You Have to Look Out for Yourself

My passion is health and nutrition. Health does not consist of taking the right drug or supplement or getting exercise. Health is not getting your vaccines and drinking eight glasses of water a day. Health is the proper relationship between body, soul and spirit. It is vibrancy and hope and happiness. It is purpose and community. It is self-determination. True health requires that you operate within a framework of truth that allows you to make important decisions based on correct information.

Have you noticed how confusing health and nutrition have become? Best to just throw your hands up in the air, eat whatever you want, and trust your doctor to fix it all. I don’t recommend that course of action. Who wants to be exhausted at fifty and in a wheelchair at seventy spending all your money on drugs and having your body parts removed a piece at a time?

My true passion is removing the blinders that have been placed over people’s eyes by corporate interests. Convince people you have what they want or need, even if it’s bad for them, and then sell it to them, whether it’s a pill, a procedure, a beer, a car. If there is no need, create the need. If competition takes too much of the pie, then get rid of it. Lie, steal, cheat, kill. It’s all good. Get the money.

A scene from the episode Little Green Men from Deep Space Nine’s Fourth Season beautifully demonstrates this. Quark is a Ferengi, a species known for its insatiable greed and its corrupt business practices conducted in accordance with the 285 rules of acquisition. He, his brother Rom, and nephew Nog crash land in Roswell in 1947. In a government facility he smells a cigarette burning and has the following conversation with his nephew and brother:

Quark: What’s that disgusting smell?
Nog: I think it’s called tobacco. It’s a deadly drug. When used frequently, it destroys the internal organs.
Quark: If it’s so deadly, then why do they use it?
Nog: It’s also highly addictive.
Rom: How do they get their hands on it?
Nog: They buy it in stores.
Quark (realizing the enormous potential): They buy it? If they’ll buy poison, they’ll buy anything. I think I’m going to like it here.

It is only when you are informed that you can direct your life successfully. You can’t make wise decisions when you’re being manipulated and lied to and don’t know it. I watched the last episode of The X Files last night, and I loved what Mulder said:

I’ve learned to pretend over the past nine years. To pretend that my victories matter, only to realize that no one was keeping score. To realize that liars do not fear the truth if there are enough liars. That the devil is just one man with a plan, but evil, true evil is a collaboration of men… If I am a guilty man, my crime is in daring to believe that the truth will out, and that no one lie can live forever.

The true evils are being perpetuated by agencies that we believe are operating in our best interests. We believe these agencies are protecting us from corporate greed and incompetence, agencies such as the American Medical Association (AMA), the American Dental Association (ADA), the American Cancer Society (ACS), the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA), to name a few.

The American Medical Association

Case in point. The AMA’s original charter was to to “stamp out the scourge of homeopathy.” The physicians wanted to be the people to go to if you were sick, resulting in wealth for them. But the homeopaths were also popular, and so they had to go. As did the midwives and the chiropractors, anyone who competed with the physician. The AMA has tried to destroy or discredit a great many alternative therapies. But for years I thought that they existed to protect me from people who wanted to take advantage of me.

The American Medical Association is a coercive monopoly which makes it difficult or impossible for alternative health care providers—such as nurse-practitioners, midwives, osteopaths, chiropractors, and nutritionists—to market their services. State medical licensing boards are composed virtually entirely of AMA-certified physicians and have created “medical standards” which make it impossible for medical schools to survive unless they adopt curricula approved by the AMA. –Foundation for Economic Education

The Food and Drug Administration

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) caters to the pharmaceutical industry and protects their interests. They approve drugs that kill people and want to regulate vitamins and herbs so only physicians can prescribe them. What do physicians know about nutrition? How often does your doctor take a complete survey of your diet?

FDA advisory committees consist almost entirely of pharmaceutical industry consultants and researchers. Even consumers’ and patients’ representatives on the committees often receive drug company money. –USA Today, September 2000

The FDA sent warning letters to cherry growers because the growers claimed cherries are healthful. Meanwhile, the FDA raids alternative health practitioner offices, confiscates their work, and destroys their livelihoods.

Take a look at these raids by the FDA. This is unconscionable. Do you think the FDA is trying to protect you by having vitamin E removed from evening primrose oil? Or how about the alternative cancer hospital in Mexico.

Reason: Hospital Santa Monica is an alternative cancer hospital in Mexico that competes with mainstream hospitals in the U.S. They were accused of distributing unapproved drugs. More than 50 federal agents with guns drawn raided the hospital office in San Deigo, seizing a tractor trailor of business records, patient charts, and computers. They also searched employees’ homes and seized $80,000 found in the owner’s safe. Over $300,000 was taken from the bank accounts of the hospital and two vitamin companies.

Outcome: Friends kept the Hospital afloat with cash gifts. The two vitamin companies were sold at a loss. Donsbach was forced into bankruptcy. No charges have been filed.

No charges have been filed? And how should the owner of this company hire competent legal representation when all his money has been confiscated? How can the FDA keep $380,000 without filing charges? These are the actions of thugs and criminals, and who is there to prosecute them? Does this make you as sick as it makes me?

The physician’s number one tool of choice is pharmaceuticals, and the pharmaceutical companies are protected by the FDA. The FDA wants to regulate vitamins, minerals and herbal supplements and seemingly whatever else it can that you might use to improve your health. Even the Bush family will sell you out by working on behalf of the pharmaceutical industry.

The United States Department of Agriculture

The United States Department of Agriculture exists to promote the interests of the agricultural community. They claim they also exist to promote food safety and nutrition.

When I was a kid, the nutrition I learned about (the Four Food Groups) was prepared and presented by the Meat and Dairy Industry. Their products covered half the real estate of the posters plastered all over my school.

The USDA’s Center for Nutrition Policy and Promotion created the MyPyramid Food Guidance System to educate consumers on how to follow recommendations from the 2005 Dietary Guidelines for Americans to choose a nutrient-rich diet and increase physical activity levels for themselves and their families. Now, the USDA has asked corporations and other food organizations, such as the NDC [National Dairy Council], to officially join in education and communication efforts promoting these messages throughout the country. –PR Newswire

Corporations? The dairy industry? Do you think the the NDC is going to publish this bit of information:

In the United States, 95 percent of Asians, 75 percent of blacks, 60 percent of native Americans, and from 2 to 24 percent of Caucasians are lactose intolerant. The following ailments may result from consumption of dairy products:

• Irritable bowel syndrome
• Joint problems
• Migraines
• Muscle and joint pain
• Depression and anxiety
• Fatigue
• Nausea and vomiting

I’ll tell you what, though. The pharmaceutical industry will love this. The last thing they want is actual science to educate nutrition. They don’t mind so much if corporate meat and dairy or the big food suppliers contribute to the pool of knowledge.

The question is, How can the USDA protect the interests of Americans who consume agricultural products when the USDA exists to promote those products? Same problem with the FDA, the the AMA, with all the agencies that exist to protect their own interests.

And on and on it goes, private monied interests pulling the strings of government agencies purporting to protect American citizens. It’s a sham. If you want to be healthy, you’re going to have to do due diligence, because the systems in place to deal with disease profit only when you’re sick. As sad as I am to say it, they prefer to keep you that way. Our economy would collapse if anyone came up with a “cure” for cancer, and so medical people say there is no cure.

The most important question when researching health is, Does this address the cause of my illness or only suppress the symptoms. Stick with the former and use the latter as a last resort only. See also Symptom Suppression Does Not Equal Healing or Cure.