America may or may not have the world’s best health-care system, but if all you want is to be made more comfortable while you go on and die, then you live in the right country.

Jesus told us that "You will know the truth and the truth will set you free." If you believe that, then you must take into consideration the opposite: Lies you believe are holding you in bondage. Adolph Hitler said that all you had to do in order to get people to believe a lie was to tell it loudly and tell it often enough.

The pharmaceutical industry has mastered the art of deception. You can’t turn on a TV or radio, read a newspaper or magazine or get on the Internet without being inundated with advertising designed to persuade you to ask your doctor for another drug. These ads portray beautiful people doing wonderful things, smiling, happy, enjoying life to the fullest because of a drug their doctor prescribed. These ads are so effective, apparently, that 80 percent of Americans over 50 are on at least one drug, and many take more than five.

Did you know there are over 100,000 deaths, more than 500,000 hospitalizations and more than a million adverse reactions per year associated with prescribed drugs? Did you know that there has not been one cure for a deficiency disease ever associated with synthetic drugs? Yet the pharmaceutical industry remains one of the most powerful forces in the history of the world.

Here are some of the lies they’re depending on you to believe so they can remain in power.

Genetic: As long as you believe your disorder is hereditary (not your fault – nothing you could have done), you won’t think about the possibility of prevention. In reality, almost all disease is preventable, and in most cases, when caught early enough, reversible. The five most feared diseases in America are all deficiency diseases. They are not genetic. One scientist has noted that if disease was inherited humans would have died out 5,000 years ago.

Contagious: The most effective tactic associated with contagious disease is FEAR (False Evidence Appearing Real). Fear is used to keep doctors’ offices full and give them excuses to do expensive tests and coax you into taking unnecessary drugs. Vaccines are a perfect example. Millions of children and adults are pressured into getting unproven, insufficiently tested, unnecessary vaccinations.

You must believe these lies for these powerful companies to stay in business. The truth that over 90 percent of all disease is preventable could all but shut down the sickness industry. Dr. Joel Wallach points out that in the world of veterinary medicine they have been able to prevent over 900 diseases that afflict humans by simply making sure animals receive proper nutrition. Wallach, after years as a vet, went back to school and became a medical doctor. Seeing how well proper nutrition worked on animals, he decided to try the same on his human patients. He was not surprised that in a few weeks their health began to improve. Today he is one of the country’s most recognized natural health doctors.

Dr. Matthias Rath, a cardiologist who wrote the book Why Animals Don’t Get Heart Attacks but People Do, explains that all cardiovascular disease is the result of malnutrition. Due to a shortage of specific nutrients in the American diet, veins, arteries and capillaries become weak. Over time, pressure will cause them to break and bleed. To stop the bleeding, a person’s liver will begin to mass-produce cholesterol, which can result in a blockage. Roth says that the answer is not to lower cholesterol but to shore up the circulatory system with specific nutrients. Considering his thousand-plus heart patients and near-100- percent success rate, it’s hard to argue with him.