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It seems odd to me that natural fruit and plant remedies (such as pure juice therapy), which have been responsible for zero direct deaths, are often hammered by the medical profession, yet medical weight-loss drugs which often do cause harm are all considered part of the ‘friendly fire’ syndrome. That isn’t to say that the medical profession doesn’t often have a very valid point. Some of the weight-loss products out there are about as effective as a cat flap in an elephant house and a total waste of time and money, and yes, there are unscrupulous characters in every business. But the same argument can often be levelled at medical drugs for weight loss.

In fact, I don’t know of one single weight-loss drug that has come even close to solving the obesity epidemic anywhere in the world. Despite this I can guarantee it won’t be long before you read about the next ‘amazing breakthrough in weight loss’ drug therapy (look in your newspaper today, it may be there). This drug will come with a clean bill of health and backed by studies of many who have lost X amount of weight because of the drug. Once again, if you do ever see the new answer to everyone’s fat problem wrapped up in a drug pill DON’T TAKE IT (just in case you missed that earlier!). All drugs have side-effects and all drugs are toxic to the body. If you are already taking a weight-loss pill, talk to your GP before you decide to stop taking it. I have to say that, but the same piece of advice would never apply to anything healthy. I doubt you’ll ever hear: ‘Before you stop eating avocados check with your GP first’ – why? Because fruit and vegetables aren’t dangerous and don’t cause withdrawal symptoms of any kind.

Fat People = Fat Profits

The reason for the apparent ‘new’ weight-loss drugs is not out of a genuine care for our health, which would be nice. In 1998, GPs in the UK spent just £20,000 on anti-obesity drugs yet in 2005 the annual cost had risen to more than £38 million. That’s one hell of a big fat jump. Why such a jump? Simple. Obesity has now been reclassified as a disease. Why does this make such a difference? Again, simple. As a disease it needs to be treated, and as a disease – in the minds of the ‘professionals’ and indeed aspects of the law – this means an increase in medical ‘help’. And medical help, of course, equals drugs! Drugs for weight loss in particular equal mega profits, more disease and more toxicity.

It’s worth knowing that in the US the FDA (Food and Drug Administration) passed a law stating, ‘only a drug can cure, prevent, or treat a disease’. The law is exactly the same in the UK. In 1996 a ruling was made that anyone making a claim that any food can cure, prevent or treat a disease is breaking the law and is subject to criminal prosecution. This effectively means that if someone were to say that fruit can help to prevent cancer or obesity, they could go to jail for it! This is why when a major UK supermarket stated that mangos could help in the prevention of certain cancers, they were brought to book and it made national news. The ‘offending’ sign was removed. But mangos do help with the prevention of disease, as do apples, pears, oranges, lemons, spinach and ALL other fruits and vegetables designed for human consumption. All contain antioxidants and all help to curb free radical damage, which even by the government’s own admission is one of the biggest causes of disease and premature aging.

Listen carefully to what I am saying here as it beggars belief on every level. There is a law that effectively says there will never be a natural remedy that can cure, prevent or treat a disease. No one will ever be able to make such a claim, even if it’s 100 per cent true. How mind-blowingly absurd is that? It means that if someone advertised that oranges or lemons could cure the killer disease ‘scurvy’ (which, of course, they do and this is not disputed by anyone), they could be thrown into jail. No, I am not joking, but I sincerely wish I were. For if oranges or lemons were deemed to cure, prevent or treat the disease scurvy, they would then be classed as ‘drugs’. However, before a ‘drug’ label can be given, these fruits would have to go through the £400,000 worth of testing required to approve a new drug. This would never happen. Why? Well, a natural remedy cannot be patented by anyone and so who on earth would ever pay that amount of money for testing if they couldn’t get that money back at least tenfold? You see, it’s not always about actually curing, preventing or genuinely treating disease; it’s all about what can be patented. If it can’t – forget it. If it can – bingo!

Let’s not forget that if fruit and vegetables were claimed to cure, treat or prevent a new disease like ‘obesity’, then anyone selling them without a licence to dispense medicine would be prosecuted. Yes, if someone were to state that a lemon was a cure for scurvy, or that avocados were a good treatment for obesity, the lemon suddenly stops being a lemon and the avocado stops being an avocado. They both now miraculously become drugs – yes, a lemon a drug. And unless you have a licensed practice or sell medicine, you could be nicked! Once again, you really can’t make this stuff up.

Obesity, now it’s a disease, is mega business for the medical drug industry. And the more people who are diagnosed with obesity, the fatter the nation looks and the fatter the profits. It’s worth knowing that obesity is diagnosed using a very antiquated system called the BMI index. BMI stands for body mass index. It is a measurement of fat which is worked out by taking your weight in kilograms and dividing it by your height in metres. What it doesn’t take into account is body muscle weight. This means that Brad Pitt, according to the BMI index, is obese – yes, Brad Pitt obese! This should illustrate perfectly what a stupid system this is. But if it means more people are diagnosed with obesity, even if in the real world they aren’t obese, all the better for the new drug on the block.

The Sicker We Get, the Healthier Their Profits

The fact of the matter is there will never be a drug that will enable the body to lose weight in a natural and healthy way. ALL drugs have negative side-effects, and these side-effects are very often treated with more drugs. Unless people get ill, drugs become worthless. Drugs often create the need simply for more drugs, and more drugs mean more profit. The big drug companies are PLCs, and as public limited companies they have to, BY LAW, increase profits for their shareholders. How can you have a situation where the people responsible for drug treatments being dispensed to the public are lawfully obliged to increase profits? How can this be when increased profits can only occur if more people take more drugs? Drugs which, let’s not forget, have adverse side-effects. Side-effects which, let’s not forget, are responsible for over 10,000 deaths in the UK alone each year. This is like putting traffic wardens on performance pay and giving them bonuses if they hand out more parking tickets, a system which would inevitably lead to corruption and the removal of common sense – oh sorry, this is the system!

Money Makes the Drug World Go Round and Round and Round

Weight-loss drugs are the new blockbusters on the pharmaceutical block. They will increasingly rear their ugly heads and all in the name of ‘help’. The problem is the only people these drugs tend to help are the shareholders and directors of the big pharmaceutical companies.

The reality is that the powerful nutritious liquid fuel trapped within the fibres of raw fruits and vegetables contains the perfect balance of vitamins, minerals, fats, carbohydrates and amino acids to maintain health during weight loss. There are some who will be arrogant enough to think they can create something more perfect than nature itself to deal with the obesity nightmare taking place in our world at this time, but I hope and feel that common sense and intuition will have the majority of people going in the right direction.

You Can’t Patent Fruit or Veg

Once again, the biggest problem is that you cannot patent a fruit or vegetable. No patent means no big blockbuster money-spinner. What I find most extraordinary is how no one seems to question what many scientists in this field are doing. They often do a study and find that a certain fruit or vegetable is highly effective for either the prevention or treatment of a particular disease. They then try to find exactly which ingredient contained within the fruit or vegetable makes it so effective. Their aim, I imagine, is to isolate the secret ingredient and add some other chemicals to it in order to make a patentable ‘drug’. A ‘drug’ which will once again be hailed as the new all-singing, all-dancing answer to whatever disease the fruit or vegetable helped with. Just a thought here, but why on earth don’t they simply suggest people eat the fruit or vegetable that made the difference? Is it really because you can’t patent it? Could the industry be that corrupt?

‘Lies, damn lies and statistics.’

— Mark Twain

You can make any study look and sound better than it actually is, especially when you are trying to get a licence for a blockbuster drug. Not all studies are worthless, clearly, and many are extremely valid. However, as far as I’m concerned there is only one study worth looking at and that is genuine people giving genuine testimonials. We live in a world where if people say a drug has helped them in any way it is taken as read by the medical profession, but if a load of people get spectacular results for their health or ailment using natural methods, the usual responses are: ‘it hasn’t been tested properly’ and ‘it might have worked for those people, but there is no evidence to suggest it will work for everyone’. But there’s no evidence to suggest any drug on earth will work for everyone either. There is also no evidence to suggest we are making any progress whatsoever with ‘drug therapy’ for weight loss in any part of the world, yet many millions are still being invested into finding the cure-all ‘anti-obesity pill’.