Composing Only 5% of the World Population, Americans Take 50% of All Pharmaceutical Drugs
While Americans comprise only 5 percent of the world population, we consume an incredible 50 percent of Big Pharma’s drugs, as explained in Jeff Hays’ documentary film, Doctored. Make no mistake. These drugs are meant to keep us imprisoned in poor health, not heal us. It’s time to kick the drug habit America. Tell the drug pushers – Merck, Pfizer, Novartis, Roche, GlaxoSmith Kline, Abbott, Astra-Zeneca, Amgen, Eli Lilly, Bristol-Myers Squibb, and Sanofi (along with the FDA and CDC) that you are going cold turkey, and learn what true health really means.
Sadly, Americans are more familiar with names like Abilify, Nexium, Humira, Plavix, Crestor, Advair Diskus, Enbrel, and Cymbalta, the top selling drugs of Big Pharma, than names like Aloe barbadensis, Curcuma longa, Allium sativum, Moringa oleifera, Vitis vinifera L, all indigenous plants that have healed millions around the world.
You’ve likely heard the phrase before – just a dozen huge corporations are keeping Americans popping pills while they rake in billions, but have you really thought of what these numbers translate into, in terms of real health?
Annual sales for just one drug, Humira, was $9.3 billion. That puts Abott squarely at the top of the list as one of the most successful drug companies of all time.
One drug. One year. $9.3 billion.
This particular drug is meant to inhibit cancerous tumor growth, but there are dozens of natural remedies for the same purpose. Consider:
Or the ‘what if’ scenarios:
- Getting out in nature heals tremendously. What if that $9.3 billion were used to create more green spaces, to keep more natural forests, and to install community good health gardens in every city?
- What if that $9.3 billion were used to clean up the environmental messes from fracking, oil drilling, oil spills, mining, nuclear meltdowns, pesticide and herbicide spraying, chemical dumping, and more, that cause cancer to begin with?
- What if we hired comedians to visit patients with cancer, using the proven technique of laughter therapy to treat many diseases, cancer among them?
Our money and our health is wasted on these companies, but we have to unplug from the drugs. We are overworked, under-nourished, over-fed, and lied to. You don’t need another pill. What really needs to pop is the illusory bubble that Big Pharma is the answer.
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What’s this ‘we’ in the first sentence – don’t count me in on that. Also, the drug manufacturers are not the ‘pushers’ – they only make the drugs – the real pushers are doctors.
Humira is NOT “meant to inhibit cancerous tumor growth” — it treats autoimmune issues like Crohn’s disease and rheumatoid arthritis by removing excess TNF-a (which causes inflammation) from the body. No one takes Humira for cancer. I’m all for trying natural cures before resorting to drugs, but if you want people to believe you know what you’re talking about, get your facts right!
Oh what a wonderful world it would be . . . But 90% of the population in the U.S. has never heard of Curcumin or Aloe. Sad but true that the Big Pharma companies have got us by the neck and strangling us slowly with our own permission and because of our own ignorance, and our belief in doctors who are no more than agents (drug pushers) of these companies. When’s the last time your doctor looked you in the eye and asked about your lifestyle – eating, sleeping, exercise, etc.? Really good article, thanks.
I read this article and it’s really good. When I tried to forward it to a list serve that I am on, the email did not appear in the list serve’s outgoing mail as it usually does. I didn’t get any response from the list serve at all. I am on AOL, and I wonder if AOL is trying to block some or perhaps all of my outgoing emails because they want to avoid “offending” their corporate advertisers, a lot of whom may be pharmaceutical corporations.
“Let food be thy medicine and medicine be thy food”
Hippocrates (460 to 370 BC)