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Continued... Know Your Options To the millions of people who are challenged by disease and face important decisions, we offer our sympathy, our understanding, and our promise to provide the highest quality information available to help you make the right choices. You may find that your health professionals are unable to discuss more than what they can legitimately offer within their professional boundaries, and while this inability is rarely due to personal shortcomings (See: "Tunnel Vision"), it must not limit you in your ability to know all your options. Note: Nothing on this site is meant as a substitute for qualified professional help. Rather, it is here as an adjunct to it - a means by which you can inform yourself and be sure that your decisions are based on the latest and most valid information - straight from recent scientific studies. The Health of America Americans are indeed concerned with their health, and with good reason. We are an aging population with rising rates of almost all diseases, both chronic and acute. Heart disease and cancer are no longer typical of the aged, but are affecting the young in epidemic numbers. So many of us are under long term medical care for multiple conditions that the interaction of prescription drugs has become a major cause of death. We face resistant strains of microbes with a dwindling arsenal of antibiotics, and the ever increasing array of vaccines has shown dubious benefit in the overall reduction of infectious disease. Recent polls suggest that besides seeking medical care in record numbers, 40% of Americans have consulted alternative health care professionals and one quarter of us take vitamins regularly. We spend more on weight loss programs than all other nations combined. Books and tapes on health are frequently best sellers and many of us attentively follow the latest "health news" in the media. We are indeed a health conscious people looking for help. Disease is More Profitable than Health The problem is that sickness care is VERY big business and when there is so much money at stake the truth can take a back seat to commercial interests. When disease is so profitable there is little incentive for corporate America to advance the cause of optimal health, and when corporations sponsor the news they definitely influence news content. Under such circumstances the search for valid information can be challenging to say the least, and few people have the time and energy that deep research requires - especially when they're ill. No one should have to weigh credibility when they're in need of help. Just the thought of having to consider everyone's motives is depressing and can lead people to take the advise of anyone who seems confident, whether or not they have legitimate help to offer. When a task is already challenging to the healthy, what must it look like to the sick when they don't know who to trust? This is especially unfair now when there is so much good scientific information that can help us. Science has never before known so much about the human body or the causes of disease. Thousands of well run, high quality studies are completed every year in the areas of health, nutrition, medicine, disease, aging, and life quality. Why in the world would you limit your knowledge of these areas to 30 second sound bytes designed to set you up for the next commercial? It makes no sense to anyone but the advertisers. Why should you get your information from any single source knowing that they may have a financial interest in your condition or that they may be unable or unwilling to discuss alternatives objectively? We have literally thousands of qualified scientific sources for our information, carefully screened to make sure they have no conflicts of interest. Here you can explore all your options objectively and weigh them for yourself, without bias or promotion. Here you'll know that our only criteria for including facts are scientific validity and your needs - not commercial advantage, politics, or opinions. PLAINFACTS.COM is designed not as a mere challenge to the credibility of the news media or to the limitations of individual health modalities, but to provide a permanent, unbiased and easily accessable resource for your most important information. You're interested in finding the real facts, otherwise you wouldn't have read this far. Please continue your tour of our site and see if you don't agree that both our presence and your support are necessary for our mutual benefit.
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