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It puzzles me that we criticize medications for having side effects or turn out to be potentially dangerous, yet when it comes to Big Supplement, we lower the bar for these same expectations.
Maybe because far more people die from complications after taking prescription drugs than from supplements. As I mentioned earlier, the medical industry is now the 3rd leading cause of death in the United States. The industry is completely driven by profit with patient wellbeing a secondary concern. Do we really want to put this same corrupt industry in charge of overseeing the manufacturing and distribution of supplements...
Chris Kresser - Medical care is 3rd leading cause of death in U.S.
The popular perception that the U.S. has the highest quality of medical care in the world has been proven entirely false by several public heath studies and reports over the past few years.
The prestigious Journal of the American Medical Association published a study by Dr. Barbara Starfield, a medical doctor with a Master’s degree in Public Health, in 2000 which revealed the extremely poor performance of the United States health care system when compared to other industrialized countries (Japan, Sweden, Canada, France, Australia, Spain, Finland, the Netherlands, the United Kingdom, Denmark, Belgium and Germany).
In fact, the U.S. is ranked last or near last in several significant health care indicators:
The most shocking revelation of her report is that iatrogentic damage (defined as a state of ill health or adverse effect resulting from medical treatment) is the third leading cause of death in the U.S., after heart disease and cancer.
- 13th (last) for low-birth-weight percentages
- 13th for neonatal mortality and infant mortality overall
- 11th for postneonatal mortality
- 13th for years of potential life lost (excluding external causes)
- 12th for life expectancy at 1 year for males, 11th for females
- 12th for life expectancy at 15 years for males, 10th for females
Let me pause while you take that in.
For me, it's not about curbing freedom of choice, making supplements prescription only but has everything to do with quality control.
How exactly will making supplements only available by prescription insure a certain level of quality? Doctors have no control over the manufacturing process. They just write the prescription. All we need to insure the quality of supplements is for the FDA to do the job that it was designed to do, which it obviously isn't doing properly...
Quad City Times - Counterfeit drugs dangerous, even in U.S.
While fake drugs are more common in the developing world, they've taken a toll in this country and represent a persistent threat to patients here.
The Food and Drug Administration, or FDA, has issued warnings about substandard — and illegal — imported versions of the tumor-fighting drug Avastin three times in the past year, most recently shipments of a Turkish version of the drug. In 2008, there were at least 149 deaths and many more severe allergic reactions due to a tainted blood thinner imported from China. Other times, officials have seized drugs that included ingredients banned in the United States. for safety reasons.
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