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WHAT DOCTORS DON’T TELL YOU - E-NEWS BROADCAST No.32 - 24 Apr 03

 

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THE SUBTLE CHARMS OF THE DRUG COMPANIES: Funding that buys complicity

 

 

 

Take a look behind most large ‘patient groups’ or illness support groups and

you’ll find the benevolent hand of a drug company. It may be funding the group

with a small donation, or perhaps it helped develop the website—all small change

to the drug company, but it’s a vital injection of funds for the group, and it’s

enough to buy their support.

 

 

 

Just ask one of these large groups about alternative remedies or non-drug

therapies, and you’ll quickly discover just how loyal they can be to their

benefactor. And their approach adds credibility to the drugs approach (even

though few in the media seem to realize it is a stance that has been bought).

 

 

 

This age-old strategy has finally come to the attention of the American group

for senior citizens, AARP, which has 35 million members aged over 50. AARP has

discovered that three rival groups, the United Seniors Association, the Seniors

Coalition and the 60-Plus Association, have all received substantial drug

company funding in the last few years.

 

 

 

While UK patient groups may be thankful for a donation of a few thousand pounds,

their American counterparts have enjoyed extraordinary largesse from the drug

companies, including the funding of a multi-million dollar tv advertising

campaign. Mind you, much of the advert was devoted to extolling the virtues of

the drugs industry.

 

 

 

As an AARP spokesman said: “When the pharmaceutical industry speaks these days,

many Americans may not be able to recognize its voice. That’s because the

industry often uses ‘front groups’ that work to advance its agenda under the

veil of other interests.”

 

 

 

When asked to comment about the allegations, a spokesman for the American drugs

industry was nonplussed. ”I don’t see a problem here,” he said.

 

 

 

(Source: British Medical Journal, 2003; 326: 351).

 

 

 

 

EPILEPSY: If you’ve been told your child has it, he probably hasn’t

 

 

 

If your child is diagnosed with epilepsy, get a second opinion immediately.

There is a very high probability that he doesn’t have it at all.

 

 

 

Epilepsy is misdiagnosed in nearly a third of all cases, a new report has

announced, an astonishing finding that has been supported by pediatricians ‘in

the field’.

 

 

 

This rate has been confirmed by a report from the University Hospitals of

Leicester NHS Trust in the UK, and from evidence from the Proceedings of the

International League Against Epilepsy.

 

 

 

This alarming state of affairs came to light after 300 families started legal

action against a pediatrician in Leicester who had misdiagnosed their children

with epilepsy.

 

 

 

Neither report highlighted the terrible drug regimen that follows an epilepsy

diagnosis. So powerful are the anti-epileptics that some children have died

while on them. To know that their child never had epilepsy in the first place

may be too much for some parents to bear.

 

 

 

(Source: British Medical Journal, 2003; 326: 355).

 

 

 

 

 

WHO NEEDS SUPPLEMENTS? Everyone, actually

 

 

 

Who in the world is malnourished? Why, the poor people in developing countries

are, of course. But did you know that many people in the prosperous West are

also deficient in essential nutrients?

 

An astonishing fact, perhaps, for those who believe we get all the nutrients we

need from our diet. But our soil is now so depleted of essential minerals from

intensive farming that the nutritional quality of our food is but a fraction of

what it was 50 years ago, organic or not.

 

 

 

The argument about diet versus supplementation has raged for years, and the

orthodox camp still pretty much sticks to its belief that our diet provides us

with all that we need to grow and to stay healthy.

 

Take, for instance, zinc, a mineral that is vital for a healthy immune system.

Up to the 1960s the diet camp maintained it was physically impossible for us to

be deficient in zinc, but we now know that most of us have a deficiency, a

problem that becomes more acute the older we get.

 

 

 

It’s an issue that has been raised by Ananda Prasad, distinguished professor of

medicine at Wayne State University School of Medicine in Detroit. “The problem

(of zinc deficiency) has been known for 40 years and a solution is still

outstanding. Despite all the evidence practically no attention has been given

to the problem by the world’s organizations. . .it is imperative that the World

Health Organization must include this problem in its top priorities.”

 

 

 

Sadly, not only are the world’s organizations ignoring the issue, but groups

such as the EU are also bowing to the intense and powerful lobbying of the

pharma cartel and are restricting the availability of minerals and nutrients.

 

 

 

(Source: British Medical Journal, 2003; 326: 409-10).

 

 

 

· The importance of supplements, and the amounts you need to take for

optimum health, is outlined in the new WDDTY book, The Good Supplement Guide.

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READERS’ CORNER

 

 

 

Not all supplements are equal

 

Even when your doctor is convinced you need a nutritional supplement, be careful

what you’re given. One reader in the previous Enews broadcast described her

horror on discovering that the vitamin C supplements prescribed by her doctor

contained sorbitol and aspartame. It’s not a unique experience. Another reader

was given by her local hospital a vitamin D supplement that contained calcium,

which caused severe stomach pains. Furthermore, the supplement, produced by a

drug company, contained a cheap version of calcium that hasn’t been used for

years by the nutritional companies.

 

 

 

Epsom salts, again

 

The sudden scarcity of Epsom salts in the UK caused a flurry of suggestions from

concerned readers who seemed to know about a good source that had not yet dried

up. One reader who’s a bit late into the fray buys his from the local garden

centre. It’s, of course, horticultural grade, and should only be used

externally. His wife uses it to bathe her feet and hands to ease her polymyalgia

rheumatism.

 

 

 

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