Mom’s Soap Box

Epidemiological Lifestyle Link

As early as 1901, efforts had been made to manufacture and sell food products by the use of automated factory machinery because of the immense potential profits that were possible. Most of the early efforts failed because people were inherently suspicious of food that wasn’t farm fresh and because the technology was poor. As long as people were prosperous, suspicious food products made little headway. Crisco, the artificial shortening, was once given away free in 2 1/2 pound cans in an unsuccessful attempt to influence U.S. housewives to trust and buy the product in preference to lard.

Margarine was introduced and was bitterly opposed by the dairy states. With the advent of the depression of the 1930’s, margarine, Crisco and a host of other refined and hydrogenated products began to make significant penetration into the U.S. food markets. Support for dairy opposition to margarine faded during World War II because there wasn’t enough butter for both the civilian population and the needs of the military. At this point, the dairy industry having lost much support, simply accepted a diluted market share and concentrated on supplying the military.

Flax oils and fish oils, which were common in the stores and considered a dietary staple before the American population became diseased, have disappeared from the shelf. The last supplier of flax oil to the major distribution chains was Archer Daniel’s Midland and they stopped producing and supplying the product in 1950.

More recently, one of the most important of the remaining genuinely beneficial fats was subjected to a massive media disinformation campaign that portrayed it as a saturated fat that causes heart failure. As a result, it has virtually disappeared from supermarket shelves. Thus was coconut oil removed from the food chain and replaced with soy oil, cottonseed oil, and rapeseed oil. Our parents would never have swapped a fine healthy oil like coconut oil for these cheap junk oils. It was shortly after this successful media blitz that the U.S. populace lost its war on fat. For many years coconut oil had been one of our most effective dietary weight control agents.

The history of the engineered adulteration of our once clean food supply exactly parallels the rise of the epidemic of diabetes and hyperinsulinemia now sweeping the U.S. as well as much of the rest of the world.

The second step to a cure for this disease epidemic is to stop believing the lie that our food supply is safe and nutritious.

More tomorrow…

Cure vs treatment

This new ideal wonder drug would be, like insulin, effective in remitting obvious adverse symptoms of the disease, but not effective in curing the underlying disease. Thus, it would be needed continually for the remaining life of the patient. It would have to be patentable; that is, it could not be a natural medication because these are non-patentable. Like insulin, it would be highly profitable to manufacture and distribute. Mandatory government approvals would be required to stimulate the use by physicians as a prescription drug. Testing required for these approvals would have to be enormously expensive to prevent other, unapproved,  medications from becoming competitive.

This is the origin of the classic medical protocol of “treating the symptoms”. By doing this, both the drug company and the doctor could prosper in business and the patient, while not being cured of his disease, was sometimes temporarily relieved of some of his symptoms.

Additionally, natural medications that actually cured disease, would have to be suppressed. The more effective they were, the more they would need to be suppressed and their proponents jailed as quacks. After all, it wouldn’t do to have some cheap effective natural medication cure disease in a capital intensive monopoly market specifically designed to treat symptoms without curing disease. Often the natural substance really did cure disease. This is why the force of law was used to drive the natural, often superior, medicines from the market place, to remove the cure word from the medical vocabulary and to totally undermine the very concept of a free marketplace in the medical business.

Now it is clear why the cure word is so vigorously suppressed by law. The FDA has extensive Orwellian regulations that prohibit the use of the cure word to describe any competing medicine or natural substance.  It is precisely because many natural substances do actually both cure and prevent disease that this word has become so frightening to the drug and orthodox  medical community.

The commercial value of symptoms

After this redesign of drug development policy to focus on ameliorating symptoms rather than curing disease, it became necessary to reinvent the way drugs were marketed. This was done in 1949 in the midst of a major epidemic of insulin resistant diabetes.

In 1949, the US medical community reclassified the symptoms of diabetes, along with many other disease  symptoms, into diseases in their own right. With this reclassification as the new basis for diagnosis, competing medical specialty groups quickly seized upon related groups of symptoms as their own proprietary symptom set. Thus the heart specialist, endocrinologist, allergist, kidney specialist, and many others started to treat the symptoms for which they felt responsible. As the underlying cause of the disease was widely ignored, all focus on actually curing anything was completely lost. By this new focus on treating symptoms, instead of curing disease, disease was now allowed to run rampant without any effective check on its progress. While not a very smart idea from the patients viewpoint, it did succeed in making the American medical community amongst the wealthiest in the world because of the continuing high volume of repeat business that it promoted

Heart failure for example, which had previously been understood to often be but a symptom of diabetes, now became a disease not directly connected to diabetes. It became fashionable to think that diabetes “increased cardio-vascular risk.” The causal role of a failed blood sugar control system in heart failure became obscured. Consistent with the new medical paradigm, none of the treatments offered by the heart specialist actually cures, or is even intended to cure, their proprietary disease. For example, the three year survival rate for bypass surgery is almost exactly the same as if no surgery was undertaken.

Today over half of the people in America suffer from one or more symptoms of this disease. In its beginnings, it has become well known to physicians as Type II Diabetes, Insulin Resistant Diabetes, Insulin Resistance, Adult Onset Diabetes, or more rarely Hyperinsulinemia. According to the American Heart Association, almost 50% of Americans suffer from one or more symptoms of this disease. One third of our population is morbidly obese. Half of our population is overweight. Type II Diabetes, also called Adult Onset Diabetes, now appears routinely in six year old children

Many of our degenerative diseases can be traced to a massive failure of our endocrine system that was well known to the physicians of the 1930’s as Insulin Resistant Diabetes. This basic underlying disorder is known to  be a derangement of the blood sugar control system by badly engineered fats and oils. It is exacerbated and complicated by the widespread lack of other essential nutrition that the body needs to cope with the metabolic consequences of these poisons.

All fats and oils are not equal. Some are healthy and beneficial; many, commonly available in the supermarket, are poisonous. The health distinction is not between saturated and unsaturated, as the fats and oils industry would have us believe. Many saturated oils and fats are highly beneficial; many unsaturated oils are highly poisonous. The important health distinction is between natural and engineered. There exists great dishonesty in advertising in the fats and oils industry. It is aimed at creating a market for cheap junk oils such as soy, cottonseed and rape seed oil. With an informed and aware public these oils would have no market at all and the US, and indeed the world, would have far less diabetes.

Diabetes History

In 1922, three Canadian Nobel prize winners, Banting, Best, and MacLeod were successful in saving the life of a fourteen year old diabetic girl in Toronto General Hospital with injectable insulin. Eli Lilly was licensed to manufacture this new wonder drug and the medical community basked in the glory of a job well done.

It wasn’t until 1933 that rumors about a new rogue diabetes surfaced. This was in a paper presented by Joslyn, Dublin and Marks and printed in the American Journal of Medical Sciences. This paper, ” Studies on Diabetes Mellitus”, discussed the emergence of a major U.S. epidemic of a disease which looked very much like the diabetes of the early 1920’s only it did not respond to the wonder drug, insulin. Even worse, sometimes insulin treatment killed the patient.

This new disease became known as Insulin Resistant Diabetes because it had the elevated blood sugar symptom of diabetes, but responded poorly to insulin therapy. Many physicians had considerable success in treatment of this disease by diet. A great deal was learned about the relationship between diet and diabetes in the 1930’s and 1940’s.

Diabetes, which had a per capita incidence of 0.0028% at the turn of the century, had by 1933, zoomed 1000% in the U.S. to become a disease faced by many doctors. This disease, under a variety of aliases, was destined to go on to wreck the health of over half of the American population and to incapacitate almost 20% by the 1990’s.

In 1950 the medical community became able to perform serum insulin assays. This quickly revealed that the disease wasn’t classical diabetes. This new disease was charactarized by sufficient, often excessive, blood insulin levels. The problem was that the insulin was ineffective; it did not reduce blood sugar. But, since the disease had been known as diabetes for almost twenty years it was renamed Type II Diabetes. This was to distinguish it from the earlier Type I Diabetes which was due to insufficient insulin production by the pancreas.

Had the dietary insights of the previous 20 years dominated the medical scene from this point and into the late 1960’s, diabetes would have become widely recognized as curable instead of merely treatable. Unfortunately this didn’t happen and so, in 1950, a search was launched for another wonder drug to deal with the Type II Diabetes problem.

We’ll continue Monday…

The Diabetes Industry

Today’s diabetes industry is a huge community that has grown step by step from its dubious origins in the early twentieth century. In the last eighty years it has become enormously successful at shutting out competitive voices that attempt to point out the fraud involved in modern diabetes treatment. It has matured into a religion. And, like all religions, it depends heavily on the faith of the believer. So successful has it become that it verges on blasphemy to suggest that, in most cases, the kindly high priest with the stethoscope draped prominently around his neck is a charlatan and a fraud. In the large majority of cases he has never cured a single case of diabetes in his entire medical career.

The financial and political influence of this medical community has almost totally subverted the original intent of our regulatory agencies. They routinely approve death dealing ineffective drugs with insufficient testing. Former commissioner of the FDA, Dr. Herbert Ley, in testimony before a U.S. Senate hearing, commented ” People think the FDA is protecting them. It isn’t. What the FDA is doing and what the public thinks it’s doing is as different as night and day.”

The financial and political influence of this medical community dominates our entire medical insurance industry. Although this is beginning to change, in America, it is still difficult to find employer group medical insurance to cover effective alternative medical treatments. Orthodox coverage is standard in all states. Alternative medicine is not. For example, there are only 1400 licensed naturopaths in 11 states compared to over 3.4 million orthodox licensees in 50 states. Generally, only approved treatments from licensed credentialed practitioners are insurable. This, in effect, neatly creates a special kind of money that can only be spent within the orthodox medical and drug industry. No other industry in the world has been able to manage the politics of convincing people to accept so large a part of their pay in a form that does not allow them to spend it on health care as they see fit. Insurance money can only be spent within an industry that has banned the cure word from it’s vocabulary.

The financial and political influence of this medical community completely controls virtually every diabetes publication in the country. Many diabetes publications are subsidized by ads for diabetes supplies. No diabetes editor is going to allow the truth to be printed in his magazine. This is why the diabetic only pays about a 1/4 to 1/3 of the cost of printing the magazine he depends upon for accurate information. The rest is subsidized by ads purchased by diabetes manufacturers with a vested commercial interest in preventing diabetics from curing their diabetes. When looking for a magazine that tells the truth about diabetes, look first to see if it is full of ads for diabetes supplies.

And then there are the various associations that solicit annual donations to find a cure for their proprietary disease. Every year they promise a cure is just around the corner, just send more money. Some of these very same associations have been clearly implicated in providing advice that promotes the progress of diabetes in their trusting supporters.  For example, for years they heavily promoted exchange diets which are in fact scientifically worthless, as anyone who has ever tried to use them quickly finds out. They have ridiculed the use of glycemic tables which are actually very helpful to the diabetic. They promoted the use of margarine as heart healthy long after it was well understood that margarine causes diabetes and promotes heart failure. Why everyone expects that these tax free associations will really self destruct by eliminating their proprietary disease and thereby destroy their only source of income is truly amazing. If people ever wake up to the cure for diabetes that has been suppressed for forty years, these associations will soon be out of business. But until then, they nonetheless continue to need our support.

For forty years medical research has consistently shown, with increasing clarity, that Type II Diabetes is a degenerative disease directly caused by an engineered food supply that is focused on profit instead of health. Although the diligent can readily glean this information from a wealth of medical research literature, it is generally otherwise available. Certainly this information has been, and remains, largely unavailable in the medical schools that train our retail doctors.

Prominent among the causative agemts in our modern diabetes epidemic are the engineered fats and oils sold in today’s supermarkets.

The first step to curing diabetes is to stop believing the lie that the disease is incurable.

If you’re an American diabetic, your physician will never tell you that most diabetes is curable. In fact, if you even mention the cure word around him, he will likely become upset and irrational. His medical school training only allows him to respond to the word treatment. For him, the cure word does not exist. Diabetes, in it’s modern epidemic form, is a curable disease and has been for at least 40 years. In 2001, the most recent year for which US figures are posted, 934,550 Americans died from out of control symptoms of this disease.

Your physician will also never tell you that at one time strokes, both ischemic and hemorrhagic, heart failure due to neuropathy as well as both ischemic and hemorrhagic coronary events, obesity, atherosclerosis, elevated blood pressure, elevated cholesterol, elevated triglycerides, impotence, retinopathy, renal failure, liver failure, polycystic ovary syndrome, elevated blood sugar, systemic candida, impaired carbohydrate metabolism, and peripheral neuropathy as well as many more of today’s disgraceful epidemic disorders were once well understood to often be but symptoms of diabetes.

If you contract diabetes and depend upon orthodox medical treatment, sooner or later you will experience one or more of these symptoms as the disease rapidly worsens. It is now common practice to refer to these symptoms as if they were seperable independent diseases with seperate unrelated proprietary  treatments provided by competing medical specialists.

It is true that many of these symptoms can and sometimes do result from other causes; however, it is also true that this fact has also been used to disguise the causitive role of diabetes and to justify expensive, ineffective treatments for these symptoms.

Epidemic Type II Diabetes is curable. By the time we finish this (and it’s going to take a few days here), you are going to know that. You’re going to know why it isn’t being routinely cured. And, you’re going to know how to cure it. You’re also probably going to be angry at what a handful of greedy people have surreptitiously done to the entire orthodox medical  community and to its trusting patients.

Tomorrow:  The Diabetes Industry…