Posted on 04/09/2008 9:12:57 PM PDT by neverdem
Yep, another power grab.
The language here is familiar; the 'scare'. ..the warnings; the veiled threats; which in turn, can only leave one sceptical, when you hear the same MO applied to so many issues - the same tacttics; the same 'fear tones'; designed to have you begging for healthcare you can trust. And they want 'in on the money' now; not tomorrow. . .
We must hang on here; we cannot be invited into 'fear', so as to give up control of our privately-controlled 'wellness'. An outrageous proposition.
>> “A form of substance abuse rampant in this country...”
What a crock! doctordeanedell, prominent radio quack, tells us that ALL supplements MUST be put through the FDA drug approval (at a cost only big drug companies can afford) and a few minutes later tells us that Street Drugs must be legalized!
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Your asthma inhalers have the capability of allowing you to be a bleeder.
I smell the Government’s big, clumsy hand coming near - - -
The FDA hasn't done such a hot job at protecting the public from harmful or useless drugs and yet they think they should take on the job of protecting us from nutritional supplements? No thanks.
Even doctors are wanting socialized medicine.
I'm sure that a really big part of this is due to the patients themselves not giving accurate information to the doctors.
I'm not a doctor, nor do I play one on TV. I do computer network support. I can't begin to tell you how often I have this conversation:
me: All together, in total, how many cables are plugged into the router? The total number of cables, including the black power cable.
customer: 2
me: That's not possible. There have to be at least 3 cables plugged into the router.
customer: Well, if you count the black power cable...
me: OK, starting on the right side, what color are the cables, including the black power cable?
customer: The first cable is blue.
me: That's not possible. The far right cable has to be the black power cable.
customer: OK, it's black.
me: OK, what color is the next cable?
customer: blue.
me: OK, what color is the next cable?
customer: yellow
me: OK, thanks.
customer: what about the last cable?
me: what last cable?
customer: there's also a gray cable plugged in.
me: I though that we agreed that there were only 3 cables plugged in, after you told me that there were only 2 cables plugged in.
customer: no, there are 3 cables plugged in.
me: what about the black power cable.
customer: well, if you count that, there are 4 cables plugged in.
I kid you not, this happens all the time!
Mark
THe pockets of the drug companies are incredibaly deep.
Man-made drugs kill 100,000 people a year (Prescription for Disaster: the Hidden Dangers in Your Medicine Cabinet- Hardcover by Thomas J. Moore)
“Your asthma inhalers have the capability of allowing you to be a bleeder.”
You’d have to look long and hard to find deaths legitimately caused by supplements. Deaths caused by prescription drugs (and those tricky combinations of drugs) are commonplace, and I keep hearing news stories that doctor and hospital errors cause thousands of deaths per year.
The medical and drug establishment woulds be best served working to eliminate the errors and ODs resulting from their products and errors, rather than worrying about almost nonexistent harm caused by supplements. And I do visit my doctor when needed and have nothing against mainstream medicine. They should just stick to what they know. And there are doctors who are open-minded to alternative methods for many conditions.
And, I still can’t get over that dentist who failed to ask his patient what blood thinning substances she might be taking, then had the temerity to use that as an example of the danger of supplements - totally oblivious to his own negligence and incompetence. And, of course, the clueless writer had no idea of the dentist’s negligence.
Ah Ha....I’m SURE Jane Brody got paid for this.....paid well.
That tryptophan that caused EMS a few years back was CONTAMINATED during manufacturing. The tryptophan out there now in the market is tested for impurities. This whole attack on supplements is orchestrated by Big Pharma and some health care professionals because supplements threaten their sales and income. For example, high dose B-3 (niacin) is the treatment of choice for high cholesterol. Why buy statin drugs when niacin works so well and is dirt cheap?
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