Jon Burras Wellness Newsletter

Drugs are important short term and in emergency situations. Sadly, drugs are marketed as long-term solutions with deadly side-affects. Did you know that Americans make up less than 5% of the world's population yet consume at least half of the drugs produced? Did you know that at least 2000 Americans die each year from taking a single Tylenol? Did you know that more Americans die each year from normal doses of prescribed and over the counter medications than die from gang violence and automobile accidents-combined? Did you know that the FDA, (Food and Drug Administration), does not fully evaluate new drugs? Instead, the FDA relies on the "honesty" of drug companies to hand over their scientific studies. This is like a high school teacher telling his students to take their tests home, evaluate themselves, and bring back the results to the teacher.
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The Truth About the Drug Companies

    Did you know that there are over 1100 drug lobbyist working in Washington D.C. trying to pressure congressmen to vote their way-nearly 3 lobbyist for every congressional representative? Did you know that the average medical doctor receives thousands of dollars in kick backs (bribes) each year from the pharmaceutical industry just for prescribing their drugs to patients? This is on top of the lucrative gifts, free lunches, free trips, and free seminars that doctors also receive from the drug industry. This is all perfectly legal. Did you know that there are only two countries in the world where advertising of drugs in print and on television is legal? The United States and New Zealand. New Zealand is considering repealing this.
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      Rockefeller Medicine Men

    It was the Rockefeller Foundation that nearly 100 years ago set in motion the type of medical care that exists for most Americans. The Rockefeller and Carnegie Foundations attempted to create an all white male elite status of medical doctors. Medicine was to be based on drugs and surgery alone. This was the beginning of "for profit" health care in the United States.
    Sadly, this system is still in place today. Not much has changed. Politics, money, and power have turned health care into one of the largest corporate interests in the country. The problem is that when profits are based on your health the sicker you are the more money is to be made. You are encouraged, (and expected), to be sick to contribute large sums of money into this for profit business. We do not have a health care system in the United States under the umbrella of Western Medicine. Instead, we have a "Disease Care Management" system. Nearly 2 trillion dollars is spent each year on disease care management in the United States. Thank you Mr. Rockefeller.
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The Turning Point

   The Turning Point by Fritjov Capra explores in depth where the biomedical model for disease came from. Capra uncovers the 17th Century ideas of Rene Descartes, demonstrating how the human body is nothing more than a machine and that the solution to illness can be found by breaking the parts down into smaller and smaller pieces, (Mechanism).
    Medical doctors of today have continued to follow this approach. Is it any wonder why more and more diseases are showing up every day and medical doctors have no answer to them. When disease is thought of as an enemy to be conquered one can hardly wonder at the bizarre nature of our health care system.
    How we perceive health or disease is a matter of how we perceive our world. The current Western medical model views health as a war to be fought. This is also concurrent with the world view of many who believe that there is always some danger "out there" that needs to be conquered.
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The Big Fix
How the Pharmaceutical Industry Rips Off American Consumers

    What a shock! Did you actually believe that the drug companies cared about you or your health? No! The drug companies are in business to sell as many drugs as they can and make as much money from those drug sales for their shareholders as possible. With the help of manipulative tactics, fear advertising, and corrupt government officials, (congressmen, presidents, etc. who write laws in their favor), they are very successful at the game.
    Did you know that drug companies spend comparatively very little of their own money on drug research, (despite their claims of needing to keep drug prices so high to pay for research). Drug companies spend an absurd amount of money on advertising, (television, print, and radio), kick backs to doctors for selling their drugs, and gifts to doctors in the form of free lunches, seminars, trips, and much more. They then mark this in the category called "research" when they do their accounting. This tactic is called, "cooking the books".
    In 1998 the Boston Globe newspaper ran a story that claimed for the previous five years, (1992-1997), 33 out of the top 35 best selling drugs were not developed by the drug industries at all but by the National Institute of Health-a United States government agency funded by the American taxpayer. Those drugs were then "given" to the drug company that had donated a substantial amount to the political party in power at the time. The American public received no money back from the billions of dollars in sales.
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