My last several columns have been on the subject of the approaching mandatory status of the deadly swine flu shots, courtesy of the World Health Organization. I think it is appropriate to talk about what real health care is, and how just about anyone can begin applying its principles with immediate benefit.
We have become so brainwashed over the course of decades by the drug industry and deceptive political entities, that we think health care has to be expensive; that it has to involve damage to our health from unavoidable side effects, and that only medical professionals are smart enough or educated enough to tell us what to do when we are sick.
These things are blatantly false. MDs and other health professionals who have the insight and the courage to look beyond the drug industry propaganda tell us that real health care, is 90 percent education, and largely self-applied. It consists of basics like good nutrition, natural food supplements and herbs, three types of essential exercise, fresh air and sunlight, and positive mental and emotional attitudes. These things are not minor adjuncts to health. They are its very foundation.
The fact that conscientious MDs who tell their patients that natural treatments and lifestyle often make drugs, surgery and radiation unnecessary are being run out of the country and stripped of their licenses by the drug industry controlled AMA, should not deter us from following their courageous advice.
They tell us, for example, that eating organically-grown fresh foods and avoiding items containing GMO ingredients or grown or processed with poisons is essential. What we take into our bodies is what builds our cells, and determines our immunity and level of health. What we take into our minds and dwell on in our thoughts also has a tremendous impact on health, and determines how efficiently our bodies can use our nutrition. Educated use of natural supplements is incredibly important and beneficial, as long as those supplements are produced properly, and according to organic standards.
Hippocrates, often referred to as the father of medicine, and to whom medical doctors take an oath, always advocated using food as medicine, and doing “no harm.” He would never have accepted the barbaric level to which many medical “therapies” and drugs have sunk in modern times. Real medicine does not have the devastating “side effects” we have come to consider as normal, thanks to the drug industry”s massive ad campaigns.
To reverse the alarming downward trend in American health, and realize as nonsense the idea that health care has to cost us billions of dollars, we need faith in ourselves and in our innate intelligence and ability to learn. Dr. Carolyn Dean, in her book “Death By Modern Medicine,” documents that the number one cause of death in America is now medical treatments and drugs. This is not mentioned, of course, in the major, corporate controlled media, but it is an essential fact for us to understand.
The body was designed to be a self-healing mechanism. If we learn to honor its requirements in ways that are in harmony with nature, most of the health problems we have come to accept will no longer exist.
If we insist on continuing to eat junk food, food grown or processed not in accordance with organic principles, if we decide to keep drinking ethanol, smoking, using damaging drugs, not getting adequate exercise and filling our minds with disharmonious thoughts and feelings, we can expect continuing problems with health as a natural result.
If we are willing to take responsibility for our own condition and to learn as much as we can about maintaining these wonderful bodies we have been given, abundant health will gradually return as our normal, everyday state of being.
Richard Sacks is a Lower Lake rancher.
