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Type II diabetes. This was to distinguish it from the earlier Type I diabetes, caused by insufficient insulin production by the Type II diabetes. This was to distinguish it from the earlier Type So, in 1949, the US medical community reclassified the symp- I diabetes, caused by insufficient insulin production by the toms of diabetes’ along with many other disease symptoms into pancreas. diseases in their own right. With this reclassification as the new Had the dietary insights of the previous 20 years dominated the _ basis for diagnosis, competing medical speciality groups quickly medical scene from this point and into the late 1960s, diabetes seized upon related groups of symptoms as their own proprietary would have become widely recognised as curable instead of symptoms set. merely treatable. Instead, in 1950, a search was launched for Thus the heart specialist, endocrinologist, allergist, kidney another wonder drug to deal with the Type II diabetes problem. specialist and many others started to treat the symptoms for which they felt responsible. As the underlying cause of the disease was Cure versus Treatment widely ignored, all focus on actually curing anything was This new, ideal, wonder drug would be effective, like insulin, in completely lost. remitting obvious adverse symptoms of the disease but not Heart failure, for example, which had previously been under- effective in curing the underlying disease. Thus it would be stood often to be but a symptom of diabetes, now became a dis- needed continually for the remaining life of the patient. It would _ ease not directly connected to diabetes. It became fashionable to ave to be patentable; that is, it could not be think that diabetes "increased cardiovascu- a natural medication because these are non- lar risk". The causal role of a failed blood- patentable. Like insulin, it would have to sugar control system in heart failure became e highly profitable to manufacture and obscured. distribute. | Mandatory government Consistent with the new medical para- approvals would be required to stimulate igm, none of the treatments offered by the hysicians to prescribe it as a prescription For 40 years, heart specialist actually cures, or is even drug. Testi ired for these a als i intended to cure, thei ietary disease. vo pang gamed ertersamovas | medical research has | plowed sus moms eae revent other, unapproved, medications consistently shown bypass surgery is almost exactly the same as from becoming competitive. with increasing clarity if no surgery was undertaken." This is the origin of the classic medical . . Today, over half of the people in America protocol of "treating the symptoms". By that diabetes isa suffer from one or more symptoms of this doing this, both the drug company and the . . disease. In its beginnings, it became well doctor could prosper in business, and the degenerative disease known to physicians as Type II diabetes, patient, while not being cured of his directly caused insulin-resistant diabetes, insulin resis- disease, was sometimes temporarily . tance, adult-onset diabetes or, more relieved of some of his symptoms. by an engineered rarely, hyperinsulinaemia. Additionally, natural medications food supply that is According to the American Heart focused on profit instead of health. that actually cured disease would have Association, almost 50% of Americans to be suppressed. The more effective suffer from one or more symptoms of they were, the more they would need this disease. One third of the US pop- to be suppressed and their proponents ulation is morbidly obese; half of the jailed as quacks. After all, it wouldn't population is overweight. Type II dia- do to have some cheap, effective, betes, also called adult-onset diabetes, natural medication cure disease in a now appears routinely in six-year-old capital-intensive monopoly market children. specifically designed to treat Many degenerative diseases can be symptoms without curing disease. traced to a massive failure of the Often the natural substance really endocrine system. This was well did cure disease. This is why the force of law has been and is known to the physicians of the 1930s as insulin-resistant diabetes. being used to drive the natural, often superior, medicines from the This basic underlying disorder is known to be a derangement of marketplace, to remove the "cure" word from the medical the blood-sugar control system by badly engineered fats and oils. vocabulary and to undermine totally the very concept of a free It is exacerbated and complicated by the widespread lack of other marketplace in the medical business. essential nutrition that the body needs to cope with the metabolic Now it is clear why the "cure" word is so vigorously suppressed consequences of these poisons. by law. The FDA has extensive Orwellian regulations that pro- All fats and oils are not equal. Some are healthy and beneficial; hibit the use of the "cure" word to describe any competing medi- many, commonly available in the supermarket, are poisonous. cine or natural substance. It is precisely because many natural The health distinction is not between saturated and unsaturated, as substances do actually both cure and prevent disease that this the fats and oils industry would have us believe. Many saturated word has become so frightening to the drug and orthodox medical oils and fats are highly beneficial; many unsaturated oils are community. highly poisonous. The important health distinction is between natural and engineered. The Commercial Value of Symptoms There exists great dishonesty in advertising in the fats and oils After the drug development policy was redesigned to focus on _ industry. It is aimed at creating a market for cheap junk oils such ameliorating symptoms rather than curing disease, it became as soy, cottonseed and rapeseed oils. necessary to reinvent the way drugs were marketed. This was With an informed and aware public, these oils would have no done in 1949 in the midst of a major epidemic of insulin-resistant market at all, and the USA—indeed, the world—would have far diabetes. fewer cases of diabetes. pancreas. Had the dietary insights of the previous 20 years dominated the medical scene from this point and into the late 1960s, diabetes would have become widely recognised as curable instead of merely treatable. Instead, in 1950, a search was launched for another wonder drug to deal with the Type II diabetes problem. For 40 years, medical research has consistently shown with increasing clarity _ that diabetes is a degenerative disease directly caused by an engineered food supply that is focused on profit instead of health. The Commercial Value of Symptoms After the drug development policy was redesigned to focus on ameliorating symptoms rather than curing disease, it became necessary to reinvent the way drugs were marketed. This was done in 1949 in the midst of a major epidemic of insulin-resistant diabetes. JUNE — JULY 2004 NEXUS = 31 www.nexusmagazine.com