Heart Health

Last year at about this time the New England Journal of Medicine published an article entitled “Options for slowing the growth of health care costs”. In table 1 there are listed 12 options for cost savings, ranked from highest to lowest potential. The NEJM is one of the most influential and respected medical journals in the world. If you Google the lead author, James J. Mongan, M.D., you get 736 entries. He is President and Chief Executive Officer of Partners HealthCare, the Medical Group Practice associated with Massachusetts General Hospital. He is also Professor of Health Care Policy and Professor of Social Medicine at Harvard Medical School. There is probably no more distinguished and respected doctor in the country. Yet not only did he not come up with any practical, doable solution to the Health Care Financial Crisis, he did not even correctly identify the real origins of the… Read More…

The U.S. government’s annual bill for healthcare spending – $3,925 per person – significantly exceeds that of all other nations. Despite this, our current health care system is increasingly failing both patients and medical practitioners. Of 13 nations, the U.S. is last for neonatal and infant mortality, last for years of potential life lost, 10th for age-adjusted mortality, 11th and 12th for female and male life expectancy respectively. Chronic degenerative diseases – heart disease, cancer, arthritis, obesity, etc. – are at epidemic levels and create the ideal long-term customers to grow the medical industry.

Looking for a culprit? Consider that pharmaceutical company profits are so large they outstrip every other American industry by far. Americans spend over $500 billion on drugs. The drug companies claim that they need large earnings ($124,835,595,000 in 1999, for example) to conduct their research, but just one of every five dollars the… Read More…

It’s amazing what the human body can do – especially when it comes to natural health care and self-healing. Complementary health treatments like massage therapy can be beneficial in achieving optimal health and wellbeing. Labor pain, for instance, can be alleviated through massage. Other common health issues like anxiety and back pain can be significantly reduced with massage therapy as well.

Additional natural health treatments like biofeedback, hypnosis, meditation and yoga are mind-body medicines that are proving to be helpful in a variety of health issues. For example, meditation has been shown to help relieve symptoms from common conditions and diseases like allergies, anxiety, cancer, chronic pain, high blood pressure, and even heart disease, among others.

Individuals who have cancer have discovered many benefits to natural health care treatments. More specifically, acupuncture, aromatherapy, hypnosis, massage, and Tai Chi all seem to have… Read More…

1. Our conventional health care system needs you to be sick.

Although there is much evidence to support the effects of exercising regularly, dieting properly, living healthy and supplementing nutritionally to ward off illness and to live longer, the focus of conventional medicine still remains on treating disease instead of proactive prevention.

2. The “System” treats the “syndrome”, not the cause!

The suppression of symptoms doesn’t seem to be the most viable solution for our best minds to contrive, but this is exactly how it is all setup. You will be a loyal customer and friend to the end.

3. The Big 4 Leading Diseases can be prevented.

The American Cancer Society estimated that about 1/3 of cancer deaths are linked to diet and nutrition. According to the CDC regular exercise reduces heart disease, diabetes, colon cancer risks, and strokes… Read More…

Obesity is a growing problem in our country and it seems that the smarter we get and the more technological and scientific advances we make, the worse the problem becomes. This doesn’t make a lot of sense, does it?

What is being done to prevent obesity? Clearly not enough. More than 65% of Americans are now considered overweight or obese. Many diseases that are leading killers in our society are preventable. That is correct. I am talking about diseases such as heart disease, diabetes, and even certain types of cancer. The medical community has convinced the general public that treatments for these diseases are readily available instead of focusing on the prevention of them. Why? Because these treatments are what put money into the healthcare system, not the prevention of the disease itself.

One of the most startling statistics of all – 70% of all… Read More…