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(NaturalNews) NBC commentator Tim Russert was taking prescription
medications when he suffered a heart attack and died yesterday at the
age of 58. The mainstream media is reporting that Russert died from a
"heart attack," but no press outlet has yet bothered to ask: "What
caused the heart attack?"

Nearly 100,000 Americans are killed each year by FDA-approved
pharmaceuticals, according to the American Medical Association.
Virtually none of those deaths are accurately reported as being caused
by pharmaceuticals. Instead, the media simply reports that the victim
died of whatever biological malfunction was most noticeable at the
time of death.

That's why Tim Russert was said to have died of a "heart attack" --
his failing heart was the most obvious and sudden organ failure, even
though the biological tipping point that brought him to that moment of
heart failure could have been caused by the very pharmaceuticals he
was taking in an effort to "control" coronary artery disease.

Pharmaceuticals do not make you healthy
Pharmaceuticals, you see, do not solve any underlying health problems.
They do not cure heart disease, nor do they prevent it. Rather, they
simply "control" the symptoms of disease by artificially lowering or
inflating numbers on a blood test, thereby creating the illusion of
health when, in reality, no fundamental health improvements exist at
all.

That's why pharmaceuticals that are used to treat heart disease
actually promote the continuation of disease and discourage patients
from taking other, more proactive steps to resolve their underlying
health problems and eliminate the need for medication.

Tim Russert, unfortunately, believed in using medication and did not
take the necessary steps to alter his diet and lifestyle in a way that
eliminated his dependence on that medication. According to Russert's
internist, Michael A. Newman, Russert knew he had been diagnosed with
coronary artery disease but believed he was "controlling" it with
medication and exercise.

One look at Russert's physique tells you he wasn't controlling
anything with exercise, which means he was relying primarily on
medication to solve his coronary heart disease problems for him. This
may have been a fatal mistake: A working man who suddenly dies at age
58 from a completely preventable disease is not dying of "normal
causes" at all; he's being killed by something.

Russert's heart disease was not his only health problem
We can't be certain it was entirely from medication, of course.
Russert's diet no doubt had something to do with it, too. A quick look
at Russert's body and face tells you he consumed large quantities of
animal products (meat, milk, cheese) which directly cause coronary
artery disease. It's also not difficult to see that he suffered from
rather prominent liver problems as well as a kidney disorder that
caused excessive water retention. These health problems are obvious to
anyone schooled in simple face diagnosis. (You can see these signs in
his eyes and skin.)

Of course, even Russert never claimed he was in excellent health. But
he likely lived under the illusion that his doctor-prescribed heart
medication would "control" his symptoms and thereby relieve him of any
worry about dying from sudden heart attacks or strokes. It is in this
way that conventional medicine likely killed Tim Russert. His doctors
made him believe that medication would save his life rather than end
his life. But one hard look at the published studies on statin drugs,
for example, reveals that cholesterol medications provide absolutely
no health benefits to those who take them.

You read that correctly: Statin drugs may lower cholesterol numbers,
but they do absolutely nothing to reduce the risk of death by heart
attacks and strokes. They do not extend life, and they do not prevent
death in any way. By any rational scientific assessment, statin drugs
are medically useless.

But that doesn't stop a hundred million Americans from taking them,
believing in the myths passed onto them by doctors who parrot the
marketing lines of drug companies: "Statin drugs will control your
cholesterol!" It's a lie, of course, but it sells a lot of drugs to
gullible consumers who are ready to believe that a shiny little pill
can relieve them of the responsibility of taking care of their own
health.

What happened to Russert is about to happen to America's medicated
population
Sadly, Tim Russert has learned the hard way what four generations of
Americans are about to learn: That you cannot medicate yourself to
good health, and when you try to do so, you often end up dying from
the very medicine you thought was saving your life.

There's a book Tim Russert needed, and it's the same book that tens of
millions of Americans need right now. It's called Prevent and Reverse
Heart Disease by Caldwell Esselstyn. You can read about the book at
his website, www.HeartAttackProof.com

This book, simply stated, teaches you how to reverse heart disease by
changing what you eat. Change your diet, and heart disease vanishes,
blood flow is restored, and the build-up of arterial plaque begins to
fade away. It is absolutely true that through changes in diet and
exercise, a person can make themselves heart attack proof.

Tim Russert, unfortunately, was not heart attack proof. And perhaps
more important, his medication did not make him heart attack proof
either.

Tim Russert's death is a symbol of the failure of drug-based medicine
There's no reason for an intelligent, active man to die at age 58, and
to those Americans who are truly informed about health, disease and
medication, Tim Russert's death symbolizes the danger of betting your
life on statin drugs and heart medication. But to the ignorant masses
of mainstream media journalists who worked in the same industry as Tim
Russert, his death is just another mysterious loss of a talented man
who died from bad luck.

The true causes of disease and health remain as much of a mystery to
mainstream media journalists as the movement of the stars in the
heavens were a mystery to 15th century sheep herders. They have no
ability to rise above the belief in luck, myths and medical
superstitions that dominate popular culture today. The most relevant
superstition at work in this fiasco, of course, involves the
recruitment of medical authorities to the Cult of Pharmacology and the
quackery of doctors who prescribe heart medications to patients
instead of taking the time to teach them how to prevent heart disease
in the first place.

Regardless of what you thought about Tim Russert's politics,
NaturalNews wishes his spirit well, and we hope that on his next
journey through this world, he will learn to avoid the dangers of
living an unhealthy lifestyle and taking prescription medications.
Fifty-eight years is not nearly long enough to enjoy the experiences
that life has to offer us, and perhaps the greatest crime of
pharmaceutical-based medicine is not merely that it kills so many
people, but that it steals from them the best years of their lives and
leaves them with a life experience cut short by chemically-induced
tragedy.

Tim Russert did not have to die yesterday. And yet, sadly, 100,000
other Americans will die this year from the same cause that likely
killed Russert: Patented pharmaceuticals that simply don't work.

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