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NEWS ALERT… This from Dr. Mercola “The FDA has issued a proposed mandate that represents the greatest threat to dietary supplements since 1994. Back in the early 1990s, consumers were so alarmed by FDA bullying that they staged a massive revolt. The result was that Congress passed a law prohibiting the FDA from banning popular nutrients (as the agency had threatened to do).”

However, things about to chance if you don’t act now!

The FDA’s new Draft Guidance on New Dietary Ingredients threatens to remove some of your most commonly used supplements from the market.

Manufacturers of supplements will be forced to conduct expensive safety studies using absurdly high doses, which will force many out of business—effectively eliminating competition to high-priced pharmaceuticals.

The FDA guidelines have modeled the outrageous safety thresholds after those in place for food additives, which is in direct violation of DSHEA, which classifies dietary supplements as foods, not food additives, in order to protect consumer access to dietary supplements.

Defend your right to continue using supplements by taking action now!

If you live in the US and want to contact your member of Congress and send them your comments please click here for easy-to-use information to help make your voice be heard.

To your good heath & longevity.

Ira Marxe
“The Good Health & Wellness Guy”

Copyrighted © 2011 – All Rights Reserved

Note: Good Health Supplements are dietary supplements and are not intended to diagnose, treat, cure or prevent any disease. Any statements have not been evaluated by the Food and Drug Administration. Readers should consult appropriate health professionals as necessary on any matter relating to their health and well-being. Individual results will vary and statements mentioned are anecdotal and may not represent typical results.

Coumadin Sample WARNING!

WARNING!

If you are taking Coumadin, or know anyone taking Coumadin, it is imperative that you and they read this warning!

Bristol-Myers Squibb has made a grievous error in free sample packets of Coumadin they had manufactured.

If you have recently received a free sample pack of Coumadin from your doctor, DO NOT USE IT!

An alert has been just issued by the FDA for an urgent recall for the 1mg strength Coumadin sample packs because taking them could put you in dire straits.

The recall was initiated by Bristol-Myers Squibb when they realized that a key ingredient that activates the Coumadin was not working properly, which could make your medication extremely dangerous, if not deadly.

The unsafe sample packs are from lot numbers:

Lot# 9A48931A, 9A48931B, 9A48931C, all with expiration dates of January 2012.

Please pass this warning on to anyone you know is on heart medication.

To your good heath & longevity.

Ira Marxe
“The Good Health & Wellness Guy”

Copyrighted © 2010 – All Rights Reserved

Note: Good Health Supplements are dietary supplements and are not intended to diagnose, treat, cure or prevent any disease. Any statements have not been evaluated by the Food and Drug Administration. Readers should consult appropriate health professionals as necessary on any matter relating to their health and well-being. Individual results will vary and statements mentioned are anecdotal and may not represent typical results.

FDA and Weight Loss Protection?

For a long time we have been telling you how the cozy relationship between the FDA and the drug companies negatively impacts on your health and how hard the FDA comes down on nutritional companies.

Here are two recent announcements by the FDA on weight-loss products —- one a drug and the other a nutritional supplement:

ANNOUNCEMENT ONE:

Giving giant drug companies a free pass. 

Last month, FDA officials announced a safety information review for orlistat, a weight-loss aid.

You probably know this drug by the brand name Alli, made by GlaxoSmithKline. It’s also sold at higher dosage as a prescription drug called Xenical, made by Roche.

At issue are 32 reports of “serious liver injury,” which include six cases of liver failure and 27 cases of hospitalization.

The FDA press release states: “FDA is not advising healthcare professionals to change their prescribing practices with orlistat.”

The agency also advises consumers to continue taking Alli and Xenical as directed.

ANNOUNCEMENT TWO:

A very different and very tough stance by the FDA if you are not a drug company but a supplement maker offering a similar end use product.

This past May, the FDA issued a consumer warning about several (but not all) Hydroxycut weight-loss products. All of these are non-drug items, available over-the-counter.

At issue are 23 reports of liver problems, ranging from jaundice and elevated liver enzymes (indicators of potential liver injury) to one death due to liver failure.

The FDA warning stated: “The U.S. Food and Drug Administration is warning consumers to immediately stop using Hydroxycut products”.

There it is, your FDA always looking out for your interest.

Heaven save us from their protection.

To your good heath & longevity.

Ira Marxe
“The Good Health & Wellness Guy”

Copyrighted © 2009 – All Rights Reserved

Health Reform?

Health Care Reform? – If it wasn’t so tragic, it would be a joke!

What is health care reform anyway?

It would appear to me that health care reform would mean ways to keep people from getting sick. Ways to keep people healthy.

That to me is real health care reform.

Instead we have the whole country battling over drugs and medical care while every year the number of people who develop a chronic disease grows larger and larger.

What is wrong with our Presidents — past, present, and probably future?

What is wrong with our senators and members of congress?  Do they all have their heads buried in the sand or is it all about greed and self-interest?

This is not a Democrat, Republican, or Independent issue— it’s about everyone!

We the people are being Read the rest of this entry »

Let me ask you a question…how much do you really know about the food you eat that you buy from your local supermarket and are serving to your family?

Are you hungry for change? If so, watch the provocative new film called “Food, Inc.”.

Here’s a short video trailer for you to watch.
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“In Food, Inc., filmmaker Robert Kenner lifts the veil on our nation’s food industry, exposing the highly mechanized underbelly that has been hidden from the American consumer with the consent of our government’s regulatory agencies, USDA and FDA.

Our nation’s food supply is now controlled by a handful of corporations that often put profit ahead of consumer health, the livelihood of the American farmer, the safety of workers and our own environment.

We have bigger-breasted chickens, the perfect pork chop, herbicide-resistant soybean seeds, even tomatoes that won’t go bad, but we also have new strains of E. coli—the harmful bacteria that causes illness for an estimated 73,000 Americans annually.

We are riddled with widespread obesity, particularly among children, and an epidemic level of diabetes among adults.”

To your good heath & longevity.

Ira Marxe
“The Good Health & Wellness Guy”

Copyrighted © 2009 – All Rights Reserved

It's Your Choice!

Most of the public never gets to hear about the many proven ways to heal ourselves  because our medical profession is an antiquated dinosaur bound to drugs.

Our FDA does not, and will not, recognize “so called” alternative ways.

In fact, the FDA has made it illegal to claim that a nutritional product or alternative way can heal you. If it is not a drug approved by the FDA, your cure claims will subject you to heavy fines and or jail.

Over the past decade it has been made very clear the strong influence Big Pharma has over our FDA.  Sometimes you would think they were running the FDA.

To make our health conserns even worse, our USDA, who should be insuring that we get safe, nutritional food to eat, is highly influenced by giant food processors allowing them, through over processing, to destroy much of the nutrients in the packaged food sold in our food markets.

Most all of these nutrient deficient foods also contain Read the rest of this entry »