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Health Roundup: Gambling with drugs, Squaretrade failures and counterfeit drugs (satire) Mike Adams, the Health Ranger See article keywords and concepts

Casinos would be smart (and no more evil than they are already) to offer free prescriptions to all senior citizens who walk through the door, thereby replacing Parkinsonian shaking with casino shakedowns. "Free drugs for all gamblers!" Sounds like Vegas to me. After all, they already serve free drinks to anyone foolish enough to drink and gamble. All of this serves as yet one more reason to ditch prescription drugs and switch to natural medicine (healing through foods, herbs, acupuncture, chiropractic, and other modalities).

Shattering the false philosophy and junk science of conventional medicine Mike Adams, the Health Ranger See article keywords and concepts

Many of our senior citizens are on a dozen prescriptions a day, and half of those are usually prescribed to cover up symptoms and side effects from the first few prescriptions. Why prescription drugs cannot cause health So why don't drugs work? It's because they make a promise they can't keep. Prescription drugs make the promise -- and this is reflected in the marketing -- that a person can engage in a lifestyle filled with many factors that lead to chronic disease, but by taking one pill they can break that cause-effect chain and not experience the disease that would normally result.

Disease Economy: How the United States economy runs on "treating" chronic disease Mike Adams, the Health Ranger See article keywords and concepts

Why is it that 40 percent of our senior citizens are now clinically obese? I'm willing to bet that a similar percentage may have nervous system disorders or early stages of dementia or Alzheimer's disease. Most of them are probably metabolizing some form of cancer right now, even though it may not have been diagnosed yet. We are a nation of diseased individuals, and that disease starts very early. There are 12-year-old children who have atherosclerosis. There are teenagers with osteoporosis, and teenage children with obesity are now common.

FDA accused of suppressing drug safety information (commentary) Mike Adams, the Health Ranger See article keywords and concepts

Will the people continue to allow their children and their senior citizens to be drugged? Will they continue to allow drug companies to extract more and more dollars from their pockets and leave them in financial ruin? Is this what people are going to allow to continue happening in this country? Because maybe the answer is they'll allow it forever. Maybe they'll never be the wiser. Keep on eating those processed foods, those junk foods, those restaurant foods, all those unhealthy, toxic, disease-causing ingredients.

Government's Medicare drug benefit program is an unmitigated disaster Mike Adams, the Health Ranger See article keywords and concepts

It doesn't benefit the senior citizens, and it doesn't benefit the taxpayers who are footing the bill. It certainly doesn't benefit any honest, hardworking American whose income continues to dwindle under the assault of do-gooder government programs like this one. It really only benefits Big Pharma, and, of course, that was its purpose. The Medicare drug benefit program is really just another clever way to extract productivity from U.S. taxpayers, and it's working extremely well. Practically no one in the mainstream press has noticed any of what's really going on here.

Health roundup: Constipation drugs, California cons, and Acupuncture points (satire) Mike Adams, the Health Ranger See article keywords and concepts

California suckered yet again California is suing the federal government over its bungled Medicare prescription drug benefit plan, which has left so many senior citizens without prescription drugs for so long that they're actually starting to regain some mental clarity and realize what's going on. That, of course, is unacceptable.

Pretend medicine: Let's play doctor! Mike Adams, the Health Ranger See article keywords and concepts

That was Washington's way of pretending to help senior citizens save money, many of whom were left out in the cold thanks to massive failures in a government database that some highly paid consultant pretended would actually work. As all this unfolds, of course, the mainstream media will pretend to offer objective reporting on the health care crisis, relying on journalists who pretend to actually know something about health. Conventional medicine exists in a fantasy world.

Alli weight loss drug has disgusting side effects and may block fat-soluble vitamins Mike Adams, the Health Ranger See article keywords and concepts

Vitamin D and other fat-soluble nutrients are absolutely crucial for human health, especially the health of expectant mothers, newborns and senior citizens. These are nutrients that we cannot live healthfully without. So what could possibly be the FDA review panel's motivation in approving this drug that has almost no perceived benefit? It causes merely one pound of weight loss a month (and that's if you actually believe the clinical trials), yet it creates considerable health risks to those who take the drug.

The health dangers of trans fats have been known for decades, yet food companies still poison customers with hydrogenated oils Mike Adams, the Health Ranger See article keywords and concepts

There's no question that consumers are harmed by the consumption of hydrogenated oils, and yet the FDA continues to allow this ingredient to be legally used, sold and marketed in products that will be repeatedly consumed by families, parents, children, senior citizens and other groups that are at high risk of chronic disease or nutritional disorders. It is my hope that companies that continue using hydrogenated oils will ultimately be held legally and financially responsible for the harm their products are causing consumers.

Government's Medicare drug benefit program is an unmitigated disaster Mike Adams, the Health Ranger See article keywords and concepts

The administration of the plan is falling flat on its face as well, because when senior citizens go to pharmacies and try to buy prescription drugs, it turns out that their name isn't in the computer where it's supposed to be. The plan isn't working out how it was supposed to, people can't get their drugs, and they are panicking. All of this demonstrates what happens when you put the federal government in charge of "negotiating" drug prices with the very same for-profit corporations that contribute enormous sums of money to the political party currently in the White House.

Best Choices From the People's Pharmacy Joe Graedon, M.S. and Teresa Graedon, Ph.D. See book keywords and concepts

Babies and senior citizens are not the only ones who suffer. The number of people who have intermittent or chronic sleep problems is enormous, perhaps as many as 70 million.672 That means that one in five of us is all too familiar with sleeplessness.673 Perhaps people slept better in past centuries. Back before Thomas Edison invented the electric lightbulb, even adults slept an average of 10 hours a night. But average sleep time has been dropping ever since. A poll in 2002 showed that the average American gets fewer than 7 hours of shut-eye on weeknights.

Health care economics: Diseases are too profitable to prevent or cure Mike Adams, the Health Ranger See article keywords and concepts

We have depression, cancer, diabetes, heart disease, and a long list of other chronic diseases that are devastating our population, and not just our adults and senior citizens, but now our children too. It's very clear that the system of health care we have in our country does not work. Over 40 percent of our population has no health insurance. Approximately 99 percent of our population (and the vast majority of licensed physicians) remains completely and utterly ignorant of the relationship between nutrition and health.

Where's the health in health reform? Mike Adams, the Health Ranger See article keywords and concepts

The uninsured need coverage. senior citizens on fixed incomes need to be able to afford their medications. The mentally disturbed need to be treated. Children need their medicine, we're told. But whether the solutions come from the far left (socialized medicine) or the far right (free drugs for seniors!), there's one glaring problem in all the talk about health care reform: nobody is talking about fixing the health problem. The entire debate about health care has been framed in terms of a financial crisis.

FDA's own scientists report pattern of intimidation, censorship and scientific fraud that undermines public safety Mike Adams, the Health Ranger See article keywords and concepts

We need to hold these FDA officials accountable for their crimes against the children, adults and senior citizens of this country who have been needlessly harmed (and killed) by prescription drugs that the FDA absolutely knew were dangerous. We are not talking about crimes of money here. This isn't some Martha Stewart insider stock trading scandal, or even an Enron-class hoodwinking of shareholders. The damage done by the FDA is way beyond the realm of finances. Our family members are dead due to FDA negligence.

The curse of immortality: Why anti-aging technology would spell disaster for humankind Mike Adams, the Health Ranger See article keywords and concepts

Have you noticed, for example, how most members of Congress are now senior citizens who are completely out of touch with the people they claim to represent? Mortality is the ultimate term limit.

Big Pharma scare tactics: How the pharmaceutical industry influences American consumers Mike Adams, the Health Ranger See article keywords and concepts

We have drugs that are killing middle-aged people and, of course, we have drugs that are killing our senior citizens in record numbers. What does the drug industry want to do about it? It wants to make sure that you're afraid of alternatives. The industry message is this: "Don't you dare touch those herbs. Don't you dare think about vitamins, and don't make the mistake of thinking you can get nutrition from food. You need our prescription drugs to keep you healthy. You need to take these drugs every day for the rest of your life.

The Divided Mind: The Epidemic of Mindbody Disorders John E. Sarno, M.D. See book keywords and concepts

TREATING THE OLDER TMS PATIENT I have evaluated and treated a large number of senior citizens on Medicare for more than a decade, with variable success. A Pennsylvania farmer is credited with the folk wisdom, "As we get older we grow more like ourselves." So it is with the elderly person with TMS. Not only are the personality traits that contribute to the need for symptoms more marked, but now he/she has to live with the specter of disability and mortality. Unconsciously, these are enraging, though we may be philosophical about them consciously.

If the auto industry operated like Big Pharma: fifteen things you might notice Mike Adams, the Health Ranger See article keywords and concepts

The agency once famously conducted a "drug raid" search of a bus load of senior citizens returning from Canada who had purchased nothing more than prescription medications. 7. Car companies would heavily publicize the release of new car models each year, but in reality, the new models would essentially be "me-too" cars with no real improvements over those made in the 1970's. Explanation: most prescription drugs, even though they are touted as "breakthrough" drugs, are little more than me-too drugs that do nothing different than older, off-patent drugs. 8.

The Side Effects Bible: The Dietary Solution to Unwanted Side Effects of Common Medications Frederic Vagnini, M.D. and Barry Fox, Ph.D. See book keywords and concepts

Fifty-seven senior citizens hospitalized for respiratory infections were randomly given either 200 mg of vitamin C per day, or a placebo.20 Two and four weeks after beginning the study, the patients were checked for breathlessness, cough, and X-ray evidence of chest infection. Overall, those taking the vitamin fared better than those on the placebo. • Heart health. Sixteen hundred Finnish men were enrolled in a study looking at the link between vitamin C and heart disease.

Gemtuzumab ozogamicin is used to treat acute myeloid leukemia in senior citizens who have not been helped by chemotherapy or who have suffered a remission. Possible Side Effects The drug's more common side effects include lowered or elevated blood pressure, fever, chills, and headache.

It's also used to treat mania in senior citizens. Possible Side Effects Side effects include muscle weakness, tremors, fatigue, loss of appetite, nausea, and diarrhea. Which Nutrients Are Robbed Taking this medicine may deplete your supply of, increase your need for, or interfere with the activity of: • Inositol Additional Ways This Drug May Upset Your Nutritional Balance Lithium can cause loss of appetite, changes in taste, nausea, and vomiting, which can upset your eating habits and possibly interfere with good nutrition.

The typical victims of community-acquired pneumonia are children and senior citizens. Symptoms (which can vary depending on the bacteria that caused the pneumonia) may include fever, chills and shaking, a sputum-producing cough, fatigue, and muscle aches. Fortunately, antibiotics such as sparfloxacin can cure community-acquired pneumonia caused by a variety of bacteria. Sparfloxacin, which works by preventing bacteria from reproducing itself, is also useful in treating bronchitis that has been made worse by invading bacteria.

The top ten things we'd see if the FDA were put in charge of the criminal justice system Mike Adams, the Health Ranger See article keywords and concepts

Telephone con artists who scam senior citizens out of their life savings would be put in charge of direct-to-consumer drug advertising. (Explanation: senior citizens are being financially exploited by drug companies who use direct-to-consumer advertising to con people into asking their doctors for drugs they don't even need.) 2. All murderers would be set free as long as they carried a large warning label that said, "Warning: I may kill you.

The Divided Mind: The Epidemic of Mindbody Disorders John E. Sarno, M.D. See book keywords and concepts

Other senior citizens who continue to work experience anxiety about their ability to compete with their younger colleagues, or anger at having to deal with bosses who are younger and less capable than they are or who have inherited businesses that they were instrumental in starting. Living with a painful (other than TMS) or disabling condition is common among the elderly. All of these can lead to mindbody symptoms and can be ameliorated by the TMS education program and/or working with a psychologist.

The health insurance problem is not an insurance problem, it is a health problem Mike Adams, the Health Ranger See article keywords and concepts

REPPED: When people start talking about health insurance reform and how to bring health insurance to the American people, they inevitably end up in a ridiculous discussion about how to negotiate the cost of drugs, how to provide drug discounts to senior citizens, or how to engage in a system of managed care that denies medical services to certain groups. It's all a rather useless exercise in shifting paperwork, blame, or money from the pockets of one organization to another. And in the end, it helps no one.

If It's Not Food, Don't Eat It! The No-nonsense Guide to an Eating-for-Health Lifestyle Kelly Harford, M.C., C.N.C. See book keywords and concepts

But these people weren't senior citizens, these were people in their 40's and 50's who have watched the fast-food industry grow exponentially within just the first half of their lifetime. It was the mid-60's when I made my first-ever trip to the first McDonald's to open in my neighborhood in Wheaton, Illinois, a suburb of Chicago where I lived as a child. It was a big event.

Natural Health Solutions Mike Adams See book keywords and concepts

The abuses of psychiatric drugs Big Pharma, which once nobly focused on creating drugs to save the lives of genuinely sick people, now focuses on ensnaring children, adults, and senior citizens into a lifetime regimen of medications they never needed in the first place (and which may cause permanent harm). The industry has become a grossly unethical, profit-seeking monstrosity that feeds upon the continued diseasification of the human population to ensure quarterly profits to shareholders.

The FDA conducted an illegal search and seizure raid on a bus load of senior citizens returning to the U.S. from Canada, claiming they were buying drugs at cheaper prices across the border. The Life Extension Foundation (www.LEF.org), a pioneering publisher and nutritional supplement formulator that regularly prints scientific research on the health benefits of foods and supplements, has been raided multiple times by armed agents of the FDA and supporting law enforcement organizations. Their crime? Telling the truth about the healing powers of nutritional supplements.

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