Most of us don’t know how many people are actually dying at the hand of the very system that is supposed to save us. What is even more astonishing is that the information about these travesties is completely hidden and not talked about.
Highlighted in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA), and reverberated in the upcoming documentary film Food Matters, is one of the best articles documenting the tragedy of the conventional medical paradigm.
The author is Dr. Barbara Starfield of the Johns Hopkins School of Hygiene and Public Health and she describes how the US health care system may be contributing to our poor health.
These are deaths per year:
- 12,000 — unnecessary surgery
- 7,000 — medication errors in hospitals
- 20,000 — other errors in hospitals
- 80,000 — infections in hospitals
- 106,000 — non-error, negative effects of drugs
These total to 225,000 deaths per year from modern medicine!
Add to this the number of deaths from Heart Disease and Cancer each year and the truth is out.
- 652,486 Heart disease
- 553,888 Cancer
- 225,000 Modern Medicine
Modern Medicine is now the third leading cause of death in America!
What we are experiencing now is a crisis of health care and looking to the economics of the industry is not going to solve a thing. The fact of the matter is that we need a whole new paradigm, we need to be looking at all the ways we can boost health through nutritional therapy and other alternatives approaches which are less toxic, less invasive, more effective, more safer and significantly cheaper. The 30 or 40 million people who are without health care insurance in America right now is getting some attention, as it rightly should. However is the answer giving them access to a system that doesn’t really work. Or do they need education rather than medication?
Every person reading this right now realizes that at some level they wish to help their families lives, their children’s lives and the life of the planet. And if this is our decision we need to be looking at our food choices very closely and this is exactly what the new film Food Matters delves into. If you’re after an answer to a significant health challenge or wish to protect yourself and your family from becoming customers of the ‘sickness industry’ then check out the trailer to the upcoming documentary film Food Matters.
Sources:
Death Statistics: http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/fastats/lcod.htm
Modern Medicine Statistics: Journal American Medical Association July 26, 2000;284(4):483-5
The fact that modern medicine is the 3rd leading cause of death in the U.S. is a scary notion. There is so much unnecessary surgery done, prescriptions errors are very prevalent, and the side effects of drugs can be very debilitating. This drug will help your rheumatoid arthritis but it might give you a life threatening infection or lymphoma (a cancer). Scary. Even scarier is the dosing of healthy children with Ritalin and other psychotropic medications just to control school behavior.
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Education is the key. If the general public really understood the issues involved with their health they would (and should) be shocked. Most people do not take responsibility for their health, they rely on others (medical profession) to fix their problems. The problem is the medicos seem to have another agenda entirely.
The truth is that we should be PREVENTING disease and sickness through proper nutrition, detoxification, alkalizing our bodies and drinking pure energized water. I believe that nutrient dense natural superfoods can greatly assist people to achieve and maintain good health.
Wishing you the best of health,
Thank you for all of your work. We’re waiting anxiously for Food Matters to be released. I posted a quick post and link on my blog about you.
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It frustrates me that all this isn’t common knowledge and modern medicine gets away with it’s money making industry of death.
My uncle is a pharmacist who refused to allow my mother to put me on Ritalin as a child (many years ago) citing how bad it was for the body. Recently, my mother almost died after 6 mths on an osteoporosis medicine. She developed 5 bloodclots; one of which (luckily) managed to pass through her heart safely. She has had MANY bad experiences in hospitals ranging from receiving high sodium foods on her tray (while on a low sodium diet) to almost bleeding to death with a poorly placed iv. Her doctor now has her on the newer osteo meds that according to studies can eat away her jawbone. It’s all rather frightening. But then who can afford $5000 a week at a clinic in Mexico? I’m sure most insurance wouldn’t cover that!
Until I read the book, “Our Daily Meds” by Melody Peterson, I never knew how greedy the pharmaceutcal companies could be.
http://www.ourdailymedsthebook.com/