Alternative Healthcare - Government Recognition and Support

A friend e-mailed this to me.  Unfortunately, this is only open to US citizens and residents, but I thought it was important enough to post it here.
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Dear Friends,

I am very excited to pass on the Health Revolution Petition, which calls for many sweeping changes I have been advocating for years. 

Here are some highlights of the ten points of this petition. 
If these make sense to you, please click here to read and sign the full petition:
http://www.healthrevolutionpetition.org/index.html?ID=21979


1. Federal government encouragement and reward for the People taking personal responsibility for their own health

– A full federal income tax deduction, with no minimum, for the purchase of any product, service, or device that is intended for use in the improvement of health.  This includes, but is not limited to, dietary and herbal supplements, gym memberships, health coaching services, exercise equipment, Complementary and Alternative Medicine (CAM) therapies or any other health-enhancing products and services.


2. Restore Health Freedom to All Americans and Legalize Healing

– Allow all practitioners of the healing arts, licensed or otherwise, the freedom to practice healing arts with the consent of patients. End all government persecution of alternative and complementary care practitioners and clinics.
– Protect access to dietary supplements, colloidal silver, medicinal herbs and anti-cancer products.


3. End FDA Tyranny, Censorship and Corruption

– Strip the FDA of authority to censor truthful health claims about dietary supplements. 
– End the FDA's Big Pharma-initiated attack on compounding pharmacies and bio-identical hormone therapy.
– End revolving door employment between the FDA and Big Pharma; fire current FDA employees and advisors with past financial ties to Big Pharma.


4. Protect the Food Supply

– Ban GMOs in the U.S. food supply.
– Ban harmful food additives: MSG, aspartame and sodium nitrite.
– Require honest labeling of irradiated foods.


5. Restore Honest Science to Medicine

– Require the open, timely publication of all medical studies.
– Require open disclosure of all ties between study authors, researchers and for-profit entities.


6. End Era of Big Pharma Domination Over Health Care

– End all drug-company-funded “benefits” to doctors, including vacation-style CME events, speaking fees, consulting fees and author fees.
– Guarantee the right of consumers to sue drug companies and medical device manufacturers for damages caused by unsafe products.
– Enact legislation that would impose substantial criminal penalties for executives of drug companies that advertise drugs for which serious adverse events were known by the company at the time the drug was submitted to the FDA for approval.

 
7. Protect Children From Products That Compromise Their Health


8. Ban Man-Made, Non-Natural Cancer-Causing Chemicals in Cosmetics and Personal Care Products


9. Invest in Disease Prevention


10. Protect the Environment from Drug and Chemical Companies

– End the chemical fluoridation of public water supplies.
– Require hospitals, pharmacies and nursing homes to dispose of expired pharmaceuticals in an environmentally-conscious way that prevents drugs being flushed down the drain and passing intact through waste water treatment facilities and then into our bodies when we consume tap water.


These are some highlights of the ten points of this petition. 
If these make sense to you, please click here to read and sign the full petition:

http://www.healthrevolutionpetition.org/index.html?ID=21979