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Threat to nutritional supplements: My alternative doctor has sent an urgent e-mail regarding an new effort in Congress to restrict the availability of over-the-counter vitamins and other nutritional supplements. For all those who feel they benefit from buying vitamins and other nutritional supplements, please take action to preserve our freedom of choice:

"Unfortunately, yet another threat to the availability of nutritional
supplements, and our therapy, has recently reared its head in Congress, this
time courtesy of Senator John McCain. Currently, McCain is trying to
generate support for his legislation, still in its early stages, entitled
The Dietary Supplement Safety Act. The noble wording of the bill may sound
wonderful - as such documents do - but its real purpose seems to be to
enlarge FDA power over supplements and disassemble the Dietary Supplement
Health and Education Act (DSHEA) of the early 1990's which prevented the FDA
from classifying nutrients as drugs, or arbitrary banning particular
supplements at a whim.

Outwardly, the bill claims to be driven by the usual wish to "protect"
consumers from themselves, a stance prompted by the recent cases of a number
of professional athletes misusing certain hormones. Those with knowledge of
Washington suspect that the real motivation is the FDA's universal wish to
severely restrict the availability of most if not all nutritional
supplements.

Below I provide a link to an online article explaining the situation in some
detail. I suggest you read it carefully. If you want your supplement
supply to continue, we all must fight this bill aggressively. Contact
McCain's office, let his staff know how strongly you oppose this bill.
Offer to support his opponent in Arizona in this November election. Contact
your own Senator and express your strong opposition to this legislation.
Calls, faxes and e-mails to your Senators work well. You can obtain contact
information at www.senate.gov. There is a mechanism to identify your
particular Senators by state.

Information about this is available at the website of the Alliance for
Natural Health. The URL is:

http://www.anh-usa.org/new_site/?p=2307

Thanks for your support."

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from Dr. Nicholas Gonzalez of New York, New York.