the voice of the natural health consumer

About Us

Mission statement

Citizens for Health is the national nonprofit consumer advocacy group working to broaden health care options, create an integrative health system based on wellness, and advance the freedom to make health choices.  We promote the fundamental policies needed to improve health choices and information in the U.S. and the world.  We work with grassroots and education organizations and the private sector to insure consumer access to a wide range of therapies, a healthy environment, safe foods, and the dietary supplements of their choice.  We foster active citizen leadership and organize natural health consumers to create political solutions that support these rights.


Who is Citizens for Health?

Citizens for Health was formed by a group of ordinary people who believed that good health is a right.  Over 120 million Americans regularly use dietary supplements, eat organic foods or visit alternative medical practitioners. Collectively, we represent the largest, yet-unorganized consumer movement in the country.


Together we can transform health care in America by:

  • Protecting access to safe, effective and affordable natural treatments and products
  • Promoting safe food, clean air and water and the freedom to make health choices. 

Citizens for Health works to improve our access to health choices because you have a right to:

  • Choose your practitioners, including naturopaths, homeopaths, chiropractors, acupuncturists and others providing alternative therapies. 
  • Choose treatments, including vitamin supplements, herbs, homeopathy and other non-conventional modalities.
  • Purchase vitamins, herbs and other supplements easily and in the dosages you require.
  • Obtain water that is free of toxins and harmful chemicals.
  • Eat natural foods grown and prepared without pesticides, hormones or antibiotics. 
  • Be fully informed if foods for purchase have be

Here’s how we can help you:

  • Educate you on your rights as a citizen concerning access to non- conventional health care therapies and products.
  • Teach you how you can most effectively communicate with your state and federal legislators to successfully secure choice in your state and on the national level.
  • Send you a regular newsletter featuring important federal and state legislative updates, important health news, book reviews and much more.
  • Update you on important issues through Action Alerts that allow you to take timely and direct action to impact state and federal legislation.

Now is the Time to Take Action!

Here’s why:  Your health choices are under attack.

  • New legislation limits access to dietary supplements and dismantles DSHEA.
  • Congress just watered down national organic standards and only after major consumer outcry were the strong standards demanded by consumer restored.
  • The Federal Government recently amended the national Privacy Rule, ending your right to prevent your medical records from being used and disclosed for many purposes, including marketing.
  • Genetically engineered foods are not labeled, and new crops have been genetically modified to grow drugs, vaccines and chemicals in food.
  • Routine feeding of antibiotics to healthy farm animals promotes antibiotic resistance in humans.

 


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