The Honorable Representative____________________________

Colorado House of Representatives Fax: 303-866-2218

Dear Representative: ________________________ ___________ 2008

PLEASE SUPPORT HB-08 1158

COLORADO’S HEALTH FREEDOM ACT

I respectfully urge you to join Representative McKinley and cosponsor,and support HB 1158, the Colorado Health Freedom Act!

As an informed consumer, I want the freedom to make my own choices about my health care, including the right to choose from both licensed and unlicensed health care practitioners in Colorado.

My access to traditional healers and practitioners is now threatened because of outdated Colorado laws that give exclusive rights to small numbers of state licensed professionals to engage in all aspects of the healing arts and make it a crime for other practitioners to practice. Traditional, alternative, and complementary practitioners engage in safe nutritional and lifestyle counseling, herbal and homeopathic therapies, and many less expensive modalities. Yet in Colorado no law protects my access to these preferred and far less expensive unlicensed practitioners.

Minnesota, California, Rhode Island, Louisiana, Oklahoma and Idaho all have health freedom laws that exempt unlicensed practitioners from criminal statutes as long as they avoid specific prohibited conduct and give out proper disclosures. ALL OF THESE 6 STATES HAVE HEALTH FREEDOM SAFE HARBOR EXEMPTION LAWS!!!!

HB1158 would protect THOUSANDS of Colorado entrepreneurial natural health based businesses, assuring thousands of people’s informed access to their readily available source of local complementary and alternative health care information.

COLORADO HEALTH SEEKERS DESERVE THEIR OPTIONS PROTECTED !!!

Signature Print Name

Address City State ZIP

Prepared by Clinton Ray Miller, Health Freedom Activist – clintonray@bellsouth.net, and

Diane Miller JD, Director of Law & Public Policy, National Health Freedom Action www.nationalhealthfreedom.org

COLORADO HEALTH FREEDOM SUPPORTERS

Please fax, call and/or email the members of the House Health and

Human Services committee members the 2 papers.

One is to ask for opposition to HB 1064. If passed, this monopolistic bill

could put thousands of alternative healthcare providers out of business.

The other one is in support of HB 1158. This is a HEALTH FREEDOM bill,

which if passed, can protect ALL alternative healthcare providers.

Both of these bills will be heard on Feb. 4^th, 1:30 p.m., Room LSB-A

We hope that you will attend as we need as many people as possible to

show up and testify if you wish.

For questions, please contact me:

Kimberly Sharples, HHP, Health Freedom Activist

Kimberlysharples@msn.com

719-390-1979

COLORADO HOUSE COMMITTEE OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

FAX: 303-866-2218

REPRESENTATIVE NAME EMAIL PHONE

Anne L McGihon anne.mcgihon.house@state.co.us 303-866-2921

K. Jerry Frangas kjerry.frangas.house@state.co.us 303-866-2954

Sara Gagliardi sara.gagliardi.house@state.co.us 303-866-2962

Stella Garza-Hicks stella.hicks.house@state.co.us 303-866-3069

Gwyn Green gwyngreen@yahoo.com 303-866-2951

John Kefalas john.kefalas.house@state.co.us 303-866-4569

James E Kerr james.kerr.house@state.co.us 303-866-2939

Don Marostica 303-866-2947

Dianne Primavera dianne.primavera.house@state.co.us 303-866-4667

Jim Riesberg jim.riesberg.house@state.co.us 303-866-2929

Ellen Roberts ellen.roberts.house@state.co.us 303-866-2914

Debbie Stafford debbie.stafford.house@state.co.us 303-866-2944

Spencer Swalm spencer.swalm.house@state.co.us 303-866-5510

It is the same fax number for all of the representatives.

PLEASE OPPOSE COLORADO –

HB-08 1064

A monopolistic Naturopathic Doctor

Licensing Bill That

Negatively Impacts all of Natural Health

The Honorable Representative

__________________________ ____________2008

Colorado House of Representatives Fax# 303-866-2218

Dear Representative ________________________________:

I respectfully urge you to oppose and DO NOT Co-Sponsor HB-08 1064, a dangerously restrictive Naturopathic Doctor Licensing bill with broad implications for consumer choice.

HB1064 endangers consumer choices and health freedoms and endangers natural health care practitioner’s right to practice their trades by creating an exclusive monopoly on who provides natural, complementary, and alternative therapies, information, and services.

HB1064 makes it a crime for thousands of unlicensed persons to practice their trades unless they are licensed or regulated by the state and mandated to graduate from a particular group of schools.

I as a health freedom advocate do not support mandates that require all people to obtain permission from the state to do a healing act

I as a health freedom advocate do not support unnecessary licensure or other type of registration for unlicensed natural health practitioners or complementary and alternative health care practitioners that are not doing high risk practices or posing an imminent risk of harm to the public.

Minnesota, California, Rhode Island, Louisiana, Oklahoma and Idaho all have health freedom laws that exempt unlicensed practitioners from criminal statutes as long as they avoid specific prohibited conduct and give out proper disclosures.

ALL OF THESE 6 STATES HAVE HEALTH FREEDOM SAFE HARBOR EXEMPTION LAWS!!!!

HB1064 would destroy THOUSANDS of Colorado entrepreneurial natural health based businesses, taking away thousands more people’s informed access to, in many cases, their only readily available source of local complementary and alternative health care information.

COLORADO HEALTH SEEKERS DESERVE TO HAVE THEIR OPTIONS PROTECTED!

_____________________________________________________________________________________

Signature Print Name

_____________________________________________________________________________________

Address City State Zip

Prepared by Clinton Ray Miller, Health Freedom Activist – clintonray@bellsouth.net, and

Diane Miller JD, Director of Law & Public Policy, National Health Freedom Action www.nationalhealthfreedom.org

A study found in the publication: Nutrition Research, shows that supplementation with Lactobacillus acidophilus and Bifidobacterium longum have beneficial results on chronic stress.  Specifically, the manifestations of the stress through abdominal pain and nausea and/or vomiting. 

The study showed that these probiotics did not seam to help with dry mouth, loss of appetite, swallowing problems, rectal pain, cardiovascular, sleep problems, and mental aliments such as social, psychological, or emotional.

Article can be found at:

Nutrition Research(Elsevier)
Volume 28, Issue 1, January 2008, Pages 1-5
“Probiotic food supplement reduces stress-induced gastrointestinal symptoms in volunteers: a double-blind, placebo-controlled, randomized trial”
Authors: L. Diop, S. Guillou, H. Durand

I received an e-mail this morning from the Lancet Journal concerning the concern for proper nutrition in pregnant women and infants to the age of 2 years old.  They state that “there is a golden interval for intervention: from pregnancy to 2 years of age. After age 2 years, undernutrition will have caused irreversible damage for future development towards adulthood.” Amazingly, this is a concern for more than the medical doctors, but when they show concern, maybe it is REALLY time to start listening. 

However, I think that they have missed the mark with statements like “When one considers specific actions to improve maternal and child survival, one is drawn to particular interventions-vaccination, oral rehydration therapy, and the treatment of infection and haemorrhage.” The key is first; education on what is proper nutrition for women already in this state of their life, or who are planning on procreation.  (Yes, this affects men too)  Second; there needs to be education on the proper stages of nutritional development from birth to at least 2 years of age.  I suggest that we should understand the stages of proper nutrition well past 2, even into adulthood.  There must be a push for breastfeeding and a greater understanding or processed and refined foods. 

And finally I am almost offended at the statement which ends the article. “Leadership is absent, resources are too few, capacity is fragile, and emergency response systems are fragmentary. New governance arrange-ments are urgently needed. An agency, donor, or political leader needs to step up to this challenge. There is a fabulous opportunity right now for someone to do so. But who?”  It is not that there is no leadership in this area, but that those leaders are not recognized.  There are plenty of individuals and groups who are supporting proper nutrition.  The groups are Mid-Wives,

Here is the full article:

The Launch of The Lancet’s Series on Maternal and Child Undernutrition – today The Lancet’s Editor Dr Richard Horton and a team of international experts launch this series, and the text of Dr Horton’s comment which opens the Series can be found below.

Maternal and child undernutrition: an urgent opportunity

Nutrition is a desperately neglected aspect of maternal, newborn, and child health. The reasons for this neglect are understandable but not justifiable. When one considers specific actions to improve maternal and child survival, one is drawn to particular interventions-vaccination, oral rehydration therapy, and the treatment of infection and haemorrhage. In recent years, this portfolio of responses has broadened to embrace the health system-human resources, financing, and stewardship. Somehow, nutrition has slipped through the gap.

  And yet we know that nutrition is a major risk factor for disease *. What public-health experts and policymakers have not done is to gather the evi-dence about the importance of maternal and child nutrition, catalogue the long-term effects of under-nutrition on development and health, identify proven interventions to reduce undernutrition, and call for national and international action to improve nutri-tion for mothers and children. The five-part Series on maternal and child undernutrition , launched this week by The Lancet, aims to fill this gap in global public health and policy action.

  The key messages of the Series, which has been written by an independent team of public-health scientists led by Robert Black, Zulfiqar Bhutta, Jennifer Bryce, Saul Morris, and Cesar Victora, are critically important for all those concerned with the health and wellbeing of women and children. Under-nutrition is the largely preventable cause of over a third-3.5 million-of all child deaths. Stunting, severe wasting, and intrauterine growth restriction are among the most important problems. There is a golden interval for intervention: from pregnancy to 2 years of age. After age 2 years, undernutrition will have caused irreversible damage for future development towards adulthood.

  Incredibly, four-fifths of undernourished children live in just 20 countries across four region-Africa, Asia, western Pacific, and the middle East. These are the priority nations for action. In terms of under-5 mortality rates, the most immediate needs are for Afghanistan, Democratic Republic of Congo, Nigeria, Ethiopia, Uganda, Tanzania, Madagascar, Kenya, Yemen, and Burma. In order of population size, and excluding the countries with highest mortality rates, the ranking is different: India, Indonesia, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Vietnam, Philippines, Egypt, South Africa, Sudan, and Nepal.

  As this Series shows so clearly, there are proven effective interventions to reduce stunting and micro-nutrient deficiencies. According to strict criteria around admissible evidence, breastfeeding counselling, vitamin A supplementation, and zinc fortification have the greatest benefits. Attention to maternal nutrition through adequate dietary intake in pregnancy and supplementation with iron, folic acid, and possibly other micronutrients and calcium are likely to provide value. But these interventions need additional programmatic experience about how to achieve full coverage.

  There is no magic technological bullet to solve the problem of undernutrition. Long-term investments in the role of women as full and equal citizens-through education, economic, social, and political empowerment-will be the only way to deliver sustainable improvements in maternal and child nutrition, and in the health of women and children more generally.

  The compelling logic of this scientific evidence is that governments need national plans to scale-up nutrition interventions, systems to monitor and evaluate those plans, and laws and policies to enhance the rights and status of women and children. Although complex and fraught with political disagreement, none of these solutions are separable from global treaties and negotiations over trade, agriculture, and poverty reduction. This latest Lancet Series concludes, not surprisingly perhaps, that the international nutrition system is broken. Leadership is absent, resources are too few, capacity is fragile, and emergency response systems are fragmentary. New governance arrange-ments are urgently needed. An agency, donor, or political leader needs to step up to this challenge. There is a fabulous opportunity right now for someone to do so. But who?

Richard Horton

The Lancet, London NW1 7BY, UK

*     Lopez AD, Mathers CD, Ezzati M, Jamison DT, Murray CJL. Global and regional burden of disease and risk factors, 2001: systematic analysis of population health data. Lancet 2006; 367: 1747-57.

I have one client who gets major migraines.  She comes to get an IonCleanse and that has cleared it up.  Incase that dosen’t work for you to come in and see me, here is some good advice to follow instead.

 Migraines and Hormones – A Natural Approach

Here is a link to a blog which tells of her personal feelings on this amazing product.

Colloidal Silver

I chose to work at a chiropractic office for a good reason. A chiropractic back adjustment can significantly reduce the severity and shorten the duration of pain and hyperalgesia caused by inflammation in the lower back. An adjustment creates faster elimination of the inflammation and recovery of the inflamed nerves by improving blood and nutrition to the nerves coming from that part of the spine.

The bubbles that are seen during an IonCleanse is from gas in the gastro intensional tract, toxins from the colon.  Sometimes these bubbles can be small, or large. I like to look into the possibility of Leaky Gut Syndrome in these cases. This can be caused by lack of proper enzymes and ProBiotics in the gut and even anti-inflammatory (NSAIDs) use. This causes foods to not digest and becomes a great place for unfriendly organisms to live. What kind of unfriendly organisms live in the colon? Here are some…

What to do?

Lactobacillus salivarius 800 million*