| 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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