The Science of Deceit - Part 2
By Hesh Goldstein 

You may not know that a significant portion of your tax dollars, earmarked for healthcare, goes to research on patentable drugs that make billions of dollars for drug companies. The government should fund research into non-toxic, non-patentable natural remedies at a much higher level than it is presently doing. This situation again points out the need for political action for campaign reform to minimize the effects of lobbying and kickbacks, and to simply do what's right for the people.

For 2001, the budget for the National Institutes of Health was approximately $20 billion. This amount could be doubled by 2003. Approximately 83% of this is spent on research performed outside the NIH. This is serious money, and most of it goes to developing patentable drugs. If we put even half of this money into dietary education to clearly demonstrate the link between diet and disease (i.e. to clearly show that what you eat can make you sick and what you eat can make you well as well), we could reduce 90% of the degenerative diseases that are plaguing us today.

A recent article in the New York Times revealed that the pharmaceutical industry spent $177 million on lobbying in 1999 and 2000. That's $50 million more than their nearest rival, the insurance industry. They employ more lobbyists (625) than there are members of Congress, and more than half of the lobbyists are former members of Congress, congressional staff members, or government employees.

It's about time that individual physicians took responsibility for their actions and stop being pawns in the economic games played by the drug and health insurance industries. Physicians will change only if their patients demand it.

Reform will only come from market forces, which means you! Real change depends on how you spend your money on healthcare and charitable political donations. Get informed, take responsibility for your own health, and choose your doctors and medicines wisely.

How can you take responsibility for your own health and how can you minimize your dependency on your drug pusher (physician) and get the "monkey off your back" (Rx drugs)?

Start an exercise program, no matter how basic. Those things below your waist are called legs. If you put one before the other it's called walking. Do it for distance and do it for speed. When your body gets used to it, increase your distance and speed. Eliminate saturated fat from your diet, which is found in everything that walks, runs, flies, crawls or swims. Eliminate refined foods from your diet, which are white flour products and white rice and stay away from "junk foods". Eat more vegetable salads and whole, natural foods with fiber. Drink more water than soda, buy organically grown foods and, buy no products that contain pesticides, additives, stabilizers, preservatives, or hydrogenated or partially hydrogenated oils. Do not cook with aluminum cookware, and above all, remember, "if man made it, don't eat it"!

And the best thing that you can do is to listen to "Health Talk", on Saturday mornings from 8:05 am to 9 am, on K-108 radio, which is 1080 on the AM dial.

Aloha.

Hesh Goldstein is the moderator of “Health Talk”, a weekly radio show on K-108 radio
(1080 on the AM dial), that airs on Saturday morning from 8am to 9am .

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