Don Tolman - Encyclopedia of Whole Food Medicine: EBook Series Book 2, Section II, Dreams, Self Care, Pharmaceutical Drug Lords and MUCH more...: Farmacist Desk Reference Series, Book Volume I

Farmacist Desk Reference, Ebook Series, Book 2

The FDR contains modern observations of ones day to day actions that over time and distance impact the state of ones physiology. The FDR also contains Ancient Wisdom Teachings on the benefits of the metaphysics delivered through whole foods, sunshine, water, salt, walking, emotions and especially the, Times of Fasting and Feasting upon each seasons harvest. While tracing the unfolding wisdom of enlightenment gleaned from seasonal diets of whole foods in the form of Sacred Meals the Mystery Schools of ancient Egypt, Persia, Phoenicia, Peru, Tibet, Greece, the Inca and dozens of others, the FDR unveils the brilliant simplicity of promoting the Vital Energetic Continuum of Health and refusing to fight disease with Modern Weapons of War designed for Mass (cellular) Destruction.

~Quality Health Care comes of Diversity and Competition of a Free Market Place~

Today there are thousands of talented, compassionate, gifted and dedicated health and healing practitioners. Most of the very best are not state licensed. There is a very real very dark side of the so called, health care movement that has been going on for more than 100 years desiring to control who can and cannot practice the High Art of Healing while Causing no Harm. The founding Fathers and Mothers of America originally insisted upon sovereignty for healers. Healing and its practice was set into a Free Market Place. In this only the best survived. Hired lobbyists representing Special Interest Groups (pharmaceutical drug lords) created laws for State Licensing. This weakened our constitutional rights, the quality and the range of health care. The FDR financially supports individuals and groups that are active in bringing about the resurrection of a Free Market Healing System. For purposes of character assassination some great healers are labeled Quacks, do your homework before you judge anyone. Some, who create the greatest harm are State Licensed.

If anything is sacred, the Human Body is sacred.

-Walt Whitman

Drugs Have Created
A Whole New Market:
The, Worried Well

It is rare to find people that arent popping pills to treat a complaint or to prevent one. There are medicines for headaches, cholesterol, sexual-dysfunction and some we didnt realize even existed. Thanks to the drug industry, we now view differently physical, mental, emotional and social lackness. We dont necessarily want well-ness, nor do we want sickness, but we have a vacancy of something that we think drugs can fill. The drug industries are turning more and more healthy people each year into customers. So, then the question is, why and how have drug makers begun targeting people who arent sick?

Its a shame I wasnt able to make Merck more like the chewing-gum maker, Wrigleys; because then I would have been able to sell to everyone.

-Former Merck CEO

Drug companies are focusing on their marketing; they are using many ways to target people.

Drug companies use celebrities now as a popular way to promote their drugs. They try to change public awareness, public thinking and public perceptions about drugs. Although sometimes the disease phrasing may be legitimate, the celebrities are getting paid big bucks to try changing the way we think about sexual difficulties or stomach problems or natural symptoms of stages of life. These are insidious campaigns.

Because we trust the celebrities, there is a new industry of celebrity brokers who bring together celebrities and drug companies to influence the people to request drugs from their doctors. These celebrities are not telling you that they are on the drug companys payroll because if they did that our trust might diminish a little bit.

At some point we have to wonder why theyre convincing healthy people of being sick. Arent there enough sick people already?

The truth is that the drug marketing people and the public relations department who work for the drug lords are doing what shareholders demand of them. In other words, theyre looking for ways to maximize markets by redefining more and more people as sick. An informal contract exists between the drug companies and the medical profession to define more and more people as ill.

Whether it is mental illness, cholesterol or high blood pressure, every time a panel of experts comes together, they nudge the boundaries a little further. A great example is obesity. Today obesity is defined as a disease that 100s of billions of dollars are made off every year. The funny thing is that being fat is not a disease. Instead it is just the result of eating and drinking junk too late in the day, overeating and simply not moving!

How do you think this is affecting the American psyche?

The Greek God for healing was named Aesculapius.

One of his children was named Panacea, which everyone regardless of their religion be it Jewish, Christian, Muslim or Atheist, tends to worship. Particularly is we are vulnerable or sick, we all want a panacea. Problems arise from commercial and professional enterprises trying to exploit the desire that people yearn for a panacea. What really happened to the American psyche, the Ancient symbol of a young, innocent, beautiful, blue-eyed, blonde girl that represented the spark of life or soul in each of us, no one knows. Instead, the American population is filled with psycho drug advertisements pushing us to fear disease, decay and death as a central part of life. It wouldnt be hard, nor would it take a lengthy study period, to find out how being bombarded ten to 30 times a day about being sick or lacking would affect the psyche.

Pharmaceutical companies deliberately use their marketing strategies globally with the United States being the epicenter to sell sickness and disease. An interesting fact to note is although Americans make up less than five percent of the worlds population, Americans also account for 70 percent of the money spent in the drug market making us legalized drug addicts. We are also addicted to miracle panaceas of supplements disregarding food as only a substance used to fill us and give us excuses to meet with and visit one another.

This in no way means that the United States is responsible for 70 percent of the drugs used. Instead, it means simply that Americans account for 70 percent of the total spending of the drugs. Also, we take more drugs per capita than any other country. For instance, I lived in East Tennessee, where there were five counties around me, plus Hawkins County, which is where I lived. The residents of this area take more Lortabs and Lipitor than any other area of this size in the entire world!

Why is that?

The United States differs from other places because of the type of advertising offered. The United States allows direct company to consumer advertising of the prescription and non-prescription medications. This form of advertising has succeeded very well here. This is not a new form of advertising, in fact it has been around for years, but it wasnt until the mid 1990s when the regulations on advertising were loosened, thanks to drug lobbyists paying for the politicians, that a drastic increase was noticed. Other places in the world have a strict ban on consumer marketing of drugs; however, disease awareness, which is funded by the pharmaceutical companies, is allowed. These marketing strategies are playing out well in the other countries also.