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The Health Care
System
What They Don’t Want
You to Know About
Healthcare and prescription drug
costs continue to rise at the fastest rates in history. The United
States spends nearly Two Trillion Dollars ($2,000,000,000,000.00) on
healthcare, a staggering fifteen percent (15%) of the gross domestic
product, and we currently spend about Two Hundred Billion
($200,000,000.00) on prescription annually. Yet incidences of
chronic and debilitating disease continue to rise and afflict
younger generations each year despite advances in medicine and our
understanding of health and long life. We spend more and seem to be
getting less from healthcare in America.
Our knowledge of how to prevent
diseases through healthy lifestyles and nutritional supplements is
greater than ever, but the conventional healthcare system remains
stubbornly rooted in the past, relying too heavily on surgical and
drug solutions for answers.
Incorporating Dietary supplements
into your health regimen can go a long in helping you prevent
disease and supply your body with the nutrients to maintain a high
level of health.
7 Things They Don’t
Want You To Know About CONVENTIONAL HEALTHCARE.
Below are seven (7)
things you may not know about the healthcare system that could
imp0orve your health and may save your life!
1. TRADITIONAL
HEALTHCARE NEEDS YOU TO BE SICK.
We all believe that the healthcare
system exists to make us healthy and generally speaking, it does.
We get sick, we go to the doctor, he gives us medicine, and we
(hopefully) get better. But isn’t preventing disease more effective
then treating existing disease? If this is the case, then why does
our healthcare system focus so little time and energy on prevention?
Although mounting evidence points to
the positive effects on a proper diet, regular exercise, maintaining
healthy lifestyle habits, and the benefits of taking nutritional
supplements to prevent illness and promote long life, the focus of
traditional medicine remains on treating existing disease and
overpriced drugs and medical procedures.
Ultimately, the current healthcare
system in all its form—from hospital and doctor’s offices to drug
companies and pharmacies --- operates as a business. As such, it
needs to make money. It can’t make money if everyone is healthy, so
to survive it needs you to be sick. Our drug and surgery – based
system waits until you are sick to treat you. Prevention, on the
other hand, is often ignored.
2. THE CURRENT
HEALTHCARE SYSTEM TEATS SYMPTOMS, NOT CAUSES.
Our traditional
healthcare system focuses too much on treating symptoms of disease
instead of causes or cures. Suppressing symptoms’ is hardly the
best choice for long-term health and longevity but it is often the
most immediate temporary fix. Moreover, it means that the patient
will stay a paying customer indefinitely.
For Instance, pain
is the most common symptom of arthritis. Most prescribed and
over-the-counter medications used to “treat” arthritis are really
painkillers. While they may help take away the pain, they certainly
don’t take away the arthritis itself. It’s backward, short-sighted
system.
3. THE FOUR LEADING
DISEASES ARE LARGELY PREVENTABLE.
The big Four—heart disease, cancer,
stroke, and diabetes—account for about 83 percent of all deaths.
Heart disease is the number-one killer of both men and women, and
cancer effect one in four. Strokes kill more than 150,000 people
annually in the U.S. alone, and close to seven percent (7%) of the
population in affected by Type II diabetes.
The Big Four are also largely
“lifestyle” disease. Lifestyle diseases refer to diseases that are
likely to develop as the result of lifestyle factors within our
control, such as diet and exercise habits, stress levels and
free-radical exposure, rather than simply a result of genetics or
chance.
Here are some statistics that
traditional medicine doesn’t want you to know. The American Cancer
Society recently estimated that approximately one-third of cancer
deaths in the United States each year are linked to diet and
nutrition. And the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
estimate that regular physical exercise reduces heart disease,
stroke, diabetes, high blood pressure and colon cancer by nearly
fifty percent. Just drinking more water can reduce heart attack
mortality by up to forty percent, according to a 2002 study from the
American Journal of Epidemiology.
4. ANTIBIOTICS ARE
BECOMING RAPIDLY IRRELEVANT.
The Center for
Disease Control (CDC) estimates that more than 20 million
unnecessary prescriptions for antibiotics are handed out each year
which has contributed to the gradual ineffectiveness of antibiotic
therapy and the rise in drug-resistant bacterial strains. In fact,
today more than 965 percent of Staph bacteria are resistant to
penicillin. One deadly bacterial strain, MRSA, is causing more
deaths in the U. S. tan AIDS, according to a 2007 report from the
Journal of the American Medical Association.
In short, misuse and
overuse have made antibiotics ineffective at outsmarting microbes.
Doctors are becoming increasingly helpless in treating serious,
virulent strains now threatening the public.
5. PRESCRIPTIONS
DRUGS CAN BE DEADLY.
Drug companies seem
to have taken center stage in so much of modern medicine that it can
seem like our doctors are mere drug pushers. We, as consumers, are
inundated with advertisements for prescription medication designed
to address this health issue or that one, while often downplaying
related side effects. Decisions about which drug to take and for
what reason are largely left up to the companies selling them rather
than trained medical professional.
What harm is the in
this? Drugs should be the last resort, not the first one. Not only
do they come with a host of side effects, but there are also a
documented 2.2 million cases of adverse reactions related to
prescription drugs each year.
6. HOSPITALS MAY BE
HAZARDOUS TO YOUR HEALTH.
Unnecessary medical
procedures performed annually in the U.S. total 7.5 million, and
unnecessary hospitalizations rack up to 8.9 million each year.
Hospitals are also the site of some of the deadliest drug-resistant
bacteria in existence today. Close to 2 million hospitalized
patients fall victim to hospital acquired infections (HAIs) annually
and nearly 100,000 hospital deaths occur each year due to HAIs.
This number is more than deaths from AIDS, breast cancer and auto
accidents combined.
7. CONVENTIONAL
MEDICINE IS A LEADING CAUSE OF DEATH IN THE UNITED STATES.
Documented
statistics on deaths due by conventional medical therapies estimate
nearly a whopping (and shocking) 784,000 per year in the U.S.
alone. Compare this to deaths due to heart disease (under 700,000)
and cancer (about 550,000) per year. This includes mortality due to
adverse drug reactions, infections, medical error, surgical
complications and unnecessary procedures.
BY THE NUMBERS.
83% OF ALL DEATHS
ARE CAUSED BY HEART DISEASE, CANCER, STROKE AND DIABETES.
7% IS THE PERCENTAGE
OF THE POPULATION AFFECTED BY TYPE II DIABETES.
#1 IS HEART DISEASE
AND IT IS THE NUMBER ONE KILLER OF BOTH MEN AND WOMEN.
150,000 IS THE
NUMBER OF PEOPLE KILLED BY STROKES ANNUALLY IN THE U.S.
7.5 MILLION IS THE
NUMBER OF UNNECESSARY MEDICAL PROCEDURES PERFORMED ANNUALLY IN THE
U.S.
784,000 DEATHS ARE
DUE TO CONVENTIONAL MEDICAL THERAPIES PER YEAR IN THE U.S.
“Just drinking more
water can reduce heart attack mortality by up to 40 percent,
according to a 2002 study from the American Journal of
Epidemiology.”
After reading the
discussion on some of the “ugly” aspects of today’s healthcare, you
may be asking yourself what you can do to improve your health from a
prevention standpoint. First, up you should improve your overall
lifestyle, especially your diet and exercise habits./ But
truthfully, most people fall short in their efforts to eat a healthy
diet. Consequently, incorporating dietary supplements, including
quality antioxidant rich functional beverages, vitamins, and
minerals, into your health regimen can go a long way in helping your
prevent disease and supply your body with the nutrients it needs to
maintain a high level of health.
While some people
are leery of dietary supplements, and the conventional health world
has been slow to embrace them, many nutrition experts and
organizations now support the use of high-quality dietary
supplements. In 200, even the American Medical Association
recommended that all adults take a daily multi-vitamin/mineral
supplement.
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interested in finding out more about the potential benefits of top
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