How Much Do You Know About Disease Prevention?

Your health and, disease prevention is all about you, and what you do about your life choices, and we make these choices every day from the time we wake up, until we fall asleep at night. Unfortunately, the choices that most people make do not have a lot to do with improving their health, or for that matter, improving their lives.

Your first choice of the day starts with the mental question: “How do I feel this morning?” You can choose to say “I feel great!!” and jump out of bed, or you can say: “I want to lie around for another hour, I’m tired, I don’t want to go to work.” As you start your day, so your day will go. It is your decision. In the section; spiritual health and wellness, I will address some of these issues. Just a slight “attitude adjustment” will change your life.

A positive mental attitude is one of the best healers in the world, a key in disease prevention, and it is within your power to either encourage that attitude, or not. A positive attitude will affect what choices you make for each day:

• Did I wake up grateful for what I have? (You know, little things, like: I can see, I can hear, I can walk)

• What will I eat?

• Will I work out before work, at lunch, or after work?

• How will I enhance, or improve someone else’s day?

• How will I contribute to my workplace in a positive way?

• How will I end this great day?

The Goal Of This Section

All of the foregoing may seem like I am “off the track” for disease prevention, but I’m not. Positive Attitude is so important in disease prevention, that I can’t say it enough. I will, however, get to the core of this section now.

As a reminder, everything throughout the whole site is backed up by solid scientific research. It is not speculation, it is all about helping you to make better choices, and helping you to take an active role in disease prevention. If at any time you need substantiation of a particular item, feel free to contact us and we will do our best to refer you to the relevant study(ies).

One way leads to a lifetime of good health, where you have the ability to enjoy every single minute of your life. The other leads to drug dependency, and, in most cases, dependency on others to care for you when you are older. Which would you rather do?

America’s health is failing. We spend far more per person, on health care than any other society in the world, and yet two thirds of Americans are overweight, and over 15 million Americans have diabetes, a number that has been rising rapidly, now, even in our children. We don’t do very much with disease prevention, just with treating the symptoms of the disease we already have, usually as a result of our nutritional habits.

We fall prey to heart disease as often as we did thirty years ago, and the “war” on cancer, launched in the 1970’s, has been a miserable failure. Over half of Americans have a health problem that requires taking a prescription drug every week, and over 100 million Americans have high cholesterol. All of this, and I haven’t even mentioned the 60% of Americans who are overweight.

We are number 38 in health out of all the developed countries in the world…38th!

Do you think something is wrong with this picture?? We did not have these major health issues early in the 20th century, at least not affecting such a large segment of the population. In 1900, only 1 in 7 people died of cardiovascular disease, and only 1 in 30 died of cancer.

What changed is how our food is grown, processed, and delivered, and how we have become a “cash cow” for businesses like the food industry and the pharmaceutical industry. We have simply become very apathetic, content to sit and watch mindless TV programs, “charge it” when we ran out of money, and let others determine our future. I know that is a pretty strong statement, but it is true. The numbers tell it all.

And, the most incredible part of this is that we like to think of ourselves as an “educated” society, yet we have gone backwards in the very areas that we needed to go forward in: nutrition and disease prevention. If you listen to all of the advertisers in the market place, they will tell you that everything is great! The drug manufacturers will also paint this rosy picture of a future with no disease! Well, things are NOT great in the nutrition industry, just in the financial part of it, and, the majority of the drugs on the market (which we pay from 75% to 200% more for in the U.S. than other countries pay), just cover up the symptoms of the disease, but do not actually cure it. But, everything is great in the drug industry also, on the financial end.

What's NOT great, is our health.

Drugs are not a “cure-all”, and there is not a pill that will be like the fountain of youth that some people seem to be waiting for. Drugs cover up the symptoms of the disease. They are about as far from disease prevention as you can get.

America has always been a leader. Do we really want to be known as the world’s leader in bad health? Because right now, we are.

One Person’s Story About Disease Prevention And Natural Products

“2.5 years ago, I decided that I could no longer deal with my anxiety and depression problems and went to the Dr. to seek a pharmaceutical "cure". I had also been fighting with my weight since the birth of my daughter 3 yrs. prior to that, I specifically asked my doctor for a medication that would not cause me to gain weight. I was given Paxil™. To its credit, it did help me deal with my anxiety and depression spiral but at what cost? I gained an additional 30 pounds over 2.5 years (very common with SSRIs) and experienced intense itching and fatigue.

After speaking to my Dr. about these symptoms, we both finally came to the conclusion that it was the Paxil™ causing these things and my Dr. recommended I go a different medication. I elected not to try another drug, and decided to perform my own research to see if there was another non-drug alternative. What I found was that depression, anxiety and bipolar disorders are often caused by a lack of Omega 3 intake. As I had tried the pharmaceutical route and been displeased with all the side effects, I decided to give Omega 3 supplements a try.

Paxil™ is an insidious medication. Once on it you must taper yourself off of it or you risk all kinds of nasty side effects - suicidal thoughts being the worst. Having been without my medication for 4 days in the past I can attest that the withdrawal is awful. I tapered (taking 1/2 doses, every other day) my Paxil™ intake for 2 weeks. At that time my omega-3s arrived and as my research had shown that Omega 3 supplements could help accelerate the withdrawal process w/o side effects I decided to give it a try - to stop tapering and withdraw cold turkey on my Paxil™. I would not recommend this as it is risky but as I know my body and how it reacted under Paxil™ withdrawal, I knew that if I experienced certain withdrawal symptoms I needed to get back on the tapering schedule.

I have taken my omega-3s religiously every day. I am elated to report that I never needed to resume my Paxil™ tapering schedule. I'm Paxil™ free. AND - I have tons more energy, my anxiety level is normal (I was diagnosed with General Anxiety Disorder, Social Anxiety Disorder and Post Traumatic Stress Disorder before) so I think this is fabulous. I've also begun to lose weight. I cannot recommend this product enough. It gave me my life back and for the first time in years I feel...hopeful and ready to greet each new day.”

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Where Do I Start?

Here are some simple beginning steps for disease prevention:

• Start with your diet, what you eat every day. Really look at it;