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"Reading this book was a stunning experience for me. While I have read extensively about the history of the development of the American health care industry and have written and lectured on the subject for many years, I’ve never encountered anyone who has grasped the underlying issues more soundly than Richards has. What he has done is not only pull together bits and pieces of information about often shocking events that many of us are familiar with, but he has also placed all this information into a much broader context. Thanks to Richards, we now can see the FDA as nothing more than a bit-player in a much larger picture which is only now just beginning to emerge, and which has nothing to do with improving our health.

Elissa Meininger

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Endorsements for Fight For your Health: Exposing the FDAs Betrayal of America are coming in from around the world!  Here is a sampling—read what health professionals and health freedom leaders are saying.  Together we are Standing Up for Truth In Wellness!

"In the book, Fight for Your Health: The FDA's Betrayal of America, Nutritionist, Byron J. Richards has managed to summarize a great deal of what is wrong with contemporary America. As America leads the world in commerce, industry and governance, at least since the Second World War, the malaise, regrettably, is a worldwide phenomenon. On reading this book, I was amazed and delighted at the author's perspicacity in putting the problem of the FDA explicitly into the context of the corrupt environment in which we live. ... Before reviewing this book, as a now old physician, who has focused on health maintenance, positive healing, avoidance of drugs and toxicity for over two decades, and increasingly so; and, whose main interest during this time outside medicine has been the philosophical and historical evolution which Richards so well portrays, I have to admit that I have not read another exposé so well assembled. ... If you, gentle reader, are open minded, and interested in the truth, it is recommended you pay very close attention to all the details in this book.

Thomas Dorman, M.D.

"In his book, Fight for Your Health, Byron Richards joins the chorus of those critical of modern medicine. He is right on key and harmonizes well. Modern medicine is far more dangerous and debilitating than helpful. The FDA is so corrupt it cannot be fixed. The large pharmaceutical companies are Satan’s strongest outpost on earth. All is not lost, however. Byron opens the door to the treasure trove of safe, natural therapies. He has done you a service. Be thankful.

 Julian Whitaker, MD
 Founder, Whitaker Wellness Institute,
 Author, Health & Healing newsletter

"In 1992, FDA agents with guns drawn kicked in the doors of Tahoma Clinic in Washington State and arrested our injectable B-vitamins. In 1990, Sissy Harrington-McGill, owner of Solid Gold Pet Foods, El Cajon, California, was led into court in chains, sentenced to 179 days in prison, and fined $10,000 in a case brought by FDA alleging “mislabeling” of natural dog food. Yet the makers of Vioxx, Baychol, and other FDA “approved” (but lethal) patent medications suffered no armed raids, no jail sentences, and no fines or even rebukes from FDA.

In 1970, former FDA Commissioner Herbert Ley was quoted by the San Francisco Chronicle: “People think FDA is protecting them—it isn’t. What the FDA is doing and what people think it’s doing are as different as night and day.” Byron Richards documents that this statement is just as true—if not more so—in 2006 as it was in 1992 or 1970.

Jonathan V Wright, MD

Medical Director

Tahoma Clinic, Renton, Washington

“As director of the International Medical Veritas Association (IMVA) I am sent many books for review. Recently Fight for Your Health was sent to me and I recognized it at once as an important book that shows how inhumane an organization can get. As a warm up to the subject Richards tells us to try to imagine the targeting of small children with dangerous and expensive drugs and we begin to see the absolute horror of a medical system run amok, stewarded by the FDA. This is a very timely and important book that exposes a great threat to the public. This should be required reading in school and for all parents who are interested in protecting their children from harm. Its enough to boil your blood and get you ready to storm FDA headquarters!

Mark Sircus Ac., OMD
Director International Medical Veritas Association

"Hope, betrayal, and death - you can find all of these elements of a successful novel in this book - the only thing is, they are not fictional, they are real. And they have happened and are still happening to you and me. FIGHT FOR YOUR HEALTH gives us a thorough but very readable look at the FDA and all that is going wrong with health and healthcare in our country. Read this book and then take the title to heart."

Scott Tips

Codex delegate & Legal Counsel for the National Health Federation

“Should you read Fight For Your Health? Yes! Yes! Yes! It tells you what is going wrong and without this information you can not hope to salvage our health care system or maintain your own optimal health. Your life depends on your being fully informed, and nothing I have seen in my extensive research has documented how out of control the system is as clearly as this well-written book, which I could hardly put down. If you value the life of your loved ones, you will read this cover to cover and then show it to your friends, as without the extensive references, none of them will believe what is going on. Natural Products and Alternative Medicine are major threats to “status quo” medicine. They have a plan and I guarantee YOU won’t like it.

G.F. Gordon, MD DO MD (H.)
Dr. Gordon is on the Board of Homeopathic Medical Examiners for Arizona and is Co-Founder of the American College for Advancement in Medicine (ACAM). He is Founder/President of the International College of Advanced Longevity (ICALM) and Board Member of International Oxidative Medicine Association (IOMA). He is also a member of the Scientific Advisory Committee for The National Foundation for Alternative Medicine.

"'The only person today with a true vested interest in your well being is you,' writes Byron Richards in Fight for Your Health, and he is right. His book is a spirited defense of health freedom. Well supported with hundreds of references, it is also an energetic counter-offensive against the pharmaceutical medicine monopoly. I recommend reading Fight for Your Health right now, before the FDA either makes the book require a prescription or bans it outright."

Andrew W. Saul

Assistant Editor, The Journal of Orthomolecular Medicine

“Having been exposed to so much greed, destruction, and death in the media for so many years, you can become emotionally numb. But after reading Byron Richards’ "Fight for Your Health" you will be wide awake and questioning: exactly what is the FDA’s purpose? To protect citizens or to help build a medicated environment where all citizens are tagged and tracked like cattle? Think that this is not happening now? Then you definitely need to read this book.

In "Fight for Your Health", not only is the current state of the FDA, Big Pharma and government laid out but it also includes some history of how we have progressed to end up where we are today. We can no longer just shake our heads and said, "What can I do?" The information included in this book is vital to all.

Thank you, Byron, for putting yourself on the line with pen to paper. Hopefully, this time the pen is truly mightier than the sword.

Taffy Brandt

Operations Manager & Advocate

American Association for Health Freedom

“I’ve often stated that if people knew how deeply the FDA's bias affects healthcare delivery in America, they would demand an immediate change from top-to-bottom. Byron Richards’ book Fight For Your Health: Exposing the FDA's Betrayal of America provides that proof, while demonstrating that the FDA acts on behalf of corporate interests — not for the public good. This book exposes how the FDA poses as a healthcare regulatory agency while doing the bidding of multinational food and drug companies. It is a must-read for anyone who wants the truth delivered with impeccable facts and enveloping prose.

Kevin P. Miller, International award-winning Writer/Producer
LET TRUTH BE THE BIAS and WE BECOME SILENT

A  Call to Stand Up for Health and Health Freedom

Byron Richards has come out with his long-awaited expose on dangerous drugs and an FDA-pharmaceutical juggernaut that is out of control. This unholy juggernaut, a product of the worsening political corruption of our times, threatens to tighten the screws on our basic health freedoms and our very ability to remain healthy. Parallels drawn between the loss of health freedom and personal freedoms in Germany under Hitler and the steady erosion of those same freedoms in America today should raise concern in every thinking person. As a leading health educator, Richards intersperses his critique with helpful information on how the body naturally functions and what it really needs. It is well worth reading. My hope is that, together, we can stand up to protect our health and health freedom; this book can show the way.

Leo Cashman, Executive Director of DAMS, Intl, a non-profit group that educates the public on dental mercury and other ways dentistry may affect health.

Review by John C. Hammell, President
International Advocates for Health Freedom

Fight for Your Health by Byron J. Richards conveys an urgent message that we must work together to rein in an out-of-control FDA, while simultaneously taking steps to safeguard our own health.

In 1906 Harvey W. Wiley, MD developed the idea of the FDA with only the best intentions of safeguarding the public health. In 1933 he published a book titled The History of a Crime Against the Food Law which documented how the Agency had become corrupted by the same special interests it was intended to regulate.

Seventy-three years after Wiley’s expose went largely unheeded by Congress, Richards has provided us with an equally useful tool in Fight For Your Health: Exposing the FDA’s Betrayal of America. Richards clearly illustrates that the FDA has abandoned its public health mission and is acting like a trade association for pharmaceutical interests to protect them from unwanted competition while taking their cues from Wall Street.

In Chapter 8, Richards exposes a secret government population control agenda, long hidden under a veil of “National Security”. He reveals that while this agenda was at first applied strictly to third world countries, through the FDA’s policies we can see that its now being applied to the entire world via globalization.

In Chapters 22-23 Richards discusses the immense threat posed by the FDA’s collusion with the UN’s Codex Alimentarius Commission to ban consumer access to dietary supplements and he explains how corrupt vitamin trade associations are lying through their teeth on this issue as they aid and abet the FDA.

Harvey W. Wiley is surely rolling in his grave. Will enough people wake up and take the necessary actions to stop this rogue agency before it kills even MORE people than it already has?

Public pressure is necessary to insure that the Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee of the House Commerce Committee holds separate hearings to delve deeply into every FDA scam Richards reveals: Genetically engineered foods, toxic fluoride and other dangerous unregulated toxins in our drinking water, the fraudulent approval of dangerous drugs, the attack on safe dietary supplements, the FDA’s illegal efforts through the UN’s Codex Alimentarius Commission to ban consumer access to vitamins and minerals within the therapeutic range world wide.…

Richards’ book sounds a clarion call, a call to arms. We ignore it at our peril.

John C. Hammell, President
International Advocates for Health Freedom

Fight for Your Health is a stunning "wake-up call".  For those who feel we can just sit back and trust our public health authorities and governmental regulatory bodies to do job #1—protect the innocent public from all manner of corporate industrial crimes, legalized drug-peddling, wanton environmental and chemical pollution, the poisoning and degradation of our food and the willful harming of our health and the health of our children through vaccinations and drugs—think again.

Worse however, this book exposes the medical industrial complex, which includes our doctors, who seem oblivious to the disease epidemic we are all living through or why it's happening, and a drug-focused medical school curriculum, engineered and supported by the drug industry, that brainwashes doctors to believe "healing" using dangerous drugs actually heals, when in sorry fact, the sick just get sicker, quicker, and need more drugs. When you think it can't get any worse, it does, as the medical industrial complex, through Codex, enforceable by the FDA, wants to strip people of the right to use nutritional supplements, the only way therapeutically to detoxify the environmental assaults we face daily to stay well. This book documents it all in a frighteningly clear way, a must read.

Robert Gardener. BS, LDN; Licensed Clinical Nutritionist

"This book is clearly a call to arms. We act now or loose some of our most basic freedoms, to health and life.

A bold action, on the part of the public is needed or we will loose these basic freedoms. The last three chapters should be carefully read by anyone in America desiring to defend their future access to dietary supplements and especially by CEO's of vitamin companies, health food stores and alternative medical practitioners. They address the Codex vitamin issue and the related threat posed by regional harmonization. As the FDA is engaged in practices contrary not in the interest of the American public whom they are to serve and protect. They are conferencing with their regulatory counterparts in Canada and Mexico, via the Trilateral Cooperation Charter, generating a direct assault on our sovereignty and on the Dietary Supplement Health and Education Act. The supplement industry must stop listening to bad advice coming from the pharma-dominated vitamin trade associations and start taking their cues from International Advocates for Health Freedom and allied organizations and must immediately work together to demand congressional oversight of FDA's questionable actions which are not mandated by any Act of Congress. FDA is clearly working with their counterparts in Canada and Mexico to craft one HARM-onized set of Food and Drug Regulations for all three countries as part of an effort to force America into a planned North American Union patterned after the EU. This is obviously an incremental move toward harmonization with excessively restrictive CODEX dictates. NOTHING gives the FDA the RIGHT to do this, and we must speak out NOW!

Stephen Levine, PHD.

“Finally, here's the one book health freedom activists need to convince friends and colleagues that there is a desperate need for those of us who know the truth to get together in effective political action. The information is convincing for those who have not been aware of the tremendous dangers we face from our own government agencies and provides guidance for those alarmed at how seriously the dangers have progressed in recent years. Read the book and tell all you know that the "real terrorists" in this world are to be found in our own federal agencies.

Arline Brecher

Author of best-selling Forty Something Forever, health radio personality and long time health freedom activist.

"Apathy will be the death of our health freedom!  It's time to get educated about the FDA being a financial whore to the pharmaceutical companies. We need to take back our human rights. Educated people make educated decisions. Byron J. Richards' FIGHT FOR YOUR HEALTH gives us a dose of reality by exposing us to the truth about our devious system. We no longer have a healthcare system in this country, but rather a "sickcare" system. FIGHT FOR YOUR HEALTH should be mandatory reading for every person on planet earth who hopes to maintain their health freedom and not fall prey to an evil industry who has manipulated the rules to suit their own murderous greed!"
Spice Williams-Crosby, BSc, MFS, CFT

"I encourage everyone to read Byron Richards' informative book.

As a longtime health freedom advocate I am aware of the issues he addresses. What it does is make the key issues facing people today easily understandable, and encourages action. While all of the information is important, Chapter 20, "Whatever Happened to All The Thinking Doctors" clearly identifies a major problem. In today's health industry the patient is frequently told by doctors that "we don't know what is wrong with you". This lack of availability to "thinking doctors" rings home to me. I see this daily in my work when I am thanked by clients who ask me why the doctor could not give them the information they needed and help them regain control over their health.

Gayle Eversole, DHom, PhD, MH, NP, ND
Founder and Director, Creating Health Institute and author of The Road to Health Natural Care Series

"Fight for Your Health goes beyond the conventional thinking of modern medicine and details the atrocities committed by the ones appointed to protect us- the Food and Drug Administration.

Richards exposes our governmental agencies, as well as the political leaders themselves, as power brokers. Their decisions regarding our health protect industry profits, not American health. Read this book and see just how far the rabbit hole goes!

Jason Krueger

Fluoride Action Network

Minnesota Representative

Sauk Rapids, MN

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