Heart Disease, Blood Pressure, Diabetes, even Cancer may be reversible.

Medical care is the diagnosis and treatment of disease. It includes prescription drugs and surgery and it has little to do with healthcare. Most of us were born “healthy” but after 30, 40, or 50 years of eating, drinking and doing as we please, we think the TV offer of drugs, just “Ask your doctor,” is what we need. It works well initially, but sooner or later, we become toxic to the chemical and think we need another prescription for our “headache, diarrhea or abdominal pain” when we really need one less drug, not one more. If we take a 2nd drug to relieve the symptoms caused by the first drug, we are now on a slippery slope that will take us down fast. Few people would guess from the evening news sponsored by the drug companies that adverse drug reactions have surpassed heart disease and cancer as the leading cause of premature death–death before age 75. Journal of American Medical Association, 4-15-1998; Western Journal of Medicine, June, 2000.

Those deaths made medical care the #3 cause of death in 2000, but deaths increased 2.7-fold from 1998-2005 as reported in the Archives of Internal Medicine, Sept 10, 2007. The authors had no idea what caused the increase. I don’t think anyone suggested to them that 1998 was the first full year that drug ads appeared on TV, thanks to drug lobbies congress, spending $400 million/year, according to Marcia Angell, MD on 60 Minutes.

By contrast, healthcare is what we do for ourselves. An acronym helps remember the ingredients: NEW START includes Nutrition, Exercise, Water, Sunlight, Temperance, Air, Rest and Trust in Nature and nature’s God. None of the above ingredients has any significant cost except food, but healthy food often costs less than the fancy packages with an ingredients list that you wonder what is in it. As Dr. Lorraine Day said, “Don’t read labels, don’t eat any food with a label on it!” (Cured her metastatic breast cancer with the NEW START program and raw vegetable juices. The source for the NEW START concept is my favorite book (resource box below)

I’ve spent days in the U.S. Senate building. One senator told me, “You are wasting your time. They [pharmaceutic companies] own us” [by contributions to reelection campaigns]. Government needs to see that every country practicing western medicine is on the brink of bankruptcy. “Healthcare” falsely so-called for GM retirees was what broke General Motors’ back. People need to take responsibility for themselves. Why should my taxes pay for the high medical costs of a smoker or drinker or glutton? Let them bear the responsibility of their own actions. Paying for an alcoholic’s expenses just confirms them in their addiction. This is just an example that applies to healthcare generally. Exceptions include accidents when the injured was not at fault and has no funds.

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