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de la OCA
en españolNutri-Con: The Truth About Vitamins and Supplements
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Sign petition demanding removal of synthetics from products labeled as "Natural"
Learn More
- Take the Toxicity Test
- History of Synthetics & Health Degeneration
- Q&A: Synthetic vs.
Natural Vitamin Debate - Development of "Naturally Occurring Standards"
- Recommended Companies
Downloads
- OCA's Nutri-Con Leaflet (PDF)
- Amla - Medicinal Food & Source Of High Quality Naturally Occurring Vitamin C (PDF)
Important New Books!
Vitamin Myth Exposed
by Dr. Brian R. Clement
The Hundred Year Lie
by Randall Fitzgerald
Look
around and ask yourself:
Why are we all so sick?
What you're about to read is all true and how it affects you is bigger than you know.”
How did chemical toxins invade YOUR body?
See How Toxic You Are
Campaign Goals
- To implement a new set of Naturally Occurring Standards (NOS), certification procedures, and labels which are truly organic.
- To expose the fact that 90% or more of the vitamins and supplements now on the market labeled as "natural" or "food based" are spiked with synthetic chemicals.
- To inform and remind consumers that Big Pharma's prescription and over the counter drugs are generally hazardous substances offering no real solution to our health problems.
- To highlight preventive health and wellness promotion, traditional holistic remedies, and complementary medicine practices which represent the "organic road" to health.
Slippery Slope Index
Read a History of Synthetic Chemical Pervasion Into Human Lives and the
Associated Increase in Negative Health Impacts
- STAGE ONE: 1900 Onward - A Synthetics Belief System Emerges
- STAGE TWO: 1940-1961 - Synthetics Transform Lifestyles
- STAGE THREE: 1962-1973 - Synthetic Toxins Migrate
- STAGE FOUR: 1974 Onward - Food Quality Deteriorates
- STAGE FIVE: 1998 Onward - Health Impacts Accelerate
Recommended Companies (herbs, vitamins and supplements that are 100% naturally occurring):
Botani Organic
First Organics (USDA Organic)
Frontier Herbs
OCA's NOS Seal of Approval
Info on NOS Standards (8 page PDF):
A
campaign to expose the hazards and limited effectiveness of synthetic vitamins & supplements,
creating marketplace awareness and demand for truly organic, naturally
occurring vitamins, botanicals, & supplements.
Nutri-Con Headlines
- 11/14/08 - The FDA is Running an Extortion Racket
- 11/06/08 - Controversy Over Industry Attempts to Genetically Engineer Traditional Medicinal Herbs in India
- 10/30/08 - NCI's Flawed SELECT Study Attacks Vitamin E
- 10/21/08 - Vitamins Present GMO Challenges for Organic Industry
- 09/08/08 - Mike Adams Answers Common Questions About Nutritional Supplements
- 09/05/08 - Many Indian Herbal Medicines Found to Contain Lead & Other Heavy Metals
- 08/28/08 - Many Indian Herbal Medicines Found to Contain Lead & Other Heavy Metals
- 07/19/08 - Natural Health Advocates Defeat Canadian Government Power-Grab
- 06/26/08 - Health Freedom Warning: Drug Company Seeks to Outlaw Vitamin B6 to Protect Pharma Profits
- 06/24/08 - Latest Big Pharma Attack on Natural Medicine: Take Action
- 06/15/08 - Big Pharma Attack on Alternative Medicine: Flawed St. John's Wort Study on ADHD Failed to Use Active Form of Herbal Extract
- 06/15/08 - U.S. Ranks Dead Last Among 19 Industrialized Nations in Preventive Medicine
- 05/07/08 - What's in Your Multiple Vitamin? Detecting Real Quality, Part 2
- 05/06/08 - What's in Your Multiple Vitamin? Detecting Real Quality
- 05/03/08 - The Vitamin You Need to Prevent Prostate Cancer
- 04/30/08 - Canada's C-51 Law May Outlaw 60% of Natural Health Products; Big Pharma Pushing to Criminalize Supplements
- 04/15/08 - Minerals You Need Every Day
- 04/11/08 - Megadoses of Synthetic Vitamin E Linked to Lung Cancer
- 03/16/08 - Are Synthetic Multi-Vitamins Good for You?
- 02/12/08 - Why Vitamin D Supplements Are NOT the Same as Sunlight
- 02/11/08 - Medicinal Herbs and Their Uses
- 02/05/08 - FDA Threatened Celestial Tea Company over Use of Natural Sweetener Stevia
- 01/25/08 - Infant Formula Manufacturers, Including Dean Food's Organic Brand Push "Marketing Gimmick" Linked to Serious Illnesses
More Nutri-Com/Vitamins Headlines>>
Campaign Background
The Truth About
Vitamins & Supplements
by Ronnie Cummins,
National Director,
Organic Consumers Association
The Organic Consumers Association is proud to announce a new nationwide campaign called Nutri-Con: The Down Side of the Vitamin & Supplement Industry. Nutri-Con will expose the hazards and limited effectiveness of synthetic vitamins and supplements, and strive to create mass consumer awareness and marketplace demand for truly organic, "naturally occurring" vitamins, botanicals, and supplements.
Part of this campaign will be the implementation of a new set of Naturally Occurring Standards (NOS), certification procedures, and labels which are truly "organic and beyond," and to expose the fact that 90% or more of the vitamins and supplements now on the market labeled as "natural" or "food based" actually are spiked with synthetic chemicals.
A major underlying theme of this campaign will be to steadily inform and remind consumers that Big Pharma's prescription and over the counter drugs are generally hazardous substances offering no real solution to our health problems; while preventive health and wellness promotion, traditional holistic remedies, and complementary medicine practices represent the "organic road" to health.
In terms of wellness promotion, there is no doubt that an organic whole foods-based diet and a healthy lifestyle are the "best medicine" for those of us trying to survive and keep our families healthy in the toxic soup of 100,000 synthetic chemicals that surround us everyday, polluting our food, water, medicines, homes, and environment.
As we complement our organic whole foods-based diet with herbs and supplements, we need to make sure that these vitamins and botanicals are derived from naturally occurring plant and mineral sources, and that they contain no synthetic chemicals whatsoever.
As part of this campaign, OCA will be posting an eye-opening new book, The Vitamin Myth Exposed, by Brian Clement of the Hippocrates Health Institute, in several installments. ( Read the Prologue & Chapter 1 here) This book is nothing less than the opening salvo in a campaign that OCA believes will revolutionize the $20 billion vitamin and supplements industry. OCA sees this effort as part of our ongoing efforts to establish and safeguard strict organic standards in food and farming, clothing, body care, and other important consumer sectors.
We invite you to please circulate The Vitamin Myth Exposed widely to friends and family, and to talk to your local natural foods store or coop about joining forces with the OCA in this important new campaign.
For Health and an Organic Future,
Ronnie Cummins