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Food Products can be as Effective as Expensive Prescription Drugs (press release)

Wednesday, June 22, 2005
by Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
Editor of NaturalNews.com (See all articles...)
Tags: healing foods, nutrition, health news


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The Ontario government spends nearly 50% of its budget on health care, up from approximately 35% twenty years ago. Ontario's Drug Benefit Program is the world's single largest purchaser of prescription drugs.

In Canada $1.1 billion is spent on cholesterol lowering statin drugs like Lipitor. Ontario taxpayers spent $170 million for Lipitor in 2003-04, the single most prescribed drug covered by the Ontario Drug Benefit Program.

A huge amount of money could be saved by taking patients off statin drugs and putting them on functional foods.

Dr. David Jenkins, Canadian Research Chair in Metabolism and Nutrition at the University of Toronto and St. Michael's Hospital, has developed a "portfolio" diet of functional foods that do as much good as statin drugs at a fraction of the cost. A diet including soybeans, almonds and vegetables after thirty days reduced cholesterol in patients by 30% as compared to a 33% reduction with statin drugs.

Similarly, University of Guelph Nutritional Scientist Dr. Bruce Holub, has shown an Omega-3 egg product, Omega Pro, can reduce triglycerides, (another heart disease causing fat in high concentrations). "Across Canada, hundreds of millions of dollars are spent on synthetic drugs that lower triglyceride levels by 25-30%. This product appears to lower triglyceride levels just as much, but through consuming an all-natural food", Dr. Holub said.

The problem is manufacturers of synthetic drugs such as Lipitor can make medical claims about the use of their drugs while functional foods can "legally" make no such claims. Similarly synthetic drug manufacturers can market their products for prevention of heart disease while functional food producers cannot.

Dr. Gordon Surgeoner, President of Ontario Agri-Food Technologies, says "we as Canadians have a huge opportunity to reduce drug costs through food specifically designed for health. It must be scientifically validated, approved by health authorities and importantly, allowed to be marketed and prescribed as a medical treatment. That's not happening today".

Dr. Surgeoner will be in Toronto for the Agri-Food Innovation Forum Monday June 20-Tuesday June 21, 2005.


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About the author:Mike Adams (aka the "Health Ranger") is a best selling author (#1 best selling science book on Amazon.com) and a globally recognized scientific researcher in clean foods. He serves as the founding editor of NaturalNews.com and the lab science director of an internationally accredited (ISO 17025) analytical laboratory known as CWC Labs. There, he was awarded a Certificate of Excellence for achieving extremely high accuracy in the analysis of toxic elements in unknown water samples using ICP-MS instrumentation. Adams is also highly proficient in running liquid chromatography, ion chromatography and mass spectrometry time-of-flight analytical instrumentation.

Adams is a person of color whose ancestors include Africans and Native American Indians. He's also of Native American heritage, which he credits as inspiring his "Health Ranger" passion for protecting life and nature against the destruction caused by chemicals, heavy metals and other forms of pollution.

Adams is the founder and publisher of the open source science journal Natural Science Journal, the author of numerous peer-reviewed science papers published by the journal, and the author of the world's first book that published ICP-MS heavy metals analysis results for foods, dietary supplements, pet food, spices and fast food. The book is entitled Food Forensics and is published by BenBella Books.

In his laboratory research, Adams has made numerous food safety breakthroughs such as revealing rice protein products imported from Asia to be contaminated with toxic heavy metals like lead, cadmium and tungsten. Adams was the first food science researcher to document high levels of tungsten in superfoods. He also discovered over 11 ppm lead in imported mangosteen powder, and led an industry-wide voluntary agreement to limit heavy metals in rice protein products.

In addition to his lab work, Adams is also the (non-paid) executive director of the non-profit Consumer Wellness Center (CWC), an organization that redirects 100% of its donations receipts to grant programs that teach children and women how to grow their own food or vastly improve their nutrition. Through the non-profit CWC, Adams also launched Nutrition Rescue, a program that donates essential vitamins to people in need. Click here to see some of the CWC success stories.

With a background in science and software technology, Adams is the original founder of the email newsletter technology company known as Arial Software. Using his technical experience combined with his love for natural health, Adams developed and deployed the content management system currently driving NaturalNews.com. He also engineered the high-level statistical algorithms that power SCIENCE.naturalnews.com, a massive research resource featuring over 10 million scientific studies.

Adams is well known for his incredibly popular consumer activism video blowing the lid on fake blueberries used throughout the food supply. He has also exposed "strange fibers" found in Chicken McNuggets, fake academic credentials of so-called health "gurus," dangerous "detox" products imported as battery acid and sold for oral consumption, fake acai berry scams, the California raw milk raids, the vaccine research fraud revealed by industry whistleblowers and many other topics.

Adams has also helped defend the rights of home gardeners and protect the medical freedom rights of parents. Adams is widely recognized to have made a remarkable global impact on issues like GMOs, vaccines, nutrition therapies, human consciousness.

In addition to his activism, Adams is an accomplished musician who has released over a dozen popular songs covering a variety of activism topics.

Click here to read a more detailed bio on Mike Adams, the Health Ranger, at HealthRanger.com.

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