America's Health Myth

You could say the odds are stacked against you! America is a terribly sick nation! Nearly 99% of its inhabitants suffer in some manner. Untold millions endure excruciating aches and pains.

One hundred years ago, heart attacks and strokes were the cause of death for less than 14% of our population. Today, heart attacks and strokes are the cause of death for almost 50% of our population. That is an increase of almost 400% in 100 years!

Every 33 seconds someone in the United States dies of a heart attack, and if you don’t change what you eat, your chance of having one yourself is almost 50%.

EVERY DAY IN AMERICA:

32,877 Americans are diagnosed with coronary heart disease!

12,603 people suffer a heart attack!

2,600 people die from cardiovascular disease!

To make matters even worse each year nearly another million Americans will suffer from cancer!

And to top off the high statistics above, experts say up to 100,000 Americans die from mistakes every year in hospitals alone.

The above numbers mirror what is happening all across the country. Lucian Leape, a Harvard University professor who conducted the most comprehensive study of medical errors in the United States, has estimated one million patients nationwide are injured by errors during hospital treatment each year and 120,000 die as a result.

That number of deaths is the equivalent of what would occur if a jumbo jet crashed every day; it is three times the 43,000 people killed each year in U.S. automobile accidents. And this is only the tip of iceberg!

WHY ARE AMERICANS SO UNHEALTHY?

Most Americans know less about their own bodies than their cars, furniture or television sets. Many have taken their health for granted for so long that they may no longer realize that they are the ones responsible for  either being sick or healthy.

We are living in a very fast paced world. Most people live mainly for fun and pleasure; and few people stop to think what tomorrow will bring. When tomorrow does arrive, and mankind finds himself sick, he resorts to calling a physician.

Very few individuals understand that the majority of illnesses (degenerative diseases), have been brought about by incorrect lifestyle habits.

Today, Americans are being told that they live longer than the folks that lived around 1900. Actually that belief is largely a myth.

The fact is that around the turn of the century every sixth baby died before reaching the first year of life, mainly because of infectious diseases. This, then, greatly shortened the average life span of their society.

Today, however, a person age 65 has very nearly the same life expectancy as a person back in the 1900s who survived that critical first year of life., with perhaps an average gain of around five or six years at most.

Actually the term “degenerative disease” is really a misnomer. For years people accepted the idea that “degenerative diseases” (such as heart diseases, diabetes, arthritis, etc.,) were diseases of old age and therefore to be expected.

Nothing could be further from the truth. The fact that an increasing number of young people are suffering from the same diseases refutes this, as does their increase to near epidemic proportions despite everything medical science can do.

Advances in high-tech medicine have not altered the advances of the killer diseases, that’s because people create their own diseases!

Modern epidemiology (the study of disease differences in world populations) is unraveling the mystery — that most of these modern killer  diseases are lifestyle-related. They are basically diseases of affluence — excessive eating, not eating correct foods for optimal health, and not following proper lifestyle habits. Americans are paying dearly for these abuses. They are living to eat, and what they are eating is killing them especially in the form of obesity. Over 65 percent of Americans are overweight and sick.

WHY BE SICK?

To be well, we must comply with nature’s fixed conditions (laws): The cause of the disease or sickness must be removed. Our bodies must be supplied with material necessary to effectively repair the damage wrought by the disease. Our bodies cannot heal itself, and do a good job with poor  material.

Man will be rewarded handsomely when living in harmony with the natural laws that govern his being. On the other hand, in time, man will pay the price by infringing upon these natural laws. Life, health, and happiness are dispensed to those who follow eight laws. Innumerable pains and premature death are meted out, with impartiality and unerring accuracy, to those who transgress these laws.

For example, if anyone breaks the laws that govern the digestion by overloading the stomach with junk food and poor quality food; or by abusing the kidneys so that it cannot function as it should, then the stomach or kidneys will fail, which can lead to other serious health problems and even death!

Americans commit from about 20 to 80 poisoning acts daily! Many of these acts are innocently and unknowingly indulged. Only three things should ever pass our lips: Good air, pure water, and foods of our biological disposition, which are fresh fruits, vegetables, grains, nuts and seeds.

Your health is a totally do-it-yourself affair. No one else can breathe for you, drink for you, eat for you, sleep for you, exercise for you, get sunshine for you, practice temperance for you, nor, in fact, do one solitary thing for you that builds health. At best you can be guided to healthful practices. Only healthful practices build health while all unhealthful practices produce illnesses, diseases, painful ailments, and suffering. Man is a product of how he lives — which is cause to effect!

Remember — all the knowledge we have regarding sickness and the human body represents but a tiny amount compared to all that is still unknown and undiscovered.

Most of what medical science knows is based upon experiments conducted on cells and tissues studied in a laboratory, in a dead or dying state, far removed from what really happens in the living (healthy) state in which the “life force” is active with thousands of enzymes constantly being manufactured, constantly affecting each cell. This, of course, is not seen in the science laboratories. Also, most discoveries are but only theories which every few years become obsolete and are revised, showing how far man is from really knowing the truth!

Are we not wiser to trust in the very thing that has always worked for man—trusting in “nature”—trusting in the eight laws to establish and maintain good health? These principles of good health and better life have been used from the beginning of time and have been proven over and over to successfully  maintain a healthy life for all that practice them.