In the case of Marijuana we have the excuse that it is an illegal drug. No matter how bogus, that is the excuse there. In the case of tumeric there is no such excuse. The issue seems to be the usual—the FDA, clearly a subsidiary Big Pharma, has not and will not give it its blessing. Why? Because there is no profit in it.

To put things in perspective I like to compare length and quality of life for some octogenarians I know in rural Nicaragua. They got to their age without the help of the FDA or the US Department of Agriculture. They don't have/never had a car and didn't even get a subscription to any health food magazine. They seem to have just naturally gravitated to a healthy lifestyle. Or should I say apparently healthy as they are here with few problems and little medical care.

As the world financial meltdown continues, life in the First World is changing but that will have little impact on those in the third world. If all those government entities such as the FDA can no longer afford to protect you from all these unproven things maybe you will be able to afford to stay healthy in the evolving new version of the world.

From the article:

The author has personally reviewed the majority of 4,000+ biomedical citations on turmeric and its primary polyphenol curcumin, available to view on the National Library of Medicine's bibliographic reference database known as MEDLINE (and searchable through engines like Pubmed.gov), and has been awed by how diverse, powerful and seemingly ideally suited this spice is for addressing the broad range of diseases and/or disease symptoms that commonly afflict our species.