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!

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The FDA’s new Draft Guidance on New Dietary Ingredients threatens to remove some of your most commonly used supplements from the market.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 ripped off royally by our representatives in support of lobbyists, large food producers, pharmaceutical companies, the USDA, the FDA, the Medical and Dental professions, medical insurers (whose monopolistic practices are also protected by the government) — and we do nothing about it except argue about the next drug and our medical reimbursement plans.

We the people allow ourselves to be led and directed exactly where our government wants us to be — totally under their control to protect the huge amounts of money they receive from the drug and food giants for their political election campaigns.

The current public town-hall meetings are all about the verbiage of the new so called “reforms” of our health care laws that the President is working overtime to shove down our throats.

If he would spend as much time getting us freedom of choice, when it come to our own health care, instead of forcing us to be under the constraints of our medical system and FDA, my sense is we would all be healthier and far better off.

There are many ways to nutritionally heal ourselves that are far more effective, and much, much, less expensive then drugs.

These cures are forbidden to us by our government making the use of these cures illegal and even criminal in some cases.

Our government does a great job in protecting the profits of our medical professionals and drug companies, but not our health or our wallets.

Think about this.

Your government is controlling your body when it comes to health care and you have nothing to say about it!

The only way for you to keep the government from controlling your body is to travel to a foreign country for treatment of your own choice.

Your only other option is to never get sick.

Why is it so difficult to see that real health care starts with the food we eat?

Why is it so difficult to understand that healthy food creates healthy bodies, and that healthy bodies don’t need medical care?

Why is it so difficult to understand that if we cleaned up our food supply, and by that I mean the heavily pesticide-ridden farm grown fruits and vegetables, corn, slop, hormone and anti-biotic fed meats, fish and poultry — we would eliminate over 80% of the diseases in this country within a short period of time?

Think my number is ridiculous?

Go back 60, 70 years. Type 2 diabetes did not exist.  Neither did lupus, fibromyalgia, or chronic fatigue syndrome.

Heart disease, cancer, and diabetes were at considerably lower levels.  Few people talked about obesity or fad diets.

We may have not been number one in longevity at that time, but we were nowhere near 38th on the list as we are today.

Knowing how bad our conventional food supply is, I eat mostly organic.

I know organic food is more expensive than conventional food, but what I found was that when I switched to organic food, I ate less.

I satisfied my hunger on much less food because organic food is about 40% to 60% more nutritious than conventional food.

Conventional food is grown using heavy doses of pesticides.

Here is a list of the 12 most pesticide-ridden crops that lead to eventual cancer and other diseases:

Nectarines – Peaches – Apples – Celery – Sweet Bell Peppers – Strawberries – Cherries – Lettuce – Grapes – Pears – Spinach – Potatoes

Can you prevent your body from ever getting cancer and other chronic diseases?  You surely can.  Only buy these foods listed above if they are organic.

Buy local and buy at a health food store.

Make sure you buy organic and you will reduce your exposure to pesticides by up to 90%.

Even with organics, it may be wise to wash your fruits and produce in a dilution of food-grade peroxide available at your local health food store.

Only you have the power to make changes in our food supply.

If you don’t buy these pesticide-ridden fruits and vegetables, the big farm corporations will be forced to bring healthier food to the market place or go out of business.

You have immense power in your hands.

Learn to use it for a better, healthier life while sending a message to our politicians.

To your good heath & longevity.

Ira Marxe
“The Good Health & Wellness Guy”

Copyrighted © 2009 – All Rights Reserved

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 preservatives, dyes, and taste enhancers that are proven carcinogens  and permitted by the USDA.

Most of these processed foods also contain additives that our USDA, in their wisdom, says the food companies do not even have to tell us about.

Our populace is slowly being poisoned and that is ok so long as the money keeps pouring in.

The USDA also allows our crops and farm land to be poisoned with insecticides and other chemical sprays, and allows the use of Genetically Modified (GMO) crop seeds which contain imbedded insecticides that cause neurological damage to humans.

And that is not all.

The USDA allows the existence of inhuman animal factory farms where the inhumanly packed together animals wallow in their filth and must therefore be loaded with antibiotics to minimize sickness.

These are the cows, pigs, chickens and eggs that are sent to your local food market for your consumption.

Then there are the milk cows that are quietly loaded up with growth hormone that winds up in the milk you drink and give your children.

Sounds like a disgusting nightmare, doesn’t it?  Well it is!

Now you know the real reason our country is the sickest developed country in the world.  It is all about the food and drink made available to the citizens in this country.

Even the Food Pyramid, promoted as a healthy way to eat by our USDA, is a fraud perpetrated on an unsuspecting public.

Instead of being an honest evaluation of what we need to eat and drink nutritionally to maintain good health, it is a token program toward good health designed to appease the large corporate food processors and corporate farms.

In addition we are hindered from hearing about the alternative ways to heal one’s self or prevent disease without the use of drugs.

If you had 1,000 or 10,000 people change the way they eat, and add nutritional supplements, and heal themselves of congestive heart disease, like I did, or heal themselves of some other diseases, you could not say, write, advertise, or promote that you sold an alternative to drug cure without the FDA having you arrested and thrown in jail because you did not follow the FDA’s drug testing protocol and get FDA approval — even though the cure is real!

It matters not that so many people are healed with no side effects.

What matters to the FDA is the protection of pharmaceutical company’s profits and the public be damned!

Anything you do write when merchandizing must be accompanied by a disclaimer that states your product is not meant to diagnose, cure, etc. etc.

Did you know that there is, and has been since 2006, a cure for breast, lung, and liver cancers without the use of drugs, radiation and surgery?

You can check it out at: www.cancercured.org.

You can get cancer cured at a cost less than 10% of the cost of conventional cures and have no side effects.

These people even know the source and will guarantee you won’t get a re-occurrence of the cancer if you follow their protocol.

Find me a medical doctor who will do that for you!

And here are some other outstanding realities:

Most diet drugs do not work.

Others cause side effects and some can cause death.

People who do lose weight, due to diet or drugs, regain the weight as soon as they go off their diet and stop taking diet pills.

BUT – you can permanently lose weight, whether you are just overweight or obese, by just making some changes in the food you eat and what you drink.

You don’t need weight loss drugs, herbs, or starvation diets to shed the pound off your frame permanently.

All it requires is a small lifestyle change.

I’ll tell you how in my next newsletter.

The government’s health care program and health care reform is a total farce.

It is all about sick people and preparing to supply medical and drug treatment to all the millions the government expects will get sick, instead of focusing on our food supply and teaching people how to heal themselves and how to prevent people from getting sick in the first place.

Our government needs to stop subsidizing large corporate farms that supply us with chemical laden fruits and vegetables and start subsidizing only those farms that produce organic produce.

The same for producers of meat, chicken and fish, plus all dairy products.

Only you can make this happen.

You need to let your congress men and women and senators know that unless they change the laws to bring healthy food to market, they will be out of office.

You need to stop buying conventional produce and “so called” natural foods, processed foods, and sodas, and switch to organic food and drinks.

If you vote with your dollar, you will win.

The law of supply and demand is the only thing big corporations understand.

You are the ones who are creating the demand by your purchases.

Stop buying garbage food and the demand will dry up.

Buy only healthy food and the supply will expand.

You and you alone are in control.  Just band together.

Good health, which starts at the cellular level, can only be obtained with healthy food.

To your good heath & longevity.

Ira Marxe
“The Good Health & Wellness Guy”

Copyrighted © 2009 – All Rights Reserved