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No Deaths from Vitamins, Minerals, Amino Acids or Herbs
There was not even one death caused by a dietary supplement in 2008, according to the most recent information collected by the U.S. National Poison Data System. The new 174-page annual report of the American Association of Poison Control Centers, published in the journal Clinical Toxicology, shows zero deaths from multiple vitamins; zero deaths from any of the B vitamins; zero deaths from vitamins A, C, D, or E; and zero deaths from any other vitamin. Additionally, there were no deaths whatsoever from any amino acid or herbal product. This means no deaths at all from blue cohosh, echinacea, ginkgo biloba, ginseng, kava kava, St. John’s wort, valerian, yohimbe, Asian medicines, ayurvedic medicines, or any other botanical. There were zero deaths from creatine, blue-green algae, glucosamine, chondroitin, melatonin, or any homeopathic remedies.
Furthermore, there were zero deaths in 2008 from any dietary mineral supplement. This means there were no fatalities from calcium, magnesium, chromium, zinc, colloidal silver, selenium, iron, or multimineral supplements. Two children died as a result of medical use of the antacid sodium bicarbonate. The other “Electrolyte and Mineral” category death was due to a man accidentally drinking sodium hydroxide, a highly toxic degreaser and drain-opener.
No man, woman or child died from nutritional supplements. Period.
61 poison centers provide coast-to-coast data for the U.S. National Poison Data System, which is then reviewed by 29 medical and clinical toxicologists. NPDS, the authors write, is “one of the few real-time national surveillance systems in existence, providing a model public health surveillance system for all types of exposures, public health event identification, resilience response and situational awareness tracking.”
Over half of the U.S. population takes daily nutritional supplements. Even if each of those people took only one single tablet daily, that makes 154,000,000 individual doses per day, for a total of over 56 billion doses annually. Since many persons take more than just one vitamin or mineral tablet, actual consumption is considerably higher, and the safety of nutritional supplements is all the more remarkable.
If nutritional supplements are allegedly so “dangerous,” as the FDA and news media so often claim, then where are the bodies?
Those who wonder if the media are biased against vitamins may consider this: how many television stations, newspapers, magazines, and medical journals have reported that no one dies from nutritional supplements?
http://www.orthomolecular.org/resources/omns/v06n04.shtml
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Whats even more amazing is that literally thousands die from side effects and complications from our so called “safe” prescriptions that doctors hand out like candy. The pharmecutical companies are so corrupt, it is so frustrating.
Dear Representative:
I understand from published data that properly prescribed medications kill nearly 300 people each day in the United States.
Nutritional supplements caused no fatalities in 2008 and few complications of any kind. Yet the members of congress are constantly being lobbied to create more and more ridiculous regulations on the nutrition industry.
If we aren’t dangerous then why do we need to be so over regulated?
Could it be that more than 50% of the people on FDA committees draw paychecks from drug companies?
Could it be that the drug industry wants to kill their competition?
Please Honor the DSHEA act and let our freedoms alone!
Sincerely,
Robert McClintock
DITTO! The 3rd leading cause of death on record is Iatrogenesis…dying at the hands of a doctor..which includes the drugs they handout like candy! Moreover, the side effects from many of these drugs contribute DIRECTLY to the #1 and #2 leading causes of death…making Iatrogenesis most likely the #1 cause of death. The hypocricy of Big Pharma and the AMA and FDA is criminal! The only supplements that could escape this regulation would be WHOLE FOOD supplements as there are no doseages of contents on the bottles as on extracted supplements.
Pharmaceutical sure behind this–they dont make money on healthier people. What about the 100,000 that die a year from prescription drugs—and the numerous side-effects–what about Avandia linked to 80,000 deaths and heart attacks–now Zocor in news causing kidney damage and muscle damage. I get so mad at this crap–we take lots of supplements–and I feel much better about that–than numerous prescriptions. I suppose the cancer people dont want you taking Vitamon D or other things–as they wont make enough money–if you dont get cancer!!! God help us all!!What do we have freedom of anymore–why cant people who do take drugs–go to Canada like they used to–freedom of what???? Thank You P.Eichhorst
What is obvious is that the politicians who were meant to help run the this country for us are now running it for themselves.
The new so-called “health legislation” will only continue to rob us of our health rights.
I would suggest that anyone who depends on supplements begin stockpiling them and begin growing herb gardens and learn home pharmacy science methods. Independence is the key to freedom now. Looking to the past for the way things were and not looking at the present at how things actually are only robs us of our ability to respond.
Also look at deaths from Standard American Diet (SAD) vs. raw food vegan.
The only contamination of vegetables comes from factory farms, nearby.
The factory farms get a pass, and the vegetables get the criticism.
Examine the morbidity rate of 100% raw foodists vs. junk food couch potatoes, and you will see where to look for “health reform”
This is ridiculous. Have you heard the side effects of virtually EVERY pharm. drug? DO NOT take a way or make horribly expensive our only alternatives to attempt to heal ourselves
One of the many reasons the ‘powers to be’ constantly try to subdue what ‘qualified university degree’ practitioners do with vitamins, herbs etc is because THEY can not put a patent on them so they cannot claim it for themselves. Shame on anyone who thinks like that as it has been proven time and time again that in the right hands natural medications help rebalance the individual without unwanted side-effects.
PLease do NOT take away our health freedoms.
Leave our health supplements alone.
More people die every year from pharmaceutical drugs than any other cause according to statistics I have read.
Is this campaign happening because Big Pharma is the most wealthy and influential organization in the USA?
I am a healthy 77 year-old woman because I choose healthy positive
thinking AND eat a healthy diet in addition to getting adequate excer-
cise and sleep. I rarely need to see a doctor because of my health lifestyle.
Don’t be silly. This is not about health. It is about control. They have to reduce the population of the world and if we are eating and living healthy, they cannot infect us with their diseases. No money for the fat cats at the top. they must remove the intelligent first. It does not matter who you vote for or how many letters you write, you will get what they have planned. Save seeds and store up on your herbs and vitamins now. They will be as valuable to trade as ammunition.
We are losing a net effect of 54 people per minute in the US. They are the producers. We each must decide whether we will leave or fight for freedom. And don’t be misled it will be a fight to the death. My choice has still not made. I feel I owe it to what is left of my country to fight, but it is easier and safer to just get out while we can.
God help us!
While the pharmaceutical drug cartel kills over 106,000 people yearly (taken according to the perscription), the killer drugs are rarely removed by the FDA. If one person were killed by a supplement, the manufacturer would probably be shut down and its owners thrown in jail! The irony is that over two years ago 130 nutrition companies were targeted by the FTC for “false and misleading” information about their products on the internet. 129 companies signed the government papers to alter their information and pay fines. One stood up to the beast and defended their (and our) God-given right to free speech: Daniel Chapter One (DC1), a Christian not-for-profit health ministry. The FTC just began enforcing an order forbidding DC1 from providing ANY information to the public concerning natural health for 20 years! Their request for a stay on this unconstitutional order was denied, so their appeal will take 6 to 12 months. This is unacceptable. Please learn more about this travesty and take action.
Brother bill..
The study of the hunter gatherers who ate plenty of wild game meat, vegetables, some fruits and water show few if any of the diseases of the western world. It isn’t meat that is the problem..it is the fact that the meat being sold is just omega 6 fatty laden garbage. If one eats grass fed, free range meat, veggies, fruits and drinks plenty of clean water they will be healthy. History argues that our bodies do well on good meat.
Scott
Maintain ourfreedom to take supplements!
How can I help w/out getting thrown in jail?
Freedom is choice, how dare you limit my choices under the guise of protecting my health. The AMA and the FDA (doctors and drug companies) turn people into drug addicts so they can control them with the insurance companies to feather their own nests. I walk around my city today I see a lot of fat unhealthy people, if doctors care so much about your health, then why are American’s looking so bad. The current medical system is a failure because statistically the incidence of diabetes, heart disease and other illnesses are increasing not decreasing.
People need to learn how to cook and feed themselves. Taking supplements makes up for what the current food supply lacks and also helps fight the effects of electromagnetic stress and environmental pollution. I am 52 years young because I eat right and take all kinds of supplements. I use no drugs and don’t go to doctors because they know very little about health. They now what to call what you’ve got but in most cases they do not know the cause, all they can do is give you a drug prescription to suppress the symptoms, meanwhile you continue to deteriorate because your body is not getting the raw materials to nourish and repair itself. Wake up John McCain your obviously a moron. The US government needs to protect people from the excessive use of presciption drugs in place of healthy eating and the use of quality supplements. We need to clean up the food supply (chemical fertilizers, basting solution injected meats, ungrazed animal food and the like) or America will continue to decline as a nation because its people lack the vitality and heath to take on the rest of the world.
Back in 1980 I went to a nutritionist because I was so sick. She got me on supplements and I have been taking them ever since. Drugs got me in such a state that I got very sick. They are so toxic and my body couldn’t take it any more. The supplements have gotten me my life back. Without them I probably would have died. This control of the supplements is all about money. Government and AMA has found out how much people like supplements and not drugs so they want to get in on the benefits. Where is our health freedom? People should be responsible for their own health not the government. If they dont’ know how to stop eating junk Oh Well. I had to figure it out on my own and I’m better for it.
STOP TRYING TO TAKE OUR FREEDOM AWAY………..
I get so angry when i see this nonsense: we consume tons and tons of of supplements and we feel much much better than profit driven prescriptions. like i always tell my patients there’s no money to be made in alternative medicine hence the pharma monopoly and attack on herbs and vitamin D.