What “prescription” drugs was she taking is a good question you ask.
Its time to revolt against the government/pharma drug pushers.
The anti-depression drugs are killers, and many more.
Our food chain is totally polluted with chemicals and drugs that have never been tested for long term health effects. But drug companies and chemical companies keep pushing and pushing the stuff even when it is no longer necessary!
In Europe you can get any number of dairy products, milk, canned goods etc that have been sterilized with new technology so good that even MILK does not need to be refrigerated and has long long shelf life, but it has NO CHEMICALS. it is completely natural.
it is getting incredibly difficult for my family to find products, bread, drinks, dairy etc that have not been polluted with unnatural chemicals, of all sorts etc.
Americans have become the fattest people on earth and it has nothing to do with availability of fast food, i believe, it has everything to do with artificial sweeteners, high fructose corn syrups, and other unnatrual additives in all of the food chain.
When I visited Europe this year i saw fewer overweight men and women in 3 weeks than I see in Walmart in 1 hour. And it is not because we are any more gluttonous. We just ingest crap, and we’re too ignorant to demand better. (as long as it is cheap, plentiful and tastes good going down)
Autoimmune illnesses, and chronic illnesses such as fibromyalgia and chronic fatigue which are ever increasing I have no doubt are directly or indirectly triggered or caused by food additives. (i have had cause to do extensive research in the area of autoimmune illnesses)
Its not a conspiracy per se. Its the exercise of power by the few over the many for billions of dollars, because they can.
They do not want to know the damage they cause. Since the illnesses may take years to develop they always argue there is no correlation with their chemicals. (though that is argument is growing thin, they are simply pointing fingers at their competitors) Any efforts to rigorously prove otherwise requires huge amounts of R&D time and money that will never be supplied by government or pharma.
So instead of playing it safe and refusing permission to use chemicals unless the long term effects have been proven acceptable, our overly powerful government requires only very short term testing.
If any food additive created illneses as severe as AIDS but took as long as it takes AIDS to become clinically significant then the government would approve that chemical for ingestion by millions and never ever repeal it since the big pharma will always argue something else was causing the torture and death. (no i’m not saying food additives have anything to do with AIDS, this is an illustration)
caveat emptor - do not blindly trust the government with your life.
...and your Valium ;-)
FULL DISCLOSURE: I agree with you about many pharmaceuticals, about food additives, and high fructose corn syrup in particular.
Click here and here for vanities.
But by shooting it all out so excitedly like that, it makes people want to write you off as a loonie.
My sister moved to Germany and lost 20 pounds because of eating unprocessed foods.