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Re: Side Effects of Prescription and OTC Drugs
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CVS, Walgreens And More: Drugstore Scam Exposed As Profiteering Racket That Poisons Customers, Then Sells Them High-profit Prescription Drugs
by Ethan A. Huff, staff writer
(NaturalNews) American drugstore chains are trying really hard to re-brand themselves as corner-store healthcare providers rather than basic convenience marts that dispense pharmaceuticals. CVS made the first move recently by axing all cigarette sales in an effort to prod its customers toward healthier lifestyles. Nevertheless, these same chains continue to sell soda pop, sugar-filled snack items and other harmful consumer products that end up creating lifelong legal drug addicts.
Take a walk through the aisles of an average CVS store and you'll see this reality first-hand: shelves lined with two-liter bottles of Coca-Cola, endless packages of artificially flavored and colored candy and chemical-laden personal care products galore. It's everything a person wouldn't want to consume or expose himself to when trying to live a healthy life, and yet CVS, Walgreens and all the rest see nothing wrong with selling these products.
Getting rid of cigarettes is a step in the right direction, but should CVS continue to peddle processed junk foods loaded with high-fructose corn syrup (HFCS), genetically modified organisms (GMOs) and trans fats while claiming to promote health? What about the many dozens of square feet of refrigeration units filled with beer and wine? Are these items somehow more beneficial to consumers than tobacco?
"While consumer advocates note that CVS's ban on tobacco products to promote 'better health' is a laudable one, they note that to be truly 'healthy,' drugstores (not just CVS) should do more to clean up their shelves -- in particular in the food and beverage aisle," writes Catey Hill for MarketWatch. "Indeed, some of the items that these drugstores still sell may lead to conditions that the drugstores have medications to treat, like heart disease, obesity and diabetes."
Top five unhealthy products that drugstores continue to sell to customers
What are the top five product categories that drugstores such as CVS, Rite Aid and Walgreens are peddling to customers that will eventually drive many of them to the prescription counter for a pharmaceutical quick-fix? Here's a simple breakdown:
1) Soda pop. Coke, Pepsi, Dr. Pepper and other sodas are a staple of American drugstores. Whether sweetened with sugar (HFCS) or artificial sweeteners (aspartame and/or sucralose), these products are a driving factor in the obesity and heart disease epidemics.
2) Alcohol. Although it is potentially safe to consume in moderation, alcohol is really no better than tobacco when it comes to long-term health. Alcohol consumption has been linked to all sorts of chronic health conditions, including depression, liver disease and gout. Walgreens reversed a 15-year ban on alcohol sales in 2010, while CVS and Rite Aid sell beer and wine in many of their stores.
3) Chips. Even baked and "reduced-guilt" processed chips are unhealthy and loaded with "empty calories," says Sally Greenberg, executive director of the National Consumers League. If drugstores were really concerned with improving the health of their customers, they would replace many of these products with fresh, organic fruits and vegetables.
4) Candy. If they're not getting them at gas stations and truck stops, many Americans looking for a sweet fix will drop into the local drugstore to grab a Snickers or Hershey's chocolate bar. These products are brimming with GMO sweeteners, preservatives and other toxic additives that - not unlike cigarettes - are sure to cause health problems.
5) Heavily-processed cookies and snack cakes. Whether it's Little Debbie oatmeal cream pies or Hostess Twinkies, drugstores are notorious for selling these and other imitation food products that are largely responsible for causing metabolic disorders such as diabetes and heart disease.
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Re: Side Effects of Prescription and OTC Drugs
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PHARMA SHOCK: Indigestion drugs like Prilosec and Prevacid found to raise the risk of dementia by 50%
by Harold Shaw
(NaturalNews) Every once in a while, attending a dinner party becomes the best thing you've done in days. Great company and amazing food are always the premise of a successful evening, but a delicious meal is not always followed by instant satisfaction. In fact, one in five Americans have to suffer the consequences of heartburn. If it's a common issue, you're already reaching for those antacids. Every drug has its downsides, but did you know that there might be a link between indigestion medication and Alzheimer's?
The German Center for Neurodegenerative Disease in Bonn examined insurance data on people aged over 75 and came to the conclusion that there's a strong link between heartburn medication and dementia. Their statistics indicate that patients who used proton pump inhibitors (PPIs), a type of medication associated with strong acid reflux, at least once every three months were 44% more likely to experience neurological damage that leads to dementia. Now would be a good time to re-think your strategy of dealing with acid reflux.
Yet another heartburn medication side effect
However, the scientists in the German study were unable to identify precisely why PPIs are associated with such a significantly higher risk of dementia. A possible theory is that these drugs result in vitamin B12 deficiencies and therefore caus consumers to manifest symptoms that are identical to Alzheimer's disease. The authors' findings are also supported by another study conducted back in 2013 on proton pump inhibitors. The latter effectively proved that when you treat mice with this type of heartburn medication, they develop high levels of amyloid plaques. These plaques play a crucial role in the on-set of Alzheimer's.
Antacids, which are also commonly used to treat heartburn, are no better. Although they are essentially different from PPIs, they can easily cause constipation, diarrhea, bloating and even worsen your condition. That's correct. Heartburn medication can actually increase your levels of stomach acid once you are done taking it.
People still cling to missing links
In spite of compelling evidence, Dr. Laura Phipps, a member of Alzheimer's Research UK, declared that the study doesn't prove the increased risk of dementia is actually caused by PPIs. According to her, other factors may have contributed to the results and we should not jump to rash conclusions. Nevertheless, according to the Daily Mail, even she acknowledged that "[s]tudies like this, which harness large amounts of medical data to highlight trends in health and dis-ease, are incredibly useful to inform future, detailed, follow-up studies into risk factors for conditions like dementia. When any drug is taken, doctors, pharmacists and patients have to weigh up the benefits against the potential side effects and further studies into this area will help to better inform these decisions."
Next time you're looking to get rid of your heartburn, keep in mind the consequences that indigestion drugs can have on your body. While some of them have been proven beyond any doubt, others are highly possible, but yet to be officially confirmed by the authorities. A pill is the quick way out, but it does not make sense for your health in the long run.
Treat your body naturally
Instead of running to your general practitioner for a prescription, why not try to cure your acid reflux and digestion problems naturally? You can try out natural remedies, but also make changes to your lifestyle that will ultimately cure your ache without these potentially disastrous side effects. In another couple of years, the link between these drugs and dementia might be irrevocably proven. If that's the case, is it worth risking your sanity for a condition that can easily be cured in an alternative way?
Sources include:
DailyMail.co.uk
ArchNeur.JAMANetwork.com
Journals.PLOS.org
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Re: Side Effects of Prescription and OTC Drugs
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03/15/16 04:58 PM
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Big Pharma's Opiates Will Make You Constipated
by L.J. Devon, Staff Writer
(NaturalNews) Pharmaceutical science is pretty good at one thing: creating entirely new health problems. Take Big Pharma's opiate pain meds, for example. Researchers are now finding out that this common class of drugs causes severe opioid-induced constipation (OIC) which may lead to rectal tearing and abdominal pain. This condition, also known as opiate bowel dysfunction (OBD), occurs in up to 95 percent of patients who are chronic users of Big Pharma's opioid (narcotic) pain meds.
The Australian Pain Society reports, "One of the most common adverse effects of chronic opioid therapy is constipation. Up to 95% of patients prescribed an opioid report constipation as a side effect, which can occur soon after taking the first dose."
Opiates suppress one of the body's most important functions
A side effect like this is no laughing matter. Under the curse of the pain meds, one of the body's most important functions is being systematically suppressed, forcing the body to eat its own waste. According to the American College of Gastroenterology, "constipation may be debilitating among those who require chronic analgesia [pain relief]. ... OIC or OBD affected an average of 41% [of] patients taking an oral opioid for up to 8 weeks."
This happens because "opioids cause constipation by binding to specific receptors in the gastrointestinal tract and central nervous system, resulting in reduced bowel motility through direct and indirect (anticholinergic) mechanisms." These medications destroy the body's natural intelligence, blocking the messages that innately tell the body when to empty the bowels.
When bowel movements stop, the colon gets backed up with waste byproduct that breaks down and infiltrates the blood. This side effect alone can actually feed a person's pain long-term. Opioid pain meds do not help people manage pain; in the long haul, they shut down an all-important function of the body, instructing the digestive system to stop having bowel movements, and leaving rotting waste caked inside the body. It's a recipe for disease and chronic inflammation.
So, are pain meds worth the risk if they "may cause rectal pain and bleeding, abdominal pain and distension, urinary incontinence, fecal impaction, rectal tearing, and, in very severe cases, bowel obstruction and colonic perforation?"
Big Pharma's opiates cause greater pain long-term
As the Australian Pain Society points out, some patients would rather deal with the pain than be cursed with severe opioid induced constipation. "Some patients would rather endure chronic pain than suffer from the severe constipation that can arise with long-term opioid therapy. One study found that approximately one-third of patients missed, decreased or stopped using opioids in order to make it easier to have a bowel motion. ..." They found that in some cases, even after stopping the meds, the body continues to struggle to have a normal bowel movement.
It should also be noted that anticholinergic meds work by blocking a neurotransmitter called acetylcholine. In doing so, these meds prohibit acetylcholine from naturally binding to its receptors in the brain. This slows cognitive processing, in practice affecting brain function.
The publication, Practical Pain Management, points out that Big Pharma's opioid pain meds are finally being investigated for all their debilitating effects. Even though they've been used for multiple decades, "we are only beginning to understand and identify the many side effects of opioids. Constipation, nausea, emesis, pruritus, respiratory depression, and somnolence are well known. However, not so well known are effects on immune function, urinary retention, endocrinopathies, gastroesophageal reflux (GERD), gastroparesis, sleep apnea, cardiovascular system, osteoporosis, emotions, dentition, and renal function."
As Big Pharma's opiates are leaving people helpless in the long-term, exacerbating entirely new health problems, better pain management strategies exist. Several foods, herbs and spices contain anti-inflammatory compounds that reduce pain while promoting proper digestion and brain function. For example, the powerful compound in turmeric root – curcumin – is well documented for reducing inflammation throughout the body. Plant-based medicines such as ginger root, cayenne, boswellia, cherry, pineapple and devil's claw, provide pain relief through different mechanisms that work with the body, instead of against it.
Sources include:
APSoc.org
GI.org[PDF]
PracticalPainManagement.com
NaturalNews.com
NaturalAntiInflammatory.org
Science.NaturalNews.com
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Re: Side Effects of Prescription and OTC Drugs
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04/07/16 04:12 PM
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Finally Some Good News: More Doctors Are Moving Away From Prescriptions
by L.J. Devon, Staff Writer
(NaturalNews) A health center in Boston's Roxbury neighborhood has implemented a new program that helps patients access a gym membership for just $10 a month. Instead of focusing solely on prescribing drugs, tests and physicals, internists and psychologists now have the free will to prescribe exercise. The $10 a month gym memberships also include aerobics classes, kids' programs and childcare, making it more convenient for patients to get moving.
Healthworks Community Fitness is a nonprofit gym in Dorchester. The gym gives low-income residents an extremely affordable way to get moving and access some of the best exercise equipment. Doctors are now prescribing gym access to help these low-income residents recover from chronic health problems. 70 percent of the people who go to Healthworks community Fitness have been prescribed exercise for their obesity, high blood pressure, diabetes or depression.
After more than two years of regular workouts, area resident Monisha Long says she is getting extraordinary results. "I lost well over 150 pounds, and I've been keeping it off for the past couple of years."
"I'm more energized," Long says. "As far as my energy, I feel like I'm stronger. I feel like I'm less tired. I feel like I can do almost anything now."
Dr. Edward Phillips, a Boston physician who now prescribes exercise, says, "Our bodies are meant to move. Integrating movement into our day allows the system to work optimally. Part of the system that needs to work is our brain, and includes sleep, mood, cognition, ability to concentrate."
An object in motion tends to stay in motion
One of the universal laws observed by physicist and mathematician Sir Isaac Newton, stated that an object at rest will stay at rest unless a force acts upon it. Additionally, an object in motion tends to stay in motion. Apathy and passion are two forces that carry out those same roles in the human body. The less we care, the more apathetic we become. With no forward movement in our life, stagnation sets in, making it harder and harder to move from our helpless, docile state. On the other hand, finding passion for something can be a momentous force that can make our energy "snowball." As our energy builds and crescendos, our forward motion becomes hard to stop.
Exercise can work in the same way. By simply starting and getting the ball moving, a person creates a platform from which they can launch and build momentum. The key is to get the ball moving, to start the motion, so momentum can be created. This takes focus and commitment at first, but as the motion becomes second nature, it becomes easier to be that object that Newton describes as tending "to stay in motion."
The New Living Translation of Matthew 25:29 of the American Bible sums up this phenomenon well, "To those who use well what they are given, even more will be given, and they will have an abundance. But from those who do nothing, even what little they have will be taken away." Perhaps this passage can help us understand that if we do nothing with what we already have, we will lose it (including our health), but if we efficiently utilize, fully appreciate, and put to work what we have, momentum is welcomed into our lives, pushing us toward a more fulfilling (and healthy) life.
Health professionals are starting to see how these simple universal truths can be applied in the field of medicine. More doctors are starting to prescribe exercise over drugs, because exercise works to encourage forward movement, encouraging the movement of blood and the inner cooperation of organs. Exercise helps us to exit a revolving state of stagnation, encouraging the organs to work together and detoxify the body. A person in motion tends to stay in motion, and the health benefits are remarkable.
Sources include:
WashingtonPost.com
BibleHub.com
Biography.com
Science.NaturalNews.com
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Re: Side Effects of Prescription and OTC Drugs
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Tylenol Found To Dull The Brain And Make People Less Likely To Notice Errors... The Dumbing Down Of America Continues At Full Pace
by David Gutierrez, staff writer
(NaturalNews) The active ingredient in Tylenol may interfere with people's ability to detect errors, according to a study conducted by researchers from the University of Toronto and the University of British Columbia, and published in the journal Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience.
It's not the first time acetaminophen (also known as paracetamol) has been linked with cognitive disruption. It is the first time, however, to use brain imaging to examine Tylenol's effects on error identification and processing.
"The core idea of our study is that we don't fully understand how acetaminophen affects the brain," researcher Dan Randles said in a press release. "While there's been recent behavioural research on the effects of acetaminophen, we wanted to have a sense of what's happening neurologically."
Less aware of mistakes
The double-blind study was performed on 60 participants, half of whom were assigned to take 1,000 mg of acetaminophen (the maximum recommended dose) and the other half of whom were given a placebo. The participants then took part in a task called Go or No Go, which consisted of watching a screen and pushing a button every time the letter F appeared, but not pushing it when the letter E appeared.
"The trick is you're supposed to move very quickly capturing all the GOs, but hold back when you see a No Go," Randles said.
While they performed the task, the participants were connected to an electroencephalogram (EEG) to measure their brain activity. Prior research has shown that, when people make errors in a Go or No Go task, their brains respond with strong increases in the wave patterns known as Error Related Negativity (ERN) and Error Related Positivity (Pe).
The researchers found that participants who had taken acetaminophen had significantly less Pe in response to errors than patients in the placebo group. This suggests that they were less aware that they had made a mistake.
"It looks like acetaminophen makes it harder to recognize an error, which may have implications for cognitive control in daily life," Randles said.
Damages emotional processing, too
A hampered ability to detect errors could have serious everyday consequences. That's because people spend much of their normal lives on "autopilot," performing routine tasks without necessarily paying attention to every detail.
"Sometimes you need to interrupt your normal processes or they'll lead to a mistake, like when you're talking to a friend while crossing the street, you should still be ready to react to an erratic driver," Randles said.
"The task we designed is meant to capture that since most of the stimuli were Go, so you end up getting into a routine of automatically hitting the Go button. When you see a No Go, that requires cognitive control because you need to interrupt the process."
Notably, people in the Tylenol group were also significantly more likely to fail to respond to Go stimuli than people in the placebo group. This suggests that acetaminophen might also increase the likelihood that the mind will wander — and then make it less likely that the errors this causes will be noticed. The researchers are planning further studies to explore this possibility.
"An obvious question is if people aren't detecting these errors, are they also making errors more often when taking acetaminophen?" Randles said. "This is the first study to address this question, so we need more work and ideally with tasks more closely related to normal daily behaviour."
Prior studies have also shown that acetaminophen dulls the emotional pain caused by social rejection and also numbs emotional reactions more generally — causing people to respond more neutrally to all kinds of emotional stimulus. It has also been shown to blunt the sense of indignation that underlies moral judgment.
Sources for this article include:
EurekAlert.org
NaturalNews.com
Science.NaturalNews.com
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