S.O.S - Save Our Supplements!

[mrflexdiesel]

"It looks like the government is again trying to strictly regulate and erradicate many different dietary supplements, again limiting our personal freedoms and choices of what we should be able to consume if we desire to do so. I would recommend everyone who takes nutritional products to help them achieve their bodybuilding goals and would like to able to continue to do in the future to please read this below article and respond. Shouldn't take but a minute or two of your time and I think is well worth the effort! Thankx."

S O S - SAVE OUR SUPPLEMENTS
Proposed legislation could be a bitter pill to swallow

Legislation that could shelve nutritional supplements for good is working its way through Congress in the form of Senate bill S. 722. If this bill is passed into law it will become the Dietary Supplement Safety Act of 2003 and will severely limit the range of dietary supplements you can choose from. That includes many of the most popular bodybuilding supplements.
If you are against this initiative, the best way to register your disapproval is to contact your state's two U.S. senators.

To do this visit http://www.senate.gov, choose your state from the drop-down menu, and the phone numbers and e-mail addresses will be listed for each senator.

Call, fax or e-mail your U.S. senators today. Ask them not to change the Dietary Supplement Health and Education Act of 1994 (known as DSHEA). Tell them you don't want your access to dietary supplements to be limited. Ask them to oppose S. 722 or any similar proposed legislation.

GET THE FACTS
For an in-depth look at the truth behind the proposed legislation and the history of supplementation and the FDA, please read Jeff O'Connell's article Supplements Under Siege. It may be the most important article on nutrition you'll ever read!
Click here to read the article

SAMPLE LETTER
We've even prepared a sample letter for you to cut and paste into the body of your e-mail, letter, or fax. Remember to replace the items in [brackets] with the appropriate information:

[Date]

Dear [Name of senator]:

I wish to record my opposition to bill S. 722. I request that you not change DSHEA (the Dietary Supplement Health and Education Act of 1994), and ask that you oppose S. 722 or any similar proposed legislation. I state emphatically that I do not want my access to dietary supplements to be limited.

Yours sincerely,

[Your own name]
[Address]

 

[KID_DESTRUCTO]

Excellent post man! I will be taking your advice and contacting my state rep. Your right to pick and choose what goes in your body is your choice not theres. This post should be a sticky so that people will read and understand what kind of bullshit is going on before its to late. STICKY!!!

 

[JKerry]

bump... take a look folks.

jkerry

 

[liftsiron]

bump, for one less of our wrights being stripped from us.

 

[Spidey]

The website is too busy right now. I can't get on.

 

[mrflexdiesel]

Excellent post man! I will be taking your advice and contacting my state rep. Your right to pick and choose what goes in your body is your choice not theres. This post should be a sticky so that people will read and understand what kind of bullshit is going on before its to late. STICKY!!!

BUMP! I too think we should make this a sticky!

 

[supertech69]

There are petition forms available at Vitamin World as well, my GF & I just signed one last week. Absolute bullshit, I bet if the supp companies were funding political parties like the tobaco industry they wouldn't be fucking with it. Get rid of the shit that affects more then just the user (i.e. second hand smoke) & let me do whatever I want to with my body & my health!

 

[liftsiron]

There are petition forms available at Vitamin World as well, my GF & I just signed one last week. Absolute bullshit, I bet if the supp companies were funding political parties like the tobaco industry they wouldn't be fucking with it. Get rid of the shit that affects more then just the user (i.e. second hand smoke) & let me do whatever I want to with my body & my health!


Very well said bro.

 

[mrflexdiesel]

There are petition forms available at Vitamin World as well, my GF & I just signed one last week. Absolute bullshit, I bet if the supp companies were funding political parties like the tobaco industry they wouldn't be fucking with it. Get rid of the shit that affects more then just the user (i.e. second hand smoke) & let me do whatever I want to with my body & my health!

Man, I hear that! STICKY!!!

 

[supertech69]

You still hittin it in the AM mrflex? How's it coming, haven't seen ya for a while, our pal detroit said you're looking pretty hard. I ran into him sometime last week I think.

 

[mrflexdiesel]

You still hittin it in the AM mrflex? How's it coming, haven't seen ya for a while, our pal detroit said you're looking pretty hard. I ran into him sometime last week I think.

What's up with ya bro? Yeah, I'm still doing the morning thing. Well afternoon technically, but you know that's the morning for my lazy ass! Coming along pretty good. I got some of my early diet pics posted in my gallery I think if you wanna check em out. Think I was dropping down in body weight a little too fast so I upped my cals and carbs a little higher for awhile to put some weight back on. Don't want to get down to low to quick and then have to try and hold on to it. Should be ready though for shows w/ no problem. Doing on in Michigan on Sept.13th and the Ohio State in Columbus on Sept.20th. Quadsweep will be there competing too. I think some of my peeps are gonna go up there and cheer me on. You and Carmen outta come on up and check it out. Should be a good show. Maybe even Jason will go on up. I'll have to give you a holler here soon or give me a shout if you can. Good hearing from you bro and hope you're doing well yourself.

 

[rush]

Prohormones SHOULD be banned.... I fully support any legislation
that protects kids from taking this shit

 

[TheRide]

Prohormones SHOULD be banned.... I fully support any legislation
that protects kids from taking this shit

So, what your saying is because of "kids", athletes in general should be punished? Where is the logic in that? I am all for regulation of products that place consumers at risk, but I am NOT for people telling me what I can and cannot supplement my diet with. Esp. when for the most part I feel that I am more knowledgeable on the subject then 99% of the people who will eventually vote on the subject.

In re: to Prohormones... the effectiveness and benefit of such supplements is still open for debate. Personally I feel that they are useless - I am sure that many board members will back me on that. The major issue at large is Ephedra and the associated lawsuits against numerous manufactures.

Shall we bring back prohibition b/c of people who injure themselves while drinking?? How about we repeal the right to bare arms since more people died from fire arm accidents then from Ephedra last year...

 

[TheRide]

So, what your saying is because of "kids", athletes in general should be punished? Where is the logic in that? I am all for regulation of products that place consumers at risk, but I am NOT for people telling me what I can and cannot supplement my diet with. Esp. when for the most part I feel that I am more knowledgeable on the subject then 99% of the people who will eventually vote on the subject.

In re: to Prohormones... the effectiveness and benefit of such supplements is still open for debate. Personally I feel that they are useless - I am sure that many board members will back me on that. The major issue at large is Ephedra and the associated lawsuits against numerous manufactures.

Shall we bring back prohibition b/c of people who injure themselves while drinking?? How about we repeal the right to bare arms since more people died from fire arm accidents then from Ephedra last year...

PS - Nice post mrflexdiesel. Karma to you!

 

[rush]

I tell you why I think they should be banned...

Take Biotest for example and their product MAG 10, I was stupid
enough to believe all the hype and more importantly I believed
that the product was free of side effects.... funny how after I took the product I lost a shit load of hair and then suffered from
Benign Prostate Hypertrophy... I have received mail from plenty
of other guys who also had similiar problems... The supplement
industry has no regulation in regards to the claims being made...
I could care less if the product is "useless" but when it harms
peoples health like many 1 test products do, then its time for the
government to step in and protect the public from supplement companies that make such ridiculous claims

 

[Sigmund Roid]

Why don't they do something useful, like forbidding the sale of cigarettes altogether. How many millions of people get lung cancer, a terrible disease, from smoking?

 

[mrflexdiesel]

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