Are the Four Horsement About to Ride Through America?

We live in a toxic environment.  Our foods lack essential nutrients that do little to help maintain and preserve health.

The food we consume comes from commercial farms whose soil has been depleted from over farming.  The toxic fertilizers used strips the soil of what little remains in nutrients.  Genetically modified crops grow big and disease-free, yet contain next to nothing in the vitamins and minerals our bodies need to stay healthy.  Herbicides, pesticides and chemical additives insure a bumper crop, but what gets on the dinner table consists f nothing more than sugar and water.

The average American does not get adequate nutrition.  Many don’t meet the minimum Recommended Daily Allowance (RDA) of essential vitamins and minerals government health agencies say is needed to stay healthy.

If the lack of nutrition in our foods is a problem, no less is the sedentary lifestyle many have become accustomed to.  The lack of exercise leads to the deterioration of muscles that aren’t used.  With less oxygen circulating,  the brain becomes less alert and the nerves at the farthest parts of the body slowly die for lack of good blood flow.

As if that wasn’t enough, many have adopted habits that guarantee sickness and disease.  While we consume foods laced with toxic chemicals, we also breathe in some 4000 chemicals, 50 of which are toxic, from cigarette smoke alone.  High levels of stress means high blood pressure and clogged arteries.  Being constantly on the go with little to no sleep and skipping breakfast insures that more people get sick and makes life miserable.

Once we do get sick and suffer from the pains from living an unhealthy lifestyle, we take in a cabinet of prescription and over-the-counter medications.  Unfortunately, they do no more than add to the toxic mix already in our systems.

All of these point out a great problem that we are unwilling to solve and feel helpless to do anything about.  As a nation America spends more on heath care than any other country in the world, yet ranks among the lowest in sickness and disease.

And much of the problem is due to greed.  The love of money rules over all things.  Big Pharma rakes in billions as it produces drugs that only alleviate symptoms that produce more side effects that must be treated with yet more drugs which bring  in  more profits for the manufacturer.  Profit and the shareholder’s welfare and not the people’s health is paramount.  Government bodies, such as the FDA, sworn to protect the public, take bribes and approve dangerous drugs while declaring war on natural vitamins and minerals that have proven healthy track records.

Consider the “pandemic” of the H1N1 flu virus, much hyped on the news and through the medical profession. Governments are stocking up with Tamiflu and Relenza, expecting the flu season to be worse than ever before.  Wherever you turn you hear of the need to get the shot to protect yourself against the pandemic.

But when you dig deep, you discover that while cases have appeared around the globe,  few have actually died from it, certainly not the amount who died from the Bubonic Plague and the Spanish Flu of 1918.  Undoubtedly, come the autumn of 2009, there’ll be a large scale effort to educate the public into getting the shot, even if the H1N1 flu fizzles out and becomes history.  The U.S. government has spent a billion dollars to stockpile vaccines and won’t feel too comfortable with unused stocks sitting on their shelves. Best just to unload it on the taxpayer who paid for that stockpile.

Unfortunately, few people realize that the vaccines themselves actually create more resistant flu strains which can only  lead to increased illness and deaths among those whodo  get vaccinated.

While the taxpayer foots the cost, the execs at Smith Kline Glaxo and Roche, happily rake in billions as the media overreacts to the so called “pandemic”.

Today’s world has become infested with profit sharks who want nothing more but to rake in billions at the health, lo\ife and income of the average citizen who is being duped by the media hype.  And the taxpayer is the one who is going to suffer.

Today’s world is ripe for the four horsemen of the Apocalypse to start riding. War, religious persecution, famine and pestilence as spoken of in the pages of the Bible are all man-made events and not due to the wrath of God brought on humanity. They are created, based on uncontrollable greed, by those who should know better but care little.

It’s only a matter of time before the first millions die before everyone wakes up to the need to make drastic changes.  As we have become maddened by the love of money, we refuse to do anything, either on a personal basis or globally to avoid the coming Armageddon.  And the world’s population will see a catastrophe like no other in human history.

We simply cannot hide our heads in the sand and hope that our lifestyle will somehow change without effort and we can continue to live pain-free lives while we continue our mad rush to accumulate more wealth at each other’s expense.

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The author is a freelance writer who has written a number of articles to Helium, Suite 101, eHow, and Constant Content. He writes in several topics, but primarily in the health field where many people are deceived and ignorant about the dangers of using dangerous drugs to ease pain and suffering from a lifestyle which is creating their disease.You can find a number of his articles at: http://www.constant-content.com/author/20444-mrmagica-details-0.htm and: http://www.suite101.com/profile.cfm/mrmagica

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Why You are Getting Sicker

While many aged people languish in nursery homes waiting for the relief of death to put an end to their misery, there are others who live active lives, free of pain and manage to live to be a hundred. But people like Jack Lalanne who live well into their nineties and beyond are not unique. They are not gifted with special genes or lived their lives in complete freedom from stress and worry.

But what makes these people different from those in nursery homes, those who must be tended constantly?

Many people today define health as the state of being free of pain. They may take a pharmacy of drugs to make them live pain free lives, but this is hardly the definition of optimal health. Americans spend more money on Healthcare than any other country in the world. Yet despite the billions spent, Americans are sicker than ever before.

Throughout the years, many theories have been proposes as to why we are sick, getting sicker and dying earlier. Bacteria and germs were thought to be responsible. Antibiotics helped to eliminate those germs. For a time it seemed like the cure had finally been found. Unfortunately, those nasty germs soon became resistant to antibiotics, requiring stronger doses. But people still became sick. Antibiotics didn’t prove to be the cure-all science said it was.

It was believed that sickness was due to viruses. Since antibiotics had no effect on viruses, anyone requiring help needed prescription medication, vaccines or invasive surgery. As we now know, these methods simply don’t cure the problem. People still get sick and more visit their doctor’s offices.

Genetics are thought to contribute to illness. If a relative had cancer, chances are you’ll get it to.But the facts indicate that diseases from genetics plays a mere 10% in all cases of ill health. Obesity and diabetes are considered to be genetic defects that only a drug can address.

The current belief is that inflammation is the cause of many diseases. However, what causes inflammation appears to be under study though evidence clearly shows that inflammation is due primarily from eating the wrong foods and living a lifestyle that promotes pain.

With all these theories and conjectures as to what is causing disease, the truth seems to be illusive. There doesn’t seem to be one reason to explain away all sickness though billions of dollars are spent trying to find a cure.

In the old days, a disease was something you caught, like the measles and chicken pox. Diseases were classified as viruses and germs that got into the body from an outside source and created illness. But today, disease is applied to virtually every kind of illness, whether it is passed along through contact or occurring within the body itself. When applied to the old definition, cancer, heart disease, diabetes, Alzheimer’s, arthritis or obesity are not diseases as no one can catch them. They occur within the body and are not affected by outside viruses or bacteria. Most of today’s “diseases” are symptoms of an unbalanced lifestyle.

You get cancer because you are doing something to your body that is creating the condition. And that seldom has anything to do with genetics or a virus. Such “diseases” can be prevented. When you know what causes them, you can prevent them from occurring.

Today’s medical community would have you believe that heart disease, diabetes and many of today’s diseases are inevitable occurrences as you get older. Suddenly one day you come down with these diseases. Since they are incurable, you have them for life and the only recourse you have to extend life is through a convenient drug. But is that reigning belief really true?

Before the white man came to America’s shores, the natives lived in exceptional good health. They lived to old age when they weren’t fighting and killing other tribe members. Their seniors retained their energy and their teeth. There were no pharmacies on the corner of Canoe and Kayak Avenues. If illness struck any of their numbers, they believed an evil spirit had taken control and needed to be excised by a witch doctor. Illness was relatively unknown until the white man arrived and began to decimate their population with diseases the natives were not used to.

Many cultures around the world lived in perfect health until the people began to adopt a Western lifestyle.

Cancer, heart disease and diabetes were not as common a hundred years ago as they are today. No scientist or doctor would offer an explanation as to why such diseases were not so prevalent back them. We cannot assume that today’s generation is the end product of steadily declining health from the Stone Age onward. We simply can’t accept the belief that we are so vulnerable to disease with no ability to handle them unless we get on a prescription.

Most of what the medical profession projects as truth is mostly conjecture. The beliefs of the past have been proved to be so much snake oil. Yet today there’s a lot of snake oil that’s accepted as truth even though facts prove otherwise.

The term “Scientific evidence” is often used to put a stamp of authenticity on a theory. In fact most of that evidence is used to dupe the public into buying into a theory that ultimately makes someone or some corporation rich at the expense of the people’s health. Studies are published “proving” that many vitamins and minerals do nothing for health and may be harmful. Unfortunately, many of those reports are skewed to create panic in the population so they can run to the doctor for a drug prescription.

For example, one study “proved” that vitamin E was useless and did nothing toward promoting health. Yet careful digging shows that the synthetic form of the vitamin was used and what real vitamin E there was, was in such low doses that it wouldn’t have made any difference in health quality.

This is not just an isolated study. The media regularly picks up such studies proving that vitamins and minerals don’t work, but you seldom hear that such studies were sponsored by some pharmaceutical company who has a vested interest in disproving natural remedies in favor of promoting their poisonous products.

So why do you get sick?

There are only two ways it can happen. You either pick up a virus or bacteria or you get sick from doing something that negatively affects your body.

And in today’s world what you eat and how you live are two of the major causes that promote the epidemics of disease so prevalent. It’s obvious that if you smoke, you get sick. If you live in constant stress, you will have high blood pressure. If you get little to no exercise, your body will not have the defenses it needs to prevent viruses from affecting your health. Sickness is the result of something that is creating it. It doesn’t come from a drug deficiency!

The human body is not meant to be sick. When in health it functions perfectly. Everything is in balance. You never see a wild animal come down with diabetes, cancer or arthritis, because they eat the foods they are meant to have. But put them in a lab environment and feed them the wrong foods and you will have a sick animal.

The same applies to our bodies. Feed it correctly and it stays healthy. The immune system does its job to keep the body and mind in balance. Those centenarians we hear about would never have survived so long on a diet of hamburgers and cola.

Jack Lalanne isn’t in his nineties because he espouses a high carbohydrate diet of foods low on nutrition. One of his favorite sayings is: “If man made it, don’t eat it.” Of course he’s right. But most of us prefer to ignore what our bodies need in favor of convenience. Rather than make the lifestyle changes that leads to better health, we look for the easiest way out by popping a pill and must suffer the consequences of the side effects.

It’s rather curious that so many “Runs for the cure” programs espouse the need to raise millions of dollars to find a cure that have never been found over the last decades. Yet the cures are as distant as ever. The war on cancer proposed by Richard Nixon has since been lost.

Are there cures for our most common diseases? Yes! Absolutely! But you won’t hear about them, because that information is suppressed. Those who don’t want you to know about them have profits in mind and anything that detracts from profits is bad. They propound that they’re busy trying to discover a cure for the most common diseases for our benefit, yet their drugs are slowly killing the people that trust them. Since natural cures can’t be patented, there’s no profit in it.

Doctors generally give lip service to “diet and exercise”. Your doctor and the media propound the need to eat a healthy diet and get exercise, but you seldom hear about what you should be eating from your doctor. Of course you won’t. His life revolves around prescribing drugs and he needs someone sick to treat, otherwise he’d be out of business. So telling you but not giving the details of consuming a diet and exercise is a mere formality. Judging by the quality of the food in our stores, we need to supplement by adding extra vitamins and minerals that have been removed from many foods or they come from commercial farms where the soil is depleted of essential nutrients. But your doctor is not likely to advise you to take supplements.

It all boils down to how you treat your body. Pump it up with nicotine, alcohol, the toxins found in food, the air you breathe and, of course, the drugs you take and you have a toxic body that cannot function.

Drugs are toxic. They are manufactured in a laboratory, made up of a brew of chemicals that the body simply does not know how to handle, nor easily eliminate. Drugs may alleviate the symptoms, but their side effects are the direct result of the body’s reaction to the foreign chemicals the drugs introduce into the body. There simply is no safe drug, no matter how much mainstream medicine tries to make you believe.

The only way to treat disease and cure it is by taking control of the body you occupy. No doctor, no magic pill, no amount of propaganda is ever going to restore health and vitality. You must make the decision for health and not put your complete faith and trust that something outside of you is going to make you well.

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The author is a freelance writer having written a number of articles to Helium, Suite 101, eHow, and Constant Content. He writes in several topics, but primarily in the health field where many people are deceived and ignorant about the dangers of standard drugs. If you are looking to purchase articles for your blog or add content to your website, you can find a number of articles at: http://www.constant-content.com/author/20444-mrmagica-details-0.htm You can also read a number of useful articles at: http://www.suite101.com/profile.cfm/mrmagica

Is America Sick and Getting Sicker?

Despite the advances we have made in medical science and technology, we are experiencing an age of unprecedented sickness and ill health.  An aging population simply can’t explain away the rise of many diseases that are rapidly becoming epidemic throughout the world.  Cancer is the number one killer, followed closely by heart disease and diabetes.

While billions of dollars are spent every year trying to find a cure, physical, mental and emotional illnesses continue to climb.  The cures, if there are any, are yet to be found.  Year after year new diseases crop up, diseases that were unheard of twenty years ago.

Could it be that we’ve hit a brick wall trying to maintain health and now have to accept that we have to live with pain and expect a short lifespan?

Doctors will claim that as you get older, you can expect to get sick and you just have to live with it.  According to what they say, you need to be addressing your problems with some kind of drug.  You can expect to add a new drug every ten years that you get older.

But is what they say true, or is there something more sinister behind it?

Are we meant to be sick?  Or were we made to expect health as a matter of life?  Were we made to suffer endless pain, depression and cancer or is it possible that there are cures out there, but someone is keeping it from us?

Of course the way we choose to live has a bearing on how healthy we will be.  It’s an established fact that if you pump your body full of fat, sugar and loads of calories, you can expect to get sick.  If you choose to smoke, live a highly stressed lifestyle and get little to no exercise, you will get sick.  We are responsible for the way we treat our bodies.

While we live in a fast paced environment, it does little good to neglect our bodies for the sake of making more money just to improve our standard of living.  While we all want to stay healthy, today’s society promotes sickness.  And today’s doctor offer the only cure he knows, a prescription drug.  No matter what the ailment, there’s a drug out there to relieve the symptoms.

Unfortunately, relief comes at a price in the form of side effects, some of which are serious enough to cause disability and death.  This, of course, does not keep the doctor from whipping out the prescription pad to write another drug to treat the side effects. Today’s mainstream doctors simply do not know about natural methods to treat illness as they were not schooled in it.  And seldom will your doctor ever advise you to seriously change the lifestyle that is making you sick.  There’s a growing belief among practitioners that sickness is the direct result of a drug imbalance!

Despite the general beliefs that cures can’t be found, the truth is that many people with terminal and life threatening illnesses have become well at the hands of doctors who refused to buy into the traditional idea that drugs and surgery are the only methods to treat disease.

Many people, long after their traditional doctors gave up on them, have turned to alternative medicine and found relief from pain and even been cured form their incurable diseases. There are some true miracle doctors that have cured the most deadly diseases, yet you are not likely to hear of them on the daily news. They’re not featured on the front pages of national papers.

The questions remain.

Why are so many people sicker than ever before?

Why don’t you hear about those miracle doctors who have a genuine concern in seeing their patients get cured and stay well?

Take a look at ancient China.  Doctors at that time had an interest in seeing their patients get well.  If their patients stayed sick and died, the doctor didn’t get paid.  How different that is to today. The typical doctor wants to continue his practice, but he can’t draw a salary or turn a profit if there are no patients to treat.  Typically they have a vested interest is seeing more patients.  The more patients that get sick, the more money they make.  The more patients they can see on a regular basis, the more profit they make.

The medical profession, unlike other professions, cannot thrive unless there is a continuous stream of sick people who need treatment.  It’s the only profession that thrives on sickness and disease.

Many businesses know they won’t survive long unless they produce a quality product that people want and need.  If their products are shoddy, they will find themselves bankrupt before long.  Yet today’s pharmaceutical company produces inferior drugs that carry a long list of side effects, drugs which are often dangerous and even deadly.  In spite of the product,  pharmaceutical companies make billions of dollars annually from the sales of their products.

Typical businesses live by a code of ethics.  Big pharma sees no need in publishing the truth about their drugs.  They only publish the best of the studies they make and leave the others on the shelf.  Often, those “good” reports are doctored with language that puts a positive spin on the drug.  The media is quick to project the latest miracle drug that dupes the public to buy into the hype.  Yet it’s strange the media ignores those doctors who have a safe and proven record of curing diseases of patients who doctors have given up on.

Kickbacks, bribes, conflicts of interest is the rule when it comes to producing and marketing drugs.  If any business resorted to such tactics, they would be forced out of business, their executives placed behind bars.  Unfortunately, Big Pharma has become a veritable Big Brother as projected in the book, 1984 by George Orwell.

Big Pharma already rakes in billions of dollars annually and is seeking even more.  In future they hope to outlaw those supplements with proven track records to promote health just so they can get more people to take their poison.  Compound pharmacies are under attack. Regular reports and studies are published informing the public of the dangers of taking certain vitamins and minerals.  God himself provided this pharmacy of natural products so we could all stay healthy and live fruitful lives.  But Big Pharma seeks to take away that right.

Of course it all comes down to profits.  Big Pharma has more concern about profit than the health of the people it is supposed to serve.  It is more concerned that its shareholders realize dividends than how many people die from their drugs.  The CEOs of many drug companies enjoy lavish lifestyles, the best hotels and restaurants with no concern about the people who must die to support their way of life.

But if drug companies continue their madness in acquiring more money at the expense of the people, government agencies such as the FDA and FTC, responsible in insuring the health of the citizens they are sworn to protect, quietly and happily ride in the back pockets of the multi-billion dollar drug companies.  The FDA pays lip service to many dangerous drugs, approving their use while taking in bribes from Big Pharma. Natural supplements are banned from reaching the public who would stay far healthier than any drug could ever accomplish.

Gestapo-like tactics are employed under the guise of public safety as the FDA and FTC have invaded the offices of doctors who have impeccable records of curing the most deadly diseases, arresting the doctors and draining their financial resources through lengthy court battles.  Some doctors such as Dr. Burzynski have won their battles, but their files have never been returned.

The basic freedoms are being removed as Big Pharma slowly attempts to stifle protest and assume the Big Brother role to tell everyone what they must take for their ailments and how they must think.  Even Communism does not choose to go this far.

The result is a society that is increasingly losing strength.  And a society that loses strength is a country on the brink of decline.  America is fast headed toward disaster.  Its position in the world will become that of the sickest and poorest nation on Earth because too few have the courage to stand up and put an end to the greed and corruption that rules today’s medical establishment.

The Startling State of Healthcare in America

The healtcare system in America today is in shambles. From the multi-billion dollar pharmaceutical industry to the government agencies of the FDA and FTC, healthcare has become one great cash cow. The main interest is in making profits over the health and welfare of the average citizen they proclaim to protect.

Despite all the advancements made by medical science, the medical establishment has taken several steps backward. Millions of dollars have been spent trying to find cures for cancer, heart, disease, diabetes, arthritis, Alzheimer’s and other diseases that plague mankind today. We “run for the cure”, raise millions and yet are still no closer to finding the elusive cure.

Surgery, chemotherapy and radiation are the best that today’s medical establishment offers, all of which fall short in preserving the life of the sufferers. Drugs are the main arsenal doctors prescribe to treat the symptoms, but the causes of disease are not addressed.

The establishment calls it healthcare. In fact the better term is “disease care” as the system does not promote health. As long as the patient becomes ill and stays that way, big pharma, pharmacists and doctors stay in business. The onus is in insuring that many people get sick and kept that way so multi billion dollar profits can continue to roll into the coffers of the pharmaceutical companies that proeduce drugs.

Diseases have not been eradicated. Rather, more diseases crop up every year, more drugs are prescribed as more people get sicker. The statistics tell a frightening tale:

• Cancer is recognized as the number one killer in America today. The war on cancer pronounced during the presidency of Richard Nixon has been lost. Over $200 billion has been spent since 1971 trying to find a cure for cancer. But a cure is as far off as it ever was.

• Diabetes is on the rise and fast becoming a worldwide epidemic. China, that bastion of Communism, is fast taking over Europe as number one in diabetes. Even children today are coming down with adult onset type 2 diabetes.

• Heart disease is on the rise.

• Muscular dystrophy, multiple sclerosis, asthma, neck, shoulder and back pains among many have increased dramatically.

• More people are suffering from stomach ailments, GERD and ulcers.

• More people suffer from high stress, depression and anxiety.

• Allergies, constipation, arthritis, fibromyalgia and herpes afflict more people than ever before.

Despite the increase in all these illnesses, more people are desperately trying to lose weight and stay fit.

Yet more people are getting fatter. More are seeing their doctors, getting tested more often and getting more prescriptions. More surgeries are performed though their effectiveness is often in question.

America spends over 2 trillion dollars annually on healthcare, but ranks among the lowest in overall health. There are over 30 countries where lifespan is higher than that of the average American.

Americans consume over half of all the drugs ever manufactured. Doctors write over 3 billion prescriptions every year. The average American has over 30 prescription and non-prescription drugs in his medicine cabinet.

An aging population simply cannot explain the rise of so many diseases. It does not explain the dramatic rise of ADD, ADHD, bipolar disorder, asthma and autism in children who are over-medicated and over-vaccinated.

With all this affecting so many people, it’s not difficult to see why drug company profits are at an all-time high. It’s not difficult to see that the food industry and the weight loss industry are getting rich on the backs of Americans who have placed their unfounded faith in their medical practitioner to keep them healthy. Too many die in hospitals under a doctor’s care than can be explained to diseases alone.

Kickbacks, bribes, conflict of interest, outright lies and cover-ups clearly demonstrate that healthcare is out of control. Government bodies such as the FDA and FTC, responsible for the health and welfare of Americans, ride the back pockets of out-of-control drug manufacturers.

The Bible clearly states that the love of money is the root of all evil and many unfortunate victims of government inaction and Big Pharma unconcern for life die every year needlessly.

Cures for many illnesses exist. But the profit motive of greedy executives that sit on the board of directors insure that the public does not hear about them.

The sorry state of healthcare today is weakening the fundamental strengths that made America great. America is fast sliding into the realm of a third world country and the future of this great nation will go down in history.

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The author is a freelance writer having written a number of articles to Helium, Suite 101, eHow, and Constant Content. He writes in several topics, but primarily in the health field where many people are deceived and ignorant about the dangers of standard drugs. If you are looking to purchase articles for your blog or add content to your website, you can find a number of articles at: http://www.constant-content.com/author/20444-mrmagica-details-0.htm You can also read a number of useful articles at: http://www.suite101.com/profile.cfm/mrmagica