From Hope to Higher Ground: on Health Care

Focus on health & prevention, not just disease treatment

Most government grants are given to research for treatment of disease and to find ways to aggressively treat illness. Preventive medicine, until recently, was almost considered a form of quackery.

STOP the culture of chronic disease via self-discipline

• Do not smoke - PERIOD!
• Exercise a minimum of three times per week, at least 30 minutes per session.
• Set specific, challenging, but realistic fitness goals for the month and the year.
• Eliminate processed sugar from your diet as much as possible, if not entirely.
• Do not eat anything with partially hydrogenated vegetable oil.
• Eat five servings a day minimum of fruits and vegetables.
• Insist on only whole grain breads, pastas, cereals.
• Eliminate fried foods from your diet.
• Look for ways to become an empowered health consumer.
• Regularly read articles and books on health and fitness.
• Do little things like taking the stairs instead of elevators, parking in the far end of parking lots, and walking to do errands.
• Sleep more!