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 And that would cost the economy billions of dollars in "lost profits" expected by drug companies, hospitals, surgeons and others in health care.
Why the disease economy requires more disease
The United States is now so completely invested in disease that, believe it or not, the U.S. economy cannot afford to invest in making people healthy, because the loss of business to drug companies and hospitals could cause an economic disaster. |
| The United States economy has invested trillions of dollars in disease, and it's counting on the continued proliferation of disease in order to prop up an economy that can no longer compete in a global free market.
For investors, the big lie is that we will all get rich by investing in drug companies and keeping the population sick. The more sick people we have, the bigger the payoff to Big Pharma. And the coming waves of diabetes, Alzheimer's and osteoporosis will only create even more profits for those smart enough to buy pharma stocks now. |
| United States that in less than ten years, it will represent 20% of the domestic economy. That's an astonishing $1 out of every $5 in economic productivity, almost all of which is based on treating patients with fraudulently approved, dishonestly marketed and utterly harmful prescription drugs that do absolutely nothing to prevent or reverse chronic disease.
This leads us to the astounding (but true) conclusion that conventional medicine is draining the U.S. economy of its productivity and competitiveness. Today, over 16% of the U.S. |
| The United States economy has invested trillions of dollars in disease, and it's counting on the continued proliferation of disease in order to prop up an economy that can no longer compete in a global free market.
For investors, the big lie is that we will all get rich by investing in drug companies and keeping the population sick. The more sick people we have, the bigger the payoff to Big Pharma. And the coming waves of diabetes, Alzheimer's and osteoporosis will only create even more profits for those smart enough to buy pharma stocks now. |
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 They have an innovation-based economy where they actually have to produce something useful to get paid.
Smart nations will invest in prevention
Now, at some point these nations, as they adopt the Western lifestyle and become richer and start to consume more beef animal products, as well as junk food, may very well become disease economies. But some of these nations will be smart about it and start investing in prevention. For example, any nation right now in this world that allows cigarettes to be sold to its population is committing a form of self-destruction. It's like national suicide. |
| People think our economy is booming, but we're all dying of chronic disease. Why is it that 50 percent of our senior citizens in the United States have high blood pressure? Why is it that 40 percent of our senior citizens are now clinically obese? I'm willing to bet that a similar percentage may have nervous system disorders or early stages of dementia or Alzheimer's disease. Most of them are probably metabolizing some form of cancer right now, even though it may not have been diagnosed yet.
We are a nation of diseased individuals, and that disease starts very early. |
| That's exactly where the United States economy is currently headed, to certain economic collapse.
We are losing our health. We are losing our minds. We're losing our genuine economic base. We're losing our manufacturing. We're losing our scientific edge. We're losing our education, and we're losing the inherent value of our money supply as the U.S. dollar continues to slip. What do we have left? Well there's always the Wal-mart and the Walgreens. Give me a Snickers bar. If you can't sleep, you can always buy sleeping pills. |
| We're seeing an economy that is increasingly based on goods and services that do not add to the quality of consumers' lives but rather take away from it. We're seeing entrepreneurs and creative, clever people finding new ways to market products that harm people and calling that profitability or economic growth.
We see this quite blatantly in the drug industry, where creative marketers keep coming up with new, absurd ways to sell drugs to people through direct-to-consumer advertising on television. Some of these ads are absolutely idiotic in what they are promising. |
| This is what's happening across the country, not just to one person, but to millions of people -- perhaps hundreds of millions -- who think the economy is looking up and think that maybe they have a good job because they work for a pharmaceutical company. They think they have good investments now because they have stocks in the junk food manufacturers. They think they're doing well financially, but guess what? They're consuming the product themselves, and they are dying. They're dying from a degenerative disease at a rate that has never before been witnessed in human history. |
| There are people in society that are productive, and if we're going to succeed as an economy -- or even as a nation -- into the future, we're going to have to expand the number of people who are making a living doing something useful, not something that is just based on disease.
You see, thinking that money spent on disease treatment is economic productivity is actually an economic fallacy. Here's an example: If you just want to create jobs in the country, I have a brilliant plan for job creation. First, hire half the nation to be window breakers. Give them all hammers. |
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 Because our national economy is so heavily invested in the business of disease, actually making people healthier would be devastating to the economy in the short term.
And so the corrupt politicians and government regulators who continue to run this country would much rather maintain the status quo -- keeping the public in a state of continued disease, with no cures available, so that all those businesses and organizations who are counting on the continuation of degenerative disease don't have to downsize.
Do not ever think that the disease epidemics sweeping our nation don't have solutions. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 Source: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention) Drop the cancer rate by 10% and it's worth $5 trillion dollars to the economy. (These gains are due to increased productivity and life spans of working, contributing people.)
We know right now that vitamin D and calcium can slash cancer rates by 77 percent. Do the math on that, and you realize that sunlight and calcium could result in a $38.5 trillion boost to the U.S. economy over the next century. |
Andreas Moritz
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 And so the economy is growing, but it is also becoming sicker. But then we need sickness to keep the economy growing.
Vaccination No longer Makes Any Sense
Or did it ever? The much-acclaimed benefits of the latest vaccine against Hib meningitis also seem to be unfounded. In a pro-vaccine study published in 1993 in the Journal of the American Medical Association, the children in the control group who didn't receive the vaccine also experienced a drastic reduction in the cases of Hib infection—from 99.3 to 68.5 per 100,000. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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| The result, not surprisingly, is that many U.S. corporations can no longer compete in the global marketplace. General Motors, for example, was spending more money on health care than steel. The result? The company is now largely considered bankrupt.
But GM is just the tip of the iceberg on this issue. No country in the world spends anywhere close to 16% of its GDP on health care. Only the United States. But why does the U.S. spend so much in the first place?
The answer is simpler than you think. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 CO2 annually.
The economy vs. the environment
The argument about cutting greenhouse gas emissions has long focused on the economy vs. the environment. The argument logic goes like this: As long as we make money today, it doesn't matter if we destroy the planet tomorrow!
Of course, there are some desperate eco-deniers who claim that greenhouse emissions have no impact on the climate, and that if we would all move to the far left side of the flat Earth, it would tilt over like a playground see-saw and all the greenhouse gasses would just fall off the edge. |
Stacy Malkan
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 Green chemistry is the recipe for the next industrial revolution, the building block for a new carbon-neutral, toxic-free, zero-waste green economy that lives in harmony with the natural world. "Running the economy like a redwood forest," as Janine Benyus describes it. The mature redwood system knows how to do more with less; it reuses materials over and over, recycles every single thing and lives in synergy with the species around it, recognizing that every part of the system is a part of itself.
Extreme Makeover y I "*he women went to the Dow Chemical Company shareholder meet--A. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 We do NOT have to pit the business against the economy. We can have both: Eco-conscious business and responsible profits -- but only if we operate these entities with respect for nature and humility towards the consumers who ultimately support such operations.
In fact, if we do not find a way to operate our economy in a sustainable, environmentally friendly way, I believe we will ultimately destroy our environment AND our modern civilization. What's at stake here is everything we value: Life, food, nature, families, communities, and our very future. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 Drop the cancer rate by 10% and it's worth $5 trillion dollars to the economy. These gains are due to increased productivity and life spans of working, contributing people.
We know right now that vitamin D and calcium can slash cancer rates by 77 percent. Do the math on that, and you realize that sunlight and calcium could result in a $38.5 trillion boost to the U.S. economy over the next century. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 Meanwhile, the Fed is pumping money into the economy in a desperate move to delay the inevitable popping of the massive U.S. debt bubble. It's buying up bad bank debt as fast as it can, much like a group of frantic sailors trying to bail water out of a rapidly sinking ship. Only a financial fool could look at the current situation and have any degree of confidence in the future of the U.S. economy, and much of this has been caused by outrageous national debt spending by our current pro-war president. |
David R. Montgomery
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 PATRICK HENRY several years ago, on a breakneck research trip down rough dirt roads through a recently deforested part of the lower Amazon, I saw how topsoil loss could cripple a region's economy and impoverish its people. I was there to study caves cteated over a hundred million years as water slowly dissolved iron-rich rocks that lay beneath soils assembling weatheted frying pans. Walking through an iron cave impressed upon my imagination how long it must have taken for dripping water to carve them. Just as striking on this trip were the signs of catastrophic soil loss after forest clearing. |
David W. Grotto, RD, LDN
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 A terrible fungus destroyed the potato crops in Ireland in 1856, devastating the economy in what has now become known as "The Great Irish Potato Famine."
Where Are Potatoes Grown?
Potatoes are mainly grown in Poland, India, the Russian Federation, China, and the United States.
Why Should I Eat Potatoes?
A medium-sized potato contains nearly half of the daily recommended intake of vitamin C, and with the skin on, potatoes supply twenty-one percent of the daily value of potassium. By comparison, the potato has as much vitamin C as a medium tomato and twice as much potassium as a banana. |
Jack Challem
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 This changed during a boom in the local high-tech economy, when thousands of people relocated from California and brought with them their notorious driving habits. The politeness I had experienced vanished in a sea of aggressive SUVs and BMWs.
Although drivers in some cities, such as New York and Los Angeles, are known for their aggressive habits, the same patterns began to appear in small towns and cities throughout the country. Drivers' muttering under their breath morphed into shouts, obscene gestures, road rage, and freeway shootings. The problem is not only with driving habits. |
Joerg Gruenwald, Ph.D.
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 The overall effect is economy of heart action. There is a lowering of increased, left ventricular diastolic pressure and pathologically elevated venous pressure.
INDICATIONS AND USAGE
¦ Cardiac insufficiency NYHA I and II
¦ Arrhythmia
¦ Nervous heart complaints
¦ Venous conditions
Squill is used for milder cases of cardiac insufficiency, also for reduced kidney capacity. |
Connie Bennett, C.H.H.C. with Stephen T. Sinatra, M.D.
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 They're trying to do well in a competitive economy," adds Dr. Nestle, author of What to Eat: An Aisle-by-Aisle Guide to Savvy Food Choices and Good Eating; Food Politics; and Safe Food. "If people eat less, it's bad for business," succinctly notes Dr. Nestle, no relation to the food company.
Food and beverage companies find beefing up marketing efforts an effective way to snag new customers, who, they hope, are loyal for life, ensuring continued sales. |
| Ravussin, until after World War II, the Pima Indians maintained a traditional way of life and economy until their water supply was diverted by American farmers who settled upstream. Then, the Pimas began to eat lard, sugar, and white flour that the U.S. government gave them to survive. Apparently, these sugary, processed foods, especially deep-fried bread—a combination of flour and lard—contributed to their weight gain.
Some experts speculate that when confronted with famine, the Pimas who survived were those whose "thrifty gene" led them to store as much fat as possible. |
David R. Montgomery
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| Land hunger and the rising price of food in Britain increased pressure to leave for America, particularly for those living on fixed incomes and low wages in the industrializing economy. In addition, many Unitarians and others sympathetic to the progressive ideals of the American and French revolutions abandoned their homeland for the New Worid when the new French Republic declared war on England. |
Lester A. Mitscher and Victoria Toews
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 With the coffee crop in ruins, the plantation owners looked for a way to save the island's economy and found that tea was just the replacement they needed. Since then, tea has remained an important export product for Sri Lanka.
It's clear, from the rich history of tea, that this wonderful beverage was too enjoyable to remain confined to just one corner of the world. Today, tea is cherished as a stimulating morning pick-me-up, a soothing ritual in the afternoon, and a great way to support a healthy life in virtually every country of the world. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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| REPPED: (NewsTarget Satire) In a significant nod toward pro-environment politics, the Bush Administration yesterday announced a major initiative to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by encouraging everybody to engage in "Wishful Thinking" to cut emissions without harming the economy. "Wishing for change is far more important than actually cutting greenhouse emissions," Bush said in a prepared statement. "We urge all Americans to take up Wishful Thinking to lower CO2 emissions and, if necessary, to even use up their birthday wishes in this national effort. |
Too Profitable to CureBrent Hoadley, Ph.D.
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| To spur the economy, billions of dollars of taxpayer-funded research was given to private corporations.
• 1992 —President Bush (the elder), a former Lilly board member, signed a prescription drug user fee act that expanded the FDA staff by having pharmaceuticals pay an application fee. This guaranteed a 6-months-to-l-year "quick" look and usual approval.
• Mid 1990s — Pharmaceuticals were allowed by law to market directly to the public. An already understaffed FDA assumed responsibility for monitoring and regulating advertising. |
| Those who think greedy pharmaceutical corporations can afford to be a part of the cure need to re-examine the principles of a market-based economy. When corporations take advantage of sick and/or dying patients for profit, is it even possible to believe that an altruistic search for a cure could override the need for profit and the power it buys!
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