Universal Drugs Fear and Intimidation, Not Health Care

It's official. The leading cause of death in America is not heart disease, not cancer -- but medicine itself! A new book co-authored by nutritionist Gary Null (also author of Rx for Disaster) called -- appropriately enough - "Death by Medicine" claims that over 800,000 Americans die each year as a result of medical treatment. A study by the Nutrition Institute of America attributes over 800,000 deaths a year to "iatrogenic" causes -- induced inadvertently by medical treatment or diagnostic procedures. In 2001, in comparison, just fewer than 700,000 Americans died from heart disease and 550,000 died of cancer.

Today's politicians are seizing the moment to promote universal health care as a solution to the nation's blight. Do we want more people to be exposed to this type of care?

The type of medicine we are practicing is antiquated, often dangerous, and based on the wrong premises and outdated approaches. Instead, it must be founded on the laws of modern physics and biology that help us address the true causes of disease, not just finding better drugs or procedures to deal with them once they occur. 'UNPLUG FROM ACCELERATED AGING AND PLUG IN TO YOUR BIOLOGICAL POTENTIAL'

We do not realize that drug reactions are "new" disease symptoms and are in fact caused by the very drugs patients are already taking. Drug-induced illnesses are far more common than people would like to think, as most doctors do not explain possible side-effects to their patients. And the elderly that are on average of four medications suffer 9.6 million adverse drug reactions each year alone. Most of these same symptoms show up in younger patients as well. www.WorstPills.org is a website that is a helpful tool for understanding the full extent of some of the complications from drugs.

For example, these common illnesses can be caused by pharmaceutical drugs:

• Depression -- Accutane, Advil, Cipro, Inderal, Pepcid, Tagamet, Zantac
• Psychoses/Hallucinations -- Benadryl, Celebrex, Dexatrim, Vioxx
• Dementia -- Aldomet, Inderal, Tagamet, Xanax
• Parkinsonism -- Cardizem, Haldol, Elavil, Risperdal, Thorazine

Getting more people access to the wrong treatments does not help us in the long term to create a sustainable model of health for society. We are missing a direct discussion and analysis of the lack of quality in our healthcare system. And quality is defined as the health of our population, which is clearly worse than almost every developed nation and worse than many third world countries.  We are 45th in life expectancy, coming after Bosnia and just ahead of Albania !

For over 100 years conventional medicine has seized control of the US health care system and as a result we have over 800,000 people who are killed by interacting with this system.  In the last century it is likely that over 50 million Americans have died prematurely from this abuse.
There is an old saying: "He who pays the piper calls the tune." This is one of those eternal truths that exist - and always will exist - in business, in politics, and in education.

This is why drug-oriented "medicine" thrives today and gets so much financial support because it has such a large profit potential to maintain its powerful lobbying influence over our Congress and keep it that way.

The role played by the Rockefeller and Carnegie foundations as a means of gaining control over American medical schools at the beginning of the 20^th Century is a harrowing tale of manipulation and deception.

We can say that these foundations captured control of the top of the health care pyramid with medical education when they were able to place their own people onto the boards of the various schools and into key administrative positions.

The middle of the pyramid was secured by the foundation's Association of American Medical Colleges, which set standards and unified the curricula.

And finally, the base of the pyramid was not consolidated until the foundations were able to select the teachers themselves by loading the staffs of our medical schools with men and women who, by preference and by training, were ideal propagators of the drug-oriented science that has come to dominate conventional medicine.

Then the food industry steps in, encouraging children to subsist on nutrient-poor, fatty-carbohydrate dense foods from vending machines for their breakfasts and lunches. This food comes from the farmers our government subsidizes to grow corn and soy crops with over $30 billion a year. Our tax dollars fuel the fast and junk food industry with high-fructose corn syrup and trans fatty acids, which are used to produce nutrient deficient, poor-quality, disease-creating ultra processed foods such as sodas, pastries and chips. At the same time, funds for local schools are limited.  So they cannot provide students with quality food choices and physical education.

Whatever basic nutrition that is allowed through the medical institutions will be minimal at best, and will be promulgated over and over again that natural sources of vitamins are in no way superior to those that are man-made or synthesized. Unfortunately, most of the people in the US are simply brainwashed from reality presented in this article.

Drug makers have embarked on unprecedented marketing campaigns. Spending on drug marketing has zoomed from $11 billion in 1997 to nearly $30 billion in 2005. Today, we are exposed to over 50 billion dollars of advertising from the drug and food industry that manipulates reality to paint a scenario where it makes perfect sense to choose drugs and surgery for chronic degenerative diseases.

Profit margins among the leading pharmaceutical companies routinely have been three and four times higher than in other Fortune 500 industries. Retail sales of five leading painkillers nearly doubled from 1997 to 2005, reflecting a surge in use by patients nationwide who are living in a world of pain, according to a new Associated Press analysis of federal drug prescription data.

Another example of misdirected funds comes from the American Cancer Society as it collects from the American public over 350 million dollars a year in contributions. Misleading because part of the money is used against innovative cancer researchers with the support of the FDA that conspires to stop promising treatments, and continues to allow so many victims undergo torture because of medical profiteering, outmoded thinking and a corrupt politics.

The FDA has been notorious for decades for their biased attacks and uneven handling of natural, non-drug/surgery/radiation based health options. An interesting book on the subject is, The Cancer Industry: The Classic Expose on the Cancer Establishment by

Ralph W. Moss. He's an ex-cancer insider at the Sloan Kettering Institute and details all of the alternative therapies which have been railroaded by the cancer establishment. An interesting read for anyone who has the nagging feeling that the cancer war is being lost because pharmaceutical companies are avoiding possible natural, non patentable cures.

Unfortunately, the drug and food companies did not count on the Internet which allows web sites like this one to tell the "other" side of the story.

From its present day patterns conventional medicine would only embrace the field of nutrition when the commercialized food industry and pharmaceutical drug cartels have the same control and monopoly over the vitamin and food industry essential to the nutritional industry. A move many lobbyists are getting legislators to create for them through new laws and treaties.

There is no dispute to the inherent problems in healthcare, where the whole system profits from reducing access to care, denying care, avoiding preventive care, or shifting costs to employers. The problem is not only access to healthcare, but of the type of healthcare that is practiced. Until it is profitable for everyone to help create health rather than disease, we will not thrive as a society as economics seems to be our prime motivator. 

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