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A RADICAL APPROACH TO HEALTH
October 14, 2006
A RADICAL APPROACH TO HEALTH
take responsibility for your own body
by KK Fowlkes
We have the greatest healthcare system in the world, or so
we have been led to believe. It is certainly the
costliest. In 1995 I had just begun a wheatgrass business
and had a greenhouse where people came in and out and
sometimes shared with me their experiences with health. A
neighbor to the greenhouse once came in and shared with me
his wife’s experience.
In July of 1993, medical doctors upon finding a huge tumor
in her colon the size of a small grapefruit removed it and
put her into intensive care, where she remained until
January of 1994. At that time she died. He related that
the total cost of that illness approached the amount of
four hundred thousand dollars! That was horrific! The
really sad and horrific thing was though that she died
anyway. I am sure that he was thankful to have had health
insurance.
Is health insurance necessary? If a person wishes to lead
a hedonistic life and chooses to smoke, drink alcohol, take
drugs of all kinds, including over the counter and
prescription drugs, eat anyplace, anytime, anything he so
desires, then yes, health insurance is necessary. In this
day, even if a person is careful, and eats the typical
American Diet and avoids certain processed food, then yes,
health insurance is necessary.
Certainly, it is necessary to have some type of accident
insurance to protect vulnerable members of ones family.
Certainly it might be necessary to have some type of
insurance if one is in the child bearing years.
The year 2006 saw a 7.7 percent increase in the price of
health insurance which was a smaller increase than had been
seen in a few years. Dr. Drew Altman, president and chief
executive of the Kaiser Family Foundation, which tracks the
annual cost of health insurance said, “To working people
and business owners, a reduction in an already very high
rate of increase just means you’re still paying more.”
Since the year 2000, health insurance premiums have gone up
78 percent, versus wages which have gone up 20 percent.
More than 155 million Americans get their health insurance
through their jobs. Employers usually pick up 84 percent
of the cost for individuals and 73 percent for families.
Sixty one percent of businesses offer health insurance.
(Kevin Frecking, Associated Press, Yahoo News Sept 26,
2006)
So, what is the overall cost of health insurance? For
individuals the cost averages $4,242. per year. For
families the average cost is $11,800. per year.
This might sound reasonable to my neighbor who would have
had to fork up nearly $400,000. dollars for his wife’s
illness.
However the massive reality here is that she died anyway!
$400,000 dollars expended for her illness and she died
anyway! Truly tell me, what is the use of having it? One
is protecting himself from ever having a major illness
cause bankruptcy, but the important thing here, human life,
the life of a cherished loved one, is not protected.
Is this reasonable? Many young families in our society
don’t even gross $11,800 per year.
Should all the rest of the people in the US be required to
pay more taxes so that unknowing or careless people can
have some type of insurance? Do we want to foot the bill
for people who say what the heck, I am going to die anyway.
I might as well enjoy myself in the meantime. Eat drink
and be merry for tomorrow we die.
Let us also examine the state of a stay in the hospital
these days. We have just seen how expensive it can be. Is
it safe? A man named “Lance Peterson who is a disease
investigator, reports that he was stunned when he found out
that a lethal bacterium was three times more common in his
Illinois hospital system than the rate found anywhere in
the US.” (Bloomberg.com, Sept. 27, 2006).
Hospital infections kill 92,000 per year. This statistic
comes from the U.S. Center for Disease Control and
Prevention in Atlanta , Georgia .
It is conclusive that we live in a dangerous society.
Should we endanger ourselves even more by entering a
hospital?
The radical approach that we suggest is to take
responsibility for ones self in only one area of life.
That way is by controlling the main ingredient that affects
the health of the body—what we put in it 3 times per day.
In the 1950’s Ann Wigmore pioneered a radical approach to
carefully care for the human body. Her approach was
two-fold in that it actually took people who were already
extremely ill and guided them into a diet that would heal
their illness. Secondly her diet was instructive for those
who wish never to become ill. Her basic diet consisted of
living food and wheatgrass juice.
http://www.clickXchange.com/er.phtml?act=1784788.1
Ann Wigmore’s diet was based upon the age old philosophy of
Hippocrates, father of medicine, who said, “Let your food
be your medicine.”
 
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