Brenda Skidmore's Health Tips

Over the last several weeks many of us have heard, read, or watched the unfolding story about, yet, another polygamist sect living in a locked compound located on a ranch in Texas. They call themselves the 'Yearning For Zion'. Remember the Branch Divideons? How many people are shaking their heads in confusion and thinking, "how can some people fall victim to a cult-like mentality that promotes the multiple sexual abuse of the partnering of young women with men old enough to be their fathers or grandfathers"? Handpicking children who are docile and obedient enough to be trained, into altering their minds, into promoting no self-thinking is unimaginable.
The now jailed leader of this group, Warren Jeffs, told his inner-circle of followers that the outside world was a very hostile and immoral place to live, and If they wandered beyond the locked gates of the compound grounds they would be condemned to an eternal life of punishment and damnation by others.

Now, before you go up on your high horse in criticizing the ignorance of those, who chose to practice and live in a polygamist type of romantic, intimate, and sexual relationship consider what you, yourself, might be afraid of. What do you consider, by what you've been taught, to be a normal, intimate, and romantic type of sexual relationship? There are a lot of people in the world that are involved in less than desirable monogamous relationships that do not know if they should stay in them or leave.

Okay, what am I getting at, in in relationship to an alternative health care web site blog post? Well, what I am trying to get you to see, is that we have all been the victim of one type of group (scam) following or another, at any given time in our lives, and some...still choose to find comfort and believe in those. Only, the one I am referring to now has taken many more prisoners, on a much more massive scale, than the Branch Divideons or the Yearning For Zion group followers. This particular group following is promoted by our government, a certain industry, and is a highly promoted type of mainstream health care model. This model, too, promotes the 'covering up' of the truth in you gaining your freedom to reasonable health care knowledge. In fact, they know that if you discover this truth for yourself, that you will probably choose not to participate in their particular model of deception.

A researched fact that, annually, drug companies spend over $12 billion a year to hand out drug samples and employ sales represetatives to influence doctors, and other educated professionals, to promote specifically branded drugs. The drug industry employs over 1,200 (and growing) lobbyists, including 40 (and growing) members of Congress. Drug companies have spent close to a BILLION dollars since 1998 on lobbying, alone. In 2004, drug companies and their officials contributed at least $17 million in federal election campaigns. And, here is the irony in all this SPENDING.

According to the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) "adverse drug reactions are the FOURTH leading cause of death in America. Reactions to prescription drugs (taken as directed) and over-the-counter medications (chemical solutions) kill far more people, annually, than all "illegal street drugs' combined. And we wonder why America has a drug problem. This broken system is your drug dealer!

What is the REAL story to connecting you to physical and emotional health, and gaining your medical knowledge freedom? Do you fear the idea that your thoughts are powerful enough to affect your overall health, relationships, and life? What would it mean to you if you were no longer able to blame any situation, or anyone else for your problems?

Would your life change if, practical, medical research began influencing you to go in a different direction, or multiple directions? What if drugs or surgeries were considered, old and outdated models of treatment? How would your life change, for the better, if nutrients were proven to be everything your body really needed, instead of pharmaceuticals?

Here is the real kicker between group followings and your, overall, health.

We are all designed to be FOLLOWERS in something or someone for a desired purpose. That desired purpose may be in the form of material wealth, prestige and power, happiness and joy, optimal emotional and physical health, or all of these mentioned. Your higher intelligence is a showing of how well you can reason without being lead.

There are many unintelligent among us, but are very 'trainable'. They are capable of being taught and educated to believe in a certain system model. At the same time, they are unable to reason between true and false.

I, personally, think we can have it all if we so choose, and we do not have to step on others to get it or force our views on others. The 'truth' is in our inborn common sense, simple, and timely produced evidence. Those who are truly intelligent already know this. Those who have been taught and educated into believing otherwise will always be waiting. Will they ever be able to see how 'baited' they were? Only time will will tell.