Reprint from Dr Hyman: IF YOU ARE DIABETIC, overweight, or suffer from insulin resistance, metabolic syndrome, or any of the other conditions conventional medicine associates with “elevated blood sugar,” I want to share a startling new discovery with you: Lowering your blood sugar may increase your risk of death. Continue reading “Diabesity Epidemic Part II: Why Conventional Medicine Makes It Worse”
Tag: Diabetes
How Cinnamon Helps Prevent Diabetes
Reprint from Natural News:
(NaturalNews) A growing body of research suggests that the common spice cinnamon can help prevent and regulate diabetes. Continue reading “How Cinnamon Helps Prevent Diabetes”
FTC Censorship of Nutritional Supplements That Help Diabetes
When you’re talking about patrolling your street to ensure no one is breaking into your home or, once the deed is done, tracking down your stolen merchandise and the responsible criminals, ‘to serve and protect’ is a welcome mission statement. We all want to live in safe areas, and we’re willing to pay through our taxes for that protection. But some government involvement in our lives not only fails to serve and protect, it even prevents us from serving and protecting ourselves. Continue reading “FTC Censorship of Nutritional Supplements That Help Diabetes”
Do You Have a Prescription for Those Walnuts? Wellness Truth Network challenges FTC censorship
PASADENA, CALIFORNIA–(Marketwire – Jan. 5, 2011) – According to recent statements by the Wellness Truth Network (WTN) in Pasadena, CA., the FTC and FDA, who have a long history of censorship of natural remedies, are attempting to classify natural substances which are proven to help in the prevention of heart disease as drugs.
As the US population ages, big Pharma stands to make billions of dollars from patentable drugs for heart disease and other ailments related to aging. According to Bob Held, CEO of WTN, the actions of the FTC in suppressing and over-regulating natural remedies acts to protect the profits of the corporations to the detriment of the American population.
Held is embroiled in his own fight with the FTC over the promotion of natural remedies for Diabetes, which he is challenging in court.
“If it can’t be patented by a pharmaceutical company, the chances are good that any health solution found in nature is being attacked by the FTC and FDA. A fifth grader could figure out who they are protecting, and it’s not the American people.”
As an example, Held points out, Diamond Foods, makers of Diamond Culinary Nuts, has cited clinical studies and other scientifically validated data on their web site, showing that the Omega 3 fatty acids found in walnuts “can help lower cholesterol; protect against heart disease, stroke and some cancers; ease arthritis and other inflammatory diseases; and even fight depression and other mental illnesses.”
Earlier this year the company received a warning letter from the FTC stating that “Because of these intended uses, your walnut products are drugs within the meaning of section 201 (g)(1)(B) of the Act [21 U.S.C. § 321(g)(B)]. Your walnut products are also new drugs under section 201(p) of the Act [21 U.S.C. § 321(p)] [and] may not be legally marketed with the above claims in the United States without an approved new drug application.”
The absurdity of classifying a nut as a drug is not lost on Held. “According to this thinking, we’re not allowed to say that heart healthy foods provided by nature can be an option to the expensive and questionable pharmaceutical ‘solutions’.
“The tyranny of FTC censorship, and the threat they hold of financial ruin for anyone who dares say that healthy foods can help your body, has to end.”
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FTC Asleep When it Comes to Monitoring the Sugar Culprits
A recent news release from a major processed ‘food’ manufacturer reads: “General Mills Inc is lowering the amount of sugar in its children’s breakfast cereals to no more than 10 grams per serving from 11 grams a year ago, the latest move from a U.S. foodmaker to address childhood obesity…” (from Reuters)
Their PR machine is working overtime to spin a positive message but it should be filed in the ‘you have got to be kidding’ category.
This stuff (can’t really call it food) is very light and nobody eats only a one cup serving. One cup technically, in liquid volume, which is a standard cup, is a small 8 ounce coffee cup in size. That is tiny! The usual kid will likely eat a lot more than that, maybe two or three cups worth in bowl when eating these cereals.
This is part of the on going propaganda by deceitful and unprincipled ‘bastions’ of American commerce, the processed food industry.
While childhood diabetes rockets, this nonsense continues unabated.
Where is the FTC (Federal Trade Commission) and the FDA (Food and Drug Administration) when you really need them?
You can just hear the kids shopping with Mom in the cereal section of the super market. “Mom, this one has reduced sugar. Can we have it, plead, plead…”
Parents are ultimately responsible for the health and well being of their children.
However, the watchdog empowered by Congress to look after our best interests, as in the FTC, is either a party to this crime against children or at best, very stupid.
Talk about false advertising. Instead of the on-going ‘whole grains’ promotion by these unscrupulous manufacturers, the FTC should require labeling similar to those forced on the drug companies for their dangerous products.
Then, maybe there would be some progress in stemming the child diabetes epidemic.
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Simply Raw: Reversing Diabetes in 30 Days
Simply Raw: Reversing Diabetes in 30 Days is an independent documentary film that chronicles six Americans with diabetes who switch their diet. Their diet consisted of vegan, organic, uncooked food to reverse the disease without pharmaceutical medication. Continue reading “Simply Raw: Reversing Diabetes in 30 Days”
Did You Know That Walnuts Are Drugs
Big Pharma benefits from the FDA’s incompetence and misdeeds. As our population ages and develops heart conditions, big Pharma stands to make billions. Any natural product or healthy diet would thus be a hindrance to this avarice. Continue reading “Did You Know That Walnuts Are Drugs”
FTC Censorship vs. Freedom of Speech in Health Care
There’s no question that the concept of Freedom of Speech, as guaranteed to all Americans by the First Amendment to the Constitution of the United States as part of the Bill of Rights, has clearly been adulterated by both the public and the government. Continue reading “FTC Censorship vs. Freedom of Speech in Health Care”