The Formula for Success, the MLM way. How "NOT" to become a naturopathic doctor.

Please recognize the value of formal medical educaiton and support the qualified naturopathic
medical doctors in their quest to become registered and better serve Minnesotans.
Please support SF 1520!
My commentary below is in jest, unfortunately, the rest is real.
Why go to professional school for 4 years when you could be playing golf and building your dream Multi Level Marketing pyramid?
If you were wondering what steps to take, http://www.theherbdoc.com/resources/memberservices/Training/index.html
lists them for you, from starting out as an Nature Sunshine Products distributor, to ordering your mail-order Doctor Diploma.
Just make sure those graduates of full-time naturopathic medical schools do not get licensed,
so you can act as if your make-believe diploma were just as good.

Natural Health Education
and Training Opportunities

If you would like to build your own part-time or full-time practice as a natural health practitioner, we recommend that you seriously consider the following steps toward your professional development and certification. If you become part of our family of distributors, it will be our pleasant responsibility to “mentor” you in your natural health career.

Note: You may wish to reverse the order of your Master Herbalist and Naturopathic Doctor programs, but if you are serious about the natural health profession you will eventually want to take both programs.

1. Become a Nature’s Sunshine Products Independent Distributor and begin attending local training sessions provided by Nature’s Sunshine and your upline.
   
   

2. Begin using the Nature's Sunshine products. Don't use just the food supplements. Remember that there is also a complete line of personal care products as well: shampoo, conditioner, toothpaste, lotions, salves, lip balm, sunscreen, etc. If you are currently buying these products at the drug store or variety store, you are supporting your "competitor" — anything that you can buy from yourself, you should. You shouldn't recommend products that you don't believe in, and you can't believe in a product line that you haven't tried.
   
   Using your own products not only helps you gain confidence in the excellent quality of the entire NSP product line, it also increases your PV/QV and gets you closer to your first bonus check. Remember that as a Manager, you get 35-40% off the retail price of your products, plus you get a bonus check for an additional 27% of the cost of every product you buy from yourself. To become an NSP manager, you only have to use $100 worth of products each month, and have only 10 customers who also use $100 worth of products each month, whether they are retail customers or Member/Distributors. Click here for the bonus schedule.
   
   

3. Attend Nature’s Sunshine’s School of Natural Health to become an NSP Herb Specialist^SM, and attend Nature’s Sunshine’s regular Regional Meetings.
   
   

4. Enroll in the National Association of Certified Natural Health Professionals Certification Program and become a Certified Natural Health Professional (CNHP). This program covers the basics of Body Systems, Nutrition, Iridology, and Body Works. Once you have started your CNHP program, you become eligible for significant tuition discounts from Trinity School of Natural Health.
   
   

5. You may also want to consider becoming a Certified Iridologist through our Iridology Correspondence Course.
   
   

6. Enroll in a program to become certified as a Master Herbalist.
   
   

7. Enroll in a program to earn a degree as a Naturopathic Doctor from Trinity School of Natural Health or from Clayton College of Natural Health.
   
   

8. Pursue your life-long continuing education.
   

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Local Seminars and Training Opportunities from TheHerbDoc and our Associates.

Training Opportunities from Nature's Sunshine Products.

Trinity School of Natural Health offers Doctor of Naturopathy, Master Herbalist, and Certified Nutritional Consultant programs.

Clayton College of Natural Health offers Undergraduate Degree programs in Natural Health and Holistic Nutrition, Specialization Programs in Herbal Studies and Homeopathy, and Graduate Degree Programs in Naturopathy, Natural Health, and Holistic Nutrition.

Tree of Light Institute is operated by Steven Horne, a senior-level Nature's Sunshine Manager, well-known master herbalist, and current president of the American Herbalist Guild. His Institute offers a number of specialized correspondence courses and books on a wide variety of natural health subjects. Steven developed the curriculum that is currently used by NSP's School of Natural Health.

"Title Protection, ND or not ND" is no longer the question. YES to NDs and SF 1520!

Ken Winston Cain writes in http://www.mindbodyspiritjournal.com/holistic-health/
naturopathy/stop-the-naturopathy-wars-cnmes-medically-trained
-naturopaths-need-a-distinct-title that the war declared by "health freedom"
on ND licensure will end once
the naturopathic physicians give up ND title to the unlicensables and secure for themselves
something less contentious, like Integrative Medical Doctor, or IMD.
Mr. Cain might know what it would take to bring hostilities to end, after all he founded
Boyd Landry's organisation, CNH.
Maybe he is right about the title, ND does not sound all that great, it might stand for 'nada' or 'not doctor', while IMD has more of an imperious ring, 'I, MD', akin to 'I, Claudius'.
However, it might be a mistake to take on a 3 letter abbreviation, too close to IMF and WMD,
as in International Monetary Fund and Weapons of Mass Destruction.

Here is the best title I have seen.

http://www.mes-med.com/prof_anton_j

Leave out "Late" for the living:

Late Lord Pandit Raja-Guru Maha-Atma WHO Qualified Chinese Master-Acupuncturist Prof. Dr. Sir Holy Tibetian Lama Shaman Healer

Will everyone agree to let naturopathic physicians use this title?
Will this agreement bring to end the 'naturopathy wars'?

"health freedom" kills 2008 Colorado licensing bill

Found this entry on livejournal. Check out the brownshirt tactics. Hate Freedom marches on.
BTW, Kimberly Sharples is an old Sunshine Health Freedom/NSP troll.

http://community.livejournal.com/ronpaul2008/360345.html?view=2167705#t2167705

Ron Paul Supporters Stopped Naturopathy Bill in Colorado
Here's my question, to the Ron Paul supporters and other Libertarians out there:
Why was this bill (Colorado HB 1064) blocked? Specifics would be useful.
Can you envision a licensure bill for Naturopathic Physicians in your state that would not trigger the anti-socialism patrol?
Thanks.
(x-posting to Libertarians, Ron Paul group, etc)

Some comments from
Kimberly Sharples, HHP
Health Freedom Activist
kimberlysharples@msn.com
719-390-1979
http://www.vitesis.com/?tag=house-bill-1064:

HB 1064, is the Regulation of Naturopathic Doctors bill. This bill was introduced by Rep. Jeanne Labuda. We are opposing this bill for several reasons.

HB 1064 defines the practice of naturopathy and naturopathic medicine as the same thing, basically all of natural healing.

HB 1064 makes it unlawful for traditional naturopaths or natural health practitioners, from practicing anything within that definition. Those in violation can be charged with a Class 2 misdemeanor or a Class 6 felony.

HB 1064 also makes it unlawful to use titles or words, including naturopath or naturopathy, or ND, unless licensed as a Naturopathic Doctor as specified in the bill.

HB 1064 states that one must have only graduated from certain naturopathic medical schools, which eliminates thousands of other health care practitioners from practicing creating an exclusionary and monopolistic bill.

HB 1064 is poorly written with no honor of the traditional naturopaths and all natural health healers and practitioners.

We are urging everyone to please call, fax and email the members of this committee and urge them to vote NO on HB 1064.

AND FROM ANOTHER ANGLE:

The following is from Rena Bloom, ND, and written from the position of supporting Naturopathic Medicine as a professional practice for those educated at a four year college. Rena supports licensure for trained practitioners in the state of Colorado:

They say when you are in a battle, no one wins. Today HB 1064, the bill to regulate naturopathic doctors was "postponed indefinitely" in the House Health and Human Services committee. In English that means, the bill was killed, before an official vote was taken.

The motion to P.I. the bill was offered by Rep Marostica, and seconded by Rep Swalm.

The people who voted to kill the bill were:
Rep Marostica
Rep Swalm
Rep Frangas
Rep Gagliardi
Rep Kerr
Rep Green
Rep Hicks

The hearing room had a State Patrolman posted, as apparently last week Rep Stafford received some harassing phone calls from people opposing HB 1064, and felt quite uncomfortable, to the point of calling in the State
Patrol.

This morning an email went out from the HealthKeepers, and on Presidential Candidate Ron Paul's web list, soliciting help in opposing HB 1064. People were asked to attend the hearing, wear red, and bring
signs. Which they did. The parking lot was full of Ron Paul bumper stickers, including a big 4X4 pick up truck, with Harley Stickers, and painted on the back: www.naturalmedicinedr.com >. Does that truck belong to any of
you?

As we left the hearing, a group of young men in red, with motorcycle helmets approached us on the sidewalk, and when Greg said excuse us, we didn't need visitors for this discussion, they proceeded to remind us
that the sidewalk was public property, and any one could stand there. We crossed the street, and they followed, again telling us that this was public property, and since we were just a bunch of communists, we should
just move to China. The state patrol was called, at which time the young men left.

I share this ugliness with you, so you get an understanding of how the opposition does politics.

I also share my disappointment. The Health Freedom movement is reveling in their glory of our loss. That's the part about battle, someone has to lose.

I have many thoughts regarding the pursuit of future legislation, which we can share at the CANP meeting coming up later this month.

At this point I admit, I would be happy not setting foot again in that capitol for a while. I also look forward to having the time to participate in more life giving activities, which is nice.

Good news is, you all might as well continue to call yourselves Physicians, and practice as you were trained. The legislators obviously did not think that was a big enough problem for them to deal with.

Rena Bloom ND
Legislative Chair
Colorado Association of Naturopathic Physicians

Is nothing sacred? From Health Freedom to Hate Freedom

It has been an extremely windy day in the Twin Cities.
But no force of nature will compare with MNHLRP's own windbag lobbyist, Karen Studders, J.D..
The information below was made public by Representative Cy Thao during today's committee hearing regarding HF 1724.
To put pressure on Cy Thao, a member of the House who has been working with all
sides on the House File 1724, Karen Studders phoned Hmong Talk Radio last night, April 14.
She made an egregious claim that if Naturopathic Registration Bill passes, Hmong community
members will not be able to perform their religious rituals and gave listeners Cy Thao's
cell phone number to call and protest.
And they did, in great numbers. The phone calls kept coming overnight, till 3P.M. this afternoon, and Mr. Thao had to explain the reality of the situation to many Hmong who came today in person to the Minnesota House to protest what they saw as an encroachment on their religious freedom.

There is not a grain of truth in Karen Studders' accusations. None.
As a registered lobbyist, she must have read the bill and know that.

It is a record low for the Health Freedom movement.
If you are one of its members, go look in the mirror and say 'Shame on you!".
Hard to believe that someone is getting away spreading such malicious lies.