Healthy Living News & Tips

If you value your health, probably the last place you'll want to go is to a hospital. (unless it's a life or death emergency of course)

Here's why.

A relative recently admitted herself to the hospital because she had trouble breathing (she's in her 90's). While in the hospital, here is what she was offered to eat over a one and a half day period:

• Steak
• Chocolate Pudding
• Ice Cream
• Hot Dog
• Bacon and Eggs
• Jello
• Pork

She has difficulties with her digestion and elimination and when she was admitted, that information was given to the nurses. Of course after the first day of eating these foods, she couldn't have a bowel movement and spent most of the day in the bathroom trying!

Where are the fresh fruits, vegetables and greens that have the needed fiber to allow you to eliminate easily? Why would a hospital, entrusted to 'care for your health' provide such unhealthy meals? Aren't the benefits of fresh fruits, vegetables and greens available to hospitals and health care facilities? This diet alone will shorten your life if not kill you! Certainly not a 'healthy' place to eat.

It baffles me that in this day and age with the common knowledge of the risks of increased animal food consumption along with processed foods that they are almost exclusively what are offered to patients who already have health issues to begin with.

This, in addition to the recent statistics that revealed over 100,000 people die every year from infections acquired while at the hospital as well as approximately 750,000 people dying each year at the hands of our health care system.. and doctors and health care facilities labeled as the third leading cause of death in America.

"The estimated total number of iatrogenic deaths -- that is, deaths induced inadvertently by a physician or surgeon or by medical treatment or diagnostic procedures -- in the U.S. annually is 783,936. In April the Journal of American Medicine itself reported that 'properly prescribed' legal drugs killed 106,000 Americans each year, due to toxic reactions."

Read more about the Modern Health Care System is the Leading Cause of Death. Going to the hospital should always be a last resort decision, after all other alternatives have been exhausted. They are wonderful at saving your life in an emergency situation and the only time I'd consider being admitted to one.

The real solution is to maintain your health and immune system by eating a diet full of fresh fruits, vegetables, greens, nuts and seeds, staying active, reducing unneeded stress and avoiding toxic elements in our life. This will allow you to take responsibility for your own health, avoid our health care system and allow you to enjoy a happy and long life.

To your best health!

Mark

Learn the truth about food and health: NaturalWholeFood.com

Eating out, and fast food in particular are more common now than in any time in the history of mankind. Unfortunately, here are some sad facts about the fast food industry and McDonald's in particular:

• Each day, 1 in 4 Americans visits a fast food restaurant
• In 1972, we spent 3 billion a year on fast food - today we spend more than 110 billion
• McDonald's feeds more than 46 million people a day - more than the entire population of Spain
• French fries are the most eaten vegetable in America
• You would have to walk for seven hours straight to burn off a Super Sized Coke, fry and Big Mac
• In the U.S., we eat more than 1,000,000 animals an hour
• 60 % of all Americans are either overweight or obese
• One in every three children born in the year 2000 will develop diabetes in their lifetime
• Left unabated, obesity will surpass smoking as the leading cause of preventable death in America
• Obesity has been linked to: Hypertension, Coronary Heart Disease, Adult Onset Diabetes, Stroke, Gall Bladder Disease, Osteoarthritis, Sleep Apnea, Respiratory Problems, Endometrial, Breast, Prostate and Colon Cancers, Dyslipidemia, steatohepatitis, insulin resistance, breathlessness, Asthma, Hyperuricaemia, reproductive hormone abnormalities, polycystic ovarian syndrome, impaired fertility and lower back pain
• The average child sees 10,000 TV advertisements per year
• Only seven items on McDonald's entire menu contain no sugar
• Willard Scott was the first Ronald McDonald - he was fired for being too fat
• McDonald's distributes more toys per year than Toys-R-Us
• Diabetes will cut 17-27 years off your life
• McDonald's: "Any processing our foods undergo make them more dangerous than unprocessed foods"
• The World Health Organization has declared obesity a global epidemic
• Eating fast food may be dangerous to your health
• McDonald's calls people who eat a lot of their food "Heavy Users"
• McDonald's operates more than 30,000 restaurants in more then 100 countries on 6 continents
• Before most children can speak they can recognize McDonald's
• Surgeon General David Satcher: "Fast food is a major contributor to the obesity epidemic"
• Most nutritionists recommend not eating fast food more than once a month
• 40% of American meals are eaten outside the home
• McDonald's represents 43% of total U.S. fast food market

Source: SuperSize Me DVD: A documentary by Morgan Spurlock chronicaling what happens when you eat at McDonald's for 30 days straight. You'll be surprised to find out what happens!