National Heart Awareness Month and Women's Heart Disease

[Guest guest]

By now I have gone over the basics of this argument so many times

and on so many groups I am getting tired of preaching about the

pharmaceutical industry lierally making a killing off of

pseudoscience of cholesterol and fatty acid metabolism.It is not that

I am more educated than anyone else but I know they are not telling

us all that is known or all that should be talked about and

investigated.Remember first that cholesterol is one of the main

antioxidants produced by the body and that the relationship between

levels of essential and non-essential fatty acids as well as

combinations of proteins and fatty acids maybe what we should be

researching, discussing and understanding before anything else.It is

not as simple as the makers of cholesterol lowering drugs would have

you to think.Same for the makers of 2000$ a shot Procrit,despite the

television ads.Many medicines are pushed, protocols and programs

preached because of the money generating potential of a particular

therapy.It takes alot of coronary arteriograms to pay for a Cat scan

or heart-lung machine.How many times to you see in the obituaries the

statement that someone dies while being treated for cancer.No,what

you always see is that someone " dies " from cancer.The only way this

will be changed is when part of the money raised by charity and other

so called non-profit organizations donate a certain percentage of

what they raise to legitimate,out of the mainstream alternative

practioneers.The least that should be done is for us alternative

practioneers to be able to receive insurance and medicare

payments.Then you would find people seeking out the things that

really work,without major sideffects and not be forced into programs

that are self serving,money making pseudoscience propaganda,backed

and pushed by pharmaceutical companies.

, Sarah <seraphimtoo@c...>

wrote:

> Funny, I didn't see any selling out, just a caution for awareness

that

> women need to know about what we need to change in our life to

avoid

> heart disease. And isn't knowing better than ignoring and then

having

> to cope with a damaged heart? My goodness, the risk factors are all

> things that can be handled naturally so why the complaint? Better

to

> get a heads up from an unlikely source than no warning from a

friend.

>

> Sarah G

> Glad for any information that helps me make an informed choice,

even if

> its not what the doctor recommended!