The GOOD...

Vitamin C Kudos

What is it? The world's best-known water-soluble antioxidant vitamin; also known as ascorbic acid.

What does it do? Has aided anti-cancer therapy when used intravenously (under a practitioner's supervision); ingestion of more commonly available dosages has been linked with both reduced cancer risk and lower risk of death from all causes.

Appearing in pills, capsules, liquids, lozenges, tangy chewables and scoopable crystals, vitamin C is the ubiquitous superstar nutrient with health benefits that far exceed its renown as an immune booster.

Widely recognized as a powerful antioxidant that may be an important preventive measure against cancer, vitamin C's potential as a cancer treatment - once dismissed by Western medicine - is now being re-evaluated with well deserved research.

Read the article:

http://www.real-foods.net/vitamin-c-and-cancer.html

The BAD...

FDA Acquiring New Powers To Suppress Alternative Health

Your right to have free access to safe and highly effective dietary supplements is under an intense multi-pronged FDA attack.

On May 14, 2007 the Supreme Court sided with the FDA by deciding not to hear the case of Nutraceutical v FDA, letting stand a federal appeals court ruling that permits the FDA to use drug-related risk/benefit analysis to determine if a nutrient is safe.

This is the exact same point the FDA is trying to get put into law through Senate bill S.1082 and HR.1561, which consumers have flooded the Senate on over the past few weeks. And it is the same point the FDA is seeking to help implement on an international basis through Codex.

The Supreme Court denial to hear this case is a dramatic turn of events that means there is very little time left to act to preserve free access to dietary supplements.

http://www.drrathhealthalliance.com/news/05182007_hn_fda.php

And The UGLY....

Narcotic Maker Guilty of Deceit Marketing

The company that makes the painkiller OxyContin and three of its current and former executives pleaded guilty Thursday in federal court here to criminal charges that it had misled doctors and patients when it claimed the drug was less likely to be abused than traditional narcotics.

The company, Purdue Pharma, agreed to pay $600 million in fines and other payments to resolve the criminal charge of "misbranding" the product, one of the largest amounts ever paid by a drug company in such a case.

http://www.drrathhealthalliance.com/news/05182007_hn_narcotic.php

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