DVD!This past weekend, I traveled to a growing city, about 2 hours away from my home in Virginia. There, I attended a lecture by Kevin Brown, author of The Liberation Diet, who is a new public relations client of mine.
Kimberly and Liberation Diet Author, Kevin Brown
The meeting was hosted by a woman named Maggie. I found her to be a real pistol. She has lost 30 lbs on Kevin’s Liberation Diet, and was quite excited about her new life as a healthy woman.
Maggie is a licensed practical nurse, the daughter of a successful doctor, the and granddaughter of one of the first licensed pharmacists in the state of Virginia to actually graduate from a pharmacology school. I found it fascinating, that given her background, she is now promoting wellness, and working to get her patients well, so they won’t need drugs.
Nurse Maggie
Her remarks at the close of the meeting, summed up my sentiments, exactly.
Maggie said, “In the 60′s, television was dominated by tobacco ads, The Marlboro man, I’d Walk a Mile for a Camel, and Silva Thins commercials targeted at women. The tobacco companies were spending millions to persuade American’s that smoking was cool, even though it was known that smoke causes cancer. Eventually, the government outlawed the advertising.”
Maggie then added, “Today, the pharmaceutical companies dominate the airwaves, pushing pills for this, that and the other. Over 100,000 people are dying every year in America because of side affects of medicines. I have a friend who is a nurse in the D.C. area, specifically she is a dialysis technician. She says that 90% of the patients she is taking care of are on dialysis because of side affects of medicines, like ibuprofen, salicylates and other chemicals. ie: Tylenol, Advil, Aleve, etc. I am a nurse and this is alarming to me. The government needs to put a stop to this!”
When I asked her permission to share her remarks, she said you might enjoy the following article The Perfect Storm of Opportunity by wellness guru, Paul Zane Pilzer. This piece is where she first realized that the drug business had changed, from drugs that cure and prevent disease, to maintenance drugs meant merely to manage symptoms.
Today, Maggie is a XanGo distributor, which is a whole food supplement product. She continues to do private home nursing, but she is in the wellness business today. Maggie, I am glad I met you, keep going girl!
Thank you for your amazing work!!
5 Comments
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Hi Kimberly,
Well done for getting the message out there about wellness and raw milk. I live in Melbourne Australia and I have to order raw milk as not many places stock it. The government prevents companies that sell it to promote it as such. They have to call it “bath milk” and say it is “not for human consumption”. Yeah I say to myself, apparently our skin does not absorb anything. Talk about contradictions with food, animal husbandry and government policy.
Yes, I agree that pharmaceutical companies are all about the band-aid affect. I get cross when I see that our government has spent tax payers’ money on yet ANOTHER cancer centre to supposedly find a cure. How many centres do we need? Surely raw food and education of such is money better spent?
It seems that it is going to take a nation to get sick for change to come about on a more grand scale and that is sad. I, like you hope that my own blog can impact the lives of others in a positive way. http://www.thenewsonfood.com and i hope you will add me as a worthwhile blog.
Keep up the great work.
Eileen.
Hi Kimberly,
Well done for getting the message out there about wellness and raw milk. I live in Melbourne Australia and I have to order raw milk as not many places stock it. The government prevents companies that sell it to promote it as such. They have to call it “bath milk” and say it is “not for human consumption”. Yeah I say to myself, apparently our skin does not absorb anything. Talk about contradictions with food, animal husbandry and government policy.
Yes, I agree that pharmaceutical companies are all about the band-aid affect. I get cross when I see that our government has spent tax payers’ money on yet ANOTHER cancer centre to supposedly find a cure. How many centres do we need? Surely raw food and education of such is money better spent?
It seems that it is going to take a nation to get sick for change to come about on a more grand scale and that is sad. I, like you hope that my own blog can impact the lives of others in a positive way. http://www.thenewsonfood.com and i hope you will add me as a worthwhile blog.
Keep up the great work.
Eileen.
Thanks so much Eileen! Great to hear from ‘down under’ on this subject!