You Did It!! Durbin’s Anti-Supplement Amendment Was Killed!!

The Presidential campaign has been offered little substantive discussion of issues. Media leaders affirm their responsibility for keeping the political debate honest and responsible. This mostly means correcting misstatements of fact. But we think the responsibility should be broader.

ACTION ALERT: We are in agreement with our fellow health-freedom fighters at the Alliance for Natural Health USA (ANH-USA), who have correctly noted that Americans are increasingly subject to rules and decrees that are undemocratically issued from federal agencies like the Food and Drug Administration (FDA). We at CFH support passage of The Guidance Clarity Act of 2021, which would…

We call on Congress to demand that the FDA summarily withdraws the NDI Draft Guidance and goes on the record stating that the agency will not, now or ever, review, consider, surveil or engage in enforcement activities according to the re-interpretation of the Dietary Supplement Health and Education Act of 1994 (DSHEA) evident in its Guidance document but, instead, will…

By Linda bonvie No sooner did a major sunscreen recall hit the news cycle than multiple experts chimed in saying that benzene (the cancer-causing chemical contaminant detected) is produced in many everyday activities – even something as benign as burning a candle. Canadian chemistry professor Joe Schwarcz, for instance, claimed that a “worst-case scenario” would only result in the same…

Washington, D.C. – CFH has learned that on May 5, Minnesota Lieutenant Governor Yvonne Prettner Solon sent a letter to the FDA expressing the state’s unwillingness to support this “corn sugar sham”.

Matrix: Broadening the Left/Right Spectrum Transpartisan Note #52 by A. Lawrence Chickering and James S. Turner New York Times columnist Ross Douthat usefully introduces a matrix into his analysis of American politics (“In Search of the American Center,” NYT 6/21/17). He reports on a study by the Democracy Fund Voter Study Group and a report by Lee Drutman assessing voter…

Read Your Labels Day Six years ago, Citizens for Health designated April 11 as “Read Your Labels Day,” #RYLD, an event to shine a spotlight on the importance of reading the most vital part of a food package – not the “Nutrition Facts” label, not the advertising copy on the front, not the pretty pictures of fruits or veggies —…

In Badditives! The 13 Most Harmful Food Additives in Your Diet and How to Avoid Them, Linda and Bill Bonvie, who for several years wrote the Citizens for Health “Food Identity Theft” blog, identified a rogues’ gallery of the “worst of the worst” ingredients out there. We were fortunate to be able to bring you selections below from this important…

“Read Your Labels” Campaign Lists Top Ten Food Additives to Avoid February 19, 2013 Courtesy of Linda Bonvie, FoodIdentityTheft blogger and frequent contributor to Citizens for Health   Do we really need Yellow 5 and Red 40 in apple pie? If there’s one piece of advice you keep hearing from us, it’s that reading the ingredients label is the only…

Washington, D.C. – Citizen-activists are being urged by Citizens for Health, the American Academy of Environmental Medicine, and the EMF advocacy group, ElectromagneticHealth.org, to contact their representatives in Congress to request the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to update its obsolete cell tower safety regulations. The FCC’s cell tower safety regulations need to be revised immediately because: 1) WHO has classified…

Consumers have a wide variety of choice when it comes to purchasing dietary supplements—choice that exists in selecting product categories and specific products as well as choosing the company or source that sells them. Some choices are smarter than others, and consumers would be wise to do their homework. Supplement labels are changing in 2020. Time to get #LabelWise!

For Immediate Release: October 31, 2012 Sunnyvale, CA – More than 50 people rallied in front of Yahoo! headquarters in Sunnyvale, California yesterday to call on Marissa Mayer and Jim Breyer, both Silicon Valley-based members of Walmart’s Board of Directors, to support Proposition 37 and to ensure that Walmart respects consumers’ right to know about genetically engineered foods. Walmart is selling…

It is with great sadness that Citizens for Health announces the death of James J. Gormley, our President and Senior Policy Advisor, and principal of Gormley NPI Consulting. He was a talented and articulate voice for natural health options; a leader, a father, and a mentor and friend to many. He died unexpectedly on August 14, 2024 in Delray Beach,…

Within a week of Linda Bonvie’s post to the #bonvieblog asking why we in the US are not using high-dose Vitamin C to treat some coronavirus patients, the state of New York started doing just that. To get the full story, click here.

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Orthomolecular Medicine News Service, May 28, 2020 Smothering the Fire: How Vitamin C Can Stop Viral Infections Quickly by Tom Taylor (OMNS May 28, 2020) “Smothering the fire”? Do you remember the old forest fire fighting movies? Someone in a fire tower spots smoke and a plane load of fire jumpers go out and puts the fire…