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Originally published July 1 2008
Nutricide and Pharmacide: Killing People Not So Softly
by Jack Challem, The Nutrition Re****ter (tm)
(NaturalNews) As I look at the increasingly bizarre world around us, I
think two new words seem appropriate: nutricide, the killing of people
by serving them junk foods; and pharmacide, the killing of people by
over-prescribing pharmaceutical drugs.
Read the labels of almost every supermarket food sold in a box, can,
jar, bottle, or bag, and you'll find that they contain far too many
ingredients that serve large-scale processing but are slowly lethal to
consumers ingesting them. I'm referring to various sugars, trans fats,
interesterified fats, excess salt, and soybean oil as the top
offenders. The fast-food companies are no better, serving up their
breaded, deep-fried, hydrogenated goodies.
The folks at McDonald's, KFC, Coca-Cola, Kraft, Campbell, and so many
other makers of processed food are killing people by way of obesity,
diabetes, and heart disease. They're guilty of nutricide.
Unfortunately, some so-called health food and natural food products
aren't much better. I recently attended the Natural Foods Expo show in
Anaheim, California, where more than 3,000 companies showed their
products to over 50,000 visitors. Many of the products were great =96-
meats from organically raised animals, organically grown produce, and
even relatively healthy snack foods.
But there were also too many attempts at feel-good knockoffs of
conventional junk foods: "health food" soft drinks with as much sugar
as a Pepsi, energy bars with as much sugar as a Snickers, chocolate
soy milk with more sugar and calories than regular chocolate milk, ad
nauseam (a term that seems particularly appropriate). And people
wonder why two-thirds of Americans are overweight.
Meanwhile, the pharmaceutical industry has cooked up their own
solution to the ills caused by all these unhealthy foods: heavily
advertised drug panaceas that, in most cases, have side effects worse
than the disease itself. Each year, more than 700,000 people get
hospitalized because of adverse reactions to drugs, and more than
100,000 people in hospitals die from their medications, all of which
are approved for use by the Food and Drug Administration. They're all
guilty of pharmacide.
Abram Hoffer, MD, PhD, a pioneer in nutritional medicine, recently
pointed to the debate about whether anti-depressant drugs were really
better than placebos. "This is a phony debate, almost like trying to
figure out how many angels are dancing on the head of a pin," he told
me. "Even if the drugs are 10 percent better, they are so much more
toxic than any placebo that a placebo should be preferred."
About the author
Jack Challem, The Nutrition Re****ter, is a personal nutrition coach
and one of America's most trusted nutrition and health writers. Based
in Tucson, Arizona, he is the bestselling author of more than 20
books, including Stop Prediabetes Now, The Food-Mood Solution, Feed
Your Genes Right, and The Inflammation Syndrome. Jack is a columnist
for Alternative & Complementary Therapies and his scientific articles
have also appeared in Free Radical Biology & Medicine, Journal of
Orthomolecular Medicine, Medical Hypotheses, and other journals. Free,
downloadable excerpts from his books, and sample issues of his print
newsletters are available at http://www.nutritionre****ter.com.
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