People want to trust that their so-called elected government is doing the right
thing when it passes regulations to enhance public safety. When the Pure Food
and Drug Act was passed in 1906 a new watchdog agency, The Food and Drug
Administration (FDA), was born. It would be many years before we as a nation had
such luxuries as refrigeration, sanitary food processing standards, and good
manufacturing processes (GMP), so in many respects, this law was necessary. So,
what exactly does the FDA do? According to the FDA: The FDA's mission is to
promote and protect the public health by helping safe and effective products
reach the market in a timely way, and monitoring products for continued safety
after they are in use. Our work is a blending of law and science aimed at
protecting consumers." But times change and unfortunately, sometimes so do
mission statements. The growth in knowledge of biochemistry, natural medicine,
physiology, molecular chemistry and chemical process methods have yielded
millions of new synthetic drugs and treatment options, far more than our
grandparents would have imagined at the turn of the century. To ensure growing
profits, these new synthetic drugs are aimed at symptom management rather than
cures for diseases or chronic conditions. This can be seen by the continued and
growing reliance on synthetic medicine. For example, from 1985-1999, there was a
35% increase in medicines used by Americans to treat (not cure) chronic
conditions such as diabetes, cardiovascular disease, obesity, depression, and
arthritis. In the year 2000, about $116.9 Billion was spent on prescription
drugs. The number of prescriptions dispensed is projected to grow to 2.07
billion by the year 2005! By way of comparison, our up and coming war on Iraq is
estimated to cost about $90 Billion. But $90 Billion for a war somewhere in the
world every 12 years is chicken feed compared to the costs of drugs and
medicines that Americans shell out each and every year. This is approximately
$26.9 Billion less than what Americans spent on drugs in the year 2000. Let's
see, $90 Billion for a war once in a while and over $1Trillion (yes that's T"
for toy Trillion) for prescription drugs. That's a lot of pills. As
pharmaceutical business has grown, the FDA has changed from an institution that
was trying to protect public health from bad food to a rubber stamp government
organization that only takes public safety into account when it is forced to by
some form of gross public error. In other words, blind loyalty to doctors and
their symptom hiding pills" is not without consequence; Americans are getting
fatter and sicker. Today you can be confident that about 800 Americans will die
from obesity, which averages out to be 300,000 obese people dying every year.
Interestingly, scientists have already discovered the cure for obesity, yet the
FDA and doctors are ignoring it! Additionally, the Journal of the American
Medical Association (JAMA) reported that by comparing 16 "health markers"
considered indicative of good health, the U.S ranks on average 12th out of the
top 13 countries in regard to the health of it's citizens. Few people realize
the impact of these statistics. As we spend more on health care in the form of
FDA approved drugs, we becoming sicker. Wrap your brain cells around that! Still
though Americans, like cattle, are lining up at the pharmaceutical trough for
their daily dose of just what the doctor ordered". And they are bringing their
children with them.Researchers writing for Pediatrics showed that between 1997
and 2000, approximately 3,750 serious injuries, birth defects and deaths
occurred among children under 2 who were secondary recipients of prescription
drugs compliments of their mothers via pregnancy, labor, or breast feeding. The
study, conducted by researchers at George Washington University and the
University of Maryland, found 769 childhood deaths and 664 cases of birth
defects or disabilities that could be directly linked to prescription drug use.
The FDA has stated that these numbers really only account for about 2% of the
actual number of deaths and negative side effects reported! In spite of the
carnage committed against the young and innocent, the FDA does not require
pharmaceutical companies to test newly released drugs for potentially hazardous
effects on children. Yet, according to the New York Times and JAMA, spending on
central nervous system (CNS) drugs for pediatric patients increased by 85% from
1985-1999! Call it lack of sufficient funding, integrity, human nature, greed or
plain old corruption, the protective motivation that was once the driving force
of the FDA is gone! A new kind of bureaucracy has risen up in its place and very
few professionals are aware of the change, especially among media channels.
Undoubtedly, the general population is grossly ignorant of the FDA's new
mission, to approve life-threatening drugs that will profit the pharmaceutical
companies and to suppress non-toxic, inexpensive and effective natural
therapies. Jay R. Cavanaugh, PhD, Member, California State Board of Pharmacy
1980-90, said it best when referring to the FDA and international pharmaceutical
companies:This collection of serial killers with reckless disregard of human
life, extinguishes the hopes and lives of over 100,000 Americans every year. In
the past decade they have been responsible for over one million innocent deaths,
yet not only have they not faced justice, they have enriched themselves with
profits that would make Bill Gates envious. These parasitic killers come not
from some cave in Afghanistan, but from plush office suites..." That the FDA is
a watchdog agency for public health interests is a fallacy. The FDA is a lapdog
for international, multi-billion dollar pharmaceutical companies and is
responsible for millions of preventable deaths.Shane holds a Master's degree in
organic chemistry and has first-hand industry experience with drug research,
design and synthesis. He is committed to raising health awareness by exposing
the shocking and sometimes-frightening truth behind FDA approved drugs, sports
supplements, and natural medicine. His unique experience allows his clients to
live naturally healthy for life without the aid of synthetic drugs! Learn more
by visiting http://www.health-fx.net - When I began to study nutrition, I too
believed that it was possible and even easy to get all the nutrition I needed
from diet alone. When I began to study nutrition, I too believed that it was
possible and even easy to get all the nutrition I needed from diet alone.
What I discovered was shocking to me. Over the past 50 years the quality of
nutrition, or the availability of nutrients in our diets, has steadily
decreased. This is even true for people who think that they eat a healthy diet
today. Why does this happen? The complete answer is complex but in short,
nutrient depletion in our soil, combined with green harvesting (which interrupts
the natural biology of the plant before it has manufactured most of the
nutrients we should be getting), and new toxins found in our environment result
in produce that simply has fewer nutrients available to us than previously found
in those same foods. Organically grown products offer some greater benefit
however most are still green harvested and are therefore picked before most of
the nutrients have been manufactured. At least they have lower levels of
man-made toxins than some non-organic produce.This problem is further compounded
by our fast food diets. All too often we eat food that provides calories but
does not provide adequate nutrients. So we are feeding our bodies but we're not
nourishing our bodies. Nutrients provide the basic building blocks for all of
the functions of our cells. If we are only providing our bodies with calories we
are depriving our bodies of the other essential components to good health. Many
of us take better care of our cars than of our bodies. So while it is important
that we all learn how to make better dietary choices, it is also essential that
we take supplementation, to make up for the nutrients that are missing from our
food and that our bodies need so much. There is no single nutrient that will
make up for a deficiency of another nutrient. We need to be taking balanced
supplements which provide us with quality sources of all of the nutrients,
provided in the correct ratios to each other. To be clear, supplementation means
supplementation. It is not substitution for a healthy diet. We should all be
eating more whole foods and fewer processed foods.Mega dosages of individual
vitamins are not necessarily beneficial to us. In fact, some studies have shown
that certain fat soluble vitamins should not be taken in extremely high
quantities. This makes complete sense to me. Think of supplementation as simply
providing the nutrients that should be in your well balanced diet. Vitamins and
minerals and other nutritional components often works synergistically with each
other so it is vital that you get all of the nutrients that are necessary for
support of natural biological function.If you would like to learn more about how
to choose high quality supplementation, please request my free report on the 10
deadly health myths of the 21 st Century. It is available at my web site.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR Dave Saunders is a certified nutritional educator,
wellness coach, member of the American International Association of Nutritional
Education (AIANE) and author. He is also the host of a weekly, nation-wide
telephone lecture on health and nutrition. For additional information, please
visit his site on nutrition and glyconutrients at www.glycoboy.comor
www.glycowellness.comor email Dave at dave@glycoboy.com
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