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FDA To Redefine “Healthy” Once Again

As usual, the agency is using outdated science and is heavily influenced by industry. Action Alert! Following the recent update to the Nutrition Facts label and the approval of the 2015 Dietary Guidelines for Americans, the FDA is proposing to update the definition of “healthy” and in federal regulations. The idea is to harmonize the… Continue reading FDA To Redefine “Healthy” Once Again

CDC Official Resigns after Crony Ties Exposed

She was helping Coca-Cola influence world health officials on sugar limits. We wish this were unusual. But in yet another blatant example of government/medical cronyism, Dr. Barbara Bowman, director of the Division for Heart Disease and Stroke Prevention at the CDC (the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention), recently left the agency after her ties… Continue reading CDC Official Resigns after Crony Ties Exposed

FDA Death Meter

How many deaths is the FDA responsible for? Our new interactive tool can provide you with a good estimate. Action Alert! The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is responsible for all of the following: Approving unsafe drugs that kill hundreds of thousands of people, and make millions more sick. Hiding or blocking clinical trials that… Continue reading FDA Death Meter

The Best Kept Secret for Healing

By Gretchen DuBeau Executive and Legal Director Alliance for Natural Health USA How our executive director’s difficult personal journey became a career dedicated to protecting your natural health options, and why the tide is turning in our favor I’ve always believed that obstacles are opportunities in disguise, and the growth and learning derived from the… Continue reading The Best Kept Secret for Healing

Bad Trade Deal Gets Worse

An underhanded maneuver could make the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) even worse than it was originally. Action Alert! The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) picked up on an almost imperceptible but vitally important change in the TPP text. It was widely understood that the text had been completed and finally made public after years of hyper-secrecy when… Continue reading Bad Trade Deal Gets Worse

War on Natural Medicine Continues

If a mainstay treatment of natural medicine doctors is shown to be safe and effective by government research, what do you do? Ban it! Action Alert! Congress passed the Drug Quality and Security Act in response to bad medicine from a rogue compounded-drug company, which the FDA had known about and refused to shut down.… Continue reading War on Natural Medicine Continues

Think You’re Buying Raw Milk Cheese? Maybe Not.

Some raw milk cheese you’re buying from large companies in the US may be falsely labeled. It isn’t raw at all—it’s been “subpasteurized”! The Healthy Home Economist, a website run by Sarah Pope, recently ran a fascinating article detailing how large health food companies are tricking consumers into thinking they’re buying real raw milk cheese… Continue reading Think You’re Buying Raw Milk Cheese? Maybe Not.

FDA’s Proposal to Curb Mercury Fillings Was Secretly Overruled by Senior Government Officials

A much-needed proposal was hypocritically rejected, then buried—and this time it wasn’t the FDA’s fault. Action Alert! A recent news report revealed an FDA proposal from 2011 that would have told dentists to avoid using mercury fillings in pregnant women, nursing mothers, children, and people with mercury allergies, kidney diseases, and neurological problems. It also… Continue reading FDA’s Proposal to Curb Mercury Fillings Was Secretly Overruled by Senior Government Officials

More Dying Patients Being Denied Access to Dr. Burzynski’s Life-Saving Treatment

The FDA is effectively signing the death warrant of more patients by denying them access to Dr. Burzynski’s antineoplaston cancer treatment—for no rational reason whatsoever. Please help. Action Alert! Over the years, we’ve covered the FDA’s attacks on Dr. Stanislaw Burzynski, the trailblazing cancer doctor best known for his discovery and development of antineoplastons (ANP),… Continue reading More Dying Patients Being Denied Access to Dr. Burzynski’s Life-Saving Treatment

New Hazardous Chemical Bill—Drafted by the Chemical Industry!

This is not how the system is supposed to work. Action Alert! We are exposed to chemicals every day: in our food, drinking water, shampoo, carpeting, hand sanitizer, household cleaning products, etc. ANH-USA’s coverage of BPA and phthalates has shown just how dangerous some of these chemicals can be. After all, most of us assume… Continue reading New Hazardous Chemical Bill—Drafted by the Chemical Industry!

State GMO Labeling Laws in Peril

A new bill—actually a re-tread of an amendment that grassroots activists like you defeated last year—is intended to protect Big Food and Big Farma. Action Alert! Rep. Steve King (R-IA) has reintroduced the Protect Interstate Commerce Act (PICA). He attempted to pass this legislation last year through an amendment to the Farm Bill, but ANH-USA and its allies successfully… Continue reading State GMO Labeling Laws in Peril

Is Your Sunscreen Making You Infertile?

A new law may help promote safer sunscreen ingredients. Action Alert! A new study by the National Institutes of Health found that sunscreen chemicals that filter out ultraviolet rays may impair male fertility. There are twenty-nine “benzophenone-type UV filtering chemicals” in personal care products that protect skin and hair from sun damage. Researchers found that men with… Continue reading Is Your Sunscreen Making You Infertile?

Accomplishments

Since its inception, the Alliance for Natural Health USA has waged many successful battles to protect alternative health options . Throughout our history we have played an important role in filing precedent-setting lawsuits and passing significant legislation that directly benefit the natural health community: Dietary Supplement Health And Eduction Act (DSHEA). We were instrumental in… Continue reading Accomplishments

Tylenol Use During Pregnancy May Increase ADHD Risk for Children

The manufacturer and some doctors are trying to dismiss the new research, despite mounting evidence of Tylenol’s dangers. Action Alert! A study just published in JAMA Pediatrics finds that Tylenol (acetaminophen) taken by women during their pregnancy may raise the risk of ADHD (Attention Deficit Hyperactive Disorder) and similar disorders in their children up to… Continue reading Tylenol Use During Pregnancy May Increase ADHD Risk for Children

ANH & LEF: Teaming Up to Protect Supplement Access

Click here to donate! On and off Capitol Hill, ANH-USA defends consumer access to dietary supplements, truly healthful foods, and natural health treatments and practitioners. We proactively stop attempts to limit your access to natural health, before you feel their affects. Right now, we’re working to: Stop FDA’s proposed ban on folate, a necessary-to-life B-9 vitamin,… Continue reading ANH & LEF: Teaming Up to Protect Supplement Access

Dying Patients Denied Access

FDA tells Burzynski to seek approval. When he agrees, they use this as an excuse to let his patients die.Action Alert! Trail-blazing cancer doctor Stanislaw Burzynski’s story really begins with dying patients who are desperate for access to unique, innovative care. Although his clinic utilizes a broad spectrum of cancer treatments, Dr. Burzynski is perhaps… Continue reading Dying Patients Denied Access

FDA Violates Free Speech to Limit Supplement Access. Take Action!

The FDA is trampling free speech to limit your access to supplements. But ANH-USA has a bold new legal strategy. Will you join us in this historic battle? Dear Readers, Did you know that if a supplement company “Likes” a customer’s Facebook post, it magically transforms nutritional supplements into drugs? The same thing happens if… Continue reading FDA Violates Free Speech to Limit Supplement Access. Take Action!

True Food Safety (Updated Action Alert)

The CDC estimates that one in four Americans become ill each year from foodborne illnesses. The current Food Safety bills will not make this better—they will almost certainly make it worse. We want to share the rest of our strategy with you.

“We are the Experiment”: Greater than 9 in 10 Canadians found to carry Bisphenol A as well as 90% of Americans and Europeans

The first national survey about bisphenol A (BPA) conducted by Statistics Canada has revealed that 91% of Canadians have a body burden of this chemical known to have hormone-like effects. Click here to read in further detail http://www.theglobeandmail.com/life/health/statscan-survey-finds-bpa-present-in-91-per-cent-of-canadians/article1674153/. What does not mean? Honestly, no one knows because “we are the experiment.”

Action Alert on the Senate Food Safety Bill

ANH–USA has opposed the so-called Food Safety Bill as a threat to natural health and health freedom. As we reported to you in April, we have been working to improve the Senate’s version of the bill. In particular, we succeeded in preventing language that would have committed the US to harmonization of food standards with the rest of the world under a completely flawed process known as CODEX. Now we need your help to promote two excellent amendments to the bill that would exempt small food producers and producers who sell their food directly to market (such as farmers’ markets) from new regulation.