Poor Nurtition & Junk Foods Lead Directly to Pharma Profits

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Poor nutrition, junk foods lead directly to pharmaceutical industry

profits

Wednesday, December 15, 2004

 

http://www.newstarget.com/002688.html

 

If nutrition is so good at preventing and even reversing chronic

disease, why isn't it taught by the practitioners of conventional

medicine? Why isn't your doctor giving you the fundamentals of

nutrition? Why don't you see television ads promoting nutrition?

 

The reason is quite simple. There's no profit in it. Let's face it,

conventional medicine is a commercial entity. Pharmaceutical

companies are in business to make money. They want to maximize their

profits. Their mission statement should read " Our goal is to maximize

profits, no matter what it takes, as long as we can get away with

it. "

 

By their behavior, you can see that pharmaceutical companies are far

more interested in generating profits than actually improving human

health on a global scale. Drug companies are in business to make

money, not make people healthy You see this in many ways including

the price gouging of American consumers, attempts to block the

importation of prescription drugs from Canada, the refusal of

companies to fund AIDS drugs initiatives in Africa, and so on. You

especially see it in the suppression of prevention by conventional

medicine at the FDA. There is actually an effort underway to minimize

any discussion of disease prevention and instead focus on disease

symptom treatments -- especially those involving pharmaceuticals and

surgical procedures.

 

There is really no money in disease prevention. Or put another way,

if you find a way to be extremely healthy, it doesn't create profits

for anybody except you. In fact, if you used to be diseased, and you

changed your lifestyle and started consuming outstanding foods giving

you optimum nutrition, the pharmaceutical industry is now losing a

customer. You have just cost conventional medicine a paying customer.

And given the sky-high cost of most prescription drugs these days,

they might have been counting on you to generate a hundred thousand

or two hundred thousand dollars in revenues over the next few years.

But now, by taking control of your own health and using disease

prevention coupled with nutritional fundamentals, you are a healthy

human being who has eliminated a measurable profit from the

pharmaceutical companies.

 

So it's not hard to understand why the pharmaceutical companies are

not interested in promoting nutrition. And since most of conventional

medicine today is really just an extension of " Big Pharma, " the whole

system has little or no interest in teaching prevention. Hospitals

don't earn money when you're healthy either. Surgeons certainly don't

benefit when you take care of your own cardiovascular health and no

longer need heart bypass surgery. In one case after another, when you

take control of your health and practice outstanding nutrition, you

are actually taking money away from a for-profit industry.

 

Healing foods cannot be patented and, therefore, cannot be exploited

for profit Another important point to note here is that food cannot

be patented by the pharmaceutical companies. You can't take a tomato

and patent that tomato, then restrict it from the population and make

sure it can only be prescribed through pharmacies. Of course, certain

hybrid tomatoes can be patented, but those are more along the lines

of scientific experiments than ordinary, everyday garden tomatoes

that I'm talking about here. The point is that these healing foods --

like broccoli, garlic and onions -- can't be patented. So the

pharmaceutical companies cannot own the intellectual property that's

at stake here. As a result, they can't make money by selling these

foods and promoting their disease prevention abilities.

 

We have a medical system that suppresses information about the

correlation between foods and disease prevention. The system is

designed to make sure that the only information you, as a consumer,

receive is information about synthetic pharmaceuticals, surgical

procedures or other things that generate profits. And foods don't

generate profits. At least, not on the scale that would be expected

by pharmaceutical companies.

 

Another reason you don't hear much discussion on the correlation

between nutrition and chronic disease in the popular press these

days, or among practitioners of conventional medicine, is because

most of the revenues generated from conventional medicine actually

come from the treatment of the symptoms caused by nutritional

imbalances and deficiencies. In other words, the big money makers for

conventional medicine are diseases that are in fact caused by

nutritional deficiencies and nutritional imbalances in the first

place. If poor nutrition wasn't so widespread, the lucrative disease

treatment industry would collapse due to lack of customers.

 

Source: http://www.newstarget.com/002688.html

 

About the author:

Author Mike Adams is a holistic nutritionist with over 4,000 hours of

study on nutrition, wellness, food toxicology and the true causes of

disease and health. He is well versed on nutritional and lifestyle

therapies for weight loss and disease prevention / reversal. View

Adams' health statistics showing LDL cholesterol of 67 and

outstanding blood chemistry. Adams uses no prescription drugs

whatsoever and relies exclusively on natural health, nutrition and

exercise to achieve optimum health. Adams' books include the Seven

Laws of Nutrition, The Five Soft Drink Monsters and Superfoods For

Optimum Health. In his spare time, Adams engages in pilates, cycling,

strength training, gymnastics and comedy improv training. In the

technology industry, Adams is president and CEO of a well known email

marketing software company.

 

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