In less than the blink of an eye, the average person living in America can name at least one person who faithfully follows their doctor’s prescribed drug regimen. That person might even be them.

Not surprisingly, more and more people living in America fix their schedules around pill taking, from contraceptives to insulin to high blood pressure pills. In the end, for everything the body should be able to do for itself, a drug has been created to “take off the workload.”

America has devolved into a drug culture. Name a syndrome*, drug companies will name a pill, capsule or liquid to treat it. The line between treatment, cure and prevention has become so blurred that the medical establishment no longer has to promise a cure. As a matter of fact, drugs prescribed for diseases such as cancer and so-called HIV, emphatically state that they are not intended as a cure.

If a drug cannot cure or show through long-term studies that it actually prolongs life, increases quality of life throughout much of the prolonged period and does not, itself, cause more disease which usurps the quality of life, why should large segments of a society prescribe to it?

Is it that most wish to eat what they want, drink what they want, wear what they want and when the physical manifestations of disease become too much, head to the doctor’s office for a rap sheet of toxic chemical substances in the hopes that these drugs will erase years of ill living?

People seek out and are persuaded to use drugs to treat illness for a variety of reasons, to include the following:

• Fear.
• Confusion.
• Drug company advertisements.
• Lack of education about the root cause of illness and available natural healing modalities or methods.
• Lack of understanding of a drug’s side effects and its relation to overall health.
• Lack of knowledge and limitations on the part of healthcare practitioners.
• Pressure and conflicts of interest on the part of healthcare practitioners.
• Pressure from friends and family members with limited understanding of drugs, drug interactions and natural healing modalities.

Breached Bodies Lead to Physical Manifestation of Disease

One of the greatest assumptions, and most faulty assumptions made by drug users, is that a drug can work faster to “cure” or relieve their symptoms than can natural remedies or a change in diet. Therefore, when diseases undergo a physical manifestation, many people turn to doctors who, in turn, turn to what they’ve been educated to do, for the most part—treat the symptom.

From a natural perspective, the body consists of a highly advanced system of alarm monitors. When it senses a “break” in one of its secured areas, it immediately sounds an alarm. It is up to the individual to acknowledge this signal and conduct investigations into and take steps to remedy the breach.

Breaches left unchecked, may then give rise to further breaches, to the point where a body is completely infiltrated, hence, the physical manifestation of disease in the form of cancers, diabetes, high blood pressure, heart disease, immunological disorders, etc. None of these physical manifestations are usually the root cause of the disease, but a signal that the body has been breached and infiltration accomplished. For instance, heart disease comes about through conditions which force the heart to work harder (e.g., high-fat diet, unmanaged stress); diabetes is caused by the body’s battle to balance insulin levels (e.g., high refined sugar intake). All physical manifestations are tied to a root cause, which, in allopathic medicine, usually goes untreated or unresolved in favor of treating the symptom.

It is important that the body is seen and treated from a whole perspective. To treat only the symptom, which is what happens with chemotherapy and the injection of insulin for diabetes, will not “cure” the patient. It is also why many cancer survivors** have reoccurring cancers and many diabetic sufferers see their health deteriorate, despite the use of synthetic insulin.

The Cure for Dis-ease

So what is a body to do? While we cannot always control the quality of our air or other environmental hazards, we can control what we eat, drink and apply to our bodies. We can start by eating a diet largely consisting of fresh fruits and vegetables—preferably organic; drinking fresh, unpasteurized fruit juices and fluoride-free spring or distilled water; and applying only plant-based products to our bodies that can either be eaten (coconut oil and olive oil are two examples) or used medicinally to heal.

Deciding to eat meat is a personal choice; one that should be approached from a position of knowledge. In America, meat has been officially declared king of foods. In restaurants throughout the country, meat serves as the main entrée. To be healthy, the choice has to be made to either discontinue eating meat or to dethrone it and place it in its proper place—as nothing more than a side dish.

For those who see no future in cutting out meats, it is imperative that wise discernment take place by ensuring that the meats are of high quality. By that, the meats contain no antibiotics, hormones, steroids and animal byproducts, and the animal is fed a diet natural to its genetic composition and allowed to freely roam according to its natural disposition. What many will find is that labels cannot be counted on to always be factual, so it pays to know the exact source of meat.

Meats found in the majority of grocery stores come from a variety of sources. One family-sized package of steak might contain the meat of 3–4 or more animals, all raised in different environments to differing degrees. Adding to the unknown origins of the meat is the manufacturing, handling, packaging and shipping process.

Most meats found in conventional stores have had sodium nitrate injected to give them that “fresh, just killed” look. Spend a short amount of time on a farm and the first thing that will be noted is the difference in meat color. Dead meat is just that, dead meat, graying meat, decayed tissue, which is why it should be consumed as soon after slaughter as possible. Sellers of meat know that to get the consumer to choose their meats, it must have a certain appeal, hence, the addition of a color additive and preservative in the form of sodium nitrate, a known carcinogenic substance.

The taste buds of most people living in America have been damaged through the use of chemicals in the food and water supply. Unfortunately, many children have no idea what fresh tastes like, nor do they enjoy “fresh” fruits and vegetables.

It is not unusual for a child to witness their parents ingesting drugs to make them feel better, think better, walk better, talk better and sleep better. It is also not unusual for that same parent to begin their children on a similar regimen at an age where they are least able to make informed decisions for themselves, thus, beginning a journey that mirrors the destructive habits of their parents.

In the end, each successive generation loses touch with the concept of eating natural whole foods and the incontestable fact that the best defense the body has in warding off infection and disease is its own defense system.

Like that of a warrior tracking his tracker, vigilance is needed to ensure that uninvestigated or ignored root causes do not develop into physical manifestations that threaten our quality of life. Proper diet, exercise and stress minimization are three of the most precious gifts we can give our bodies because each helps guarantee that no matter the quantity of our life, the quality was well worth living.  

Author’s Note:

*Syndrome: a group of signs and symptoms that occur together and characterize a particular abnormality or condition. (courtesy of www.m-w.com)

**Cancer Survivor: The National Coalition for Cancer Survivorship (NCCS) pioneered the definition of survivor as from the time of diagnosis and for the balance of life, a person diagnosed with cancer is a survivor. This expansive definition of "survivor" includes people who are dying from untreatable cancer. NCCS later expanded the definition of survivor even further to include family, friends and caregivers who are affected by the diagnosis in any way. [emphasis added by author]

Written by Nandi Asase Yaa