When You Change the Way You Look at Things, Part II.

Because this is one of the few times that I have actually had a real point to make, I am determined to finish it.  For those who have no idea what the hell I’m talking about, the column on the right was the beginning of a case I was making for the fact that our current piss-poor state of collective health has more to do with economics and education than it does with health care and medicine.  Therefore, for those who are just tuning in, start with Part I to your right, and then read my conclusion here.   Now, for Part II.

Where I spent the first half of this argument explaining how our fat, overweight and obese population– which now equates to one person out of every two–could most easily be traced back to the economy, and how its current shitty state will much likely make things even worse from a health standpoint (if you can imagine that), I am now going to target the medical industry, which should really be more appropriately titled the “sickness industry,” due to the fact that nobody who visits, or resides in a hospital for any period of time ever really WANTS to be there, or spend the shitload of money it costs for every visit that’s being made.   Therefore, let’s call it what it is: Physicians treat those who are sick, not those who are well.  Nevertheless, the medical industry today is a $1.3 trillion one.  To put that in perspective, that means that 1/7 of the US economy is being spent treating the symptoms of our ill health.  Needless to say, the more overweight or obese you are, the more medical problems you will have.  That goes without saying.  But no one ever dreamed that the majority of health-care costs in this country (under the age of 65) are entirely due to being overweight and obese, and the medical business reaps $1.3 trillion annually treating the symptoms of our bad food habits, and horrendously lazy fat-asses.  These people, my friends, are not interested in giving you information that is going to eliminate you as a customer.  Now I realize that I’m making that sound evil and/or malicious on the part of the physicians, and I certainly not trying to do that.  Here’s an example: Suppose you have a deficiency of a certain vitamin, mineral, or essential fatty-acid, and you therefore decide to see a physician.  Is that doctor going to say “ok, take this drug every day for the rest of your life,” or is he/she going to spend hours with you analyzing what you eat, what your lifestyle is like, or anything else to find out that you’re not getting a certain vitamin, and that is what’s causing the disease?  Being the son of an excellent physician and nurse practitioner, I’m sorry to break the news to you guys that he or she is going to give you the quick fix, aka “the medical fix.”  How do I know this?  Because it happened to me for 21 years.  That’s how long I spent taking various forms of harsh pharmaceuticals, spending thousands and thousands of dollars, dealing with side-effects that would oftentimes outweigh the benefits, only to later find out that my disease could be controlled through certain dietary changes, and nutritional supplements.  Again, I am not implying that our physicians are evil people, but they get a good chunk of their information from the research that is being done by drug companies.  So what is happening is that the entire medical business, in effect, deals with the after-effect of our shitty eating habits.  Remember, we spent $1.3 trillion last year just to work on the effects of not getting the right nutrition, or right vitamins.  You’re beginning to see where I’m going with all this now, huh?  We, as a society, accept arthritis and eyesight problems and not being strong, and all types of medical problems as symptoms of aging.  That is fucking bullshit people!!!  MOST of the medical problems we experience today are resulting from a vitamin and mineral deficiency in our diets.  We go to a doctor to say I have a headache, or I have dizziness, or I am fat and miserable.  The doctor quickly comes out with a drug treating that symptom.  The doc doesn’t focus on your overall diet or what’s missing from your diet.  All food is made up of one of six nutrient categories: 1) water 2) carbohydrates 3) lipids or fats 4) proteins 5) vitamins and minerals.  Virtually all disease is directly resulting from a deficiency in one of those nutrient categories.  More than anything else, my research is concluding that all medical problems, ones we often chalk up to aging or a lack of strength, all the way to cancer and Alzheimer’s, IS A DIRECT RESULT OF A DEFICIENCY IN ONE OF THE SIX NUTRIENT CATEGORIES THAT COMPOSE OUR FOOD.  A deficiency in any one of those six nutrient categories leads to what doctors call disease.  But it is really a symptom of some nutrient category missing in our diet.  Plain and simple. 

Shit, it looks like this one is going to take me three parts to finish.  I still have not gotten to my ultimate point, but I would love for anyone to challenge me on this.  Especially if you are in the medical field.  Until next time, however, keep checking back.  I promise I’ll wrap this up in the next installment, so don’t go anywhere cube-freaks.