Help Protect our Right to make Natural Healing Choices!
What is the holistic approach to health read on about the offense on our rights.
A century ago, an individual had nearly total freedom of choice as to what to do with or for his or her own body, including nutrition, medical care and the like. There were no huge pharmaceutical companies or Washington lobbyists, no FDA, no AMA spending millions to suppress health freedom and enrich vested interests.
In this climate of great freedom, many healing methods and materials were offered - some of them effective and some of them not. Of course, there were abuses, as always happens in such times. But many excellent healing methods were born or flourished in that era including Chiropractic, Naturopathy, Herbalism and others, all of which originated over a century ago. In other parts of the world, various cultures practiced a variety of healing traditions, some of which were developed thousands of
years ago and highly effective, including acupuncture and Chinese medicine.
None of these valid healing methods would likely have flourished or even been created had they originated in the U.S. in the present day because the vested interests have passed so many laws restricting what may or may not be done to, for or by an individual regarding his own body.
A climate of FREEDOM is necessary for the formation and spread of truly workable methods in health care. We are all so fortunate that the FDA (and it’s equivalent in other countries) did not exist for the past 5,000 years, so that true healing arts could come into existence!
Let us emphasize that in truth each of us owns and is responsible for his or her body. If we view it as God-given, we each still have the right and responsibility to exercise our own judgment upon issues related to it. Indeed, the very issue of exterior decision over one’s own power of choice in health issues, the very mention of being “granted” a point of self-determinism over one’s own body, implies the prior circumstance of infringement upon this native right. Your body is not the property of another or of the state.
For the past century, a war has been waged by vested interests against natural healing methods. Funded largely by interest groups such as the AMA and the pharmaceutical companies, the main tactics in this war have been 1) false, alarming reports whereby these groups attempt to scare people away from certain healing methods or professions or materials such as herbs and vitamins and 2) the passage of laws and regulations to restrict or eliminate people’s access to those healing methods and materials.
Some of you may remember the war by the AMA against the Chiropractic profession - it raged for decades. The AMA unleashed an all-out attack, labeling Chiropractic as fraud and its practitioners as quacks. The AMA encouraged false lawsuits against Chiropractors while proposing legislation to outlaw the profession or to restrict access by patients. Chiropractors fought back, never gave up or gave in and eventually top AMA executives were found guilty of conspiring to destroy them. The victory of chiropractors proved that, with persistence, worthwhile purposes and the support of the people whom they had helped, a group can overcome even the most powerful oppressors.
For the past twenty years, similar conflagrations regarding dietary supplements and herbs have been igniting all around the world. In Norway, for example, supplements are now categorized as drugs, thus requiring medical prescriptions. No surprise that these supplements are now supplied by pharmaceutical companies with the result that the cost of a bottle of Vitamin C has multiplied several times and certain natural supplements are no longer available.
The drug company lobbyists are hard at work all over the world and most definitely in the U.S. On several occasions, bills were introduced in the U.S. Congress to treat supplements as drugs. To date, these attempts have been beaten back by the people who see through this money- and power-motivated attack on free choice and good health. (There’s plenty of money in illness and scarcely any in good health.)
A new assault on your freedom of choice in natural health has recently been launched and we want to alert you of this so that you may pitch in to counter this attack.
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