by Bernard Jensen, Ph.D, D.C.
Health advertisements that advise you to take care of only those individual
parts of the body expressing symptoms, constitute one of the greatest deceptions
that have ever been.
For example, ads once said they could get rid of cold symptoms for 6 hours at
a time. Now they have it up to 12 hours. What they used a year ago has now been
doubled in strength. Sales pitches are not aimed at improving anyone's health
profile; their purpose is to sell the drug. The motive is purely profit.
We know from the American Cancer Society and American Heart Association that
cancer and heart disease kill more people in the U.S. than all other causes
of death combined. We are finding now that vegetarianism will help cancer and
heart trouble. Drugless doctors have known this for at least 40 years.
The macrobiotic diet has been of great help for heart troubles, because meat
is limited. Pritikin has done a great deal of good for heart disease in his
health centers by emphasizing a very low-fat diet and exercise. This diet cuts
the meat intake to a minimum - in fact, it's cut out. The body responds when
meat consumption is limited as is the stimulation to the heart that comes from
red meats - especially beef, but ads continually tell us we need to have beef.
Let's take up the fat problems. Restaurants and supermarkets sell us steaks
and roasts marbled with fat, but they don't tell us that saturated fats settle
in the body in a sort of 'fat plaque' in the main cardiac arteries, causing
narrowing of the arteries. This interferes with blood circulation in the body
and contributes to heart attacks. If we have to wait until there is a cure for
heart disease, and take drugs to reduce the risk, we are going to have to treat
the side effects of the drugs we are taking later on.
Foods that help reduce cardiovascular disease are being promoted, but we are
told to take an aspirin a day also. We don't need the aspirin!
The cancer society should be talking about good foods. They should be talking
about all the chemical food additives that are contributing to cancer. We are
not going after the culprit. We punish a criminal when he is convicted of raping
someone, but the food industry is getting away with the rape of the human race
that is far worse than anything I know.
Drugs and toxins
Toxic sprays have to kill 18 people before we actually wake up. Drugs, alcohol,
smoking and pollution are crippling the minds and bodies of the next generation.
Science is 20 years behind in finding solutions for this situation. What kind
of human race are we going to have left when science comes up with its proposed
answers?
Every drug, food and fertilizer derived from petrochemicals will have to be
abandoned in the future. They aren't doing the human race or planet Earth any
good. Every one of these petrochemical drugs is suspected of being cancer producing.
Pharmaceutical companies are making record profits, while farmers are losing
their shirts. Those who are working to benefit society by growing healthy foods
have the lowest profit. Those who are doing the greatest harm to the human race
are making the most money.
I wonder if our sky-high sales of tranquilizers is motivated by real consumer
need or by corporate greed? Today, one out of seven people is taking tranquilizers
that produce dangerous side effects. Drugs like these create the need for iatrogenic
medicine wards. It is time corporations stop pulling the wool over peoples'
eyes. It is time the people show how fed up they are with cures that don't cure.
The right diet
Why is it that we have to fight to get people to eat the right foods? If we
had to turn our sick people over to the medical profession, I don't know 10
doctors who could set up a menu or diet with the right foods so a person could
get well from diet alone. That is a truly sad situation.
Many people who are trying to use health principles don't even have a scientific
background, college degree or accredited license. Yet those who do seem to specialize
in topics like the effect of oat bran on blood cholesterol levels. Why do they
go only halfway? They have discovered only one way. There are a least 15 other
foods that could lower cholesterol.
Oat bran is just a craze going through the country, just like the fibre craze.
Kellogg advertises that it has a cereal with the proper amount of fibre for
lowering the risk of cancer. Kellogg is awakening to the things people are concerned
about. They also advertise a muesli cereal the Swiss were making over 50 years
ago. Where have they been?
Until we raise our consciousness to the level where we are not going to use
chemical substances that will destroy people, we are not going to have foods
that are worth eating. Nature is destroyed in the food chemistry laboratory.
True health-building foods have to be whole, pure, fresh and natural. You cannot
stray from this because all the drug companies are advocating temporary relief.
We move symptoms around and chase diseases. We look for a cure and yet we are
developing new diseases faster than we can ever take care of them.
I believe there will be no cure to the modern disease epidemic until there is
a change in consciousness. The cure does not lie with the people who are running
the drug businesses and the medical establishment. It's time people stand up
and speak the truth. We have to take care of the basic substances that are causing
the greatest health problems, and we have to face the profit motives that fuel
the industries that are contributing to the problem.
Bernard Jensen, Ph.D., D.C., opened his first healing practice in 1929. He has
become one of the foremost authorities on holistic health and still lectures
and tours.
Source: Healthy & Natural Journal, December