How We Can Cut Healthcare Costs by 80%

The U.S. spends over a trillion a year in health costs and we are getting less healthy every year. We spend four times the defense budget on health care. We are ruining our federal budget with health care costs and threatening everyone’s entitlements.

The U.S. spends more than almost any country and we have higher incidences of heart disease and cancer. Healthy people who come from Asia and other countries fall victim to our diseases once they adopt our diet. China is falling victim to our diseases by importing our fast food restaurants.

There are doctors who treating heart and cancer patients by putting them on whole food diets and exercise. Their patients reverse their symptoms, lose weight, and gain energy. In a documentary called “Forks over Knives” you could see on Netflix.com, a list of patients are chronicled who defied their death sentence.

When we closet cattle, pigs, and chickens into a building and nourish them on feed, we have to give them anti biotics to keep them healthy. When we feed humans meat, dairy, sugar, bad oils, and fried foods, we have to give them medicine to keep them alive.

The body produces inflammation on a regular basis. Exercise allows the body to call on cytokines to clear up the inflammation and build new muscle cells in the process. Bad foods increase cholesterol and plaque which shut down arteries.

The U.S. spends $50 billion a year on by pass surgery. Children are getting the diseases of adults and are being prescribed the same medicines. It’s too bad since there is such a simple solution.

Whole foods are what the body wants. We started down the wrong trail when we discovered fast food was convenient, cheap, and satisfying. In our busy lives we saved time by rushing the family in for a quick burger, fries, and coke. Everybody was happy.

We have become addicted to the tastes of sugar, oil, meat, and dairy. “Milk does the body good.” The short term solution has turned into a long term problem. We are sick and it costs money to keep us alive.

Even though I eat meat, I eat it in small portions and I eat meat that has not been treated with hormones and anti-biotics. I don’t eat it in between two buns. I don’t eat dairy. I eat very little sugar. I eat all I want and I eat often. I lost 45 pounds in four years without being on a diet.

At the end, I lost the last 20 pounds in four months with a raw diet. I have since started cooking again and have never put on weight. It is pretty easy to get grains, legumes, fruits, vegetables, and protein in a healthy diet.

I am a medium exerciser that starts with a warm up of stretching, push ups, stairs and then surfing. In the afternoons I do a mile beach run. I have a fruit bowl with 10 grain cereal and peanuts in the morning, a small 4 ounce steak with a piece of whole grain bread, tomatoes, and sometimes an egg at 11. Around 2, I have a tuna salad pita wrap. For dinner I have salad, soup, and/or spaghetti with brown rice and vegetables.

If everyone ate whole foods we wouldn’t need to spend a trillion on health care. We wouldn’t be having the congressional deadlocks on run away entitlements which consume 50% of our budget. The grain that goes to feed cattle could feed all the poor in the world.

A tremendous amount of oil is consumed bringing meat to the markets from pumping water, raising grain, and delivery. Eating healthy could improve land sustainability and reduce global warming. Eating healthy is a contribution in living green.