Every now and I then I give up playfulness and edginess to be serious -- God forbid.
Yes, I relish coaching individuals (and through email large numbers) to health. But I'd like to tell you why more people need to enjoy that orgasmic experience of helping others get healthy. We need more of such coaching to save our jobs -- yes, your job and your freedom, especially if you work in a service industry or education.
America's job discompetitveness is caused by our 9 percent greater per employee cost for health care with Germany, and our 12 percent greater cost for health care with Japan and developed China and India. Our differential for medical care costs in the United States reached a point in 1991 -- a point of 6 percent and 9 percent -- and so we became non-competitive for manufacturing and we lost our manufacturing base. We will lose our service and educational base by 2017 when these differentials reach 12 percent and 16 percent.
We are two and three times as expensive as Europe and developed Asia because we have twice and three times the chronic disease, and all but 2 percent of the differential due to four factors (genetics is only responsible for 2 percent of the differential). Medical cost differentials are part of the United States' non-competiveness for jobs (and it's more than salary differentials with Europe and middle class Brazil, Japan, India, and China).
Seventy percent, (78 percent in some data sets) of our medical costs and all of our job differential plus some (we can be less expensive -- our medical care is actually more efficient) is due to four factors we can control:
1) tobacco use,
2) physical inactivity,
3) food choices and
4) lack of stress management.
Some 1.3 trillion of our expenses are reducible to zero if we as individuals take charge of those four aforementioned factors. And we have reached a turning point -- that was reached back in 1991 for manufacturing -- for jobs in our service industries and education. But we can retake these jobs and our competitiveness -- it starts one person and one medical coach at a time. You know I like to leave you with action steps and here's what I have for you ... to retake jobs for America:
So today, you already know how to avoid tobacco (and yes joint smoking is four times as bad as tobacco smoking -- so eat brownies if you are going down that route), and to meditate -- so walk 10,000 steps today and avoid the foods that are not "Let's-make-a-deal foods" -- I call them the five food felons:
1. and 2. Simple sugars and syrups. This includes brown sugar, dextrose, corn sweetener, fructose (as in high-fructose corn syrup), glucose, corn syrup, honey, invert sugar, maltose, lactose, malt syrup, molasses, evaporated cane sugar, raw sugar, and sucrose. Keep a little table sugar, honey and maple syrup handy, because you'll use some for recipes.
3. Saturated fat. This includes most four-legged animal fat, milk fat, butter or lard, and tropical oils, such as palm and coconut.
4. Trans Fat. This includes partially hydrogenated fats, vegetable oil blends that are hydrogenated, and many margarines and cooking blends. (If you must, use cholesterol-fighting sterol spreads such as Promise and Benecol.)
5. Enriched flours and all flours other than 100 percent whole grain or 100 percent whole wheat. This includes enriched white or non-100 percent whole flours, semolina, durum wheat, and any of the acronyms for flour that is not 100 percent whole wheat -- they should not be in your kitchen, your mouth or your body, if you care about jobs in America.
Yes, YOU control whether America has service and education jobs or not, freedoms or not, and it's much easier than influencing a House Leader or President that's been in a smoke-filled room. It's YOUR lifestyle choices. So save a job by snuffing out tobacco, physical inactivity, the five food felons, large plates, and unmanaged stress. And yes, it is that important.
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The concept of bio-individuality is that each person has her or his own food and lifestyle needs. So, when the experts say, “dairy is good for you” or “fat is unhealthy,” it doesn’t apply to everyone. One person’s food is another person’s poison, and that’s why fad diets tend to fail in the long run.
Good support of your loved ones, friends, exercise, spirituality, work that you love will help you to be happy & healthy again.
I used to be one of them too. In a few mon.im gonna be Certified Holistic Health Counselor through IIN ( Integrative Instittute of Nutrition) the best school.
"The concept of bio-individuality is that each person has her or his own food and lifestyle needs. So, when the experts say, “dairy is good for you” or “fat is unhealthy,” it doesn’t apply to everyone. One person’s food is another person’s poison, and that’s why fad diets tend to fail in the long run."
IIN is a school that changes many lives :)
All the Best from MartaCunderova
Certification as Holistic Health Counselor/Coach through IIN ( Integrative Nutrition).
Although I have doing this for over 20yrs this a great great program. The best out there.
Eat real food.
Thanks again,
Melanie Albert, www.ExperienceNutritionGroup.com
That being said, Dr. Roizen could benefit from a one year program in health coaching. His Food IQ is abysmally low if he thinks that saturated fat is the problem! Medical schools teach ZERO about food and its connection to health, Dr. Roizen is not alone in is lack of understanding.
raise good cholesterol (more than any other macronutrient) counteracting the increase in
bad cholesterol. Focusing on saturates is a waste of time and resources, and draws
attention away from the real dietary issues.
total:hdl ratio, figure 1
Mensink, P et al., J Clin Nutr 2003;77:1146–55
http://www.ajcn.org/content/77/5/1146.full?ijkey=846a72387ebc0d82545acd5442a0c3a9e9fc3566
Show me the study. I'll never believe it without one.
So much of the debate on health care focuses on the wrong thing. Everyone wants health insurance for nothing that pays for everything. Insurance companies do make a profit, but they are not the problem with high health care costs in this country. Medicare pays hospitals and doctors less than private health insurance, but Medicare's costs are rising out of control too.
There are problems with our system. But the solutions may not be as obvious as 'blaming insurance companies'. A healthier society will be more productive. But we have to get our kids to exercise early in life. . . even if it is just stretching for a half hour a day during PE.
Thank you for this article. Great information that all Americans need.
From Tatiana Abend, BodyVision Health Coaching
A new and emerging disease that has the potential to impact millions upon millions is the use of gadolinium based contrasting agents for MRIs, MRAs and CT scans sometimes. It's called Gadolinium Associated Systemic Fiborsis. Look up NSF. You do not need to be renally impaired to get it and you don't have to have the skin condition for everything in your body to turn fibrotic. And in case you don't remember gadolinium is a neurotoxin. They're finding it in the reproductive organs of women of child bearing years and the brain tumors of non-renal impaired cancer patients.
Eating low-fat foods and "Healthy Whole Grains" led to the current Diabesity epidemic.
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Points 1, 2 and 4 are valuable: limit sugars, syrups and trans-fats.
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Point 3 is wrong.
There is NO evidence that saturated fat is linked to incidence of heart disease.
Siri-Tarino et al. 2010. Meta-analysis of prospective cohort studies evaluating the association of saturated fat with cardiovascular disease
Am. J. Clin Nutr. http://www.ajcn.org/content/early/2010/01/13/ajcn.2009.27725.abstract
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Point 5 is misleading. Grains, even "100 percent whole wheat" are UNhealthy and should be limited.
Wheat and rye contain anti-nutrients and natural toxins associated with celiac and other auto-immune disease. Any "whole-grain" is a high glycemic index food.
Most studies are also flawed because they just look at one nutrient. But its not just what we don't eat (like fat for example in this study - even though I don't even believe it was very low) but what we eat instead. People might have opted for low fat processed foods, or meats they believed to be low fat, but did they include fresh veggies & fruits which we need for health? Since the study didn't look at this we"ll never know and the result is inconclusive; a result dairy industry likes!
And, for the record whole grains like barley, oats, quinoa, rice, pasta have a low GI. Look it
Sorry, but that shows a total lack of preparation in this topic area.
Start by reading Gary Taubes' "Good Calories, Bad Calories" or his "Why We Get Fat" due out in a couple weeks.
I do agree that most studies are wrong, but not for the reason you cited. Perhaps you'll find this article interesting.
http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2010/11/lies-damned-lies-and-medical-science/8269/