Posts Tagged ‘Pills’

New research published in the American Journal of cardiology claims that fast food restaurants should give out statins to counter the effects of fatty foods. Fast food and statins are the new proposed combination plate.

Statin dangers

The statin pill can be as risky as the cheeseburger. Statins deplete your body of nutrients that you need to help the heart function. Statins have serious side effects. It can damage the liver, pancreas and muscles.

However, the reason some doctors give for not endorsing this idea, is that it would encourage people to lead unhealthy lives. This would mean that they would be at a higher risk for developing Type 2 diabetes.

This is the case of dumb and dumber. The logic from each side can only be understood from a medical perspective. The issue here; treat everything with a pharmaceutical. In other words mask the problem.

When the cholesterol numbers are lower and the diet is the same junk, you wind up without any benefit from the pills. The drugs don’t cut the rate of adverse events; it just makes the numbers look better. The second part of the problem isn’t the fat, but the carbs in the form or processed flour, and sugar. Diabetes risk is manly a processed food problem, not a fat one.

Junk Food Junky

People are hooked on the taste of fast food. Giving them drugs with the meal isn’t going to solve anything. It would compound the problem, there would be two dangers, instead of one. Only the medical community with a drug company’s education could come up with anything this ridiculous.

Healthcare takes many forms; the one thing it is not, is free.

Healthcare

The federal government is starting to build an effective way to deliver more healthcare to everyone. Now, that sounds good on the surface. However, if you look at what the healthcare industry has been delivering it may look different.

Americans seem to believe more care is better. This is such a pervasive believe. Aggressive treatment is the order of the day. From treating normal cholesterol, pre-diabetes, borderline hypertension, and every possible classroom behavior, we have become a nation of prescription pill addicts.

Medical

Medical treatment is not healthcare. The dependency on this type of care shows that we lost our way. Medical care is sick care, not healthcare. Aggressive treatment has a downside, from side effects, to projected future health events.

A recent study found that 15,000 people were projected to die eventually from the CT scans given in just a single year. This also showed that there is significant overuse of this technology.

Now, with more people having coverage the numbers will go up. People have complained of rationing and that may be true. The flip side is rationing what. Testing that is not conclusive, and may subject people to the harmful effects of both the testing and treatment.

The danger is both hospitals and drug makers will have more power to control peoples lives.

Affordable Health Insurance

Affordable health insurance is not bad in itself. No one wants an insurer to deny a claim. However, we do not get the best care by those criteria alone

Many times procedures such as CT scans and Cesarean births provide no benefit. Plus, there is potential harm from many of these procedures. Men who can survive their prostrate cancer without treatment, are treated and left incontinent and/or impotent.

Cardiac stents and bypass operations not only have side effects, but don’t always reduce heart attacks.

Having access to a Ritalin prescription is not a plus for the children involved. Being treated aggressively for type 2 diabetes is a dangerous practice, which also doesn’t change the outcome.

With more people getting this type of care medical errors will rise.

Health

Health isn’t the domain of healthcare in this country. Needless care is many times what medicine is about.

This country doesn’t ration healthcare, the citizens do. The important task of taking care of one’s health has seem to fallen into the governments hands.

The fact that seems to get lost is no one can take care of you better than yourself. The toughest job seems to be to convince people of this fact.

Healthcare will fail and has failed to deliver health, because it is not based on health. What healthcare does is look for disease, and dysfunction, and proceeds to treat the symptoms.

Besides the unnecessary treatments handed out, the necessary ones often make things worst in the long run.

Medical Dependency

Medical dependency is an offshoot of our healthcare policies. The more dependent we become, the less we take responsibility for our life.. What this nation needs is not a government takeover of our healthcare, but an individual takeover of our healthcare.

The overlooked factor that determines your future. is your lifestyle. This video says it all.

Big Pharma 

We are a pharma nation and it is our way of life. Because, prescriptive drugs are so prevalent, it goes unnoticed by us except when see it abused by a younger generation.  We eagerly down pills for just about anything, from being anxious, sleepless, fat, high blood pressure, cholesterol, and sugar levels, almost all brought about by our lifestyle choices.  Prescription and over the counter potions to treat heartburn, constipation, aches and pains, headaches, erectile dysfunction, PMS, addictions, hair loss, and skin conditions are in most medicine cabins.  If there is anything we do not have a pill for it’s in the pipe line.

War on Only Half the Drug Problem

You can not have a war on drugs, and look the other way on the wholesale abuse of regular everyday pharmaceuticals.  The problem is they are considered normal and everyday when they have no right to be in that category.  The first thing that happens when a celebrity overdoses on an abuse of legal pharmaceuticals, the powers that be scours the place in the search of illegal substances.  Never mind, that they used a mix of different legal substances in large doses that can do collateral damage.  Remember, this generation is setting the example for the next.  We are saying if it comes from the pharmaceutical industry it is good, and we can solve problems with a pill.

Personal Responsibility

Personal responsibility is abrogated to a large medical industry, with you having little control over your own health.  This is the message we are sending to future generations.

Having given very little thought to why we are in this situation, and buying the profit making giants promises of a bright tomorrow, bliss is just a pill away.  Without a pharmaceutical industry we would be finding ways to alleviate our aches and pains and sleepless nights naturally.  Most of the children diagnosed with things called hyper-activity, and attention deficit, we would instead contribute to poor diet, lack of sleep, or lack of discipline.

Youth and Drugs

If we are drugging youngsters, and treating problems in that way, they now have a model of how things are done.  Also, it shortens the stretch to recreational drugs.  The difference isn’t that far except for the terms legal, and illegal, which does not hold that much weight to young people who see the hypocritical nature of the beast.  When children see adults with a pill, and a glass of water often enough it becomes a common place experience.  I really do not see how we can lead by example; in that case the words are empty.  Adults seem to need substances to function in today’s world, and the same seems to sadly hold true for our children.

Wake Up Call

The answer is to wake up from the pharmaceutical daze, and see clearly that this is not the direction to attain health. Then, and only then can we help ourselves and our children brake free of the addiction cycle.  It is somewhat easier than you think, just go to your pantry and refrigerator and see what is there.  There you will find the answer to the problem that lurks in your medicine cabinet.