Nutri-Con: The Truth About Vitamins and Supplements

Links

• Q&A: Synthetic vs.
  Natural Vitamins
• Development of "Naturally Occurring Standards"
• OCA's Nutri-Con Leaflet (PDF)
• Info on NOS Standards (8 Page PDF):The Naturally Occurring Standard by Clement, Treadway, & Gabbay
• Amla - Naturally Occurring Vitamin C (PDF)
• How Toxic Are You

Books

Vitamin Myth Exposed  by Dr. Brian R. Clement

• Prologue
• Excerpt 1: Vitamin Mysteries & Myths
• Excerpt 2: The Milligram Game

The Hundred Year Lie by Randall Fitzgerald

• Look around and ask yourself: Why are we all so sick? What you're about to read is all true and how it affects you is bigger than you know.”

The Nutri-Con Campaign

A campaign to expose the hazards and limited effectiveness of synthetic vitamins and supplements, creating marketplace awareness and demand for truly organic, naturally occurring vitamins, botanicals, & supplements.

Campaign Goals

• To implement a new set of Naturally Occurring Standards (NOS), certification procedures, and labels which are truly organic.
• To expose the fact that 90% or more of the vitamins and supplements now on the market labeled as "natural" or "food based" are spiked with synthetic chemicals.
• To inform and remind consumers that Big Pharma's prescription and over the counter drugs are generally hazardous substances offering no real solution to our health problems.
• To highlight preventive health and wellness promotion, traditional holistic remedies, and complementary medicine practices which represent the "organic road" to health.

Campaign Background

The Truth About Vitamins & Supplements

by Ronnie Cummins, National Director, OCA

The Organic Consumers Association is proud to announce a new nationwide campaign called Nutri-Con: The Down Side of the Vitamin & Supplement Industry. Nutri-Con will expose the hazards and limited effectiveness of synthetic vitamins and supplements, and strive to create mass consumer awareness and marketplace demand for truly organic, "naturally occurring" vitamins, botanicals, and supplements.

Part of this campaign will be the implementation of a new set of Naturally Occurring Standards (NOS), certification procedures, and labels which are truly "organic and beyond," and to expose the fact that 90% or more of the vitamins and supplements now on the market labeled as "natural" or "food based" actually are spiked with synthetic chemicals.

A major underlying theme of this campaign will be to steadily inform and remind consumers that Big Pharma's prescription and over the counter drugs are generally hazardous substances offering no real solution to our health problems; while preventive health and wellness promotion, traditional holistic remedies, and complementary medicine practices represent the "organic road" to health.

In terms of wellness promotion, there is no doubt that an organic whole foods-based diet and a healthy lifestyle are the "best medicine" for those of us trying to survive and keep our families healthy in the toxic soup of 100,000 synthetic chemicals that surround us everyday, polluting our food, water, medicines, homes, and environment.

As we complement our organic whole foods-based diet with herbs and supplements, we need to make sure that these vitamins and botanicals are derived from naturally occurring plant and mineral sources, and that they contain no synthetic chemicals whatsoever.

As part of this campaign, OCA will be posting an eye-opening new book, The Vitamin Myth Exposed, by Brian Clement of the Hippocrates Health Institute, in several installments. ( Read the Prologue & Chapter 1 here) This book is nothing less than the opening salvo in a campaign that OCA believes will revolutionize the $20 billion vitamin and supplements industry. OCA sees this effort as part of our ongoing efforts to establish and safeguard strict organic standards in food and farming, clothing, body care, and other important consumer sectors.

We invite you to please circulate The Vitamin Myth Exposed widely to friends and family, and to talk to your local natural foods store or coop about joining forces with the OCA in this important new campaign.

For Health and an Organic Future,
Ronnie Cummins

Slippery Slope Index

Read a History of Synthetic Chemical Pervasion Into Human Lives and the Associated Increase in Negative Health Impacts

• STAGE ONE: 1900 Onward - A Synthetics Belief System Emerges
• STAGE TWO: 1940-1961 - Synthetics Transform Lifestyles
• STAGE THREE: 1962-1973 - Synthetic Toxins Migrate
• STAGE FOUR: 1974 Onward - Food Quality Deteriorates
• STAGE FIVE: 1998 Onward - Health Impacts Accelerate