Posts Tagged ‘FDA’

Ron Paul popularity is growing and his followers are passionate. This news belongs on a health and wellness blog. What he is running on is the ways America is being shaped. We are all beginning to realize the way business grows in this country it is build on many things and one of them may be greed. What he delivers is a message that health minded people understand.

The nutritional benefit of raw dairy is not an option in this country. Having a choice is a fundamental freedom. Ron Paul is someone who is resonating with a large group of independent thinkers. I am tired of compliance when the supply chain makes the rules that fit their agenda. We don’t really have quality assurance, pasteurized and homogenized dairy isn’t a quality product. Milk, which possesses growth hormones and antibiotics, may meet specifications, but will not meet human needs.  

His message of smaller government resonates. I am not sure he has all the solutions, but he has the right views, at least on letting us decide what we want to use. Change matters now more than ever. People take this issue seriously. The line between freedom and an authoritarian country is beginning to blur. The rationalization that our food supply is now safe is for the American people’s protection is wearing thin.

The trend to flood the market with genetically modified, chemically altered, pasteurized, homogenized, and pre-packaged is proving to be detrimental to both our freedom and health. We are kidding ourselves if we believe this is all being done on behalf of the consumer. Giving nature a helping hand isn’t the same as taking it hostage.

What we should hope is no matter what the outcome, the message doesn’t get lost.America’s foot print is too big in the world of nature.

We need to reign in the FDA and EPA so we become a country, which is better for the consumer, and the world. The claims and promises of these agencies aren’t working, in reality they have helped saturate the environment with products that have undermined the health of the American population. All, the so-called innovation has been strategies to increase sales and dominate the market.

Ron Paul brings puts the American public back into the equation.

The war on drugs should begin here in your medicine cabinet. This will help you avoid more problems than what you are being treated for. Just because it is refillable doesn’t mean you should.

There is growing skepticism about whether the FDA is making the right decisions and making them appropriately. People can’t depend on what the FDA decides since drug safety doesn’t have tight restrictions.  Not the kind than really mean anything to the average user.

Medications results are not as simple as black and white. Diabetes medications may get the numbers to look right, but they add nothing to longevity. Only a change of lifestyle can help with overall health. If the drug companies had to report past experiences to make new drug sales they would be losing business. However, a consumer with a short memory is what they count on.

The flagging sales of a drug means they just have to reposition it. They also have to find ways to built fiction into fact. The biggest investment for pharmaceuticals may be the job of getting the right advertisement, marketing, and lobbying. The pharmaceutical footprint is found in our waterways, soil, and livers.

In all fairness there is a case for acute care drugs. However, the money is in long term use for chronic condition. The expanded market reach calls for some reflection. The current trend is to depend on chemicals to change everything in our lives.

Staying involved in your own health is the most effective way to prevent the need for medical intervention. The future will see a dramatic increase in our dependence on unnatural substances to give us natural health.  

The truth is until the war on drugs start in our medicine chest, we will never win the war on illegal substances. Most illegal dug use is the kind than comes from a growing dependency on pills to solve our problems. Our kids get high on it and adults need higher doses more often to get any results.

Thinking ourside the pills, powder and liquids that dominate our everyday existence means exploring natural living. Before you can dump the pills you have to first stop what made you ill in the first place. Creating a healthy lifestyle means blasting your system with vitamins, minerals through good nutrition. There are many foods and some herbs that can stimulate, regenerate, protect, and saturate your body with powerful nutrients.

The war on drugs begins when one gets right to work on their own lifestyle.

A doctor squard will take on pharmaceutical ads. A new Federal Drug Administration program will urge doctors to blow the whistle on misleading drug advertisements.

The “bad ad program”

The “bad ad program” announced Tuesday, is “part of the agency’s latest effort to police the pharmaceutical industry’s multi-billion-dollar marketing machine,” The Associated Press reports.

The problem with this is program is The Federal Drug Administration (FDA) let the horse out of the barn quite awhile ago. The barn door is shut tight now, for any real opportunity to return to the way things should be.

Despite, this late and lame effort to curtail the pharmaceutical companies from reaching the TV audience with false and misleading adverisements, they still will have the lion’s share of sales through aggressive marketing.

Drug companies are legally required to present a balanced picture of a drug’s benefits  in promotions. That remains to be seen according to some critics.

Brands are aware of their marketing tactics, despite maintaining their compliance with the law. Drug companies make major investments in promotion drugs to doctors and layman alike.

Drug companies invested $12 billion on promoting drugs to doctors that is three times higher than ads aimed at consumers in 2008. That means they spent $4 billion on selling the consumer on the idea of using their drugs.

Drug Awareness

Drug awareness is really a war against time. The reason is that a pharmaceutical company has a certain amount of time to cash in on a drug. They have the intellectual rights for a certain period of time before it runs out. The other reason is drugs present dangers that will come out before they made their millions in profits.

The only guaranteed protection is consumer knowledge, which means that the citizens believe the only elements to good health is better living. The consumer is boss everywhere but in medicine. Positioning the consumer to emerge as the whistler blower is the best solution.

Doctors can report false advertising, but that will not help allopathic medicine climb up from the brink and make health care relevant.