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Guest Post: You Can't Fool Mother Nature For Long: Profiting from Sickcare
Submitted by Charles Hugh Smith from Of Two Minds
You Can't Fool Mother Nature For Long: Profiting from Sickcare
Sickcare, the fast-food/packaged food industries, the entertainment industry and the Marketing/Mainstream Media complex are all facets of one system.
In America, the implicit belief system promoted by marketing is that you can eat anything you want in whatever quantity you want, and if anything goes wrong with your body or mind, there is a pill or procedure to fix it. In other words, your diet and fitness level is given lip service, but what really counts is access to all the medications that are constantly touted and pushed by the Marketing/Mainstream Media complex.
It would be comical if it wasn't so tragic: if you've seen one advert pushing a med, you've seen them all: the description of the disorder, the fear and pain it inflicts, the solution in a pill, and then a voice-over, spoken at a manic pace to fit all the possible side-effects in the waning moments of a 60-second spot: suicidal thoughts, symptoms of heart attack, heart attack, itchy skin, dizziness, bizarre dreams, and on and on. Good golly, all these side-effects from one med? What happens when they're combined with 7 or 8 or 11 other meds with their own swarms of nasty side effects?
The core of sickcare is this: creating and treating illness is highly profitable. For creating illness, we have the packaged food, Big Food and fast food industries. Does anyone seriously believe that human beings can function healthily for decades on a diet of sugar water, fried potatoes, white-bread buns and fat-larded hamburgers?
Large family gatherings during the holidays are often interesting opportunities to witness the consequences of corporate brainwashing via the Marketing/Mainstream Media complex. For example, I heard more than once that So-and-So dislikes fish and vegetables, and only like burgers and fries or equivalents such as hamburger "steak."
In a surreal divergence of entertainment and reality, our society broadcasts popular food shows in which chefs routinely assemble impossibly complex dishes while our schools produce students who cannot identify a healthy home-cooked meal, much less actually prepare one.
In a similar fashion, fitness has been marginalized in much of American education; in our rush to raise math and science to "must haves," we have neglected finance and the science of nutrition and fitness--applications of math and science that really count.
In fitness, another surreal divergence has opened between the entertainment provided by "extreme sports" touting superhuman endurance and daring, and the average American's ability and desire to run a mile (or even a kilometer). We have been brainwashed into a nation of spectator/consumers who know very little about living a nutritious and fit life. We are content to watch extreme sports training on TV but are averse to becoming even marginally fit ourselves.
Preparing programming and food for spectator/consumers is highly profitable; teaching people how to prepare healthy meals at home and becoming fit on their own is not.
The food industry is the tangible analog of the entertainment industry. Both have access to reams of data about what activates the reward centers of the human brain--what tastes, sights and smells bypass the conscious mind and go directly to the primitive brain centers that control appetite and response to high-value, rare-in-Nature triggers such as sugar, fat and salt.
Fast food and packaged food are specifically engineered to trigger these reward centers. No wonder they "taste good"--they are super-saturated with tastes that are sparing and rare in natural food.
In a similar fashion, newscasters speak with an unnatural urgency and tone that we instinctively respond to as evidence of danger or threat.
The entire sickcare system that includes the food/diet industries and "entertainment" is engineered to maximize profit by triggering instincts wired to reward sensitivity to danger/threat and sugar, fat and salt. In addition to these instinctive triggers, corporate cartels and their handmaidens, the Marketing/Mainstream Media complex, have actively embedded the craving for sugar, salt, fat and "excitement" (of the profitable, corporate kind) in American culture. Consumption of these triggers is viewed as "cool," "hip," "elite" activities, or as culturally sanctioned expressions of self-reward, i.e. of "treating yourself because you deserve it" and self-indulgence, i.e. spontaneity as instant gratification.
Then there's over-treatment. If we test 1,000 people for cancer and treat 50 and end up with one person who received treatment that extended their life while 49 others suffered early deaths or negative consequences of needless treatment, then American sickcare calls it good.
Those statistics come from studies of treatment of prostate cancer, as detailed in a Scientific American report (February 2012 issue): The Great Prostate Debate: Evidence shows that screening does more harm than good. (Subscription required, or find the issue at a library)
These are difficult issues in any caregiving system, but the downside of overtreatment and overtesting is rarely addressed in American sickcare because somebody's making big money from administering the tests and treatment, and from suing anyone who "withholds" treatment-- even if the treatment helps one in a thousand and demonstrably harms 49 others.
Mother Nature cannot be fooled for long. A sedentary lifestyle and a diet heavy with sugar, empty carbs, salt and unhealthy fats derived from factory-farm animals cannot sustain a human body selected for an omnivorous, active hunting-gathering lifestyle. Health is simply impossible when the body is destroyed by this sort of diet and inactive life.
Infectious diseases can be miraculously cured by a pill--an antibiotic. But cancer and other "lifestyle" diseases are not caused by single-source infections; in these diseases and chronic conditions, health is rarely restored with a pill or even a handful of pills.
How can anyone be healthy in a culture whose most powerful industries are actively and ceaselessly promoting consumption of products and "entertainments" that derange the mind and body because they are unnatural super-doses designed to "hit" natural triggers so hard that resistance is futile?
Our caregivers are tasked with "giving lifestyle advice" to their patients, each of whom gets a few moments a month at best with their doctor/nurse, and then the patient goes home and absorbs 4-8 hours a day of Marketing/Mainstream Media pushing of illness-producing consumables and a fear-based desire for an endless array of costly "magic pills" to fix all the diseases which mysteriously ail us--for what we eat and our fitness levels are never mentioned as causal factors.
There are never enough tests and treatments--more can be added every year-- and of course there can never be enough money spent on healthcare. We just need to leave enough money to consume the food and lifestyle that spawns many of the illnesses, and then we can spend the rest on treating these diseases.
Mother Nature is not amused by the destruction of her systems for profit. Sadly, it isn't the corporate cartels who suffer the consequences of what they push for profit, it's the people who absorbed the marketing and consumed the fantasy.
"Without health there is no happiness. An attention to health, then, should take the place of every other object." (Thomas Jefferson, 1787)
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Seagull...best part was the bunker filled with canned goods.
We're not the first generation to fear the "apocolypse", nor will we be the last. I still remember "fallout shelters" from my time in elementary school. There's always got to be a boogeyman.
Life goes on.
My Grandmother smoked until she was 92. She gave it up and died a year later. She was never sick for a day in her life.
Excellent US citizenish post. It really shows how easy US citizens can speak on behalf of humanity, they are the beacon, the speaker of humanity.
So early man led a sustainable life.
Nice.
Nicer: part of humanity still lives like early man.
Is their life style sustainable? No longer.
And because of what?Who?
Connecting with the rest of the post and how people should stop from living self righteous lifes andmake their own choice with disturbing theother and stuff...
Priceless.
Dont want to sound racist but:
typical US citizen.
I find that CHS is getting more and more contrarian to corpocracy and its interests. Watch out you may find a viral Putin style "sparkling" hamburger or hot dawg thrown at you by Big Food, whose goood bottom line depends on sheeple complacency and knee jerk response to hidden persuasion of crummy ad campaigns. That why we have Madison Ave. Mad men for! and the MS mediaaaaa!
Don't cross that line. Its Rubicon of Big Amerika.
Five Guys makes a great burger. Fries from a different location every day.
Apocolypse Now.
I can speak to this subject from 100% first hand experience.
My wife (love) of 29 years was diagnosed with M.S. in 2007. She at the time had fantastic insurance and began 'treatment' first with injectable 'avonex'. She endured this crap for about a year. The cost was roughly $25,000 for the 'treatment'. She quit. It was painful and frightening for her. She decided to quit because not only did the malady become steadily worse, but she began having disturbing psychological events. She began to feel that she was losing control over herself, who she was and is. We dutifully went to the neurologist who had originally diagnosed her and he agreed to switch medications. My wife then began using 'copaxone'. This crap ($30,000+ annually) messed her up at an accelerated pace. She was being poisoned. Think what you will, but I have no motive for sharing this other than a desire to share an experience.
My wife finally said "fuck it" and stopped doing the drugs. She has been on D3 at about 5000 i.u per day for well over a year and is generally doing well, much better than when on the drugs. She eats a terrible diet and smokes. That pisses me off but it is her life. I've loved this person most of my life and I have personally seen the reality of sickcare.
Makes me sick. Haven't been to a 'doctor' since I was a kid, and I'll tell you what, I've busted up lot's of serious shit. I've had injuries that would make your hair stand on end and somehow I'm just 'magically'doing fine?
The so called healthcare system is a fucking scam. Just another way to 'herd the sheep'.
And BTW, In case you haven't noticed, it pisses me off.
Good story, Isee. I finally manage to locate a Dr. on my insurance list who suscribes to either East or West medicine depending on the patient. I've been Easting for years now and categorically refuse Western shit. Lots of good books/sites on "natural" health. Probably a big reason behind SOPA and the FDA's war on vitamins/supplements.
I have a friend who manages her MS very well with the Swank diet but no drugs like Avonex or Copaxone. She is asymptomatic and has been for about 15 years. It's ridiculously strict and you may not be interested in the info but I'm just throwing it out there on the off chance you hadn't heard of it.
Best of luck to you and your wife.
http://www.swankmsdiet.org/About%20The%20Diet
Thanks Jena,
She's to lazy though. I appreciate your caring. It's all good. She is managing well and for all I know the challenge might even be good for her, although if I was God... She would be 17 again! Or maybe not.
Peace.
interesting natural remedies for ms and other ailments:
http://earthclinic.com/ailments.html
just a glance at the crap in the average hospital vending machine tells you all you need to know.
Totally agree that the medical system is a scam, but they get you coming and going. Think she escaped by taking D3? its just another scam... a very immunosuppressive toxic agent at doubles as rat poison. Doctors are pumping this at anyone who will listen now all based on bogus bullshit science. the truth is that taking it makes you feel better because it lessens immune response, similar to a steroid.... but long term supression of the immune system is a bad idea, there is a heavy price to pay later on in the form of stealth infections (which are responsible for the MS anyway). The medical system is not interested in finding stealth infections (just google l-form bacteria). Why? because the governments are cranking themm out. The army for example has a patent of mycoplasma.... and that is just the tip of the iceberg. we all carry lyme bacteria, but that is hidden from you. the real scary thing about all of this, is the reason for it.
I'm not buying that. I looked into D3 hard and from every angle. I came down on the side of pro D3 and yet still felt uneasy so I have been doing the same daily dose myself since she began. In fact, I've been even more consistent about taking it and I'm swell :)
We take it with fish oil.
Pick your poison.
Living 100% off the grid like an american Indian of 500 years ago is not a realistic option for most of us, definitely not for me. Even if I agree that it is an attractive and intelligent option (I do ) that doesn't provide me the right to force my family to go along with my obviously alternative choice. I'm not a King, just a husband and father.
once upon a time i was into taking cod liver oil. lets just say i paid for my mistake and spent years learning how to undo it. Regarding Vit D, just look around.... its everywhere now and being added to all sorts of food. Even doctors are pushing it. whenever you see something like that, alarm bells should start going off... look deep into pubmed research. the chemical referred to D3 is used as a drug in relation to organ transplants... anything but harmless when you understand what is really happening. Vit D is no vitamin, and its effect in the body is very different than what you should get from sunshine. buyer beware.
Whatever. I'll look into it. Some of what you say makes enough sense. Still skeptical though.
you should be, about everything... the deeper you dig, the more interesting it gets... and they will make you work for the truth... can't tell you how many things relating to health i have seen scrubbed from the internet over the past few years... but, you will only believe that if you see it for yourself.
Isn't this the plotline from Deus Ex?
where did you hear this? Everything I've read says it is an anti-inflammator, I take 5000 IUs every day
please tell me more
For what it's worth...
I know a person with MS and has been through similar to what your wife went through.
She swears to god that Marijuana is the only thing that helps and actually increases her quality of life. She stakes her life on it.
Thanks. I get it that weed works for some people but she hates being 'disassociated' Being high just doesn't work for her in the long term. And we both understand that IT DOES work for some people.
see if you can source something "topical" - like a cream, oil or salve - no need to smoke to get the benefits.
also, there are strains that are high in CBD (cannabidiol), and low in THC (the psychoactive component), not easy to find, but might be worth the effort locating.
check out "the Gerson Miracle"
Iseeit, great sharing.
My Doctor looks out for us well. All he does is sit there and asks us one simple question to the boo boo that needs fixing.
Are you willing to pay X dollars for these tests that they are going to give you?
It makes the boo boo rather easy to fix when you consider where we were in the early 60's with hardly anything but a blanket and a bed pan to a room today filled with millions of dollars worth of shit that does not really gaurantee survival.
My wife was given radiation and it generated a burn similar to that suffered if you were within 20km of a nuclear blast. The bill for those short visits? A cool 45 thousand dollars.
The first chemo turned my spouse into a bitch, a mean, angry straight up man eater. After the chemo was done, it would take years until she finally woke up one day and said she was sorry and now has a clear head.
Thank god I was a hard headed stubborn husband. I gave right back what I took. But the damage was done just from the experience for both of us. My doctor recently said that my body has started to change where those are not suppose to happen until another 15 or so years down the road for me.
I looked at my wife and smiled at her... well... better now than later. Get it over with eh?
One must wonder. Cancer, once discovered has already been in your system for a time. Long enough to be a risk for returning. Our burials are already prepaid and arranged. We aint going through chemo and rad again. fuck that.
On the other hand, they were able to do certain tasks to make repairs in surgery that otherwise would not have been possible 40 years ago. I take my surgery on a outpatient basis right there in the office. I bleed some, a stack of pills and wait a few days to heal.
I just need a butcher who knows what the fuck to cut and not to cut.
And ya know?
I hate to say that we still stack shit and prepare for the end of the world as if we were going to be the only two humans against a army of Zombies.
It's futile and wasteful. All of it.
Hungry, go here:http://magnesiumforlife.com/
Call the doctor, Very reasonable and SIMPLE treatments.
Good luck, the body is the temple. :-)
ori
You ain't alone in that regards.
You and your wife should watch this vid clip. This woman Dr. supposedly cured her M.S. in the simplest of ways:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KLjgBLwH3Wc
hey ISEEIT, does your wife have mercury amalgam dental fillings? I know there's a lot of "controversy" around this subject, but might be worth being tested for toxicity. . .
also, essential fatty acids help - like omega-3, flaxseed oils, etc. - they're essential to the nervous system - if she's already taking D3, adding another "pill" might also help - even if she doesn't feel like changing her diet/smoking.
good for you both for seeing through the "medical profession" pharma-pyramid scheme - best wishes!
ISEEIT, Don't know how your wifes symtoms started out, but I began having uncontrollable body jerks in a resting state. I had asked my PC to test my Dhydroxy 25 & was dismissed. Asked my other Dr. to test for it. Neither could explain the body jerks, but I had a raging D deficiency & was put on 50K units of pharm grade D2 per week. It was cheap also. W/I 6 mos this took care of the problem. I've read in many articles D deficiency as being linked to MS. Worth a shot.
As a fitness club owner, I couldn't have said this better myself.
Self-Responsibility in this country is pathetic.
As a fitness club investor I couldn't agree more.
humans are funny...
we work "hard" behind a desk so we can get enough money so we can pay a place like yours (no offense) to help us do physical labour.
Maybe you could have free fat tuesdays. Where everyone over 300-400lbs whatever, gets to play on the machines for free. They way the rest of your clients and future clients feel better about themselves, and maybe join.
Fitness clubs seem to be places fit people go to flex. Not for me personaly i can do push-ups at home.
Good luck.
I thought all of this was and has been obvious for decades.
Same as it ever was.
I desire an end to this broken system that subsidizes unhealthy lifestyle choices. It drains resources away from producers and people with legitimate health concerns through no fault of thei own.
We are faced with an epidemic of Type 2 diabetes and behave like this is a future profit industry. Why don't we all invest in funeral homes and start poisoning everyone so our stocks go up?
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Far out, Stack. Finally, a growth industry with unlimited potential. Go long formaldehyde.
Nat gas/Cremation is my choice. Fuck that plastic fluid.
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cool, let's start with getting Monsanto out of the FDA - profit driven bad health, and subsequent bad health "care" is the model - maybe invest in overturning the "trust the government" food recommendations, and helping educate those that aren't too far gone to care.
and what, pray tell, are legitimate no fault heath concerns? advocating no treatment of anyone who. . . doesn't follow whose recommendation? "vehicle accident? well, everyone knows driving is dangerous! slipped on ice, broke a leg? what were you thinking going outside in snow??" "MRSA? and you got it in hospital? jeez, everyone knows. . ." etc.
Diabetes will be the epidemic of our time. Far worse than smoking. T
Getting tangled up in the healthcare system is now the equivilant of a financial death sentance.
i wonder if the fed would be denied coverage because of a pre-existing condition.
It is.
Several people in our area ran up enormous costs at the hospital cancer and what have you.
During the treatment it would take several churches and what have you from all around to maintain that person in basic food and life needs.
The lonely ones with no one to help them simply died in the far end of the ward alone and unattended.
Good grief, that sounds terrible. Mystery, our chains.
ori
Not all of it.
To add insult is that our area suffers from Medicine cabinet drug abuse. The nurses dont bother to provide pain meds because abusers are common. There are some who go to hospitals on purpose so that they can get the drugs.
What these abusers dont realize is that Drugs only help you for maybe a week in pill form. After that it's IV rotating through Fentnyal, Morphione etc.
A good friend of mine has had bone cancer. He took himself out of this problem with a .45 to the head.
Another will die in less than two months, but sedated and totally unaware of what is going on at all.
Tch.... really sad to hear HS. Fucking system...fuckign system...ugh....
ori
I hope that CHS's media 'wartime propaganda' series of articles does not end up with 'think tank propaganda' diatribe against Medicare -- which I believe it will in the end. DO NOT BE FOOLED by this closet fascist.
The main goal of useful idiots like CHS is to prepare populace for austerity-- as if that will actually save the system for the privileged and prepared. At best this will kick the can down the road for a bit longer, but at what cost?
if i had only 1 of charles' two minds i could triple my iq....
"...complex are all facets of one system."
go to the head of the class to earn an a++++++++ in perception.
sugar should be either outlawed or prescribed as a narcotic and i am not speaking hyperbolically.....the high carb diet is the most sinister toxin to american health - it is not the fat per se....
Soft drinks should never have been put into a school at all.
We went to school just fine with what we brought with us from home. And by god we must have put in three hours of play time/Gym and what have you during the day.
Those chairs and desks were made of fake granite in those days, our bony fit asses were sturdy enough then.
@ Tony...spot on...with one correction...excessive ingestion of high glycemic carbs...
I don't do the ole' thumbs down often, but your ignorance is dangerous and like cancer. Your failure to grasp even a whiff of reality is beyond stunning, to the point of malice.
F.O.A.D.
Placebos have been demonstrated to work better than 90% of all prescription medicines. Rarely does a new drug exceed placebos in efficacy. Instead of taking your medicine take a placebo.
Oh. By the way. Placebos work better than all the economic cures the government has ever applied.
works for big ben.
"a diet of sugar water, fried potatoes, white-bread buns and fat-larded hamburgers"
you know, people just fail to realize they are constructed solely from their food.
each time a food is processed it's pre-digested.
the "life" that we extract the food is lost.
lifeless blobs we become.
It would help a lot if Home Ec was still taught in schools so kids had a chance to understand early something about nutrition and how to cook from scratch. We have a proliferation of cooking shows on teevee but people buy more processed foods than ever (I think). We cook nearly everything ourselves, never eat fast food, don't eat much restaurant food so when we do, we face the consequences.
I don't know how you get people to move. They either understand or they don't. The people who do exercise are healthier and suffer less illness as they age than the ones who don't. You can't escape all illness but you can escape much of the illness associated with aging.
It would help a lot if Home Ec was still taught at home.
True. I learned far more from my mother and older sisters than I ever did in Home Ec but a lot of my classmates (guys, too) only knew how to operate a can opener at first. They were taught how to cook basic recipes, budget a household and why some foods were better than others. Whether it stuck or not, who knows but it was a start?
I have all my mom's old recipes and my mother-in-law's, too. My husband is an even better cook than I am but he pretty much makes it up as he goes along. We have fun.
(You're an optimist, aren't you?)
The school gave us a choice of home ec or shop. Home ec had more girls , while shop was a stag fest. So guess my choice. Never did learn much about cooking but learned a lot about women. Snoty, spoiled, clickish and mean to each other and anyone who didn't give them what they wanted.
Teen age girls are evil. As they grow they just get better at hiding it.
um, I think you'll find that attitude is prevalent in the age group, including the boys.
ask any guy who realised he was gay in his teens, or any guy that didn't match whatever the "norm" was at the time. . .
competitive culture means hierarchy, jockeying for position means you need to "see" others as "beneath" you.
WRONG EVERYTHING MALES DO IS AWESOME DIDN'T YOU GET THE MEMO
Home Ec was a place to be around Girls.
And a place to discover those with bully tendancies. Both sexes.
Yea I went. So stupid. When I think back on the 6 month 2 hour course, nothing was accomplished much.
Once upon a time, aspartame was listed by the Pentagon as a biochemical warfare agent.
diet coke, anyone?
rebranding... shhh... don't wake the sheople.
That's CLASSIC!
And throw in a vaccine as the cherry on top!
That is one item we got rid of.
But I bet there is a bunch of others hiding in our home.
Rumsfeld. *nods*
Did Kyle Bass ever make a penny on his greek CDS he is so famous for? If they get this deal done voluntarily does the CDS market even matter any more?
They have a pretty good racket.. and when the consumer runs out of dough (like now), they just print.
Dough needs to be kept frozen until ready.
Allow the temperature to be neglected and you will never ever be able to restore the dough to it's storage temperature.
The parasites who commit auto insurance fraud are now tapping into the Obama Care Market.
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It's getting rather difficult the sell free universal healthcare when someone else fronts the expense.
Feds grant 1-year extension on birth-control rule
What an illegal calamity American's have on their hands...
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LOL
Here's an idea - let's find some fat assed, angry black woman and put her in charge of developing America's government approved menu.
yep, all HER fault, everything was fine until SHE arrived. . .
are you fucking serious an angry black woman jesus christ you are pathetic.
Healthcare in essence is between a doctor and a patient. Today, we have a vast system, including big insurance, big hospital system, and other related big businesses. We have to ask where the big bonuses come from for the CEOs of insurances and hospitals. The money from the patients didn't get to the doctors, but went to the bonuses. The healthcare cost is going higher, but we pay to the system, and the system is favoring the executives.
The other thing is that you read a lot studies on the paper or tv. Most of the studies have agenda behind. They don't tell you the whole truth. The fact is that you don't need much of healthcare before age of 40. You can "beat" anything. Except for some care in the first 10 years, you don't spend much during the first 40 years of your life. When you get to age of 60-70, you start to have a lot of issues, and it costs a lot to be in the hospitals and surgery. You pay all your life for Medicare but those cannot cover a lot hospital stays and surgeries.
If you call healthcare a business, and the motive is money for any business, then you cannot blame for the cost. Sadly that money didn't go to the doctors and hospitals. It went to be someone's bonuses.
Just went on Medicare and of course they charge you for the privileged. I know my Mother never paid for Medicare.
You are right, even with Medicare there are deductibles. So, much for Part A and so much for Part B. The thing that I did not realize is that you would be responsible for 80% of your bill no matter how high it was and it is over $1,000. deductible for each time you go into the Hospital. So, you go into the Hospital say for 3 days and are readmitted you would be charged the deluctible twice. In addition to the 80%, No drug benefits. If you want drug benefits you have to buy another policy, depending on what drugs you take. The premium is established by the type of drugs you take.
If you do not buy a supplemental policy as soon as you are eligible then you are penalized for every month that you do not sign up and if you sign up after you are eligible then you have to undergo health questions which could affect your premium. So, you end up buying a Supplemental Insurance policy that is at 65 affordable, I guess, but goes up in premium the older you are.
And, talk about confusing. It is without a doubt the most confusing thing around with the different plans and what they cover. Same with the drug plans which outline how much is paid for Class A Drugs, how much for Class B Drugs, Class C Drugs, Class D Drugs. How are you suppose to know if you do not take any drugs?
Everyone that thinks Medicare is free is wrong. It used to be free but no longer.
Today you will be stupid to try and take on a rider, second policy or a medicine policy.
They will examine you for your coverage time with medical insurance. If you did not have a "Approved" insurance you will end up paying several thousand dollars worth of premiums out of your annual income.
Money better used in acquiring what you can do for your family at home rather than some kind of million dollar money pit that will happily code bill you and yours out of house and home.
Have you tried to research medical billing codes? It's like a goddamn state secret.
I am not angry with you. I am angry at the Congress who sang one more vote to ram the health care obama style down all our throats. I cannot wait for the day the country collectively says "Up yours" and starts living right.
Hell the Young Kids are so fat that they are exhibiting some big boy and girl health issues that will kill em before 30.
The deal is that if you sigh up for supplemental Medicare coverage anytime from 3 months before your 65th birthday to 3 months after there are no health questions and guaranteed acceptance. Plus, there is a penalty for each month you do not sign up.
So, I took the supplemental policy even though I have not had health insurance for 15 years. I am not sure I really need it now but felt forced by the penalty and the health questions later on. At least for now I am paying for other people because I still do not need the coverage as I am healthy with no drugs or medication.
My husband is the ultimate in "sick care" services....when all else fails, he has to chop of your leg.
Do they listen when he begs them to stop doing X,Y, Z so that they don't get more ill or die?
NOOOOOOOOOO!
But they damn well want their government checks to cover their asses when they won't do what it takes to provide for their own health.
The system is so screwed up, it's beyond repair. Doctors of all kinds learn NOTHING about preventative care, and the little advice they do learn to give is proven to be BS. it is an evil and corrupt system that begins and ends with BIG PHARMA.
After all, you can't patent or profit from natural remedies.
My husband is a pathologist and I'll second what you just said and throw in the FOOD oligarchy as well. You can darn well bet that the CEOs of the packaged food companies supplying their crap to our grocery stores don't eat their own cooking for breakfast, lunch, OR dinner.
I have watched people die on the interstate because they were out of time. Vital signs, breathing, heart and other things were very important.
One in particular was partially ejected through the back window of a pickup truck that overturned. The rocking wreckage upside down was slowly sawing her in half with the bottom part of the glass remaining.
Her husband? Thrown clean down the median about 150 yards. As soon as I saw him and started assessing, I knew it was not going to do any good. EMT arrived and did what they had to do but too covered him up.
And our children (Speaking in a city) get sent to trauma and subject to tens of thousand dollars worth of care per day in a fight for life.
And to come out what? Vegatble? Wearing a costy bag for life? Handicapped and unable to do the things or be the person they were?
Sometimes I think it is easier to let them go when it's time than to put them through the hell just because "The system can"
Someone has to pay the bill. At least the doctors get valuable training with knife and gunshot wounds. Some of which are not survivable anyway.
Once I got hurt really bad some years back. In the Er I hear a older woman screaming I am bleeding, OMG etc etc etc.
The nurse said "SHUT. UP! There is more blood here if you need it.
Oh the blessed peace and quiet.
My bill? a few hundred dollars and two six packs (For pain) for the rest of the 2000 mile trip I still had to complete.
One of the quiet effects over time from the loss of Medicare reimbursement dollars to hospitals is the cost to emergency facilities. Trauma centers are shutting down or being re-designated into lower acuity with specialists available/on call, so the upshot will likely be that fewer people will get the massive resuscitation within that 'golden hour' required to save their life so they can go on to either recover (some lucky few) or live a hellish life (the rest).
The knife and gun club participants tend to do better than the motor vehicle and other major trauma types because there's just not as much real estate banged up.
You're right, sometimes just because we can doesn't mean we should. Nothing like spending time in an ICU to see how true that is.
My awakening started when I saw some books to read back in the cold war.
The writers displayed maps of Baltimore, Washington, Philadelpha it's NIKE defenses and the effects of a atomic/nuclear hit with expected casulties ranging across the entire possibilities.
Then compared existing hospitals for care. Half of which are lost in the strike and hospitals in outlying areas only had a few thousand beds at best and include the Navy Carriers and other cities across the USA for tens of thousands of beds.
You will have so many people around those strikes who will need care of all kinds.
There is none.
Current Government Nuclear strike protocol is simple. Strike zone, no go. Fall out zone no go after 24 hours, resuce what you can. Outer zone is simply a iron wall to isolate everything inside from the rest of the world.
I turned to the prepared papers from our state and county emergency responders and thier plans for everything up to a nuclear attack. The total number of sworn LEOs are only in a thousands at best against hundreds of thousands of potential victims, predators and travelers.
Not to be so negative, but there is a certain peace in knowing that Obamacare, Health care and all the things built to maintain the current system at it's greatest weight and bloat is going to fail someday.
The biggest example of one that has not yet really broken yet is our VA system handling several millions of War Vets from 9-11 to now. Maybe it is broken by the Government currently draining the retirement money to keep itself going.
I don't know.
We need to go back to basics, what works and stick with it. If I have to team up with my neighbor medic vet and provide care to the immediate area we can do it. But it aint gonna be gauranteed, warranted or certified in any way shape or form.
For lack of a better word, I will say a half assed gauze secured with duct tape and a towel to stop the blood loss will keep you going a while.
Triage is dead simple.
Given three victims.
1- The screaming in pain means he is breathing, has a good pressure and is consious.
2- the half consious or otherwise displaying signs of damage is more serious.
3- those without vital signs will need resustication but better to provide what you have to the half consious. And let the screamer wait a while.
The big connection here is that people watch TV and are brainwashed to think they need to get in their car (bought with 0% down) and drive the two blocks to the nearest fast-food joint where they pay for it with credit. Then later, they feel sick so they take some medication to feel "better". It is the constant exposure to branwashing TV that makes it all work. Just throw out the TV and start to exercise. It is amazing how your thinking will change. It might seem strange at first, like a newly discovered world!
Sickcare is definitely the word to use. I see it every day at work. I work at a "Children's" hospital. The worse sight is not the kids, it's their parents. Walking timebombs. The hospital gets 40% of its revenue from Medicaid! Hundreds of millions of dollars in bonds to pay for new construction. How sustainable is that?
Duh, yeah, 'Mericans eat way too much fattening shit and think some Med will negate the sin. There summarized the article in one sentence.
Big Pharma and Big Physician -- two industries strategically poised to bankrupt you, sooner or later.
The Pharm Cos pay doctors to perscribe their meds. The Docs over utilize tests and procedures to drain your wallet. Everything is vastly over priced. US pays 4X-5X more for Health care than most other industrialized nations. Obama Care was written by industry lobbists and rubber stamped by both parties.
Word! Mexican at SBUX.... 8 ozzies coffee, 8 ozzies 1/2 and 1/2 and 4 ounces of sugar. Yum
OMG so true. I watch a lot of the you tube videos about natural ways to cure ailments. There are so many natural ways two take care of our medical problems with plants from Mother Earth.
I do think that so many of the Medications that are prescribed make us sicker and cause a ton of other problems that we never had. It is like curing one problem but creating 10 other problems.
This is definatly the way the Doctors and big Pharmacy Companies create job retention.
I completely agree. Coke, McDonalds, Cheesecake Factory, etc should be paying a tax directly to a healthcare fund. In SF, restaurants have to put the calorie content of their products right next to it--this is great. You can see how many calories in that junk that Starbucks sells. There also needs to be much more education about health and fitness--what are good calories, what are bad. Parents are the starting point--if they eat poorly, their kids will eat poorly. I highly recommend anyone interested in a non-biased approach to get Nutrition Action--this is a newsletter put out by a non-profit without any marketing bent, no sponsors and it's cheap. Many doctors read it and it supports a lot of what the author here writes by debunking myths and citing (both good and bad) various studies and who backed them. I think it's still only $10 for a year...worth 10x that. Best thing about it is that it debunks all that crap of supplements like Quinoa, Acai, etc that people waste millions of dollars on. There are studies that support them, but most are not statistically significant because of the sample size and are sponsored by the industry that makes them. Total bullshit. Here's the site: http://www.cspinet.org/nah/
more beauracracy. sure that will fix things... in reality people just need to wake up and realize that the medical system really can't help them much, and they will suffer for the diet and lifestyle choices that they are making. Health insurance just doesn't work logically, its just another ponzi. the only way to win is to opt out, do whatever you can to educate yourself and take care of your health... and learn about holistic treatments. yes, it involves work, so most won't go for it. but the ones who do will come out on top in terms of quality of life and expenditures.
Hooray, SF will save everybody, for the umpteenth time!
That would have been really great, if Americans had therefore gained on math and science...
i have high cholesterol...its genetic. I am about 6-7 lbs over my ideal weight. I went to 3 doctors and they said the same exact thing and all recommended some pill (lipitor and some other competitors). Being 42 i refused to be on a pill my whole life. I walked on a tredmill and changed my diet. I cut out fast food from 2-3 times a week to 1-2 times a month. Reduced coke and pepsi intake to 1-2 cans/bottles a month. Cut out all sugery / high fructose corn syrup drinks. Cut out all hard alcohol and limit myself to good wine & beer. My total Cholesterol went from 320 to 250. I fired some clients that were causing a lot of stress and anxiety. I'll make less money but health is wealth so... This reduced my number down to 230. I am now starting a better excersize routine (3-4 days a week of push ups, sit ups and pull ups (i hope i can do 2-3 at first)). My goal is to get it down to 200 in a few months. I did a little research and found out that heart disease is caused by over 10-12 variables. The drug companies have marketed cholesterol as the cause of heart attacks, but in reality individuals who had cholesterol in the 150's have had strokes and individuals with extremely high cholesterol have never had strokes.
The disturbing thing is that the doctors themselves are convinced of thier diagnosis and not one of the three suggested i try other things first. One doctor outright told me "i can treat you now or i can treat you later after the fact".
+ 10 ..Bravo to you
+ 100 horray for you!
My spouse is borderline. She simply takes on jobs and if it turns out to be stressful? She calls her boss and says put someone else on it.
So we dont make much, but what we do make is simply heaven.
The weight? Well... We are holding the line if not lost some of it.
Great job! You might ask one of those doctors about the role of the liver in the production of cholesterol, and what happens when one is on a statin... Dietary intake is not the only source of serum cholesterol and triglycerides. There's a lot to this shit.
http://fcs.tamu.edu/health/healthhints/2007oct/cholesterol-handout.pdf
The turduckens I eat are grass fed and hormone free.
"Looks like I picked the wrong week to quit smoking..."
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GeI5ke0BENw
Check this out. They go in and zap the Cancer with radio frequency and no radiation or Chemo therapy.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z8XzR-BYv1s
I quit cold turkey. Went from 4 packs every 30 hours (1.30 a pack in indian lands on the road) to nothing.
I was a mean bastard for a month, after 6 started to settle down.
After 2 years I tried one. Just had to.
My vital signs went down hill awful fast. My doc said if I light another one, it will be the end.
That's fine. When a mountain falls on earth from space, I will be with the wife in one hand and a smoke in the other watching it come down.
Oh one great motivator to stay off the smokes. 6.00 a pack.
It's easier to stack Precious metals.
Obama says NO to WhiteHouse.gov petition to legalize raw milk at federal level
http://www.naturalnews.com/034718_raw_milk_petition_White_House.html
www.nwosurvivalguide.com ia a great website, but i cant make link work however i highly recommend it as a way to get a Ph D in reality in under an hour, as opposed to ZeroHedge i think the learning curve is closer to a year...
I actually think that they have a cure for Cancer and many other ailments. But, to introduce these cures would certainly put most of the Medical System out of business. So, they continue to give us drugs, Chemo and radiation, rather than actually fix the problem.
Occupy:
Wall Street...
K Street...
Medicine...
Hollywood...
I am fascinated, considering the enormity and relevance of its subject matter for every person in the country, that this article has been up here on ZH for hours with only a few dozen comments (many of them good, solid comments, but still...). Whereas if the subject matter had been crooked bankers, war preparations, racist politicians, failing nations, the price of silver or gold, thieving mortgage lenders, etc etc there would have been hundreds of comments by now.
This confirms the author's contention that the vast majority of us, even those who consider themselves smart and aware, are so easily distracted that we miss the truly important threats to our lives and well-being. It is why TPTB are not in the least bit worried by even advanced-thinking websites like ZeroHedge. They know that even the smartest among us either don't get it, or don't care.
Wow, that article was the intellectual equvalent of fast food. Good job with the marxist agitprop though...
Still Waters Run Deep: The Teaching Moment
In the empire environment, inhabitants understand what they are paid to understand, in positive social feedback, in a competition for the best blinders, cooperating only to prevent further competition once accepted. Lawfully conforming non-conformers cooperate implicitly to increase separation from the empire, balancing the fulcrum, upon empire negative feedback.
The empire system is relatively closed and static; the balance is relatively open and dynamic. The legally non-conforming socially non-conforming act as a drag on the distribution, skewing it back. Meanwhile, the empire falls behind planetary expectations of increasing diversity, resulting in increasing planetary volatility.
Agency middle class pays itself with positive feedback to reflect empire losses as profit, to an empire that only cares about itself, naturally resulting in viral replication, with increasing relative pressure upon decreasing relative volume.
As the relative cost of processing lawful non-conformers grows to consume the empire, agency naturally seeks lawfully conforming social non-conformers with increasingly expensive implicit negative feedback tax nets, accelerating the distillation. The only way to balance the empires books is to borrow further out into the future, calcifying the empire and closing the NPV adaptation window to the end of replacing productive income with agency income, until the currency has no value relative to the planet.
As the empire completely shorts out, quantitative easing accelerates to infinity. At this point, the decisions of a relatively tiny minority of lawfully conforming social non-conformers is all that prevents the bomb from imploding, by orbiting around the suspended animation. Due to the agency algebraic reduction net pursuing them, they are not explicitly connected. Each can see all empire operations, but the empire cannot see them, due to the looking glass of agency encasement.
Democracy, then, is counter-intuitive. Sitting in judgment, blaming individuals for system outcomes, is stupid, willfully ignorant. I am simply explaining outcomes. The empire is being modernized, because it must be modernized, whether anyone likes it or not. Those that wish to participate are welcome to do so, but socialism and tyranny are natural derivatives of agency groupthink. A constitution protects the minority from the tyranny of majority for reason. When it loses elasticity, the bomb goes off. Talking is one thing; doing is another.
So, an empire with a reserve currency may print to infinity so long as it can control its population to that end. The argument that it has no money is ridiculous, right up until it hits the wall of environmental volatility, which this one has clearly hit, when all dressings fall and participant mal-adaptation becomes evident, when the empire can no longer keep its population sedated/satiated.
Everything in the universe, a galaxy, a solar system, a planet, a tree, a critter, and a rock, everything is a fusion/fission reactor at some level of production. At empire change-over, those that best understand physics are in a position to establish an equity position for their family, for generations to come. New family formation is the generator; its future children are the implicit quantum switch.
Investing is like cave exploring. You are better off preparing for low tide. Education is about enabling unknown potential, not equating results to comport with History. Kids are the most disadvantaged at the end of the cycle, and the most advantaged at the beginning. Short-circuiting the process is counter-productive. Effective parents show up when they are least expected and most needed.
The trick to building an empire is giving everyone the free choice to avoid its gravity, with every incentive to enter. An empire can no more change its direction of its own volition than a planet can migrate to another solar system. As Hayden related, some need a good whippin’ before the lesson.
If you don’t understand relevance at this point, you are probably not a kid in a garage programming circuits to blow up, to the end of orbiting and providing propulsion to spacecraft. Diversity moderates the climate by extending the energy relativity circuit, the understanding of which is key. Intelligence is about persistently refusing to accept ignorance, despite every empire penalty to the contrary.
And God said to Abraham…
You will always seek knowledge.
That way lies a good life.
But not necessarily indebited or bought and paid for in college and a 500,000 dollar student loans and a wall full of "I-Love-Me" certificates.
That is one.
Truth? Well.... you will have to decide for yourself what that is.
Some of my family are lost to me since the awakening. However, some of those are even starting to wake up this year finally.
The supermarkets are changing what organic means.... We have numerous farmers markets year-round here and the food is soo tasty. Supermarket food tastes like cardboard or worse.
Here is a test - the next time your grocer has apples on sale for under $1/#... buy one and sit it on the counter or leave it for a couple of months in the fruit bowl... I believe they are nuking that fruit when they get bumper crops - the outside never gets bad, but once you cut it open it immediately turns brown. try it...
That's true for many fruits. Apples, that are sold in the supermarkets are last year's crop. Like freshly squeezed orange juice, they sit for 1-year in a warehouse before sold.
I have to defend apples from the Yakima Valley or from the Dutch Country.
THAT is good eating apples. AS long AS the trucking company gets it there pronto at the right temp.
I know it's a buck and change a pound and that was because there was a problem irrigating those Orchids out of the Columbia about a decade ago. They cut em all down and planted new ones which take 7 years to make one apple.
This land is a great land when you see the various states producing some very good foods. No Grocery needed.
most likely irradiated.
https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Food_irradiation#Labeling...
A huge problem is our food. It is making us sick.
From genetically modified seeds from Monsanto with pesticide which wards off pest infestation in the crop. To cattle with growth Hormones, Antibiotics, to every day prepared food with so many additives that you cannot even pronounce their names on the label.
I recently bought bologna, on a whim, because I like fried bologna sandwiches. When the bologna would not fry right and stuck to the pan, I discovered it had corn syrup in it. I mean really corn syrup in a meat product?
Most of us really do not know what we are eating. We do not check the label to see what they are putting into the product to supposedly make it taste good.
Then you have the problem even with fresh vegetables and fruits being covered in pesticides. Or Orange and fruit Juice with arsenic.
It is really hard to know what to eat to stay healthy these days. Our food is being poisoned. I guess that some of the blame goes on the cost of Health Care, but what about the food they are selling us that is making us sick?
My family has been pasture farming for years now and we can not eat most of what you get in a store.
I don't go out to breakfast anymore, unless I can bring my own pastured eggs, the dull yellow , runny yolk just disgusts me...
breakfast used to be my favourite meal out - cool diner style, with good coffee, leisurely.
haven't done that in years. . . for much the same reasons you mention - when you can make better at home, and know your egg layers by name *cough* why not!
Can you guys elaborate? I've been buying Wilcox Omega 3 eggs from Costco for years...maybe they're not so good? Serious question.
Go get yourself an honest to goodness pastured Hen egg this spring. That means the Hen is outside, able to consume lots of grass, greens and bugs. The yolk will be thick and orange in color. Cook your costco egg side by side with the pastured egg and you will see the difference yourself. I have to explain to our first time egg buyers about the thick orange egg, otherwise they will think there is something wrong with our eggs
Nice post. Few people know that fowl is a tropical bird by origin. They need to roam, green and bug. They're waste is an excellent fertilizer. Bird droping provide (and always have provided) the phosphate in NPK
Bromine, Chlorine, and Fluoride in place of Iodine has caused 99% of all this shit. Not to mention the hormone mimic Bisphenol-A.
endocrine disruption is a fascinating subject
It is amazing to me that there is so little in the mainstream conversation about America's bloated healthcare system. I think CHS makes some good points but barely scratches the surface of what is wrong with the U.S.'s expensive healthcare system.
The main problem as I see it is that our healthcare system is bifurcated. Healthcare is largely financed by the government yet is considered to be private sector. The biggest single budgetary spending in the U.S. is Medicare/Medicaid and without it hospitals all over the country would have to close their doors. The majority of the debt spent on healthcare goes towards maintainance and finance and generally lining the pockets of people that have nothing to do with healthcare.
Many of America's hospitals were built in the 50's, 60's and 70's and are full of asbestos--asbestos lining the pipes in chases that are like chimneys and asbestos in plaster walls, floor tiles, ceiling tiles you name it, they used to put asbestos in everything.
Life expectancy longer than it has ever been, not sure if any of this is really relevant other than Moochelle Obummer told me I should eat better. I'll take advice from her when I want an ass the size of her's, that sista's got back!
Because we're running up debts sky high in the medical field because people want to eat like goddamned fat hedonists and think a doctor will fix them right up again to chow down again. And the sad thing is, it usually works.
Fucking pigs. A country full of nasty, dirty, pigs.
I will piece together a timeline for you. You make your own decision.
It has a new number now. Shortly, Obama will begin to speak about it again.
S. 2433
To require the President to develop and implement a comprehensive strategy to further the United States foreign policy objective of promoting the reduction of global poverty, the elimination of extreme global poverty, and the achievement of the Millennium Development Goal of reducing by one-half the proportion of people worldwide, between 1990 and 2015, who live on less than $1 per day.
Now that you have watched the ^ past^, the New World Order will have a new prospective…. beginning on your link below.
UN Agenda 21; Codex Ailmentarius
I agree with CHS that sugars, fats, and salt are bad for us, and that poor food leads to poor health, but I think it's important to point out a few added facts. Way back in 1972, there was a paper in the journal Science by Nicholas Wade called "DES: A Case Study of Regulatory Abdication," that looked at the use of diethystilbestrol (DES) - a potent estogen mimic in the US food supply and how the USDA and FDA failed in their mandate to protect the public because their decision-making was purely political and not based on scientific evidence of safety.
From the article: "DES is a chemical of bizarre and far-reaching properties, chief of which is that it is a spectacularly dangerous carcinogen. Some 22 countries have taken steps to ensure they do without DES in their food supply. The hormone is a regular ingredient of the American diet because the federal government permits its use as an additive in cattle feed. Fed to some 75 percent of the 30 million cattle slaughtered each year, DES makes the animals fatten faster and on less grain, thereby saving cattlemen some $90 million yearly."
So what was the justification for such a massive experiment of drugging the US public? "According to a position paper drafted on 8 February 1972 by A. J. Kowalk and R. L. Gillespie, scientists in the FDA's division of Toxicology, a single experiment formed 'practically the only evidence to support a 7-day withdrawal period.' [stopping the drug before slaughter] 'This study is weak scientific justification,' Kowalk and Gillespie said, because only one animal was used, only a single dose of DES was fed, and half the drug could not be accounted for. And far from justifying a 7-day withdrawal period, the data even from this experiment could be interpreted to indicate that residues of DES will remain in the animal for longer than 7 days."
So there we have it. The public was widely exposed to a chemical added specifically to fatten cattle in the interest of maximizing cattlemen profits. The USDA and FDA facilitated this experiment, and it went on from the 50's to the 70's, and DES still shows up in meat from time to time. It's not a big surprise to me to see so much cancer, obesity and associated health problems; DES is just a single example of a chemical added as a growth stimulator and there are many others. It would be much more surprising to see a healthy population given the antibiotics, hormones, and pesticides that are in almost everything we eat. Interestingly, there is even a new name for chemicals that can lead to obesity: obesogens.
From Wikipedia: "Obesogens are foreign chemical compounds that disrupt normal development and balance of lipid metabolism, which in some cases, can lead to obesity.[1][2][3] Obesogens may be functionally defined as chemicals that inappropriately alter lipid homeostasis and fat storage, change metabolic setpoints, disrupt energy balance or modify the regulation of appetite and satiety to promote fat accumulation and obesity."
BTW, if anyone is interested in where this pattern of adulterating the food supply was first allowed by the FDA and USDA, the pattern is described in the book "DDT: Scientists, Citizens and Public Policy," by Thomas R. Dunlap.
It turns out that apples produced in Washinton state were regularly being sprayed with arsenic-based pesticides in the early 1900s. By 1914, poisonings were being reported, although they were downplayed by producers. Ultimately, it was the threat of a ban by the British when they traced 2 cases of arsenic poisoning to American apples; this forced the US to define an upper limit for residues or lose the export market. The limit turned out to be based on what industry could achieve with washing, not based on any medical studies.
The permissible residue value of 0.025g/lb was set by the Secretary of Agriculture, first in 1927, with various moves up and down over the following years, as the fruit growers lobby pressed hard on Congress to permit more residues while medical doctors consistently wanted lower levels. The growers won and the pattern was established. In 1937, Congress actually stipulated "that no part of the funds appropriated by this act shall be used for laboratory investigations to determine the possible harmful effects on human beings of spray insecticides on fruits and vegetables." They were protecting the growers by implementing a political process along the lines of: if you don't look, you won't find. Not exactly an enlightened or particularly effective public health policy.
Dunlap points out that "By the time DDT became available for civilian agriculture and public health use in 1946, both the Food and Drug Administration and the Department of Agriculture were accustomed to acting as service agents for interest groups."
This same pattern is being repeated over and over again, with producers wielding political power to maximize whatever practices enable them to lower their costs or increase their efficiencies, with most of the downstream costs of those decisions falling largely upon an ill-informed public.
+1 both of your posts geekgrrl - love it when people source health issues back to "government policy" - aka corporate fascism.
the DES story makes so much sense when you think about it - and I'm sure the current use of GMOcorn to fatten feedlot animals in their final days, just before the weight auctions & subsequent slaughter - is just more of the same methodology.
It is corporate fascism. These corporations make decisions that completely destroy real folks' lives. The DES story is an exemplar, a model of how things actually work in the crony capitalist world. It always amazes me how few people know this story, and that they believe that supermarket food is "safe" and "wholesome."
During the 1960s, DES was used as a growth hormone in the beef and poultry industries. It was later found to cause cancer and was phased out in the late 1970s.
Actually, it was discovered in 1938 by Sir Charles Dodds, and he published the original paper in that same year. He also reported the discovery of Bisphenol-A in the same paper. DES was prescribed widely to women in the US (6 million estimated), Europe, and Australia from the early 1940's to the early 1970's, until a very perceptive doctor noticed in 1971 that the common feature of 7 women with a rare vaginal cancer was that their mothers had all taken DES during their pregnancy.
Usage in agriculture appears in the 1950's, and doesn't end until the mid-to-late 1970's, although as I noted above, it still shows up in meat, and given the extremely small number of meat inspections, I think it's safe to assume the actual number is much higher.
I'm not sure what point you were trying to make. Were you saying that the problems are all better now, just move along?
Just wondering what would happen to food prices if everyone suddenly started eating, "healthy". One reason that foods high in sugars is such a large component aside from the ease in which people become addicted to high sugar diets is the abundance with which we are able to produce corn syrup. There is alot of profit in producing high fat, sugary and salty items.
Eating healthy is hardly cheep. Especially when you look at the cost of the fresh vegetables that are really good for you like Broccoli, Brussel Sprouts, Asparagus even Romaine Lettuce and Tomatoes. Plus the price of fresh fruit, like grapes, raspberries, blueberries, strawberries, apples and oranges.
I like this article! Although I'm an omnivore I'm trying to incorporate more raw vegan meals into my diet http://www.rawfor30days.com/themovie.html all the guacamole you can eat
"The entire sickcare system that includes the food/diet industries.. is engineered to maximize profit by triggering instincts wired to reward sensitivity.."
Oh Shit, Charles Hugh-Smith is off on another socialist roller-bender !!
Presumably the ruthless profiteering in food is leading to major health problems, that of our ever increasing lifespans
We have soppy socialists wanting to curb the food industry (they'll be telling us what to drink, smoke and what clothes to wear next) and on the other side the socialist welfare State complaining we're living too long drawing pensions
If Charles could go away, head-bang with other lefties and come back with a cohesive complaint about what precisely the fuck they're complaining about (ie. 90 year old marathon runners or death by chocolate)
Cheerszzz
Say, your comments sound familiar. Don't you work on "K" street?
I love when people confuse corruption with a political philosophy or party. It knows no boundaries.
One of many revelations about our medical system. However, you forget that these same "Doctors" that work for big pharma sit on the boards that define those that "need" these drugs. On these boards they continually lower the threshold of need by redefining the meaning of "high cholesterol" or "high blood pressure" or even "diabetic" so that the definitions are more and more inclusive. This constantly raises the number of pills sold and keeps the people coming back to the "Doctor" for more "prescription" visits at $150 a pop for 5 minutes and more blood tests.
Also, you missed the toxen releases the governments, the EPA and big business cover up resulting in symptoms that again are treated with pills. Rather then seeking the cause and stopping the exposure to the toxen, a doctor would rather prescribe a pill and keep you coming back for indefinite treatment until the toxen or the pill kills you.
By redefining the meaning of high blood pressure, you must mean lowering the threshold for treatment. I think this is one that has medical validity because there is some real understanding what the extra internal pounding of brain tissue cost it over time. People with hypertension have a higher correlation to dementia. And then there are strokes. Do everything that you can to get and stay in shape but if you still have high blood pressure after you lose the extra weight, find a way of dealing with your stress and learn to eat as well as you can, then realize that an antihypertensive might be all that's left between you and a stroke. And a stroke sucks big-time.
Diabetes carries with it all sorts of risks, mainly cardiovascular ones. People with diabetes die sooner and more importantly, they have a lower quality of life.
The one you may be on to is the treatment for cholesteral: Does it really correlate to less heart disease over time or does it just treat the numbers, making the triglyceride panel look good.
yep, here in the US, has always been about corrective care and not preventative care, it's a business like anything else in this country.
When Doctors, and Even Santa, Endorsed Tobacco
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/07/business/media/07adco.html
don't forget Fred and Barney
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=fvwp&NR=1&v=FqdTBDkUEEQ
Seriously misallocate limited wealth and resource. The process is like the following:
1) You eat and eat and sit and sit till you are like a gigant fat meatball yourself.
2) You then getting very depressed and become a diabetic heart and vascular patient.
3) You then have joints and bone problem because of inactivity and the heavy load of your weight on your bone structure.
4) You then takes lots meds for your heart, blood pressure, your degenerated body frame problem and the pain come with all those problem.
5) You also take antidepressant for your depression and anxiety from problem described as all above.
6) You then, have a Gastric bypass surgery to fix your uncontrollable over eating habit which cause your obesity.
7) You then, have to take other meds and undergo other procedures to treat the complication from your GI bypass procedure.
8) You have so much pain and you are so depressed you then take over dose Tylenols one day by accident. (Or by some dark suicidal thought that drive you to overdosed Tylenol.). You then ended up with an acute liver failure and eventually you have a liver transplant.
9) You then, after the liver transplant, developed a whole new world of new problems like systemic infections or some forms of cancers because of the immunosuppressive drugs you must take for the rest of your life.
A common trick to get rich quick to get back to the system is to put your almost dead or at least half dead family sick member into the rich healthcare system and pray to god that they make some big mistake then you can sue them out of billions if not millions for all the sufferings they cause on you and your family.
Good luck.
Watched an old travel video of the early 80s the other night. Suddenly rediscovering how really nice people looked in those days in England, Ireland, and Scotland. They all looked so natural and you don't see one obese person as the so many obese people you often see today. Moreover, people in the old days looked so much nicer, natural, and graceful because you rarely see see the "modern beauty" of plastic puffy fish lips on wrinkles plastic monkey faces on the trunks of pair of large boots of women today - the products of the modern beauty medical industry.
Getting really nostalgic from watch the old movies and old documentaries. Those good old days are gone.
Yes, I remember the surgeon general during the 80s telling everybody not to eat fat. You can eat all the ice cream that you want but not fat. Crisco came out with Crisco light which as it turns out was only do to its color. No product misrepresentation here./sarc
Now You have a generation that spent 10 years avoiding fats including the good ones and eating sugar. I still remember how much I liked eating chocolates and drinking mountain dew. As it turns out Mountain Dew one of the highest sugar contents. But, it was Ok, everything else was fat free. lol
I have to admit that I look at old pictures and see the adults were a lot skinnier. I just get blown away. I see some of these girls now a days, and they are plumb from their teens. Sad really.
i have the same thought whenever I see soul train reruns. lots of fit people who can do what they want their bodies to do.
i have the same thought whenever I see soul train reruns. lots of fit people who can do what they want their bodies to do.
Bailiff, take the jury out and buy them a drink, a smoke and give anyone who argues a battery acid enema.
Little Dark perhaps... but much truth there. Birth Control pills end up in the water supply -- Got Breasticles? And meat products concentrate the organic fat soluable toxins. Excercise and diet is good, Jack LaLane live to be 95, but his brother was a couch potato and lived to be 96.
Perhaps a misunderstood concept is saving money through preventive medicine. Eg., Mass screening of 100 million women for breast cancer costs way more than it saves by picking out those few positives, and more lives are actually saved by not misallocating the resources. 80% of all healthcare money is spent on end of life treament and we all die. Better to make Pelosi ride commercial coach first before we go there, but that is not what they have in mind.
apparently, you can get throat cancer, from eating pussy. is anything safe? http://mobile.bloomberg.com/news/2011-10-03/oral-sex-may-cause-virus-linked-throat-cancer-in-men-study
There are some things worth dying for.
The Vegetable Kingdom (Animal cells, Vegetable cells, or Mineral molecules and mixtures) can be eaten while alive and not break the chain of Life in one's diet. Sun to chlorophyll to starch to sugar when ripe for ManKind. First pressed virgin life in your face. Love is so simple.
CHS is very insightful in this article and I'm about in 100% agreement, but believe one can pull back the perspective one more click. From my perspective, our society has transformed from a "real" to a "pseudo" meme in which the marketing of anything is more influencing than the content. Almost nothing is "real" in today's world. And almost everything has it's ulterior motive. Violent video games? Sure they sell because they appeal to basic instincts. But they also have an effect that a special interest (or several special interests) benefits from. Politics? C'mon do you really think Romney or Gingrinch are the best, brightest, or even have any public service at heart? It's a pseudo election process, and this is ensured by electronic voting which is easily rigged.
You can see this in the fact surrounding the dispute over legalizing marijuana. Almost all of the opposition talking points are bonus, unproven or disproven. Why do "they" fight so hard? Because if it were totally legal for adult use, big pharma is afraid you might not want their "pills" anymore. Same with the "healthcare networks". You might feel better with cannabis. Alcoholic beverage companies, ditto. And of course law enforcement agencies know that most of the drug money is in marijuana, so if it's legal they'll receive much less budget. It's all phoney.
But we don't get the truth, we get the "spin", which is something else "fake". Sure "yellow journalism" has been around for years along with it's partner propaganda. But the "pseudo news" promoted by MSM today is controlled by a handful of huge companies, and these companies have interlocking boards of directors. The result is, we never get unbiased reporting to the masses. Without the Internet, truth would have a hard time being disseminated at all. And we all know about the current battle for an open Internet.
Until those of us who see through this facade rise up en masse, nothing will change.
We evolved eating meat. That's why we have big brains. Just buy your meat from Whole Foods. I frequently buy grass fed ground beef there for $3.49 per pound.
Natural saturated fat is heatlthy. It is only hydrogenated vegetable fat that is unhealthy - you know - what the government has been telling us to eat for over 40 years in such forms as margarine.
We did not evovle eating wheat and corn. The government wants you to eat wheat and corn - the socialist diet - because it makes ADM happy.
A gallon of spring water is only 86 cents at Whole Foods.
and put a chlorine filter on your shower head.
Me I just buy canned food for the coming apocalypse. Thing is sickcare is profitable because it's largely stimulated by government. Soon the US economy will consist of americans giving healthcare to each other. When the government rigs the system the way it is, it's no wonder the result. We got all kinds of medication, from inhaled powder that helps your asthma which can kill you as side effect, instead the old fashion working inhaler. Patents help to foster this type of system. Instead of researching for slam dunk way of dealing a illness they simply give you a alternative that doesn't work any better, but instead just a gimmick drug they advertise. In a patent free society, society comes innovations, and inventions that come out of rise of a need, gimmicks don't survive much.