THIS MAKES MY BLOOD BOIL!

I did a fair amount of driving today so had the rare privilege of listening to much NPR. One report I heard was about a new study which put low-heart-disease-risk individuals on statin drugs to see if they could prevent heart attacks. 

Well, guess what!? It lowered their risk which was already low. Hmmmm. At $3.45 per day, don't you think that the drug manufacturers would like to get EVERYONE on a statin drug? How about chewables for children?

I know I hold radical and sometimes unpopular opinions about health and wellness and especially the FDA. But studies like this only go to prove to me that ideally the FDA would like you to live a very long life (about 80 years), however, to turn a big profit off of you, they need you to be just a sick enough so that you need to buy drugs all those long years. Let's say you're 45 and you live to be 80. If the FDA and drug companies prey on your fears (not your high-risk) of heart disease, you'll pay out over $44,000 on this drug you may not - probably do not - need. Voila! You are a very good customer! The FDA likes you. 

And now that you're in the system, they know that you'll have side-effects which can be remedied by....what else?....other drugs! Woo Hoo! Bonus for the system.

Now, what was interesting in the study was that they used inflammation as the indicator of "possible" future conditions for heart disease. What causes inflammation? Um, diet primarily. 

OK, FDA...why jump over DIET and go straight to A PILL?! Because it is very profitable. If the FDA encouraged you to analyze and change your diet, you become the not-so-great potential customer.

THE FDA IS NOT INTERESTED IN YOUR OPTIMAL HEALTH! Healthy people are very bad for their business.

Inflammation is caused by candida. Candida is yeast caused by alcohol, sugars, carbohydrates, medications as well as physical injury and bacterial infection. But I'm not talking about those last two which are situational and less common.

It is being discovered that most chronic ailments have the common denominator of inflammation. And this can, for the most part, be controlled by changes in diet. 

But, I know, a pill is much easier that habit change. But at 44 grand, I think I'd at least look twice at my diet. For MUCH less than that, you could pay a nutritional counselor to look at your diet for you and help you to change your destructive ways that can set you on a much more promising path for a lifetime...a long, healthy lifetime.

It's all about choice. You make yours every day.

Live Light, xo-C.

Comments

[Carla Golden]

Prescription Drugs More Likely to Kill You than Recreational Drugs

http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2008/11/11/beware-of-these-two-drugs-that-are-harming-people-at-exploding-rates.aspx

[Carla Golden]

Pomegranate Extracts Found to Inhibit Inflammation

http://www.naturalnews.com/024772.html

[Carla Golden]

Medical Insanity: Drug Companies Now Pushing Statin Drugs for "Healthy" People

http://www.naturalnews.com/News_000460_statin_drugs_disease_mongering_Big_Pharma.html

[Carla Golden]

This website and supplement product was recommended by a friend and nutritionist for reducing inflammation:

http://www.deflame.com/

[Carla Golden]

Big Pharma's New Mass-Drugging Agenda Pushes Statin Drugs for Healthy People

http://www.naturalnews.com/024783.html

[OneHealthyGirl.com]

Young Children Now Being Targeted For Statin Drug Use

http://www.naturalnews.com/024840.html

[OneHealthyGirl.com]

6 Ways to Reduce Inflammation—Without a Statin or a Heart Test

http://health.usnews.com/articles/health/heart/2008/11/11/6-ways-to-reduce-inflammation--without-a-statin-or-a-heart-test.html?PageNr=1

[OneHealthyGirl.com]

Health Hype About Statins

http://www.prwatch.org/node/8001

[Carla Golden]

More statin shenanigans

http://thehealthyskeptic.org/more-statin-shenanigans/

[OneHealthyGirl.com]

6 Ways to Reduce Inflammation -- Without a Statin Drug

http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2008/12/06/6-ways-to-reduce-inflammation-without-a-statin-drug.aspx

[OneHealthyGirl.com]

Botanical Medicines are Competition for Inflammation Drug Options

http://www.naturalnews.com/022582.html

[OneHealthyGirl.com]

Research alert: statins dangerous for pregnant women!

http://thehealthyskeptic.org/research-alert-statins-dangerous-for-pregnant-women/

[OneHealthyGirl.com]

Three Chinese Herbs could Put an End to Statin Drugs

http://www.naturalnews.com/025048.html

[OneHealthyGirl.com]

Statin Drugs Cause Eye Disorders

http://www.naturalnews.com/025058.html

[OneHealthyGirl.com]

Lycopene as effective as statins for artery health

http://www.nutraingredients-usa.com/Research/Lycopene-as-effective-as-statins-for-artery-health-rabbit-study