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Prevention is the best health care reform
The Gazette Opinion Staff
Sep. 7, 2009 12:07 am
Statistics now say one out of every two U.S. males will experience cancer in their lifetime. For women, it's one out of three. The predicted numbers for arthritis, heart disease, asthma and Alzheimer's are close behind. Our children are already at 1 out of 6 with ADHD and 1 out of 66 with full-blown autism.
Our nation is sick and soon at epidemic levels. No medical system will have the ability to manage these numbers.
There appears to be only one solution: prevention.
Eating habits and exercising is no longer enough. Those taking supplements that encourage the body to rejuvenate its own antioxidant and antitoxin abilities are doing so much better. These people have superior immune systems and already are experiencing a healthy life, many in their later years.
Why is it so hard to convince a dying nation that we do not need to live chronically ill on dangerous drugs, many to die well before their time when they may not have to?
Mike Grosam
Springville
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