STEVE BAYT
Parma/Brook Park Ohio
SENATOR DURBIN'S AMERICAN HEALTH CRISIS
PREFACE: Below this preface is an article that I have e-mailed to
virtually every daily newspaper and many community weeklies, also to
at least 20 am radio stations per state and most every local network
affiliate.
I am calling for readers, listeners and viewers to get
Senator Durbin's Senate Bill 722, which would effectively make illegal
virtually all health foods, supplements etc into newspapers, talk
shows and news broadcasts until every Senator is on record as opposing
this financial and lethal to millions bill.
The article clearly elaborates on not just athletes'
use of health foods but also the millions of people with diseases kept
alive by supplements years or decades longer than standard medical
treatments-with much less side effects. Also, about the deaths that
would be involved in the inevitable black market of a demand of ten
million users.
Health food users should cancel their newspapers
subscriptions, contact stores that sell supplements and the daily
paper if their newspaper won't champion the cause against Senator
Durbin. Either by publishing the below article, publishing ones by
local readers or editorialists.
This bill's enactment would also lead to billions of tax
dollars in futile enforcement of banning something or extreme benefit
to society. Thus, the amount of benefits of getting every Senator to
publicly and legislatively oppose Senate Bill 722 unfathomably
outweighs the detriment of excessive posting to newsgroups. I also
encourage massive e-forwarding the below article, until the mainstream
media can't ignore this potential fatal legislation.
Calling in radio shows while on-air would also be
effective.
THE ARTICLE/LETTER:
"These statements have not been evaluated by The Food and Drug
Administration. This product is not intended to diagnose, treat, cure
or prevent any disease."
For 9 years , since the Dietary Supplement Health Act of 1994, that
absurd disclaimer has been mandated by THE FOOD AND DRUG
ADMINISTRATION on any Nutritional Supplement or health food..
About ten million Americans have ignored the disclaimer and have
indeed prevented getting many diseases and ailments, along with
suureal athletic enhancement.
Illinois Senator Richard Durbin's sponsored bill S. 722, if
passed, would create an American Health Crisis worse than AIDS,
virtually eliminating nutritional supplements.
The prices of supplements if regulated would increase. For
example, a present $2.00 container of 100 tablets, 500 mgs. Vitamin C
would be $20.00. A $7.00 present container of 50 ct. Ginseng Complex
would become a $80-$100 major purchase.
Such a cost-driven price increase would financially prevent
all but the most wealthy (who can afford health insurance) from
obtaining the ounce of prevention supplements provide. Leaving
tax-payers with a ton of cure ,curing low income supplement users.
That is, until everything is eliminated due to the S. 722
procedure of banning a supplement if even one complaint of ill
effects is reported to The FDA.
Despite the 1994 DSHEA ruling, supplements and herbs have
provided health benefits for hundreds to thousands of years. If any
change is needed it's abolishing the government mandated disclaimer.
Evolving through the last quarter century or so, doctors are
encouraging patients to take nutritional supplements, especially a
month or so before surgery.
While most medications (particular for AIDS) have extreme
side effects worse than the diseases symptoms, the only significant
side effect of what is called "megadosing" (consuming obsessive
amounts of nutritional supplements) is excessive urination and or
defecation.
Although 60% of supplement usage is for athletic enhancement,
40% is for disease prevention and overall health. Nationally,
possibly up to a million people with incurable diseases, given short
life spans, live years or decades beyond their predicted deaths
replacing traditional medications with supplements. Most of them are
assisted in their treatment choice by doctors.
Those self healers would create a demand for black market
supplements, complete with all the massive death associated with
crime. Along with billions of tax dollars being spent prohibiting
what is America's most beneficial commercial product.
Supplements provide nutrients (mostly herbs) in needed amounts
simply not obtainable in foods. For example, one would have to consume
a car full of peanuts to equal the Vitamin E in a single 400 I.U Mixed
Tocopherols softgel
Many boxes of Total Cereal would be needed to equal the Vitamin
B's of one B-50 Complex capsule.
The government decided extremely low USRDA's are an epitome
of the FDA's incompetence regarding America's health.
There are thousands of herbs (only a hundred or so readily
available) which provide immune enhancement critical for such diseases
as HIV et al. Even the common cold or flu can be lessened with Vitamin
C, Bioflavanoids and Echenecea.
The one in a thousand harmful concoctions like Ephedera are
quickly banished by consumerism with probably capitalism's most
educated consumers. Snake-oil products are quickly off the shelf due
to lack of demand.
About ten million supplement users for years, decades or
life extensively research before spending (for example) $12 on a 50 ct
of Horse Chestnut. Virtually everyone who starts supplements for
health and or athletics continues eternally. A small percent don't
benefit. An infinitesimal amount which Senator Durbin is trying to
protect get worse.
While there are millions of cases of Natural Healing
successes and thousands of athletic enhancement cases, there are no
statistics kept on rare megadosing problems.
Those with normal discretionary income simply can't afford
the level of megadosing needed for the only risk of supplement
taking-kidney damage due to the extreme urination-which takes (even
with sales) at least $7,000 annually for many years.
Finances and the social/work restraints of excessive
urination prevents kidney damage years before possible.
Senator Durbin's bill, if passed, would create initial
giveaway sales and heath food stores closings. Initially, sales of
pre-Durbin $20 supplements would be liquidated at $1,leading to
supplement users stock piling. That is, before manufacturers go out of
business.
After the stockpiles are depleted, and the one in a million
abuser reports a case to THE FDA eventually banning all supplements,
mass sickness will ensue. America will have a nutritional deficiency
similar to third world countries.
For the first time in modern America, ten million
supplement users and the entire country will go from having everything
needed for health and athletics to primitive nutritional intake
sources.
No more MSN/Glucosamine for sore joints. No more Zinc
Lozenges for sore throats. No more Calcium for Osteoporosis. No more
anything for anything. Just a country subject to getting sick at the
cost of billions of dollars public for subsidized health care of those
Post Durbin former supplement users.
And probably millions with diseases which supplements
lessen the symptons ,will die. All because Senator Durbin sponsored a
bill which would make AIDS comparatively look not so bad. And prevent
those with AIDS from feeling any better