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Sunscreens Don't Provide the Protection They Claim

Mon, 30 Jul 2007 03:57:55 GMT

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Sunscreens Don't Provide the Protection They Claim

While sunscreens are generally effective at filtering out ultraviolet rays from the sun that cause sunburn (UVB rays), they don't work as well at filtering UVA rays, which penetrate the skin deeply and are more likely to cause skin cancer and wrinkles.

Misleading or confusing product labels are partly to blame for the widespread misinformation regarding sunscreens. In 1999, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) said stricter rules for sunscreen testing and labeling would take effect in 2001, but this was put on hold indefinitely. In the fall of 2005, Congress ordered the FDA to produce the revised regulations within six months.

If you accept the premise that it is good to use sunblcok, which is typically not true, then many commercial sunblocks are not delivering what they promise.

the sun actually protects you from cancer

nearly every sunblock needs to be applied every 45 minutes

commercial products are loaded with toxic chemicals

Tags: sunscreens, skin cancer, sun

FDA Announces Plan to Eliminate Vitamin Companies

Sat, 30 Jun 2007 23:39:05 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Big Pharma is taking aim at your life and health again, through the FDA's latest ruling, designed to put supplement companies out of business, increase the cost of supplements to consumers, and gradually eliminate a thinking person's choice of healthy alternatives, leaving the field wide open for only Big Pharma's own toxic chemical prescriptions. The FDA, ostensibly created to protect Americans' health, is hell-bent on destroying it, using the bottomless pockets of Big Pharma. When are Americans going to say "Enough!"?

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FDA ANNOUNCES PLAN TO ELIMINATE VITAMIN COMPANIES

The FDA, emboldened by its transformation into a drug company, has embarked upon an anti-American plan of interfering with business and intentionally eliminating various dietary supplement companies from the market. The FDA announcement came on Friday, June 22, 2007 under the guise of a final rule for dietary supplement good manufacturing practices (CGMPs).

This FDA rule will directly raise the price of dietary supplements for all consumers. The FDA acknowledges this and says “We expect that the majority of these costs will be borne by consumers of dietary supplements, who will likely respond to the increase in prices by reducing consumption.” Thus, the FDA is intentionally seeking to shrink the size of the dietary supplement industry and reduce the influence of safe and effective options to improve the dreadful trend in the health of Americans. The goal is to leave toxic drugs as the primary health option.

Tags: fda, health, healthcare, vitamins, minerals, big pharma

The FDA Has Blood on its Hands

Mon, 18 Jun 2007 01:51:11 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Dr. Ron Paul (M.D.) has been a champion of our health rights (among many things) for many years. He keeps trying to help force the FDA to do its job--protecting the health of Americans--instead of what it normally does--protecting the profits of Big Pharma, at the expense of American lives. They approve drugs known to cause health problems and try to invalidate and prohibit natural remedies known to benefit health.

The majority of the FDA's budget comes from Big Pharma. Is it any wonder then that the FDA's decisions aren't about health; they're about protecting Big Pharma's cash cows? That's why they're nearly always in bed with them, and not protecting our health.

Not in Our Name any more!

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The FDA Has Blood on its Hands

Congressman Ron Paul (R-Texas) says, “enough is enough,” to the Big Pharma Bullies running the FDA. He has introduced bill H.R. 2117 (the Health Freedom Protection Act) into the House of Representatives, which would effectively stop the FDA from censoring truthful claims about the health benefits of dietary supplements.

He wants to put an end to the federal bureaucrats’ meddling with your right to choose healthy alternatives over harmful and deadly patent drugs, and believes Americans should not be prevented form learning about simple ways to improve their health.

Big Pharma has the FDA firmly in pocket, and censoring vital information—like the fact that eating 20 cherries has the same effect as popping aspirin or a Cox-2 inhibiting drug—is their only way to stay in business! Perhaps bill H.R. 2117 can get enough traction to stick if enough of us stand firmly behind it, pushing at the rear.

Tags: health, fda, big pharma, pharmaceuticals, supplements

Potential Deception and Destruction of Healthy Chocolate

Thu, 31 May 2007 09:08:39 GMT

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clipper's remarks: This is just one more example of big business colluding with the FDA to fool the buying public. With well over 55% of the FDA's budget coming from the manufacturers the FDA is supposed to be poiicing, whose side do you think the FDA is on, yours or theirs? It isn't yours! Be informed and be forewarned.

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Potential Deception and Destruction of Healthy Chocolate

Members of the Chocolate Manufacturers of America (CMA), such as Hershey, Nestle and Archer Daniels Midland, initially posing as an interested citizens group, have covertly petitioned the FDA to "modernize food standards" by allowing products containing little or no cocoa butter to still be labeled chocolate.

This would allow products that were essentially a mix of milk, artificial sweeteners and hydrogenated trans fats to be sold as chocolate.

Dr. Mercola's Comment:

Considering science is proving how eating minimally-processed chocolate can provide you with boatloads of beneficial antioxidants, you'd think big business couldn't and wouldn't do anything to mess that good news up.

Guess again, folks.

You may soon see sales of "chocolate" that is a mixture of artificial sweeteners, 2 percent milk fats and the very health-harming trans fats.

Tags: chocolate, deception, fda, chocolate manufacturers of america, food labeling