Dr. Rath Health Foundation

On Saturday, November 12, Alliance members and health food stores across America will be making their communities aware of the current threats to our freedom to access natural supplements, such as vitamins and minerals.

What is “Natural Health Awareness Day”?

Natural Health Awareness Day was created by the Dr. Rath Health Foundation to share the growing concerns over legislation that could limit our freedom of choice in healthcare and free access to vitamins.

Scientific and clinical research in the areas of natural health and Dr. Rath’s Cellular Medicine has documented that many chronic diseases stem from long-term nutritional deficiencies and can be prevented or even reversed with specific nutrient supplementation. This opens up an opportunity to reduce and eliminate three leading causes of mortality in the world: cardiovascular disease, cancer and death caused by side effects of properly administered pharmaceutical drugs.

We need to support DSHEA (the Dietary Supplement Health and Education Act of 1994) and maintain our right to choose dietary supplements. The FDA should regulate these products not as food additives or drugs but as foods.

Are you aware that your Health Freedom is at Stake?

There are a growing number of House and Senate bills that have the potential to take away your health freedoms. As defenders of health freedom, we should, together and individually, OPPOSE the following bills:

  • HR 3156 would severely and negatively impact upon DSHEA by giving the FDA the authority to ban any dietary supplement or dietary ingredient from the market if it failed an unreasonable and arbitrary risk/benefit assessment.
  • S 729/HR 1507 would create a new federal food safety agency and undermine DSHEA by leaving supplements to be regulated by a newly-formed drug administration.
  • HR 2485 would give the FDA an extra $205 million between now and 2010 to regulate dietary supplements, on the dubious grounds that it has not adequately used its authority to enforce DSHEA due to a lack of resources.
  • HR 2510 (Dietary Supplement Regulatory Implementation Act of 2005) is similar to HR 2485, and would also appropriate an extra $205 million to the FDA to regulate dietary supplements.

We should stand united to oppose the following bill that has been proposed in the General Assembly of Pennsylvania:

  • HB 995 proposes to require all dietary supplements that are not sold by prescription in Pennsylvania to be sold only behind the counter.

We ALL should SUPPORT the following bills:

  • H.R. 1545 (the Dietary Supplement and Healthy Meal Replacement Tax Parity Act of 2005) would allow people to claim a medical expense deduction for meal-replacement and dietary-supplement products that qualify, or will in the future, for FDA-approved health claims.
  • HR 2352 (Consumers’ Access to Health Information Act) would amend the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act to ensure that health claims for foods and dietary supplements include accurate statements of the curative, mitigation, treatment, and prevention effects of nutrients on disease or health-related conditions.
  • HR 2486 (Dietary Supplement Tax Fairness Act of 2005) would allow for the costs of purchasing dietary supplements to be treated as medical expenses under federal tax law.
  • H.R. 4282 (the Health Freedom Protection Act) would prevent the FDA from censoring Americans’ right to truthful information about the health-enhancing benefits of foods and dietary ingredients.

It is alarming that international efforts to limit our access to effective dietary supplements, such as through the Codex Alimentarius Commission and the FAO/WHO Nutrient Risk Assessment Project, could further restrict your health freedoms and access to vitamins that safe lives.

What can you do to protect your Health and Health Freedom?

You have to be aware of these threats to health freedom, and need to urge your elected representatives to vote against HR 3156, S 729/HR 1507, HR 2485, HR 2510 and any other legislation that has the potential to limit free access to vitamins and put your health at high risk.

By setting up your booth on “Natural Health Awareness Day” on Saturday, November 12, 2005, you will be a part of a national team supporting your right to health freedom. Your booth will include petitions for people to sign that will be sent to Senators and Representatives, and information explaining the importance of the fight for health freedom.

Free materials for “Natural Health Awareness Day.”

Your free supplies will include:
Petitions, Information Literature, Banner, Tablecloth, Balloons, and Magnets.

What you need to do:

  • Find a location to set up your outdoor booth
  • Bring a card table and supply manpower for your booth
  • Energize others to come to your booth location on “NaturalHealth Awareness Day”

How you can request supplies for this important event.

To order your free suplies now, just contact our Foundation office here.

Download Flyers, Petitions and Other Materials Here

Complete packets of materials have already been mailed to all registered NHAD participants. If you would like to download additional copies, or signed up for the event too late to receive materials by mail, you can download print out the items at home.

For more than a decade, Dr. Matthias Rath has been fighting to protect health freedom worldwide. On November 12, 2005, we can stand together to protect our health freedom and preserve DSHEA.

Help make “Health For All by 2020” a reality!