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How to slash national health care costs by 90% through education, nutrition, and a ban on junk food marketing Mike Adams, the Health Ranger See article keywords and concepts

Of course, doing so will cost taxpayer dollars, but it will also serve as an investment and ultimately will save billions of dollars in long-term healthcare costs. Remember, investing in prevention is a good investment. It's money well spent at both the personal level and national level. Moving on down the line here, another fantastic idea for improving the nutrition and health of our nation is to end the subsidies on corn and sugar. There's no sane reason why corn and sugar need to be subsidized in this country. By subsidizing them, we are only making these food ingredients cheaper.

The Encyclopedia of Popular Herbs Robert S. McCaleb, Evelyn Leigh, and Krista Morien See book keywords and concepts

Currently, Americans pay twice as much as Europeans and three times as much as Japanese for healthcare costs as a percentage of the gross national product, yet fare worse than both groups in health statistics such as longevity, infant mortality, cancer, and heart disease rates.1 The Importance of Preventive Medicine The American culture is liberally steeped in the value of preventive medicine. From an early age, we learn that "an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure," "an apple a day keeps the doctor away," and "a stitch in time saves nine.

Alternative Medicine the Definitive Guide, Second Edition Larry Trivieri, Jr. See book keywords and concepts

This type of therapy could provide a safe and effective way to curb rising healthcare costs. Conditions Benefited by Magnetic Field Therapy Treatments can last from just a few minutes to overnight and, depending upon the situation and severity, may be applied several times a day or for days or weeks at a time. Dr. Philpott has used magnets to help relieve toothaches, eliminate periodontal disease, and eradicate fungal infections like candidiasis. Kidney stones and calcium deposits in inflamed tissues have also been known to dissolve.

Part Three Health Conditions ADDICTIONS Addictions afflict millions of people in the United States and result in an annual loss of productivity and healthcare costs valued at nearly $250 billion.^ Alternative physicians believe that conventional methods fail as addiction treatments because they do not recognize the genetic and biochemical imbalances that research has shown to be at the heart of addiction.

In Bad Taste: The Msg Symptom Complex : How Monosodium Glutamate Is a Major Cause of Treatable and Preventable Illnesses, Such As Headaches, Asthma, Epilepsy, heart George R. Schwartz See book keywords and concepts

In addition the tremendous healthcare costs of Alzheimer's disease, Lou Gehrig's disease, and other diseases of nerve cell death will be decreased. Parkinson's Disease Characterized by tremor, rigidity, altered muscular action, and deterioration in nerve cells, Parkinson's disease affects more than one million people just in North America alone.34 Neurodegenerative diseases are expected to surpass cancer as the second most common cause of death among the elderly over the next 40 years.

The Great Book of Hemp: The Complete Guide to the Environmental, Commercial, and Medicinal Uses of the World's Most Extraordinary Plant Rowan Robinson See book keywords and concepts

And the high tax revenue it generates—a 200-year-old excuse—we now know doesn't begin to pay the healthcare costs for which it is clearly responsible. Jefferson was not fond of flax either. In a letter of December 1815 he argues that "flax is so injurious to our lands and of so scanty produce that I have never attempted it. Hemp, on the other hand, is abundantly productive and will grow forever on the same spot." The breaking and beating of hemp in fiber production was so slow and laborious, however, that Jefferson had given up growing it.

Alternative Medicine the Definitive Guide, Second Edition Larry Trivieri, Jr. See book keywords and concepts

Doctors are confronted daily with patients suffering from illnesses for which conventional medicine offers only superficial treatment of symptoms. The magic of antibiotics is vanishing as a host of resistant infections emerge. Diseases such as AIDS and chronic fatigue syndrome have shown us clearly that our present treatments are simply not effective and hint at new health problems that may lie ahead. The metaphor of a modern plague may be appropriate. Growing numbers of people lack vitality and suffer from a host of complaints difficult to define.

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