Health....

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I Hate You Don’t Leave Me – Understanding Borderline Personality – Jerold Kreisman

p. xi – For decades, physicians treated diseases and illnesses as the symptoms occurred, with little attention to prevention. The idea of preventing heart attacks and strokes, for example, by implementing certain lifestyle changes – diet, exercise, nicotine/drug abstinence – was almost completely unheard of. Aside from a few basic home remedies, self-care was viewed only as a poor second choice to prescribed medications and treatments.

Western medicine is basically emergency care. People wait until they get sick and then seek a treatment or CURE. Doctors dispense drugs to treat SYMPTOMS, often ignoring the cause of the disease. Over-medication becomes the norm, especially in (but not limited to) the elderly.

In general, patients relied on the medical profession to correct their condition rather than prevent it. They did not expect thorough explanations of diseases, nor did doctors provide them as part of their professional services. Basically, the public viewed illnesses as numbers on a roulette wheel – one was lucky and stayed healthy or one became sick or injured and went to a doctor for treatment.

I think that is how most people view illnesses today. They feel that they have no control over diseases - especially if certain diseases "run in their family." It is just a matter of "bad luck."

Unfortunately the medical profession is driven by economics and expensive drugs are prescribed, expensive procedures are developed and performed.

This approach has changed radically over the past thirty years. Self-care and preventive medicine have become central components of quality health care programs. Medical research, consumer awareness, and dramatically rising health care costs have led to a recognition that many diseases can be prevented with proper preventive measures. More than ever, people are concerned about their health; they want to understand and take control of it.

I feel it is important that people are exposed to the truth. Our culture, tradition, peer pressure, and resistance to change make it difficult for most people to accept the obvious. What they do after they are exposed to this information is entirely up to them.

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“I have one body and one life….”

We are blessed with only a limited time on earth. This realization was one of the main reasons I personally decided to never use drugs (both legal and illegal). I felt it unforgivable to waste any of my precious time in an impaired state.

God has given me one body and one life. I feel it is my responsibility to do everything in my power to take care of it to the best of my ability.

Unfortunately the general public is bombarded with so much misinformation from special interest groups (meat industry, dairy industry, pharmaceutical industry) that they lack basic understanding of scientifically-good nutrition and most Americans are eating themselves to death.
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