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Facts of Life – Drug Companies

Most people are mostly honest. Being honest they are often not suspicious of the motives of others. They listen to the news and read the papers believing what they are told, they buy groceries at the supermarket and assume it will feed them, they mostly assume all is as it seems, it is mostly well with the world. Unfortunately, this kills them. I don’t say this to be dramatic. It is literally the truth.
Why is there so much societal pressure to get rid of vitamin, mineral and herbal supplements from the establishment?
Drug companies want to make money.
They make money by you taking their vaccines and drugs, whether or not they work or not, whether or not they harm, maim or kill.
They get you to administer their vaccinations to your kids by playing on your desire as a parent to do what is best for your children and help them avoid sickness.
They get you to take their drugs by teaching the medical profession to prescribe them when you are sick or by making you think you are sick so you asking for a “cure”.
Is it profitable for them to cure you?
No.
Is it profitable for them to promote natural cures?
No.
Is it profitable for them to suppress natural cures?
Yes.
Is it profitable for them if you are healthy?
No.
Is it profitable if a drug “cures” you?
No.
It is most profitable for them to have you on multiple medications from conception to the grave.
Would someone who wanted to profit from selling you a false hope tell you they were going to tell you lies?
No.
Would they tell lies about the perceived or real “competition” to get you to buy their false cure?
Yes.
If you were an unethical drug company executive and you wanted to increase your company’s profits, would you:
Exert a little financial pressure to legislate out of existence the more beneficial “competition” from natural therapies?
Pressure researchers to fudge the results of their “scientific” studies in your favour?
Hide negative research results when submitting applications for a new drug to the regulatory authority?
You bet your health they do.

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What's In A Name?

For some time I have been mulling over how better to communicate to others the value and health benefits of good nutrition versus empty calories. This morning part of the solution hit me like a ton of bricks. Most people are in confusion on the subject of nutrition.
Part of the reason for this confusion is lack of explanatory labels.
You cannot call two completely different things by the same name and not be confused!
One fat is not the same as any other fat.
A trans fat can be deadly whereas coconut oil can be life saving.
One carbohydrate is not the same as any other carbohydrate.
Sugar is deadly whereas broccoli is nourishing and cancer fighting.
This is like calling a go-kart and a semi-trailer by the same name – vehicle. True but woefully inadequate to full understanding.
This is why some people have taken to calling carbs either bad\simple (bread, sugar, grains) or good\complex (vegetables, fruits).
Another reason for the confusion is the absence of all the data. We have the term “macro nutrients” to describe protein, fat, fibre and carbs and it’s those that are on food labels and on which we partially base our purchasing choices. But there is no labelling requirement for the nutrients present in foods below the level of macro nutrients, so it’s that on which the consumer focuses.
We have the label “micro nutrients” under which we lump vitamins, minerals and phytochemicals but many have never even heard of phytochemicals let alone the fact that food labels tell you diddly squat about them.

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Why Your Donation to a Cancer Appeal Will Not Help Find a Cure

For a start, there has never yet been a cure found by a foundation set up to raise funds for a disease on which their livelihood depends. This researcher found criminal indifference to cancer prevention and conflicts of interest.

A 1992 article in the Wall Street Journal, by Thomas DiLorenzo, professor of economics
at Loyola College and veteran investigator of nonprofit organizations, revealed that the Texas
affiliate of the ACS owned more than $11 million of assets in land and real estate, more than 56
vehicles, including 11 Ford Crown Victorias for senior executives, and 45 other cars assigned to
staff members. ACS chapters in Arizona, California, and Missouri spent only 10 percent of their
funds on direct community services. Thus for every $1 spent on direct services, approximately
$6.40 was spent on compensation and overhead. In all ten states, salaries and fringe benefits
were by far the largest single budget items, a surprising fact in light of the characterization of the
appeals, which stressed an urgent and critical need for donations to provide cancer services. http://www.preventcancer.com/documents/ACS.pdf

Never is there a more appropriate example of the old saying, “An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.” A great site to visit to learn the specific causes of different types of cancer so you know what to avoid: http://www.preventcancer.com/avoidable/