Is it really worth taking medication if the cure is worth than the disease? Here are just a few of many side effects of many prescription drugs?

. Hallucinations, fainting, coma

. Fussiness irritability, crying for a hour or longer

. Paralysis

. A blood clot in your lung

. Liver damage

. Kidney damage

. Congestive heart failure

. Shingles

. Nerve pain lasting for several weeks or months

. Bleeding that will not stop.

. And many more side effects

Every year, more than 2 million Americans suffer from serious drug reactions. According to the U.S. food and Drug Administration (FDA), these reactions cause about 100,000 deaths per year, making prescription drugs the fourth leading cause of death in this country. Compare this to the death toll from illegal drugs – which is about 10,000 per year and you begin to see the magnitude of this problem.

What's really interesting to me is I'm surprised that the FDA even reports this. Here's an agency that its job is to approve or disapprove a drug. Many times when they have approved a drug it is one that has disastrous consequences. The drug Vioxx is a perfect example. It has been responsible for thousands of death before it was withdrawn from the market.

What people don't realize is that drug reactions are not only recognized as such. doctors often attribute them to other causes, people either downplay them or do not report them altogether.

When you add in other medical errors, unnecessary procedures, and surgery-related mishaps the modern health care system actually becomes the LEADING cause of death in the United States.

To see the magnitude of this problem look at all of it this way.

* The recorded error rate of ICU's is like the post office loosing more than 16,000 pieces of mail every hour of the day or banks deducting 32,000 checks from the wrong bank account every hour, 24/7.

* The recorded medical errors and deaths equate to six jumbo jets falling out of the sky everyday, 365 days of the year.

* Since 2001, a recorded 490,000 people have died from properly prescribed drugs in the U.S. while 2,996 people died on U.S. soil from terrorism, all in the 9/11 attacks. Prescription drugs are therefore 16,400 percent more dangerous than terrorism.

* If deaths from over-the-counter drugs are also included then drug consumption leaps to being 32,000 percent more dangerous than terrorism. Add conventional medicine viewed as a whole and it is 104,700 deadlier than terrorism.

Why is it that clinically tested drugs that are FDA approved and suppose to "cure" diseases are usually ending up hurting or even killing people sometimes?

One thing that happens is one drug may be acting adversely with another one, or maybe a food you are eating may cause an unforeseen reaction. There are countless reasons why you may be affected with all kinds of reactions.

Remember this, it's your body and your decision what to put in it. If you decide to take your doctors opinion about taking a drug it's your responsibility to decide if you should take it or not.

Most doctors only think about prescribing a drug to handle your ailment, instead of treating it in an alternative way, like prescribing some nutritional supplement to correct your problem.

It's rare today that a doctor will spend much time learning about your ailment to see if he could recommend other issues to solve it. Even a poor diet could be the reason for all kinds of poor health problems.

Since doctors rarely learn much about nutrition in all their years of medical school, they don't know what kind of advice to give their patients other than prescribing a dangerous prescription drug for your ailment.

Here's some very valuable advice to remember. Make drugs your last option to handle any health problem. Many health problems can be prevented or treated with some LIFESTYLE changes.

Most people don't realize that Lifestyle changes can cure some of the most recognized diseases such as: Diabetes, Heart disease, High Blood Pressure, High Cholesterol and even Cancer.

You would find it rare to not find some simple alternative way to cure the most devastating of diseases or illnesses without using prescription drugs.

Do your research on the Internet or prescribe to some doctors' newsletter who reveal alternative methods for developing a healthy body and also maintaining it for as long as you desire.

To your good health,

Sonny Julius

Sonnyj@TheSunnySenior.com

www.FreeEbook.homestead.com