Doping
up our children: antidepressant drug prescriptions for
kids are skyrocketing while nutritional cures remain ignored
As a nation, we're doping up our kids on an ever-increasing
array of dangerous prescription drugs. With millions of children
already taking a powerful narcotic (Ritalin), now millions
more are being dose with expensive drugs that alter brain
chemistry and have been clearly shown to cause children to
engage in violent acts and commit suicide.
You can thank the marketing and hype of the pharmaceutical
industry for that, of course. Aided by the political influence
of the FDA, drug companies are attempting to hook as many
people on as many "lifetime" prescription drugs
as possible. They've already demanded that 40 million Americans
start taking statins immediately, and most doctors (who show
a remarkable ability to stand upright, given that they have
no spines) are more than willing to go along and crank out
the prescriptions.
Use of prescription antidepressants has skyrocketed in our
youth: a nine percent annual growth rate seems to be the
current trend. But are all these kids really depressed? Hardly:
they're simply malnourished. By consuming massive quantities
of soft drinks, processed foods, fast foods, junk foods and
added sugars, our children and teenagers are altering the
natural balance of chemicals in their bodies brains. Rather
than prescribing good nutrition and exercise habits, doctors
prescribe yet more chemicals that only mask the symptoms.
What these kids need is real food, not expensive prescription
drugs that cause them to commit suicide. (They also need
natural sunlight, it turns out. Vitamin D deficiency is rampant
in the U.S. population, and most people remain irrationally
afraid of the very thing they need to achieve mental balance:
natural sunlight.)
Truly, our modern medical system is mad. Instead of helping
people get healthy, we pump them full of toxic chemicals
and charge them thousands of dollars in drug fees. Instead
of teaching doctors about nutrition and the causes of health,
our medical schools teach them about prescription drugs,
surgery and other radical procedures. And instead of having
a federal agency looking out for the public health, we have
the FDA that clearly does little more than protect the interests
of drug companies. It's a system gone mad.
There's not a single person alive today who needs a lifetime
of antidepressant drugs. But don't tell the drug companies.
The more diseases they can project onto the entire population
-- and the more doctors they can convince to operate like
prescription writing factories -- the higher their profits.
It's common sense: drug companies only make money when people
take their drugs... and keep on taking them for a lifetime.
But in this case, it's pure fraud. The prescription drug
industry is nothing short of criminal, and most doctors are
unwitting accomplices in a national scam that is threatening
the mental stability of an entire generation. We don't need
drugs, folks, we need nutrition, physical exercise and natural
sunlight. |
