Jan. 15, 2007
Poll: 38% Have Used Herbal Supplements
New CBS News Survey Finds Most Who Tried Them Think They Are Effective
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Do Herbal Supplements Work?
This year, Americans will spend around $20 billion on herbal supplements, but there is mounting evidence that many of these natural alternatives are unsafe or ineffective. Sharyn Alfonsi reports.
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Nearly four in ten Americans have personally used herbal supplements, according to a CBS News poll. (AP / CBS)
Thirty-eight percent of Americans have tried an herbal supplement of some kind. Six in ten (61 percent) have not.
Women are more likely than men to have tried them, and Americans between the ages of 30 and 44 are more likely to have done so.
Have You Taken Herbal Supplements
(Men)
Yes
31%No
69%(Women)
Yes
45%No
55%There are also regional differences: Americans who live in the West (44 percent) and East (42 percent) are more likely to have tried supplements than those in the south (36 percent) or Midwest (32 percent).
Do You Think Herbal Supplements Are Generally Helpful?
(All respondents)
Yes
44%No
33%Most women and men who have tried supplements think they are generally effective.
Most Americans -55 percent - say they have heard at least something about herbal supplements – and women are more likely than men to have heard a lot. Most men say they've heard little or nothing.
How Much Have You Heard About Herbal Supplements?
(All respondents)
A lot
20%No
35%Not much/Some
44%Younger people under 30 are the most likely to have not heard much about supplements.
Interviews were conducted among 993 adults by telephone on January 13, 2007. The error due to sampling for results based on the entire sample could be plus or minus three percentage points.
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Modern agricultural practices strip the majority of our foods from the critically important nutrients that our bodies require.
Here are some true facts that are important to know!
Over 99% of those who say they need pot for medical reasons have nothing wrong with them that pot can fix. They simply bought a script from a Pot Doc so they can make mountains of cash selling drugs and many of the police in Northern California do this too. It's a very sad situation.
Over 70% of all the pot grown ends up in this nations schools because the growers don't know or care where their pot ends up as long as they get their money. Children's lunch money that is. Several growers have told me that the kids are their best clients because the kids can't tell good pot from bad and they pay top dollar.
This is a $38 Billion dollar a year lie.$$$
And our kids are paying for it with their lives, educations and futures.
I am here today with our 2 sons and a very loving husband (who lived through the hell of oversold & over rated pharmaceuticals) to continue with my life - Thanks Goodness to Herbs and Supplements!
Get the facts before slamming the one industry that proves over and over again how the natural aids "SUPPLEMENTS" are keeping people alive-
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You are of course quite right, this is yet another propoganda piece by Big Pharma. Bearing in mind they have considerable stake holdings in any worthy media company, they dictate to the executive. Big Pharma is becoming very worried by alternative medicines, proven, cheap and cannot be patented. The success rate of Chemotherapy is 5% and costs a fortune, Vitamin B17 costs pennies and works, Vitamin C works, Graviola, Bitter Melon and many other cancer cures are effective but don't ask your Oncologist for them because he is afraid of being shot or at the very least run out of town.
If I could address Nancy Pelosi I would ask her to prosecute these evil people for genocide, what a step toward better health that would be.
HIV, Bird Flu, Aids, all fiction, scare mongering dreampt up to sell poisons for big bucks. Please remember, There 'aint no cash in a cure, Dependency and comfort is big cash, since when did Big Pharma cure anything??????
Interesting to note that on the line graphs following your question:
Do You Think Herbal Supplements Are Generally Helpful?
(All respondents)
Yes
44%
No
33%
That the line for yes is shorter than the line graph for no.
If there weren't pre-formed opinions, by your staff, on the response, why is the graph inversed? An interesting slip.
The answer to your question, "Is smoking Pot an Herbal Supplement?". Is no. But. Thousands of drug dealers have jumped on the valid "Herbal Health" band wagon just to cause confusion by saying that marijuana smoke is medicine so they can make literally tens of billions in profits, mostly from our school system. What pot is doing to the educations and health of this nations kids is uncontainable.
The truth is that THC has been available in a very powerful pure pill form for over 35 years now (Marinol) and marijuana smoke contains many of the same carcinogens as cigarette smoke.
A, Herbal medicines has been doing wonders for thousands of years but it needs to be fresh and self dosing is still a bad idea.
B, Smoking organic pot with all of it's molds, rat fancies, dog hair and all the chemicals the growers use is anything but healthy.
The answer to your question, "Is smoking Pot an Herbal Supplement?". Is no. But. Thousands of drug dealers have jumped on the valid "Herbal Health" band wagon just to cause confusion by saying that marijuana smoke is medicine so they can make literally tens of billions in profits, mostly from our school system. What pot is doing to the educations and health of this nations kids is uncontainable.
The truth is that THC has been available in a very powerful pure pill form for over 35 years now (Marinol) and marijuana smoke contains many of the same carcinogens as cigarette smoke.
A, Herbal medicines has been doing wonders for thousands of years but it needs to be fresh and self dosing is still a bad idea.
B, Smoking organic pot with all of it's molds, rat feces, dog hair and all the chemicals the growers use is anything but healthy.
Spell check doe's it again
bluestardad
The answer to your question, "Is smoking Pot an Herbal Supplement?". Is no. But. Thousands of drug dealers have jumped on the valid "Herbal Health" band wagon just to cause confusion by saying that marijuana smoke is medicine so they can make literally tens of billions in profits, mostly from our school system. What pot is doing to the educations and health of this nations kids is unconscionable.
The truth is that THC has been available in a very powerful pure pill form for over 35 years now (Marinol) and marijuana smoke contains many of the same carcinogens as cigarette smoke.
A, Herbal medicines has been doing wonders for thousands of years but it needs to be fresh and self dosing is still a bad idea.
B, Smoking organic pot with all of it's molds, rat feces, dog hair and all the chemicals the growers use is anything but healthy.
Our bodies need nutrients that are alive in organic energy thus vitamins that are man made which make up 97% of the market place are incompatible with human physiology.
Herbs can be beneficial but are most often lacking in enzymes, co-factors and rich in vitamins. We as a society are unhealthy because of the man made chemicals in our food sources and within our environment to include synthetic vitamins. How can a man made chemical product interact with an organic cell, the cell most often views the product as foreign and trys to get it out of the body.
I would like to be interviewed on this subject matter and you may view who I am as well as my company at www.wbyd.com
Our bodies need nutrients that are alive in organic energy thus vitamins that are man made which make up 97% of the market place are incompatible with human physiology.
Herbs can be beneficial but are most often lacking in enzymes, co-factors and rich in vitamins. We as a society are unhealthy because of the man made chemicals in our food sources and within our environment to include synthetic vitamins. How can a man made chemical product interact with an organic cell, the cell most often views the product as foreign and trys to get it out of the body.
I would like to be interviewed on this subject matter and you may view who I am as well as my company at www.wbyd.com
"Most of us understand that the AMA would love to have the government control all supplements, even though few doctors understand the subject as well as the informed public."
Thats funny!
I've seen several posts here that are right on. It's all about money, and they're losing control with the people. They want us under their thumb, so to speak. Stop us from thinking on our own, and educating ourselves with alternatives. Force us to ONLY go to the doctor. After all, they know everything, right?? Wrong.
gigimama28 ...I had the same thing happen to me. Doctor kept telling me I needed blood pressure medication. Started taking it. Kept TELLING him, at HOME, my BP was quite normal. Anyway, under his direction and 'expertise', I took it. Well, I almost died from that medication. And I won't even MENTION, that he over prescribed it. I slowly weaned myself off of it, never went back to him, STILL have a normal BP, like I tried to tell him in the first place. That was 10 years ago.
These people are drug happy. It's all about big money, doctors, pharmaceutical companies, and the lawyers play a part in it, too. As they do in everything.
We don't HAVE to have these harsh drugs.
It's all about our rights and OUR choices. And they are slowly being taken away. What a country, when you work to buy a home, and think you'll be in it forever. It's YOURS. Then along comes eminent domain. And all because some big time developer wants your land, you can lose it. People need to fight this. People need to fight all of these things.
FDA, leave herbal and vitamin supplements ALONE. Because if you don't, we're out here, and there are alot of us, and we're going to fight for our right to take them. And NOT under a doctors supervision. Under our OWN.
Do you think the networks are going to endorse those methods that have been proven (UV) when their monies come from drug companies? Just watch the evening news and count the number of drug commercials...
PS- infrared light causes cataracts, not UV.
Have you forgotten Vioxx and the diet pill that was prescribed in the 90's that caused many heart problem throughout the U.S. These are only two of the FDA approved medicines that basically caused the death of many people throughout the U.S. Guess Mr. Alfonsi forgot to check out all the facts (or maybe he forgot on purpose). The FDA protects the pharmaceutical companies' interest and that's about it.
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by lonestarlad1
January 18, 2007 4:44 PM PST
- Almost any of the medication I take is a supplement. CBS and the God awful FDA need to butt out of the American peoples business. Supplements are much safer than what the BIG Pharmaceutials put out. CBS needs to report on the Liberal Media, Radical Liberal Politicans (The Degenacrats), Liberal Judges, Liberals on the Supreme Court. You know, things we all would like to hear the truth on, but our Liberal Media won't report.
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