New Research Finds Chickens Fed Caffeine, Prozac, Arsenic…

Caffeine infused.

While it’s already recognized that chickens are sometimes fed arsenic, this new research has also found a cocktail of drugs such as banned antibiotics, Prozac, and caffeine. The researchers originally began testing the chickens just for banned antibiotics, but expanded to look for other substances because it didn’t cost more to do. The results even had their minds blown.

Prozac was apparently fed to chickens because the more stress a chicken has, the tougher its meat will be. The brutal and harsh environments of factory farms often leave chickens nervous and distressed. These chickens were also fed green tea powder and coffee pulp to help them stay awake longer so they eat more food and plump up faster.

http://www.the9billion.com/2012/04/10/new-research-finds-chickens-fed-caffeine-prozac-arsenic/

Better than chicken!

So it’s not just us people. Even chicken gets stressed out in today’s world.

I guess some people feel just like chicken – caged in and having no control.

But unlike chicken we can change our attitude and our life.

So my friends get off Prozac, don’t eat chicken and get a life.

Wow!

I’ve stopped taking the medication. My doctor doesn’t know. The lack of a drug in my body makes me dizzy. It hurts, I guess. It feels rather as though I have no feeling. But how can that be? I feel sad now. But it feels like nothing.
It’ll come back. The little bit of feeling, of life, the medication took away will come back. And I can feel again. Even if I won’t like the emotion. (Sent in by Ed April 23, 2006 )

Embrace your feelings.

Yin and Yang

Use of Antidepressants is depleting people of life. Life is dull and foggy without pains of love and separation, there is no joy without sadness, no day without the night. Yin and yang.

Our society

Dear readers

In my previous post I discussed the Antidepressants. The question came up: if antidepressants create psychopaths?

Also the definition and the difference between  the psychopaths and sociopaths.

Can you help?

Thanks

Dead Sea Herbs team

We were watching report by “60 minutes” about the “effectiveness” of the so called ANTIDEPRESSANTS.

Stand up!

Report states that many medical researches coming to conclusion that antidepressant drugs are not effective and cause more harm than good. Most of the improvements are attributed to the Placebo Effect. As usual in today’s medical philosophy medics treat symptoms instead of addressing the root of the problem.

And the general public is being duped by advertisers and medical professionals that there is a quick fix-pills. There are a lot of stress factors in today’s society. And people’s inability to cope with with daily problems contributes greatly to depression epidemic in “advanced” societies.

Below are a few excerpts on the subject

  HORWITZ AND WAKEFIELD: Our book argues that, despite widespread beliefs to the contrary, the rate of depressive disorders in the population has not undergone a general upsurge. In fact, careful studies that use the same criterion for diagnosis over time reveal no change in the prevalence of depression. What has changed is the growing number of people who seek treatment for this condition, the increase in prescriptions for antidepressant medications, the number of articles about depression in the media and scientific literature, and the growing presence of depression as a phenomenon in popular culture. http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=really-an-epidemic-of-depression

The definition of “depression” is so broad now that  people are “depressed” and need pill if they got a traffic ticket. In reality it is what we call LIFE.

Who Tends to be Most Depressed?

This study found the following groups to be more likely to meet criteria for major depression:

• 

  Modern life style and stress.

  persons 45-64 years of age

• women

• blacks, Hispanics, non-Hispanic persons of other races or multiple races

• persons with less than a high school education

• those previously married

• individuals unable to work or unemployed

• persons without health insurance coverage

Clinical Trials – What the Drug Companies Don’t Report

What Dr Kirsch and his colleagues found was that 80 percent of the medication response in the combined drug groups was duplicated in the placebo groups, and that the mean difference between the drug and placebo was a “clinically insignificant” two points on both the 17-item and 21-item Hamilton Depression Scale, regardless of the size of the drug dose. The placebo factor ranged from a high of 89 percent for the Prozac response, according to the study, and a low of 69 percent for the Paxil response. In four trials, the placebo equaled or achieved marginally better results than the drug. In the nine expert commentaries published with the study, none of the commentators disputed the study’s main findings. http://www.mcmanweb.com/clinical_trials.html

Depression is an illness with a purpose. In a new website about coping with depression, I recently published, I talk about depression, itself, being ‘OK’ – because the ‘depression’ is merely a ‘signal’ that something in our life is not ‘right’. This is simplifying things but what most treatments tend to do is address the symptoms…hence a ‘pill’ might make you ‘feel more normal’ by overwhelming the brains ability to use the ‘signal’ of depression to alert you to the need for sometimes significant change. Masking the underlying problem by the use of chemistry is a popular way for allopathic medicine to help people to cope with depression. I personally do not think that, in the long-run this really helps us address what we need to do. http://www.gonando.com/depression.html

400% Increase

According to a 2010 report released by the CDC, antidepressants were the most frequently prescribed prescription drug between 2005 and 2008 for adults aged 18 to 44 years, and the third most commonly used drug for all ages. That report also showed that use of antidepressants increased by almost 400% for all ages from between 1988 and 1994 to the period between 2005 and 2008. http://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/751931

Teen Suicide Risk Similar Among Antidepressants

WebMD
By Jennifer Warner
April 12, 2010

Sick society

Overall, the child and teen suicide rate after initiation of antidepressant use among participants in the study was five times higher than the rate reported among all teens aged 13 to 17 in British Columbia, which researchers say reflects the higher suicide risks among the depressed.

Psychiatrists and pharmaceutical industry spokespeople are rushing to defend the use of the medications, which are currently being taken by 17 million Americans and bring in $11.3 billion a year to drug companies. (They are not giving up $13 Billions!)

As anecdotes, statistics and case studies are being bantered about by experts, the question that comes to my mind is why are so many of us being diagnosed with depression in the first place? What is going on that we must rely on a medication to help us cope with everyday life in this country?

I believe that the root cause of our depression epidemic in the US is the fact that we cling to illusions about life that have no substance. Our illusions tell us that life should always be happy and we should not suffer. http://www.karenwyattmd.com/apps/blog/show/12567868

Standing behind the familiar surfaces of everyday life – our family, our work, the travel we undertake, our preferred recreation and so on – a single question confronts us all, rich and poor, in every country in the world – how should we respond to a world slipping deeper into crisis each and every year?

This leads me to speculate that the repressed knowledge of this failure to confront reality may be among the root causes of the ‘depression epidemic’ noted in recent years…  http://www.foresightinternational.com.au/shop/books/biggest-wake-call-history-book

Here is my prescription:

Exercise, Gardening is great, 8 hours of sleep, Meditation, Take a relaxing bath, Diet, Social interactions, Job change, Take a break, Have a hobby

To do the above no health insurance needed, no money for big pharma, no side effects.

In most cases pills are not the answer. Your attitude is.

In conclusion: doctors are considering to give antidepressants to kids as young as 2 years.  Don’t you think it is a symptom of a sick society?

CNN’s In Depth series is focusing on medication nation – and the state of prescription drugs in the United States.

Instant gratification

Some unbelievable numbers to look at this morning. According to the Centers for Disease Control, 74% of doctor visits result in a prescription. Also, 48% of Americans regularly use at least one prescription drug and a whopping 75% of Americans – that’s three out of four people – misuse their prescriptions or don’t take them as directed.
What can be done about this over reliance on medication? This morning, Christine Romans talks with John Abramson, author of “Overdosed America” and a lecturer at Harvard Medical School. She asks him whether things have gotten out of control.
Following his landmark book Talking Back to Prozac, psychiatrist Breggin follows up by arguing against what he calls the “spellbinding” effects of psychiatric medications, and he doesn’t mean “spellbinding” as praise. His point is that all psychiatric drugs are dangerous; he describes how these medications can compromise brain function, resulting in bizarre, even violent behavior. Breggin, a former staffer at the National Institute of Mental Health who has testified in liability suits against pharmaceutical companies, cautions that consumers should thoroughly examine the drug labels for side effects as a precaution for such drugs as stimulants, antidepressants, tranquilizers, antipsychotics and mood stabilizers.

New FDA logo

Breggin joins the growing group of experts who argue that the FDA is “more dedicated to serving the drug companies than consumers,” relying on doctored or incomplete evidence and botched tests. Breggin’s assertion that psychotropic drugs induce rather than treat brain imbalances is controversial, but this book is a reasoned look at these drugs, which have come under increasing scrutiny in the media as well as medical world. (July)
http://www.medicationsense.comIn 2002.

Americans filled 3,340,000,000 outpatient prescriptions.1 That’s 12 prescriptions for every man, women, and child in America. Has the American dream become 2 kids, 2 cars, and a dozen drugs in each person’s medicine chest? Despite a weak economy in which most industries have seen sales drop, U.S. drug sales increased substantially in 2002, reaching $219 billion.

According to NDCHealth, overall drug sales grew 12% 2002, 18% in 2001, and 15% in 2000 (based on wholesale acquisition costs). The trend of doctors writing more and more outpatient prescriptions each year continues without pause.
2002: 3,340,000,000 Rx 2001: 3,200,000,000 Rx 2000: 2,979,000,000 Rx 1999: 2,821,000,000 Rx 1998: 2,523,000,000 Rx
The cost of these drugs has more than doubled in five years. (here are your medicare savings!)

Pills for everything

Many doctors treating high cholesterol and high blood pressure turn to drugs without ever discussing diet and exercise, although many of these disorders are nutritional, not medical. Many patients prefer a pill to changing harmful habits. With drug advertising everywhere, what is the message being drummed into us and our children: that for every symptom and sensation the solution is a pill?

My advise: Forget instant gratification. Remove junk food from your diet. Drink water instead of Diet Coke. Turn off the TV and go to the gym. Use healthy natural supplements. Drink some good wine and enjoy life. And, yes, dump the pills!