A recent paper showed that 2 trillion dollars a year are spent on health care, and that taxpayers pay 44% of this. US Consumers are more dissatisfied with their healthcare than other nations, and about 50 million Americans are uninsured.
34% of Americans believe medicine can cure any illness as long as people have access to advanced technology and treatment, and health premiums have risen 98% since 2000! 70% is spent on chronic illness, including cancer, diabetes, cardiovascular disease, stroke, obesity-related disease and arthritis. The numbers are sad and staggering, and go on and on....
According to the WHO, in terms of life expectancy, the United States lags far behind most other comparable nations. Compared with 30 other countries, the US has the highest incidence of all cancers. The US ranks 28th in infant mortality among 39 industrialized nations.
What is wrong with our society? In my opinion, people are too reactive and not proactive. People don't trust their instincts, they are lazy, prefer the easy way out, would rather watch TV and eat bad food, and not care about their health until it is too late.
Most people prefer to take drugs to get better (and then those above statistics appear), instead of eating whole foods (not processed ones), eating 7-9 servings of raw fruit and vegetables a day, exercising, and getting adjusted to have a healthy nervous system. Of course there are those of us who do work to stay truly healthy, but we are in the minority now.
Our society is not headed in the right direction, and I have concern for our future, if we keep it up. Drugs don't heal, only the body can heal itself.
To read more of these statistics, visit http://healthnews.mccoypress.net on 8/24/09.
Monday, August 24, 2009
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