My neighbor has Diverticulitis---a very prevalent, very preventable dis-ease

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I went to the supermarket/grocery store tonight to use their copier

to copy some information for my next door neighbor, who had to go to

the hospital for an attack of diverticulitis this past Monday.

 

When I got to that grocery store, I noticed, maybe for the first

time, that the first thing one notices when entering the parking lot

is two big signs advertising Rx's---that is that the store sells

pharmaceuticals---NOT anything about groceries.

 

Then, when I walked into the store, it hit me that my diverticulitic

neighbor, the signs in the lot, the groceries in that store and the

fact that they have a thriving pharmacy are all part of one big, sad,

nasty merry-go-round.

 

I gave my neighbor the information from " Balch & Balch Prescription For

Nutritional Healing, " and I told him it said he would need to give up

meat. I'm sure he thought I was crazy, or at least I am sure he

thought " nothing doing! "

 

Sad thing, too, is that his wife smokes, even after she had a stint

put in one of her arteries. And sad that she can't afford to pay her

hospital bills, so that the household is getting calls from lawyers

and collection agencies.

 

Balch and Balch says that along with bad diet, diverticulitis is

a " classic " stress-related dis-ease. What is more, they say that

smoking aggravates the condition. My neighbor does not smoke himself,

but he surely does breathe his wife's smoke.

 

I fear my neighbor will have an operation, a colostomy and a

resection before too long. The operation is said to be successful in

80% of cases. Maybe everybody will be happy with that. The hospital,

the doctors, the insurance company and my neighbor, who will be able

to continue to eat a rotten diet.

 

Used to be, when I was a youngun, the only place one could get

prescription drugs was at a pharmacy, or " drug store, " and there

weren't all that many of them around. That was in the '50's. Now it

has become a question of what kind of sales establishment will be

selling prescriptions next. Not long ago, here in Illinois, they

passed a law allowing gas station " convenience " stores to sell hard

liquor. Maybe they will be next to sell prescription drugs.

 

When I go to buy produce at Sam's Club, they have a whole big counter

devoted solely to tobacco products. Often, when I walk past that

counter, I ask the ignorant girl or boy standing behind it

to " assist " buyers of that ROT, " Do you sell chemotherapy here, too? "

They reply " no, " or shake their head. " Why not? " I ask...

 

It is just disgusting and infuriating that the wealthy tobacco

bosses, whose companies rake in billions each year, are screened off

and safe from the public, while ignorant, uncaring kids are the ones

selling their murderous product to the public.

 

I love living out here in the wide open, big sky farm country of

Illinois, but the absolute ignorance of the average Joe or Jane out

here about how to take care of their health and their bodies is

appalling.

 

The tobacco and the processed food moguls know what kind of

poisonous, killing trash they're profiting from. Anyone ever hear the

TRUE story about the tobacco executive who didn't know he was

replying to a reporter when he was asked, " Do you smoke cigarettes? "

and he replied, " Ha! Of course not! We reserve that " right " for the

poor, the black and the stupid! "

 

Aaack! Phooey! Bleech!

 

Over and out,

 

Elliot