Vitacost extends exclusive 10% discount to NaturalNews readers through Feb. 21

(NaturalNews) It's good news time once again for NaturalNews readers: Vitacost.com, which was recently voted the #1 online retailer of health products by NaturalNews readers, is offering 10% discount on all its NSI-branded products. This discount is only good for a few days: It expires at midnight, February 21, 2010.

The offer is good on all NSI branded products atwww.Vitacost.com

Use discount code NNRC10 to take advantage of this incredible discount!

Why Vitacost?

Vitacost is more than just the top internet retailer of health products in the USA, it's also a company with a top-notch in-house manufacturing facility. I've actually toured Vitacost. I've seen the manufacturing operations first-hand, and I've met with the people running the show there.

This is a company that offers first-rate products at extremely competitive prices. They accomplish this because they manufacture and sell their products directly to consumers, bypassing any need for retailer markups or brick-and-mortar retail stores. This translates into huge cost savings for you, the consumer.

The NSI brand offers over 700 health and nutritional products to choose from, too. From probiotics to superfood antioxidants like astaxanthin, NSI covers a wide variety of health-related products that can support and enhance your health. See a complete list of the NSI branded products at:http://www.vitacost.com/NSI

Here's a list of some of my personal favorites: (Note - the descriptions below each product listing are my own opinions and not officials descriptions from Vitacost.com. NaturalNews has no financial relationship with Vitacost.)

NSI Vitamin D3 - Great for supporting healthy vitamin D levels during the winter
http://www.vitacost.com/NSI-Vitamin...

NSI Vitamin D drops - Liquid source for those who don't like capsules
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NSI Turmeric Extract - Excellent source of turmeric
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NSI Resveratrol + Grape Seed + Red Wine Extracts - Outstanding support for heart health and longevity!
http://www.vitacost.com/NSI-Resvera...

NSI Red Yeast Rice + CoQ10 - Amazing supplement for supporting healthy cholesterol levels.
http://www.vitacost.com/NSI-Red-Yea...

NSI Natural Astaxanthin with Hawaiian BioAstin - This is an amazing antioxidant I've recommended for years. The NSI brand contains soy lecithin. Choose the BioAstin brand if you want a soy-free formula.
http://www.vitacost.com/NSI-Natural...

NSI Pine Bark Extract - Amazing antioxidant. I've used this for years.
http://www.vitacost.com/NSI-Pine-Ba...

NSI AHCC Immune Booster - A super powerful formula. I've recommended it to family and friends.
http://www.vitacost.com/NSI-AHCC-Im...

NSI Bone Booster Complex - A fantastic collection of nutrients for supporting bone health and proper bone density.
http://www.vitacost.com/NSI-Bone-Bo...

NSI DIM Complex with BroccoSinolate - An excellent source of phytonutrients from broccoli.
http://www.vitacost.com/NSI-DIM-Com...

NSI Cherry Fruit Extract - Cherries contain nutrients that have been scientifically shown to reduce pain and swelling.
http://www.vitacost.com/NSI-Cherry-...

NSI SKO Superior Krill Oil - For those wanting a source of premium krill oil, this is an excellent choice with a much better price.
http://www.vitacost.com/NSI-SKO-tra...

NSI Organic Mushroom Ultra-10 Complex - A collection of 10 medicinal mushrooms offering an assortment of supportive health benefits.
http://www.vitacost.com/NSI-Organic...

NSI Bioenergy Ribose Pure D-Ribose - A remarkable supplement for a normal, healthy heart.
http://www.vitacost.com/NSI-Bioener...

NSI Pure Tea Tree Oil - 4 oz. of pure oil with many topical uses.
http://www.vitacost.com/NSI-100-Pur...

NSI High ORAC Oregano - Powerful digestive aid. I use it when traveling.
http://www.vitacost.com/NSI-Origano...

Those are just some of my favorites. You can shop at www.Vitacost.com for many more.

Remember, this exclusive 10% discount applies only to the NSI brand of products at Vitacost.

Use coupon code NNRC10

This exclusive discount expires at midnight, February 21, 2010.

After you place your order - Beware of "Cash Back" offer

After ordering from Vitacost.com, you will see a page that says "Exclusive Thank-You Reward - Claim $20 Cash Back Now - PLUS $10 cash back every month!"

In my opinion, this is a gimmicky offer that you may wish to avoid because unless you read the fine print, you could unintentionally get signed up for the "SavingsAce" program which will cost you $19.95 per month, charged to your credit card.

Over the last few years, NaturalNews has received numerous complaints from readers who felt they were duped into this post-sale program. Although the fine print explains what this "offer" really is, many people don't read the fine print and they mistakenly think it's still part of the Vitacost purchase process. So they fill out the form to claim their "cash back" and then they're surprised to see these $19.95 charges appearing on their credit card each month.

We've never received any complaints about Vitacost except for those concerning this cash back offer. Vitacost did recently change this offer from a one-click button to a whole new form where you must now fill out your entire credit card information in order to sign up for it. This change has already reduced some of the complaints because it makes it less likely for people to accidentally sign up for the service.

Nevertheless, the presentation of this cash back special offer could be seen as somewhat misleading: It says, in big bold letters "$120 cash back a year" but doesn't say anything about the fact that this "benefit" will cost you roughly $240 a year until you get to the fine print. I don't know about you, but I'm not interested in paying somebody $240 a year just to get $120 back.

So my advice is to avoid this post-sale cash back offer called "SavingsAce." It is the only thing about Vitacost that has ever generated complaints from our readers.

But remember this: Vitacost is an outstanding company. They offer high quality products at very reasonable prices. They were voted the #1 internet retailer of health products by NaturalNews readers! This cash back offer is completely optional -- you can just skip it and you'll never have to worry about it.

That's what I do: I take advantage of the 10% discount to order products from Vitacost, too (I'm a regular customer), and I just make sure to skip the "cash back" offer that appears following the checkout process.

Enjoy this exclusive Vitacost discount! It's only good through midnight, February 21, 2010.

Zero deaths caused by vitamins, minerals, amino acids or herbs

(NaturalNews) To hear opponents of natural medicine say it, vitamins and herbs are extremely dangerous for your health. They should be regulated, we're told, because they're so dangerous!

Statistics from the U.S. National Poison Data System prove otherwise. According to a 174-page report just published, the number of people killed in 2009 across America by vitamins, minerals, amino acids or herbal supplements is exactly zero.

Compare that to the 100,000 (or so) Americans killed each year by FDA-approved pharmaceuticals -- and that's even according to studies published in JAMA. Also consider the thousands of women harmed or killed by medically-unjustified cancer treatments following false positives from faulty mammograms. And don't forget about the more than 16,500 Americans killed each year from internal bleeding caused by NSAIDs (over-the-counter painkillers).

As the July 1998 issue of The American Journal of Medicine explains:

"Conservative calculations estimate that approximately 107,000 patients are hospitalized annually for nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drug (NSAID)-related gastrointestinal (GI) complications and at least 16,500 NSAID-related deaths occur each year among arthritis patients alone." (Singh Gurkirpal, MD, "Recent Considerations in Nonsteroidal Anti-Inflammatory Drug Gastropathy", The American Journal of Medicine, July 27, 1998, p. 31S)

So if NSAIDs alone are killing 16,500 people a year (or likely much more now, as use of these drugs has risen significantly since 1998), and nutritional supplements are killing zero people a year, why do health regulators try to scare everybody about vitamins being so "dangerous?"

Pharmaceuticals, meanwhile, are openly allowed to be prescribed for off-label use, meaning that doctors can prescribe them for diseases and health conditions for which they've never even been tested!

What's wrong with this picture? It's clearly a war against nutrition -- a war against natural medicine -- being waged by the health regulators of the world who are conspiring with Big Pharma to keep the people trapped in a state of malnutrition (all while profiting from their disease by selling them more patented pharmaceuticals).

The Orthomolecular Medicine News Service published a full article on this issue. Here's what they had to say about the safety of nutritional supplements and the misguided attempts by world governments to limit or outlaw many supplements.

No Deaths from Vitamins, Minerals, Amino Acids or Herbs

Poison Control Statistics Prove Supplements' Safety

There was not even one death caused by a dietary supplement in 2008, according to the most recent information collected by the U.S. National Poison Data System. The new 174-page annual report of the American Association of Poison Control Centers, published in the journal Clinical Toxicology, shows zero deaths from multiple vitamins; zero deaths from any of the B vitamins; zero deaths from vitamins A, C, D, or E; and zero deaths from any other vitamin.

Additionally, there were no deaths whatsoever from any amino acid or herbal product. This means no deaths at all from blue cohosh, echinacea, ginkgo biloba, ginseng, kava kava, St. John's wort, valerian, yohimbe, Asian medicines, ayurvedic medicines, or any other botanical. There were zero deaths from creatine, blue-green algae, glucosamine, chondroitin, melatonin, or any homeopathic remedies.

Furthermore, there were zero deaths in 2008 from any dietary mineral supplement. This means there were no fatalities from calcium, magnesium, chromium, zinc, colloidal silver, selenium, iron, or multimineral supplements. Two children died as a result of medical use of the antacid sodium bicarbonate. The other "Electrolyte and Mineral" category death was due to a man accidentally drinking sodium hydroxide, a highly toxic degreaser and drain-opener.

No man, woman or child died from nutritional supplements. Period.

61 poison centers provide coast-to-coast data for the U.S. National Poison Data System, which is then reviewed by 29 medical and clinical toxicologists. NPDS, the authors write, is "one of the few real-time national surveillance systems in existence, providing a model public health surveillance system for all types of exposures, public health event identification, resilience response and situational awareness tracking."

Over half of the U.S. population takes daily nutritional supplements. Even if each of those people took only one single tablet daily, that makes 154,000,000 individual doses per day, for a total of over 56 billion doses annually. Since many persons take more than just one vitamin or mineral tablet, actual consumption is considerably higher, and the safety of nutritional supplements is all the more remarkable.

If nutritional supplements are allegedly so "dangerous," as the FDA and news media so often claim, then where are the bodies?

Those who wonder if the media are biased against vitamins may consider this: how many television stations, newspapers, magazines, and medical journals have reported that no one dies from nutritional supplements?

References:

Bronstein AC, Spyker DA, Cantilena LR Jr, Green JL, Rumack BH, Giffin SL. 2008 Annual Report of the American Association of Poison Control Centers' National Poison Data System (NPDS): 26th Annual Report. Clinical Toxicology (2009). 47, 911-1084. The full text article is available for free download at http://www.aapcc.org/dnn/Portals/0/... .

(Vitamins statistics are found in Table 22B, journal pages 1052-3. Minerals, herbs, amino acids and other supplements are in the same table, pages 1047-8.)

For Further Reading:

Download any Annual Report of the American Association of Poison Control Centers from 1983-2008 free of charge at http://www.aapcc.org/dnn/NPDSPoison...

Nutritional Medicine is Orthomolecular Medicine

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