May Day about Dietary Supplements / Herbs

It is quite possible that some people exist on the globe who do not need special nutritional supplements to their food - either in the form of certain vitamins, minerals, essential fatty acids or other nutrients.
In the modern, western world conditions exist that often increase the body's need for nutrients in variable degrees, mostly being exposed to well-known phenomena, and here should be mentioned:

• Car exhaust

• Smoking, actively and passively

• An exaggerated consumption of alcohol

• Intakt of medicine

• Sugar plus food and drinks containing sugar

• Meat with residues of hormones- and antibiotics

• Water with residues of pesticides

• Food with colourants, preservatives and other additives

• Heavy metals - especially mercury dental fillings

• Toxic fumes from artificial materials in our environment

• Stress

These are all factors that demands big amounts of nutrients. If the body's need for these nutrients are covered, the body will to a certain degree adopt itself to handle the demands of the environment.

This is one of the reasons why May Day wishes free access to dietary supplements and herbs, so that people have that possibility to take good care of their health, if they so choose.

May Day do not see dietary supplements as a substitution for a healthy diet; though we believe it is a myth that we automatically get all the necessary nutrients we need through our diet alone.

After all, whether people want to use dietary supplements or not must be their own choice.

Articles

• ANH: Natural Substances Are To Be Regulated As Foods

• ANH Press Release February 2006

• ANH Update March 2006

• A Historic Day

• Danish Doctor Fights For Freedom Of Speech In Court And Wins!

• FDA Ban: Cause or Contributor to School Violence? - By Scott Tips

• International Declaration of Health Freedom

• La Leva protest - for health freedom

• May Day's Freedom Of Choice Campaign

• The perils and pitfalls of harmonized supplements - By Bill Sardi

• The Success of Supplements Maybe Their Undoing - By Scott Tips

• US attorneys

• Vitamin- and mineral substances not on the EU Positive List

• What do they print on the vitamin bottle?

• Wouldn't It Be Nice If...?

Documentation: Beneficial effects of vitamins and minerals

Vitality Council - Scientific Research

Member States Authorities on Food Supplements

List of competent authorities of the Member States within the meaning of Article 4(6) of Directive 2002/46 on food supplements (January 2007)

Articles about Dietary Supplements

Squeeze Play on Dietary Supplements. Part 1. Jon Rappoport, No More Fake News, 21. January 2005

Squeeze Play on Dietary Supplements. Part 2. Jon Rappoport, No More Fake News, 21. January 2005

Upper Levels on Vitamin and Mineral Substances

The Tolerable Upper Intake Levels as set by the Scientific Committee for Foods (SCF) can be viewed here

(Please, note that you will have to scroll down to the list with the title above - then you will be able to view or download the various pdf-documents concerning the vitamins and minerals).

Alliance for Natural Health

Alliance for Natural Health files European Court Legal Brief August 2004

 Legal key documents