Health at Gunpoint : The FDA's Silent War Against Health Freedom

Health at Gunpoint brings into clear focus the silent war being waged by the FDA against American consumers.

The FDA was established in 1906 to protect the U.S. public from misbranded and adulterated foods and drugs. While the original intent may have been honorable, over the years the mission has become tainted by lobbyists and money. 

In Health at Gunpoint, award-winning health writer James Gormley presents a history of this Federal agency's long-standing battle against health products and examines some of its most controversial decisions and the troubling reasons behind them.

Gormley also shares with us the history of natural health in the United States, from its European origins, to its early clean-living advocates, to the health food movement it inspired.  

Health at Gunpoint  not only shines a light on how and why health foods and dietary supplements have been attacked since the early 1900s, but it also provides an international context for how, we as Americans, can view the future of dietary supplements and natural foods as part of enlightened approaches to optimal health. 

It shows ways that our government agencies can work with Americans and not stand in the way of their full access to (and information about) health and health food products.