The Monopoly On Your Health
The Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics is trying to get a monopoly on nutritional advice. Read the full story here.
Has Science Just Settled the “Low-Fat vs. Low-Carb” Debate for Weight Loss?
The Los Angeles Times says yes, and low-fat won—which will make some big advertisers happy. Unfortunately, the Times made a hash of the actual study. Here’s the headline: “For fat loss, low-fat diets beat low-carb diets handily, new research finds.” Unfortunately not a word of this is true. The article, which was published in the […]
Will Big Food Control Nutrition “Science?”
A new report details how Big Food appears to have captured yet another key nutrition group, the American Society of Nutrition. Action Alert! You may remember that a few weeks back we reported on the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics’ (AND) ill-fated partnership with Kraft Foods. Kraft was permitted to place the AND’s “Kids Eat […]
ANH-USA Takes the Initiative against Monopolistic Dietetics Boards
With your help, we can stop them from gagging free speech about nutrition. ANH-USA has identified seventeen states with the most monopolistic scope-of-practice laws, and has sent letters to those states’ dietetic boards, their attorneys general, and key policymakers warning them that they are vulnerable to federal felony prosecution and civil damages under antitrust law […]
Qualified Victory against Crony Capitalist Nutrition in North Carolina
Good news in the fight against monopolies in nutritional therapy. You may remember the story of North Carolina Paleo-blogger Steve Cooksey. In 2012, Cooksey got a cease-and-desist letter from North Carolina’s Board of Nutrition/Dietetics because he was offering nutritional advice about the Paleo diet at no charge on his blog—but without a board-issued license. A legal […]
New “21st Century Cures” Bill Is Yet Another Gift to the Pharmaceutical Industry
It’s called a 21st century bill, but this extraordinarily dense legislative proposal follows an old, 20th century paradigm: if there’s an illness, create some new government-subsidized drugs to throw at it. Action Alert! The “21st Century Cures Act” is close to 400 pages long. If enacted, it would dramatically alter the ways pharmaceutical and medical device products are […]
Accomplishments
Since its inception, the Alliance for Natural Health USA has waged many successful battles to protect alternative health options . Throughout our history we have played an important role in filing precedent-setting lawsuits and passing significant legislation that directly benefit the natural health community: Dietary Supplement Health And Eduction Act (DSHEA). We were instrumental in […]
On Balance, 2014 Has Been a Good Year for Natural Health—Thanks to Your Activism and Support
We couldn’t have done it without you, and the help of other health advocacy organizations. Much more remains to be accomplished in 2015. Nutrition Facts Panel FDA proposed a new 109-page set of rules for revising nutrition and supplement labels. It included a provision that would have banned the word “folate” from supplement labels, even though […]
Legal and Policy Projects
Supplement Access Scientific Censorship Protect Access To Good Food Reform the FDA Protecting Medical Practitioners From Monopolistic Attack Protect Individualized Medicine and Individual Choice Insure Access To Quality Supplements As staunch advocates of natural health, ANH-USA has long worked to insure that consumers have access to quality supplements. Our organization’s first lawsuit was the landmark […]
How a Tooth-Whitening Lawsuit Landed before the Supreme Court
—and why their decision will have far-reaching ramifications for state licensing boards. Last year we told you about the Federal Trade Commission’s investigation of the North Carolina dental board. The FTC decided the board had attempted to monopolize the teeth whitening business, and found it had illegally thwarted competition through cease-and-desist letters. The board—composed mainly of private dentists—had […]