Alternative medicine is now mainstream

According to a recent survey published by American Medical Association, four out of 10 American have used some type of alternative medicine in the past twelve months. Since 1990 visits to alternative-medicine practitioners have gone up by 50% from 1990 and exceeded visits to all primary-care physicians.

Last year, Americans spent an estimated $21.2 billion on alternative health care medicine- half of which was paid out-of-pocket. Of that- $3.8 billion was spent on herbs and botanicals- up from $2.4 billion in 1995.

That is music to the ears of all those alternative medical practioneers- manufacturers of alternative health care treatments- and the related retail industry such as health food stores.

The problem is the industry has become so large- it now poses a threat to the world's pharmaceutical industry which does take lightly any attempt to cannibalize their profits.

But the "boom" in alternative medicine may not last- primarily due to the vested corporate interests of multi-national pharmaceutical manufacturers which have an interest in treating disease- not curing it.

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Is "Peak Oil" a fraud?

Are hydrocarbons "renewable"- and if so- what does such a conclusion mean for the future of the world's oil and natural gas supplies?

The question is critical due to the enormous amount of coverage the issue of "Peak Oil" is receiving from the mainstream press. If the supply of hydrocarbons is renewable- then the contrary to the conventional wisdom being touted throughout the mainstream press today- the world is NOT running out of oil.

Unbeknownst to Westerners, there have actually been for quite some time now two competing theories concerning the origins of petroleum. One theory claims that oil is an organic 'fossil fuel' deposited in finite quantities near the planet's surface. The other theory claims that oil is continuously generated by natural processes in the Earth's magma.

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