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What Is The Common Sense Approach To Good Health?
By Walt "dr health" Edwards

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Each of us are provided a wonderful semiautomatic, self healing machine with a brain that has amazing functions far superior than any man made computer which is controlled by an invisible thing referred to as your mind. You can't see it and you can't touch it, yet it makes our decisions every day and has a great deal to do with how our body works.

As we have gained more knowledge and made advancements through the years our society has become more inclined to seek specialists to make our lives more conformable. This is particularly true in the field of medicine and health.

If you're tired and don't feel well you visit your doctor who may order a battery of tests. If the tests can provide some insight to your ailment a prescription can be provided for some drug that is suppose to eliminate the problem. You may have to go through more than one drug. If you still have a problem your doctor may refer you to a specialist. A specialist costs more so if you belong to an HMO they may not be so apt to send you to a specialist but deal with your problem in another manner. It may not be good for you, but it reduces their cost for your care.

After so many months you may be getting a bit frustrated and depressed. Besides taking an anti-depression drug you may be referred to a psychologist or psychiatrist. You may also be seeking some spiritual comfort by talking to your priest or minister. A friend may even suggest you may have an allergy, so you rush to the phone to make an appointment with an allergy specialist.

You have more symptoms now because you're taking several drugs, which all have some kind of side effects. Your Aunt Mary suggests you see a Nutritionist. The Common Sense Approach To Good Health Class at Gold Beach, SWOCC on July 6th will provide more details on this subject. HOPE TO SEE YOU THERE!

Take charge of your own health now instead of handing it over to the drug companies. How? You can look for sources that provide you the information to gain your power back. The Internet to locate non-drug alternatives and health books is a good start. Seek knowledgeable individuals you can trust to provide you information and other sources to make wise decisions in regard to your health challenges. At least ask questions about your treatment and get a second opinion.

Commit to adopting a diet that is healthy for you and for optimizing your emotional health. These two factors -- the foods you put into your body and your emotional well-being -- have absolutely everything to do with building your immune system so you can prevent disease, premature aging and optimize your weight so you can avoid unnecessary pharmaceuticals. Consider the book, Eat 4 Your Blood Type to discover which foods may be best for you to eat and those best left out of your diet.

Look at it this way: most drugs are merely patchwork, meant to make things "OK" temporarily as your underlying structure continues to degrade. A truly healthy diet and emotional wellness management, however, are what builds and solidifies your underlying structure, so you can avoid all the cracks (the symptoms) that drugs patch over in the first place.

Offering the promise of a trim figure with a gastric bypass (and other weight loss) surgeries have grown nearly tenfold in a dozen years. However, as "beneficial" as they seem for patients, it appears weight loss surgery is even more beneficial -- or rather, profitable -- for hospitals:

*More than 140,000 patients spent $25,000 apiece on their surgeries in 2004, generating revenues exceeding $3.5 billion.

*Many of the nation's hospitals (one-third of which are down money) depend on weight loss surgeries; the surgeries help balance the costs of emergency rooms, providing care for the uninsured and other cash drains.

*The 433 gastric bypass procedures performed at one California hospital generated a whopping 6 percent of that hospital's total income in 2003.

But the profits don't stop there. Another key source of revenue for hospitals occurs after patients have had their surgery -- when they return to the operating room for plastic surgery to have extra folds of skin removed.

Diabetes is not a disease of blood sugar, but a disease of insulin and perhaps more importantly leptin signaling which is new concept to consider if you suffer from diabetes or insulin resistant.

Typically medical treatment concentrates on fixing a symptom, in this case elevated blood sugar, rather than the underlying problem. Symptoms are generally the way that nature has taught our bodies to deal with a disease. Treatments which concentrate merely on lowering blood sugar for diabetes while raising insulin levels can actually worsen rather than remedy the actual problem of metabolic miscommunication. It just trades one evil for another.

Thought For The Day: Looking forward to seeing you July 6th, noon to 1:00 pm.