--> Because the fastest growing source of harzardous consumer products are, in fact, pharmaceuticals, and if the FDA admits it needs to start enforcing environmental safety in food and drug products, it would have to face up to the fact that medications are now a primary source of global pollution of rivers and oceans. (Take a guess what all those HRT drugs are causing down stream...)
So what about the EPA? Why doesn't the EPA regulate pharmaceuticals as environmental pollutants? |
 If you want doctors, pharmacists and drug companies to run your life and determine your health, then medications are for you, but if you want to live life free of chronic pain, in full control over your health destiny, empowered and truly free, then get your medicine from nature. Berries are powerful medicine, and you can experience the health benefits of cherry concentrates yourself by getting this 30-day supply of CherryFlex: http://www.CherryFlex. |
 What's a little ectasy in children's toys when senior citizens on medications are dropping faster than the U.S. dollar?
Corporations first, consumers last
The truth in all this is stupidly obvious: The U.S. government really has no interest in protecting consumers from corporations. Whether we're talking Big Pharma, food companies, toy manufacturers or even financial issues, virtually the entire United States government is aligned against consumers in a pro-business stance that sacrifices the lives of Americans for corporate profits. |
 This has led to a paradigm shift in thinking about mental illness and the role of medications in mental illness. It has turned old beliefs and old systems of care in psychiatry upside down.
It can be argued that the recovery movement began when—much to everybody's surprise—researchers found that people with schizophrenia could actually get better. Until then, no one, from Emil Krae-pelin on—Kraepelin was the first person to describe schizophrenia, in clinical terms, about one hundred years ago—believed that was possible. |
 Few men who pursue healthy diets ever turn to sex-enhancing medications such as Viagra because they simply don't need the drugs! They perform well, regardless of their age.
It's the men who eat barbequed ribs, pizza, fried foods and processed foods that end up firing blanks at the fertility center or having prostate cancer surgery (which leaves you in a state that can hardly be called "manly," by the way). Processed foods devastate reproductive capacity in both men and women, and from a medical viewpoint, nothing takes away the manliness of men faster than following a diet of processed foods. |
 Education should include several key areas:
Medical problems, early in life and current, that can lead to osteoporosis medications that can interfere with calcium metabolism
The role of nutrition and exercise early in life and their necessity in achieving peak bone density
Awareness of the long-term consequences for bone health of anorexia Awareness of the negative effect of smoking and excess alcohol
For women in their 40s, 50s, and older who have just begun to think about osteoporosis, the time for reaching peak bone density at age 30 to 35 is already past. |
| Calcium improves bone health, increases bone mineral density, and improves the effectiveness of osteoporosis medications. Although most studies do not show a positive effect of calcium in reducing fracture risk, in the Women's Health Initiative (WHI) trial, hip fractures were significantly reduced in older women on the calcium supplement program.65 Calcium supplementation has also been shown to decrease bone loss in postmenopausal women.66 The effects of calcium supplementation have been greatest in women whose baseline calcium intake was low, in older women, and in women with osteoporosis. |
| If you do not want to take or are not able to take hormone therapy or conventional osteoporosis-specific medications despite a diagnosis of osteoporosis, this sample treatment plan may not be adequate to prevent bone loss or reduce the risk of fracture. Continue to see a licensed health-care practitioner and monitor bone density. |
| These medications can be used just on the severe-symptom days each month. They are effective the day they are taken, which suggests that SSRIs in this case are not helping by increasing neurotransmitters. They seem to work in PMS by altering the neurophysiology and electrical conduction in the brain. Several SSRIs have been used. Suggested doses are fluoxetine (20 mg a day) or the once-weekly tablet sertraline or paroxetine controlled-release (12.5 to 25.0 mg per day). |
| Virginia Ernsrer conducted the first randomized study of a larger number of women, in which for four months 158 women eliminated caffeine (coffee, tea, cola, and chocolate) from their diets as well as caffeinated medications (theophylline and theobromine). She found a significant reduction in clinically palpable breasr findings in the abstaining group compared with the control group, although the absolute change in the breast lumps was quite minor and considered to be of little clinical significance. |
| The fact remains that most major psychiatric illnesses are episodic but chronic. The medications, as we have learned, are a long way from providing any true remediation of even major psychiatric disorders. Recovery then involves both a coming to terms with symptoms—one hopes in the context of their gradual moderation, but this is not always the case—and finding a meaningful life in their midst. For many patients, this is a decades-long process of acceptance and resolve. |
 Currently, drug companies prefer that patients know nothing about the safety of their medications. All safety information is currently filtered through the FDA -- a highly corrupt (in fact, criminal!) agency that in my opinion has no concern whatsoever for the health and safety of the American public. Thus, the very agency currently in control of drug safety information is not even genuinely interested in drug safety! (Case in point: The FDA voted to put Vioxx back on the market even after knowing it likely killed over 60,000 Americans! |
| On the other hand, if there is a decrease in the DXA scan, while on proven osteoporosis treatment medications, further testing should be done to determine if there are any secondary causes of bone loss.
OVERVIEW OF ALTERNATIVE TREATMENTS
Osteoporosis is far easier to prevent than to treat. An osteoporosis prevention perspective needs to start in the teenage years. |
 Hawkins was not reported to have been taking medications at the precise time of the shooting, but his caretaker, Debora Maruca-Kovac, said that "he had been treated in the past for depression and attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder." We do not know exactly which drugs Hawkins had been treated with in the past, and we hope the names of those drugs will surface in future reports on this tragedy. |
 In May 2006, residents of the San Francisco Bay Area dropped 3,634 pounds of medications during the area's inaugural "Safe Medicine Disposal Days" event.
While these take-back programs are commendable, they are not yet widely available. In Greg Critser's book, Generation Rx, Critser notes in America, the average number of prescriptions per person in 1993 was seven, but that had risen to 11 by 2000 and 12 in 2004. As the market for prescription drugs grows to include more and more children, plus aging baby boomers, the number of prescriptions per capita will likely increase. |
 We do far worse to them, however, because we don't just dispose of organic matter, we actually lace it with fragrance chemicals, pesticides, herbicides, medications, heavy metals, industrial waste and even radioactive substances.
Cruise ships and Navy vessels routinely flush raw sewage overboard, right into the ocean, even though doing so is a violation of international law. Out in the middle of the South Pacific, who's watching anyway? |
 Humorous observation: Some lawmakers no doubt think that the Fourth Amendment, which protects us from "unreasonable searches and seizures," must be referring to anti-seizure medications. (Click the cartoon for the full-sized version.) |
Doing a poor job? Just ask for a raise...
Whose idea was it anyway that the FDA is doing such a fine job with regulating the drug companies that it deserves to be paid even MORE money by Big Pharma? |
 This single amendment, which would bring free trade to medications and save American citizens, corporations, cities and states billions of dollars in reduced pricing for prescription drugs, has Big Pharma and their legislative lapdogs circling the wagons, hoping to pass this bill quickly before any other "bright ideas" threaten Big Pharma's stanglehold on organized medicine.
What's at stake here is nothing less than the future of our nation. |
 Many cities and states are right now facing the very real possibility of bankruptcy due to health care costs (providing benefits to current and former government employees). A large percentage of those costs are spent on monopoly-priced pharmaceuticals. This Dorgan amendment would set city and state governments free to finally engage in fundamental free market price comparisons and save substantial sums of money in sourcing the very same chemical medications for their employees and retirees. |
 If you have a chance, tell them you support the "Grassley amendments" and a free market for medications.
We can still have a huge impact in stopping this bill from becoming law. But it will require more action on your part to help protect American consumers from financial exploitation by the white-collar criminals running medicine today. We must do the job the U.S. Senate refuses to do. |
| The short text of the amendment requires that the Secretary of Health and Human Services block all importations of medications unless HHS can certify to Congress that such imports, "pose no additional risk to the public's health and safety. |
| The bill at one point contained an approved amendment that would have ended Big Pharma's monopoly over drug prices in the United States and saved consumers and businesses tens of billions of dollars by allowing them to import medications from other countries, but that provision was summarily nullified by an organized counterattack via Big Pharma-funded Democrats and Republicans who sold out American consumers to the profit interests of drug companies. |
| They've allowed a criminal price-fixing enterprise to continue dominating medicine in America today, and they've failed to take any meaningful action to deliver what Americans demand the most: Free market access to medications that are provably safe and effective.
Our Senate has failed us, just as conventional medicine and the FDA have failed us. Today is a sad day in the history of these United States, for it is a signpost that announces the fact that from now on, our government shall operate solely in the interest of corporations. |
 People are finally starting to get the fact that they're being ripped off by a profit-minded industry charging them the highest prices in the world for medications that are neither safe nor effective. Once this realization hits the masses, the backlash will be unstoppable.
The entire system of organized medicine is only years away from collapsing upon itself due to outrageous costs, fraud, corruption and criminal behavior by its proponents. On a simple economic basis, no state or national government can afford to continue doing business with Big Pharma in the long run. |
 This is not appreciated in America because it competes with our own home-grown poisoning method that prefers to poison consumer more slowly, bilking them for hundreds of thousands of dollars in monopoly priced medications and hopefully killing them off right before Medicare or social security might kick in.
So the next time some ignorant bureaucrat (or friend, or family member) mentions to you how dangerous China's food products are, just ask them these simple questions:
1) Why does the FDA allow leukemia-causing chemicals to be added to hot dogs that are consumed by children? |
| The threat posed by chemicals in personal care products
Prescription medications are not the only cause for concern. Consider parabens used in soaps, shampoos, moisturizers, and other personal care products. The EPA has reported that parabens -- methyl, propyl, butyl, and ethyl (alkyl-p-hydroxybenzoates) -- are endocrine disruptors. The EPA also stated "continual introduction of these benzoates (parabens) into sewage treatment systems and directly to recreational waters from the skin leads to the question of risk to aquatic organisms. |
 Healthy, aware individuals are perceived as a threat to the tyrannical institutions now running this country, and they've figured out that the best way to keep a nation controlled and subdued is to drug 'em all and keep the people in a constant state of brain fog from medications and fluoride. The only healthy, aware, critically thinking individuals I know are all 100% free of pharmaceuticals and processed foods (and watch no television, either).
Remember those seven facts and you'll know more about health and disease than most people. And for your part, stay healthy! |
 Also keep in mind that doctor-prescribed medications are the fourth leading cause of death in America today. About 100,000 Americans die each year from following the advice of their doctor. Does it really make any sense to get your health advice from a group of professionals who kill more Americans each year than all the terrorists have ever killed in the history of this country? Besides, doctors know that if they start recommending sunlight and vitamin D, they'll lose patients and profits because people will start getting well and have no need to keep visiting the doctor. |
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