More Than 1/3 of US Uses Natural Medicine

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Just imagine how much that is cutting into the wallets of the

pharmaceutical companies, no wonder they are initiating innovative

movements to bring alternative health under their control. At one

point we were called " alternative " as a derogatory term, like fringe

or far fetched, now they realize we are here to stay, even out of

pocket, the people have voted. So now they want to incorporate us

with " intergrative " medicine or by owning us out right by making it

nearly impossible for those without the resources of pharmaceutical

companies to withstand the new standards they are trying to

implement in the name of public health, despite their own track

record of making pharmaceutical medicine the third leading cause of

death in the US.

Misty L. Trepke

http://www..com

 

More Than One-Third of U.S. Uses Natural Medicine

 

http://mercola.com/2004/jun/12/natural_medicine.htm

 

The government has suggested that more and more people are turning to

meditation, herbs, yoga and other forms of alternative medicine

because of lack of results with conventional care. One of the largest

U.S. studies conducted on alternative medicine found that over

one-third of American adults practiced some type of non-conventional

medicine in 2002.

The report was based on information from 31,044 interviews with

adults aged 18 and older.

 

Researchers believed the results of the study pointed to the fact

that more people are using alternative medicine. Also, it was

apparent that an increasing number of people have turned to natural

products like herbs or enzymes to help with chronic or recurring

pain.

 

Experts suggested that people should not neglect conventional

medicine in those instances where it has been proven to help certain

conditions and also recommended consulting a doctor before practicing

alternative medicine. Experts were concerned about the number of

people turning to alternative medicine because they felt they were no

longer able to afford the costs of conventional care.

 

Experts cautioned people who assumed that just because a product was

natural that it was automatically safe to use. An example they cited

was the 6.6 percent of people in the study found to use the

supplement kava kava, which has been linked to liver disease.

 

Significant findings from the study include:

 

62 percent of the participants used some form complementary and

alternative medicine over the past year for a specific medical

condition, broken down as follows:

 

Prayer for own health, 43 percent

Prayer by others for the respondent's health, 24 percent

Natural products (such as herbs, other botanicals, and enzymes), 19

percent

Deep breathing exercises, 12 percent

Participation in prayer group for own health, 10 percent

Meditation, 8 percent

Chiropractic care, 8 percent

Yoga, 5 percent

Massage, 5 percent

Diet-based therapies, 4 percent

 

45 percent turned to some kind of prayer to help them heal in the

past 12 months

 

There was a higher tendency for women to use complementary and

alternative medicine than men

 

28 percent of the participants felt that conventional treatment would

not help them

 

Based on the findings of this report, there appears to be a greater

percentage of people turning to complementary and alternative

medicine for their health needs.

 

Center for Disease Control National Center for Health Statistics May

27, 2004 (20-page Full-Text PDF Report)

http://www.eurekalert.org/images/052504nCAMreport.pdf

 

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Dr. Mercola's Comment:

 

It's great news that these numbers appear to be increasing, but you

can see that we still have a long way to go though as only 4 percent,

or one in 25, are using nutrition to address their health.

 

Fortunately, chiropractic is up to 8 percent, or double those who use

nutrition. Recently, I spoke to all the students at Parker

Chiropractic College, which is one of the finest chiropractic

colleges in the country.

I had lunch with their incredible president, Fabrizzio Mancinni, and

he has a great perspective on this low number and views it from a

positive angle--he thinks that means there is much more of an

opportunity.

 

Similarly, I believe that over 95 percent of the U.S. population is

in desperate need of sound nutritional therapy.

 

The public's loss of faith in conventional medicine doesn't come as a

surprise to me, as I wrote in a past newsletter article that even

doctors weren't comfortable with the benefits from conventional

medicine.

 

Currently, the United States spends about $1.5 trillion for health

care, and the projections are that it will double in less than 10

years.

These are devastating statistics particularly considering the growing

number of people who feel that conventional medicine isn't helping

them.

 

The other sad tragedy is that we are spending all of this money on

disease management focused on drugs and surgery, and our return on

this investment is profoundly poor. More and more people do not have

the energy they need to get through the day while millions of others

are suffering with painful crippling diseases because they have

violated basic health principles.

 

Often, negative health and lifestyle choices are made because of a

lack of knowledge, and it's my vision to increase the public's

awareness of the health tragedies facing the nation.

 

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