What is “Natural Health Awareness Day”?

Natural Health Awareness Day was created by Dr. Rath’s Health Alliance and 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 have 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.

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Are You Aware That Your Health Freedom Is at Stake?

Current House and Senate Bills Threatening Your Health Freedoms

There are a growing number of House and Senate bills that have the potential to take away your health freedoms.

Some of the most important of these bills are outlined below.

As defenders of health freedom, we should, together and individually OPPOSE the following bills:

• H.R. 3156 (the Dietary Supplement Access and Awareness Act) would severely and negatively impact DSHEA by giving the FDA the authority to ban large numbers of dietary supplements or dietary ingredients from the market if they fail unreasonable and arbitrary risk/benefit assessments.
• S. 729/H.R. 1507 (the Safe Food Act of 2005) would create a new federal food safety agency and undermine DSHEA by reclassifying supplements and regulating them as drugs.
• H.R. 2485 (the DSHEA Full Implementation and Enforcement Act of 2005) 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.
• H.R. 2510 (the Dietary Supplement Regulatory Implementation Act of 2005), similar to H.R. 2485, would appropriate an extra $205 million to the FDA to regulate dietary supplements.
• H.R. 2686 (the Communications, Consumer’s Choice and Broadband Deployment Act) would allow telephone and cable companies to restrict freedom of access to the Internet and, consequently, to websites providing lifesaving and health-promoting information about dietary supplements and other natural therapies.

We ALL should SUPPORT the following bills:

• H.R. 2352 (the Consumers’ Access to Health Information Act) would codify into law the right for natural product retailers and manufacturers to legally discuss the many benefits of natural health products.
• H.R. 2486 (the Dietary Supplement Tax Fairness Act of 2005) would allow the costs of purchasing dietary supplements to be treated as medical expenses under federal 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.
• 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.

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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.

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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 “Natural
  Health Awareness Day”

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How you can request supplies for this important event.

To order your free supplies now, just send us your name, address and phone number by email by clicking here, sending an email to alliance@drrath.com, or calling us at 1 (800) 624-2442.

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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 and print out the items at home.

• Download, Customize and print the NHAD Promotional Flyer
  (8.5” x 11” Microsoft Word document which you can customize for your event)
  
  
• Download, Customize and print the NHAD Promotional Poster
  (11” x 17” Microsoft Word document which you can customize for your event)
  
  
• Download and print the NATIONAL NHAD Press Release
  (Microsoft Word document)
  
  
• Download, Customize and print the LOCAL NHAD Press Release
  (Microsoft Word document which you can customize for your event)
  
  
• Download and print the NHAD Petition
  (Adobe PDF document)
  
  
• Download and print our Congressional Letter
  (Adobe PDF document)
  
  
• Download and print our Health For All By 2020-
  Business with Disease flyer
  (Adobe PDF document)
  
  
• Download and Print our Legislation Information flyer
  (Adobe PDF document)
  
  
• Download and Print the NHAD Tip Sheet
  (Adobe PDF document)
  

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