There is a naturopath here in Tucosn, Dr Lea, who posted this on facbook this morning. It is well said.
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Rather than focusing on prevention, our "health-care system" is primarily a disease-care system. The unspoken message has generally been to ignore prevention: wait until it’s broken and then seek out the “magic bullet” or drug to cover up our symptoms. Or if that doesn’t work, cut it out. This is a severely defective and expensive approach, one that is threatening the welfare of a growing number of American households. Some 54 million Americans will go without health insurance this year alone.
Americans now spend over $250 billion a year on prescription drugs – more than all the people in Australia, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Spain, Brazil, Argentina, Mexico, New Zealand, and the United Kingdom combined!
When it comes to your health care, the best bargain, hands down, is prevention of disease through a healthy lifestyle – diet, exercise, stress reduction, healthy habits, and nutritional supplementation.
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