Rising Diabetes Rates and the Cost of Sick Care in America

Hello Everyone in Natural Health Nation-

I hope that you’re enjoying the snow and getting through this beginning of winter without too much trouble.  We’re seeing a lot people suffering with colds and flu, most likely due to all the sugary foods they have eaten, and the stress they have endured, during the holidays.  We strive to get our patients to take extra whole food nutritional supplements during this time of year to handle the stress and make up for the sugary foods that people have to try during the holidays.  Thankfully, we’re getting many reports from our patients that the rest of their family has had colds and/or flu, but they have not.  They need to bring the rest of the family in to our office. Mainstream medicine has us all thinking that we catch a bug and that is the cause of the problem.  This is not true.  The bugs are out there all the time but it’s the immune system that gets weakened from whatever reason, allowing the bugs to get a foothold or over grow, which leads us to have symptoms of colds or flu or worse, like pneumonia.  This is why some people survived the Spanish flu and others didn’t, because of their immune systems and not from a different bug.  At Natural Health, we have the products and the knowledge to help people be healthy and have strong immune systems so that they don’t have to worry about all the bugs out there.

The article that I am a sending along today looks at the increase in cases of diabetes in this country to one in six adults.  This is a trend and it keeps going up.  Mainstream medicine thinks that early detection is the way to help but that’s just treatment and not prevention or cure.  I’ve noticed more and more attention on social media about food dyes in cereal, the bad seed oils that are in everything processed, all the sugar in ketchup and energy drinks, and on and on.  People are waking up to the fact that this country is sick and mainstream medicine likes it that way.  I enjoyed the one meme on social media that showed you don’t make money on dead people or healthy people, just on sick people.  

At Natural Health, our goal is to help our patients be healthy at a fraction of the cost of sick care.  The insurance companies are in on it too as they only pay for sick care and they make money as a percentage of the premiums.  As the premiums go up, they make more money.  It’s quite a racket and this been going on for far too long.  Again, I try to stay out of politics but I am impressed by the Let’s Make America Healthy Again campaign.  I think that we’ll hear more about that as the new administration gets established.  It’s just a shame that we have the technology and the money to be truly healthy in this country but we have some of the poorest health statistics in the civilized world.  It’s also interesting that many of the “foods” we eat in this country are outlawed in other countries because of their toxicity and links to sickness and disease.  Maybe someday we can all be healthy.  

Get Healthy, Stay Healthy, and Live Well

-Dr. Mark