You HAVE GOT TO READ THIS!!!
Do you live in Georgia, Alabama, Nevada, or Colorado? If so, I have news you need to read. If you live elsewhere...guess what? You need to read it to. If it's happening here and affecting myself and my fellow neighbors, it could very well be happening where you live too.
Wonder what I'm talking about?
Testing prompted by an Associated Press about trace amounts of pharmaceuticals in drinking water has shown that more Americans are affected by the problem than previously thought -- at least 46 million.
46 million people are ingesting drugs that are not meant for them through their drinking water. We're bathing in it, soaking it into our skin. We're cooking with it, giving it to our children. Does this sound safe to you? It's no wonder so many people are so sick. It's no wonder immune systems are constantly weakened and people are getting cancer right and left.
This, my friends, is dangerous. I don't care how much the FDA tries to convince us that these drugs aren't affecting us, think about it. How could they not?
To read the whole cnn.com article, click on the link below:
46 Million Affected by Trace Drugs in Drinking Water
The FDA is calling for a stronger label for a commonly used diabetes drug, Byetta. According to the article on foxnews.com, "The Food and Drug Administration said Monday it has received six new reports of patients developing a dangerous form of pancreatitis while taking Byetta. Two of the patients died and four were recovering."
Check out the story:
FDA Reports Deaths With Diabetes Drug Byetta
The story I just read on abcnews.com starts out this way:
Bad reactions to antibiotics, mostly allergic ones, send people to U.S. emergency rooms more than 140,000 times each year, government researchers reported on Wednesday. The findings offer another reason for doctors to limit their use of the drugs, which are overused in the United States, the team at the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said. "This number is an important reminder for physicians and patients that antibiotics can have serious side effects and should only be taken when necessary," said the CDC's Dr. Daniel Budnitz, who led the study.
140,000 emergency room visits! Those are just the ones that are reported. Two super popular antibiotics, penicillin and amoxicillin, accounted for HALF the reactions. The study says that 78% of the visits were due to allergic reactions, and the remaining 22% were caused by errors.
An estimated 100 million antibiotic prescriptions are written every year. A lot of studies say that more than half of those prescriptions are unnecessary. I take it a step further, I say they are unnecessary AND harmful. Most times, antibiotics are prescribed for viruses. Antibiotics are absolutely useless for viruses. They are intended for bacterial infections, not viral. In regards to this, the following quote from the article really stood out:
...doctors still often believe their patients are exceptions to the rule and continue to write the prescriptions.
Although antibiotics are common, they are not safe. Every drug has side effects, you just don't know how they may affect you...and often times, until it's too late. Don't be another statistic. Only take medications when it is absolutely necessary, for emergency purposes. Give your body and chance to heal. God designed your body to heal. Give it a chance.
To read the whole story, check out the link below:
Study Finds 140,000 Bad Reactions to Antibiotics
I have no words for this. Oh, wait. Yes I do. How lazy can we possibly get??? If you want to know what I'm talking about, check out this story I found on foxnews.com:
This story keeps popping up in the news, and it's really frightening. The American Academy of Pediatrics is now recommending that some children as young as eight be given cholesterol-lowering drugs in order to prevent future heart problems.
Why would we give our kids cholesterol drugs when we could just feed them healthy foods? This makes absolutely no sense to me and is incredibly dangerous. You see, cholesterol drugs (statins) have the dangerous side effect of...are you ready for this...increased rate of heart disease! The following are some other dangerous side effects of statin drugs:
If you're living and breathing, chances are you have taken or have been prescribed antibiotics. I have. During my lifetime, I've been on countless rounds of antibiotics. Why? Well, because they're so accepted. Antibiotics are assumed to be safe and something that many assume always helps. What I didn't realize until I got older and started researching these things myself is that antibiotics are not always safe, necessary, or helpful. More often than not, they are over-prescribed and can be extremely dangerous. Because of the pressure many MDs feel to help complaining patients, they often prescribe antibiotics even when they know they won't help. You see, antibiotics are designed to help bacterial infections; however, they are often prescribed for viral...and they are absolutely useless for that. In those cases, they do WAY more harm than good.
I'm sure you've seen the news stories about superbugs which are being created by resistance to antibiotics. Because we, as a society, have over-prescribed and over-taken antibiotics, they are being rendered useless. We are creating much more dangerous superbugs which laugh at our antibiotics. Sad, but true.
I'm sure you've heard all of these things, whether you have chosen to heed the warnings or not, I don't know. What you may not know, though, is that some antibiotics are actually killing people. I read about some of these antibiotics in a Reader's Digest magazine a few months back and did a post about it. Now antibiotics are in the news again. This time because the FDA has ordered 'black box' warnings on some of these drugs. For those who don't know what 'black box' warning labels are, they are the strongest warnings issued by the FDA when it comes to medications. It's serious stuff because you may already know the FDA doesn't issue many (enough) serious warnings about medication, and when they do, it's often slow coming. Anyway...
According to an article on cnn.com, "The U.S. Food and Drug Administration Tuesday ordered the makers of certain antibiotics to add a "black box" label warning -- the FDA's strongest -- to alert patients of possible tendon ruptures and tendonitis." The article says that in some of the cases where this happened, there was absolutely no warning. Scary, right?
The article goes on to say, "Public Citizen, founded in 1971 by consumer activist Ralph Nader, said more than 400 cases of tendon rupture and more than 300 cases of tendonitis in patients using fluoroquinolones were reported between November 1997 and December 2007.
"Because only a small fraction of cases are typically reported to the FDA, the actual number of ruptures and other tendon injuries attributable to the antibiotic is much higher," the group said."
Curious about Gardasil, the vaccine that Merck developed to treat and prevent cervical cancer caused by HPV, a SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASE? If you have considered getting this vaccine or have thought about having your daughter receive this vaccine, you need to read the article I found on CNN.
SHOULD PARENTS WORRY ABOUT HPV VACCINE?
A stand out quote:
Girls and women have blamed the vaccine for causing ailments from nausea to paralysis -- even death. Fifteen deaths were reported to the FDA, and 10 were confirmed...
I also received a super informative newsletter from NVIC on this subject that I am eager to share. As soon as I get the link for the information, I'll post it. YOU NEED TO KNOW BEFORE YOU CONSENT.
I don't really know what else to say about this other than BE CAREFUL! Check out this article from June 8, 2008's New York Times:
Researchers Take Drug Company Pay, Then Lie About It
Read the heartbreaking account given by an 11 year old girl who was rendered near-blind after being given three doses of Children's Motrin.
11-Year-Old Girl Tells of Losing Sight in 'Motrin Blindness' Trial
I know some of you are probably thinking to yourselves, "How often does that happen? That is really rare. I don't need to stress over that happening to my kids." The thing is, that's probably exactly what her parents thought too. Children's Motrin is considered by many to be a safe drug. The thing is, there is no such thing as a safe drug. Every drug has side effects, whether you realize it or not. Certainly some drugs have more dangerous side effects than others; however, they all carry some sort of side effects.
That is why you really have to weigh the benefits and risks EVERY time you take a drug, of any kind. Just because it's sold over-the-counter doesn't mean it's safe.
We forget that God created our bodies to heal themselves and that we don't need a drug for every single thing that comes our way. I hope that you will think of that the next time some kind of ill comes your way or, most especially, when it comes your children's way.
God bless!
I found this today on yahoonews.com and was inspired. I hope you are too. Check it out:
I'm sure you're shocked, right? Anyway, I came across this story and thought I would share:
Here is another great newsletter from Dr. Dan Yachter. Check it out:
I'm Free Part 2
If you want to read more about cholesterol-lowering drugs, check out this article on mercola.com:
1.5 Million More People to Be Prescribed Useless Cholesterol Drugs
As always, I encourage you to try the natural route first. Your body deserves it! So many people use drugs that actually mask the problem, rather than getting to the root cause.
Check out this analogy:
You have a rubber band wrapped tightly around your finger. What do you do?
A. Take a painkiller to help the discomfort
B. Put ice on the finger
C. Remove the rubber band
I'm assuming you got the answer right. If you said letter "D", you are correct. The thing is, it's easy to answer this question. It just makes sense that you would remove the root cause of the problem, the rubber band. However, so many people fail this quiz when it applies to themselves and different areas of their own health. How are you doing in your health reality? Are you passing this quiz when it comes to your health?
I STRONGLY encourage everyone to watch this video. It will take 10 minutes of your life but has the potential to add YEARS.
It's time that we stop looking the other way and allowing families to suffer. Satan is at work and has so many people fooled. I am so thankful that I learned this before it was too late and certainly before I had kids. "I once was blind, but now I see!"
I found this video today and highly recommend everyone watch it. It includes information from MDs about what is going on with the FDA and Big Pharma. It is video that you NEED to see. Whether or not you take FDA approved medication, you know someone who does. You should be armed with information before you ever take any medication, regardless of how safe it may seem. That way, you can weigh the risks and benefits.
This video is part one of nine. Check back to see the other parts. Check it out:
Prescription for Disaster:
You may have heard it in school, you may have said it in school. If you didn't hear it or say it there, I'm sure you've heard it said in a movie, "Meet me behind the school at 3:00. You're going down!" According to an article on FT.com, Big Pharma may be hearing that very phrase themselves, "YOU'RE GOING DOWN!"
The article on Ft.com says that the pharmaceutical industry will have NEGATIVE growth in 2011. This will be the FIRST TIME IN HISTORY. Can I get an amen?! For companies like AstraZeneca and GlaxoSmithKline, this is the worst crisis that they have faced in DECADES (according to the article). I know you can hear my tears falling, right?
Richard Girling, global co-head of health care at Merrill Lynch, says: “The problem is not so much the size of companies but the concentration and reliance on single products. This has been exacerbated by a lack of innovation over the years.”
The reason for this huge decline is because many of the patents they have on their main drugs are going to be ending soon. Once the patents end, generic drugs can put out their cheaper version of the same pills (great).
While negative growth in pharmaceutical companies is wonderful news, we don't need to start celebrating just yet. Why, you may ask? Well, I think Dr. Mercola says it best:
In an attempt to save their falling dynasty, drugmakers are likely to:
I normally don't watch the Today Show, but for some reason, I had it on this morning while I was getting ready for work. What I saw really disturbed me. They had a woman and her husband on (Jennifer and Dennis Buettner) who have created a placebo company named Efficacy Brands. Mrs. Buettner had the idea for this company while taking care of her niece who suffered from hypochondria. She reasoned that her niece and other kids could benefit from taking placebo pills for small ailments because if they took a pill (thinking it was medication), they would feel better...thinking the medication was working in their bodies (aka: the placebo affect).
On the Today Show, I was glad to see Matt Lauer and the medical expert tell of how dangerous these placebo pills could be for the kids as they grow into adults because of their dependency on pills for all their ills (my words, not the shows). They explained that if kids get used to popping a pill every time they had any little thing wrong with them, our "pill-popping society" would become even worse. AMEN, MATT LAUER!!! The Buettner's countered with the idea that this would keep people off of medication because they would be taking placebo and not potentially dangerous medications.
I disagree. Matt Lauer and the show's expert had it right...our kids are already WAY too dependent on medication (as are our adults), and we're going to start making it worse by LYING to them and telling them we're giving them medicine and by teaching them that a pill can fix everything. SOMETHING IS MAJORLY WRONG WITH THIS IDEA! This is SO dangerous!
I was so so upset as I watched the interview. The sad thing is, a lot of people will buy into this and start giving their kids these placebo pills. Again, I think a tiny bit of what they're doing is good. I think they have good intentions, but I think their good intentions are going to bring very dangerous consequences. The only good thing about this idea is that the kids aren't taking dangerous meds. The super bad thing is that THEY WILL as they get older.
To read the whole story, check out this article I found from the NY Times:
“Kids could grow up thinking that the only way to get better is by taking a pill,” Dr. Brody said. If they do that, he added, they will not learn that a minor complaint like a scraped knee or a cold can improve on its own.
Dr. David Spiegel, a psychiatrist who studies placebos at the Stanford School of Medicine, said conditioning children to reach for relief in a pill could also make them easy targets for quacks and pharmaceutical pitches later. “They used to sell candied cigarettes to kids to get them used to the idea of playing with cigarettes,” he said.
I can't tell you how excited I am to see this article on Cnn News:
Do Consumers Understand Drug Ads?
Every time I turn on the t.v., I see commercial after commercial telling me that I need a drug to handle everything I experience: from colds to arthritis to trouble socializing. Literally, there are commercials advertising for everything under the sun. It's incredibly disheartening.
According to this article, drug makers spend 5 BILLION a year directly marketing their drugs to YOU and YOUR families. Even more troubling is that it seems to be working. For every $1,000 the drug companies spend, 24 new presciptions are filled, that according to the House Commerce Committee.
"That's a feature common to most drug ads: they leave you confused about the information. The FDA states that DTC commercials must present a "fair balance" of the benefits and side effects of a drug, but it's obvious most don't. Drug ads are, not surprisingly, meant to sell products, not scare consumers off, so they're notorious for careening quickly through the obligatory list of the medication's risks."
I hope you realize this when you're watching your favorite show and these commercials come on. The drug companies don't want you to notice the possible dangerous side effects. They want you to focus on the magical qualites of their "wonder drugs". Ha! Read the article on Cnn.com/health to see all the psychology that goes into making drug commercials. They even have an example to show; a one-minute ad from Merck/Schering-Plough's cholesterol-lowering drug Vytorin." They spend a lot of time and money figuring out how to distort the facts. Nice, right? Does that give you confidence in that new wonder drug you just got a prescription filled for?
Check out the article to see the "eye-opening data on several DTC drug ads" and how the stacked up. What you read may surprise you. It surprised me, and I've been studying this stuff for a few years.
Other people are noticing these insane drug ads. Check out this Saturday Night Live spoof of the drug "Annuale" meant to poke fun at a very real birth control pill, Seasonale.
