The forest is a scary place.
So many unknowns and so many variables.
A snake could bite you, a wasp could sting you, you could be eaten by a wild animal,
you could fall into a sinkhole and never be heard from again.
Yet many of us are willing to take the chance just to enjoy the beauty and solitude of nature.
A hospital is also a scary place.
So many unknowns and so many variables.
It is in the business of sickness, sickness.
Why should they care about you getting well?
They know more about you than you will ever know about yourself, so you are at their mercy
when it comes to disseminating information.
Their cost is exorbitant, and why not?
They have a captive person, a naive captive person.
Were you free, you could buy an aspirin for, say, 15 cents.
There, they may charge you $8 or more, worst yet, prescribe the most profitable drug they
can find.
How would you know the difference?
And why should you care?
No matter the cost, if it is not directly out of your pocket, you don't care.
And they know that.
Then there are the illnesses.
There are so many different illnesses.
Take diabetes, for example, just take this one illness, diabetes.
Do you have diabetes?
How would you know?
How did you get it?
What can you do about it?
Here are some interesting stats, some interesting facts for you.
Did you know that there are 25.8 million children and adults in the United States, that's 8.3%
of the population who have diabetes, 18.8 million are diagnosed, 7.01 million are not
diagnosed, and then there are the pre-diabetes.
Did you know there was such a thing?
Yes.
79 million people are what they consider to be pre-diabetes.
And then when you take a look at this one disease, diabetes, consider the complications.
Heart disease and stroke associated with diabetes.
Also associated with diabetes, we have high blood pressure, blindness, kidney disease,
nervous system diseases.
As a matter of fact, about 60 to 70% of the people with diabetes have mild to severe forms
of nervous system damage.
You already know about the amputation, and what about the cost of diabetes?
174 billion, that's worth a B. 174 billion, total costs of diagnosed diabetes in the United
States.
That was in 2007.
Who knows what it is today?
And that's just one disease called diabetes.
Can you see what a bonanza it is for the sickness business called hospitals?
You know what I'd like to see?
If hospitals are in the business of sickness, I would love to see a wellness business.
Okay, fine, so in many dictionaries there is no such thing as a word wellness.
But wouldn't it be nice if there were a wellness business, a wellness business as lucrative
as the illness business?
I'm curious.
I simply don't know, but is there a correlation between the rise in the use of artificial food,
use of food coloring and other food manipulation, and the rise of diabetes?
I'm just wondering.
