Women Health Center

My son is a micro-biology major at the University of Maine. I raised that young man on an essentially vegetarian diet, and I was careful to avoid foods with some of the more colorful chemical additives in them, such as MSG and artificial sweeteners. My reasoning was that I could not afford to buy such foods.

Still, on his last visit home, he bought a McDonald’s hamburger, saying , “Yumm, food. It’s all organic. If it were inorganic it would be a mineral, or a chemical, or something else.” He was right, of course. Still, we have the understanding that good food does not contain unnecessary chemical additives, which could be harmful to our health.

I looked at the title of one of our popular magazines – Natural Health – and one of my first thoughts was, yes, health is natural. The body metabolism seeks balance, a state of equilibrium and well being, and that is about as natural as one can get.

True, our drug companies, along with the food industry are far more interested in turning a profit than they are in ensuring the health of this nation’s consumers, and the controls that should be in place to protect us have been weakened to the point that they are no longer credible. So many news stories of medications released for public use, which later turned out to be extremely harmful and had to be taken off the market, have been circulating, that we are becoming very suspicious of what the AMA as a profession has to tell us. So, many of us are now looking for ways to maintain and protect our health that are not expensive, as deep down we all believe that the means to good health are our birthright, and that they should not impoverish us.

Unfortunately, what falls under the heading – Natural Health – is too often dominated by the products of large corporations that sooner or later espouse the same ethic that guides every other corporation in this country–do everything to keep the value of the stocks high. Even the companies that are not publicly trading their stocks are competing with companies that do this. And as we know, any company that publicly trades stocks owes a higher allegiance to its stockholders than it does to its customers.

Herbal medicine was essentially free, or if not free, the women who practiced it would not accept money for the help they gave. Of course, separating the food one eats, and the house one lives in, from money is an almost impossible feat. Perhaps in the pre-industrial world, when more people used less money and housing was not the major expense that it is now, a woman could support herself that way. Still, health care should not be a major expense, and herbs and simples are more effective than many people would suspect.

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