There are often articles in various newspapers about our ever increasing health-care costs.  But, let us first correct an error in this phrasing:  They are NOT health care costs because you’re not technically getting health care but mostly ‘disease' or 'patch-work’ care!   Most Americans get care after they’re sick, often with illnesses that have been developing over some length of time.  They frequently develop these illness after failure to follow the simple rules required to achieve optimum health and wellness.

 If we were all receiving true health care, we would be much healthier, don’t you agree?  Our medical bills are as absurdly high as they are precisely because Americans, for the most part, don’t take care of themselves!  We’re now more overweight than ever, more tired, more stressed and less physically fit.  We eat more, eat more junk-food and exercise less.  And this is despite a two percent lower fat intake over the past 20 years. 

Many Americans are spending their time making more money to buy more stuff, but this leaves them with little time to exercise.  It is true that better fitness allows for more energy, vitality and productivity, but you have to get in better shape first to realize these benefits!  You need to prioritize your goals and more importantly, your values!  If you don't value health, your life will not focus on it and you'll have the opposite of health greating you one sunny morning: disease.  It's a problem, but it can be solved.  Meanwhile, those Americans wishing to buy an American "General Motors" automobile still have to pay an extra $1,500 to cover the medical expenses of GM employees even if their medical expenses are little to nothing!  In other words, the complacency of many Americans costs healthy and proactive Americans money.  Obesity alone, costs the airline industry an extra $750,000,000 in fuel costs, but people who watch their weight by exercising daily and avoiding certain foods, still have to pay this extra fuel cost.  But these costs go far beyond the extra costs built into products or services we buy in America like cars and airline travel.  Taxes also have to be paid to pay the ever-increasing Medicare AND Medicaid bills due to our increasingly poor health.  This may seem like harsh language, but with a crisis as large as this one, the language needs to be direct!  Playing stupid games with language to be politically correct doesn't help anyone but only further leads to ignorance and disease.

 

"You can't solve a problem, except by 'Solving It'."

-  Scott Peck, The Road Less Traveled

 

A healthy diet and lifestyle can mean many things to many people, however, I can think of only one good definition in regards to decreasing health-care costs:  It is a diet/lifestyle that provides little room for any illness, headaches, pains, etc.  The exercise would be consistent every week.  (I won’t say how much, because this depends on the individual.)  The diet would primarily be centered on the correct foods.  Water with toxic chemicals in it is, of course, avoided.  (Sorry, I can't divulge all my secrets on this website.)  It would also help if most people implemented a daily ‘relaxation’ program to lessen stress and anxiety.  It is well known that daily exercise also reduces anxiety.  The subject of drugs is for another time, however, it should be noted that legal drugs and medical procedures, kill well over 400,000 Americans each year and result in over 9 million hospitalizations. 

Instead of studying disease endlessly, our health-care system ought to be studying healthy people who rarely, if ever, get sick. It also should be looking at the thousands of non-toxic, money saving ‘alternatives' and studying effective prevention methods. 

Yes, it’s sometimes inconvenient to exercise and eat healthfully on a regular basis.  But with "health care" costs a truly ridiculous 1.6 TRILLION dollars per year, (that’s 1.6 million, million dollars), something needs to be done and quickly.  In case you forgot how high a trillion is, here’s a quick way to think about it:  If this annual American “health-care” expense was represented by the 25,000 mile circumference around our globe, an inch would equal an expenditure of $1,000.  This is what the Average American spends on ‘health-care’ in about 65 days.

 

Also, you should be GLAD that--at least in most cases, you have the option of choosing the care you think is best for your body.  By taking the BEST care you can of yourself NOW, you might avoid a situation in which such choice is taken away!  If you've been reading the news lately, you should know that such a 'right' should NOT be taken for granted.  (For example, there is the recnt case of the 16 year old, Virginia child, Abraham Cherrix, whose parents were 'forced' to have their child undergo toxic chemotherapy when they wanted to use a natural approach to their child's Hodgin's Disease after chemotherapy made him very ill.  (Bet you didn't hear of this story in the "mainstream media", did you?)

   

Meanwhile, be sure to ask your doctor what 'holistic' methods you should follow to cut your health expenditures (often dramatically), by practicing prevention.  And if you have further questions, just e-mail me.  If you have a medical condition, be sure to follow the advice of your competent medical practitioner.