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(NaturalNews) It is the position of Big Pharma that pharmaceuticals make people healthier. That's the whole point of taking them, of course -- to enhance your health in some way that the human body apparently cannot achieve on its own (if you believe the drug ads, anyway). The drug industry's direct-to-consumer advertisements further imply this cause / effect relationship between pharmaceuticals and health by portraying drug consumers to be happy, healthy and fit. Taking medications, these ads imply, will make you happy, healthy and fit!

The conventional medical community further supports this idea by insisting that medications alone can treat disease, cure disease or enhance a person's health. Nutritional supplements, they claim, are worthless and provide no health benefits whatsoever. No medical doctor in America can legally prescribe herbs, nutritional supplements or even healing foods for any health condition whatsoever!

Remarkably, this is also the official position of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration which claims that any nutritional supplement with any biological effect whatsoever is no longer a "supplement" but is magically transformed into an "unapproved drug" and therefore can no longer be legally sold in America. Only inert substances, according to the FDA, can be sold as nutritional supplements.