I came across the information below from a fellow raw-foodist: Maureen Veto-Slater at http://rawkc.com. At last someone who agrees with my thoughts on corporate conspiracy against the general public by shoving junk food and fast food garbage down our throats so that we can keep the medical and pharmaceutical industries in business! Hallelujah!

She says on her website:

Q: What is the difference between prescription

medications and street drugs?

A: One pusher wears a suit.

Do you know a “Legal Junkie?”

Recipe For Disaster

Some folks think the real answer is a secret to vibrant health and the “fountain of youth” when it is simply what you put into your body.

And even more about what you DON’T put in!

Literally…You are what you EAT, POP, or DRINK.

So why don’t we know this? Dr. Mercola calls this…

“Most Astonishing Health Disaster of the 20th Century”

What does he mean? According to Dr. Mercola:

* At least 106,000 people die every year from adverse drug reactions.

* A mere 6% of all adverse drug reactions are properly identified.

* Most side effects are instead mistaken for new disease symptoms, leading to further drugging and unnecessary medical procedures, increasing the risk of death even further.

* Most of these deaths are from EXPECTED adverse reactions, because they are an extension of the drugs’ action.

* The mortality rate for people between the ages of 45-64, who took their prescription drugs CORRECTLY, rose 90% in just five years.

* Each year, 7.5 million unnecessary medical and surgical procedures are performed.

* Medical errors and deaths equate to six jumbo jets falling out of the sky each and every day. The only difference is the media coverage…..there’s no public displays of grief for those who die of faulty medicine.

* Modern medicine is no longer about health. It is a for-profit disease industry that can only survive if millions of people get sick, and stay that way…

* An industry that fails to tell you how processed foods, alcohol, excessive calories and insufficient exercise are recipes for disease.

* Why are we kept in the dark? Follow the money…

* As of 2001, Pfizer is the number one profitable company of all the Fortune 500 companies.

“The American medical system is the NUMBER ONE killer in the United States.”

* Adding to the problems created by this flawed system? Deceptive marketing that has changed our eating patterns, so now more than 90% of the money people spend on food is for highly processed unhealthy foods.

–Dr. Mercola