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April 28, 2007

Amar Atma

Here you go. Hope it generates a lot of discussion.

Sat Nam

Wahe Guru Kaur/Lee Rothman---------- Forwarded message ----------Lee <dancingwiththeinfinite

>Apr 28, 2007 5:37 AMFwd: Special Update on FDA Regulation of Alternative Medicine from Alternativ... " Charles D. Frohman " <cfroh

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Dear Charles/ Amar Atma

Sat Nam!

I wanted to send the pertinent parts of this newsletter on The FDA's attempts to regulate alternative medicine to you to include in the ongoing discussion for the Kundalini yoga . But I had difficulty with the cut and paste functions.

I found the rhetoric of the writing you offered through the link, inflammatory and disturbing. I find extreme rhetoric on either end of the political spectrum, left or right disturbing. When I have to wade through rhetoric to get to reasoned arguments and facts it sets up lots of red flags for me.

The following information is provided by my insurance agent who has worked in the wholistic/ alternative medicine field for a long time. Although I haven't read everything he provided through the link, it is well presented, articulate and I think provides a more balanced view.

I hope you will incorporate some of it into my response to your posting.

Sat Nam

Lee Rothman/ Wahe Guru Kaur

Temple City, CA ---------- Forwarded message ----------

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Natural Health Newsletter from Alternative Health Insurance Services

Special Edition on FDA's Proposal to Regulate

Complementary & Alternative Medicine

April 2007~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

A Personal Note From Steve Gorman, President of Alternative Health Insurance Services, Inc.

There is a lot of information and options being distributed regarding the threat posed by the FDA's Guidance for Industry on Complementary and Alternative Medicine Products and Their Regulation by the Food and Drug Administratio n.

Many see it as a threat to their freedom to select the type of medical care they receive and to use vitamins and supplements, and some organizations are pushing consumers to respond to the FDA.

In order to provide you with a balanced and accurate assessment of this situation, we are presenting you with information provided to us by John Weeks in his publication, The Integrator. Weeks is a 20-year veteran reporter and organizer in the field of complementary and integrated health care.

This special edition of our newsletter only addresses this one issue since April 30 is the current deadline to provide comments on the proposed guidance to the FDA.

Our May newsletter will be distributed a little later than normal as we do not want you to feel intruded on by too much communication from us.

I hope you find this information useful.

Sincerely,

Steve Gorman

Special Integrator Report: The FDA's Guidance on CAM - What is the Appropriate Response? In recent weeks, a growing crescendo of concerned queries reached the Integrator about the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) document entitled Guidance for Industry on Complementary and Alternative Medicine Products and Their Regulation by the Food and Drug Administratio n. Reports put the number of responses to the FDA at close to, or exceeding, 100,000.Is the FDA really trying to squelch health freedoms, stamp out dietary supplements, put alternative therapies and natural health care under the control of allopathic doctors and harm religious practices? Are these claims grounded? Others ask: What does the FDA Guidance really mean? The Integrator contacted legal and policy experts, the FDA, and an alphabet soup of organizations - AAHF, ABC, AANP, AAAOM, IMA. Also contacted and researched were organizations and individuals that are principal flame throwers in fomenting the public response. The question quietly arose as to whether the bigger long-term challenge to " health freedoms " is anything new in this FDA Guidance or, instead, the possibly mis-directed stimulation of popular fury. We all know what Aesop taught about crying wolf.Here is an attempt to get to the bottom of the claims and counter claims. Hope it is useful. - John

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