Big Pharma: A Pill for Every Ill ... but Not a Cure in Sight

While millions of people believe that drugs can "cure" an illness, all they usually do is mask the symptoms. At best, pharmaceuticals may relieve some of those symptoms, but they do nothing to address their underlying causes. This is a lot like clipping the leaves off a dandelion with the intention of keeping weeds out of the garden.

Pharmaceutical companies are all too happy to foster (see Word to the Wise, below) this misconception. They fund multi-billion-dollar marketing campaigns that aim to widen the boundaries of disease, even going so far as to invent "conditions" ... for which they then offer a solution.

If you truly want to cure an illness, you must identify and eradicate the habits that may have led to it in the first place. Then give your body the foods, natural supplements, sunlight, and exercise that will enhance its ability to heal itself.

- Jon Herring
Early to Rise
Copyright ETR, LLC, 2004

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