“These are really troubling numbers… skyrocketing… at rates we have never seen before.”

Women in the United States are dying from overdoses of prescription painkillers at an alarming rate, with five times more deaths in 2010 than 1999, the US Centres for Disease Control and Prevention said Tuesday.

A total of 6,631 women died from taking pills like Vicodin and Oxycontin in 2010, four times as many as died from heroin and cocaine combined, said the CDC Vital Signs report.

In 1999, 1,287 women died from prescription painkillers. Overdoses of these drugs killed almost 48,000 women between 1999 and 2010.

Is it something to do with our diet?

The plant Kingdom has evolved along with the rest of us for over fifty million years and has tailored itself to our needs to the point where certain plants like Turmeric, ginger and garlic are beginning to be recognized at disease-preventives because they ‘beef up’ the Immune system, which is an ‘automatic’ function of the body if it’is getting the right nutrients.

Nutrients like live (raw) fruit and veggies that interact “smoothly” and immediately with the other ‘live’ cellular mitochondrial bits that make us up. Our cells absorb the nutrients and everything is lubricated and flushed continually with the 75% water we are also made up of (so THAT’s what this ‘water shortage’ is all about… seven billion bags of water walking around!)
So when the ‘auto-immune’ system isn’t fed properly what happens has been called the “Acquired Immune Deficiency syndrome” – a ‘syndrome’ not a single ‘disease’ caused by some viral or bacterial microorganism (bug), but which seems to have ‘acquired’ a “Human Immuno-Virus’ type ‘virus or germ’ identity in the popular mind, which no one seems to be able to find, something which does not escape me, nor should it you, but that’s another PR story running loose around town and anyway ‘antiretrovirals’ seem to have contained the syndrome’s… er, disease’s effects.
AIDS (the collection of symptoms indicating what I believe are dietary deficiencies in the immune system is ‘acquired’ therefore by an unbalanced diet. A diet that is ‘deficient’ in parts of the food offered to us on the fifty-million-year-old menu nature serves up pretty much for free every day.
Once your immune system crashes, opportunistic diseases we normally shake off before we even notice them, climb in with a vengeance.
The Petri Dish Death Phase caused by trying to live on Junk Food?