Nutrition to the rescue!!
The crooks are coming out of the woodwork! The bankers, lawyers, and politicians are showing their true colors. And health care is no exception. The fraud and deception in health care runs deep- right to the core. Everyone is doing whatever they need to do to maintain and grow their piece of the pie. I wrote the quote at the beginning of this article almost 20 years ago. It might just as well have been written yesterday. As out economy sinks, Americans are getting a good look as corruption and greed- from the real estate bust to billion-dollar pharmaceutical company fines to conflicts of interest at all levels of medicine-even in the watchdog agencies that are supposed to be watching out for our health interests.
Believe it nor not almost, 40 years ago the government did take a look at a new way to control health care costs while actually benefiting the health of the nation. The research, in a treatise by the U.S. Department of Agriculture called “Benefits from Humana Nutritional Research,” was frightening to organized medicine and the processed food and pharmaceutical industries in this country. And the government never acted on this research- there was never any thoughtful and meaningful oversight. Instead, the research simply disappeared from public view. But I found out about it. The treatise, backed up by the study statistics, was designed to turn around the sky-rocketing health care budget while strengthening the health of out nation- what a concept! Here are some highlights with my comments:
1. U.S.D.A. Research: Most health problems underlying the leading causes of death in the U.S. could be modified by improvements in diet. Dr. West: This is a no-brainer. Even the number one cause of death in the U.S., (medical treatments) could be modified. If you eat better, you need less medical care, thus reducing the major risk of death.
2. U.S.D.A. Research: The highest death rates are found where the food consumed is grown in depleted soils. Dr. West: This one flies in the face of everything promoted by the medical and food “experts,” who would you believe that a tomato is a tomato, no matter what soil it is grown in and no matter how it is fertilized. Foods today, versus those grown 50 years ago, have suffered major nutrient depletions, especially in minerals. Since minerals and trace minerals spark every reaction in your body, it is obvious that eating depleted foods would cause higher death rates.
3. U.S.D.A. Research: Virus infections hit harder among the undernourished. Dr. West: Over many well-meaning physicians’ protests, the medical answer to this one (after paying some lip-service to the antibiotic abuse program) is to just give antibiotics to everyone-even though they have no effect on viral infections. About the only thing that stops a virus is your immune system. And your immune system is totally dependent upon nutrition. In fact, calcium is intrinsically involved in almost every single immune system function. And store-bought vegetables and produce today contain less that half of calcium they contained just 50 years ago.
4. U.S.D.A. Research: All arthritic conditions are associated with adverse changes in nutrition. Dr. West: Medicine’s answer to this problem it to give drugs and more drugs to dull the pain. And when these fail, there are joint replacement surgeries-surgeries that are responsible for keeping most hospitals financially afloat. So who cares about nutrition? Despite all this, it is a proven fact that joints can be healed and rebuilt when the proper nutrition (including the osteofactors and raw bone) is provided.
Following up on only these 4 points would make Medicare solvent again! Will it happen? Not without a government bailout for pharmaceutical companies, hospitals and physicians.
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