Misleading & Misinforming Thru Disease NAMES

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Ingri Cassel

Friday, January 07, 2005 7:59 AM

Misleading & Misinforming Thru Disease NAMES

 

 

 

Dear Members and Friends -

 

VacLib is a part of a national network to teach people the truth about

dis-ease and its symptoms. Education is the key here. We are talking

osteoporosis, cancer, heart disease, diabetes, MS, lupus and other

auto-immune diseases that western medicine has created a lot of

complicated sounding names for. Our schools have failed us miserably

in this arena and, unfortunately, " most " people have bought the lie.

What is the big lie? That germs and viruses are the CAUSE of dis-ease.

Thank God that Barney Folger has written a concise piece that

addresses the root of the issue here. And in a way that MANY people

will be able to see it. I keep telling people that asking the right

questions is EVERYTHING. Sherri Tenpenny has done an excellent job at

this -- and researching the answers. In her latest DVD - Vaccines: The

Benefits, The Risks, The Choices, Dr. Tenpenny does an amazing job

exposing the racket of medicine and vaccines by asking appropriate

questions, and answering them. This superb three hour presentation is

a must for anyone who needs to get up to speed on all the REAL issues

we are facing with vaccines and how our federal govt. is spending

endless $money$ on drug development and deployment -- the totally

WRONG solution to the problems we are facing. [Order from

www.vaclib.org -- a two-part community showing of this documentary

presentation is highly recommended!] ~Ingri

 

Sure takes the heat off of environmental pollutants, food additives,

vaccines, drugs, fluoridation and the like as being culprits in the

dis-ease game!

 

" if we do not have a 'viable' next generation, we are quite literally

in the death throes of our society. " ~Ingri Cassel

 

 

 

Disease Names are Misleading and Misinform

Patients about Disease Prevention

 

Disease names like diabetes and osteoporosis are misleading and

misinform patients about disease prevention.

 

There is a curious tendency in conventional medicine to name a set of

symptoms a disease. I was recently at a compounding pharmacy having my

bone mineral density measured to update my health stats. I spotted a

poster touting a new drug for osteoporosis. It was written by a drug

company and it said exactly this: " Osteoporosis is a disease that

causes weak and fragile bones. " Then, the poster went on to say that

you need a particular drug to counteract this " disease. "

 

Yet the language is all backwards. Osteoporosis isn't a disease that

causes weak bones, osteoporosis is the name given to a diagnosis of

weak bones. In other words, the weak bones happened first, and then

the diagnosis of osteoporosis followed.

 

The drug poster makes it sound like osteoporosis strikes first, and

then you get weak bones. The cause and effect is all backwards. And

that's how drug companies want people to think about diseases and

symptoms: first you " get " the disease, then you are " diagnosed " just

in time to take a new drug for the rest of your life.

 

But it's all hogwash. There is no such disease as osteoporosis. It's

just a made-up name given to a pattern of symptoms that indicate

you've let your bones get fragile.

 

As another example, when a person follows an unhealthy lifestyle that

results in a symptom such as high blood pressure, that symptom is

actually being assumed to be a disease all by itself and it will be

given a disease name. What disease? The disease is, of course, " high

blood pressure. " Doctors throw this phrase around as if it were an

actual disease and not merely descriptive of patient physiology.

 

This may all seem silly, right? But there's actually a very important

point to all this.

 

When we look at symptoms and give them disease names, we automatically

distort the selection of available treatments for such a disease. If

the disease is, by itself, high cholesterol, then the cure for the

disease must be nothing other than lowering the high cholesterol. And

that's how we end up with all these pharmaceuticals treating high

cholesterol in order to " prevent " this disease and lower the levels of

LDL cholesterol in the human patient.

 

By lowering only the cholesterol, the doctor can rest assured that he

is, in fact, treating this " disease, " since the definition of this

" disease " is high cholesterol and nothing else.

 

But there is a fatal flaw in this approach to disease treatment: the

symptom is not the cause of the disease. There is another cause, and

this deeper cause is routinely ignored by conventional medicine,

doctors, drug companies, and even patients.

 

Let's take a closer look at high blood pressure. What actually causes

high blood pressure? Many doctors would say high blood pressure is

caused by a specific, measurable interaction between circulating

chemicals in the human body. Thus, the ill-behaved chemical compounds

are the cause of the high blood pressure, and therefore the solution

is to regulate these chemicals. That's exactly what pharmaceuticals do

-- they attempt to manipulate the chemicals in the body to adjust the

symptoms of high blood pressure. Thus, they only treat the symptoms,

not the root cause.

 

Or take a look at high cholesterol. The conventional medicine approach

says that high cholesterol is caused by a chemical imbalance in the

liver, which is the organ that produces cholesterol. Thus the

treatment for high cholesterol is a prescription drug that inhibits

the liver's production of cholesterol (statin drugs). Upon taking

these drugs, the high cholesterol (the " disease " ) is regulated, but

what was causing the liver to overproduce cholesterol in the first

place? That causative factor remains ignored.

 

The root cause of high cholesterol, as it turns out, is primarily

dietary. A person who eats foods that are high in saturated fats and

hydrogenated oils will inevitably produce more bad cholesterol and

will show the symptoms of this so-called disease of high cholesterol.

It's simple cause and effect. Eat the wrong foods, and you'll produce

too much bad cholesterol in the liver which can be detected and

diagnosed by conventional medical procedures.

 

Yet the root cause of all this is actually poor food choice, not some

bizarre behavior by the liver. If the disease were to be accurately

named, then, it would be called Fatty Food Choice Disease, or simply FFCD.

 

FFCD would be a far more accurate name that would make sense to

people. If it's a fatty foods choice disease, then it seems that the

obvious solution to the disease would be to choose foods that aren't

so fatty. Of course that may be a bit of simplification since you have

to distinguish between healthy fats and unhealthy fats. But at least

the name FFCD gives patients a better idea of what's actually going on

rather than naming the disease after a symptom, such as high

cholesterol. You see, the symptom is not the disease, but conventional

medicine insists on calling the symptom the disease because that way

it can treat the symptom and claim success without actually addressing

the underlying cause, which remains a mystery to modern medicine.

 

But let's move on to some other diseases so you get a clearer picture

of how this actually works. Another disease that's caused by poor food

choice is diabetes. Type 2 diabetes is the natural physiological and

metabolic result of a person consuming refined carbohydrates and added

sugars in large quantities without engaging in regular physical

exercise that would compensate for such dietary practices.

 

The name " diabetes " is meaningless to the average person. The disease

should be called Excessive Sugar Disease, or ESD. If it were called

Excessive Sugar Disease, the solution to it would be rather apparent;

simply eat less sugar, drink fewer soft drinks and so on. But of

course that would be far too simple for the medical community, so the

disease must be given a complex name such as diabetes that puts its

solution out of reach of the average patient.

 

Another disease that is named after its symptom is cancer. In fact, to

this day, most doctors and many patients still believe that cancer is

a physical thing: a tumor. In reality, a tumor is only a side effect

of cancer, not its cause. A tumor is simply a physical manifestation

of a cancer pattern that is expressed by the body. When a person " has

cancer, " what they really have is a sluggish immune system. And that

would be a far better name for the disease: Sluggish Immune System

Disease or SISD.

 

If cancer were actually called Sluggish Immune System Disease, it

would seem ridiculous to try to cure cancer by cutting out tumors

through surgery and by destroying the immune system with chemotherapy.

And yet these are precisely the most popular treatments for cancer

offered by conventional medicine. These treatments do absolutely

nothing to support the patient's immune system and prevent further

occurrences of cancer. That's exactly why most people who undergo

chemotherapy or the removal of tumors through surgical procedures end

up with yet more cancer a few months or a few years later. It's also

another reason why survival rates of cancer have barely budged over

the last twenty years. (In other words, conventional medicine's

treatments for cancer simply don't work.)

 

This whole situation stems from the fact that the disease is misnamed.

It isn't cancer, it isn't a tumor and it certainly isn't a disease

caused by having too strong of an immune system that needs to be

destroyed through chemotherapy. It is simply a sluggish immune system

or a suppressed immune system. And if it were called a sluggish immune

system disease or a suppressed immune system disorder, the effective

treatment for cancer would be apparent.

 

There are many other diseases that are given misleading names by

western medicine. But if you look around the world and take a look at

how diseases are named elsewhere, you will find many countries have

disease names that actually make sense.

 

For example, in Chinese medicine, Alzheimer's disease is given a name

that means, when translated, " feeble mind disease. " In Chinese

medicine, the name of the disease more accurately describes the actual

cause of the disease, whereas in western medicine, the name of the

disease seems to be intended to obscure the root cause of the disease,

thereby making all diseases sound far more complex and mysterious than

they really are.

 

This is one way in which doctors and practitioners of western medicine

keep medical treatments out of the reach of the average citizen.

Because, by God, they sure don't want people thinking for themselves

about the causes of disease!

 

By creating a whole new vocabulary for medical conditions, they can

speak their own secret language and make sure that people who aren't

schooled in medicine don't understand what they're saying. That's a

shame, because the treatments and cures for virtually all chronic

diseases are actually quite simple and can be described in plain

language, such as making different food choices, getting more natural

sunlight, drinking more water, engaging in regular physical exercise,

avoiding specific food toxins, supplementing your diet with superfoods

and nutritional supplements and so on.

 

See, western medicine prefers to describe diseases in terms of

chemistry. When you're depressed, you aren't suffering from a lack of

natural sunlight; you are suffering from a " brain chemistry imbalance "

that can only be regulated, they claim, by ingesting toxic chemicals

to alter your brain chemistry. When your bones are brittle, it's not

brittle bones disease; it's called osteoporosis, something that sounds

very technical and complicated. And to treat it, western doctors and

physicians will give you prescriptions for expensive drugs that

somehow claim to make your bones less brittle. But in fact, the real

treatment for this can be described in plain language once again:

regular physical exercise, vitamin D supplementation, mineral

supplements that include calcium and strontium, natural sunlight, and

avoidance of acidic foods such as soft drinks, white flour and added

sugars.

 

In fact, virtually every disease that's prominent in modern society --

diabetes, cancer, heart disease, osteoporosis, clinical depression,

irritable bowel syndrome and so on -- can be easily described in plain

language without using complex terms at all. These diseases are simply

misnamed. And I believe that they are intentionally misnamed to put

the jargon out of reach of everyday citizens. As a result, there's a

great deal of arrogance in the language of western medicine, and this

arrogance furthers the language of separation. Separation never

results in healing. In order to effect healing, we must bring together

the language of healers and patients using plain language that real

people understand and that real people can act upon.

 

We need to start describing diseases in terms of their root causes,

not in terms of their arcane, biochemical actions. When someone

suffers from seasonal affective disorder or clinical depression, for

example, let's call it what it is: Sunlight Deficiency Disorder. To

treat it, the person simply needs to get more sunlight. This isn't

rocket science, it's not complex, and it doesn't require a prescription.

 

If someone is suffering from osteoporosis, let's get realistic about

the words we use to describe the condition: it's really Brittle Bones

Disease. And it should be treated with things that will enhance bone

density, such as nutrition, physical exercise and avoidance of foods

and drinks that strip away bone mass from the human body.

 

All of this information, of course, is rather shocking to old-school

doctors and practitioners of western medicine, and the bigger their

egos are, the more they hate the idea of naming diseases in plain

language that patients can actually comprehend. That's because if the

simple truths about diseases and their causes were known, health would

be more readily available to everyday people, and that would lessen

the importance of physicians and medical researchers.

 

There's a great deal of ego invested in the medical community, and

they sure don't want to make sound health attainable to the average

person without their expert advice. It's sort of the same way that

some ultra-conservative churches don't want their members talking to

God unless it all goes through their priesthood first. Doctors and

priests all want to serve as the translators of " truth " and will balk

at any attempts to educate the public to either practice medicine or

talk to God on their own.

 

But in reality, health (and a connection with spirit) is attainable by

every single person. Health is easy, it is straightforward, it is

direct and, for the most part, it is available free of charge. A

personal connection with our Creator is the same if we ask humbly in

prayer for a relationship with Him, and guidance.

 

Don't believe the names of diseases given to you by your doctor. Those

names are designed to obscure, not to inform. They are designed to

separate you from self-healing, not to put you in touch with your own

inner healer. And thus, they are nothing more than bad medicine

masquerading as modern medical practice.

Overview:

 

Disease names like diabetes and osteoporosis are misleading and

misinform patients about disease prevention

 

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