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Some alcoholics can even become social drinkers on a very small scale. I have not found many who could. But I think that if started on the program very early, many more could achieve normalcy. I suspect that treatment centers using those ideas will be made available one day, and will be much more successful than the standard treatment today. This all too often still consists of dumping them into hospitals and letting them dry out, with severe pain and suffering. When they are discharged, most go right back to the alcohol, the most dangerous and widely used street drug available without a prescription.

"Orthomolecular treatment is the treatment of choice. The following protocol for alcoholism outlines the importance of the nutritional factors that have been shown to be very successful on treating this condition. The treatment can be used alone but is best combined with dietary advice and additional nutrients..."

While the FDA and nutritional supplement critics are trying to get you to focus on these imported products, they are ignoring the much bigger picture, which is that virtually all popular prescription drugs are made with dangerous chemical compounds that threaten the health of the American public...

Immediately following this announcement, millions of Americans learned about how famed vitamin doctor, Jonathan Wright's patient-filled medical office was raided the same month by nearly two-dozen gun-toting, flak-jacketed FDA agents in the name of regulating supplements. Battering down an unlocked office door, these agents, backed by burly sheriff's department deputies, lined up staff and patients against the wall, pulled IV's from patients arms in middle of treatments, confiscated patient records, took the hard drive from the office computer all because Dr. Jonathan Wright was using nutritional supplements to heal very sick people who could not get help from standard allopathic medical care.

As the story developed, it turned out that this Gestapo-style raid was standard operating procedure for the FDA and as the general public became aware of just how many doctors' offices, manufacturing companies, distributors and health food stores had been assaulted by similar raids, the horror of all this forged a mighty health freedom army that resulted in unanimous passage of DSHEA...

To avoid fluoride is to prevent more than 114 ailments listed with references in a book "Good Teeth Birth to Death" by Gerard F. Judd, Ph.D. These 114 medical side effects extend all the way from headaches down to cancer caused by 1 ppm fluoride in the water. Thirteen of these side effects are proved by a double blind study on 60 patients by 12 physicians, 1 pharmacist and 1 attorney...

Twenty percent of the total population in the U.S., and one-third of people over 55, have tinnitus...

In about twelve million individuals, it is severe enough to seek medical attention, and two million patients are so seriously debilitated they cannot function on a normal, day-to-day basis. Some of the possible causes of tinnitus are neck, bite, or jaw disorders (called Temporomandibular joint (TMJ) because of the effect on muscles and nerves near the ear), age, earwax buildup, a tumor, osteosclerosis (a stiffening of the bones) in the middle ear, or medications such as aspirin, NSAID's, antidepressants, anti-malarials, diuretics, beta blockers, or antibiotics...

Most of us know that water treats dehydration and that prune juice treats chronic constipation, but if bottled water or prune juice sellers were to tell you that, they would be violating federal law and could go to jail. If those companies were to send you scientific articles on water curing dehydration or prune juice relieving chronic constipation, that too would violate federal law...

The flu vaccine, whether in the shot or nasal form, is worthless at best and should be avoided. Not only are they loaded with toxic chemicals including mercury and aluminum, but many people come down with the flu shortly after receiving the shot. This is because it actually weakens the immune system, making the person more predisposed to the illness...

Melatonin has also been© reported to lower LDL- and total cholesterol levels. Abnormally low melatonin levels have been theorized to be a factor in multiple sclerosis, coronary© heart disease, epilepsy, and postmenopausal osteoporosis. These reports, while© preliminary, serve to further illustrate the wide range of potential effects© exerted by melatonin...

Magnesium deficiency is one of the most common nutritional problems in the industrialized world today. This deficiency is the result of agricultural practices, food preparation techniques, and dietary trends. Despite the current recommended dietary allowance (RDA) for Magnesium (350 mg. per day), it has been estimated that adults average less than 50% of this requirement. The health implications are nothing short of catastrophic...

The place of soil re-mineralization--as a fundamental health strategy--is corroborated not only by experimenters in improving plant and animal wellness,but as well in prehistoric fossil records. For instance, paleopathologist Roy L. Moodie has found that "the early faunas were free of disease" and that "the most ancient bacteria were harmless," i.e., non-pathogenic in nature. He maintains that "There are no known cases or examples of infection, no tumors, few traumatic lesions or injuries of any kind prior to Devonian" and that "the earliest animals were free from disease..."

The MSG manufacturers themselves admit that it addicts people to their products. It makes people choose their product over others, and makes people eat more of it than they would if MSG wasn't added. Not only is MSG scientifically proven to cause obesity, it is an addictive substance!..

Natural Pain Relief Supplements are safe alternatives to prescription and allopathic drugs...

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How do you know if your synthetic multi is as good as its advertising says it is?

Are you gambling with your health by taking "their" word for it? If you are taking a multivitamin, this is something you definitely want to find out.

Please don't make the mistake of shopping for supplements at discount stores or large chains like Wal-Mart or Walgreens. In my opinion, these are classic examples of companies that primarily use cheap synthetic supplements.

Synthetic alternatives to whole foods are known as "isolates." Your body will only absorb a small percentage of an isolate form of vitamins and minerals - and utilize even less (Your body absorbs much more of the whole food form.) On top of that, there may be side effects, depending on the quality of the isolate... (continues)

We can't avoid many of the toxins in our environment such as: air pollution, water pollution and pesticides. But we do have a choice about the products that we use for our hair and skin care. Making wise decisions and reducing the toxins we put on our skin will go a long way toward "taking a load off our liver" and keeping us healthy and happy...

Magnesium, Violence and Depression: Mild magnesium deficiency appears to be common among patients with disorders considered functional or neurotic and appears to contribute to a symptom complex that includes asthenia, sleep disorders, irritability, hyperarousal, spasm of striated and smooth muscle and hyperventilation...

VITAMIN C FOUNDATION RELEASES ITS LIST OF THE TOP TEN WEBSITES THAT DISSEMINATE MISINFORMATION ABOUT VITAMIN C; All Vitamin C/Common Cold Studies Conducted Over The Past 60 Years Are Flawed; Vitamin C: Good for Gout; The Use of Vitamin C as an Antibiotic; Origin of the 42-Year Stonewall of Vitamin C; Why Don't Massive Doses of Ascorbate Produce Kidney Stones? A prospective study of the intake of vitamins C and B6, and the risk of kidney stones in men...

Here is further support to that already provided in "Use (Abuse) of Regulations to Protect Pharma Monopoly" that vitamins are safer than foods. Yet the regulatory bodies are going to "protect" us from these safe products, never mind the toxicity of drugs that are killing millions! Obviously safety is simply a ruse to protect their pharma buddies....

Chris Gupta

See also: REPORT OF THE INDEPENDENT VITAMIN SAFETY REVIEW PANEL

(OMNS, Feb 27, 2007) Over a twenty-three year period, vitamins have been connected with the deaths of a total of ten people in the United States. Poison control statistics confirm that more Americans die each year from eating soap than from taking vitamins.

Where are the bodies?
A 23-year review of US poison control center annual reports (1) tells a remarkable and largely ignored story: vitamins are extraordinarily safe.

Annual deaths alleged from vitamins:

2005: zero
2004: two
2003: two
2002: one
2001: zero
2000: zero
1999: zero
1998: zero
1997: zero
1996: zero
1995: zero
1994: zero
1993: one
1992: zero
1991: two
1990: one
1989: zero
1988: zero
1987: one
1986: zero
1985: zero
1984: zero
1983: zero

The zeros are not due to a lack of reporting. The American Association of Poison Control Centers (AAPCC), which maintains the USA's national database of information from 61 poison control centers, has noted that vitamins are among the 16 most reported substances. Even including intentional and accidental misuse, the number of alleged vitamin fatalities is strikingly low, averaging less than one death per year for more than two decades. In 16 of those 23 years, AAPCC reports that there was not one single death due to vitamins.

These statistics specifically include vitamin A, niacin (B-3), pyridoxine (B-6), other B-complex, C, D, E, "other" vitamin(s), such as vitamin K, and multiple vitamins without iron. Minerals, which are chemically and nutritionally different from vitamins, have an excellent safety record as well, but not quite as good as vitamins.

On the average, one or two fatalities per year are typically attributed to iron poisoning from gross overdosing on supplemental iron. Deaths attributed to other supplemental minerals are very rare. Even iron, although not as safe as vitamins, accounts for fewer deaths than do laundry and dishwashing detergents.

These statistics are in direct opposition to the body count achieved through properly prescribed drugs by conventional medicine. Please read the 2000 report from by Dr. Barbara Starfield in the Journal of the American Medical Association: Medical System Third Leading Cause Of Death.

References:

1. Annual Reports of the American Association of Poison Control Centers' National Poisoning and Exposure Database (formerly known as the Toxic Exposure Surveillance System). AAPCC, 3201 New Mexico Avenue, Ste. 330, Washington, DC 20016.

Download any report from 1983-2005 here free of charge. The "Vitamin" category is usually near the end of the report.

2005 is here.

2004 is here.

2003 is here.

Other years are here.

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