I really just like the title of the article. And the content. I highlighted a few of the better lines.

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A medical practice consultant advises his physician clients to place all their patients on drugs. This way doctors can “up-code” their insurance claims and make more money. So every patient gets a prescription for heartburn, cholesterol control, sleep, anxiety, attention deficit, and drugs as yet to be invented for dealing with the common stresses of life. Forget advice to avoid tobacco, limit alcohol consumption, avoid refined sugars, ease up on red meat, eat more whole grains and fish. Doctors didn’t go to medical school to become dieticians.

Over a period spanning three decades enough books have been written to convincingly indict modern medicine for its self interest, lack of ethics, and needless death of the masses. Yet nothing changes.

The disease care system in place is rotten to the core. It pretends to practice disease prevention (mammograms, PSA tests, cholesterol screening) which is nothing more than a veiled attempt to find more disease to treat. Doctors analyze medical technology they will put into practice by its accompanying insurance billing code, not by scientific evidence of health risk reduction or improved survival.

If the objective is to bill insurance rather than remedy what ails the patient, then every baby delivery must be performed by Cesarean, every child vaccinated, every patient screened with proctoscopes and colonoscopes, every eye abnormality lasered, every tissue biopsied. No disease, or imagined disease, must be left untreated. If one vaccine is good, five at one time are better.

For example, that there is no evidence that statin drugs lower mortality from cardiovascular disease, or that cholesterol is the chief cause of coronary artery disease, is beside the point.* Finding a meaningless number to lower – cholesterol – ensures a high level of disease to treat while giving the public the false impression they are healthy with a lower cholesterol number.

That adult-onset diabetes is largely a dietary induced disease that is treated as a drug deficiency has only led to increasing numbers of diabetics.

That standard-dose estrogen replacement was found to slightly increase the risk for heart disease and some forms of cancer, modern medicine’s quick acquiescence to abandon this hormone should have been scrutinized more carefully. Now we know why. Instead of estrogen replacement, now postmenopausal women must be placed on more drugs -- bone-hardening pills, anti-anxiety pills, blood pressure pills and sleeping pills – a bonanza for doctors and drug companies. Mild plant estrogens from flaxseed and soy are “unproven” say doctors.

Dialing disease

Some time ago it was discovered that the level of disease in a human population could be dialed up or down depending upon the nutritional status of the population. So modern medicine told the public that the modern processed food diet, spiked with artificial sweeteners, MSG, trans fats, high fructose corn syrup, and lacking in whole grain bran, is all that is needed to maintain health. Cholesterol-rich eggs should be avoided. Butter should be substituted with hydrogenated-fats in margarine. Calcium, without balancing magnesium, as obtained from dairy products that are contaminated with a hidden bacterium (paratuberculosis), are good for your health.

When it became apparent that vitamin D controls a great deal of disease (arterial calcification, immunity, bone formation, weight, blood sugar, muscle tone, mental depression), contrived science was foisted upon the masses to avoid sun exposure to prevent skin cancer. The widespread use of sunscreen lotion resulted in a rise in cases of mortal skin cancer and an increase in cancer rates overall. About 90% of vitamin D is obtained from exposure to UV-B sun rays.

When studies in the 1930s and 1970s unequivocally showed that human populations which consume large amounts of omega-3 fish oil are largely free of disease, health authorities ignored this, never even developing a Recommended Daily Allowance for an essential fat.

Newly approved drugs

*Regulatory agencies like the Food and Drug Administration and Centers for Disease Control must know all this, but continue to give consent to practices that plunder insurance funds while leading to the early demise of patients. *

*All that drug companies need do is prove their synthetic molecules are slightly better than placebo (no treatment), and they gain FDA approval. This ends up with many new drug approvals but no better care. *

Therapies like insulin, pencillin and digitalis initially gained FDA approval because they worked almost all of the time. Today many drugs are approved that aren’t even as effective as currently available medications.

What doctors and the public need to know is whether a newly approved drug is any better than existing treatment. In some instances (i.e. Vioxx), a newly approved drug is not only less effective, it is less safe. But before a new drug is conclusively shown to be safe, the FDA allows it to be advertised on television.

The most recent drug approved by the FDA, Lyrica (pregabalin) for fibromyalgia, is a numbing medication that induces more side effects than the symptoms associated with fibromyalgia. Lyrica induces dizziness and sleepiness in up to 10% of users. It also commonly results in weight gain, mental confusion and decreased sex drive, and you can’t even drive a car if you take this pill.

In fact, Lyrica is nothing more than an analog of GABA – a re-arranged, patentable version of gamma aminobutyric acid, a calming neurotransmitter made naturally in the human body and available as a dietary supplement.

Forget that Dr. Bruce Holick of Harvard Medical School has said most cases of fibromyalgia are nothing more than a vitamin D deficiency. [Nutrition in Clinical Practice 2007 Jun; 22(3):297-304] The FDA’s primary job is to approve drugs and keep the pharmaceutical industry profitable.

Surely the FDA must know

The FDA approves drugs knowing they often are inappropriate or only marginally effective. .

* Surely the FDA must know only 1 in 70 users of statin drugs will avert a heart attack, and then not a mortal heart attack (that’s about 3% effectiveness).

* Surely the FDA must know that the reduction in coronary artery disease risk with statin drugs is not 30% as claimed, but more like 3% in hard numbers, about the same as the percentage of users who experience side effects, some being potentially mortal side effects.

* Surely, when it comes to cancer treatment, the FDA must know that chemo and radiation therapy cannot penetrate solid tumors like those of the lung, prostate, breast and colon, and that there is no way these treatments could possibly work.

* Surely the FDA must know that most anti-diabetic drugs result in patient’s gaining weight and becoming totally dependent upon insulin.

* Certainly the FDA must know that commonly used drugs to treat high blood pressure (ACE inhibitors, beta blockers, diuretics) do not address the common causes of hypertension --- calcification (hardening) of arteries and high blood sugar.

Meanwhile, the masses clamor for universal health insurance coverage, unaware that they are locking themselves into an immoral system that now controls all of their health care dollars.

The FDA approves drugs knowing that their biological action can be duplicated with vitamins, minerals, amino acids, essential oils and herbal ingredients. The public never hears of this.

Dietary supplements like vitamin D, vitamin C, fish oil, magnesium, garlic and others could significantly lower the incidence of disease and replace many drugs, but they now cost more than prescription drugs. The naïve public opts for a problematic drug that costs $1 under their health plan rather than a $ 15 dietary supplement that will make them well.

Imagine if……..

Imagine if the FDA were on the public’s side. This agency would issue statements like this: “Lyrica is approved for use among fibromyalgia patients and will result in a modest improvement in symptoms (~19% reduction), but may produce serious and non-serious side effects (dizziness, mental depression, sleepiness), even many of the same symptoms commonly associated with fibromyalgia, and should not be used when driving any vehicle. Fibromyalgia is not caused by a drug deficiency and may mask symptoms caused by a vitamin D deficiency, which may be the true root of symptoms associated with this syndrome. The drug should not be used with obtaining a prior vitamin D blood level on all subjects and conducting a trial period of vitamin D supplementation.”

Most prescription drugs induce essential vitamin and mineral deficiencies that result in disease substitution rather than disease treatment. No mention of drug-induced nutrient deficiency is made in public information issued by the National Institutes of Health regarding classes of drugs.

Nothing new to say

Since Ivan Illich wrote Medical Nemesis in the 1970s, and declared that “the major threat to health in the world is modern medicine," nothing new has been added but the details of this crime. Illich died at age 76 of cancer and refused all treatment. His book was dismissed at the time.

Robert S. Mendelsohn MD (1926-1988), instructor at Northwestern University Medical College, president of the National Health Federation, and author of Confessions of a Medical Heretic, said: "Modern Medicine's treatments for disease are seldom effective, and they're often more dangerous than the diseases they're designed to treat." Dr. Mendelsohn opposed mass vaccination, water fluoridation, coronary bypass surgery, licensing of nutritionists, and the routine use of X-Rays. Some of his work is carried on by The National Health Federation. [ www.thenhf.com ]

To achieve a true state of health without dependence prescription drugs, the masses are left to fend for themselves. Few read the books, like those shown above, that have indicted the medical profession. Immigrants seek to come to America for “the best medical care available, anywhere in the world.” Few suspect a massive con game, especially when public health agencies established to protect the public, endorse these bogus treatments.

Treated like chattel, the public is misled by an arrogant industry that regards patients as subjects that first need to be evaluated for how much their insurance will pay. Some have even suggested every middle-aged adult be given a universal default pill that includes five problematic medications (the poly pill).

When it comes to health care, it’s every man for himself. Confused when they read reports like this, the public returns to their doctors to inquire whether any of this is true. It becomes a perpetual charade. Don’t anticipate a change anytime soon.