From foodconsumer.org
Drugs or healthy food, which do you perfer?
By Sue Mueller
Jan 5, 2008 - 9:15:55 AM
SATURDAY JAN 5, 2008 (Foodconsumer.org) -- It is pitiful so many people suffer all types of
diseases and so many people die prematurely each year. In the
United States,
an individual has to spend an average of nearly $7,000 on health insurance each
year, the highest in the world. By 2015, one in every five dollars in
this country will be used for health care. This is in no way a small number!
However, this giant expenditure does not earn a good return in terms of the
quality of health care and the health status of the American people.
Among more than 30 developed countries, the
U.S. ranked at 11th.
Cancer and heart disease are still the biggest
killers in the country and doctors could not do much stop the killers.
Even worse, big health bills in many cases can only result in needless health
damage and even deaths. In the
US, doctors are the third largest
killer and drugs are the fourth. Both combined are the biggest killer in this
country. Some readers may not know these figures and that is probably because
they only read the mainstream news media.
One study published recently in the New England Journal of Medicine found
doctors and hospitals do not respond quickly enough to needs of patients with
sudden cardiac arrest as the guidelines recommend, resulting in an estimated
25,000 needless deaths each year!
Another
study reported recently found that more than 40 percent doctors have prescribed
placeboes that have no known therapeutic effect to their patients while patients
pay a high price for the "drug".
In a word, drugs and health care are not the solution for your health.
Luckily, nature provides us enough to live a healthy and happy life. For
example, cancer cure does exist for most patients with cancer and they do not
have to die from this scary disease. Even better, many cases of cancer do
not have to develop in the first place if people use a healthy diet and follow
a healthy lifestyle.
However, this type of information can not be seen in the
mainstream media.
Only those who are willing
to keep their eyes wide and open to other opinions may have found these
life-saving secrets.
And many cancer
patients have recovered while many have succumbed to conventional treatments.
And many heart disease patients have stopped or reversed progression of their
condition all by simply using adequate food and nutrition while many die in
hospitals!
In our view, food is severely underappreciated compared to
drugs.
We know it for a fact that people
in many cases would not die in next three to five days if they do not take
drugs, but they will if they do not use food and water even if they are
healthy.
One big mistake for most of us to
make is that we often ask what drugs to use to treat what disease, we never ask
and doctors could never tell us what to eat to help us recover!
People no matter they have health insurance or not and no
matter they are healthy or sick should invest some time and money in food if
they care about their health.
Food needs
to be prepared right and eaten right for maximal health benefits.
For instance, cooking at high heat can turn
natural and health vegetable oil into toxic or detrimental substances that harm
our health.
For another example, eating
too much meat at a wrong time may increase cancer risk. Nutritionists believe most of diseases
can be prevented if people use a healthy diet.
Taste and fullness are not the standards you
need to use to decide what and how much you need to eat.