Someone's Getting Rich Off of Your Prescriptions

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Just the other day, an eminent heart surgeon announced on a news program that Vitamin C, E, and Beta carotene should not be taken as they contribute to heart disease. Well that's news!

He related this news in the context of his discussion on heart disease and women. In fact, you may have seen a blurb at the bottom of your TV screen on one of the cable news channels stating that "Every women is at risk for having a heart attack," according to the American Heart Association. More good news!

Everywhere you look online, there are sites devoted to these vitamins, and have been included in every dietary article and program out there. Doesn't it seem that every day more and more vitamins and supplements; diets and pills; shakes and liquids are being dismissed by most doctors? Moreover, look up heart disease and you will find more men than women are at risk. Why the sudden urgency in pronouncing every woman is at risk now?

While we all know that smoking, high blood pressure, cholesterol, stress and other factors contribute to coronary heart disease, and we all know that obesity has become a pandemic in our society; and with the rising cost of health care in this country and the difficulty with which most older people cannot afford good health care or prescription drugs, one has to wonder why health care has not become universal in our country.

Yes, the pharmaceutical companies are getting rich; the unions are incorporating companies who contradict doctor's prescription medications in order to sell what the pharmaceutical companies want them to sell; and now the very vitamins we have been taking for years have been taken out of the mix. Is this another attempt by the pharmaceutical companies to prescribe their own drugs to increase earnings? Perhaps this is being a bit sinister, but there is clear evidence that certain drugs are highly marketed which yield the most benefit to the drug companies.

One really has to wonder what kind of system we are living in which doesn't take care of our elderly; approves drugs contrary to doctor's prescriptions; and is slowly raising the cost of drugs which, one day, none of us will be able to afford. With baby boomers soon retiring, they will find the cost of drugs has skyrocketed. While some may be able to afford it now, will they be able to in the future?

Maybe the problem lies in there being too much health information. The internet is saturated with it; one day a drug is recommended only to find it is taken off the shelves the next day. Perhaps we should return to the days of our parents when they never took pills, but incorporated sensible diets and exercise. Perhaps we have become too dependent on pills for every problem we encounter. What's your thought on this subject?

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