Look back over the past 30 years and ask how many cures for the diseases of aging have been found? One can argue the number is near zero!   

Americans have paid outlandish prices for prescription drugs under the guise that pharmaceutical profits would fund research leading to medical breakthroughs. The problem is that real-world discoveries have not manifested. One can point to some treatments that prolong patient survival, but these are offset by lethal side effects... 

Don't miss the information toward the bottom of the article. It details a couple examples of the testosterone patch and progesterone and what over regulation has done to the prices of these products.

Imagine the surprise of going online and discovering that the vitamin and mineral content of vegetables has drastically dropped.    

That's what happened to nutritionist, Alex Jack, when he went to check out the latest US Department of Agriculture food tables. The stunning revelation came after Jack compared recently published nutrient values with an old USDA handbook he had lying around. Some of the differences in vitamin and mineral content were enormous-a 50% drop in the amount of calcium in broccoli, for example. Watercress down 88% in iron content; cauliflower down 40% in vitamin C content-all since 1975.