Health Freedom Update with Byron Richards
Congressional Birdbrains – Your Health at Risk
Saturday, October 04, 2008
Byron Richards, CCN
On Monday, Sept 29, the American public witnessed firsthand the utter ineptitude of the United States House of Representatives, hitting Main Street directly in the pocketbook. While leaders try to figure a way out of an impending economic crisis, it is now clear for everyone to finally see that we have an equal crisis in political leadership.
In my efforts to help secure health freedom for all Americans I have had a number of interactions with Congress in the past few years and have reached the following conclusions:
1) The Senate is made up of multi-millionaires who maintain power by accepting and granting favors. Those with large amounts of money, such as the Big Pharma lobby, mostly get what they want even though the American public is typically shafted in the arrangement. Senators don’t need their paychecks; they get high on brokering power and facilitating deals to the highest bidder, based on whichever political party is most in control and who their friends may be.
2) While the House has some entrenched multi-millionaires who operate like those in the Senate, most members of the House are not the cream of any crop and could not make as much money in the private sector as they are being paid by their position in the House of Representatives (which includes a retirement plan that would be the envy of every American). Most of these people desperately need their paychecks and will do almost anything to keep them coming.
Collectively, Congress behaves more like a high school click with a cult-like method of keeping its members in line, than representatives of the people.
As the House vote on the economic bailout plan failed, it was plain to see that the members of the House of Representatives, collectively speaking, are not very bright. Many smart people on Wall Street and Main Street were left scratching their heads. If the plan was not good enough to pass, then why didn’t they come up with a solution that could pass, rather than send a shock wave through an already teetering market?
The answer is two-fold. Collectively, they don’t have enough economic skills to come up with such a plan. Most of them could not run a successful business if their life depended on it, so how could we expect them to solve a real economic problem? And, an election is coming up and a majority of those in tight races put their position as members of the House ahead of everyone else in the country, self-serving to say the least but par for the course.
Our society has something terribly wrong. It is a dark day indeed when talking heads on business cable channels have far more average intelligence than the men and women being counted on to make tough leadership decisions for our country and take effective action.
Within the next 10 years, most likely sooner than later, a costly health care crisis will come front and center and threaten the U.S. economy at least as much as its current problems. Working on a solution based on identifying the actual problems would ease the pain, and give us time to implement better solutions than waiting until the last minute when hundreds of billions are then needed just to put a Band-Aid on a totally broken system. Like the current economic crisis, the handwriting is clearly on the wall. Unlike the current crisis, the taxpayer billions will simply be poured down a drain with no chance to recover anything. The problem is far more serious than either presidential candidate cares to acknowledge, as talking about it or how to actually solve it would cost lots of votes.
Big Pharma fraud is rampant and not only needlessly killing Americans on a daily basis, but racking up tens of billions of dollars in pointless taxpayer expense. Will the government bail out Big Pharma as its sales eventually collapse, putting taxpayers on the hook for more failed businesses? Millions of baby boomers, many of whom by choice have not taken good care of themselves, are entering the world of taxpayer-subsidized health care known as Medicare. The younger generations cannot possibly foot this bill. At the same time equally massive numbers of low income people, many of whom suffer from self-induced obesity, are clamoring to be covered by “socialized” health care. Once again, hard-working Americans cannot possibly foot this bill. Currently, middle class Americans can hardly afford health care for themselves and their families – much less pay for all the people wanting a free handout. Where is the money going to come from? The “rich” can’t pay for everything.
Where will our society draw a line between self-induced health care costs and the obvious need to cover individuals who experience serious accidents or medical problems beyond their control? Only in America can politicians talk about health care while successfully ignoring every elephant in the room. It is no surprise that the Big Pharma sponsored media gives them a free pass. Politicians certainly can’t upset seniors, baby boomers, or minorities – how could they win? Even worse, how can they stay in power? It is a sad comment on the decline of the moral fiber of a society when candidates pander to drooling constituents with a plethora of free handouts – rather than debating actual issues with all the cards and elephants on the table. We all need to be more productive, not more entitled.
Another aspect of this issue is that of health freedom, as your free access to dietary supplements and natural remedies teeters on the brink of extinction as CODEX, regional trade agreements, the FDA Trilateral Cooperation Charter, and other “one world government” ideologies based on “free trade” that isn’t free at all threaten to undermine effective ways for you to take care of your own health.
Then we could talk about how big business has nearly destroyed the quality of our food supply. This scandal runs deep and has for decades. We have the makers of junk food. We have the mass market farming operations and food traders, which have destroyed family farms and communities, while massively polluting the environment. These companies are delivering disease-producing food to the American public and school lunch programs. I’ll bet you can’t wait to eat a cloned-meat hamburger.
We have chemical contamination of food with toxic and often experimental pesticides. We have the Frankenfood movement, which genetically alters food in a grand experiment on the nature of food itself – splicing toxins into the essence of the food that everyone is supposed to eat (all for the financial benefit of the biotech industry).
The FDA and EPA are puppet organizations, utter failures in protecting the public health, and little more than unelected government officials (often on the take) acting as economic gatekeepers for those wishing to sell toxic compounds as food or those wishing to further contaminate the environment.
These issues are intimately involved with the cause of cancer and heart disease in this country – and would cost billions to fix – yet must be fixed. Otherwise, we will end up spending the same billions on health care.
These are the kinds of issues we need government to solve, so as to improve the health of all Americans. We do not need any more stupid public health programs telling people to eat less and exercise more – everybody already knows that. Our government could help by having guidelines that force food companies to put real quality food on the table for Americans to eat, while banning the sale of disease-producing additives that permeate our current food supply – and doing its best to actually clean up our environment to get nasty pollution out of our food supply.
Alas, all you need do is look at the ineptitude of Congress to solve any problem, even when it hits them in the face as a crisis, and you can see that you have little choice but to take your health and the health of your family into your own hands. Congressional “solutions,” at least those currently existing and those on the drawing board, will do little more than create another huge economic crisis while pitting Americans against Americans in class and generation warfare. Your best plan is to not need any healthcare because you are healthy. This requires a lot of hard work and doing the right things more often than not. There is no easy path to staying healthy as you age – but there is a path.
We already know those in Congress can point fingers; can they look in a mirror? Will any real leaders please stand up?
Updated on October 4, 2008, after the House and Senate passed the bailout, with the following:
It is anyone’s best guess if the Band-Aid bailout placed on America’s bleeding economy will provide enough temporary relief for Americans to get busy and work our ways out of this hole. The weak underlying fundamentals in our economy indicate this could be a couple of years of tough sledding.
You would think the very first priority of Congress would be to cut back unnecessary spending. Instead, we saw the Senate “solve” the gridlock in the House by turning the bill into a Christmas tree of favors to all their wealthy friends (as I mentioned above, that is how they operate). Every well-funded lobby in Washington had its hands held out, creating what turned out to be pork-barrel gone wild. Such a once in a lifetime package of handouts was clearly more than the House could resist.
A bill based on the merits of the issue was not passed. Instead, a 700 billion dollar taxpayer check was turned over to Henry Paulson. On Friday the New York Times reported that in 2004 Paulson, along with four of his other top banking friends, were responsible for manipulating the SEC into relaxing standards for the amount of money in a bank’s reserve that has directly caused this crisis. Bush confided in July, when he mistakenly thought he was not being recorded, “There’s no question about it. Wall Street got drunk – that’s one of the reasons I asked you to turn off the TV cameras – it got drunk and now it’s got a hangover.” And it was Bush, in 2006, who hired the drunken Paulson to be Treasury Secretary, the man who will now oversee the bailout.
I can’t help but mentioning the 100 billion dollar bailout given to Big Pharma as a totally unnecessary addition to this bailout. Big Pharma is an industry teetering on the brink of collapse from its own fraud and criminal behavior of many of its executives. It made me sick to my stomach as lawmakers on both sides of the aisle praised the Mental Health Parity addition to the financial bailout, presenting it as benevolent and helpful to the disadvantaged (what a joke). Over the next five years this will keep Big Pharma going, as they will be able to sell their injurious and deadly brain medications to elderly and children at taxpayer expense. 90% of Big Pharma sales are fraudulent, inflating the cost of health care for one and all. The Big Pharma lobby runs the Senate, so what would you expect.
The cancer within our government runs very deep. At the core of the disease are unelected bureaucrats in positions of financial power. Elected officials are all too eager to pass laws and delegate authority to people who have no right to be making the kinds of decisions they do. This cancer permeates the SEC, FDA, EPA, and most likely many other aspects of government. We used to call this the “revolving door,” when managers within these government agencies would do favors for those they are supposed to regulate and then go on to take high paying jobs in those companies later.
The cancer has spread and it is no longer just a revolving door, it has become a revolving chair. The head of the FDA is busy working deals for Big Pharma and Big Biotech while pretending to be interested in consumer safety and shooting consumers in the back on legal rights. The EPA management has cleansed itself of scientists daring to suggest the clean up of anything, like the perchlorate that injures babies across the country on a daily basis. And the Treasury Secretary will be doling out favors to all his drunken friends, while pretending to watch out for the tax payer. Scum no longer has to switch jobs, swiveling in a chair to a different phone is all that is required. Don’t count on Congress to investigate anything beyond a hand slap, as we would quickly discover the true Kings of the revolving chair.
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Other Politics Of Health News:
Big Pharma has been obsessed with serotonin manipulation since the early 1990s, when their rather dangerous and half-the-time useless SSRI medications were turned into blockbuster drugs. These drugs are now shown to be a serious cause of bone loss and a new study shows why.
In the face of overwhelming negative science the statin marketing machine marches on, now suggesting that statins should be given to middle aged men and women even though they don’t have elevated cholesterol.
On Monday, Sept 29, the American public witnessed firsthand the utter ineptitude of the United States House of Representatives, hitting Main Street directly in the pocketbook. While leaders try to figure a way out of an impending economic crisis, it is now clear for everyone to finally see that we have an equal crisis in political leadership.
The Annals of Internal Medicine has followed up on a study published earlier this year in JAMA by the same authors, detailing a specific account of how Merck fraudulently concocted a major Vioxx study as a marketing campaign. Vioxx left tens of thousands of Americans dead.
In the politically correct egalitarian world of “health care for everyone” very little attention is paid to the concept of personal responsibility, much less how any such plan would actually be paid for. If you take care of yourself should you be obligated to pay for those who intentionally do not?
The American Heart Association (AHA) has gone mad, apparently suffering from overexposure to mercury-amalgam fillings. In their marketing magazine, Circulation, which masquerades as a scientific journal, they have now published research advocating an all out national war on childhood cholesterol – seeking to lower LDL cholesterol to 50 mg./dl.
New research suggests that Americans will be subjected to drug injury for some time to come, based on flaws in the ways new drugs are tested and approved by the FDA. The problem is serious, with newer drugs causing twice as many drug injuries and deaths as older drugs approved for the same purpose.
Researchers were shocked to see that Vytorin increased the rate of cancer by 61%.
A new study shows that bone drugs drastically interfere with the long-term healing and strength of bone that is recovering from a fracture.
The American Academy of Pediatrics has now lost all credibility – actively promoting the use of statin drugs for children as low as 8 years of age. This is beyond disgusting, it is a crime. The inept FDA is nowhere to be found as drug pushing of inappropriate medication is rapidly becoming as large a public health problem as street drugs.
The British Medical Journal is helping everyone understand just how deep the rabbit hole goes. Key doctors are paid big money to promote and sell drugs.
The New York Times has just reported on the investigation by Senator Charles Grassley (R-Iowa) into the money paid by Big Pharma to the key researchers promoting the off label use of anti-psychotic medications. It shows that the researchers who have been behind promoting massive off-label use of these powerful drugs to children were on the take from Big Pharma and hiding millions in “consulting fees.”
Wake up America – your food supply has already been drastically altered by corporate food giants and their governmental bedfellows – who have spliced toxins directly into the DNA of food – inexplicably altering the very nature of our food supply for profit. France is one of the few countries in the developed world that has fought genetically modified food at every turn.
A new study published in the Archives of Internal Medicine shows that even a single dose of antipsychotic medication doubles the risk of a serious adverse event leading to hospitalization and/or death. These drugs are widely used as behavior management in nursing homes, have no FDA approval for this use, and are clearly very unsafe.
Coca-Cola and Pepsi are both planning to use highly purified stevia in their soda drinks. Cargill is manufacturing the compound for Coca-Cola products. Cargill is releasing numerous studies on its safety and is expecting FDA approval, with large product roll outs over the next six months.
Last week the FDA refused to disclose to Congress the names of Chinese drug companies in the supply chain that provided the tainted Heparin which killed Americans, as reported by the Wall Street Journal. The net effect is that the FDA is intentionally acting to cover up China’s crimes against Americans…
The sparks flew on Capital Hill last week. During grilling of FDA executives Rep. John Dingell (D., Mich.), the chairman of the House Commerce and Energy Committee, said “Our citizens can no longer trust that their food, drugs or medical devices are safe when the FDA says they are.”
Bloomberg reports that over 1000 post marketing safety studies that Big Pharma is obligated to perform haven’t even started! Meanwhile, the same companies are aggressively pushing these drugs for use in an off label manner – intentionally exposing citizens to unknown risks without proven benefits.
Knowing its athletes were unlikely to win any medals eating McDonalds, and realizing all other options were based on the quality of the Chinese food supply, the United States Olympic Committee has decided to go against the grain and bring along the food it needs to feed its athletes.
- Elephants in the Health Care Room,
Health care costs, whether paid for by private or tax-payer money, are about to collide with several elephants standing in line in the health care room.
The new “Green Revolution” is far different than the Rockefeller version that followed WWII. This one is looking into just why and how our country got so polluted and our food supply became so adulterated. For any investigative reporter it doesn’t take long to come upon Monsanto, who is now altering our entire food supply for the worse.
The lawsuits over Vioxx have forced very uncomfortable documents into public view, exposing that Big Pharma has massively corrupted the scientific database with what amounts to promo pieces written by its own employees who then pay for prestigious doctors to attach their names to the studies as if they are legitimate – hiding the fact the drug companies wrote their own studies and conclusions in the first place.
Great Britain, like the United States, is finding that the Big Pharma paradigm of health leaves plenty of injured victims in the wake of its path. They report over 1,000,000 injuries requiring emergency room treatment at the cost of 2 billion pounds (or about 4 billion U.S. dollars). Janet Woodcock of the FDA has stated “1.3 million people are accidentally injured...”
Merck and Schering-Plough find themselves on a hot seat, likely to be held accountable for 10 billion dollars worth of fraud due to false marketing of their cholesterol-lowering drug Vytorin.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is coming under a microscope for its inept handling of vaccine data that likely showed a link between mercury in vaccines and autism. The CDC insists publicly that there is no link between mercury in vaccines and autism, based on several studies with numerous flaws in design. It appears the CDC has tampered with data to slant results to its favor – a common trick of Big Pharma when trying to hide poor results and cover its rear end.
It is not often that Big Pharma-friendly doctors pile on to a drug that is in a tailspin. That was the picture last weekend at the big American College of Cardiology meetings. A physician panel as well as the New England Journal of Medicine blasted the cholesterol-lowering Vytorin – a move sure to relegate its use to mothballs.
Eli Lilly is on the hot seat as its blockbuster drug, Zyprexa, goes on trial in Alaska. An expert witness testified on Friday that Lilly had withheld from doctors and patients that the drug caused severe weight gain, high blood sugar, and diabetes.
It seems that Merck and Sanofi-Aventis are having extreme trouble on both sides of the ocean. French authorities are putting both of them on trial for manslaughter – firing a shot over the bow of the most corrupt industry on earth.
A healthy and normally developing 18-month-old girl showed up for her well baby visit and was pummeled with 9 vaccinations all at once, two of them containing the mercury preservative known as thimerosal. Her health immediately deteriorated into full blown autism.
Big Pharma’s drug lobby machine (the Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America) increased its financial arm-twisting of Congress by 25% in 2007 – in an effort to ward off competition and lock in bogus psychiatric medication sales to children.
Today the Supreme Court ruled on the first of several related issues that could undermine the rights of citizens to sue drug companies when they have been injured by drugs.
60 Minutes told the world last night that FDA ineptitude over the heart-bypass drug Trasylol cost 1,000 American lives a month, killing at least 22,000 Americans while the FDA dragged its feet.
In the face of mounting drug scandals and perjured congressional testimony, a key House Democrat, Rep. Bart Stupak (D-MI), told the Associated Press that FDA Commissioner Andrew von Eschenbach should step down. Stupak sites a “total lack of leadership” as it becomes plainly apparent that the FDA is unable to protect Americans from the dangers of drugs or ensure a safe food supply. The most troubling issue regarding FDA leadership is that many of these issues are due to gross negligence or taking the side of drug companies at the expense of human health.
The non-event of a flu season in 2008 shows just how sensitive health-related corporate America is tied to the profits of illness. A sad pallor set in over investor meetings as hospital chains such as Lifepoint and Health Management Associates reported very poor patient volume and low profits, especially in their cash cow businesses (children and the elderly). The reason for this stellar non-performance: virtually no flu season.
At least 100,000 Americans die every year from the expected as well as unknown side effects of toxic medications used primarily for symptom management. Another 3 million Americans require emergency room assistance to deal with injuries or severe side effects. In the case of Heath Ledger, the dangers in the combinations of the drugs he was taking are well known – except to him.
The Wall Street Journal now calls it Vytoringate – one of the biggest drug frauds in history. Merck and Schering-Plough sat on bad drug trial results of their cholesterol drug and raked in close to 10 billion dollars selling snake oil...Meanwhile, nobody seems to be mentioning that folic acid has already been proven to do what Vytorin was supposed to be doing.
The entertainment community is in shock over the loss of a rising star. Heath Ledger, dead at the age of 28, apparently from an accidental overdose of medication. Autopsy results have been delayed for 10 days, but enough information has already become public to understand what likely took place. Heath Ledger did not need to die…
The great majority of negative studies about popular antidepressants such as Prozac, Zoloft, Paxil, and Effexor were never published according to a study in the New England Journal of Medicine, as reported in the New York Times.
Excessively lowering cholesterol has been the mantra of Big Pharma gone wild. Congressional investigation into a fraudulent cover-up of Vytorin study results led Merck and Schering-Plough to reveal what everyone had been suspecting, the main ingredient in their 5-billion-a-year scam failed miserably to do anything useful.
- FDA to Allow Unlabelled Cloned Meat and Milk,
The FDA has now plummeted to an all time low. This despicable band of industry promoters has no idea what real food is. In its financially motivated decree it is now telling Americans that that food from cloned animals is safe to eat and no different than food from normal animals. How dumb does the FDA think the American public is?
In a shocking and blatant attack on women, the FDA has declared estriol illegal. This move is designed to stop compounding pharmacies from making bio-identical hormone creams and will also stop over-the-counter estriol-containing creams from being sold to women. The FDA has no report of any problem from these creams. It is acting on a complaint from Wyeth (the makers of estrogen-containing horse urine extract and Centrum vitamins). Millions of women are adversely affected.
The New Year brings a surprise for the FDA – a lawsuit filed by Public Citizen seeking to force the FDA to do its pretended job of protecting American citizens from the dangers of drugs. Of course, the real FDA job, as prioritized by top FDA management, is to protect the sales of Big Pharma and create new market opportunities for Big Pharma and Big Biotech while using Americans for experimental purposes…
UMass Memorial Medical Center is taking a stab at one form of cancer that permeates the medical profession – free “bribes” from drug companies and medical device makers.
Lipitor for lowering cholesterol (a statin) is the best selling drug of all time. A newly unveiled lawsuit based on information provided by a top former Pfizer exec now turned whistleblower is showing that this stroke of marketing genius was based on blatantly illegal marketing and pushing the drug on Americans who really did not need it. As the poster child for the statin scam Pfizer has likely damaged the health of millions of Americans. Now there is an attempt to hit them where it counts, in the pocket book.
Farmers growing corn for ethanol are no longer farmers in any traditional sense; they are part of the oil industry. It is now being reported that the millions of pounds of nitrogen-based fertilizer needed to grow the corn are entering the Mississippi and going out into the gulf wherein they create a 7,900-square-mile “dead zone” void of oxygen wherein fish, crabs and shrimp suffocate and hostile algae grow.
The International Alliance for Dietary/Food Supplement Associations (IADSA) is actively supporting the use of food coloring in dietary supplements, guidelines that are being written up for the proposed Codex guidelines that pose a grave threat to free access to dietary supplements in America.
The Journal of the American Medical Association has just published a double-blind, randomized, placebo-controlled study showing that the use of antibiotics and nasal steroids is ineffective at treating sinusitis.
The commonly used and much maligned diabetes drug, Avandia, just took another spill down the stairs. A new mouse study shows that the drug weakens bones and is likely to cause osteoporosis in the millions of users in the United States. The drug was shown to get directly in the way of healthy bone function, causing accelerated bone loss and slowed bone growth.
Does it upset anybody to know that 1000 cases of cancer per year are needlessly caused in children by the very doctors who the children are seeing for help? An additional 4000 cases of cancer are caused in children each year under the pretense that taking a picture of the child’s internal body is medically necessary. The frequency of cancer in the adult population from CT scans is 10-20 times the number for children (10,000-20,000 needless cases of cancer plus an additional 40,000-80,000 “justified” cases of cancer).
Flu shots remain a subject of intense controversy. Vaccinations of all types remain the centerpiece of the public health herd-mentality paradigm. Just wait until the Avian flu comes, then you will see public health at its finest. Yes, there will be police-state forced vaccinations with experimental vaccines and no right of recourse if you are injured. Thanks to our generally brain-dead Congress the laws are already on the books.
A preliminary study shows that for every 10 years of birth control pills there is a 20 – 30 percent increase in peripheral artery small plaques. The study was presented at the yearly meeting of the American Heart Association, placing it in the national news spotlight. News stations have been carrying the story and the typical medical spokespeople are trying to allay the fears of millions of birth control pill users. There are two main issues here: the FDA “ineptitude issue” and the “what to do about it issue.”
Is the FDA really changing? Its hard to believe but the FDA finally acted in the best interests of consumers, shooting down a bio-tech drug that made Bayer millions and was at one time on the verge of becoming a blockbuster. I have openly criticized the FDA for some time on Trasylol, as it dragged its feet on this issue for almost two years.
- Doctors Over-prescribe Reflux Meds to Infants 80% of the Time,
The IQ of doctors needs to be measured. Are they really this stupid, or are they just puppets of Big Pharma? A new study has found that doctors are handing out acid suppressing medication to children far in excess of what they should be doing, threatening the digestive health of a child for a lifetime. Sure the child has digestive symptoms. Quite frankly, this 80% over-prescription finding most likely relates to numerous medications. Doctors today have almost no clue how to fix health issues besides robotically writing a prescription for a symptom-suppressing medication.
Trasylol is a drug that promotes clotting and is given during heart by pass surgery. It is one of the new and expensive biotech drugs of Bayer. Patients generally don’t know they are getting it, and it significantly increases kidney failure and the likelihood they will die at a significantly increased rate in the next few years following surgery. You can imagine that giving a clotting drug to patients with clogged arteries may have some problems. There are other options that are inexpensive and don’t carry the risks.
Billions of dollars of profit are at stake. The new generation of biotech drugs is upon us. Will they help or will they kill? The answer, it appears, depends on the dose. More importantly, the answer depends on the moral integrity of oncologists that treat their patients. What should society do with doctors that put money in their pockets as a priority over the lives of their patients?
Since mid summer I was the primary drum beat warning of the grave consequences to health freedom and health in general about turning the FDA into a pseudo drug company by giving it control over the licensing, patenting, and profits of the very drugs it is supposed to be regulating. Congressional birdbrains failed to even debate the most sweeping change of the FDA in a hundred years!
The Wall Street Journal has outlined for the world the rapidly expanding Chinese drug market. Many of the ingredients in brand-name drugs people already take come from China. China is already the largest producer of chemicals for drugs. For example, AstaZeneca’s Seroquel, a powerful anti-psychotic medication that is routinely (and inappropriately) prescribed in an off-label manner to children for mild behavior issues is produced with chemicals that come from China.
The New York Times reports that the FDA fails to ensure the safety of millions of people who participate in experimental clinical trials. In fact, the government doesn’t even have any idea how many of these experiments are taking place. The FDA haphazardly follows up on less than 1%, and when problems are found little or nothing is done.
The FDA reform legislation passed by the House and Senate shows just how corrupt the politics for profit system in America has become. The idea that citizens would have no right to sue a drug company when they are injured or killed by a medication is a difficult pill to swallow. Especially in light of multiple scandals, many ongoing, wherein the FDA and drug companies selectively hide important risks from the public in an effort to protect the profits of Big Pharma at the expense of human health.
Have you ever wondered why the media speaks so highly of drugs and paints safe and effective dietary supplements as either not effective or even dangerous? As the House and Senate finally agreed to a near useless FDA reform and financing package it became painfully clear that advertising dollars were far more important than health or safety of Americans.
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