| Chris Rock's brilliant stand-up routine
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| | time they are unnecessary, harmful and
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| includes some riffs on the ubiquitous
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| | expensive. The drug companies aren't
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| television drug commercials that "keep
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| | interested in saving your life; they're
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| naming symptoms till they get one" that
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| | interested in taking your money.As
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| the viewer has. Even if the ads don't
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| | Critser points out and Rock implies, drug
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| mention what it is the medicine is
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| | companies are driven by profits and have
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| supposed to do: "You see a lady on a
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| | used their power to influence many areas
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| horse or a man in a tub, and they just
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| | of medicine. What is most unfortunate is
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| keep naming symptoms: 'Are you
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| | that this has resulted in many biased
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| depressed?' 'Are you lonely?' 'Do your
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| | studies, which ultimately lead to
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| teeth hurt?'" Even "'Do you go to bed at
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| | misleading information to the public. In
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| night and wake up in the morning?' They
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| | addition, health costs are rising through
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| got that one!" he adds. "I got that. I'm
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| | the roof, and shortly we will be spending
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| sick. I need that pill!"The New York
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| | over $2 trillion a year for health care
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| Times quotes Chris Rock as part of its
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| | in the United States! It is safe to
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| review of Greg Critser's new book,
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| | estimate that over three-fourths of this
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| Generation RX. This book examines how
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| | money is wasted on short-term fixes,
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| baby boomers and their offspring have
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| | primarily drugs and surgeries, which in
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| become the most medicated generations in
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| | no way address the long-term cause of the
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| history, taking pills that promise to "do
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| | problem. Further, the far-too-cozy
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| everything from guarding us against our
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| | relationship between government agencies
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| excesses of drink, food and tobacco, to
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| | like the FDA and major drug companies
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| increasing our children's performance at
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| | lets Big Pharma get away with practically
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| school, to jump-starting our own
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| | anything they want. This has much to do
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| productivity at work, to extending our
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| | with why I'm so focused on my vision of
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| very time on this mortal coil."Critser
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| | exposing the existing medical paradigm's
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| traces the massive growth of drugs
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| | techniques, habits and messages that have
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| claiming to do everything to the
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| | put your health and that of the American
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| loosening and speeding up of the
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| | public in grave danger.The key to caring
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| regulatory processes that used to keep
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| | for illnesses is to focus on finding the
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| the big pharmaceutical companies in
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| | underlying cause of the problem. It is
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| check. As an onslaught of money and
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| | possible to maintain total health by
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| lobbyists has made the government
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| | avoiding unnecessary drugs and by gaining
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| increasingly willing to do the bidding of
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| | a comprehensive understanding of good
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| drug companies, and doctors are similarly
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| | nutrition and proper lifestyle choices.
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| besieged with advertising, the barriers
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| | Here are some general guidelines to
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| between Big Pharma and the public have
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| | achieving good health (without the use of
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| grown thin and porous. New York Times
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| | harmful drugs) that seem to hold true for
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| Dr. Mercola's Comment:Chris Rock's
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