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America has fallen from Hippocrates, the father of medicine who said “Let your food be your medicine” and Thomas Edison’s wise words “The doctor of the future will use no medicine but instead will interest his patients in the care of the human frame in diet, cause, and prevention of disease.”
Quoting from Dr. Bruce West’s June 2013 article in “Health Alert,” called “Cardiologists say too many drugs compromise heart health:”
“Some leading cardiologists have voiced an interesting position at the annual scientific sessions of the American College of Cardiology held March 9-11, 2013 in San Francisco. They say that prescribing has gotten out of hand. They say 80 million Americans have heart disease and doctors are eager to add drugs and reluctant to take them away.”
The average person who has had a heart attack is routinely prescribed:
• A beta-blocker (now proven useless against heart attacks and strokes, or to prolong life)
• An ACE inhibitor (to reduce blood pressure, useless for people with pressure under 170/99)
• Plavix and aspirin (to thin the blood and prevent clots)
• A statin (to reduce cholesterol and useless for all but a tiny fraction of patients that represent less than 1 percent. That is an instant five medications. Patients with hearts too weak to pump blood adequately were prescribed an average of 12 drugs or more.)
Drugs are prescribed to millions of patients with no real evidence that they work. They only force the body to work but do not heal the organs themselves. Drugs are powerfully debilitating and turn many healthy people into cardiac invalids. In addition to all the drugs given, doctors eliminate most greens that, in their opinion, keep the blood thin and interfere with the medication. These are the very foods vital to health.
As if that is not enough, the advice about fats makes it a no-win situation.
Isn’t it about time that we listen to Hippocrates and truly let food be our medicine?
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