A Group Of Doctors, Meeting Secretly, Just Decided That 36 Million Americans Must Be On Certain Drugs!

On Wednesday, May 16, 2001, Dr. Scott M. Grundy, Chairman of a Committee of the National Cholesterol Education Program was identified as the person responsible for bringing this new drug disaster into our society.

Here is a quote from the Wall Street Journal, May 16, 2001.  Click here to see the entire article.

New Government Cholesterol Standards Would Triple Number of Prescriptions

Rarely have so few doctors recommended so many drugs for so many people -- virtually overnight.

For the first time in eight years, the federal government has published new cholesterol standards. If the more rigorous guidelines are widely followed, doctors could end up writing a stack of prescriptions that would nearly triple -- to 36 million people -- the number of Americans on cholesterol-lowering drugs.

The recommendations would put fully 18% of American adults on "statin" drugs like Pfizer Inc.'s Lipitor, Merck & Co.'s Zocor and Bristol-Myers Squibb Co.'s Pravachol. And the new guidelines could theoretically triple U.S. sales of these medicines to nearly $30 billion a year.

The standards come from the National Cholesterol Education Program's expert committee on cholesterol, and they are published in this week's Journal of the American Medical Association. The quasigovernmental group was appointed by the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute, which is part of the National Institutes of Health.

Under the guidelines, anyone who already has coronary artery disease and whose LDL, or "bad," cholesterol is above 130 generally should be on drug therapy. "We used to say to try lowering it with diet first, but now we say that if your LDL is above 130 and you have coronary disease, you should be on drug therapy," says the committee's chairman, Scott M. Grundy, director of the center for human nutrition of the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas. 

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Some doctors suggest the financial ties of some committee members may have played a role in the emphasis on drug therapy. Five of the 14 panel members were consultants to -- or received honorariums from -- Pfizer, Merck, Bristol-Myers or other companies, including AstraZeneca PLC, maker of the experimental drug Crestor, which may be the most powerful cholesterol drug yet. "This whole program has the flavor of a drug industry/NIH cabal," says Sidney Wolfe, director of the Health Research Group of Public Citizen, a Washington-based consumer advocacy group. "The fundamental principles are correct, but it seems like they are pushing too hard toward drug therapy."   [Source]

It is hard to believe how blatant this attack on our public health is.

Just a few months ago my Wednesday Letter for March 2001, described a campaign that had been planned decades ago -- a campaign to destroy bypass surgery as a popular procedure, and allow the very large sums of money that are now being used for those harmful procedures to drift over to heart drugs.  This way drug use could increase without increasing the overall cost of health.  This assumes that the cost of increased heart drug medications would be offset by the decreasing reliance on bypass surgery.

In other words, I predicted that we would see an increase in the use of heart drugs.  I had no idea they would move so swiftly, and so massively.

Some history is in order on this matter.

 

I was writing and speaking publicly on health matters more than 20 years ago.  When I first heard about the National Cholesterol Education Committee I could hardly believe it.   Here is what I wrote about it 7 years ago -- and published in my Book, Life Flow One, The Solution For Heart Disease.  This Book has been in print for those 7 years, and has been published as its own web site for about four years.  Here is a quote from that Book:

 

The Cholesterol Corruption -- Chapter Four

The fraud in cholesterol research started more than 30 years ago.  That whole story is extremely well documented in my Book, starting in Chapter Four.

Here is one section:

Somewhere, behind the scenes, about 1946, some small group of faceless businessmen decided to change the American attitude about butter, get the people fearful of butter and preferring margarine.

These businessmen mostly worked for large drug companies, vegetable oil firms and for certain chemical companies. Some of them were doctors high up in the AMA even though the AMA, itself, did not officially become part of this particular master plan at this early date. It was busy on other conspiracies.

These men formed a front group, called the American Health Foundation about 1970.

. . . the Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the American Health Foundation, David J. Mahoney, is also the President of Norton Simon, Inc., the leading producer of cottonseed oil (Wesson Oil), which is pointedly advertised as polyunsaturated.

 This front group then obtained $6 million from the Federal Government for the purpose of educating the American public about the dangers of eating saturated fats [butter]!

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In August of 1972, the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute [NHLBI] (another thoroughly tax-supported organization) awarded the foundation $3.3 million of our tax money to research lowering elevated blood cholesterol. The thesis being tested was that increased polyunsaturate [margarine] intake would lower serum cholesterol and by so doing reduce the risk of heart attack.

So, you see that the plan as long ago as 29 years, was to identify cholesterol as the cause of heart disease -- it would be a few more years before the well-planned drugs would be announced -- the drugs that would lower cholesterol!

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During the 1970’s and into the 1980’s, you began to see so much publicity against eggs and butter that there are literally millions of Americans today, and many thousands of doctors, who still believe that eggs and butter cause heart disease. I actually detailed some of that publicity earlier in this Chapter, starting on page 43.

This publicity campaign finally reached its height in about 1986 when the master planners were ready to launch their final attack on American society.

One of the most persistent and serious attacks on society that has ever existed is the continuous, usually covert, attempt to get more and more drugs into mankind.

Margarine is just another drug -- driving a natural and healthy food product, butter, off the market. Carlton Fredericks said it well, I think:

Nature didn’t invent cholesterol to provide cardiologists with an annuity.

Worse, this particular drug campaign was aimed at forcing many millions of Americans onto a daily diet of a dangerous heart medication. There are more details on this below.

You should realize that when the Surgeon General of the United States officially announces that dietary cholesterol causes blood cholesterol and that high blood cholesterol causes heart disease, that gentlemen has become the final effect of a very lengthy and powerful process which started decades before.

The Surgeon General simply reflects the highest political reality in Washington at the time. The Surgeon General in 1994 was Dr. Joycelyn Elders, chosen, then later fired by President Clinton. What she has to say about heart disease probably tells you how President Clinton feels;

She was asked by a reporter why the United States spends more on AIDS research (#9 killer) than on heart disease and cancer (#1 and #2). Her reply:

"Most of the people who die with heart disease and cancer are our elderly population . . . we all will probably die with something sooner or later."

If that attitude about heart disease gives you the chills, just consider this one. Dr. Elders was asked about making street drugs free for addicts:

"When we say "legalize," I’m really talking about control. We [could] have doctors or clinics set up where addicts can get their drugs free or pay one dollar."

This doctor is quite a woman, and you may feel that her views on medical issues are quite bad enough. But, she also feels that several social issues are in her field, too. She appeared on a news television show where the subject of birth control came up. It actually came up in connection with providing free birth control assistance to prostitutes. Then, the question came up as to whether a woman would have to stop being a prostitute before she could get government assistance with birth control. Dr. Elders speaks for the government, apparently, when she says:

"I would hope that we would provide them [drug-abusing prostitutes] Norplant [a birth control device], so they could still use sex if they must to buy their drugs."

Can you be comfortable with a government speaking with this official voice, in charge of the research into the number one killer -- heart disease?

The main point here, however, is simply that the person holding the position of Surgeon General of the United States has generally always been put there to be a puppet for big drug company propaganda. 

The Official Lie

Chapter Four, above, set the stage for understanding the next set of actions.  Here are some sections from Chapter Five of my Book.  By this time, in 1984, the master planners had everything well organized. There had been an earlier "conference" were the only ones allowed to speak were those in favor of the "high cholesterol causes heart disease" theory.  Out of that Conference came the famous National Cholesterol Educational Program that would simply announce that millions of Americans who previously had no inkling of how diseased they were would find that out.

The Conference, and early fraudulent groups, simply got measurements of the AVERAGE cholesterol level in America and decided that ANY level higher than the 200 average would be called a disease!  That put roughly 50% of the adult population into a category where the drug companies could look for the market for their brand new drugs -- cholesterol lowering drugs -- now the largest money earner of any type of drug in America.  See the chart at the right.

Here is the quote from my Chapter Five:

The 1984 Cholesterol Consensus Conference final report was a whitewash, containing no mention of the large body of evidence that conflicted with the lipid hypothesis. One of the blanks was filled in with the number '200'. The document defined all those with cholesterol levels above 200 mg/dL as "at risk" and called for mass cholesterol screening, even though the most ardent supporters of the lipid hypothesis had surmised in print that 240 should be the magic cut-off point. Such screening would in fact need to be carried out on a massive scale, as the federal medical bureaucracy, by picking the number 200, had defined the vast majority of the American adult population as "at risk".

The report resurrected the ghost of Norman Jolliffe and his Prudent Diet by suggesting the avoidance of saturated fat and cholesterol for all Americans now defined as "at risk," and specifically advised the replacement of butter with margarine.

The Consensus Conference also provided a launching pad for the nationwide National Cholesterol Education Program (NCEP) which had the stated goal of "changing physicians' attitudes".  NHLBI-funded studies had determined that while the general population had bought into the lipid hypothesis and was dutifully using margarine and buying low-cholesterol foods, the medical profession remained skeptical. A large "Physicians Kit" was sent to all doctors in America, compiled in part by the American Pharmaceutical Association whose representatives served on the NCEP coordinating committee. Doctors were taught the importance of cholesterol screening, the advantages of cholesterol-lowering drugs and the unique benefits of the Prudent Diet. NCEP materials told every doctor in America to recommend the use of margarine rather than butter.

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The following year, the Surgeon General's Report on Nutrition and Health emphasized the importance of making low-fat foods more widely available. Project LEAN (Low-fat Eating for America Now) - sponsored by the J. Kaiser Family Foundation and a host of establishment groups such as the American Heart Association, the American Dietetic Association, the American Medical Association, the USDA, the National Cancer Institute, the Centers for Disease Control and the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute - announced a publicity campaign to "aggressively promote foods low in saturated fat and cholesterol in order to reduce the risk of heart disease and cancer".

 

The National Cholesterol Education Program was born without any honest parents -- it was and is a bastard organization -- the true parents are hidden in the depths of the drug companies that have created this entire plan over more than 30 years!

Talk about long range planning!

We now come to modern times -- where Dr. Grundy is taking the lead in dissemination of false information -- but, wouldn't you believe it?  he was very active many years ago -- up to his eyebrows in the muck!  Here is another quote from Chapter Five:

Another master planner was Scott M. Grundy, author of the American Heart Association diet which warned against butter and eggs. This may well have been the first point where the hidden puppeteers emerged into some public view.  From the viewpoint of the hidden master planners, the American Heart Association would be the best agency to take over since it could then give its blessing to all the research and promotion of the drug cure of the cholesterol disease!

I've caught the American Heart Association lying through its teeth about their false claim that their recommended diet, and their recommended drugs, have reduced the death rate from heart disease.  Click Here to read that story.

So, there you have it.  Dr. Grundy, now telling America that some 36 million people must be on a cholesterol lowering drug -- was an active member of the Master Planning Group that had this all figured out 30 years ago.

This is a picture of Scott M. Grundy, M.D., Ph.D.   He has been one of the major Master Planners in this assault on  America.

It is hard to believe that such an innocent looking man could have had so much to do with so many pieces of false data that have been spewed out to the American public over a very long period of time.

I thought, some years ago, that they were losing the war against America, but very regretfully, now, I have to come to a different conclusion.

Drug usage in America is increasing!  There are many more people now using vitamins and alternative health methods, but there is a much faster growth in the sales of drugs.

We Americans are getting drugged into illiteracy, as I wrote in the May 2001 issue of the Wednesday Letter.  Whether it is street drugs or medical drugs, the final result is a citizenry that is much easier to control.  Violent behavior traced to street drugs (deliberately spread by secret agents) convince the voters to spend more for police and jails.  These do NOT reduce the use of street drugs.

Medical drugs, of course, are now one of the hot political issues -- with both Republicans and Democrats falling all over themselves to come up with a more generous plan to give free drugs to old people.

As bad as all this is, there is some good news.  YOU are reading this Letter.  You may not realize how unusual a person you are -- but if you have subscribed to the Wednesday Letter, and if you have read this far in this Special Edition, you are probably one person in 10,000 -- a person interested in your own health and interested in learning the truth.

For you, personally, this new announcement about the great increased number of people who must immediately get on a cholesterol-lowering drug -- that announcement should not affect YOU.

But you know, as well as I do, that in your circle of friends and family, the great majority of them do NOT agree with you or me!

They are the ones being hurt by their own ignorance.

I'd like you to take some responsibility for these people.  Spread this Letter far and wide -- put it gently in front of the people you love and care about.  It might just wake them up to the war being waged against Americans by the drug companies -- supported by the government.

It is your turn!

Karl Loren

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This Special Edition just had to be written, but it happened to become national news just a few days before my 70th birthday, and just a few days before I was to leave for my white-water rafting celebration of those 70 years.

The next issue of The Wednesday Letter is already written -- the one scheduled for delivery in June 2001.  If you want a sneak preview, click above. 

Or, wait until it arrives.  Right now there is a "placeholder" photograph of me going down the Kern River (white water rafting) from a few years ago.  When I return from the rafting, several days after this gets published as a special edition, I'll have new photos to substitute in the June Issue.  So, look right now if you wish -- and enjoy the photo of me and Jean Ross going down the Kern River in a raft -- then look at the final version of the June Letter to see the more current photo!

Here is a bit of a humorous look at me, perhaps to counter the serious tone of the rest of this Special Edition!  I fully expect some number of people to say that I am just a big dizzy!

This IS a serious Special Edition, but the enemy wants you and me in apathy, not caring.  I refuse.  I flourish and prosper despite him, and I urge you to do the same.  Obviously, we stay away from cholesterol-lowering drugs.

 

KL

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