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How Big Pharma is Slowly Killing The Next Generation
Date: 19/04/11
Keywords: Adult Attention Deficit Disorder, Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD), Diabetes Type 2, Obesity, Nutrition, Ritalin, Anti-Depressant
It’s a fact that obesity has become an epidemic in countries like the UK and US. Yet, instead of investing in government initiatives promoting healthy eating habits, Big Pharma is allowed free reign... and boy-oh-boy do they exploit this money-making market!
Apart from pushing dangerous weight loss drugs like Ali, Reductil and Meridia (the latter two having been banned in the UK and the rest of Europe since 2010 after the European Medicines Agency (EMA) found they increased the risk of non-fatal heart attacks and strokes), the mainstream has no qualms promoting gastric bypass (bariatric) surgery as a means to combat obesity... Worst still, children as young as 14 years old are being targeted!
Big Pharma and their sidekicks make out they're our only
saving grace from every illness, infection and disease out
there. Of course, our regular readers know that this couldn't
be further from the truth.
Unfortunately, many innocent lives have been ruined needlessly because of this misconception...
Earlier this week, I couldn’t help but feel a massive lump in my throat when I read about a young boy, aged 10, who committed suicide after being on prescription antidepressants and mood-altering drugs.
Exposing children to hardcore pharmaceuticals
In September last year, Harry Hucknall was discovered by his next-door neighbour at his home in Dalton-in-Furness, in the UK... he had hung himself. Harry had been given the drug fluoxetine, for depression, and Ritalin, to treat attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD).
It’s absolutely ghastly to think that Harry was given these powerful mind-altering drugs at such a young age... The real kicker is that an inquest into his death found that the levels of both drugs found in his body were above the normal therapeutic levels recommended for adults!
If you look at the known side effects of both these drugs, it’s no wonder that Harry’s father and the coroner at the inquest believe that the drugs played a major contributory role in his tragic death.
For starters, fluoxetine can cause abnormal dreams; anxiety; diarrhoea; suicidal thoughts or attempts; new or worsening agitation, panic attacks, aggressiveness, impulsiveness, irritability, hostility, exaggerated feeling of well-being, restlessness, or inability to sit still; nervousness; trouble sleeping and fatigue.
As if that isn’t enough, Ritalin can cause behaviour changes (e.g. aggression, hostility, restlessness); hallucinations; mental or mood changes (e.g. agitation, anxiety, depression, irritability, panic attacks, persistent crying, unusual sadness) and suicidal thoughts or attempts...
For goodness sake, the boy was 10 years old! I wouldn’t wish these side effects on my worst enemy, let alone an innocent child! How is it possible that Big Pharma gets away with dishing these pills out to children?
But the Pharma Monster doesn’t stop there...
Gastric bypass surgery linked to bone loss in teenagers
It’s a fact that obesity has become an epidemic in countries like the UK and US. Yet, instead of investing in government initiatives promoting healthy eating habits, Big Pharma is allowed free reign... and boy-oh-boy do they exploit this money-making market!
Apart from pushing dangerous weight loss drugs like Ali, Reductil and Meridia (the latter two having been banned in the UK and the rest of Europe since 2010 after the European Medicines Agency (EMA) found they increased the risk of non-fatal heart attacks and strokes), the mainstream has no qualms promoting gastric bypass (bariatric) surgery as a means to combat obesity... Worst still, children as young as 14 years old are being targeted!
Growing numbers of parents are turning to bariatric surgery, to ‘help’ their children control their weight. In the US, as many as 2,000 teenagers undergo this form of invasive treatment every year, according to Dr. Thomas Inge of the Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Centre.
Is it acceptable that 14 year olds are fitted with gastric bands? Is drastic surgery really what we want our children to turn to? The answer is no. Especially when you consider the latest research findings published in the journal Paediatrics.
Dr. Anne-Marie Kaulfers, from the University of South Alabama, in the US, and researchers at Cincinnati Children's Hospital, studied 61 teenagers who underwent bariatric surgery, 10 boys and 51 girls. At the end of a year, the teenagers’ weight loss was accompanied by a 7.4 per cent decrease in bone mass. That’s the equivalent of losing about 70 grams (2.5 ounces) of bone in one year!
We’re talking about growing children... they should be gaining bone mass not losing it!
Of course, there are people who need bariatric surgery – but this should be a last resort, only to be considered when everything else has failed!
What happened to plain old common sense? The message should first and foremost be that a balanced diet combined with a healthy and active lifestyle is the most effective way to lose weight and promote good health...
It saddens me to think we are breeding such a ‘sick society’... that our young are forced onto antidepressants, mood-altering drugs and bariatric surgery in order to live happy, normal lives... Worst still, the mainstream doesn’t seem to realise that all their cleverly devised drugs and surgical procedures are slowly killing our future generation.
Related Reading:
How Nutrition May Play A Big Role In ADHD
Obesity: The Dangers Of A Fast-Food Diet
Sources:
‘Mick Hucknall's 10-year-old cousin hangs himself - mother pays tribute to "loving, adventurous boy", published online 22.09.2010, mirror.co.uk
Mick Hucknall's cousin Harry was 'a victim of prescribed drugs', published online 01.04.2011, metro.co.uk
‘Teens who lose weight with surgery also lose bone density, just like adults’ published online 28.03.11, articles.latimes.com
‘Gastric Bypass Surgery Linked to Bone Loss in Teens’ published online 28.03.11, internalmedicinenews.com
Back to topUnfortunately, many innocent lives have been ruined needlessly because of this misconception...
Earlier this week, I couldn’t help but feel a massive lump in my throat when I read about a young boy, aged 10, who committed suicide after being on prescription antidepressants and mood-altering drugs.
Exposing children to hardcore pharmaceuticals
In September last year, Harry Hucknall was discovered by his next-door neighbour at his home in Dalton-in-Furness, in the UK... he had hung himself. Harry had been given the drug fluoxetine, for depression, and Ritalin, to treat attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD).
It’s absolutely ghastly to think that Harry was given these powerful mind-altering drugs at such a young age... The real kicker is that an inquest into his death found that the levels of both drugs found in his body were above the normal therapeutic levels recommended for adults!
If you look at the known side effects of both these drugs, it’s no wonder that Harry’s father and the coroner at the inquest believe that the drugs played a major contributory role in his tragic death.
For starters, fluoxetine can cause abnormal dreams; anxiety; diarrhoea; suicidal thoughts or attempts; new or worsening agitation, panic attacks, aggressiveness, impulsiveness, irritability, hostility, exaggerated feeling of well-being, restlessness, or inability to sit still; nervousness; trouble sleeping and fatigue.
As if that isn’t enough, Ritalin can cause behaviour changes (e.g. aggression, hostility, restlessness); hallucinations; mental or mood changes (e.g. agitation, anxiety, depression, irritability, panic attacks, persistent crying, unusual sadness) and suicidal thoughts or attempts...
For goodness sake, the boy was 10 years old! I wouldn’t wish these side effects on my worst enemy, let alone an innocent child! How is it possible that Big Pharma gets away with dishing these pills out to children?
But the Pharma Monster doesn’t stop there...
Gastric bypass surgery linked to bone loss in teenagers
It’s a fact that obesity has become an epidemic in countries like the UK and US. Yet, instead of investing in government initiatives promoting healthy eating habits, Big Pharma is allowed free reign... and boy-oh-boy do they exploit this money-making market!
Apart from pushing dangerous weight loss drugs like Ali, Reductil and Meridia (the latter two having been banned in the UK and the rest of Europe since 2010 after the European Medicines Agency (EMA) found they increased the risk of non-fatal heart attacks and strokes), the mainstream has no qualms promoting gastric bypass (bariatric) surgery as a means to combat obesity... Worst still, children as young as 14 years old are being targeted!
Growing numbers of parents are turning to bariatric surgery, to ‘help’ their children control their weight. In the US, as many as 2,000 teenagers undergo this form of invasive treatment every year, according to Dr. Thomas Inge of the Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Centre.
Is it acceptable that 14 year olds are fitted with gastric bands? Is drastic surgery really what we want our children to turn to? The answer is no. Especially when you consider the latest research findings published in the journal Paediatrics.
Dr. Anne-Marie Kaulfers, from the University of South Alabama, in the US, and researchers at Cincinnati Children's Hospital, studied 61 teenagers who underwent bariatric surgery, 10 boys and 51 girls. At the end of a year, the teenagers’ weight loss was accompanied by a 7.4 per cent decrease in bone mass. That’s the equivalent of losing about 70 grams (2.5 ounces) of bone in one year!
We’re talking about growing children... they should be gaining bone mass not losing it!
Of course, there are people who need bariatric surgery – but this should be a last resort, only to be considered when everything else has failed!
What happened to plain old common sense? The message should first and foremost be that a balanced diet combined with a healthy and active lifestyle is the most effective way to lose weight and promote good health...
It saddens me to think we are breeding such a ‘sick society’... that our young are forced onto antidepressants, mood-altering drugs and bariatric surgery in order to live happy, normal lives... Worst still, the mainstream doesn’t seem to realise that all their cleverly devised drugs and surgical procedures are slowly killing our future generation.
Related Reading:
How Nutrition May Play A Big Role In ADHD
Obesity: The Dangers Of A Fast-Food Diet
Sources:
‘Mick Hucknall's 10-year-old cousin hangs himself - mother pays tribute to "loving, adventurous boy", published online 22.09.2010, mirror.co.uk
Mick Hucknall's cousin Harry was 'a victim of prescribed drugs', published online 01.04.2011, metro.co.uk
‘Teens who lose weight with surgery also lose bone density, just like adults’ published online 28.03.11, articles.latimes.com
‘Gastric Bypass Surgery Linked to Bone Loss in Teens’ published online 28.03.11, internalmedicinenews.com
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