Health Freedom Is Our First Freedom

Health Freedom? Many Americans will have no idea what that is, just as much they will have no idea how to protect their health apart from whatever doctrines the pharmaceutical industry is pushing via CNN, MSNBC and the rest of the mainstream media. Even well meaning doctors are often just as misinformed due to an education at Medical Schools whose professors and text books are deep in the pockets of Big Pharma as well.

Here is a short summary by Health Freedom Advocate Bill Pleasants, of what Health Freedom constitutes:

"Health Freedom means the right to control what happens to your body, choosing your own health path, making our own health choices as you see fit.

Please vote for health freedom so we can have:

• Access to high potency nutrients and supplements


• Protection from Codex


• Absolute medical privacy


• Meaningful organic standards


• Access to raw milk, bitter almonds and other health aides


• Irradiation-free foods
  

Freedom from:

• Unlabelled GMO foods


• Coerced vaccinations and other medical treatments


• Involuntary experimentation on foster children, prisoners and civilian populations


• Chemtrail spraying


• Coerced surgical or other procedures like circumcision or electroshock


• Human or animal chipping


• Loss of our children because we choose not to vaccinate or drug them
  

Freedom to:

• Choose health practitioners who offer the treatments we want


• Farm and process food


• Provide information about the relationship between health and foods/nutrients


• Drink municipal water free of fluoride and other toxins


• Receive insurance coverage for natural medicine


• Divest the FDA of all food regulation


• Sue drug and vaccine manufacturers for damages caused by their products


• Use natural methods to treat, prevent, mitigate or cure diseases as we choose


• Protect our children as we, not authorities, see fit. "
  

This was quoted from the following website: http://www.change.org/ideas/view/health_freedom - a great website by the way. "Ideas for Change in America" was created in response to Barack Obama's call for increased citizen involvement in government. You can vote for many good ideas such as civil liberties, affordable education, affordable health care, a green economy, women's rights, ending the war in Iraq, human rights, fighting global poverty, and so on. The top 10 ideas will be presented to President Obama on January 16 at an event at the National Press Club in Washington, DC. (For more information, go to the home page at http://www.change.org/).

There are many worthy and important ideas on this website, however I do believe Health Freedom is one of the most important ones. How can it be that Americans are the least healthy people of all first-world countries? Why is there such an Obesity epidemic? Why do Americans spend the most on Health Care of all industrialized countries? The statistics are appalling:

• the US spends 40-60% more on Health Care than any other industrialized country but ranks only 45th in life expectancy and 42nd in infant mortality.


• overall spending for drugs is the highest in the world: an estimated $286.5 billion during 2007.


• within 10 years, from 1997 through 2007, the number of prescribed drugs filled has increased by 72%.


• in the same period, the average number of prescribed drugs filled per person increased from 8.9 a year in 1997 to 12.6 in 2007.
  

(source: http://www.naturalnews.com/024652.html)

The World Health Organization (WHO) ranks the US Health Care System 37th in overall performance and 72nd by overall level of health - among 191 member nations included in their study. MSNBC reports that 1/3 of all Americans are obese, another 1/3 are overweight. Cancer rates are up 300% from what they were in the 1950ties.

How did things get that bad? And how can the pharmaceutical industry dare to claim they are searching for a 'cure' for cancer, diabetes, heart disease, or any of the other major illnesses when really people have been getting sicker and sicker over the last 60 years, and taking more and more drugs? (Never mind that cures already exist but those who dared to present them got harrassed, silenced, put out of business... and so on. After all, it is about money - Big Pharma is not interested in curing anything, only in managing illness so people get dependent on and have to keep buying their drugs). This connection seems self-evident, but the surprising thing is that it is not evident at all to many Americans, unless they happen to be involved and informed in Natural Health or unless they have lived in another country. While most will agree that the Health Care system is broken and badly in need of reform, many Americans remain woefully ignorant that they are being misinformed and basically ripped off: contrary to what most doctors and the mainstream media will tell them, there are cures for almost every disease, and that means natural, drug and side effect free cures. They have been around all along, but have been suppressed, censored, and silenced in many ways. The FDA is well known for harassing those who advocate natural treatments while turning a bling eye to the transgressions of the pharmaceutical industry. A great book to start out learning about all this is Kevin Trudeau's "Natural Cures They Don't Want You To Know About", available at http://www.amazon.com/Natural-Cures-They-Dont-About/dp/0975599518/ref=pd_bbs_sr_4?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1231478482&sr=8-4.


As a teacher working with children, this concerns me very much. Kids deserve to grow up as healthy as possible and fullfill their potential, their dreams and aspirations. But if the parents are not very diligent and informed, they are almost inevitably set up to be sick later in life. Just look at the gazillion vaccinations that are now being pushed before a baby is even 6 months old, not to mention public schools and universities pushing even more vaccinations lateron. Add to that microwaved food, mineral-depleted soils and produce grown in a stew of pesticides and herbicides, toxic chemicals added to the tap water, sodas laden with sugar or worse, aspartame, and not to forget all the personal care products also laden with toxic chemicals (obvious to anyone who cares to read the label), and it is no wonder that childrens' immune systems become overloaded. They will get sick with one thing or another, maybe the flu, or maybe they get diagnosed with ADHD, and guess what, they will be made to swallow even more drugs, which will have again side effects, and so the circle of drug dependency begins.

Now I do not mean to say that there never is a place for drugs and conventional medicine. There certainly is, particulary in emergencies and in immediately life threatening situations. But conventional western medicine is neither good at preventing illnesses nor at even beginning to understand the emotional and spiritual nature of a human being. It pays to be critical, and not unquestioningly accept everything a regular doctor will tell you. It pays to get a second opinion of a natural practioner or simply be informed about natural alternatives. Here are some websites that I have found to be both great sources of information as well as 100% trustworthy (some also sell some very good nutritional products and supplements):

http://www.naturalnews.com/ (offers free newsletters with several articles on a range of alternative health topics)

http://www.healingourchildren.net/

http://www.vaccinetruth.net/

http://www.healthfreedomusa.org/ (an activist website about health freedom. They are a little bit more into the conspiracy thing than I agree with, however their products are great and the information is good. It is up to the individual how much they will agree with the conspiracy tenor).

In the end, I believe everyone is responsible for their own health. Everyone can do some simple things to improve both their well being as well as the planet's well being! For example, eating organic foods is better for you AND for the planet because they are grown sustainably without use of pesticides and therefore do not deplete the soil of minerals. Everyone can do a little research - and it can be fun too! We owe it to ourselves, our children, and our planet, to not let ourselves degenerate into a sick, broke and overdrugged society. What can we possibly accomplish in such a state? Of course, the conspiracy theorist would point out that a populace as sick, broke, fat and stupid as possible is one that is most easily to manipulate. It may help to consider this point. I don't necessarily agree with conspiracy ideas, but I am sure most would agree that if we are naive and uninformed, certain elements in power will be quick to take advantage of that!

With that being said, I do believe that "Health Freedom Is Our First Freedom". Without the freedom to care for our and our family's well being the way we see fit, without the freedom to be healthy, what else can we accomplish? A great society cannot be built on sick people. I would like to suggest to the reader to do some research on the above stated points that constitute Health Freedom, and if you find you agree, vote for it on http://www.change.org/ideas/view/health%20freedom . It would be fantastic if this idea could be among the 10 to be presented to President Obama!