Why organized medicine wants to outlaw nutrition

[Jagannath Chatterjee]

Why organized medicine wants to outlaw nutrition and
turn healers into criminals

Posted Jun 6, 2005 PT by the Health Ranger (Mike
Adams)

How about some truth for a change about the Food
Supplements Directive in the European Union? The
proponents of this directive say that it's about
protecting patients from all these dangerous vitamins,
minerals, supplements, plant extracts and antioxidants
that are so dangerous for people. They say, "We're
going to keep you safe!" Let me tell you what I think.
It's an attempt to outlaw nutrition (see related ebook
on nutrition). It is an attempt to criminalize those
who would offer nutritional products that can actually
prevent and even treat chronic diseases.

Why would anyone want to do this? Well, look at what
it's trying to ban. One of the things it's trying to
ban is tocotrienols, which are various forms of
vitamin E. These are naturally occurring antioxidants
that are found in the plant world. You can find them
in whole grains, nuts, seeds and a variety of
different plants. Why would they want to ban these
ingredients and make it a crime to sell these to
people?

Well, think about it folks. These ingredients prevent
chronic disease better than prescription drugs,
without the side effects, and without the
profitability of prescription drugs. If people really
knew just how much they could prevent chronic disease
with these plant extracts, medicinal herbs, vitamins,
minerals, and supplements, the pharmaceutical industry
would collapse overnight.

The defenders of "Big Pharma" and of organized
medicine have realized that they can't win the
information war. They can't prevent people from
finding out how to be healthy. Believe me, they've
tried! They've tried through censorship, oppression,
influence, and even attempts to regulate medical
information on the internet. They have tried to create
a total blackout of information, but they've failed.
Thank God we live in a (relatively) free society where
the internet still operates and people have access to
independent information. As people are increasingly
finding out that prescription drugs actually kill you,
while vitamins, nutrients, and plant-based supplements
actually save your life, organized medicine had to go
to Plan B. Plan B is to outlaw nutrition, which is
what the European Union Food Supplements Directive is
all about.

Let's take this one step further here. Let’s assume
they succeed in outlawing this nutrition. It's
suddenly illegal to buy any amount of vitamin C over
50 mg, for example. It's illegal to buy various
minerals, such as vanadium or boron. It becomes
illegal to buy tocotrienols, or other antioxidants
derived from plants. Well, what's the next step? It
is, of course, to outlaw medicinal foods entirely!

Can you imagine a world in which it would be illegal
to purchase and consume garlic? It sounds ridiculous,
right? You say, "Oh, come on, that's just
exaggeration!" But is it really? Garlic is one of the
most medicinally potent foods in the world. This is a
product that prevents and treats topical and internal
cancers. Raw garlic juice is one of the most potent
anti-cancer supplements you can consume. You can go to
a grocery store right now, buy garlic, and make this
yourself. This is more powerful than many drugs out
there. It's a broad-spectrum antibiotic. It's
antiviral, antibacterial, anti-cancer and anti-tumor.
This is an amazing healing food.

Would they try to outlaw that? Right now, they're
trying to outlaw extracts from different plants. It's
only a small step for them to actually outlaw these
foods. You'd have to have a prescription to buy
garlic. It would be a controlled substance, and if you
grew it in your own garden, you'd be arrested as a
criminal. Don't believe me? Just try to grow
omega-3-rich hemp seeds in your backyard and see how
long it takes for the DEA to show up at your doorstep.

You have a great number of foods out there that
actually treat, not just prevent, chronic diseases.
Molasses, for one, is a nutrient-rich sweetener. It's
made from the byproduct of whole grain processing. If
people ate more molasses or used it in their cooking
or their oatmeal, they would get more B vitamins, more
magnesium, more zinc. They would be healthier. We'd
see a drop in the rate of Alzheimer's disease, nervous
system disorders, and behavioral disorders, such as
Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder and other so
called "behavioral diseases."

You may think it sounds crazy that these foods would
some day be banned. But I think it's crazy to ban
extracts of these foods. They're trying to ban these
natural ingredients right now. Beyond the fact that I
think it is unethical to do so, it is a crime against
humanity to restrict people from access to the gifts
provided by Mother Nature. As human beings, we have a
God-given right to eat plants, to use the medicinal
herbs found in our natural environment, and to heal
ourselves using these gifts provided by nature. I
believe any attempt to criminalize our connection with
nature is itself a crime, and should be treated as
such.

Nutrition is bad for you, didn't you know?
The Food Supplements Directive (in Europe) and this
whole effort by the FDA (in the U.S.) to outlaw
certain medicinal herbs and eventually nutritional
supplements is based on the outlandish premise that
prescription drugs are good for you and nutrition is
bad for you. This is such a reversal of reality that
it's absolutely astounding they can get away with even
talking about it without being laughed off of the
television show or radio interview.

If you think about it, prescription drugs are what's
killing people. Prescription drugs are extremely
dangerous, even according to the statistics put out by
organized medicine. We have one class of drugs, Cox-2
inhibitors, which, all by itself, is responsible for
at least 144,000 heart attacks in the United States
alone. Over 40 percent of those are fatal. The FDA
admitted all of this information, yet said, "That's
not dangerous enough for us. Let's put this drug back
on the market." They rubber-stamped it "APPROVED BY
THE FDA." This is now safe for consumption, according
to the FDA.

Meanwhile, a Chinese herb, ma huang, or "Ephedra," as
it's better known, is blamed for the death of a few
dozen individuals who overdosed like crazy trying to
lose weight. A few dozen people and the FDA said,
"This is dangerous! We have to take this off the
market! It's unregulated. It's a Chinese herb. It will
kill you!" It is now a crime to sell Ephedra. They're
criminalizing medicinal herbs, while legalizing the
drugs that kill you. This is what's going on today.

It's really about control
There's a lot at stake here -- a lot of power,
control, and, of course, a whole lot of money. The
people at the top of organized medicine's hierarchy,
the FDA, the American Medical Association, top
doctors, surgeons, hospitals, and so on, have all
realized that if nutrition succeeds, and if people
become educated about how to prevent disease through
simple, easily available foods, then they are going to
lose a lot of money. They're going to lose a lot of
patients, whom they're depending on. You have drug
companies looking at the coming wave of Alzheimer's
and jumping up and down with joy, thinking, "Look how
many customers we're going to have. Let's come up with
an Alzheimer's drug!" Research then comes out showing
that Alzheimer's drugs cause dementia. Yes, it's true.
Pain drugs cause heart attacks, antidepressant drugs
cause people to pick up automatic weapons and blow
away their classmates; you can just go on down the
list. These drugs are designed to treat disease and
improve people's lives but they only destroy lives.
Nevertheless, that doesn't stop the drug companies
from being excited about the opportunity to sell these
drugs to people.

It's all about selling the drugs. Really, the FDA is
just one gatekeeper by which these drugs can be sold.
The FDA is being exploited and controlled by drug
companies. The FDA rubber-stamps drugs that are highly
toxic and extremely dangerous. These drugs continue to
be sold to people all around the world at ridiculously
high prices. It's a big scam, and there's big money at
stake.

That's why they've got to attack nutritional
supplements. They've got to outlaw vitamin C, vitamin
E, and minerals that prevent disease. They've got to
criminalize them. Their strategy right now is to
protect the profits of the pharmaceutical industry.
This whole Food Supplements Directive in Europe is
really nothing more than an attempt to protect
profits. By doing that, they're committing a crime
against humanity, in my belief. They're trying to say
that it should be illegal for people to choose foods,
medicines, and healing compounds provided by nature.

A crazy idea: let's outlaw dangerous pharmaceuticals
I have an idea, which may be crazy, but which I'll
throw out there just in case. What if we outlawed all
the drugs that killed people? What if we made it
illegal to sell dangerous prescription drugs that
actually cause chronic disease, that cause people to
go crazy, or that cause people to have heart attacks
and die? How about that? Now, there's a crazy idea.
Then, what if we banned drug advertising so these drug
companies can't run highly deceptive ads on television
that get people running to their doctors' offices
asking for drugs by name, even when they have no idea
what those drugs do? Patients demand, "Give me the
drug!" The doctor asks, "What do you need it for?" "I
don't know, but those people on TV look really happy!"
This happens every day. Any general practitioner will
tell you the same thing.

Let's educate the public
So let's ban everything that actually harms people.
Let's then spend some taxpayer money on public
education campaigns to teach people how to be healthy.
We could start with foods. We could start by teaching
expectant mothers how to have good nutrition so that
they give birth to healthy babies with healthy nervous
systems, babies who aren't born predisposed to
diabetes, schizophrenia, or other disorders. From
there we can teach our nation's youth how to make
healthier food choices.

While we're on a roll, why don't we take all the
disease causing foods out of our school lunch
programs. Why don't we ban fast food restaurants from
hospitals. Let's put some healthy foods in people's
mouths. Let's visit the nursing homes around the
country, look at their diets, and say, "No wonder
these people are half-mad. Look at what they're being
fed." Let's put some healthy foods into their diets.

Let's teach people about the real health potential of
sunlight. Let's teach them that if you get sunlight on
your skin, you can prevent prostate cancer, breast
cancer, and type 2 diabetes. You can prevent
osteoporosis, schizophrenia, mental depression, and
many other diseases and disorders just by getting some
natural sunlight.

So this is my crazy idea: Let's ban the things that
kill people, while supporting the things that improve
people's quality of life, keep people healthy, and
prevent chronic disease. Now, I know it's a radical
idea and it would have terrible side effects, such as
plummeting health care costs, increased longevity,
increased quality of life and happiness across the
entire population. It would have all these terrible
side effects; for example, we wouldn't have such
violent behavior in our young adults. I don't know if
society can handle these side effects; but if it can,
this could be a good route to go.

One more side effect would be that many corporate
executives of pharmaceutical companies would find
themselves out of work. That would just be terrible.
Maybe we could have a government subsidy program to
find new jobs for these people, or train them on
something useful like web page design. They'll need
some real jobs, right? If you can't sell drugs any
more, you've got to do something useful for society.

The national doctor re-education program
The same would hold for all the doctors as well, the
general practitioners who practice old school
medicine. They wouldn't have as much work either. I
think we'd have to retrain them. We could start by
actually giving them a real education in health. We
could start by teaching them about nutrition. The fact
is they never learned that in medical school. Med
schools don't teach nutrition. These doctors are
clueless about it unless they went outside mainstream
medicine and learned on their own.

When doctors find that they're out of work because
people are healthy, because they're avoiding
prescription drugs, eating healthy foods, and using
medicinal plants, we might retrain those doctors to
become health coaches. They could go into nursing
homes and schools, and be hired as health coaches
teaching people how to be healthy. There's an idea!
Why don't we have our healthcare professionals
actually teach health instead of being experts in
disease?

From the history of medicine comes the idea: "First,
do no harm." Today organized medicine is doing
tremendous harm. Until we make a change, they have no
right to call themselves doctors at all. They're not
doctors, they're drug dealers. A true doctor is
someone who teaches according to the Latin root of the
word, which means "teacher." If you call yourself a
doctor, but you're not teaching your patients about
nutrition and lifestyle changes, you're living a lie.
On the other hand, if you are teaching it, good for
you. You should get more patients. You keep your
patients healthy; they could tell more friends and
bring you more business. You deserve to be rewarded
for helping people stay healthy.

Conveniently forgetting the true history of medicine
One more point relevant to the history of medicine and
the European Union Food Supplements Directive: The
word "pharmaceutical" has as its root "pharm," which
of course means "plant." Pharmaceuticals have their
origins in plant-based medicine. That's where all
pharmaceuticals originally came from. If you think
about it now, things have gone 180 degrees! The
pharmaceutical industry itself is trying to outlaw
plants. How bizarre is that? It is a total disconnect
from nature and from the history of medicine. It is a
disconnection between those selling the drugs and the
patients who take them. It's all about disconnection
out there in organized medicine. A lot of doctors
won't even touch their patients. It unnerves them.

Let's turn to natural healing, where we have
connections, we have openness and we believe in health
freedoms. We believe in freedom of choice. We believe
in education. And we believe that individuals should
have the right to choose what medicine, herbs, and
supplements they wish to take to treat or prevent
their own diseases or disorders, or just to stay
healthy or enhance their health.

Healers and patients can have a connection. The
patient, however, is the only real healer. The doctor
or practitioner can only really educate and support
the patient's own healing process. These are the
beliefs of natural health. These are the beliefs
which, frankly, organized medicine doesn't want you to
ever adopt. They want you to believe that nature has
no answers for you whatsoever. They want you to
believe that an R&D lab, with its synthesized
chemicals, is the only place where you should get your
healing chemicals or compounds. They think that man is
smarter than nature. They think that a man-made lab
can produce smarter disease prevention chemicals than
the lab which has been running for millions and
millions of years out there called Mother Nature.

Covertly stealing from Mother Nature
Secretly, however, behind closed doors, all these
pharmaceutical companies have people across the world
trying to find medicinal plants to look for answers.
They are basically stealing them from the native
healers, the indigenous tribes in the rainforest, the
deserts of Australia, you name it. They're stealing
all these plants, then taking them back to the
laboratory and trying to synthesize them. That's what
they're doing behind closed doors. They know that the
answers are in the plant. Publicly, however, they want
to outlaw those plants. You see how they work this
con?

I say to all of you out there reading who want to be
healthy: Bypass all of that. Bypass the pharmaceutical
industry. Bypass the profit, the greed and the
control. Bypass the heavily bureaucratic FDA, which is
dishonest and is operating in collusion with the drug
companies. Bypass a traditionally trained medical
doctor, and bypass all the costs and medical bills and
bankruptcy that go along with being involved with
organized medicine. Instead, go straight to nature.

You do that by hooking up with a naturopath. You do
that by relying on plants, foods, natural environment,
sunshine, fresh water, clean air, and by getting
grounded with the earth. That's how you get healthy.
I've done it, along with thousands of others who have
done it. Organized medicine has no benefit whatsoever
in modern society, except if you've been in a car
crash or something. If an iron girder from a steel
building falls on you and you need some surgery, then
definitely get some surgery. American surgeons are
some of the best in the world. They can stop the
bleeding from gunshot wounds and put you back
together. However, they can't prevent chronic diseases
and they have no clue how to treat them.

Don't believe me? Observe this for yourself...
If you're skeptical of everything I've said so far,
here's a little experiment you can run. Go out and
find yourself people who are steeped in organized
medicine. Find people who take a lot of
pharmaceuticals, who get surgical procedures every
time their doctor says they need one. Check these
people out and see how healthy they are.

Are they fit and trim? Are they happy? Are they
emotionally stable? Do they have healthy relationships
in their life? How do they look? Do they look
energetic? What's the color of their skin? Is it pale
and yellowish? Do they have bags under their eyes? Is
it discolored? What do they look like?

Afterwards, find yourself a bunch of people who follow
natural health. Find people who do yoga, who get
acupuncture, who eat well, who supplement with
superfoods and supergreen supplements. Find people who
take vitamins and use medicinal herbs. Find the kind
of people you'd find in health food stores. Look at
those people and ask yourself the same questions. How
do they look? What kind of health do they seem to be
demonstrating? If you compare these two groups, it
becomes immediately obvious that the results you get
are based on the belief system you follow.

If you follow organized medicine, take those
prescription drugs, go get those surgical procedures,
and you believe all those doctors, the FDA, and
everything the drug companies tell you, you're going
to be quite diseased. You're going to be miserable.
You're going to have a shortened lifespan. You're
going to have a shortened quality of life. You're
probably going to be in chronic pain, and you'll have
multiple side effects from all the prescription drugs
you're taking. You'll have skyrocketing medical bills.
You might end up in medical bankruptcy, and you'll be
no better off than having done nothing.

If you follow natural health, on the other hand, you
can be a healthy, happy person. You can be energetic,
have fantastic mental clarity, and be free of chronic
pain. You can reverse diseases such as type 2
diabetes, prostate cancer, breast cancer, and
osteoporosis. You can avoid dementia, Alzheimer's, and
all these so-called "diseases of aging." You can be
healthy and happy. That's the world of natural health.

Stop trying to justify organized medicine
Some people think they can straddle these two worlds.
They say, "I'm going to get chemotherapy, but I'm
going to take some chlorella together with it. That
way, I'll be practicing integrated medicine!"
Integrated medicine is a huge hoax. It's basically a
way for organized medicine to try to keep up with the
times, to say that you can use these herbs only as a
minor part of this traditional health procedure. They
want to relegate everything that's alternative into
the fringes of treatment. Integrative medicine is a
joke.

Alternative medicine, or what I call "advanced
medicine," is where the real healing power is. That's
where you make a choice and say, "I'm not going to
follow organized medicine any more. I'm going to get
healthy. I'm going to start by taking responsibility
for my health outcome. I'm going to fire my MD, and go
get an ND, a naturopathic doctor. I'm going to start
working on my foods, my nutrition, my supplements, and
my lifestyle. I'm going to change my life and take
responsibility for the outcome." That's where you get
healthy. That's where you can bypass all that
organized medicine.

Again, this is the kind of information that organized
medicine hopes you never hear. They don't want people
to bypass their system. They want people to run
through their system like a factory. "Here, take these
pills -- we'll make a dollar every day for each pill."
But I believe you don't need that system. All you need
is a naturopathic physician, a naturopathic approach
to life, herbs, good nutrition, healing foods, natural
sunlight, and the list goes on. These are easy things
to accomplish. The answers are quite obvious.

Your health freedoms are at stake right now
Returning to the Foods Supplements Directive in
Europe, it's really just the tip of the iceberg. The
effort to outlaw plant extracts, certain vitamins, and
certain minerals is just an extension of the
philosophy that nutrition should be criminalized. It's
part of the belief that people should be controlled
and forced into a system of organized medicine based
on huge egos, high profitability, control, and
limiting people's access to information and choices
regarding what they can use to improve their health.

That's why it is important for all of us that the Food
Supplements Directive fails and is ruled illegal. Only
when that happens can we create a system of more
freedom, more awareness and more healing. People need
choices. They need to have access to nature and to
nutrition. The very idea that this Food Supplements
Directive was even under consideration is quite
maddening. Hopefully, sanity will prevail and the
European Union will not outlaw nutrition.

Here in the United States, we can also hopefully move
in the same positive direction by keeping nutrition
freely available, and by making sure that DSHEA
remains in place so that nutritional supplements
remain legal and prescriptions are not required.
Hopefully, we can get some criminal convictions for
the real criminals out there: the people running these
pharmaceutical companies, the decision makers at the
FDA, and the people at the top of the hierarchy in
American organized medicine, who are directly
responsible for the deaths of hundreds of thousands of
Americans each and every year.

If we can put those people behind bars, we can reform
the FDA. We can then start educating people about the
real causes of health, about how to take charge of
their health outcome and be healthy for a lifetime. We
can create a whole new society, a whole new generation
of healthy young people who can learn, be creative and
be happy. We can see health care costs plummet in this
country. That's really what we need to see if we're
going to be competitive in the global marketplace.

The alternative is to continue down the path of
organized medicine. We will just get sicker, more
miserable, and truly more insane as a nation if things
continue. As if we're not insane enough already in
this country, it could get even worse! We've got to
reverse that, and it all starts with nutrition and
access to nature.

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