FDA unfairly maligns tobacco plant with graphic new cigarette warning labels

(NaturalNews) The FDA has released nine new graphic warning labels that will be required on U.S. cigarettes, offering grotesque visual images designed to dissuade smokers from purchasing cigarettes. At first glance, this might seem like a clever and effective strategy for reducing deaths from smoking cigarettes. After all, there’s a lot of scientific evidence that says smoking cigarettes is bad for you. But there’s something missing in this whole debate that neither the FDA nor health authorities dare talk about: there is a huge difference between smoking chemically-laced “processed” cigarettes versus natural tobacco leaves . In the minds of most people, “cigarettes” and “tobacco” are synonymous. If cigarettes are bad for you, then so is tobacco, they believe. In fact, we’ve all been trained to use the terms interchangeably. If someone is “addicted to cigarettes,” we also say, without even thinking about it, that they are “addicted to tobacco.” But as you’ll learn here, tobacco is a plant while cigarettes are a highly processed product laced with a recipe of deadly synthetic chemicals. “Tobacco” is not equivalent to “cigarettes” any more than an ear of corn is equivalent to a can of soda sweetened with high-fructose corn syrup. Or, as another example, “tobacco” is not equivalent to “cigarettes” any more than a grain of wholesome wheat is equivalent to a loaf of processed white bread with chemical preservatives. Cigarettes are not simply rolled tobacco leaves. They are tobacco plus a cocktail of other nasty additives and synthetic chemicals that don’t even exist in nature. Tobacco is an amazing, miraculous plant with a multitude of uses, while cigarettes are highly processed, chemically-laced products made with filler and synthetic ingredients that no one in their right mind would smoke if they had any sense. The problem, though, is that no one in the FDA — nor the entire western medical profession, it seems — makes any distinction between natural tobacco and highly processed, chemically-laced cigarettes. To hear them say it, all cigarettes are equally bad for you, regardless of what’s in them (or not). And that’s a critical oversight. Because the simple but unpopular truth is that smoking natural tobacco leaves, while clearly dangerous for your health, has nowhere near the health risks of smoking cigarettes made with chemical additives . Do not misunderstand my position here: I am against smoking. Secondhand smoke really does harm children. Smoking anything on a regular basis is dangerous to your lungs and heart. As a natural health advocate, I strongly encourage people to quit smoking no matter what they smoke. But as a critical thinker, I must insist we all be honest about where the risks from smoking processed manufactured cigarettes really come from. The tobacco plant is being unfairly maligned in this entire debate, it turns out. Why tobacco (the plant) deserves an honest assessment rather than radical condemnation I’m not a proponent of smoking anything, and I don’t smoke any plant or product whatsoever. Even smoking natural tobacco leaves is not good for your lungs, but smoking processed cigarettes is far, far worse. I’m publishing this article because I can’t stand by and watch the FDA shamefully condemn an entire plant (tobacco) when the real culprit of all this health damage is not the plant itself but the toxic chemicals added to the plant in the manufacture of a cigarette. Remember, the FDA, DEA and pharmaceutical industry has also viciously attacked another plant — hemp! And the hysteria leveled against hemp were all based on fabricated lies, fear mongering and a campaign of disinformation. Almost everything we were warned about hemp (and marijuana) turned out to be completely false, and a similar campaign of disinformation is being unfairly (and unscientifically) waged against the tobacco plant. Blaming tobacco for the health ills of cigarettes is like blaming corn plants for the increased risk of cancer that comes from eating corn dogs . (The cancer increase actually comes from the presence of sodium nitrite in the processed meat, in case you were wondering.) The brainwashing of the population on this issue of tobacco has been so successful that many people reading this article with react emotionally against the words presented here, in a knee-jerk reaction, insisting that tobacco (the plant) MUST be bad for your health because we’ve all been taught that for as long as we can remember! “Tobacco” is something we’ve been emotionally conditioned to react to without thinking … almost as if “tobacco = evil.” But that’s a gross oversimplification. Because what really makes cigarettes dangerous are all the non-tobacco ingredients you’ll find inside. What’s in a processed cigarette? A typical cigarette contains a nasty cocktail of synthetic chemicals that don’t exist in a tobacco leaf. A total of 599 chemical additives have been approved for use in cigarettes (http://quitsmoking.about.com/cs/nicotineinhaler/a/cigingredients.htm), and when those chemicals are lit up and smoked, they can produce up to 4,000 chemicals that the user inhales. Those are 599 chemicals that don’t exist in a natural tobacco leaf. You could actually remove all the tobacco from cigarettes and replace it with cardboard and the cigarette would still be just as deadly thanks to the all the chemicals and additives. The tobacco leaf itself has relatively little to do with the overall health effects of a typical processed cigarette. Smoking the burning vapors of synthetic chemicals is a form of slow suicide. But smoking an actual leaf of tobacco — absent chemical additives — is undeniably less dangerous to human health. Also, as another way to look at this, consider this simple fact: Smoking SPINACH carries roughly the same health danger as smoking tobacco leaf. There is nothing particular special about tobacco that makes it any more carcinogenic than smoking any other leafy plant. The nicotine content, of course, makes tobacco highly addictive , but that’s different from the question of the toxic dangers of its smoke. And yet if someone sold “spinach cigarettes” that combined dried spinach leaves with hundreds of toxic chemical additives into a cigarette, it would seem downright retarded to say that “spinach causes cancer.” And yet that’s the same language used with tobacco right now. How often have you heard the phrase “tobacco causes cancer?” Again, if we are to approach this issue with intellectual honesty, we need to differentiate between the natural tobacco plant and the highly processed manufactured cigarettes packed with toxic chemicals. Chemotherapy is far more toxic than smoking cigarettes Smoking toxic chemicals is about as idiotic as injecting them , and yet an entire medical industry now exists around the idea of injecting far deadlier chemicals than what you’ll find in cigarette smoke. It’s called chemotherapy , and it will kill you even faster than smoking an entire case of cigarettes a day. Notice that the FDA does not require graphic warnings about chemotherapy? People vomiting, their muscles wasting away, their hair falling out and eyes looking hollow… that’s the true face of chemo, and those who undergo it and somehow manage to come out alive are actually “chemo survivors” more than “cancer survivors.” So why aren’t there graphic warnings about chemotherapy? The answer, of course, is because in the medical mythologies that characterize modern western medicine, chemotherapy is labeled a “treatment” for cancer. This is a powerful example of the mythology of modern medicine because one of the most prominent side effects of chemotherapy is, believe it or not, CANCER! So the “treatment” for cancer used throughout western medicine actually causes cancer. If the medical system is going to depart so far from rational thinking, they might as well just claim that smoking cigarettes is a “treatment” for cancer too. In fact, it wasn’t too long ago that virtually the entire medical profession promoted cigarettes as therapeutic medicine that could whiten your teeth (seriously!), improve your mental focus and even make you popular with the ladies. Don’t believe me? Read the Journal of the American Medical Association from just a few decades ago, where it carried full-page ads promoting the great health benefits of smoking cigarettes. “More doctors smoke Camels than any other cigarette” was one of the most famous ads repeatedly run in JAMA. (http://www.naturalnews.com/021949.html) Also see the Museum of Badvertising here on NaturalNews: http://www.naturalnews.com/index-Badvertising.html Eating certain types of processed food is just as dangerous as smoking processed cigarettes Remember: Cigarettes are essentially processed smokes in the same way that the packaged factory-made food items at the grocery store are processed foods . In fact, some processed foods contain just as many chemical additives as processed cigarettes, yet people don’t even think twice about gobbling down a sandwich made from processed bread and extremely toxic processed deli meat made with known cancer-causing chemicals. So why don’t you see the FDA releasing graphic labels that have to be placed on bacon, sausage, hot dogs and other processed meats that promote cancer? Because the FDA and the American medical establishment has declared war on tobacco while completely ignoring the health risks associated with toxic chemical additives in the food supply. It’s no exaggeration: What cigarette smoke does to your lungs, processed packaged meat is doing to your pancreas and liver! If the FDA was genuinely concerned about protecting consumers from deadly additives in processed products, it would require cancer warnings on bacon and hot dogs , diabetes warnings on soda pop and heart disease warnings on fried snack chips. There should be warnings about MSG, aspartame, sodium nitrite, partially-hydrogenated vegetable oils and artificial food colors. But there are no warnings whatsoever for those chemicals in the food supply, which just goes to show you that the warning labels on cigarettes have more to do with politics than public health. FDA hypocrisy The FDA, it seems, is very selective about which poisons it wants you to know about versus those it wants to keep quiet. If the FDA had any actual ethics, it would warn consumers about ALL the toxins in foods, beverages and consumer products, not just a very small number of selected ones that are convenient targets. The FDA even goes out of its way to force natural cigarette companies to lie in their marketing materials about how dangerous smoking tobacco can be for your health. Natural American Spirit cigarettes, for example, which are made with no chemical additives whatsoever, are required to state, “No additives in our tobacco does NOT mean a safer cigarette.” (https://www.nascigs.com) Actually, it does. Reducing the chemical additives reduces the carcinogens in the cigarette smoke. It’s basic chemistry. If you inhale fewer toxins, it’s less carcinogenic. The FDA does not seem to get this. Of course, the entire medical industry doesn’t even acknowledge any difference between LIVE foods versus DEAD foods, so this shouldn’t be surprising. In fact, the FDA is waging war against live foods such as raw milk, raw almonds and fresh vegetables, which just goes to show you how deeply committed the agency is to dead foods (which lead to dead people). Please don’t misunderstanding my position on smoking, by the way. Smoking anything is carcinogenic due to the chemicals produced by burning anything. I don’t smoke, and I don’t advocate smoking even natural tobacco. Smoking is a nasty habit for lots of reasons, and I strongly support the anti-smoking laws that prevent people from lighting up in public places (but I fully support someone’s right to light up in their own home if that’s their choice). But as an award-winning journalist who consistently exposes the hypocrisy in the medical establishment and the FDA, I must point out that the greatest health dangers associated with smoking cigarettes come from the chemical additives and “filler” ingredients in those cigarettes, not the tobacco leaf itself. The FDA’s new cigarette warning labels may be quite gross, but what’s really sickening is how the FDA utterly refuses to outlaw the truly dangerous additives in the food supply and the personal care products industry. While the agency wages war on tobacco, it openly allows hundreds of known chemical poisons to be used in foods, lotions, shampoos and beverages. It’s “commitment to public safety,” it turns out, is strictly limited to efforts that target just one industry — the tobacco industry. What the FDA doesn’t bother telling you is that even if you don’t smoke, all the toxic chemicals in the processed meat you’re eating will probably kill you anyway. Where’s the graphic warning label on hot dogs?

FDA unfairly maligns tobacco plant with graphic new cigarette warning labels

(NaturalNews) The FDA has released nine new graphic warning labels that will be required on U.S. cigarettes, offering grotesque visual images designed to dissuade smokers from purchasing cigarettes. At first glance, this might seem like a clever and effective strategy for reducing deaths from smoking cigarettes. After all, there’s a lot of scientific evidence that says smoking cigarettes is bad for you. But there’s something missing in this whole debate that neither the FDA nor health authorities dare talk about: there is a huge difference between smoking chemically-laced “processed” cigarettes versus natural tobacco leaves . In the minds of most people, “cigarettes” and “tobacco” are synonymous. If cigarettes are bad for you, then so is tobacco, they believe. In fact, we’ve all been trained to use the terms interchangeably. If someone is “addicted to cigarettes,” we also say, without even thinking about it, that they are “addicted to tobacco.” But as you’ll learn here, tobacco is a plant while cigarettes are a highly processed product laced with a recipe of deadly synthetic chemicals. “Tobacco” is not equivalent to “cigarettes” any more than an ear of corn is equivalent to a can of soda sweetened with high-fructose corn syrup. Or, as another example, “tobacco” is not equivalent to “cigarettes” any more than a grain of wholesome wheat is equivalent to a loaf of processed white bread with chemical preservatives. Cigarettes are not simply rolled tobacco leaves. They are tobacco plus a cocktail of other nasty additives and synthetic chemicals that don’t even exist in nature. Tobacco is an amazing, miraculous plant with a multitude of uses, while cigarettes are highly processed, chemically-laced products made with filler and synthetic ingredients that no one in their right mind would smoke if they had any sense. The problem, though, is that no one in the FDA — nor the entire western medical profession, it seems — makes any distinction between natural tobacco and highly processed, chemically-laced cigarettes. To hear them say it, all cigarettes are equally bad for you, regardless of what’s in them (or not). And that’s a critical oversight. Because the simple but unpopular truth is that smoking natural tobacco leaves, while clearly dangerous for your health, has nowhere near the health risks of smoking cigarettes made with chemical additives . Do not misunderstand my position here: I am against smoking. Secondhand smoke really does harm children. Smoking anything on a regular basis is dangerous to your lungs and heart. As a natural health advocate, I strongly encourage people to quit smoking no matter what they smoke. But as a critical thinker, I must insist we all be honest about where the risks from smoking processed manufactured cigarettes really come from. The tobacco plant is being unfairly maligned in this entire debate, it turns out. Why tobacco (the plant) deserves an honest assessment rather than radical condemnation I’m not a proponent of smoking anything, and I don’t smoke any plant or product whatsoever. Even smoking natural tobacco leaves is not good for your lungs, but smoking processed cigarettes is far, far worse. I’m publishing this article because I can’t stand by and watch the FDA shamefully condemn an entire plant (tobacco) when the real culprit of all this health damage is not the plant itself but the toxic chemicals added to the plant in the manufacture of a cigarette. Remember, the FDA, DEA and pharmaceutical industry has also viciously attacked another plant — hemp! And the hysteria leveled against hemp were all based on fabricated lies, fear mongering and a campaign of disinformation. Almost everything we were warned about hemp (and marijuana) turned out to be completely false, and a similar campaign of disinformation is being unfairly (and unscientifically) waged against the tobacco plant. Blaming tobacco for the health ills of cigarettes is like blaming corn plants for the increased risk of cancer that comes from eating corn dogs . (The cancer increase actually comes from the presence of sodium nitrite in the processed meat, in case you were wondering.) The brainwashing of the population on this issue of tobacco has been so successful that many people reading this article with react emotionally against the words presented here, in a knee-jerk reaction, insisting that tobacco (the plant) MUST be bad for your health because we’ve all been taught that for as long as we can remember! “Tobacco” is something we’ve been emotionally conditioned to react to without thinking … almost as if “tobacco = evil.” But that’s a gross oversimplification. Because what really makes cigarettes dangerous are all the non-tobacco ingredients you’ll find inside. What’s in a processed cigarette? A typical cigarette contains a nasty cocktail of synthetic chemicals that don’t exist in a tobacco leaf. A total of 599 chemical additives have been approved for use in cigarettes (http://quitsmoking.about.com/cs/nicotineinhaler/a/cigingredients.htm), and when those chemicals are lit up and smoked, they can produce up to 4,000 chemicals that the user inhales. Those are 599 chemicals that don’t exist in a natural tobacco leaf. You could actually remove all the tobacco from cigarettes and replace it with cardboard and the cigarette would still be just as deadly thanks to the all the chemicals and additives. The tobacco leaf itself has relatively little to do with the overall health effects of a typical processed cigarette. Smoking the burning vapors of synthetic chemicals is a form of slow suicide. But smoking an actual leaf of tobacco — absent chemical additives — is undeniably less dangerous to human health. Also, as another way to look at this, consider this simple fact: Smoking SPINACH carries roughly the same health danger as smoking tobacco leaf. There is nothing particular special about tobacco that makes it any more carcinogenic than smoking any other leafy plant. The nicotine content, of course, makes tobacco highly addictive , but that’s different from the question of the toxic dangers of its smoke. And yet if someone sold “spinach cigarettes” that combined dried spinach leaves with hundreds of toxic chemical additives into a cigarette, it would seem downright retarded to say that “spinach causes cancer.” And yet that’s the same language used with tobacco right now. How often have you heard the phrase “tobacco causes cancer?” Again, if we are to approach this issue with intellectual honesty, we need to differentiate between the natural tobacco plant and the highly processed manufactured cigarettes packed with toxic chemicals. Chemotherapy is far more toxic than smoking cigarettes Smoking toxic chemicals is about as idiotic as injecting them , and yet an entire medical industry now exists around the idea of injecting far deadlier chemicals than what you’ll find in cigarette smoke. It’s called chemotherapy , and it will kill you even faster than smoking an entire case of cigarettes a day. Notice that the FDA does not require graphic warnings about chemotherapy? People vomiting, their muscles wasting away, their hair falling out and eyes looking hollow… that’s the true face of chemo, and those who undergo it and somehow manage to come out alive are actually “chemo survivors” more than “cancer survivors.” So why aren’t there graphic warnings about chemotherapy? The answer, of course, is because in the medical mythologies that characterize modern western medicine, chemotherapy is labeled a “treatment” for cancer. This is a powerful example of the mythology of modern medicine because one of the most prominent side effects of chemotherapy is, believe it or not, CANCER! So the “treatment” for cancer used throughout western medicine actually causes cancer. If the medical system is going to depart so far from rational thinking, they might as well just claim that smoking cigarettes is a “treatment” for cancer too. In fact, it wasn’t too long ago that virtually the entire medical profession promoted cigarettes as therapeutic medicine that could whiten your teeth (seriously!), improve your mental focus and even make you popular with the ladies. Don’t believe me? Read the Journal of the American Medical Association from just a few decades ago, where it carried full-page ads promoting the great health benefits of smoking cigarettes. “More doctors smoke Camels than any other cigarette” was one of the most famous ads repeatedly run in JAMA. (http://www.naturalnews.com/021949.html) Also see the Museum of Badvertising here on NaturalNews: http://www.naturalnews.com/index-Badvertising.html Eating certain types of processed food is just as dangerous as smoking processed cigarettes Remember: Cigarettes are essentially processed smokes in the same way that the packaged factory-made food items at the grocery store are processed foods . In fact, some processed foods contain just as many chemical additives as processed cigarettes, yet people don’t even think twice about gobbling down a sandwich made from processed bread and extremely toxic processed deli meat made with known cancer-causing chemicals. So why don’t you see the FDA releasing graphic labels that have to be placed on bacon, sausage, hot dogs and other processed meats that promote cancer? Because the FDA and the American medical establishment has declared war on tobacco while completely ignoring the health risks associated with toxic chemical additives in the food supply. It’s no exaggeration: What cigarette smoke does to your lungs, processed packaged meat is doing to your pancreas and liver! If the FDA was genuinely concerned about protecting consumers from deadly additives in processed products, it would require cancer warnings on bacon and hot dogs , diabetes warnings on soda pop and heart disease warnings on fried snack chips. There should be warnings about MSG, aspartame, sodium nitrite, partially-hydrogenated vegetable oils and artificial food colors. But there are no warnings whatsoever for those chemicals in the food supply, which just goes to show you that the warning labels on cigarettes have more to do with politics than public health. FDA hypocrisy The FDA, it seems, is very selective about which poisons it wants you to know about versus those it wants to keep quiet. If the FDA had any actual ethics, it would warn consumers about ALL the toxins in foods, beverages and consumer products, not just a very small number of selected ones that are convenient targets. The FDA even goes out of its way to force natural cigarette companies to lie in their marketing materials about how dangerous smoking tobacco can be for your health. Natural American Spirit cigarettes, for example, which are made with no chemical additives whatsoever, are required to state, “No additives in our tobacco does NOT mean a safer cigarette.” (https://www.nascigs.com) Actually, it does. Reducing the chemical additives reduces the carcinogens in the cigarette smoke. It’s basic chemistry. If you inhale fewer toxins, it’s less carcinogenic. The FDA does not seem to get this. Of course, the entire medical industry doesn’t even acknowledge any difference between LIVE foods versus DEAD foods, so this shouldn’t be surprising. In fact, the FDA is waging war against live foods such as raw milk, raw almonds and fresh vegetables, which just goes to show you how deeply committed the agency is to dead foods (which lead to dead people). Please don’t misunderstanding my position on smoking, by the way. Smoking anything is carcinogenic due to the chemicals produced by burning anything. I don’t smoke, and I don’t advocate smoking even natural tobacco. Smoking is a nasty habit for lots of reasons, and I strongly support the anti-smoking laws that prevent people from lighting up in public places (but I fully support someone’s right to light up in their own home if that’s their choice). But as an award-winning journalist who consistently exposes the hypocrisy in the medical establishment and the FDA, I must point out that the greatest health dangers associated with smoking cigarettes come from the chemical additives and “filler” ingredients in those cigarettes, not the tobacco leaf itself. The FDA’s new cigarette warning labels may be quite gross, but what’s really sickening is how the FDA utterly refuses to outlaw the truly dangerous additives in the food supply and the personal care products industry. While the agency wages war on tobacco, it openly allows hundreds of known chemical poisons to be used in foods, lotions, shampoos and beverages. It’s “commitment to public safety,” it turns out, is strictly limited to efforts that target just one industry — the tobacco industry. What the FDA doesn’t bother telling you is that even if you don’t smoke, all the toxic chemicals in the processed meat you’re eating will probably kill you anyway. Where’s the graphic warning label on hot dogs?

Seasonal flu vaccine fairy tale rapidly collapsing as the truth comes out

(NaturalNews) Like a medical house of cards in an earthquake, the seasonal flu vaccine mythology is collapsing right before our eyes. After months of urging everyone to get vaccinated (and blaming non-vaccinated people for skipping out on their “public health obligation”), UK health authorities announced last week that “healthy people” were to blame for causing a vaccine shortage that they claim now threatens the lives of sick children (http://www.naturalnews.com/030977_vaccine_shortage.html). As part of this ruse, they even suggested that pharmacies should be banned from selling flu vaccines to healthy people, explaining that healthy people didn’t really need them anyway . So much for the big flu vaccine delusion that “everybody needs a vaccine.” As UK health authorities are now blatantly admitting, that was all just a fairy tale that crumpled the instant they ran out of excess vaccine inventory. Now, what we really know about the vaccine industry is that the marketing motto goes something like this: When vaccines are in short supply, only sell them to people who need them. When vaccines are in abundant supply, sell them to people who don’t need them. Doctors order a halt to flu vaccines for children The seasonal flu vaccine delusion looks even more ridiculous in light of the new marching orders from UK health authorities who, just three days ago, announced that seasonal flu mass vaccination programs for children should be halted . The decision comes from the North West Strategic Health Authority (SHA), which reversed its decision to “vaccinate all children” announced two weeks ago. That original decision to vaccinate all children was derived from vaccine-propaganda “research” published in The Lancet — the same medical journal that pushes an aggressive vaccine agenda while simultaneously pursuing a modern-day witch hunt against Dr Andrew Wakefield, the researcher who demonstrated a correlation between vaccines and autism. Many parents, who have been indoctrinated by the UK press into believing the quack science behind seasonal flu vaccines, are now freaking out and wondering how they’re going to “protect” their children from the flu. The thought of feeding their children good nutrition, vitamin D supplements and organic fresh food never occurred to them, apparently. In an age where medicinal food is outlawed while interventionist vaccines are pushed as “medicine,” a surprisingly large number of adults remain utterly ignorant of how to protect the health of their children without turning to pharmaceuticals. Mass vaccinations don’t work well, even according to vaccine proponents While all this is going on, a new theoretical approach to stopping the spread of seasonal flu has emerged from the field of quantum physics , where three physicists from Michigan State University and the Hebrew University of Jerusalem devised a new vaccination approach that accelerates the “natural extinction” of the virus through what they call “selective vaccination.” They found that the practice of mass vaccination is scientifically unnecessary (and that’s even if you believe that seasonal flu vaccines work at all). Their work is based on the established scientific fact that every strain of influenza becomes extinct on its own, even if nobody is vaccinated . Their targeted vaccine approach models the timing of vaccines after seasonal variations in infections while also taking into account the relative vulnerability factors among different groups (children, adults, seniors, etc.). Professor Baruch Meerson explains that vaccinating just a few percent of the vulnerable population is all that’s required to significantly shorten the natural “burn out” time of an infectious flu. You can find more details on this paper at: http://www.huji.ac.il/cgi-bin/dovrut/dovrut_search_eng.pl?mesge129422769832688760 The upshot of this research is that mathematical modeling shows that mass vaccination programs are wasteful, expensive and ineffective . People who receive vaccines die from the flu anyway Perhaps the most obvious example of the shattered illusions of the flu vaccine fairy tale is the fact that people who get flu vaccines still die from the flu . Case in point: A UK grandmother who received a flu vaccine several months ago died last week from the flu (http://www.naturalnews.com/031010_swine_flu_fatalities.html). She was 68 years old and her doctor said that she would be protected from the flu by the flu shot. But she was lied to because it turns out that flu vaccines don’t offer 100% protection against the flu. In fact, they don’t offer 50% protection… nor even 10% protection. Statistically speaking, for every 100 people who get a flu shot, 99 people demonstrate no benefit whatsoever (http://www.naturalnews.com/029641_vaccines_junk_science.html). In addition, there’s the issue of the re-infection rate of those who are vaccinated: How many people who catch the flu are already vaccinated against it? The flu vaccine industry won’t say. They don’t want people to know the astonishing truth that most people who catch the flu are the very same people who have been vaccinated against the flu! Food supplements work better to prevent flu and cold symptoms Even while the mythology behind seasonal flu vaccines is crumbling, new evidence is emerging that food-based nutritional supplements really work to prevent flu infections. An 8-month, 500-person study carried out by the Institute of Social Medicine, Epidemiology and Health Economics reveals that Juice Plus+ supplements resulted in a 20 percent decrease in moderate and severe cold symptoms in test subjects. This study has now been published in the British Journal of Nutrition and was based on a randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled study. Juice Plus+ supplements, by the way, are also loaded with literally thousands of phytonutrients (plant-based medicines) that support human health in a multitude of ways. These nutrients help protect the human body from heart disease, cancer, diabetes, high blood pressure, depression, liver disorders and even Alzheimer’s disease. Although I’m not personally involved in the Juice Plus company, I do support their product line and hope to report more about Juice Plus in the future. The collapse of the vaccine delusion is accelerating I wouldn’t have predicted this a year ago, but it’s now clear that the seasonal flu vaccine delusion is collapsing more quickly than ever. This is probably the reason the vaccine industry now appears so frantically desperate to destroy the careers of any doctors or scientists who question conventional vaccine dogma. The recent series of outrageous attacks on Dr Andrew Wakefield — by an industry that is itself steeped in corruption and fraud — is perhaps the most relevant example. Medical journals are actually rewriting history to remove any studies that document the harm caused by vaccines. (This is, of course, classic Orwellian maneuvering via the Ministry of Truth.) The mass media, which of course is funded in large part by the pharmaceutical industry, is going along with the demonization of vaccine opponents, further spreading the quackery and subterfuge that defines the modern-day vaccine industry. But even their most desperate attempts to deny scientific reality will ultimately fail, and I predict the vaccine industry as we know it today will ultimately be revealed as the greatest medical fraud ever perpetrated on the human race . Before long, seasonal flu vaccine pushers will rightly be labeled “quacks” are derided as unintelligent, non-scientific lapdogs of the vaccine industry. How will all this unfold? The most likely scenario involves a deadly, fast-spreading viral pandemic that turns out to be especially deadly only to those who have been vaccinated. (Vaccines actually weaken the immune response to future epidemics.) After tens of millions of people die across the planet, the truth will become clear: Vaccines actually create the perfect storm of long-term vulnerabilities for a global pandemic wipeout of the human population. But perhaps that’s the whole point to begin with. Vaccines are remarkably effective as population control medications. As Bill Gates famously said, “The world today has 6.8 billion people… that’s headed up to about 9 billion. Now if we do a really great job on new vaccines, health care, reproductive health services, we could lower that by perhaps 10 or 15 percent.” (http://www.naturalnews.com/029911_vaccines_Bill_Gates.html) Don’t believe it? Watch the video yourself right here: http://www.naturalnews.tv/v.asp?v=A155D113455FAC882A3290536575C723 Seasonal flu vaccines do serve a purpose, it seems. It’s just not the purpose we’ve all been led to believe. Sources for this story include: Stephanie Roll, Marc Nocon, Stefan N. Willich. Reduction of common cold symptoms by encapsulated juice powder concentrate of fruits and vegetables: a randomised, double-blind, placebo-controlled trial . British Journal of Nutrition, 2010; 105 (01): 118

Fraudulent herbal immune supplement fails to reduce flu symptoms for 99 percent of people

(NaturalNews) In an independent review published in a peer-reviewed medical journal (see below), a popular herbal immune supplement called “ImmunoFlu Remedy” was found to fraudulently marketed as a “flu prevention supplement.” Its makers claim that if you take the supplement, you won’t get the flu and won’t miss a day of work during the flu season (a silly claim, eh?). But clinical testing recently revealed that ImmunoFlu Remedy only works to reduce flu symptoms on 1 out of every 100 people who take the supplement, meaning it is 99 percent ineffective. An FTC spokesperson, commenting on the study results, characterized the marketing of ImmunoFlu Remedy as “obviously fraudulent” and a top FDA official has publicly promised to launch a criminal investigation into the makers of ImmunoFlu Remedy in order to “protect the public from misleading health claims.” Evidence has also surfaced that ImmunoFlu Remedy may contain trace levels of heavy metals linked to neurological disorders. Over a dozen children admitted to emergency rooms at hospitals across the country have been identified as consumers of ImmunoFlu Remedy, and two of those children died. The makers of ImmunoFlu Remedy are being ordered to remove the product from their website and recall the product from distributors and retailers. As shocking as all this sounds, there’s something you need to know as you continue reading this story here on NaturalNews. There is no such thing as ImmunoFlu Remedy . This story is actually about seasonal flu vaccines . Most of the details mentioned above, you see, are actually the true story about seasonal flu vaccines. Flu vaccines don’t work on 99 out of 100 people Seasonal flu vaccines have been scientifically shown to reduce flu symptoms in only 1 out of every 100 people (they are ineffective on 99% of those receiving the shots) (http://www.naturalnews.com/029641_vaccines_junk_science.html). Flu vaccines also contain chemical ingredients linked to neurological disorders, which is why so many children in Australia and around the world have been admitted to hospital emergency rooms suffering from seizures and convulsions following flu shot injections (http://www.naturalnews.com/029586_Australia_vaccines.html). Seasonal flu vaccines are also fraudulently marketed with blatantly false claims that they prevent the flu in everyone who receives a shot. “Get the shot and you won’t miss work” is one of the common claims made in flu shot promotions. Or, as Walgreens implies, “Get the shot and you won’t infect your family members.” That claim is blatantly misleading and scientifically false. And yet, despite this fraudulent marketing of a product that doesn’t work on 99% of those who take it, neither the FTC nor the FDA has taken any action against it. Marketers of flu vaccines, it turns out, can make any claims they wish , even if such claims are laughable in the face of scientific scrutiny. Forget the science… we’ve got vaccines to sell! Flu vaccines, you see, are immune from any real scientific scrutiny — even by the scientific community. The mythology of season flu vaccines has been so pervasive and so widely described as “scientific” that the truth of whether it’s really scientific no longer matters. Flu vaccines are simply assumed to work even without testing; without scientific evidence and without any legitimate application of skeptical thinking. There’s a word for that, of course. It’s the word used to describe a system of belief that requires no evidence… a system in which truths are materialized out of lies through the mere act of enough authoritative people uttering falsehoods until they all begin to believe each other. That word, of course, is a four-letter word: Cult. A cult need not answer to statistical scrutiny. It need not subject its own internal beliefs to outside review because everyone inside the cult already agrees on the answer — and why ask questions when we already know the truth, right? Such is the nature of the cult of flu vaccines . It’s a large cult, of course, but the sheer size of the cult in no way detracts from the fact that it is a cult nonetheless. In other words, just because millions of doctors believe the propaganda of a cult does not make it any less of a cult. Even if all the doctors, pharmacists and drug pushers in the world fall for a fictitious belief and put their faith and professional reputations on the line in order to back that belief, it’s still fiction . And it’s still a cult. Doctors once prescribed mercury and other poisons There was a time in western medicine when doctors routinely prescribed mercury as a remedy to treat various afflictions. For example, mercury was frequently prescribed to treat syphilis . In fact, one study describing the treatment of syphilis with “mercury inhalations” was presented at the Forty-Fourth Annual Session of the American Dermatological Association in Swampscott, Mass., June 2-4 in the year 1921. That study was entitled: THE TREATMENT OF SYPHILIS BY MERCURY INHALATIONS by H. N. COLE, M.D.; A. J. GERICKE, M.D.; TORALD SOLLMANN, M.D. Arch Derm Syphilol . 1922;5(1):18-33. Notice that the three authors were all MDs? That’s because doctors have historically been some of the most persistent promoters of poisonous concoctions that today we would call “quackery.” They even sought to destroy the careers and reputations of their own colleagues who pointed out that perhaps mercury should not be used as a medicine — or even the idea that surgeons should wash their hands! It is an historical fact that western doctors promoted the heavy metal mercury, highly addictive heroin, and other extremely toxic substances as “miracle cures” for all sorts of diseases and conditions. They also advocated cigarettes as being good for your health and even improving your teeth! (http://www.naturalnews.com/021949.html) In fact, the term “quack” comes from the use of mercury by western doctors. Mercury, of course, was once called “quicksilver,” and the term was bastardized into the derogatory “quack” to refer to physicians who continued to use dangerous substances that harmed patients. Under that definition, today’s quacks are not homeopaths or herbalists but rather oncologists who poison their patients with chemotherapy in almost exactly the same way the quack doctors once poisoned their patients with mercury. Flu vaccines are modern medicine’s form of quackery Based nothing more than wishful thinking and physicians quoting each other as reliable sources of expert opinion, the whole of evidence supporting flu vaccines today amounts to little more than an intellectual circle jerk of truly bad science. Today’s flu vaccine-pushing physicians, you see, are no smarter than their colleagues from the 1800′s who prescribed mercury inhalations for patients. And they are arguably less wise, too. The only real difference is that today there are more of them and so their voices seem to take on the illusion of authority and consensus. Consensus is not always fact . More often than not, it is merely the mass infection of many minds with official foolishness. At one time, after all, it was an established, consensus “fact” that the Earth was flat. More recently, even in 1847, a Hungarian obstetrician named Ignaz Semmelweis was viciously attacked by his colleagues for insisting that doctors should wash their hands before delivering babies (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ignaz_Semmelweis). What Semmelweis discovered then is what every person who speaks out against the insanities of western medicine knows today: Western medicine is an arrogant, misinformed and dangerously ignorant system of control in which truth-tellers are routinely exterminated in order to maintain the mythologies upon which the medical industrial complex is based . The truth about flu vaccines would destroy much of western medicine Semmelweis was much like the Wikileaks of the 1840′s in the sense that he revealed “uncomfortable truths” that challenged the status quo and made a whole lot of really important-sounding people look like fools. Since really important-sounding people don’t enjoy looking like fools, they simply attack the messenger and increase their resolve to defend their ridiculous falsehoods and mythologies… even in the face of clear evidence that shows them to be wrong. Such is precisely the situation happening today with flu vaccines. To challenge the sanctity of seasonal flu vaccines and the regimen of annual shots (which just happen to coincide with steady profits for the drug companies) is to question the very foundation of western medicine. Without the mythology of vaccines firmly imprinted in the minds of the people, western medicine would no longer appear to have authority over the flu. If flu vaccines were halted for just one year — forcing people to turn to vitamin D instead — the illusion of flu vaccines would be forever shattered and the people would realize that taking seasonal flu vaccine shots is just as ludicrous as inhaling mercury vapor. That’s why flu vaccines have to be incessantly pushed, each and every year, without any gaps in the “treatment.” The real quackery of vaccines The evil genius in all this is that people have been tricked into believing in vaccines whether they work or not . When someone receives a vaccine shot, they consider themselves “protected” from the flu. So what happens if they get the flu anyway? They simply reason in their own heads that if they hadn’t been vaccinated, they might have experienced far worse flu symptoms. And if they don’t get the flu at all? Then they reason that the vaccine prevented the flu! Thus, with the right programming, flu vaccines can be thought of as useful and effective regardless of the actual health outcome . This is a classic red flag for a system of quackery. It’s one of the most common complaints leveled against energy medicine by conventional scientists, in fact. They rightly point out that determining whether energy medicine really works for you is a guessing game: If you still get sick, you might think the energy medicine worked a little bit but not enough. If you don’t get sick, then you might think the energy medicine worked like a miracle. Such a logic matrix is prone to misinterpretation by patients and doctors alike. In both cases — energy medicine as well as flu vaccines — patients are likely to convince themselves that it’s working, even if there is no real evidence that their belief is accurate. Belief itself, of course, is perhaps the best medicine of all, and it is a distinct possibility that the small number of patients who seem to be helped by flu vaccines (one percent) may be experiencing the benefit of the placebo effect . Nevertheless, the way out of this puzzle is to subject flu vaccines (or energy medicine, similarly) to rigorous clinical trials in which a serious attempt is made to tease out some statistically significant answers such as “what percentage of people are actually helped by this treatment?” What’s really amazing about all this is that such clinical trials have already been done on flu vaccines , and the results are in: Seasonal flu vaccines prevent flu symptoms in about one percent of the people who receive vaccine jabs. And that’s if you believe the more optimistic conclusions of the vaccine manufacturers themselves, by the way (http://www.naturalnews.com/029641_vaccines_junk_science.html). How would this quackery be viewed if it were an herbal remedy? From a scientific perspective, then, seasonal flu vaccines have roughly a one percent effectiveness rate, which means they have no apparent effect on 99 out of 100 people . What’s interesting about this is that if homeopathy, or energy medicine, or an herbal formula produced such poor results, it would be widely ridiculed as a quack remedy promoted via fraudulent marketing. A one percent effectiveness rate proves any “natural” remedy to be quackery, you see, and yet the same one percent effectiveness rate is more than sufficient to support the mythology of vaccines to those who believe the vaccine cult. What it all comes down to is really this: Seasonal flu vaccines are really 1% science and 99% wishful thinking. And yet, apparently, that’s more than enough reason for virtually the entire medical and scientific establishments to back seasonal flu vaccines as if they were scientifically proven while touting highly exaggerated marketing claims that imply one hundred percent effectiveness. In any other industry, marketing a product that didn’t work 99 percent of the time would be considered fraud. But in the vaccine industry? It’s just business as usual. How to make money selling a product that almost never works as advertised The seasonal flu vaccine is a great money-making con, too. Imagine how much money you could make if you could convince hundreds of millions of people to buy a product that didn’t work on 99 percent of your customers, and yet 100 percent of them were convinced that they were receiving benefits from it! It’s a pretty clever con, and it all depends on promoting the mythology — or “catapulting the propaganda” as President George Bush famously said — in order to make sure that 99 percent of the wishful thinking that powers the flu vaccine industry remains in place. Because, let’s face it: If flu vaccines actually worked, the industry really wouldn’t need to advertise them so heavily , would they? If these vaccines really stopped flu infections with 100 percent effectiveness, word of mouth about flu vaccines would spread even faster than the flu itself, and virtually everyone would line up to get their “flu protection” shots out of sheer necessity. The only reason the industry needs to engage in such aggressive flu vaccine promotion is because flu vaccines are only based on 1% science , and the other 99% of the marketing formula depends on keeping people brainwashed into believing the false mythology of flu vaccines. Flu shots as placebo Flu vaccines, in effect, are largely just placebo shots . If you think they’re going to work for you, then you’ll remain convinced of that regardless of whether you get sick or not. There wouldn’t really be any harm in that except for the inconvenient fact that vaccine shots contain harmful chemical ingredients that pose a health risk to those who take them. Thus, even while a flu vaccine may be providing as much as a 1% protection against the flu, it may simultaneously subject a person to a significantly smaller risk of a far more serious detrimental outcome: Neurological damage, convulsions, learning disabilities or even the accelerated development of Alzheimer’s disease. Are these risks really worth a 1-in-100 chance of preventing the flu? A rational answer seems to be no, they aren’t. Especially when the available evidence says that vitamin D supplements work far better at preventing flu infections . And vitamin D can be taken with virtually no health risks whatsoever. Even better, vitamin D supplements are not formulated with mercury preservatives, chemical adjuvants or other questionable chemicals that are typically added to vaccines. But don’t expect this sort of rational, clear-thinking discussion of flu vaccines and vitamin D to be undertaken by your physician. Doctors have already drank the flu vaccine Kool-Aid, and as a result the science no longer matters to them . Even if Wikileaks released definitive documents showing the entire flu vaccine industry to be a complete scam based on fraudulent science, most doctors would no doubt continue to push flu vaccines anyway because that’s what they’ve always done. Doctors don’t change course very often… especially not if they’ve participated as active members of the vaccine cult for several years (or decades). The likelihood of a doctor actually changing his mind on this issue of flu vaccines is even less than the likelihood of a flu vaccine preventing you from getting the flu this winter. And that likelihood is ridiculously low to begin with. So don’t hold your breath. And don’t hold out any faith for the idea that doctors will suddenly embrace scientific thinking, either. Because there’s no room for truly scientific thought in the membership ranks of the vaccine cult.

Australia bans flu vaccines in children after vomiting, fevers, seizures

(NaturalNews) Although it’s still summer in North America, it is of course winter in Australia, and the flu season is well under way there. As usual, Australian health authorities have been urging parents there to vaccinate their children against the flu, propagating the mythology that flu vaccines are both safe and effective. But this time around, many Australian parents found out the hard way that they were being lied to . It didn’t take long to realize the truth after their children start going into convulsions following the flu vaccine injections. Other children began vomiting or exhibiting dangerously high levels of fever. One child has gone into a coma and may never recover. As reported in WA Today (http://www.watoday.com.au/wa-news/flu-vaccination-ban-goes-national-after-fever-convulsions-in-children-20100423-tglp.html?from=age_ft) “Perth mother of two Bea Flint said her 11-month-old boy Avery had a seizure after receiving the first dose of the two-dose flu vaccination on Saturday. Mrs Flint said that after the 9am vaccination she noticed Avery had a minor temperature about 2pm. At 7.45pm, Avery started whimpering and moaning. When Mrs Flint got to his cot the baby had vomited and was lying on his side having a seizure. ‘He couldn’t cry – his head was hanging down in the car seat and he couldn’t move. I was petrified – it was one of the worst experiences of my life.” The story goes on to say, “The doctor who treated Avery told Mrs Flint her baby was the fifth child with similar symptoms admitted to the hospital that day.” In other words, this was no rare event. Vaccinated children suffering severe convulsions were piling up in hospital emergency rooms across the country. The real kicker, though, is that children started having convulsions two weeks ago but Australian health authorities ignored them, insisting that the vaccine was safe and causing it to be injected in yet more babies. Two weeks later, with dozens more children experiencing convulsions (and who knows how many thousands actually being harmed in less obvious ways), Commonwealth chief health officer Professor Jim Bishop finally announced the vaccination ban. Remember: Health authorities in Australia, UK, the United States and everywhere else have relentlessly insisted that flu vaccines are perfectly safe and can’t possibly harm anyone. In the U.S., the FDA has given its approval to the very same flu vaccine that’s harming children in Australia , and the CDC has insisted that all children in the USA — regardless of age — should now be injected with this very same flu vaccine. So now we’ve got a vaccine that Australia has banned by the USA somehow says is safe enough to inject into a six-month-old infant. How many convulsing babies will it take in the U.S. before American parents realize the truth about flu vaccines? Chemically induced convulsions As you’re reading this, you may find yourself wonder, “Well, what could cause such convulsions in children?” The answer is more terrifying than you might think, because it’s not “weakened flu viruses” that vaccine manufacturer claim they put into the vaccines. A weakened flu virus doesn’t send children into convulsions. Only a chemical can do that . The chemical in question is one that’s routinely added to most vaccines as a way to aggravate the immune system to respond to the presence of the weakened virus. It’s called an “adjuvant” and consists of a highly inflammatory chemical that we now know may damage brain tissues and the nervous system. It is this adjuvant that most likely caused the convulsions in children. Even in children who don’t experience convulsions, there is speculation that this adjuvant may lead to future Alzheimer’s disease or other neurological disorders. Vaccine manufacturers always attempt to downplay their use of adjuvant chemicals, and few media outlets focus on this important point, but it is the adjuvant that is most likely responsible for sending these Australian children into hospitals with convulsions. Health authorities defend dangerous vaccine One thing I’ve noticed about vaccine pushers is that they behave like irrational zealots. No matter how much evidence surfaces about the dangers of vaccines, they continue to mindlessly push them while ignoring the evidence. A pediatric professor in Australia, Dr Peter Richmond, admitted that researchers were trying to figure out if the entire vaccine was dangerous, or if there was just a bad batch. But even before getting the answer to this question, he goes on to say that everybody over the age of five should go ahead and get injected with this same vaccine! (http://www.watoday.com.au/wa-news/flu-vaccination-ban-goes-national-after-fever-convulsions-in-children-20100423-tglp.html?from=age_ft) In other words, he’s so convinced the vaccine is safe — even after dozens of children were obviously harmed by it — that he’s still pushing the same dangerous vaccine onto everybody else! This is precisely the kind of attitude reflected across the vaccine industry. Reports of children being harmed, or paralyzed, or hospitalized by vaccines are always written off as “coincidence.” The mounting evidence is simply thrown out the window because it conflicts with the pro-vaccine agenda. Can you imagine the outrage if an herbal product sent fifty kids to the hospital suffering from convulsions? Health authorities across the world would be quick to condemn the product, and they’d confiscate it right off the shelves while shutting down the operations of its manufacturer. But somehow when a vaccine does the same thing, these same health authorities urge people to keep on injecting their children with it! It makes no sense. But then again, the vaccine industry was never based on rational thinking in the first place. If health authorities were truly rational, they’d be handing out vitamin D supplements to children instead of injecting them with vaccines, because vitamin D has been scientifically proven to provide better protection against the flu than vaccines. (http://www.naturalnews.com/029333_vitamin_D_flu_vaccines.html) Of course, to ask health authorities to make rational decisions is sort of like asking politicians to start telling the truth. In the complicated world of profits and politics, rational, honest thinking just doesn’t get any traction. It’s far more profitable to keep lying to the world and raking in billions of dollars each year off dangerous vaccines, even as they continue to harm innocent children. I often wonder… How many dead children will it take before parents wake up and realize that flu vaccines are dangerous? The answer may surprise you: Even a million dead children won’t change the minds of most parents because they just do whatever they’re told by health authorities, even if it makes no rational sense. Most parents are so brainwashed by the medical system that they would gladly line up to have their babies injected with chemotherapy if they were told it was somehow necessary. At some point, the parents whose babies are being harmed or potentially even killed by these vaccines can only blame themselves. They were the ones who brought their babies to be injected with a chemical adjuvant and viral fragments, and they should know better than to trust the government when it comes to health advice. The government, after all, still says that pharmaceutical chemicals are good for you while vitamins, herbs and natural remedies are dangerous. And it’s the government that approved the very vaccines that are right now sending these children to the hospital. Any parent that trusts the government with the health of their child is setting themselves up for catastrophe. And that catastrophe could very well cost them the life of their child. Additional sources for this story include: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/health/healthnews/7918351/Flu-jab-linked-to-fits-in-under-fives-officials.html

Influenza vaccine sends children into convulsions

(NaturalNews) Influenza vaccines have sent 57 children into life-threatening convulsions, reports The Age out of Australia. These influenza vaccines were being give to children under five to “protect” them from seasonal flu, but after receiving the shots, these children started going into convulsions. An investigation has revealed that there is no quality control problem with any particular batch of influenza vaccines. They all pass quality control, in other words, so the convulsions are being caused by what is intentionally put into the vaccines, not by some mistaken chemical contaminant. This, of course, baffles conventional doctors who have all been told that vaccines are perfectly safe and could never harm anyone. So rather than pausing to consider what might be contained in the vaccines that’s causing children to go into convulsions, they charge ahead with the recommendation that even more people should get vaccines. Alan Hampson, chairman of Australia’s Influenza Specialist Group , “…advised young, healthy people anxious to get the flu vaccine to consider having the swine flu vaccine” reports The Age . There is no amount of real-world evidence, you see, that can break the mythological stranglehold that vaccines have over the minds of mainstream physicians. Even if children start dropping to the floor and convulsing right in front of them, they will continue to push vaccines on even more children. The illusion of vaccine efficacy Vaccines are based on a scientific-sounding mythology that is widely believed by gullible physicians and scientists who simply believe what they are told rather than what’s real. This mythology is based on the belief that injecting foreign matter into the human body will cause the immune system to adapt to the weakened foreign matter by creating antibodies that fight off future infections. This explanation, however, is pure mythology. In reality, an immune system can only invoke an adaptive response when it is properly nourished with vitamin D . And if the patient has enough vitamin D, they need no vaccine because vitamin D protects them from seasonal influenza in the first place. Thus, vaccines only “work” in those people who don’t need them . People who have the least protection against influenza due to their vitamin D deficiency also have the weakest immune response to vaccines. The vaccines, in other words, just don’t work on them. Children with particularly weak neurology are highly susceptible to neurological damage from vaccines. This damage may take the form of a coma, convulsions, autism or being partially paralyzed. Some children given vaccines soon find themselves in wheelchairs, unable to walk even though previous to the vaccine they were star athletes. If you’re a parent, don’t expose your children to vaccine shots! Learn more about the dangers of vaccines with these articles: Virginia teen athlete in wheel chair after vaccine shot: http://www.naturalnews.com/027473_Guillain-Barre_Syndrome_swine_flu_vaccine.html Swine flu vaccine linked to paralysis: http://www.naturalnews.com/026866_swine_flu_flu_vaccine_swine_flu_vaccine.html Vaccine puts girl in the hospital: http://www.naturalnews.com/027395_swine_flu_hospital_vaccine.html Vaccines linked to neurological disorders: http://www.naturalnews.com/022642_vaccinations_survey_vaccination.html Ten questions doctors refuse to answer about vaccines: http://www.naturalnews.com/027258_vaccines_flu_vaccine.html

The 10 biggest health care lies in America

(NaturalNews) Mainstream health care isn’t based on “health” or “caring.” It’s actually based on an engrained system of medical mythology that’s practiced — and defended — by those who profit from the continuation of sickness and disease. This system of medical mythology might also simply be called “lies”, and today I’m sharing with NaturalNews readers the top ten lies that are still followed and promoted under mainstream health care in America today. Lie #1) Vaccines make you healthy Vaccines have emerged as the greatest and most insidious mythology yet fabricated by western medicine. The idea that vaccines protect you from infectious disease is blatantly false in the long term because this year’s flu shot actually makes you more susceptible to next year’s influenza (http://www.naturalnews.com/028538_seasonal_flu_shot_vaccines.html). On top of that, even the theoretical short-term effectiveness of vaccines is dwarfed by the far more effective protection offered by vitamin D and other immune-modulating nutrients. (http://www.naturalnews.com/027385_Vitamin_D_swine_flu_vaccine.html) Lie #2) Pharmaceuticals prevent disease The big push by Big Pharma is now focused on treating healthy people with drugs as if pharmaceuticals were nutrients that could somehow prevent disease. This is the new push with cholesterol drugs: Give ‘em to everyone, whether they have high cholesterol or not! But pharmaceuticals don’t prevent disease, and medications are not vitamins. Your body has no biological need for any pharmaceuticals at all. People who believe they need pharmaceuticals have simply been the victims of “fabricated consent” engineered by Big Pharma’s clever advertising and P.R. spin. Lie #3) Doctors are experts in health Doctors don’t even study health; they study disease. Modern doctors are taught virtually nothing about nutrition, wellness or disease prevention. Expecting a doctor to guide you on health issues is sort of like expecting your accountant to pilot a jet airliner — it’s simply not something he or she has ever been trained in. That’s not to say doctors aren’t intelligent people. Most of them have high IQs. But even a genius can’t teach you something they know nothing about. Lie #4) You have no role in your own healing Doctors, drug companies and health authorities all want you to believe that your health is determined by their interventions. If you believe them, you have virtually no role in your own health or healing — it’s all managed by their drugs, their screening, their surgeries and their interventions. Lie #5) Disease is a matter of bad luck or bad genes Western medicine wants you to believe in the mythology of spontaneous disease — disease that strikes without cause. This is equivalent to saying that disease is some sort of voodoo black magic and that patients have no way to prevent disease through their own diets or lifestyle choices. It’s funny, actually: Western medicine claims to be driven by scientific, rational thinking, and yet the entire industry still fails to acknowledge that chronic disease always has a cause and that most of the time, that cause has everything to do with nutritional deficiencies, exposure to toxic chemicals and a lack of exercise. Disease is almost never a matter of bad luck or bad genes. Lie #6) Screening equals prevention Western medicine doesn’t believe in disease prevention . Rather, the industry believes in screening while calling it prevention. But screening isn’t prevention by even the wildest stretch of the imagination. In fact, virtually all the popular screening methodologies actually promote diseases . Mammography, for example, emits so much radiation that it causes breast cancer in tens of thousands of women each year (http://www.naturalnews.com/027558_mammograms_cancer_industry.html). Imaging dyes used in radiological scans can cause horrific side effects, and psychiatric “disorder” screening is little more than a thinly-disguised patient recruitment scheme disguised as medicine. Real prevention of disease must involve disease prevention through nutrition, patient education about the causes of disease and lifelong changes in eating habits. Yet western medicine teaches absolutely none of these things. Heck, it doesn’t even believe in such ideas. Lie #7) Health insurance will keep you healthy This is a favorite lie of those who recently pushed for the Big Pharma-sponsored health care reform that has swept across America. The lie supposes that merely having health insurance will provide some sort of magical protection against disease. But in reality, health insurance doesn’t make you healthy! It is only YOU and your choices about foods, exposures to toxic chemicals, pursuit of exercise and time in nature that can make you healthy. Health insurance is, in effect, a wager that you will get sick. How does gambling on your sickness provide any protection whatsoever for your health? It doesn’t. Personally, I’d rather bet on health than sickness, and the way to do that is to invest in nutritional supplements, organic produce, superfoods, physical fitness and non-toxic personal care products. Lie #8) Hospitals are places of health and healing If you want to stay healthy or get healthy, a hospital is the very last place you want to find yourself: They are unhappy, unhealthy places that are infested with antibiotic-resistant superbugs. Hospitals usually serve disease-promoting foods and lack health-enhancing sunlight, and potentially deadly mistakes with pharmaceuticals or surgical procedures now appear to be frighteningly common in U.S. hospitals. Certainly, emergency rooms in hospitals play an important role in urgent care for injuries and accidents — and emergency room physicians do an amazing job saving lives — but for people with chronic, degenerative disease, a hospital is a very dangerous place to be. Unless you really need immediate critical care, try to avoid hospitals. Lie #9) Conventional medicine is “advanced” state-of-the-art medicine Even though doctors and health authorities try to pass off western medicine as being “advanced” or “modern,” the whole system is actually pathetically outdated and stuck in the germ theory of disease. Western medicine has yet to even acknowledge the role of nutrition in preventing disease — something that has been scientifically documented for at least the last several decades. Western medicine fails to acknowledge mind-body medicine and hilariously believes the mind plays virtually no role in healing. Neither does western medicine acknowledge the bio energy field of living systems, nor that organ transplants carry memories, nor that living food is qualitatively different from dead food. Seriously: Conventional doctors still believe that dead food is exactly the same as living food! (And the USDA food pyramid still makes no distinction between the two…) “Modern” medicine isn’t so modern, it turns out. It is, in fact, hopelessly outdated and desperately needs to upgrade its approach to health and wellness if it hopes to survive the next hundred years. Lie #10) More research is needed to find “cures” This lie is especially hilarious because western medicine does not believe in any “cure” for any disease. They aren’t even looking for cures! This lie has been repeated since the 1960′s, when cancer scientists claimed they were only a few years away from curing cancer. Today, four decades later, can you think of a single major disease that western medicine has cured? There aren’t any. That’s because drug companies make money from sick people , not cured people. A patient cured is a patient lost. It is far more profitable to keep patients sick and pretend to “manage” their disease through a lifetime of pharmaceuticals. So when drug companies and disease non-profits claim to be searching for a “cure,” what they’re really doing is taking your money to fund more drug research to patent more medications that don’t actually cure anything. Remember this the next time you’re asked to donate to some search for “the cure.” The cures already exist in nutrition, herbal remedies and naturopathic medicine, but Big Pharma and the conventional medicine cartel isn’t interested in real cures — they only want to promote the idea of a cure while pumping patients full of drugs that don’t cure anything. Beyond the ten lies When it comes to western health care, there are more than 10 lies, of course, but these big 10 lies are perhaps the most relevant to your own health decisions. By avoiding being suckered in by these lies, you can take charge of your own health and avoid the health care scam by staying healthy! Staying healthy isn’t as difficult as you think, and it doesn’t require health insurance or disease screening. It only requires making informed, intelligent decisions about what to eat, what to put on your skin and how to get more sunshine and physical exercise. Once you do these basic things, you’ll find that you are no longer held victim by a western medicine health care system based on lies and outdated medical mythology. It’s time for a revolution in medicine… a revolution that finally advances past the mental roadblock of a system of medical mythology stuck in the 1940′s. Don’t get me wrong, 1940′s medicine was great in the 1940′s. But this is no longer the 1940′s, and the germ theory of disease is hopelessly outdated when it comes to the primary diseases that are striking the population today. Yet the profiteers of our dishonest, outmoded health care system are doing everything in their power to keep us all stranded in the past, a past based on treating the body like a chemical battleground and attacking every disease with a patented pharmaceutical. That whole approach to health care is so far outdated that it’s hilarious it can still be pushed with a straight face. No wonder doctors only spend an average of two minutes with patients these days. That’s the limit of how long they can hold their faces without breaking out in laughter at how stupid this whole “treat the symptoms and forget the causes” approach to health care really is. Even they know it! That’s why most doctors actually eat superfoods and take vitamins themselves, even if they never dare suggest it to patients. True fact: It is illegal in every U.S. state for a doctor to recommend any vitamin, nutrient or food for the prevention or treatment of any disease. Doing so can cause a doctor to have his medical license permanently revoked. How crazy and outdated is that?