On 4/7/2010 6:08 AM, Tom Emano wrote:
> The Medical Industrial Complex is indeed a monster (a very
> dangerous and un-natural predator).
>
> It only makes money if you are sick or afraid of becoming sick
> and it is controlled by institutional and individual investors
> who care about money above all things.
>
> It only makes money if the treatment or preventive medicine involves
> technology, which includes pharmaceuticals.
>
> In order to make people afraid of becoming sick it spends enormous
> amounts of money on advertising designed to convince them that
> several falsehoods are instead facts:
>
> 1. That the human body is prone to disease.
>
> If that were the case there wouldn't _be_ a human race. The
> human body is obviously inherently healthy.
>
> 2. That aging automatically brings with it all sorts of diseasee
> conditions including the loss of the senses.
>
> Look around. There are old people all over the place who are
> vigorously healthy and have keen senses. Talk to these people
> and you will discover that they avoid the Medical Industrial
> Complex like the plague and don't have TVs and thus avoid
> their potent propaganda.
>
> 3. That only technological treatments and preventive medicine are
> effective. They even go so far as to claim that depression is
> caused only and directly by physical conditions, which is absurd.
>
> They pretend to ignore the enormous body of evidence that
> indicates that a person's state of mind is the most important
> factor determining their overall health while making use of
> that same knowledge to undermine people's health with the
> above propaganda.
>
> They also undermine people's health by using artificial drugs
> rather than natural ones and constantly lobbying to have
> all natural remedies and therapies banned.
>
> Again, look around. Do you see the healthy people that the
> MIC wants us to believe that techological medicine has
> created? No. You see very unhealthy people who are spending
> so much on disease care (to give health care a more accurate
> label) that it is threatening our entire economy.
>
> I remember being a kid in the 1950's. People were a LOT healthier
> then. Almost no one had health insurance and they rarely went to
> the doctor and rarely took drugs of any kind. The average person
> could work hard all day long and enjoy it. Serious illnesses were
> so rare that they were newsworthy and became the talk of the
> town. Healthy old people died peacefully in their sleep after
> playing with their great-grandchildren all day long.

So what kind of food does the Medical Industrial Complex eat?