Our Medical Nightmare

​Unfortunately, medical care has become a political and financial nightmare. What are we — regular human beings — to do to help ourselves?

The GOOD NEWS is that we can do a LOT.

Because the better our health care, the less we need medical care.

What? ? ?

Health care is what we do for ourselves — how we take care of these amazing bodies that house us for our entire lives. Doctors cannot do this for us!

And the better we take care of ourselves, the less we will need medical care.

Most of the diseases we suffer and die from in our modern world are lifestyle diseases: heart disease, strokes, diabetes, cancer, COPD, Alzheimer’s Disease, and obesity.

Since these diseases are primarily the result of our unhealthy lifestyle, we need to change our lifestyle to prevent and reverse these diseases.

And the single most important lifestyle factor, common to each of these diseases, is our unhealthy diet, high in processed foods and animal products.

So what is the solution?

 . . . The adoption of a plant-based diet of whole, unprocessed foods: vegetables, fruits, whole grains, beans, nuts and seeds.

Fortunately, the word is getting out (but not fast enough!)

The following advice comes from the 2013 issue of the Journal of Kaiser Permanente. (Kaiser is one of the largest integrated managed care plans in America.)

“Healthy eating is best achieved with a plant-based diet, which we define as a regimen that encourages whole, plant-based foods and discourages meats, dairy products,  eggs as well as all refined and processed foods.”

“Too often, physicians ignore the potential benefits of good nutrition and quickly prescribe medications instead of giving patients a chance to correct their disease through healthy eating and active living . . . Physicians should consider recommending a plant-based diet to all their patients, especially those with high blood pressure, diabetes, cardiovascular disease, or obesity.”

​I hope for the day when all people can easily receive the medical care they need, without going bankrupt to get it. 

But even more, I look forward to the day when it is commonplace for each of us to provide our own excellent health care, starting with a whole-foods, plant-based diet.

For the better our health care, the less we will need medical care!

To learn how to improve your own health care, check out my nutrition and cooking classes here:

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​ Tuesday, February 21, 2017

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Wednesday, February 22, 2017