Big Pharma Strikes Again - Are You Prescription Deficient?

From NaturalNews.com today:

 

FDA approves Crestor for people who have no health problem to correct

 

(NaturalNews) Big Pharma has been trending this direction for a long time: marketing medicines to people who don't need them and who have nothing wrong with their health. It's all part of a ploy to position prescription drugs as nutrients -- things you need to take on a regular basis in order to prevent disease.

The FDA recently gave its nod of approval on the matter, announcing that Crestor can now be advertised and prescribed as a "preventive" medicine. No longer does a patient need to have anything wrong with them to warrant this expensive prescription medication: They only need to remember the brand name of the drug from television ads.

This FDA approval for the marketing of Crestor to healthy people is a breakthrough for wealthy drug companies. Selling drugs only to people who are sick is, by definition, a limited market. Expanding drug revenues requires reaching people who have nothing wrong with them and convincing them that taking a cocktail of daily pharmaceuticals will somehow keep them healthy.

All this is, of course, the greatest quackery we've yet seen from Big Pharma, because once this floodgate of "preventive pharmaceuticals" is unleashed, the drug companies will be positioned to promote a bewildering array of other preventive chemicals you're supposed to take at the same time. Did you take your anti-cancer pill today? How about your anti-diabetes pill? Anti-cholesterol pill? Don't forget your anti-Alzheimer's pill, too.

Medications are not vitamins

The very idea that these drugs can somehow prevent a person from becoming sick in the future strains the boundaries of scientific credibility. Only natural therapies like nutrition can prevent the onset of disease, not patented chemicals that don't belong in the human body in the first place.

The logical argument of the drug companies who push these "preventive" prescriptions is essentially that the human body is deficient in pharmaceuticals, and that deficiency can only be corrected by taking whatever brand-name drugs they show you on television. Forget about deficiencies in zinc, or vitamin D, or living enzymes; what your body really needs is more synthetic chemicals!

 

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I have known this was coming for some time now.  As I've written before, I was prescribed cholesterol lowering drugs back in 2003.  Within 2 weeks, my liver function numbers were such that I was advised to never take them again.  Since then, I've been reading everything I can find about cholesterol.  And many of the articles I've read have indicated that eventually the Big Pharma wants everyone in the U.S. to be taking drugs to lower cholesterol.

 

What's amazing to me is that although they claim that high cholesterol is what causes heart problems, heart attacks and strokes, when they autopsy people who died from these, very few actually had high cholesterol.  In fact, many had low cholesterol numbers.

 

If one does have a problem with high cholesterol, the simple act of adding cinnamon to one's diet helps.  So does, ironically, eating Cheerios as mentioned on their box.  (And, ironically, the FDA is considering making Cheerios change their product from being a food to being a medicine.)  There are many ways to lower cholesterol if that is really what is needed - via foods and vitamins and supplements.

 

The FDA is paving the way for other drugs to be marketed to healthy people who don't need them.

 

Meanwhile, Big Pharma wants us all to stop taking vitamins and minerals.  Of course they do.  If we're healthy, we don't really need their drugs, do we?