Sophie D. Coe and Michael D. Coe
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 They could now afford to send their children to secondary schools and their sick to distant hospitals. In a Green & Black's brochure, Justino Peck (chairman of the Maya cacao-growers association) writes: "We are grateful for the good luck that we still live on the land that has been carefully farmed by our ancestors for thousands of years— Maya Gold, with your help, will help us preserve our environment and create a better world for all our children."
This is something altogether new in the world of chocolate. |
Charles Barber
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 Aslyums, today called state hospitals, now house about 5 percent of the patients they did at their peak; Community Psychiatry is being eroded by managed care and the national obsession with psychiatric medications. Corporate Psychiatry, with its blockbuster products and its high-tech glow, is where the juice is now.
How did psychiatry undergo such a remarkable transformation? How did it go from nothing—or, rather, worse than nothing: unspeakable treatment in asylums—to Oprah, morning talk shows, and Wall Street? |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 Fact #4: There is no financial incentive for anyone in today's system of medicine (drug companies, hospitals, doctors, etc.) to actually make patients well. Profits are found in continued sickness, not wellness or prevention.
Fact #5: Virtually all the "prevention" programs you see today (such as free mammograms or other screening programs) are little more than cleverly disguised patient recruitment schemes. They use free screenings to scare people into agreeing to expensive and often unnecessary treatments that enrich drug companies. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 Other critics of Moore are either the greedy, corrupt corporations impacted by his film (drug companies, health insurance providers, hospitals and so on) or juvenile stay-at-home back-seat Internet critics who don't like Moore for the simple fact that he dares to stand up and say "The Emperor Has No Clothes!" Nearly all the criticism leveled against Moore is without substance. People attack Moore personally, but they won't dare debate what he's presenting in the movie. Why? Because Michael Moore is right. America's health care system is an embarrassment to the nation, and to the world. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 America's current system of medicine has clearly abandoned the needs of its people while protecting the profits of influential corporations who run health care today (Big Pharma, insurance companies, hospitals and so on). The end result of all this is now becoming obvious: A collapse of America's health and wealth. Our future is looking increasingly like a future of rampant disease and widespread medical bankruptcy. But it's not too late to stop this from happening. Adopting universal health care now could save us from the national health care disaster now brewing. |
| HR 676 and similar bills in several state legislatures would have one public entity collecting and disbursing all revenues for care delivered by our current, mostly private hospitals, clinics, and doctors, similar to how Medicare works. The system is universal, assures comprehensive benefits, guarantees freedom to choose your provider, and controls costs. It also drastically curbs administrative costs -- and the waste caused by insurance company profits and paperwork. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 Most people who enter hospitals die there
People who enter the system of conventional medicine seeking treatment for one disease are almost always made worse over the long term due to the systemic toxicity of pharmaceuticals and other dangerous treatments like radiation for cancer. |
| In addition to living a healthier, happier and more mentally alert life, you'll also:
Save all kinds of time from no longer having to wait around in doctors' offices, clinics or hospitals.
Save the environment by not excreting pharmaceutical contaminants into waste water.
Deny profits to the wealthy drug corporations that mark up their drugs as much as 569,000% over the cost of their ingredients (that number is not a typo).
Economically boycott the entire system of western medicine by refusing to give it your hard-earned dollars. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 And some of the fees charged by vets now -- especially in emergency veterinary care -- are just as outrageous as fees charged to sick humans in hospitals. I once spent more than $1,000 for a single day of treatment trying to rescue a sick dog, and half of those fees were for bags of saline solution dripped through an IV. $500 for saline solution? Give me a break. I got ripped off and taken advantage of by a pet care clinic that was exploiting pet emergencies for maximum profits. (There are crooks and dishonest practitioners in the pet care industry just like in the people care industry. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 These rules are followed by FDA bureucrats, drug company executives, psychiatrists, doctors, hospitals and everyone who's currently profiting from the failed system of medicine operating in the United States today.
These rules, by the way, are no joke. This is not a satire piece. This is a serious exploration of the beliefs under which much of modern medical science operates today. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 Result: Billions of doses of useless antibiotics helped breed a new generation of superbug viruses that have now escaped the hospitals and are infecting the public at large. Antibiotics are useless to stop them, and doctors still have not figured out that you can kill superbugs with colloidal silver or garlic. (A fact that ancient human civilizations knew thousands of years ago...)
1990's
Coat your children with sunscreen. The sun is dangerous and has no health benefits whatsoever, didn't you know? And besides, all those chemicals in sunscreen are perfectly safe. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 In a nation where so many people claim we're sending soldiers off to war in order to "fight for our freedoms," I find it astounding that patients in hospitals are being treated like Guantanamo Bay prisoners. Personally, I think Santos should sue the hospital and local law enforcement authorities for violating his civil liberties. What, exactly, is his crime anyway? If being sick is a crime, then practically this entire nation should be locked up, because we're the most diseased population in the modern world. |
Michael Pollan
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 We'll know this has changed when doctors kick the fast-food franchises out of the hospitals.
So what would a more ecological or cultural approach to the food problem counsel us? How might we plot our escape from nutritionism and, in turn, from the most harmful effects of the Western diet? To Denis Burkitt, the English doctor stationed in Africa during World War II who gave the Western diseases their name, the answer seemed straightforward, if daunting. "The only way we're going to reduce disease," he said, "is to go backwards to the diet and lifestyle of our ancestors. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 Remember: We only want photos that are on-topic with health issues: Food, groceries, pharmaceuticals, hospitals, food companies, fast food, junk food, Big Pharma, etc. They have to be entertaining, educational and unique to warrant publication. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 SCREENING" shall mean any patient recruitment method designed to ensnare the public into medically unjustified or harmful treatments designed to maximize the profits or doctors, hospitals and drug companies.
"DISEASE" shall mean any observable symptoms, real or imagined, that can be expressed as a number requiring chemical modification. High cholesterol (a number), for example, will be called a disease named, coincidentally, High Cholesterol.
"BREAST CANCER SURVIVOR" shall mean any woman who isn't immediately killed by the chemotherapy. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 How would doctors, hospitals and drug companies handle the loss of tens of millions of revenue-generating patients if people suddenly learned the truth about vitamin D and started preventing all three of these diseases at home, without a prescription, and without paying any fees whatsoever?
Conventional medicine doesn't like to admit that sunlight has any healing powers whatsoever. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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| A lack of hand washing continues to be the primary reason why MRSA and other superbugs are spread in hospitals today...)
1920's
Don't breastfeed your babies! Use infant formula instead. It's more "high-tech." Cow's milk is obviously healthier for your babies than mother's milk, right? That's what the doc says... Result: Tens of millions of mothers stopped breastfeeding their babies, resulting in widespread nutritional deficiencies that impacted those children for life. |
Dr. Abram Hoffer, MD, FRCP (C) and Dr. Harold D. Foster, PhD
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 They were rehabilitated in hospitals and were given doses of vitamins that were then considered high. Since then these Hong Kong veterans have suffered from a variety of physical and psychiatric conditions.' However, 'the history of a small sample, about 12, is much different, for they have been taking nicotinic acid (niacin) 3 grams per day. These 12 have recovered and remain well as long as they take this quantity of vitamin regularly. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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| The pushing of infant formula onto mothers continues today in hospitals across the country which are paid by infant formula manufacturers to give free samples of infant formula to new mothers, hoping they will stop breastfeeding and start buying formula. (Saving grace: A few courageous pediatricians now speak out forcefully about the importance of breastfeeding...)
1930's
Smoking while pregnant? No problem. Doctors recommend Camels more than any other cigarette! Result: Massive chemical toxicity of the bodies of newborns. |
Dr. Abram Hoffer, MD, FRCP (C) and Dr. Harold D. Foster, PhD
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| High doses of vitamin B-3 soon emptied developed world mental hospitals of their pellagrins.
Subclinical Pellagra
There is also clear evidence of widespread subclinical pellagra in the general population. Subclinical pellagra has, in fact, become pandemic. Approximately 50% of the North American population, it is estimated, will be responsive to increased doses of vitamin B-3, no matter what their symptoms and signs. |
Paula Begoun and Bryan Barron
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 Antibacterial products were developed and have been successfully used to prevent transmission of disease-causing microorganisms among patients, particularly in hospitals. They are now being added to products used in healthy households, even though an added health benefit has not been demonstrated. Scientists are concerned that the antibacterial agents will select bacteria resistant to them and cross-resistant to antibiotics. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 That's when the drug companies, hospitals, FDA and everybody else depending on the current drug marketing racket steps in and tries to convince you to stop taking nutritional supplements and surrender to a (short) life of pharmaceuticals.
Pushing drugs and abandoning the people
For the Brigham and Women's Hospital, I think this action we're seeing today is yet another example of how organizations that once accomplished meaningful work have apparently sold their souls to Big Pharma and now operate as little more than drug company front groups. Gee, I wonder where their funding comes from? |
Gerald E. Markle and Frances B. McCrea
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 Under his direction, eight normal people admitted themselves into psychiatric hospitals. Their symptom was that they were hearing voices. It was a phony complaint, but one which was diagnosed each time as schizophrenia. After admission, the "pseudo-patients" acted normally—that is, they were sane in an insane place. Despite their normalcy, the hospital staff interpreted their behavior to fit the original diagnosis. Routine disagreements were seen as deep-seated signs of personal instability. Boredom was interpreted as nervousness. |
Dr. Abram Hoffer, MD, FRCP (C) and Dr. Harold D. Foster, PhD
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| Clinical Evidence
These successes led to studies of this phenomenon in thousands of patients in four Saskatchewan hospitals. The results were reported in detail in the Journal of Neuropsychiatry in 1961.5
Later, in association with Dr Carl C. Pfeiffer, working with Dr Humphry Osmond in New Jersey, the chemical nature of the substance was identified. Dr Pfeiffer discovered it to be tightly bound zinc and pyridoxine that produced a double deficiency of both nutrients.6 Pfeiffer clinically described as kryptopyrroleuria the condition Osmond and Hoffer had previously called malvaria. |
Jonny Bowden, Ph.D., C.N.S.
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 The Natural Health Encylcopedia, a database on herbs and supplements that's used by many hospitals, says that "... it is not a great leap to suspect that [PS might be] useful for much less severe problems with memory and mental function, such as those that seem to occur in nearly all of us who are older than forty." And my good friend, biochemist and nutritional supplement expert Parris Kidd, writes: "The findings from .... |
Andreas Moritz
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 In another more comprehensive study, 85,000 nurses working in American hospitals observed a higher risk for heart disease in patients who consumed margarine, crisps, potato chips, biscuits, cookies, cakes, and white bread, all of which contain trans fats.
Eating margarine can increase heart disease in women by 53 percent over eating the same amount of butter, according to a recent Harvard Medical Study. While actually increasing LDL cholesterol, margarine lowers the beneficial HDL cholesterol. It also increases the risk of cancers up to five times. |
| Another study that involved researchers from 14 major heart hospitals around the world, found that up to one-third of all bypass operations were not only unnecessary, but actually hastened the death of the patient.
Angioplasty, a relatively new procedure used to open arteries, offers an even lower survival rate than bypass surgery. Several research studies confirm that patients who have undergone these types of surgery are as likely to suffer a heart attack as those who haven't. |
| Up to 20 percent of all prescriptions given in hospitals could be just plain wrong, causing severe side effects, for which treatment is required with more prescriptions.
The Contraceptive Pill: Catastrophic Risks...
In the United States alone, about 15 million women are taking the contraceptive pill. The Pill seems to be the easiest method of preventing an unwanted pregnancy, but it is also one of the most risky ones. Although natural methods of contraception have at least the same success rate and are a fraction of the cost or free, they are rarely publicized. |
| It is nearly impossible to determine how many people are being hospitalized because of contra-indications from drugs, but careful official estimates indicate that they make up about 5 percent of all lying in American and British hospitals today. Steroids belong to another group of drugs that were formerly used only for extreme, life-threatening conditions. Today, they are used for minor problems such as sunburn, skin eruptions, acne and glandular fever. Patients are rarely aware of the dangers that may arise from taking these drugs. |
| Federal officials estimate that over 150,000 Americans each year end up in the emergency department of hospitals because of complications from OTC pain-relievers. These "harmless" medicines, as most doctors and patients consider them, kill 16,000 Americans outright every year.
Furthermore, while you may believe that aspirin is good for getting rid of a headache, a new study reveals that certain heart patients may actually be at greater risk for heart attacks if they use aspirin, as reported in the July 2004 issue of the American Heart Journal. The lead researcher of the study, Dr. John G. F. |
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