Why are We the Sickest Country in the World?
The United States population represents 5% of the world’s population and yet Americans consume 50 to 60% of all the world’s manufactured drugs. Out of 37 industrialized nations monitored by the World Health Organization, the United States is 37
th. We have more medical resources, trained physicians, nurses and other professionals, more technology and more hospitals, so why are we such a sick country suffering from many degenerative diseases? I believe it’s the diet that we’ve adopted over the last 60 to 70 years. The American diet has changed drastically since World War II. We have become a fat and lazy country. Food is only consumed if it’s convenient, priced right and tastes good. There is no consideration for what the food provides in the way of nutrients for a healthy body. Our diet has changed more in the last 100 years than it has done in the previous three million years. In the early 1900s there was no heart disease and cancer occurred in 1 of 30 people. Today, heart disease is the number one killer of American citizens and cancer is 1 out of 3 women and 1 out of 2 men. If we don’t change our diets to the diet of our ancestors, experts believe that we will all die of cancer in the next 40 to 50 years.
