The U.S. is a nation of disease treatment, not prevention

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There's not much money in preventing disease, but there's a fortune to be made in treating it. Birth defects like these neural tube defects cost just pennies to prevent (folic acid is dirt cheap), but babies that are born with defects create hundred of thousands of dollars in revenues for hospitals, surgeons and pharmaceutical companies. It sounds brash, perhaps, but it's economic reality.

That may be one reason why so little has been done in the United States to try to prevent disease. Virtually every modern disease now threatening our population -- cancer, diabetes, heart disease, depression and more -- has a nutritional basis... meaning that each is preventable through dietary changes alone.

In reality, the problem isn't that we haven't been putting folic acid into flour, the problem is that we're stripping out all the folic acid in the first place. In the United States, people love to buy and eat foods that have been stripped of the majority of their natural nutrition. The milling process removes virtually everything that's good for you, leaving only empty calories. White flour, sugar, corn syrup... it's all the same disease-promoting stuff after it leaves the mill.

Only whole grains are healthy grains. Whole grains contain the bran, the fiber, the oils, the vitamins and the minerals that promote human health. Instead of debating over what isolated nutrients we should put back into the foods sold at grocery stores why don't we stop stripping them out in the first place?

You already know the answer, of course: because healthy food has limited shelf life. And that makes it expensive for consumers and unprofitable for food producers. Most people won't buy food that's good for them for the simple reason that it costs more than healthy food.

So they'll save fifty cents right now by buying the cheap, processed food, and they'll spend a hundred thousand dollars on hospital bills ten years later as a result. Of course, few people connect the two events. Most people are short-term thinkers.

In addition, as I'm sure you'll agree, many people just don't know any better. That's why Internet education efforts are so critical to helping people get healthy. Keep reading, keep learning. And spread the word to help others.
About the author: Mike Adams is a consumer health advocate with a mission to teach personal and planetary health to the public He has authored more than 1,500 articles and dozens of reports, guides and interviews on natural health topics, reaching millions of readers with information that is saving lives and improving personal health around the world. Adams is an honest, independent journalist and accepts no money or commissions on the third-party products he writes about or the companies he promotes. In 2007, Adams launched EcoLEDs, a manufacturer of mercury-free, energy-efficient LED lighting products that save electricity and help prevent global warming. He also founded an environmentally-friendly online retailer called BetterLifeGoods.com that uses retail profits to help support consumer advocacy programs. He's also the CEO of a highly successful email newsletter software company that develops software used to send permission email campaigns to subscribers. Adams also serves as the executive director of the Consumer Wellness Center, a non-profit consumer protection group, and regularly pursues cycling, nature photography, Capoeira and Pilates. Known as the 'Health Ranger,' Adams' personal health statistics and mission statements are located at www.HealthRanger.org


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