--> They work equal to or better than prescription drugs at easing inflammation pain, and better yet, they won't kill you like dangerous prescription drugs can. According to estimates by Dr. David Graham, a senior drug safety researcher at the FDA, the drug Vioxx likely killed well over 60,000 Americans all by itself by causing an alarming increase in the rate of heart attacks and strokes. Cherries have killed no one! In fact, the only side effects of cherries are all beneficial: Improved cardiovascular health, nervous system protection, reversal of gout and so on. |
 As shameless as ever, this dangerous law has been sold to consumers as a "drug safety" bill.
But prescription drugs are not safe, even if they are purchased at the highest retail prices in the world. (Paying more for a drug does not make it safer.) FDA-approved prescription drugs have killed far more Americans than all the terrorists events recorded in American history, combined! The FDA is the single greatest threat to the health and safety of the American people, and today, with the passage of S.1082, the U.S. |
 Earlier this year The White House Office of National Drug Control Policy (ONDCP), the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), and the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) jointly released new guidelines for disposing prescription drugs. The new guidelines urge consumers to discard prescription drugs in the trash by mixing the drugs with "an undesirable substance, such as used coffee grounds or kitty litter."
The federal guidelines stopped short of advising all drugs be disposed of in this manner. |
 Americans currently pay the highest prices in the world for prescription drugs. Canadians, Europeans, and even citizens of Mexico pay only about one-half to as little as one-tenth the price paid by Americans for the very same chemicals. Drug companies actually import many of the raw materials used in pharmaceuticals from other countries, meaning that some U.S. medicines are already sourced from countries like the U.K. and Germany.
Drug companies mark up their prescription drugs as much as 569,000% over the price of the raw materials. (A typical markup is more in the 30,000% - 50,000% range. |
 Their intelligence rises and they begin to question the mainstream propaganda on prescription drugs and medicine, and they even switch to naturopathic doctors instead of MDs. For their own safety, we obviously need to have a drug that eliminates this highly contagious disease and makes sure that people only have the mental capacity to follow doctors' orders.
Because thinking is, of course, a brain disorder. |
| This is obviously some sort of strange brain disorder that should be treated with prescription drugs. And it appears to be quite widespread.
Another disease should be called "Irrational Attraction Disorder." This occurs when a person is in the presence of someone of the opposite sex and they begin to experience symptoms that are obviously indicative of a serious nervous system disorder. Those symptoms may include increased respiration, heart palpitations, impaired mental ability and the urge to buy a round of drinks for everyone in the near vicinity, even strangers. |
| This is obviously a serious mental disorder affecting a great number of people, and we should invent prescription drugs to treat it.
Lastly, we have a very serious disorder taking place in this country called "Cerebral Activation Disease" (CAD). This appears when people begin to educate themselves by reading about the true causes of health and nutrition and start making new connections in their brains about how to stay healthy and avoid chronic disease. |
 What's especially frightening about this program is that it may include the dosing of pregnant women with prescription drugs that we now know increase the risk of birth defects. We also know from clinical trials and experiments involving mice that children who grow up on antidepressant drugs have a much higher risk of being depressed as adults whether or not they continue taking those drugs. |
 A growing number of states like Minnesota, Wisconsin and New Hampshire have officially thumbed their noses at the FDA by creating online resources that actually lists Canadian pharmacies where people can purchase prescription drugs. It's all part of the ongoing debate in which the FDA says all drugs are safe unless they're from Canada, in which case they're dangerous, unless we have a flu vaccine shortage, in which case they're safe, unless it's made from a plant or herb, in which case it just might kill you. |
| Americans to purchase prescription drugs from other countries. 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. |
| They dreamed up "Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder" and suddenly it was a bona-fide disease that demanded prescription drugs. And of course, psychiatrists were happy to dole out those prescriptions because they got kickbacks from drug companies or ego-feeding power rushes by pushing prescriptions onto little kids who really just had a problem with too much sugar in their diets. |
 Sure, you can mask symptoms by taking prescription drugs, and as more symptoms appear you can take more and more drugs to mask those as well. By the time you're 60, you'll be on 12 medications a day, you'll spend $1500 a month, and you'll be a chemical wreck.
Alternatively, you can find ways to boost your body's health naturally, the right way, by following the fundamental laws of nutrition, physical exercise, and avoiding foods that promote disease. If you do everything mentioned in this article, your cholesterol will drop very quickly, ultimately reaching 100 or less. |
| They ask, "How did you achieve LDL cholesterol of 67 without using prescription drugs?" I'm glad to see these questions. Readers should be skeptical of anyone who talks about health, and they should demand that people who teach health be healthy! It doesn’t make sense to get your health information from a person who isn't healthy. The credibility that really counts is the ability to demonstrate an outstanding level of health in your own life.
If you know anything about cholesterol, you know that what really matters is the ratio of LDL-cholesterol to HDL-cholesterol. |
| The FDA has vowed to continue protecting American consumers by making sure they pay the highest prices in the world for prescription drugs. Apparently that's great for the U.S. economy unless, of course, you happen to actually live in the U.S.
Drug companies in the United States say they need the higher drug prices to pay for the hundreds of millions of dollars in corporate bonuses handed out to executives. This is called "research and development. |
 The organization's two most helpful tools on this count are its annual guide, "Worst Pills," available for purchase via its own site (www.worstpills.org), and, at the same site for free, its "Ten Rules for Safer Drug Use." The "Ten Rules" page offers free access to an outstanding, simple worksheet that will help the average patient or patient advocate organize drug prescription information before a doctor appointment. |
| They want everyone in the world to take prescription drugs every day for the rest of their lives. Statin drugs certainly fall into that category. One of the primary marketing messages about statin drugs is that you need them to reduce your cholesterol level and bring it into a healthy range. But you don't need statin drugs in order to achieve a healthy level of cholesterol, as has been demonstrated right here.
What else did I do to achieve these numbers? Let me tell you that these numbers are impossible to achieve without regular physical exercise. |
 Thanks,
Adderall Addict
(Alice answers:)
Dear Adderall Addict,
Ritalin and Adderall are two of the most prevalent prescription drugs used in the treatment of Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) and Attention Deficit Disorder (ADD). Both of these medications are classified as Schedule II drugs in the amphetamine class. Even though they are stimulants, when prescribed as directed by a medical provider in standard doses for people with ADHD and ADD, these prescription drugs assist people with AD(H)D to sustain their attention for a longer amount of time. |
 Taking medication is not normal either
Human beings did not evolve to consume prescription drugs either. If they had, prescription drugs would grow on bushes and trees (or the body would produce them automatically), but they don't, which is a strong indication that they're abnormal. prescription drugs are now the fourth-leading cause of death in this country, according to the American Medical Association. Drugs that have been approved as safe by the Food and Drug Administration kill 100,000 Americans each and every year. That is an astounding statistic, and that, friends, is not normal. |
 More than half of those surveyed said they are currently taking prescription drugs, indicating that more than half of American adults are now on drugs. Forty percent said they have experienced a negative reaction (side effect) from taking prescription medications. (See related cartoon on side effects.)
Most side effects go unreported, and there is currently no enforced legal requirement that doctors or drug companies report known side effects to the FDA. According to the Journal of the American Medical Association, prescription drugs currently kill approximately 100,000 Americans each year. |
 Optimism #2: The public is seeking alternatives to prescription drugs
I'm also seeing some major trends in terms of people noticing the dangerous effects of prescription drugs. A lot more people are aware of problems with prescription drugs, and they are actively seeking alternatives.
Almost every day, people I talk to at meetings or social functions are more and more concerned with their health, and they're concerned about the correlations between processed food and disease. |
 And yet so-called skeptics, who are supposed to exercise clear thinking about all subjects, never seem to question the fraudulent science behind prescription drugs. The mass drugging of children for fictitious diseases, for example, seems to be okay with such skeptics, who are too busy bashing homeopathy and acupuncture to take an honest, critical look at the junk science behind prescription drugs, it seems.
Ultimately, these so-called quack-busting skeptics only question certain selected topics. |
| It's being called 'disease mongering' and the college explains that pharmaceutical companies are taking the National Health Service to the brink of collapse by hyping both these diseases and the assortment of prescription drugs used to treat their symptoms.
The diseases named by the college as being over-hyped include hypertension, osteoporosis, high cholesterol, anxiety and clinical depression. The college says that these diseases are inappropriately treated with drugs and that many of the physicians prescribing such drugs have financial ties with the pharmaceutical companies. |
 These ingredients prevent chronic disease better than prescription drugs, without the side effects, and without the profitability of prescription drugs. If people really knew just how much they could prevent chronic disease with these plant extracts, medicinal herbs, vitamins, minerals, and supplements, the pharmaceutical industry would collapse overnight.
The defenders of "Big Pharma" and of organized medicine have realized that they can't win the information war. They can't prevent people from finding out how to be healthy. Believe me, they've tried! |
 It's worth explaining what this means, since you're liable to see many references, in ads for prescription drugs and in medical journals, to drug trials of this kind. Sick people tend to feel better when receiving treatment of any kind. A century or more ago, medical researchers learned that giving patients even a sugar pill—one that looks identical to the drug being tested but has no real effect— could make some patients feel better. So in order to figure out how effective a new drug is in reducing symptoms, researchers compare its effect against that of a placebo: a sugar pill. |
 I'm outraged by the pain, suffering and fatalities that are caused every day by prescription drugs. I'm outraged by the behavior of the FDA and its campaign to discredit herbs and vitamins while ignoring far more dangerous prescription drugs. I'm outraged by the drug company executives who earn millions of dollars each year peddling dangerous drugs to elderly people who have to choose between food and medicine because they can't afford the sky-high prices of prescription drugs. I'm outraged by the FDA's efforts to monopolize the U.S. |
 In fact, the availability of herbal remedies competes with prescription drugs. Consequently, the FDA, which is out there to protect Big Pharma, has every reason to outlaw herbal remedies. That alone will boost the sales of prescription drugs.
The only real regulatory action the FDA is taking on Vioxx, Bextra and other Cox-2 inhibitor drugs is the requirement of a black box warning on the drugs. This is supposed to be a big deal, but in fact it means little to nothing. This is just a bigger print size of the same warning that's been found in the small fine print of the drug for years. |
 This is a case in which the herb is not only more effective, but also safer; a fact that should not be surprising, since medicinal herbs are typically more effective and significantly safer than prescription drugs. Also, St. John’s Wort is a natural medicinal herb that has been used safely and effectively by cultures throughout the world for thousands of years. So with the findings of this study, we once again see a much better alternative for treating depression than prescription drugs
We also learned recently that St. John’s Wort is only one of many natural treatments for severe depression. |
 It eliminates access to key nutrients that prevent disease, thereby creating a population of diseased, malnourished customers who will inevitably turn to high-profit prescription drugs.
2. It focuses people on the debate over the safety of nutritional supplements, distracting them from the debate over the safety of prescription drugs and over-the-counter drugs.
3. It makes nutritional supplements more expensive, putting their purchase out of reach of more consumers.
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