The Responsibility of the Health Food Stores and the Natural Health Community
After 15 years of exploding natural health science the pharmaceutical interests wish to turn back the wheels of history and eliminate DSHEA. Their master plan is to use their influence on private medical schools, like Harvard, to launch attacks on micronutrients and phytobiologicals based on questionable reports. Their goal is to manipulate public opinion, to irritate patients and health professionals and ultimately to put public pressure on US Congress to reverse DSHEA.
In this situation the natural health community – that is the millions of conscious natural health consumers and the health food stores – share a particular responsibility. This is particularly true for the USA where – with the DSHEA Act of 1994 – this powerful coalition already won a historic victory over the pharmaceutical interests.
If the natural health community unites again, there is no way that the drug lobby can undo the accomplishments of nearly two decades of accumulated natural health science.
Our second victory over the interests behind the pharmaceutical industry has the following key elements:
- Unite behind science based natural health.
- Become an advocate and promote health solutions that have a solid scientific basis
- Every natural health doctor’s office, every health food store becomes an education center for natural health.
- Every conscious natural health consumer becomes an educator within his family and his community.
- The natural health community must help to educate the political representatives and US lawmakers about the huge progress of science-based natural health in all areas and about the need to protect and promote these accomplishments as the basis for effective, safe and affordable health care for all people.
It must be clear that without a comprehensive integration of the science-based natural health knowledge accumulated over the past 20 decades – particularly after the passing of DSHEA – every health care reform is merely confined to administrative changes and cannot take advantage of a fundamental reform of health care itself.
This is our responsibility! This is our time!