Our era is obsessed with pharmaceuticals, and those of us on the forum are probably some of the few who realize just how limited our "age of miracle drugs" actually is. A lot of us have been on, or offered, drug after drug in an attempt to manage our health issues, and if that worked we wouldn't be here

The executive quoted above doesn't seem to understand that we have drug testing because there are serious risks of side effects with pharmaceuticals. Despite decades of study, the side effects of low carb eating are all beneficial or propaganda via dieticians and co-opted organizations. This science has been tested for years and years now; it is the delivery system that is new, not this way of eating.

After years of Big Pharma advertising in the US (which isn't allowed in more enlightened countries) the average American thinks there is a "pill for every ill" and they are correct. What they don't get is how badly the drug turns out to work, and how little they help.