Why organized medicine wants to outlaw nutrition

[Guest guest]

Why organized medicine wants to outlaw nutrition and

turn healers into criminals

 

Posted Jun 6, 2005 PT by the Health Ranger (Mike

Adams)

 

How about some truth for a change about the Food

Supplements Directive in the European Union? The

proponents of this directive say that it's about

protecting patients from all these dangerous vitamins,

minerals, supplements, plant extracts and antioxidants

that are so dangerous for people. They say, "We're

going to keep you safe!" Let me tell you what I think.

It's an attempt to outlaw nutrition (see related ebook

on nutrition). It is an attempt to criminalize those

who would offer nutritional products that can actually

prevent and even treat chronic diseases.

 

Why would anyone want to do this? Well, look at what

it's trying to ban. One of the things it's trying to

ban is tocotrienols, which are various forms of

vitamin E. These are naturally occurring antioxidants

that are found in the plant world. You can find them

in whole grains, nuts, seeds and a variety of

different plants. Why would they want to ban these

ingredients and make it a crime to sell these to

people?

 

Well, think about it folks. 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! They've tried through censorship, oppression,

influence, and even attempts to regulate medical

information on the internet. They have tried to create

a total blackout of information, but they've failed.

Thank God we live in a (relatively) free society where

the internet still operates and people have access to

independent information. As people are increasingly

finding out that prescription drugs actually kill you,

while vitamins, nutrients, and plant-based supplements

actually save your life, organized medicine had to go

to Plan B. Plan B is to outlaw nutrition, which is

what the European Union Food Supplements Directive is

all about.

 

Let's take this one step further here. Let’s assume

they succeed in outlawing this nutrition. It's

suddenly illegal to buy any amount of vitamin C over

50 mg, for example. It's illegal to buy various

minerals, such as vanadium or boron. It becomes

illegal to buy tocotrienols, or other antioxidants

derived from plants. Well, what's the next step? It

is, of course, to outlaw medicinal foods entirely!

 

Can you imagine a world in which it would be illegal

to purchase and consume garlic? It sounds ridiculous,

right? You say, "Oh, come on, that's just

exaggeration!" But is it really? Garlic is one of the

most medicinally potent foods in the world. This is a

product that prevents and treats topical and internal

cancers. Raw garlic juice is one of the most potent

anti-cancer supplements you can consume. You can go to

a grocery store right now, buy garlic, and make this

yourself. This is more powerful than many drugs out

there. It's a broad-spectrum antibiotic. It's

antiviral, antibacterial, anti-cancer and anti-tumor.

This is an amazing healing food.

 

Would they try to outlaw that? Right now, they're

trying to outlaw extracts from different plants. It's

only a small step for them to actually outlaw these

foods. You'd have to have a prescription to buy

garlic. It would be a controlled substance, and if you

grew it in your own garden, you'd be arrested as a

criminal. Don't believe me? Just try to grow

omega-3-rich hemp seeds in your backyard and see how

long it takes for the DEA to show up at your doorstep.

 

You have a great number of foods out there that

actually treat, not just prevent, chronic diseases.

Molasses, for one, is a nutrient-rich sweetener. It's

made from the byproduct of whole grain processing. If

people ate more molasses or used it in their cooking

or their oatmeal, they would get more B vitamins, more

magnesium, more zinc. They would be healthier. We'd

see a drop in the rate of Alzheimer's disease, nervous

system disorders, and behavioral disorders, such as

Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder and other so

called "behavioral diseases."

 

You may think it sounds crazy that these foods would

some day be banned. But I think it's crazy to ban

extracts of these foods. They're trying to ban these

natural ingredients right now. Beyond the fact that I

think it is unethical to do so, it is a crime against

humanity to restrict people from access to the gifts

provided by Mother Nature. As human beings, we have a

God-given right to eat plants, to use the medicinal

herbs found in our natural environment, and to heal

ourselves using these gifts provided by nature. I

believe any attempt to criminalize our connection with

nature is itself a crime, and should be treated as

such.

 

Nutrition is bad for you, didn't you know?

The Food Supplements Directive (in Europe) and this

whole effort by the FDA (in the U.S.) to outlaw

certain medicinal herbs and eventually nutritional

supplements is based on the outlandish premise that

prescription drugs are good for you and nutrition is

bad for you. This is such a reversal of reality that

it's absolutely astounding they can get away with even

talking about it without being laughed off of the

television show or radio interview.

 

If you think about it, prescription drugs are what's

killing people. Prescription drugs are extremely

dangerous, even according to the statistics put out by

organized medicine. We have one class of drugs, Cox-2

inhibitors, which, all by itself, is responsible for

at least 144,000 heart attacks in the United States

alone. Over 40 percent of those are fatal. The FDA

admitted all of this information, yet said, "That's

not dangerous enough for us. Let's put this drug back

on the market." They rubber-stamped it "APPROVED BY

THE FDA." This is now safe for consumption, according

to the FDA.

 

Meanwhile, a Chinese herb, ma huang, or "Ephedra," as

it's better known, is blamed for the death of a few

dozen individuals who overdosed like crazy trying to

lose weight. A few dozen people and the FDA said,

"This is dangerous! We have to take this off the

market! It's unregulated. It's a Chinese herb. It will

kill you!" It is now a crime to sell Ephedra. They're

criminalizing medicinal herbs, while legalizing the

drugs that kill you. This is what's going on today.

 

It's really about control

There's a lot at stake here -- a lot of power,

control, and, of course, a whole lot of money. The

people at the top of organized medicine's hierarchy,

the FDA, the American Medical Association, top

doctors, surgeons, hospitals, and so on, have all

realized that if nutrition succeeds, and if people

become educated about how to prevent disease through

simple, easily available foods, then they are going to

lose a lot of money. They're going to lose a lot of

patients, whom they're depending on. You have drug

companies looking at the coming wave of Alzheimer's

and jumping up and down with joy, thinking, "Look how

many customers we're going to have. Let's come up with

an Alzheimer's drug!" Research then comes out showing

that Alzheimer's drugs cause dementia. Yes, it's true.

Pain drugs cause heart attacks, antidepressant drugs

cause people to pick up automatic weapons and blow

away their classmates; you can just go on down the

list. These drugs are designed to treat disease and

improve people's lives but they only destroy lives.

Nevertheless, that doesn't stop the drug companies

from being excited about the opportunity to sell these

drugs to people.

 

It's all about selling the drugs. Really, the FDA is

just one gatekeeper by which these drugs can be sold.

The FDA is being exploited and controlled by drug

companies. The FDA rubber-stamps drugs that are highly

toxic and extremely dangerous. These drugs continue to

be sold to people all around the world at ridiculously

high prices. It's a big scam, and there's big money at

stake.

 

That's why they've got to attack nutritional

supplements. They've got to outlaw vitamin C, vitamin

E, and minerals that prevent disease. They've got to

criminalize them. Their strategy right now is to

protect the profits of the pharmaceutical industry.

This whole Food Supplements Directive in Europe is

really nothing more than an attempt to protect

profits. By doing that, they're committing a crime

against humanity, in my belief. They're trying to say

that it should be illegal for people to choose foods,

medicines, and healing compounds provided by nature.

 

A crazy idea: let's outlaw dangerous pharmaceuticals

I have an idea, which may be crazy, but which I'll

throw out there just in case. What if we outlawed all

the drugs that killed people? What if we made it

illegal to sell dangerous prescription drugs that

actually cause chronic disease, that cause people to

go crazy, or that cause people to have heart attacks

and die? How about that? Now, there's a crazy idea.

Then, what if we banned drug advertising so these drug

companies can't run highly deceptive ads on television

that get people running to their doctors' offices

asking for drugs by name, even when they have no idea

what those drugs do? Patients demand, "Give me the

drug!" The doctor asks, "What do you need it for?I

don't know, but those people on TV look really happy!"

This happens every day. Any general practitioner will

tell you the same thing.

 

Let's educate the public

So let's ban everything that actually harms people.

Let's then spend some taxpayer money on public

education campaigns to teach people how to be healthy.

We could start with foods. We could start by teaching

expectant mothers how to have good nutrition so that

they give birth to healthy babies with healthy nervous

systems, babies who aren't born predisposed to

diabetes, schizophrenia, or other disorders. From

there we can teach our nation's youth how to make

healthier food choices.

 

While we're on a roll, why don't we take all the

disease causing foods out of our school lunch

programs. Why don't we ban fast food restaurants from

hospitals. Let's put some healthy foods in people's

mouths. Let's visit the nursing homes around the

country, look at their diets, and say, "No wonder

these people are half-mad. Look at what they're being

fed." Let's put some healthy foods into their diets.

 

Let's teach people about the real health potential of

sunlight. Let's teach them that if you get sunlight on

your skin, you can prevent prostate cancer, breast

cancer, and type 2 diabetes. You can prevent

osteoporosis, schizophrenia, mental depression, and

many other diseases and disorders just by getting some

natural sunlight.

 

So this is my crazy idea: Let's ban the things that

kill people, while supporting the things that improve

people's quality of life, keep people healthy, and

prevent chronic disease. Now, I know it's a radical

idea and it would have terrible side effects, such as

plummeting health care costs, increased longevity,

increased quality of life and happiness across the

entire population. It would have all these terrible

side effects; for example, we wouldn't have such

violent behavior in our young adults. I don't know if

society can handle these side effects; but if it can,

this could be a good route to go.

 

One more side effect would be that many corporate

executives of pharmaceutical companies would find

themselves out of work. That would just be terrible.

Maybe we could have a government subsidy program to

find new jobs for these people, or train them on

something useful like web page design. They'll need

some real jobs, right? If you can't sell drugs any

more, you've got to do something useful for society.

 

The national doctor re-education program

The same would hold for all the doctors as well, the

general practitioners who practice old school

medicine. They wouldn't have as much work either. I

think we'd have to retrain them. We could start by

actually giving them a real education in health. We

could start by teaching them about nutrition. The fact

is they never learned that in medical school. Med

schools don't teach nutrition. These doctors are

clueless about it unless they went outside mainstream

medicine and learned on their own.

 

When doctors find that they're out of work because

people are healthy, because they're avoiding

prescription drugs, eating healthy foods, and using

medicinal plants, we might retrain those doctors to

become health coaches. They could go into nursing

homes and schools, and be hired as health coaches

teaching people how to be healthy. There's an idea!

Why don't we have our healthcare professionals

actually teach health instead of being experts in

disease?

 

>From the history of medicine comes the idea: "First,

do no harm." Today organized medicine is doing

tremendous harm. Until we make a change, they have no

right to call themselves doctors at all. They're not

doctors, they're drug dealers. A true doctor is

someone who teaches according to the Latin root of the

word, which means "teacher." If you call yourself a

doctor, but you're not teaching your patients about

nutrition and lifestyle changes, you're living a lie.

On the other hand, if you are teaching it, good for

you. You should get more patients. You keep your

patients healthy; they could tell more friends and

bring you more business. You deserve to be rewarded

for helping people stay healthy.

 

Conveniently forgetting the true history of medicine

One more point relevant to the history of medicine and

the European Union Food Supplements Directive: The

word "pharmaceutical" has as its root "pharm," which

of course means "plant." Pharmaceuticals have their

origins in plant-based medicine. That's where all

pharmaceuticals originally came from. If you think

about it now, things have gone 180 degrees! The

pharmaceutical industry itself is trying to outlaw

plants. How bizarre is that? It is a total disconnect

from nature and from the history of medicine. It is a

disconnection between those selling the drugs and the

patients who take them. It's all about disconnection

out there in organized medicine. A lot of doctors

won't even touch their patients. It unnerves them.

 

Let's turn to natural healing, where we have

connections, we have openness and we believe in health

freedoms. We believe in freedom of choice. We believe

in education. And we believe that individuals should

have the right to choose what medicine, herbs, and

supplements they wish to take to treat or prevent

their own diseases or disorders, or just to stay

healthy or enhance their health.

 

Healers and patients can have a connection. The

patient, however, is the only real healer. The doctor

or practitioner can only really educate and support

the patient's own healing process. These are the

beliefs of natural health. These are the beliefs

which, frankly, organized medicine doesn't want you to

ever adopt. They want you to believe that nature has

no answers for you whatsoever. They want you to

believe that an R&D lab, with its synthesized

chemicals, is the only place where you should get your

healing chemicals or compounds. They think that man is

smarter than nature. They think that a man-made lab

can produce smarter disease prevention chemicals than

the lab which has been running for millions and

millions of years out there called Mother Nature.

 

Covertly stealing from Mother Nature

Secretly, however, behind closed doors, all these

pharmaceutical companies have people across the world

trying to find medicinal plants to look for answers.

They are basically stealing them from the native

healers, the indigenous tribes in the rainforest, the

deserts of Australia, you name it. They're stealing

all these plants, then taking them back to the

laboratory and trying to synthesize them. That's what

they're doing behind closed doors. They know that the

answers are in the plant. Publicly, however, they want

to outlaw those plants. You see how they work this

con?

 

I say to all of you out there reading who want to be

healthy: Bypass all of that. Bypass the pharmaceutical

industry. Bypass the profit, the greed and the

control. Bypass the heavily bureaucratic FDA, which is

dishonest and is operating in collusion with the drug

companies. Bypass a traditionally trained medical

doctor, and bypass all the costs and medical bills and

bankruptcy that go along with being involved with

organized medicine. Instead, go straight to nature.

 

You do that by hooking up with a naturopath. You do

that by relying on plants, foods, natural environment,

sunshine, fresh water, clean air, and by getting

grounded with the earth. That's how you get healthy.

I've done it, along with thousands of others who have

done it. Organized medicine has no benefit whatsoever

in modern society, except if you've been in a car

crash or something. If an iron girder from a steel

building falls on you and you need some surgery, then

definitely get some surgery. American surgeons are

some of the best in the world. They can stop the

bleeding from gunshot wounds and put you back

together. However, they can't prevent chronic diseases

and they have no clue how to treat them.

 

Don't believe me? Observe this for yourself...

If you're skeptical of everything I've said so far,

here's a little experiment you can run. Go out and

find yourself people who are steeped in organized

medicine. Find people who take a lot of

pharmaceuticals, who get surgical procedures every

time their doctor says they need one. Check these

people out and see how healthy they are.

 

Are they fit and trim? Are they happy? Are they

emotionally stable? Do they have healthy relationships

in their life? How do they look? Do they look

energetic? What's the color of their skin? Is it pale

and yellowish? Do they have bags under their eyes? Is

it discolored? What do they look like?

 

Afterwards, find yourself a bunch of people who follow

natural health. Find people who do yoga, who get

acupuncture, who eat well, who supplement with

superfoods and supergreen supplements. Find people who

take vitamins and use medicinal herbs. Find the kind

of people you'd find in health food stores. Look at

those people and ask yourself the same questions. How

do they look? What kind of health do they seem to be

demonstrating? If you compare these two groups, it

becomes immediately obvious that the results you get

are based on the belief system you follow.

 

If you follow organized medicine, take those

prescription drugs, go get those surgical procedures,

and you believe all those doctors, the FDA, and

everything the drug companies tell you, you're going

to be quite diseased. You're going to be miserable.

You're going to have a shortened lifespan. You're

going to have a shortened quality of life. You're

probably going to be in chronic pain, and you'll have

multiple side effects from all the prescription drugs

you're taking. You'll have skyrocketing medical bills.

You might end up in medical bankruptcy, and you'll be

no better off than having done nothing.

 

If you follow natural health, on the other hand, you

can be a healthy, happy person. You can be energetic,

have fantastic mental clarity, and be free of chronic

pain. You can reverse diseases such as type 2

diabetes, prostate cancer, breast cancer, and

osteoporosis. You can avoid dementia, Alzheimer's, and

all these so-called "diseases of aging." You can be

healthy and happy. That's the world of natural health.

 

Stop trying to justify organized medicine

Some people think they can straddle these two worlds.

They say, "I'm going to get chemotherapy, but I'm

going to take some chlorella together with it. That

way, I'll be practicing integrated medicine!"

Integrated medicine is a huge hoax. It's basically a

way for organized medicine to try to keep up with the

times, to say that you can use these herbs only as a

minor part of this traditional health procedure. They

want to relegate everything that's alternative into

the fringes of treatment. Integrative medicine is a

joke.

 

Alternative medicine, or what I call "advanced

medicine," is where the real healing power is. That's

where you make a choice and say, "I'm not going to

follow organized medicine any more. I'm going to get

healthy. I'm going to start by taking responsibility

for my health outcome. I'm going to fire my MD, and go

get an ND, a naturopathic doctor. I'm going to start

working on my foods, my nutrition, my supplements, and

my lifestyle. I'm going to change my life and take

responsibility for the outcome." That's where you get

healthy. That's where you can bypass all that

organized medicine.

 

Again, this is the kind of information that organized

medicine hopes you never hear. They don't want people

to bypass their system. They want people to run

through their system like a factory. "Here, take these

pills -- we'll make a dollar every day for each pill."

But I believe you don't need that system. All you need

is a naturopathic physician, a naturopathic approach

to life, herbs, good nutrition, healing foods, natural

sunlight, and the list goes on. These are easy things

to accomplish. The answers are quite obvious.

 

Your health freedoms are at stake right now

Returning to the Foods Supplements Directive in

Europe, it's really just the tip of the iceberg. The

effort to outlaw plant extracts, certain vitamins, and

certain minerals is just an extension of the

philosophy that nutrition should be criminalized. It's

part of the belief that people should be controlled

and forced into a system of organized medicine based

on huge egos, high profitability, control, and

limiting people's access to information and choices

regarding what they can use to improve their health.

 

That's why it is important for all of us that the Food

Supplements Directive fails and is ruled illegal. Only

when that happens can we create a system of more

freedom, more awareness and more healing. People need

choices. They need to have access to nature and to

nutrition. The very idea that this Food Supplements

Directive was even under consideration is quite

maddening. Hopefully, sanity will prevail and the

European Union will not outlaw nutrition.

 

Here in the United States, we can also hopefully move

in the same positive direction by keeping nutrition

freely available, and by making sure that DSHEA

remains in place so that nutritional supplements

remain legal and prescriptions are not required.

Hopefully, we can get some criminal convictions for

the real criminals out there: the people running these

pharmaceutical companies, the decision makers at the

FDA, and the people at the top of the hierarchy in

American organized medicine, who are directly

responsible for the deaths of hundreds of thousands of

Americans each and every year.

 

If we can put those people behind bars, we can reform

the FDA. We can then start educating people about the

real causes of health, about how to take charge of

their health outcome and be healthy for a lifetime. We

can create a whole new society, a whole new generation

of healthy young people who can learn, be creative and

be happy. We can see health care costs plummet in this

country. That's really what we need to see if we're

going to be competitive in the global marketplace.

 

The alternative is to continue down the path of

organized medicine. We will just get sicker, more

miserable, and truly more insane as a nation if things

continue. As if we're not insane enough already in

this country, it could get even worse! We've got to

reverse that, and it all starts with nutrition and

access to nature.