Why do we not hear more about this? It is just too difficult to come to grips with inevitable – and unbelievable – conclusion: When all deaths (not counting hundreds of thousands who are maimed or otherwise harmed but don't die) reported and not reported are tallied, medical intervention is arguably leading cause of death in our country.

Time to splash some cold water on rely-on-modern-medicine inebriation. And remember folks, above are just cold statistics. Take any one of these numbers and humanize it to real pain, suffering, financial devastation, grief and family disruption, and each one is a heart rending story deserving of anyone's deep concern and sympathy. It is a tragedy of a magnitude unequalled by anything in human history. And it's repeated every year. It makes 9-11, all deaths in all U.S. wars, deaths by auto, homicides and everything else pale in comparison. (Not to minimize tragedy of each of those things.) The media should be shouting about medical risks from atop their broadcast towers. But there is mostly silence, just reports in obscure (to public) medical and scientific publications. In meantime, trusting people keep flocking to slaughter. From just 1995 to 2002, pharmaceutical sales jumped from $65 billion to over $200 billion. That's about one prescription for each man, woman and child in country every month. This escalation in medical dependency is paralleled in surgeries, lab tests, emergency room admissions, elective procedures and outpatient visits.

You can do something about it. Begin today to take control of your own health destiny. The philosophical paradigm of conventional, allopathic, symptom based, reductionistic, crisis care, episodic, after-the-fact medicine is seriously flawed ... and very deadly. Good and well meaning doctors are hamstrung by wrong philosophical premises. They are crippled every bit as much as those who once believed in a flat Earth. Trying to achieve health with modern allopathic medicine is like trying to fix computers with a hammer, just because that's only tool you were taught to use or believe in.

Don't wait for system to change. Old ideas die too hard. The mega-medical industry is not going to be quick in either admitting error or revamping itself. Your health is at stake. Think prevention and natural holistic cure. Study, learn, grow, be skeptical, change lifestyle, be self-reliant – be a thinking person. That's your best road to health.

What a surprise when he tested level of sugar to discover that it had drastically dropped! After a few weeks, he stopped using insulin altogether. This was well over a year ago and to this day he has not resumed insulin therapy. His blood sugar is back to normal and he now uses natural treatment only for maintenance.

I am not saying this to suggest that you will have same results, or to suggest that you rush out and buy these items. This is only to support my confidence in natural remedies. If you have diabetes, you are well advised to consult your doctor.

Very often a simple massage is answer to a problem. I personally have not had a headache for many years. There was a time when I was headache-prone, and got into habit of using synthetic medicines to ease pain, but after I decided to try natural treatments and medicines, I changed my diet from eating 'junk' foods and tried to stop using those synthetic headache remedies.

I started to massage my head and shoulders whenever a headache came on. Then to my delight, I realised that headaches were few and far apart. Now they are virtually no more a part of my life.

Whenever I sense feeling that a headache is imminent (which is exceedingly rare), I just give myself a quick head and shoulder massage and I am OK again. No more headache remedies for me, like 'Oh-so-famous' ones that are so often advertised.

I have helped many, many persons to be rid of a headache by just simply giving them a massage as mentioned above. Many had headaches lingering for days, and after about 20 minutes of massage, they miraculously stopped.

Every person should find time to learn about natural treatments that could be taken to protect his/her own body and prevent or cure diseases. I do, do you? I have studied and read about hundreds of cures by natural means, and have experienced some myself.

Think of many thousands of persons who might have been alive today if only they had known, and had been encouraged, to use certain natural remedies to be healed.

It is not intention of this article to condemn use of conventional medicine which plays a wonderful role in case of surgery and other traumatic conditions. There have been countless such cases where, without administration of conventional medicine, many persons would not have survived.

However, it is my hope that conventional medicine in field of drugs will one day give way to alternative medicine, and conventional medicine retain its place in field of surgery and other traumatic conditions where it cannot be ignored. Many persons have begun to take charge of their health and have wisely shifted their preference to alternative medicine with satisfactory results. It is likely that this trend will continue and alternative medicine will one day regain recognition it so rightfully deserves, as greater emphasis will be put on prevention of disease and maintenance of health by natural means.

A word of caution. If you have decided to try alternative medicine, be sure to get in touch with a qualified practitioner.

This article is written for information only and is not intended to suggest treatment of any disease. Information contained herein is based on my own experience and research I have done and just want to share with interested persons. Anyone suffering from a disease is advised to consult a qualified recognized health care professional for advice.

Jem is author and webmaster of 1-personal-improvement website. She is also a certified Natural Health Consultant and takes pleasure in sharing what she has learned with others.

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