Did you know that the Food and Drug Administration

Did you know that the Food and Drug Administration prohibits food and dietary supplement companies from telling consumers how nutrients in their products can prevent or treat disease? No person or entity that sells nutrients can lawfully tell you the therapeutic effects of those products unless FDA approves each statement; that prior restraint is imposed even if the statement is true. To tell you one sentence of truth about how a nutrient affects a disease, a company must spend tens of thousands of dollars and wait for a year or more until FDA approves it (and FDA approves precious few). Not many companies can afford those rates or those odds. The effect is a mass suppression of health information in grocery stores, health food stores, and in the media. Those with the greatest financial interest in telling you the effects of the most basic substances we consume every day cannot legally tell you. For example, it is illegal for those who sell prune juice to tell consumers that their products relieve chronic constipation yet who on earth would question the truth of that statement? A company that did tell you that effect could have its product enjoined from sale and seized and its corporate officers prosecuted with potential prison terms.

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