the mainstream at CAMExpo, October 2009
Dr. Rob Verkerk: How Do We Move Natural Medicine Into the Mainstream? (Part 4 of 5)
Part 4 of 5 - Dr. Verkerk talks about moving natural medicine into the mainstream at CAMExpo, October 2009
Part 4 of 5 - Dr. Verkerk talks about moving natural medicine into the mainstream at CAMExpo, October 2009
Dr. Rob Verkerk: How Do We Move Natural Medicine Into the Mainstream? (Part 3 of 5)
Part 3 of 5 - Dr. Verkerk talks about moving natural medicine into the mainstream at CAMExpo, October 2009
Part 3 of 5 - Dr. Verkerk talks about moving natural medicine into the mainstream at CAMExpo, October 2009
Dr. Rob Verkerk: How Do We Move Natural Medicine Into the Mainstream? (Part 2 of 5)
Part 2 of 5 - Dr. Verkerk talks about moving natural medicine into the mainstream at CAMExpo, October 2009
Part 2 of 5 - Dr. Verkerk talks about moving natural medicine into the mainstream at CAMExpo, October 2009
Dr. Rob Verkerk: How Do We Move Natural Medicine Into the Mainstream? (Part 1 of 5)
Part 1 of 5 - Dr. Verkerk talks about moving natural medicine into the mainstream at CAMExpo, October 2009.
Part 1 of 5 - Dr. Verkerk talks about moving natural medicine into the mainstream at CAMExpo, October 2009.
Our Right to Natural Health: Dr Verkerk on GMOs
Dr Robert Verkerk from the Alliance for Natural Health talks at the Total Health Show in Toronto about GM (GE) foods.
Dr Robert Verkerk from the Alliance for Natural Health talks at the Total Health Show in Toronto about GM (GE) foods.
Litigation against Wyeth Pharmaceuticals
Litigation against Wyeth Pharmaceuticals
Litigation against Wyeth Pharmaceuticals
Codex Alimentarius UK -2008 - Alliance for Natural Health
Codex Alimentarius UK -2008 - Alliance for Natural Health
Codex Alimentarius UK -2008 - Alliance for Natural Health
Texas Health Freedom Coalition
Texas Health Freedom Coalition
Texas Health Freedom Coalition
H1N1 vaccination
lip discussing H1N1 vaccination and freedom of choice from Nat'l Vaccine Information Center
lip discussing H1N1 vaccination and freedom of choice from Nat'l Vaccine Information Center
