CAN YOU HANDLE THE TRUTH?

Jack Nicholson played Colonel Jessep in a 1992 movie entitled, “A Few Good Men.” The famous line from that movie was:

YOU WANT THE TRUTH?  YOU CAN’T HANDLE THE TRUTH!

We live in a time and a world really no different from the past. Sure, there’s technology and modernization, but the basic structural foundation in thinking remains unchanged. As a society, we want SIMPLE SOLUTIONS to COMPLICATED PROBLEMS. We want to believe those in authoritative positions possess the power and capability of providing these SIMPLE SOLUTIONS that will make our lives easier and better.

When it comes to health, we seek simplicity by choosing to believe a “named disease” (ex. diabetes, cardiac disease, etc…) is treated with a “named drug.” We don’t objectively look at the disease and the recommended treatment and evaluate the logic used to determine whether these treatments are designed to restore health to the body. If we chose this LOGICAL and  OBJECTIVE approach instead, it would:

1. Potentially, COMPLICATE decisions and make professionals more accountable for their treatments.

2. Potentially, create a strained patient/doctor relationship. The doctor might feel treatment recommendations are being “challenged” and the patient might FEAR an over reactive response such as dismissal for non compliance.

3. Potentially, OPEN A CAN OF WORMS revealing viable ALTERNATIVE OPTIONS in place of pharmaceutical drugs to addressing health imbalances/conditions/diseases.

WHY DO WE CHOOSE TO ACCEPT THE STATUS QUO?

• We have CHOSEN to live our lives confined to the boundaries of health insurance coverage.

• We have CHOSEN to “eat the forbidden fruit” (unhealthy diets) and deal with the ramifications “down the road.”

• We have CHOSEN to justify life compromising behavior by making the following claims:

  • “It’s too expensive to eat healthy.”

  • “There aren’t enough hours in the day to live a healthy lifestyle.”

  • “It’s too complicated to “do the right thing.” Jim Fixx (the marathon runner) exercised yet he died at 52 of a heart attack while running, “so why bother?” (Of course most people don’t realize, Jim Fixx was overweight as an adult prior to taking up exercise, smoked 2 packs of cigarettes a day, had a family history of cardiac disease{his father’s 1st heart attack at 35 and fatal one at 43 years of age} and hadn’t received a physical in over 16 years at the time of his death.)

  • “Eating healthy and exercising doesn’t guarantee longevity.”

THE REAL REASON WE CHOOSE TO ACCEPT STATUS QUO IS BECAUSE WE BELIEVE IT’S EASIER!

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The pharmaceutical field along with the medical field has successfully lengthened the lifespan of the average person in the United States, yet with all our technology, our ranking for life expectancy remains ONLY 43rd in the world. This proves the best doctors with the most advanced technology in diagnostics and pharmaceutical treatments continues to fall short in extending life expectancy while FAILING to improve standards of  QUALITY LIVING.

(Ref: Source:CIA World Factbook, 2015.)

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CAN YOU HANDLE THE TRUTH?

TYPE II DIABETES

• 9 out of 10 new cases of Type II Diabetes are PREVENTABLE by addressing 5 risk factors. These include increasing physical activity level, improving dietary habits, not smoking, limiting alcohol consumption and maintaining a body mass index <25. Ref: Lifestyle Risk Factors For Type II Diabetes outlined by the National Institute of Health

• By CHOOSING to ignore these factors the incidence of vascular LLA (lower leg amputation) is eight times higher in diabetic than in nondiabetic individuals. One in four amputees may require the opposing leg amputated and/or reamputation of the upper leg. (Ref: Incidence Of Lower Limb Amputations in Diabetics outlined by the American Diabetic Association)

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CAN YOU HANDLE THE TRUTH?

CARDIAC DISEASE

• Nearly 1 in 3 deaths in the US each year is caused by heart disease and stroke.

“At least 200,000 of these deaths could have been PREVENTED“

through changes in health habits, such as stopping smoking, more physical activity and exercise, healthier eating, less salt in the diet and managing high blood pressure, high cholesterol, and diabetes. (Ref: Preventable Deaths from Heart Disease & Stroke outlined by the CDC)

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CAN YOU HANDLE THE TRUTH?

CANCER

• At least one-third of all cancer cases are PREVENTABLE. Prevention offers the most cost-effective long-term strategy for the control of cancer.

  • (Preventable Factors) Physical inactivity, dietary factors, obesity and being overweight 

    • Regular physical activity, nutritional improvements and the maintenance of a healthy body weight, along with a healthy diet, will considerably reduce cancer risk.(Ref: Cancer prevention outlined by the World Health Organization)

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Regardless of the named disease, the one recurring theme associated with ALL OF THEM is that a majority ARE PREVENTABLE. 1 in 2 women and 1 in 3 men will get cancer. 1 in 4 men over the age of 35 will die from heart disease.

The reality of these numbers contradict the average person’s EXCUSES.

• Eating healthy is CHEAPER than treating cancer, heart disease and diabetes.

• If there are enough hours in the day for cancer, heart disease and diabetes hospital visits, rehab visits and family doctor visits there is certainly more hours in the day than we realize.

• Eating healthy and exercising is NOT MORE COMPLICATED than checking blood glucose levels throughout the day AND becoming CHAINED to diabetic medications and the sickening and dangerous reactions to significant swings in blood sugar levels.

• The complications of healthy eating and exercise do not outweigh the physical and mental complications and limitations of heart disease. If you have to ask your doctor if your healthy enough to have sex, how many other enjoyable things in life will you be forced to give up? FEAR of DYING produces greater emotional COMPLICATIONS than healthy eating and reasonable exercise.

• If we’re trying to reduce health insurance costs, NETWORK DOCTORS are STILL MORE EXPENSIVE than $0.00; the cost of NOT NEEDING A DOCTOR for a PREVENTABLE condition.

SO THERE’S THE TRUTH

 

WAS COLONEL JESSEP RIGHT WHEN HE SAID:

“YOU CAN’T HANDLE THE TRUTH!“

OR ARE YOU WILLING TO TAKE THE STEPS TO AVOID PREVENTABLE DISEASES?

 

 

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