Maybe the Best Strategy is to Avoid Medical 'Care' as We Know it

SAMSHA's report highlights the growing number of prescription drug-related ER visits by adults over age 50 – an alarming 1.1 million in 2008 (the latest data year available). The numbers are so disturbing that it reminds me of a book, "Crisis in Health Care: Choices that Can Save Your Life," whose author, Dr. Richard Ruhling, makes a no-holds-barred declaration on what he thinks of modern medicine:

"The best way to avoid dying from medical care is to avoid medical care,"

His reasoning is that medical care contributes to poor health by its adverse effects through unnecessary surgeries, hospital-acquired infections, medical errors – and prescription drugs. Medical care is NOT health care, Dr. Ruhling asserts, and that includes the care you get in a hospital setting, where you're 33,000 times more likely to die from a medical error than in a plane crash, and where 1.7 million infections are contracted each year!

The fact is medical care is one of the leading causes of death in the U.S. – a true crisis in health care as we know it. The question is what can we do to survive this crisis and avoid hospital visits altogether? The answer is: it's all in the choices we make – choices that can save your life.

Your Body is Designed for Self-Healing

Many of your ills are caused by what you eat or fail to eat, and your exercise. For example, America spends more money on treating heart disease than any other illness, even though case studies show that people who address the underlying cause of heart disease can successfully conquer it, or at least contain it without drugs, even if you're born with "bad" genes. That's because your body was designed for self-healing. The trick to conquering illness is to listen to, feed, nurture and maintain your body as nature intended. And the secret is, even if you're out of shape and feeling very unwell right now, it's not too late to start, no matter how old you are.

Get Well by Focusing on a NEW START

In his book, Dr. Ruhling talks about how you can give yourself a new start by making choices that can save your life. Nutrition. Exercise. Water. Sunlight. Temperance. Air. Rest. Trust in a Divine Power. They all involve choices that Dr. Ruhling dubs a NEW START. As the graph below shows, these choices center on natural ways of gaining and maintaining a healthy mind, body and spirit:

Post deleted at 08 Oct 2011 10:50am by majorminor

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Should have added an attribution - the above from Dr Mercola here;
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