Introducing #1 of the Top 10 Enemies: Pharmaceutical Companies.
Consider this: in 2000 alone, the combined sales of just two pharmaceutical drugs (Vioxx and Celebrex) were $5.7 billion USD.
This yielded more profit than the combined sales of all herbals WORLDWIDE.
Your intuition should already be telling you that man can not do better than the Creator when it comes to health. There is a natural cause for everything. Older civilizations (such as the Native Americans) knew about the healing properties of nearly every single plant, and there are still cultures today (such as Amazon tribes in South America) that are this in touch with nature.
Despite having the supposed best health care and most advanced healing agents in history, our Western culture is actually sicker than ever before.
Here's the real truth, plain and simple: drugs do not cure disease, they CAUSE it.
It's easy to see how it works, once you dig a little deeper. To get FDA approved, any substance claiming to cure or aid a disease must go through a great deal of testing. This testing costs thousands if not millions of dollars, and must obviously be paid for by someone (the company who wishes to patent the product). There is no money in natural cures, so these cures will never pass FDA approval!
Look deeper. Much of the government has shares in these pharmaceutical companies and has a strong interest in keeping the money in their own pockets.
Do you think it's right that our doctors make commission on the drugs they prescribe? If they will be paid less to tell you about a natural cure (rather than a drug), doesn't that make their opinion a little biased?
Do you think it's right that most doctors learn next to nothing about nutrition as part of their multiple-year training, but are trained extensively in drugs?
Does it really make sense to you to treat the SYMPTOM, rather than the DISEASE? Let's say you go to the doctor because you have a headache. He recommends you take an aspirin, so you do, and the headache no longer ails you. But what has really happened, is that he has given you a drug that blocks the PAIN, so you are no longer aware of your sickness. The sickness, and more importantly, what CAUSED the sickness, has not been addressed. Aspirin kills 2,000 people in the United States alone each year. That is not aspirin overdoes, either; that death toll is from the recommended dosage. Prescription drugs cause about 250,000 deaths per year in America, and millions worldwide, making pharmaceuticals one of the leading causes of death.
Meanwhile, viruses and bugs are getting stronger and stronger, with new super-strains adapting to our progressively more powerful drugs. Viruses are alive, too, and they adapt to anything just as we do. Simple cause and effect.
Beware of advertisements. Most of these pharmaceutical ads present their information as scientific fact when there is no such thing. I'm not just talking about advertisements during commercials! Many sales pitches for such drugs are done through media interviews with doctors, presenting the information as objective fact when it is funded by the companies making money off these products. Profits, not your health, are their main concern.
You NEVER need drugs to be healthy! The natural human state is always healthy, and we only get sick when our body is telling us something is WRONG and needs to be changed. Monkeys living in the wild never get sick! We wouldn't either, with their lifestyle and diet.
The Chinese looked at the energy field when assessing sickness, and taught us that disease always appears first in one's chi before any symptoms manifest. Remember that everything is connected. When you get sick, it could be a deeper emotional or spiritual problem, not always a physical cause. Unhappiness is the number one cause of sickness in the world.
The medical community is just starting to understand the relation between these dimensions, although most doctors are still shockingly far behind. Science, however, now understands that the number one risk factor for heart disease is not smoking or one's diet, but the presence of a hostile, negative personality. Prayer has been scientifically tested and proven to increase the patient's recovery rate significantly, even if the person being prayed for is not religious and does not even know he is being prayed for. Everything is connected.
Add the health industry to the long list of things money has ruined. Our biggest mistake is our ignorant arrogance, in thinking that human knowledge can do one better than the Creator.
Always think critically, and remember: don't do drugs.
