It’s a real paradox…seemingly untrue fact.  The United  States health is not the best in the world; in one report it is even worse than Cuba’s.  It’s terrible, we live a shortened life expectancy!

Paradoxically it all started with one of the greatest medical breakthroughs, when Louis Pasteur discovered that germs ( unseen microorganisms…bacteria, fungus,viruses) are the cause of infections and breakdown of general health.  With sanitation and more sterile medical procedures, the survival rates skyrocketed and complications of surgery plummeted.

This spawned a pathway of “treat the pathogens, invaders and substances” that breakdown our bodies and thereby stop a disease.  There was an opposing school of thought that followed the path of “strengthen the body and its natural defenses”.  Today it is known as alternative medicine.

Alternative medicine emphasizes the natural and anything that fuels the strength and immunity of the body by providing the nutrients and raw materials for optimal function. God created a marvelous “machine” called human body which can endure many insults and assaults and not only survive, but also repair itself.

The former health protocol means treat the symptoms when they appear, the latter emphasizes strengthen the defenses and try to prevent and deny disease any opportunities. Treat the symptoms means that drugs become the weapons of health.  But are they really?

Drug companies have thrived and greatly prospered.  The public is duped into believing that a drug can cure or prevent any ill.  People want a quick solution and “pills” seem to be the answer.  Drugs and doctors never heal, your body heals itself. At best, drugs are an aid, a help to the body.

Let’s go back to the longevity statistics.  In one survey reported, we are 29th in longevity in the world.  Another says 42nd in longevity.  With infant mortality, we rate number 5.
Multiple sources confirm this fact of poor health and longevity in USA:

•    World Health Organization says 31st  in longevity
•    United Nations Health says 38th  in longevity
•    United States Census says 42nd in longevity

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