As a nation, we're doping up our kids on an ever-increasing array of
dangerous prescription drugs. With millions of children already taking a
powerful narcotic (Ritalin), now millions more are being dose with
expensive drugs that alter brain chemistry and have been clearly shown
to cause children to engage in violent acts and commit suicide.
You
can thank the marketing and hype of the pharmaceutical industry for
that, of course. Aided by the political influence of the FDA, drug
companies are attempting to hook as many people on as many "lifetime"
prescription drugs as possible. They've already demanded that 40 million
Americans start taking statins immediately, and most doctors (who show a
remarkable ability to stand upright, given that they have no spines) are
more than willing to go along and crank out the prescriptions.
Use
of prescription antidepressants has skyrocketed in our youth: a nine
percent annual growth rate seems to be the current trend. But are all
these kids really depressed? Hardly: they're simply malnourished.
By consuming massive quantities of soft drinks, processed foods, fast
foods, junk foods and added sugars, our children and teenagers are
altering the natural balance of chemicals in their bodies brains. Rather
than prescribing good nutrition and exercise habits, doctors prescribe
yet more chemicals that only mask the symptoms. What these kids need is
real food, not expensive prescription drugs that cause them to
commit suicide. (They also need natural sunlight, it turns out. Vitamin
D deficiency is rampant in the U.S. population, and most people remain
irrationally afraid of the very thing they need to achieve mental
balance: natural sunlight.)
Truly, our modern medical system is mad.
Instead of helping people get healthy, we pump them full of toxic
chemicals and charge them thousands of dollars in drug fees. Instead of
teaching doctors about nutrition and the causes of health, our medical
schools teach them about prescription drugs, surgery and other radical
procedures. And instead of having a federal agency looking out for the
public health, we have the FDA that clearly does little more than
protect the interests of drug companies. It's a system gone mad.
There's not a single person alive today who needs a lifetime of
antidepressant drugs. But don't tell the drug companies. The more
diseases they can project onto the entire population -- and the more
doctors they can convince to operate like prescription writing factories
-- the higher their profits. It's common sense: drug companies only make
money when people take their drugs... and keep on taking them for a
lifetime. But in this case, it's pure fraud. The prescription drug
industry is nothing short of criminal, and most doctors are unwitting
accomplices in a national scam that is threatening the mental stability
of an entire generation. We don't need drugs, folks, we need nutrition,
physical exercise and natural sunlight.
About the author: Mike Adams is a consumer health advocate and award-winning journalist with a passion for teaching people how to improve their health He has authored and published thousands of articles, interviews, consumers guides, and books on topics like health and the environment, and he is well known as the creator of popular downloadable preparedness programs on financial collapse, emergency food storage, wilderness survival and home defense skills. Adams is an independent journalist with strong ethics who does not get paid to write articles about any product or company. In 2010, Adams launched TV.NaturalNews.com, a natural health video site featuring videos on holistic health and green living. He's also a veteran of the software technology industry, having founded a personalized mass email software product used to deliver email newsletters to subscribers. Adams volunteers his time to serve as the executive director of the Consumer Wellness Center, a 501(c)3 non-profit organization, and practices nature photography, Capoeira, martial arts and organic gardening. He's also author of numerous health books published by Truth Publishing and is the creator of several consumer-oriented grassroots campaigns, including the Spam. Don't Buy It! campaign, and the free downloadable Honest Food Guide. He also created the free reference sites HerbReference.com and HealingFoodReference.com. Adams believes in free speech, free access to nutritional supplements and the ending of corporate control over medicines, genes and seeds. Known by his callsign, the 'Health Ranger,' Adams posts his missions statements, health statistics and health photos at www.HealthRanger.org
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