If you believe the AMA, the FDA and the USDA care about your health and welfare, you are D-U-M-B. We live in age where more deaths are caused by prescription medications than street drugs, where we enjoy the seventh-highest cancer rate of any nation, where the above-named agencies are bought and paid for by lobbyists and run by vampires. (Don't believe me? Google Michael Taylor Monsanto FDA.) There is a war on for your health, and it ain't about Obamacare and transvaginal ultrasounds. Just as inventors of cars that run on water routinely end up dead, doctors using non-approved methods to successfully treat “terminal” cancer are hunted down by the FDA. One in 91 American kids are now autistic? Why? Get a clue! Attend the 8th Annual Health Freedom Expo, which will present a dizzying array of speakers – world-renown doctors and health experts including Dr. Leonard Coldwell, Kevin Trudeau and John Robbins – panels on vaccines, food as medicine, GMOs (“Insider Stories from Monsanto”), the politics of health, and more. With must-see docs screening in the evening (Burzynski is NOT to be missed), hundreds of informed exhibitors and a ticket price that will run you “less than a doctor's visit,” this writer, without the slightest hint of cheese, believes you can't afford not to go. Long Beach Convention Center, 300 E. Ocean Blvd., Long Beach, CA 90802. Fri., March 2 through Sun., March 4. $20 day pass, $45 weekend. (888) 658-EXPO, healthfreedomexpo.com.

Fri., March 2, 10 a.m.; Sat., March 3, 10 a.m.; Sun., March 4, 10 a.m., 2012

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