Larry Trivieri, Jr. See book keywords and concepts | American Herbal Pharmacopoeia is publishing extensive monographs dealing with standards and therapeutic guidelines for the use of many popular herbs. Further, an herb industry consortium called the Institute for Nutraceutical Advancement has begun the process of validating various analytical techniques to ensure that the laboratory methods used by the industry are uniform, replicable, and valid.
There is no licensing body for the practice of herbal medicine in the U.S. The result is that many herbal practitioners are outside of the "system. | It was predicted to be defeated. Through our network, we initiated 1,800 phone calls through our national phone tree, and we reached an additional 15,000 people through a fax network. Within 48 hours, the Senate was receiving approximately 10,000 phone calls per hour.That helped the bill easily pass by a margin of 94 to one and shows that people really can make a difference."
In North Carolina, grassroots forces also demonstrated their ability to effect change. | Michael Janson, M.D. See book keywords and concepts | Also, Deputy Commissioner for Policy David Adams said that the establishment of a separate regulatory category for supplements"...could undercut the exclusivity rights enjoyed by the holders of approved drug applications."
In a letter to the New York Times, September 8, 1992, Dr. Bernard Rimland said "...Dr. Kessler tells us that the FDA doesn't want to block the sale of vitamins. All we have to do is convince him and his fellow bureaucrats that they have been wrong for many decades in saying that vitamins are useless. | Michael Castleman See book keywords and concepts | Finally, some natural therapies that may appear alternative actually emerged from conventional medical research: biofeedback, bright light therapy, cognitive therapy, lucid dreaming and vision therapy.
Alternative implies an either/or situation.- You either take drugs for your back pain or you try an alternative, such as yoga. But as Nature's cures become increasingly incorporated into conventional medicine, we see fewer either/or situations and more reliance on judicious combinations of mainstream procedures and natural therapies. | Larry Trivieri, Jr. See book keywords and concepts | While this obsession is often fueled by psychological needs (the urge to conform to an artificial standard of beauty fostered by media, fashion, and peer pressure) rather than physical needs, it is estimated that 97 million Americans are overweight.1 The World Health Organization estimates that over 300 million adults are obese worldwide. Obesity (defined as being 20% or more over average weight) among U.S. adults increased by 50% between 1991 and 1998.2 Even more troubling, according to Joseph E. Pizzorno, N.D. |
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