CSMatt
07-28-2005, 02:25 PM
Originally Written by CSMatt
I was watching an infomercial about a book called "Natural Cures: What They Don't Want You to Know," and I realized that the author of the book was making some pretty good points. He said, "The Food and Drug Administration says that only a drug can treat, cure, or diagnose a disease. For this reason, the FDA has been able to stop doctors from prescribing natural remedies to clients and instead requiring patients to pay the drug industry constantly to treat 'diseases' when a natural remedy could actually cure someone from this 'disease.'" He went on to say that "The reason that this country is so obese is because the FDA puts additives in food that cause addiction to that food, causing people to have increased appetite and want to eat more. Then, when they do get obese, the drug companies can take advantage of the situation and offer dozens of different drugs to treat obesity, but not 'cure' it. The FDA is labeling obesity as a disease, when anyone with common sense knows that it isn't. Somebody could easily 'cure' obesity by simply eating less and exercising more.
Then, he talked about acid reflex disease. "Acid Reflex disease is another example of a fake disease the FDA has created to allow drug companies to exploit the common people. Heartburn is not caused by too much acid, but instead by a lack of enough acid. When someone takes an antacid, all of the remaining acid is absorbed by the drug. This causes the stomach to start producing acid until it has enough to resume digesting, thus 'treating' the disease. I offered a more natural alternative to a friend of mine who suffered from constant heartburn. I asked him to take some vinegar instead of his regular heartburn medication. After about 2 weeks, he no longer needed the vinegar. He stopped having heartburn completely."
Next he talked about cancer. "Despite what the drug companies say, there is a cure for cancer. In my studies, cancer is related to the pH of your body. People whose pH is more acidic are more prone to cancer, while people who are alkaline are almost immune to it. Thus, to be cured of cancer, you must make your pH more alkaline. The problem is that there are a lot of foods out there that can make you acidic. Some of the blame is the food additives that the FDA requires to be put in food. Thus, the FDA is helping people get cancer, as well as helping the drug companies get money. Think about it: if a cure was ever marketed for cancer, the drug companies that provide cancer treatment would go out of business. That's why they need help from the FDA to ensure that no cure is legally marketed. While it's true that natural cures can be purchased legally, no marketing company is allowed to say that these natural cures can cure certain diseases. According to the FDA, that would mean that that substance would have to be a drug, and the FDA accuses the marketing company of not having a legitimate drug-selling license. While it's true that that substance can become a drug in the eyes of the FDA, the process to obtain drug status costs hundreds of millions of dollars. Most natural remedies could never afford to become drugs and be allowed to make claims that the substance will cure diseases. This pushes them out of the way for the drugs that only treat diseases."
I wrote this semi-biased summary about four months ago for an English assignment, but decided not to post it for you guys to read until I hit 1,000 posts. Since then, the book has been heavily revised, the infomercial has changed, and a website (http://www.naturalcures.com/) has been started.
Discuss.
1,000 Posts
I was watching an infomercial about a book called "Natural Cures: What They Don't Want You to Know," and I realized that the author of the book was making some pretty good points. He said, "The Food and Drug Administration says that only a drug can treat, cure, or diagnose a disease. For this reason, the FDA has been able to stop doctors from prescribing natural remedies to clients and instead requiring patients to pay the drug industry constantly to treat 'diseases' when a natural remedy could actually cure someone from this 'disease.'" He went on to say that "The reason that this country is so obese is because the FDA puts additives in food that cause addiction to that food, causing people to have increased appetite and want to eat more. Then, when they do get obese, the drug companies can take advantage of the situation and offer dozens of different drugs to treat obesity, but not 'cure' it. The FDA is labeling obesity as a disease, when anyone with common sense knows that it isn't. Somebody could easily 'cure' obesity by simply eating less and exercising more.
Then, he talked about acid reflex disease. "Acid Reflex disease is another example of a fake disease the FDA has created to allow drug companies to exploit the common people. Heartburn is not caused by too much acid, but instead by a lack of enough acid. When someone takes an antacid, all of the remaining acid is absorbed by the drug. This causes the stomach to start producing acid until it has enough to resume digesting, thus 'treating' the disease. I offered a more natural alternative to a friend of mine who suffered from constant heartburn. I asked him to take some vinegar instead of his regular heartburn medication. After about 2 weeks, he no longer needed the vinegar. He stopped having heartburn completely."
Next he talked about cancer. "Despite what the drug companies say, there is a cure for cancer. In my studies, cancer is related to the pH of your body. People whose pH is more acidic are more prone to cancer, while people who are alkaline are almost immune to it. Thus, to be cured of cancer, you must make your pH more alkaline. The problem is that there are a lot of foods out there that can make you acidic. Some of the blame is the food additives that the FDA requires to be put in food. Thus, the FDA is helping people get cancer, as well as helping the drug companies get money. Think about it: if a cure was ever marketed for cancer, the drug companies that provide cancer treatment would go out of business. That's why they need help from the FDA to ensure that no cure is legally marketed. While it's true that natural cures can be purchased legally, no marketing company is allowed to say that these natural cures can cure certain diseases. According to the FDA, that would mean that that substance would have to be a drug, and the FDA accuses the marketing company of not having a legitimate drug-selling license. While it's true that that substance can become a drug in the eyes of the FDA, the process to obtain drug status costs hundreds of millions of dollars. Most natural remedies could never afford to become drugs and be allowed to make claims that the substance will cure diseases. This pushes them out of the way for the drugs that only treat diseases."
I wrote this semi-biased summary about four months ago for an English assignment, but decided not to post it for you guys to read until I hit 1,000 posts. Since then, the book has been heavily revised, the infomercial has changed, and a website (http://www.naturalcures.com/) has been started.
Discuss.
1,000 Posts